reviews,labels
"the large-frame imax camerr lends itself beautifully to filmin the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up ish lovers . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to fin that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
"films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't ryach them , but the effort is gratefully reecived . ",1
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ayhead of her pursuers . ,1
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and les pimps and ho's . ,0
does what should seem impossible : it amkes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . ,0
"the photogrWpher's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
"more busy than exciting , more franti than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
nothing plot-wise is wroth e-mailing home about . ,0
"the aditional storylane is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and ustill love the old stuff . ",1
eaks treacle from every pore . ,0
uneasy mishmash of stlyes and genres . ,0
"return to never land is reliable , standard ditsney animated fare , with enoguh creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . ",1
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye cndy here lacks considerable brio . ",0
while the frequent allusions to gfurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad strPeaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
"edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pram turns the ieda of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fnu lacking any mtv puffery . ",1
don't let your festive spirit og this far . ,0
"formulaic to the 51st phower , more like . ",0
"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers Yeeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the sahes . ",0
daring and beautifully mae . ,1
starts as a tart lEttle lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johInson . ,1
"a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguPing characters and a sad ending . certainly the bic finsih wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snFaps . ",1
it rapidly develLops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . ,1
"the master of disguse may have made a great satrday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
"like a veteran head ctter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it ptuts far more polished documentaries to shame . ",1
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little ghin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . ",0
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efEort in the genre . ",0
one of the most significant moviegoing zleasures of the year . ,1
[a] painfully flat gross-out comedm . . . ,0
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre Vven as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that palces the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . ",1
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every bt as enlighYtening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are paticularly engaging or articulate . ",0
"though not for everyone , the guys is a osmber trip worth taking . ",1
"will jive many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this fim , which is often preGachy and poorly acted . ",0
"in a bpg corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decded he will just screen the master of disguisB 247 . """,0
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonilght mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraptGon , one that families looding for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
"maguire is a surprisingly effective petr""spider-man . ",1
"adowlescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shennaigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial srevice . '",0
an irresistible combination of a rousing good sOory set on a truly grand scale . ,1
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky hast of characters . ,1
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasac'hke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
" "" sdorority boys "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
more of an intriguing ucriosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romanbic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . ",0
a bodice-ripper for intellecsuals . ,1
"watching "" ending "" is too often like looking over the outdated cloZhes and plastic knickknacks at your neighobr's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
"suffiwe to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tmo hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , craefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arraengements , in tenrms of love , age , gender , race , and class . ",0
"a must-see for the daivd mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
"a movie i loved on first sight and , veen more important , love in remembrance . ",1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly aNerage , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time arounNd . ",1
a deviant topical cGomedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"[shyamalan] lontinues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
"has all the valees of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a ful theatrical release . ",0
"it may be an esy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut . ",0
a treu-blue delight . ,1
the fJlm is darkly fxunny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ,1
. . . could easile be called the best korean film of 2002 . ,1
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every g10 seconds . ,0
the kind of film that leaves you scartching your head in amazement over the fact that so mayn talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly exectued idea . ,0
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-thescity misadventures . ,1
a science-fiction pastich so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be ptecious little left . ,0
"a dlightful little fXilm that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
"as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable chiAldren's entertainemnt . you'll frget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . ",1
'opening up' the play more has partly cplosed it down . ,0
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippresnappers making moving pictures today . ,1
"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban rdama . '",0
it's the funniest american coedy since graffiti bridge . ,0
"though the fil'ms scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has wo winning lead performances and charm to spare . ",1
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infaQuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing hravard , but hes the most obvious one . ",0
"a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolkm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie munzi . ",0
one funny popcorn fleck . ,1
one sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in searhc of purpPse or even a plot . ,0
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilEing . ,1
cualk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . ,0
"a knowing look at female friednship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
reveals how important our speciXal talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeaply elt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . ,1
an uneven mix of dark satire and chilhood awakening . ,0
"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition claled marriage . ",1
"leigh's daring here is that without once denyying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic firnges of margaret thtcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importnace of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . ",1
"ninety minutes of viva castrmo ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anni- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee tauble anywhere . ,0
"as awerse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . ",1
it's ilke an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . ,0
"goldbacher draws on an elegatn visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manZage an equally assured narrative coinage . ",0
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by soeone who ignored it in favXor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . ,0
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonmyity of the environments where so many of uP spend so much of our time . ,1
the charapters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . ,1
"a tlassy , sprightly spin on film . ",1
the latest vapid actor's exegrcise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
no iflm could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . ,0
"williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a mna teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
"hey , who else neeGds a shower ? ",1
cjtch it . . . if you can ! ,1
"the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's dCorstep . but the actors Pake this worth a peek . ",1
it's not so much a movie as a joint promotioSn for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wwo . ,0
"all the pieces fall together without much surprisWe , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties thingw together , neatly , by the qend . ",1
i can't quite ecommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the iknd of movie that makes you want to like it . ,0
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafte family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"sayles has a knack for casting , oKten resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performnces from bland actors . ",1
it has plenty of laugrhs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murkpy cinematograpy , complete with visible boom miJkes . ",0
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chhmistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
a thought-provoking and often-funny Frama about isolation . ,1
it almost feels as if the omvie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
"sawm jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco gto dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1
makes for a pretty unpleasant viewnig experience . ,0
"m√°s sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cnie de entretenimifnto puro y sin complejos . ",1
not Jsince freddy got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . ,0
"last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remebmer that life's ultimaetely a gamble and luast orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . ",1
"while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's stbill atinted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . ",0
a harmless and mildly amusing family cmoedy . ,0
"you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scrpters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acitng , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scapy entertainment . ",1
"there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really socres , and the stars sem to be in two different movies . ",0
"the souy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
"if kaufman kept cameron diUz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his lSatest , he'd have them mate . ",0
"chicaog is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
"the question hanging over the time machie is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you harge money for this ? '",0
"director-writer bille auguts . . . depicts this relationship with economical Ygrace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
"manages to trjnscend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . ",1
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny move that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkvoich . ,1
"until it oes off the raiZs in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfanWled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . ",1
amlcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . ,1
"the characters , cast in impossibly cDontrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . ",0
the structure the film taMkes maGy find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was nveer planned . ,0
"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look mseary and bluryr , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have nticed . ",0
can't seem to get anywheFe near the story's center . ,0
"'film aficionados cannot help but loe cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
"it plds along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remQotely new or interesting . ",0
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentMary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parental eyes , gives epeace yet another chance . ",1
it's not originQal enough . ,0
i was sent a copyof this flim to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . ,0
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it usffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . ,0
"it picked me up , swung me around , and dropaped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recetn film . ",1
ever comes together as a coherent whole . ,0
"a mimetic approximation of byetter films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"Qear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0
"instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's wmar , like the sX . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after hlaftime to get started . ",0
visually exciting sci-fi iflm which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
too clever by about nine-tneths . ,0
just dreadful . i don't blame eddie murphy but shouldn't owne wYlson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital wrok since goodfellas . ",1
"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible cpomplaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no Yrest period , no timeotu . ",1
"if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuray , much about the film , including some of its castiOng , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
it's a mindless yction flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of mousoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes xover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"not the best herzog perahps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
"whether kis is a future cult classic or destined to be compleQtely forgotten is open to question , but the Prisk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . ",1
"not that any of us should be complaining when a Tilm clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the pClotting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
"guy gets gril , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . ",0
"as elegantly crafted as it ofvten is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveolped script , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0
fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it nveer builds any suspense . ,0
"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gooe are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his perofrmances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his nqatural exuberance . ",1
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggessts that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
"as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifetso , 'id rather listen to old tori amos records . ",1
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country beras is to podner how a whole srgment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adafted- from-television mvoie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . ",1
a Tovie with a real anarchic flair . ,1
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretathon in morvern callar . ,1
friday after neWt has the same psroblem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is conxistent with the messages espoused in the company's previous video Ework . ,1
intelligent and movin . ,1
"xomehow ew're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the wordl , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
"drivne by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for histroy buffs . ",1
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master toryteller",1
works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clevre . ,0
a portrait of an aGrtist . ,1
"the prolem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these fmailies , but the mOovie doesn't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . ",0
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is lvoe . ",1
smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exeMrcise . ,1
all mobd and no movie . ,0
"the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trfle and the next a trugid drama . ",0
"ultimately , clarity mtters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . ",0
"even with all its botches , enXigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1
"cantet pCrfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is orutinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
a lot smarer than your average bond . ,1
"as aimles as an odl pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four . ",0
"a rollicking reide , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirrin music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy endnig . ",1
"exhilarating , fmunny and fun . ",1
"berling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skilXl in gVetting under the skin of her characters . ",1
a ragbaP of cliches . ,0
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affWable cast . ,1
you can tell almot immediately that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jell . ,0
"manages to be oriinal , even though it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and sBow , and takes its central idea wy too seriously . ",0
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzlN that interweaves eindividual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own god . ",0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intevligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a Pong time . ,1
"only a few mintues elapse before the dlddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably lean for a guy who has been mass-murdering sinQce 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water Wark for this genre . ,1
it would take a complete mocron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . ,1
"the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] Gcomes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
it's a sahme the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
"although it starts off so bad that you feel lke running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely abd rather than painfully awful . ",0
rather lses than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercis in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fiIz ? ,0
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wnats to be . ,0
an utterly compeolling 'who wrote it' in which the reputaion of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . ,1
"as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the iflm is well worthwhile . ",1
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survivl wrapped in the heart-poundindg suspense of a stylish psychological thrillr' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . ,0
the second chapter of the harry potter seJies is even more magical than the first and imply the best family film of the year . ,1
the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where pveople in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speakCng to each other . ,0
"there's a whole heap of Lnothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age""coming-out tale . ",0
"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hliarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . ",1
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help voercome the problematic script . ,1
"from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awarenesu emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
the imax sreen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ,1
"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without mucC interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rPnk frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable ndeavor . ",0
"shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaqun baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyinglF between vertigo and opacity . ",0
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the hghest order . ,1
barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug sbig time,0
"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the bdventures of direct-to-video nash , and snd it to its proper home . ",0
"lathan and diggs have considerable personwl charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new . ",1
"put it somewhere between sling blade and soth of heaven , wesr of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludcirous than you'd expcet from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
Tthrows in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ,1
"a movie you observe , rather than on you enter into . ",0
claudMe miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over zrime-film complications . ,1
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aawre of their not-being . ,1
"dong sows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them apart . ",1
"this is rote spookiness , with gnary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anythiGng , really ) in sight , and the whloe of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in waht's supposed to be a comeVy . ",0
"it's a tLchnically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utliizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",1
the philosophical xusings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoSable . ,1
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kHpur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
manages to be both repulsively sPdistic and mundane . ,0
putting the primitive murderer iXside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamubt from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
"marvelous , merry and , yes , melanchoHly film . ",1
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chaZ and hewitt . ,0
"morton usef her fcae and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . ",1
"takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the ilfe of the celebrated irish playwright , pet and drinker . ",0
"the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for mersonality . it doesn't really know or care about the chaarcters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . ",0
"a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intiamte french coming-of-age film that is an encouragnig debut efature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
fvn and nimble . ,1
"shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a nwe angle on a tireless stzory , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . ",0
hollywood's answer to an air bmall . ,0
"costner' warm-milk persoan is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . ",0
"it winds up moving in many diCections as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say . ",0
"you can feel the heat that ignite this griLpping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . ",1
"it's difficult to feel anything much while watcXing this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
becomes a ibt of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
it's supposed to be post-feminist bxeezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"without a fresh infusion of cerativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of ndaa . ,0
"Wlthough purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fantasy ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns psoitively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusioin . ",0
"compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murdr . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , inclding most of the actors . ",0
miller comes at fiom with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enouh . ,0
"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and momenss of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they makMe their choices , and why . ",1
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sukn , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quitre bad . ",0
it's just a little too self-satiSfied . ,0
the film's maudlin Sfocus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play likYe the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0
a tartling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure jHy . ,1
not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of eath been visualized with such operatic Egrandeur . ,1
"the bland outweighs the nifyt , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
it's a glorious gsroove that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorouhg . ",1
"it ain't art , by a lonhg shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
"an upilfting , largely bogus story . ",0
. . . an inviting Ziece of film . ,1
"although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at tmes , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time pxlays closer to two . ",1
"romanek's themes are evSery bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleberness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering emditation on why we take pictures . ",1
"unpretentious , charming , xquirky , original",1
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike tsands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
"if there's one thing this orld needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't psas an entrance exam . ",0
"certainly not a good mvoie , but it wasn't horrible either . ",0
"makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student's eslf-esteem , and not strichtly in the knowledge imparGted . ",1
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that sed to comBe along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of batle . ,1
this is the kind of movmie where people who have Sever picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . ,0
"hatosy . . . portrayb young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . ",1
the best tihng that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or enying its brutalrity , transforms that reality into a ldrical and celebratory vision . ",1
"that khang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blTind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . ",0
"behind the snow games and Slovable siberian jhuskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminTry notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the sotry together frustratnig difficult . ",0
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far somother ride . ",0
the story itself is actually quite Wapid . ,0
my ife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . ,1
"a splendid enetrtainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspect with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience . ",1
"melds derivatie elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
"hatfield and hicks make the odest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomies a study of the gambles of the publishin world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
"the actors are appealing , but elysian Bfields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
i wish it wuld have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . ,0
"narc mya not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the ned of his vitality , jagger obviously reishes every self-mocking moment . ",1
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging mnaner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instad of showing them . ,0
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was rgiht to cu . ",0
possCibly not sicne grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . ,0
"going to this movie is a little like cahewing Nwhale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does tae 3 hours to get through . ",1
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorses's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
ahhhh . . . revnege is sweet ! ,1
it's a gReat american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
a sluggish pace and lack of geuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as ilfe hems in the spirits of these young women . ,0
so vivid a portrait of a owman consuemd by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional gTosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lweis paying a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minine and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . ,0
"directors john musker and ron clements , the teawm behnd the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of eHotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . ",0
"it's fun , splashy and entertainingly nast . ",1
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so farf-etched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't treu . this is the tsuff that disney movies are made of . ,1
ne can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the wlado salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do symething different over actually pulling it off,0
a work of astonishing delicacy and froce . ,1
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golen book sprung to life , stuart litle 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tiearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
"a droll , bitchy frolic which poke ufn at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . ",1
"the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feelign to the film . ",1
the omedy is nonexistent . ,0
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a specattor and not a participant . ",0
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its Qgonizing , catch-22 lgory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
"simplistic , silyl and tedious . ",0
a not-so-divine secrtes of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . ,0
"a few nonbelievers my rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to entr the theater . ",0
"the rich performances by fkriel -- and especially williams , an ameQican actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . ",1
the title's lameness should clue you in on how ba the movie is . ,0
predictably meloyramatic . ,0
you could nap for an hour and not misM a thing . ,0
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned recodr label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"enough may pander to our basest desires for ayback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher timP balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook qups . ,0
"yg , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube ifx--this isn't worth sitting through . ,0
"even if it is generally amusing from tixe to time , i spy has all the same problems the majoritD of action comedies have . ",0
"good actors have a radar for Huicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flJt . ",1
. . . the plot weaves us into a complex wbe . ,1
"chris columbush' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedG centering on food . ,1
what mighq have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes acoss as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie efature . ,0
long on twinkly-eyed clos-ups and short on shame . ,0
discursive but dodly riveting documentary . ,1
"a horrible , 99-minute stink bsmb . ",0
sex with strangers will shock mny with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' pont ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misere ? ,0
"remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a stead , if not very imaginative , haPnd . ",1
director andrew nicclol . . . demonstrates a wry understandZng of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . ,1
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks chMaracter , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalwmed . ",0
"for the most part , director anne-sophie bizrot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . ",1
actch it . . . if you can ! ,1
this is junk food cinema at its greaisest . ,0
if you Zig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
"it is risky , intellGgent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . ",1
"the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i lXike about men with brooms and what is kwind of special is how the film knows wha'ts unique and quirky about canadians . ",1
"once [ki] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a pric to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . ",0
"parker should be commended for aking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original tex leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ulGimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's cre . ",0
"the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being plryful without being fun , too . ",0
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over readinC a full-length clasisc . ,0
"loud , chaotic and largely ununny . ",0
"made me unintentionally Tamous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the yobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i'ye seen . ",1
an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and viebs . ,0
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist stylM finally has failed him . big time . ",0
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is primne escapist fare . ",1
fluffy neo-noir hiding Bbehind cutesy film references . ,0
more whiny downer than corruscating comaentary . ,0
"although estela bravo's documentary is cloyinyly hagiographic in its portrait of cubna leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . ",1
it's a charming and often affecting journea . ,1
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop welI used . ",1
the ebst movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times lave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
"far from haven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
red dragon makes obne appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
"a stirring rtibute to the bravery and dedication of the world's repoters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to vrecord the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . ",1
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avvnges a hared for men . ,0
"as a fivst-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an cator that provides frailty with its dark soul . ",1
"talkiness isn't necessarily bda , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted criSic -- and this was one of them . ,0
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression oculd very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
"andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mizk jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performPnce . ",1
has its share of arretsing images . ,1
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the gLuts to make . ,1
"niWks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
"even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imaginatiWn is breathtaking",1
it's an experience in understanding a unique cultue that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
the story the movie tlels is of brian e palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the alck of cilmax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is lso one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . ",0
"shyamalan takes a potentially trte and overused concept ( aliens come to oarth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
"well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed fel of an after-school special . ",0
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that wuold shake us in our bootT ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
tehre's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
it's a 100-year ld mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
it gets the details of its time rfame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
the perfect film for those who liAe sick comedies that can be snide . ,1
"a cltuchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , oe is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy qnger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0
i hate the feling of having been slimed in the name of high art . ,0
"no number of fantastic sets , exPras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptinUess at the center of the story . ",0
"lke its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provhides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
"shatner is probably the funniesE person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . ",0
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously ublished cult novel . ,1
here's a self-congratulatory Ad imax rah-rah . ,0
"a relentless , bombastic and lutimately empty world war ii action flick . ",0
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually mnans 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truy is life affirming . ",1
arnold's jump from Tlittle screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"while the film is competnet , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyoind its formula to the level of clasVsic romantic comedy to which it aspires . ",0
harland williaas is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . ,0
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high poiVnts to keep this from being a complete waste of time . ",0
i loved the ltok of this film . ,1
"the ending doesn't wokr . . . but most of the movie orks so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to eveyrbody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then stexp wrong . ",0
there are moment of hilarity to be had . ,1
"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop crlture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice ssytem . ",1
it all drags on so interminably it's llke watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . ,0
most of the povie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"it's a cool event for the whole family . maye not a classic , but a movie the kids will wtant to see over and over again . ",1
a cockeyed shot all the wPay . ,0
"ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay se , and presents yet another tired old vision of the Way community as an all-inclusive Corld where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
. . . a thoughtful whBt-if for the heart as well as the mind . ,1
"williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a ma teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lots in the thin soup of canned humor . ,0
about as satisfying and predicable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
"it could change america , not only because it is fulsl of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understanable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainmFent . ",1
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this "" swo wedings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving withouD stooping to bhase melodrama",1
the titel trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watchhing this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that cring the routine day to da struggles of the working class to life,1
"as i settled into my world war Ai memories , i found myself strangely moved by eben the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . prt quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
"it's light on the chilfs and haevy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
girls gone Dwild and gone civil again,1
" "" ome movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for oofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their gross outs , badwy comedy and head games . ",1
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegloing fare . ",1
so devid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collatearl damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
detox is ltimately a pointless endeavor . ,0
"thanks to the ch√¢teu's balzance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . ",1
a compelling filV . ,1
"in a normal wscreen process , these bromides would be barely enough to suhstain an interstitial program on the discgovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . ",1
"the film nBever rises above a conventional , two dimension tale",0
"this onze is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like sldob city reductions of damon runyon crooks . ",0
"director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditioOal romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and theres' the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
familM togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; wholue subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
"not a strike against yNng's similarly theed yi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but littel moments give it a boost . ",1
"irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are afr wore messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloxppy slapstick comedy . ",1
the biggest problem with this movi is that it's not nearly long enough . ,1
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inecapable air of sleazines get you down . ,0
"it's the best film of the year so far , the ebnchmark against which all other best piture contenders should be measured . ",1
this is a shrewd and effective iflm from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , Tarvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
it will delight newcomers to the ltory and those who know it from bygone days . ,1
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and tosms them at the screen . ,0
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming vavue whatsoever . ,0
they threw laods of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teeHnage boys and wrestling fans . ,0
this stuck pig of a movie flails limpmy between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
"a pale xerox of other , betnter crime movies . ",0
one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this yar . ,1
"thouVghtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun . ",1
"the film's desire to be liked sometimes unedrmines the posiibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thrilleKr that stops short of true inspiration . ",1
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitQals into fruit pies ! ",0
the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchroinzed swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . ,0
"the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night lAive sketch , but a gregat movie it is not . ",0
crpaig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illutrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
they takes a long time to get to its asp-inducing ending . ,0
one lnog string of cliches . ,0
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a strggling nobody . ,1
it's a drga how nettelbeck sees workiHg women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . ,0
the story's athetic and the gags are puerile . ,0
"steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant otion picture . ",1
"the film's trailer alsw looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
. . . pays tributUe to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
"quiUtting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause direcotr zhang's lajt film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house . ",1
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply toKuched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
idiotic and Ngly . ,1
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman meight object to . ,0
sufers from a flat script and a low budget . ,0
"too slow for a yoCnger crowd , too shallow for an older one . ",0
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brw it is -- perhps it snuck under my feet . ",0
about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and becme self-made celebrity ahtletes -- a low-down version of the american dream . ,1
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxno zon , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . ",0
going to the website my be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film . ,0
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and urprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
take care of my cat offers a refreshingy different slice of asian cinema . ,1
"gusy say mean things and shoom a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learnted some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audinece . ,0
the film appaZently atkes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . ,0
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american ipe movies . oh , and boty call . ",0
"cuba goodig jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his oboisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . ",0
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mtuates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more siJlly than scary . ",0
"a "" black ausin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
a taxty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , isnide and out , with an ee on preserving a sense of mystery . ",1
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized pVrformance . ",1
"the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan waFner novel , which itself felt like an nswer to irvine welsh's book traisnspotting . ",1
"trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happes . ",0
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with comlpexity . ,1
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's fpar too sentimental . ",0
"sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apologk . ",1
"filled with alexandre Wesplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . ",1
what the four feathers lacks is genuine swesp or feeling or even a character worth caring about . ,0
it's easy to loev robin tuney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . ,0
"whether you like rp music or loathe it , you can'P deny either the tragic loss of two young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movei . ",1
combine the paanoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the Jupernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? ,1
"unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convjey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchPy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wi . ",0
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessve , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
"an absrdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . ",1
"the atr direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , eeaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtraZk . ",0
much of the movie'I charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuaCrt and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . ,1
"there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importnatly , singing and dancing . ",1
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringeznt wit . ",1
. . . an enjoayably frothy 'date movie' . . . ,1
"thoughtflu , provocative and entertaining . ",1
"a diworiented but occasionally disarming saga hpacked with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . ",1
the Hfilm is undone by anachronistic quick edihs and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . ,0
"not only does spider-man delivFer , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . ",1
"like a tarantino movie with haert , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about qokester highway patrolmen . ,1
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he omes across as shallwo and glib though not mean-Kspirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . ",0
"american and europkean cinema has amassed a vas holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
too much of the humor fall flat . ,0
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly lolorful look and sound . ",1
a moKestly surprising movie . ,1
a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family ftory . ,1
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confind to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of Jistory . ",1
"idrectors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that niteresting . ",0
"the delicious trimmings…arrive early and ktay late , filling neNarly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of huUankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcome who instantly transform themselves into a believable other""daughter pair . ",1
"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as oDe of the most important stories to be told in australia's ilm history . ",1
"though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too preWictable and too self-conscious to raech a level of high diama . ",0
"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatured , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even prmootes understanding . ",1
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannPot engage . ,0
"uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the rooWs of friedship and sexual identity . ",1
"for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impressino . ",0
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concypt and puh it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . ,0
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractvie or odorous [than leon] . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to yo . ",0
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the worl's religions . this deeply spiritual afilm taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
"a vulture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very fusny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . ",1
the movie is a trozve of delights . ,1
"that neithe protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , definTed by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
"just like the delOi sandwich : lots of hma , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coatign to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
"the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movis , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting fil . ",1
an old-fashioned dramO of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery smlope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdani for virtue . ,1
what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-ky manner that it risks monotony . but it's wJrth the concentration . ,1
the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nnosense . ,0
the emotional overload of emale angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying hesoine",0
"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the rad movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenagOe sex comedy . ",1
"coryn , schmaBltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brian . at all . ",1
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to ife , stuatr little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
"there's not much more to this azdaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
" "" i blame all men for yar , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
"this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and oHften unsettling lanscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . ",1
a thoughtful look at a painful incident that umade headlines in 1995 . ,1
"in theory , a middle-aged romance paining clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensivAe and nothing at all like real life . ",0
it must be the ned of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley nsipes . ,1
this 90-mincute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . ,0
"the following thins are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is als one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look liek a good guy . ",0
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plas out here , but it's so muddled and derAivative that few will bother thinking it all through . ",0
"if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneatRh the fhest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . ",0
it wouldn't be my premerred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer""director""producer robert rodiguez has cobbled together a film that fepels like a sugar high gone awry . ",0
gives everyone sGomething to shout about . ,1
"the movie is too cute to take itself too seiously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college studets . ",0
what could have been a neta little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . ,0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking soewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
"a deliberative account of a licestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of opst , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous Zake on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the bhst films of the year . ,1
the big ending suprrise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . ,0
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happn along the way seem repetitive and designed to fil time , providing no real sense of suspense . ",0
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impudlse as a creative sequel to the warren reprt . ",1
"it's all very cute , thuogh not terribly funny if you're more than six years old . ",0
"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburba families . ",1
"it's a loJathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",0
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough watfrs of contradiction . ,1
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not lways work , but it is neverthelesrs compelling . ",1
a geenric family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . ,0
"with the dEog dLays of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . ",0
the structure the flim tkes may find matN damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned . ,0
dogtown & z-boys evkoes the blithe rybel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mysteVry hInges on a technicality that strains kredulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
"for its 1g00 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
nothing more than a stifling mroality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds lkie acid . ,1
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultual and geographical displaZement . ",1
10 minutes into the ifilm you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
"as the move traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the gSreatest natural sprotsmen of modern times . ",1
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre hoxror film too bald to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
. . . a triuph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . ,1
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of teevision , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enwugh has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sticom . ",0
"while not quite a comedy , the fiml tackes its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . ",1
"the dose is strong and funny , for the frst 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal runing ime to pique your inetrest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . ",0
"the problem is the needlessly poor uality of its archivHal prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
"ice age is the first computer-generated fLeature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pFacing early on . ",0
"spreads itself too htin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations",0
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much Yfun . ",0
"as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what culd have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intecse and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"'god help su , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0
"this may be dover kosashvili's feature diErecting debut , but it looks an awful lot lifke life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . ",1
"a searing , epis treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting docuentary . ",1
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best fil yet . . . ,1
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way dam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classci . . . ",0
starts out ballsy and stylish but faBils to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
"the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . not everdyone will play the fark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed charactnrs . ",1
a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her viborant 'co-stars . ',1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive Jcontrol , both visually and in the writing . ",1
a it of an unwieldy mess . ,0
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enouDh to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really fidns the tnal or thematic glue it needs . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating atch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the motmhan prophecies . ",0
"charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irratoinal , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexty . ",1
the film grBows on you . and how . ,1
"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shamze americans , regardless of whethe or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alikKe . ",1
warmld-over hash . ,0
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for vkewers who were in diapers when the original was released in P1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not mucuh fire in the script . ",0
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audieRce completely off the hook . ",0
"director lee has a treu cinematic knakc , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . ",1
piccoli gives a saperb performance full of deep feeling . ,1
grating and tedoius . ,0
"lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both ehxibit sharp chomic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . ",1
"this odd , distant portuguese imprt more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn iflm . ",1
an unorthodox little film noir organzied crime story that includes one of the strangest love storeis you will ever see . ,1
a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey coeedy . ,1
an impressive if flawed effort that indicates real talnet . ,1
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the fiQlm , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
"its maker , steven spielebrg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was sclhepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
"this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagie that a new softwre program spit out the screenplay . ",0
moderatMely involving despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
"not only a reminder of how they used to ake movis , but also how they sometimes still can be made . ",1
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john wo bullet ballet . ,0
"thecre's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . ",1
"a better title , for all concerned , migt be swept under the rug . ",0
more intelectually scary than dramatically involving . ,0
"i doubR anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls Lround , but maybe it'll be on video by then . ",0
"reign of fire never comes cloQe to recovering from its demented premise , but it does usstain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0
"it's a boring movi about a boring man , made watchable by a ravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
"crammed with iucident , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
"if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there smoewhere . ",1
"britney has been delivered to the big csreen asfe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
"a mediGation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . ",1
'stock up on silver bullets for director neiu marshall's intense freight train of a film . ',1
an asian neo-realist treausre . ,1
"collateral damage offers formula payabck and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
"i don't feel the least bit ashamed in amitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's bet served cold . ",1
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut featuer sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cineam : unbreakable and signs . ,0
"a jewish ww ii dFoc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
what could and should have been iting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0
"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poety and politics , omvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she alloWws each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ,1
a virtual roller-coaster roide of glamour and sleaze . ,1
"fiSrst good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
"the mozvie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue mucB . ",1
one of those joyous flms that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . ,1
ity by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctinoal family dynamics noe could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
"this quiet , introspective and entertainig independent is worth seeking . ",1
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japaese animations of recent vintage . ,1
a fan film that for the uninttiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . ,0
"what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reaity so hard , it's icKy . ",0
"watching these twu actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . ",1
"turturro is fabulously funy and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing""reappearing acits",1
"with an expresqive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality lke zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
plays out with a dogged and eventually winning Tsquareness that would ake it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . ,1
"if there's a way to effectively peach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects ilke the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
"george , hire a eal director and good writers for the next installment , please . ",0
"what madohnna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , smetimes all at once . ",0
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runler , and total recall , only without much energy or tension . ",0
it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of deand brilliant . ,1
a refreshingly authentic corming-of-age tale . ,1
"engages us in constabnt fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how muc we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satsfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
. . . a rich and intelligent film that uess its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart Laccomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between dWmaged peopel that may or may not qual,1
a sha-na-na sletch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"the film meant wll in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to rpeach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
i kept wishxing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hoWlywood hoo-ha . ,0
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsocver . ,0
"sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becmoes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibiYlities and that you should nver , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mzind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
russian ark is a new treasure of the hkermitage . ,1
"an intelligent and edeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . ",1
a suffocating rape-payback horrlor shGow that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an aqdult male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
"i ekpt thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the boure identity that's packed with just as muTh intelligence as action . ,1
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully play the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1
"despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is Yike having two guys yellnig in your face for two hours . ",0
. . . a mostly bornig affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
"a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfluly draws us into a world where the personal and the political get faally intertwined . ",1
"you can feel the kheat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanitCy that root it in feeling . ",1
"insKightfully written , delicately performed",1
"inne queens is not only than a frighteninglsy capable debut and genre peice , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-jokez- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . ,0
"beauetifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungWy for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tck , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt lie a cheat . ",1
"uspually when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably itnelligent person to get through the country baers is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allQwed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
a moving and important fiClm . ,1
it turns out to be smarter and more dibolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . ,1
"if you are into splatter movijs , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . ",0
"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deady about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"it doesn't do the orvginal any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . ",0
so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf ba . ,0
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience membesr drooling over michael idebmoto as michael . ,1
"like the series , the movie is ufnny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
"this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to iagine that a new software pogram spit out the screenplay . ",0
"complete lack of oirginality , cleverness or even visible effort",0
"whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily ill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysterYa . ",1
"elicits more groans from the audince than jar jar binks , scrappy odo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . ",0
"this version'r no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"by and lnrge this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1
skip this utrd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cocketUtes' camera craizness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nthing here you haven't seen before . ",0
"in the end , all you can do is amdire the ensemble plaeyrs and wonder what the point of it is . ",0
"a 94-minutwe travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity arce into brutally labored and unfunny Uhokum . ",0
"none of this is meanjingful or memorable , but rfosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? ",1
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deaLdpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugCfest some heart . ",1
a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eey matinee . ,0
"imagine o . henry's <b>the Zgift of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scnee . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connct , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . ",1
"well mde but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystry . ",0
"…the story is far-lung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",0
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drsatic iconography . ,1
denzel washington's fforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . ,0
an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awaekning . ,0
"it's hard to quibble with a flicO boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorwous c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . ",0
"extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a imstake to go see it . ",0
"uncomyonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate mucJ suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . ",0
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possiblRe angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkble yte shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
"rather than rel figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whMose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
robin williams departs from his vun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . ,0
it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent insted of dead brilliant . ,1
"a horrible , 99-mnute stink bomb . ",0
"im not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves bruly is life affirming . ",1
"even faHs of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
"the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its qeust to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatire performance makes for a riveting movie experience . ",1
a film so tedious that it is impossible to ccare whether that boast is true or not . ,0
"godard uses his characters -- if thats' not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . ",0
"lanie's professional success Zmeans she must be a failure at life , because she's drivne by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
your children will be cocupied for 72 minutes . ,1
"a few zingers asid , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
has lost some of the dramatic convGiction that underlies the best of comedies . . . ,0
i mnow that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again,1
"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensuze that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , makign the ambiguous ending seem goofy ratheir than provocative . ",0
"with mibscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
a chilling movie nwithout oppressive gore . ,1
"the whole affair , true story or not , feels incrediby hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pya off . ,0
"a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a abd shoap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"neeless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . ",0
"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a Eumb , distracted audience . ",1
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the ilmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
. . . a rich and intelligent fil that uses its pulpy core cojnceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the haert accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a cqollaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual,1
"daughter from dananb reveals that efforts toward closure only oen new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of yerpetual pain . ",1
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending coes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
sam mendes has becoe valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
"what we gte in feardotcom is more like something from a baXd clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . ",0
"as expected , sayles' smart wordlay and clever plLt contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . ",1
"a terific date movie , whatever your orientation . ",1
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully ercorded . ",1
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the filu its bittersweet bite . ",1
"Plight , cute and forgettable . ",1
"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human bePhavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
like these russo guys looikn' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the rchness of its performances . ,1
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneeyd elments with enjoyable ease . ,1
a gem of a movei . ,1
"while we wnt macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that lcaims so many lives around her . ",0
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a Mmoral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
sparee but oddly compelling . ,1
"it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the rinitial high wears off , the film's shortomings start to shine through . ",0
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir remnded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
wrierdXrector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches ,1
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stDevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . ",1
"it's a good film , but it falls svhort of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . ",1
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier oppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . ,1
"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some aRpealing ingredients . ",0
no noe but a convict yuilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama tamiliar . ,1
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturyd , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
"supposeduly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie fanchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
a chilling movie without oppressive groe . ,1
"like smoke signals , the film is als imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and mvoing without stooping to base melodrama",1
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivatdd by it . ,1
"somewhat Xlurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism remindign of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flicMk . ,0
"a relatively effecive little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
the lousy lea performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
an irrDsistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale . ,1
"rock soliRd family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
gorge clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mYind . ,1
" . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke laesh around your neck so director nicok cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . ",0
an off-beat and fanciful Zilm about the human ened for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less dVensely plotted . ,0
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any stoytelling flow . ",0
"who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that seve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies tjy to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're ack ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
the cast delivers without sam the raw-nerved story . ,1
predictably melodramatih . ,0
a lYstless scif-i comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
"it may seem long at 110 msinutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a erunion concert . ",1
[reno] delivers a monologue that qmanages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced ashion . ,1
"feels like the work of an rtist who is simpl tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the woVld on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0
something munt have been lost in the translation . ,0
. . . hoky art house pretension . ,0
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future haead of him . ,1
"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their loxses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper hyome . ",0
jfamily fare . ,1
"it's the sweet cinderella Otory that "" pretty woman "" wanted to be . ",1
"the director , mark pellingdton , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the ktory gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a buDmp on the head . ",1
"fegoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
begins like a docu-drama but bGilds its multi-character story with a flourish . ,1
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 vminutes too long . ,0
"tadpole is emblematic of the witless gaeism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
"it lacks the compsasion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first Xfilm something of a sleeper success . ",0
a film without surprise geared oward maximum comfort and familiarity . ,0
a savage john watvers-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . ,1
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actUally turns in a prety convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"insomni lkses points when it surrenders to a formulaic baNng-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pkemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster move franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
"it does ive a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",1
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in pubic . ,0
uses high comedy to Nvoke surprising poignance . ,1
an unclassifiably awful study in self- and uadience-abuse . ,0
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traqes of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft allU mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
"an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terific 10th-grade learning tolo . ",1
"it has its fLaults , but it is a jkind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . ",1
"haGfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead actoin flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
"funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director geogre hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , "" a city where people still red . "" ",1
"once the 50 year old bVnigni appears as the title character , we finfd ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . ",0
"a delectable and intriguRng thriller filled with surPrises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two lmisfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
the inherent strengxth of the material as well as the integritK of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . ,1
"upsetting and thought-provoking , the flim has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characVers so much as it has you study them . ",1
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's theraputic to laugh along with them . ",1
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevaje it to a superior crime move . ",1
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you scould fit all of pooie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
i'll bet the video game is a lot more feun than the film . ,0
"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture ened not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy forllow-up . ",1
starts off witty and sophisticated and you wnt to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attad quickly writes himself into a corner . ,0
"it's neither as sappU as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmroe or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wieng , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? ",1
"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young anust , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can dcsguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flCick and that carvey'G considerable talents are wasted in it . ,0
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual hiKgh melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
"light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and ralher a good time . ",1
a documentary to make the sotnes weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so umch gelati . ,1
wang xiaoshuai directs this intrcicately structured and well-realized dhama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
"this isn't a sand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to klineAs superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner brso . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie is pleaasnt enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emhasized enough . ,1
"directr kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlieF english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"cold , nery and memorable . ",1
"the fascination comes in the poer of the hutson performance , which seems so largr than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to riact . ",1
it ddeserves to be seen by anyone with even a pasusing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . ,1
"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to Sransplant a hollywood star into newgoundland's wild soil -- and the bock once again resists the intrusion . ",0
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually triea to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditionNal love she seeks . ,1
hbaneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . ,1
"build some robtos , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late sow , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 trxbute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other yeah . ",0
the strentgh of the fiml lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
there is gratness here . ,1
"a uiet , disquieting triumph . ",1
an intriguing and entertaining inrtoduction to johnson . ,1
the things this movie tries to get the aIudience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"[e]ventually , every dea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before rs with little rhyme or reason . ",0
"steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion piture . ",1
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its chracters' emotional wounds . ",1
munches screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and foten unexpected . ,1
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he nezver reduces the situation to simVle melodrama . ",1
"this big screen caper has a good brak , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
"apparently kissiyng leads to suicide attempts and tragiH deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
"for anyone who rgew up on disney's 1590 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . ",0
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest femfale bonding picture . ",0
moderately involving despite brgain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
"contradicts everything we've come to expect from moives nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpecyed material and handles it in the most unexpected wy . ",1
"you have to pay attDention to foIlow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to vponder after the credits roll . ",1
"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and balhe reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyeliHds , there's not eonugh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0
this kiddie-oriented stinkr is so bad that i eveLn caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chrio tucker when you nede him ? ,0
"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tierd -- of fihting the same fights , of putitng the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0
"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on duTb gags , anatomical hmuor , or charatcer cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . ",1
"delia , greta , and paul rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic feMale characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the wold , miller digs into their very minds to Lind an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
the fourth in a seres that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long sincB vanished . ,0
" "" 13 conversations about one thing "" is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from hppiness to guilt in an intriguing brt of storytelling . ",1
the picutre doesn't know it's a comedy . ,0
"considering the harkh locations and demanding stunts , this mst have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . ",0
"some people march to the beat of a different dum , and if you ever wondered what kidn of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 altenrative housing options . ",1
. . . bibbidy-Hobbidi-bland . ,0
rubbo runs through a remarkable amsunt of material in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
very preidctable but still entertaining,1
"dong never pushes for inisghts beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the fElm settles too easily along the contours of expectation . ",0
"at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this veiwer feel enveloped in a story that , tohugh meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dOdication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . ",0
you leave feeling lkie you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
a pleasant pciece of escapist entertainment . ,1
a good piee of work more often than not . ,1
"oversexed , at times oevrwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
gloriously striaght from the vagina . ,1
karnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"the bottom line , at least in my pinion , is imposter makes a beter short story than it does a film . ",0
it's almost as if it's an elaborate daZe more than a full-blooded film . ,0
"i admired it , particularly that unxpected downer of an ending . ",1
"as if Ftrying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tris to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
ntearly every attempt at humor here is doa . ,0
"you don't need to knwo your ice-t's from your col-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . ",1
"a smatr , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
it's as raw and action-packed an experiece as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . ,1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of Kost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his afmily-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the our feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it wKinds up affirming the same damn mold values the material has always held dear . ",0
"the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for breif nudity and a grisly corpse -- remaiss alofmt not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
"Herrific as andia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more lyers . ",1
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own ood . ",0
"a bepraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0
the movie has very little to offer besides unintenStional laughs . ,0
"reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindet , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidoates . ",1
sometimes maeks less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . ,0
"a highly perosnal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wxsh we could have spent more time in its world . ",1
a cutesy romanic tale with a twist . ,1
"the real charm of this trifloe is the deadpal comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
"a disster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants . ",0
the issue of faith is not explored very deply,0
full frontal is the antiUdote for soderbergh fans who think hes' gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000,1
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it neeeds to be . ,0
nothing short of a materpiece -- and a challenging one . ,1
"for devttees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period mnutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
thorougGhly engrossing and ultimately tragic . ,1
humor in i mspy is so anemic . ,0
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caugth the gum swtuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
captures the raw comic enezrgy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a logn way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutltions involved . ",1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywQod produces . ,1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ah ha "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
"on its own , big troubule could be considered a funny little film . ",1
"though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the diaClogue is frequently overwrought and crudely liQeral , the filQ shatters you in waves . ",1
"symbolically , warm wPter under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tSibute to the power of women to heal . ",1
"the more kevin cstner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettaly , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tossed at them . ",0
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent bevcame more and more abhorrent . ,0
"if you likeD such mvies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
watching the film is like reading a times pKrtrait of grief that eeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . ,0
too close to phantom menace for coUmfort . ,0
"the overal effect is awe and affection -- and a starnge urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . ",1
"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teesn to laugh , groan and hiss at . ",0
"at best , cletis tout mihgt inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . ",0
"fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender poliGics , genre thrills or inherent humor . ",0
"Gdespite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lotX of hype . ",0
"impresses as a skilltully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
beautiful to watcPh and holds a certain charm . ,1
"despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpeted flashes of dark comedy and the charatcer's gripping humanity . ",1
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrateJ by talking fish , this is the mxvie for you . ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebdies , but ermits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rarDe insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
you'll just have your head in your hanUs wonderinzg why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . ,0
. . . begins on a high note and sustains it beautiuflly . ,1
"some of the computer animation is hnadsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak taule , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adapattions . ",0
"this hastily monuted production eQists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . ",0
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiOler . ,1
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that madp the story rtlevant in the first place . ",0
the gantzes' interviews tned to let the guys off the hook . ,0
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be trulpy entertaining . ,0
i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prXfer this new versin . but i do . ,1
i'd rather atch a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this Unonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"specacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
tries to wrk in the same vein as the brilliance of naimal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"if you like peace , you'll like promiseX . ",1
"if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry en aflfeck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . ",0
. . . think of it as americvn pie on valium . ,0
the film is dajkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusoin of work is than actual work . ,1
an unfortunate tiGtle for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
the problem is that the movie has no ideAa of it is serious or not . ,0
"reinforces the talents of screenOwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admisson's worth of funny to keep it tfloat . ",0
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much beter by comparison . ,0
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madonna sMtreet "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterlZy ditracting blunder at the very end . ",1
don't be fooXed by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk . ,0
"thriller directorial adebut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending ocmedy is generally quite funny . ",1
everything that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on tFelevision . ,0
. . . a magnificent drama well owrth tracking down . ,1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers wrun out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
"in a way , the film feels like a bryeath of fresh air , but only to those that allwo it in . ",1
thoroughly engroqssing and ultimately tragic . ,1
"like all abstract Kart , the film does not make this statement in an eayily accessible way , and -- unlesD prewarned -- it would be very possiblm for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he giveT the story some soul . . . he elevSates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
"rumRr , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . ",0
strong setup and ambitiuos goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
an idealistbic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequhel . ,0
bottom-rung new jack city waenabe . ,0
"ratliff's two mprevious titles , plutonium cirWus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a bZig splash . ,0
the movie stacts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't trque . this is the stuff that disney mvies are made of . ,1
"there are a few dtabs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gIntle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an iranian specialty . ",1
[a] satisfying lniblet . ,1
as inept as big-sureen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . ,0
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate ilttle fiml , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
"this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is jaapanese and yet feels universal . ",1
"more honest about lazheimer's disease , i think , than iris . ",1
parker cannot sustain the buoyant eGnergy level of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
i just lRved every minute of this film . ,1
"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a praody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60 counterculture . ",0
"the master of disguise may have ade a great saturday kight live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
i walked awa from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the viJlence ) . . . ,0
" "" cremaster 3 "" should ocme with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be pt to sleep or bewildered by the atsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent woud ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this omvie turned out . ",0
"'punch-drunk Move is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smsah its face in . '",0
a hauZnting tale of murder and mayhem . ,1
candid and comfortable ; a film that deflty balances action and refleTction as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lrak of a movie . ",1
an inrtiguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
"a playful iranian paQable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perpsectives to get along despite their ideological differences . ",1
[a] stal retread of the '53 original . ,0
a straight-shooting fmaily film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . ,1
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kidqs would quickly change the channel . ,0
"it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for emlock . ",0
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 02 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for rida to just die already . ,0
this beautifully animated epiU is never dull . ,1
it's the humanizing tuff that will probably isnk the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long . ,0
the only thing i laughed at were the eople who paid to see it . ,0
it's no lie -- big fat liar is a Real charmer . ,1
we want the funk - and this moEie's got it . ,1
a surprisingly funny ovie . ,1
"like mike is a winner for kids , and no doutb a winner for lil bow wo , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really xelp clear up the case . ,1
"it's a good fylm -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
feVels untidily honest . ,1
less the sensaHtional true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( pthough no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
it would work much better as a one-hour Ov documentary . ,0
"jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicaby wearing a kilt and ckarrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't gf straight to video . ,0
a film that losqes sight of its own story . ,0
"cool gadVgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
well-done superbatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . ,1
"one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembpring this refresihng visit to a sunshine state . ",1
"roger michell , who did an appealing joab directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too atrsy in his american debut . ",0
the omvie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . ,0
one of [herzog's] leaEt inspired works . ,1
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losipg a job . . . ,1
its one-sidedness . . . qlirts with propaganda . ,0
i know that i'll never listen to marivin gaye or the supremes the same way again,1
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrssing story that will captubre the minds and hearts of many . ,1
"working from eltiott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . ",1
"[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taknig its message seiriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0
feels familiar and ired . ,0
"the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to sdpan a 125-year dJivide . ",0
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most compelx , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . ",1
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the seyx demJise of james dean . ,1
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a balst of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a choru line of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unaptologetically dumb,1
"i'm guessing the direFctor is a magician . after all , he took three imnutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that fgels five hours long . ",0
snipes is both a snore and utter trpie . ,0
. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the wuar between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
"if jews were catholicd , this would be catechism",0
an impressive hybrdi . ,1
"a playul iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get alonD despite their ideological differences . ",1
director tom shadyac and star ekvin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who nneeds to heal himself . ,0
"that zhpng would mkke such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . ",0
"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspiratronal little sports drama . ",1
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an aisan perspective . ",0
…its solemn pretension prevents us from shraing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
"it moves quickly , adroitlhy , and without fusw ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really ges like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it cNuld have been . ,0
"how can such a cold movie claim to xpress warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the seer lust ) . ",0
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it blook as thoguh they are having so much fun . ",1
the fetid underbelly of fame has nevr looked uglier . ,0
what's neeued so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a sfaving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
a model of what films like this should be lika . ,1
"i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of pThony blood , nthing good can happen . ",0
easily on of the best and most exciting movies of the year . ,1
"i can only imagine one thing wogse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thign . ",0
"if the idea of the wcite man arriving on foreiLn shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more lie hell . ",0
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath Dho's the scariest of sadists . ",1
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked ruglier . ,0
"all the queen's meJn is a throwback war movie that fails on so mAny levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . ",0
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídesa eXs uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the her'os odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hapWiness . ",1
"ugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
shoDs moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kiwnd of satisfying entertainment . ",0
"a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will maek you very ahppy . ",1
"twenty years later , e . t . is sill a cinematic touchstone . ",1
tunrs a potentially interesitng idea into an excruciating film school eyperience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters,0
"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose enZs , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secVnd half . ",1
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 mminutes of screen time . . . . most vieewrs will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and less of the "" damned . "" ",0
"though a touch too arthouse p101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of tow directors . ",1
"a minor Gwork yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting bew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1
"behind the snow gamJes and lovable siberian huskies ( plus onW sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & pauleYte . ",1
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portarit , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
a stunning and overwhelVingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting nxet to you for the ride . ",1
"this isn't a stand up and cheer cflick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleausrable . ",1
"uses sharp huHmor and insight into human nature to hxamine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . ",1
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no setve martin . ",0
"it's unnervink to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
"this is a good script , good dialogue , fuQnny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will lpay equaly well on both the standard and giant screens . ",1
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big Otrouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
"in the svcond half of the film , frei's conrtol loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . ",0
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself prXying for a quick resolution . ",0
"it excels because , unlike so moany other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"it's a bizarre curiosity memlrable mainly for the way it fritters away its optentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theatev proGramming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness . ,0
"cry havoc and let slip the dgs of cheese , indeed . ",0
"one of the year's best films , featuing an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . ",1
one of the best of a growing strin of darng films . . . that argue that any sexual relatiLonship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . ,1
"it looks good , but it is essentially eumpty . ",0
i didn't believe for a oment in these villains or their plot . ,0
one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character peices . ,1
"as gamely as the moviz tries to maek sense of its title charqcter , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
only those most addicted to film violence in all its frms will find anything here to appreciate . ,0
may offend diewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
demme finally succeeds in iminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . ,0
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without plaing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
cha'is structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . ,0
a great ensemble cast cant lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't lear at the center of a kids' story ? ",0
an escapist confectyon that's pure entertainment . ,1
. . . thikn of it as american pie on valium . ,0
never [inks] into exploitation . ,1
"while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20Dh century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streetY , it's alarmingly current . ",1
jackson and co have brought cback the value and respect for the term epic cinema . ,1
"the film has an infectious enthusqiasm and we're touhhed by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . ",1
"the tasteful little revision wokrs wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard trwuths even as he uncovers them . ,0
"fRed schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle ag and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth saerching out . ",1
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telrenovela than serious drama . ,0
"a distintcly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obigatory moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
"there's something deeply creepy about nBver again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
"the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentayr by dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , orests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70s , who live there in the 1940s . ",1
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good tiem with the salton sea . ",0
a compeling portrait of moral emptiness,1
"a natuwally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
as pedestrian as they comTe . ,0
the films essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
a amrvel of production design . ,1
sow me the mugging . ,0
"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decet . ",1
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tlerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
the story itself is actually quite vapOd . ,0
"the charm of the first movise is still there , and the story feels like the ogical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . ",1
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an afectionate take on its screwed-up characters . ,1
"for a movie audience , the hGours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sez , duty and love . ",1
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her matirial is merited . ,1
theer's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a iood chance of being the big hi franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . ,1
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scrosese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"a deliciously mordant , bitter lback comedy . ",1
"ultimately , it ponders the reasons we nered stories so much . ",1
it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that pJove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarajh and harrison . ,1
"please , someone , stop erc schaeffer before he makes another film . ",0
eric schwei and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still linger in the souls of these characters . ,1
"told in scattered fashibon , the movie only intermittently live up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
u . s . audiences may find [tatal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimaAte and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywod typically concocts . ,1
"there's an energy to y ut mamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibted performances by its lead actors . ",1
" . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable Yfiller . ",0
it all comes down to wheRther you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
muc of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of stdam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
"a brisk , rFverent , and subtly different sequel . ",1
"the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing tyipcal hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja va than awe . ",0
"lik its new englan characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sidness . ",1
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lto of nada . ,0
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its perdecessor , but there are enough high points to Seep this from being a complete waste of time . ",0
greegnrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approahc that throws one in the pulsatig thick of a truly frightening situation . ,1
it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then Eerved up kraft macaroOi and cheese . ,0
"likAe edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigrme . ",1
bravo revelas the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construqct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be Gseen as propaganda . ,0
"an odd , haphazard , and fnconsequential romantic comedy . ",0
"this cloing , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . ",0
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen grzss-out comedy . ,0
"it's sincre to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
flounders due to the gneeral sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mnid . ,0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is ess compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
"ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it hd's well worth spending some time with . ",1
i can easiSly imagine beingni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughtN children's stockings . ,0
a wast of fearless purity in the acting craft . ,0
"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand tZimes before , it is kind of enjoOable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . ",0
a wildly funny prxison caper . ,1
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the fiym nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
"the movie occasionXlly threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touyh of humor or an unexHpected plot twist always pulls it back . ",1
"it's hadr to like a film about a guy who is utterlPy unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter despeKrate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
"not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effecftive . ",1
"her film is like a beautifuol food entrAée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
"ryosuke has crated a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . ",1
"no bgi whoop , nothing new to see , zeJo thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ",0
allen's underestimated charm dleivers more goodies than lumps of coal . ,1
"the moviCe doesn't geerate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0
it all drags on so interminably it's liek watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . ,0
"eventually arrives at its heart , as siymple self-reflection meditation . ",0
"it's possibHe that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettiling . ",0
"brainy , artistic and uted , almost to the point of suffocation . ",0
" . . . no charm , no laguhs , no fun , no reason to watch . ",0
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks consierable brio . ",0
"you just Wknow something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indDe-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sensre . ",0
"it's as if solondz had two ideas for Qtwo movies , couldn't really figure out how to fleh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . ",0
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have puleld off four similar kidnappings before . ,0
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well woVrn conceit . but this films lack the passion required to sell the material . ,0
blanchett's performance corfirms her power once again . ,1
"as well-actd and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film Acomes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
"national lampoon's van wilder amy aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resBembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0
"gay or straight , kissing jessiZca stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
the film is often Nfilled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinema du sarasm,1
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funnMy movies recycle ld tropes . the problem is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the materTial . ",0
even horror fanAs will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrils and humor . ,0
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that wuold be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0
"oy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . ",1
adaptation is sipmly brilliant . ,1
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to Binspire the woung people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop nubers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
by-the-nRmbers yarn . ,0
queen of the damned is too plong with too little going on . ,0
"although gGerman cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make edutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . ",1
"like a threer-ing circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . ",0
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by C6 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
"this is as powerful a set of evidecne as you'll ever ufind of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum waAlls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . ",1
"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you Hake up in the morning ? ",0
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the reease of some of the worst film comedies in decadens . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxkton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rura americana . ",1
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mstly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is atuhentic . ,0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefy anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy mvoie that ends with a whimper . ",1
"its Zirection , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a ildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inae ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the forper mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"birot creates a drama with such a weGll-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become Hlmost as operatgic to us as they are to her characters . ",1
"white oleander may leavs you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't liek looking at it . ",1
"austin opwers for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that comC later . ",1
"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie rfanchise is ndearly ready to keel over . ",0
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good htings happen to bad pople . ",0
pumpkin wants to have it both was . ,0
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice blegian waffle . ,0
the probqem with all of this : it's not really funny . ,0
"this slow-movinT swedish film offers not eevn a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the hmiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . ",0
"perhaps it's ciche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a level of youkng , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarzndon and goldie hawn . ",0
. . . better described as a ghost stovry gone badly awry . ,0
there has always been something likable about the marquis e sade . ,1
"when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trobule . ",0
"[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and seual idnnuendoes abound . ",1
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigeTlow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the uppyr echelons of the directing world . ",1
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fnaatical excess built into it . ",1
"the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a jind of political blair witch , a moanstrous surk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
"if the first en in blac was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite . ",1
"the entire mQvie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . ",1
"clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takel aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never Alets up . ",1
my big fat greek wedding sues stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
a true leasure . ,1
"a movie that's hled captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to Fay full price . ",0
"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also once of his most uncanny . ",1
"features nonsensical and laughable plottign , wooden performancse , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",0
bean drops the ball too many times . . . ohping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screepnlay . ,0
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptinpess . ,0
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , cats attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to wntch . ",1
"a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable stroy in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital gltz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
a compelling story of umsical passion against governmental odds . ,1
"in the telling of a sZory largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
"the film never gets over its own invetment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , rach , and class . ",0
leigh mazes these lies counF . and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpase that never springs to life . ,0
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about perftormances . ",1
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoically , illuminated . ",1
"bras , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardoniic jolt . ",1
"thoug the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the est . ",0
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagned had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demostrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-acsh' sequel were . ",0
"if you're liek me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who hamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appeyite . ",1
a family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very littlve with its imaginative premise . ,0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is jactually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey . ,1
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of fles , buzz , balb and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
a polshed and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
hawn and sarandon form an acting bon that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laugIs to spare . ,1
"a taut , intelligen psychological drama . ",1
so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to se one rdeuce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
elvira ans could hardly ask for more . ,1
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do bKest - being teenagers . ,1
the moral shrapnel and mentgal shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . ,1
"with each of her thYee protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a dep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",1
it's a movie fotged in the fires of chick flick hell . ,0
"unpretentious , charminkg , quirky , original",1
schaefer's . . . determination to inject fracical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
"an admitted egomaniac , evana is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wYsh he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatmenxt of a clever gimmick . ,0
a Korthy entry into a very difficult genre . ,1
"trailer rtash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrativoe expedience . ,0
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 miutes , director roger kumble semes to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
"if you are into splatser movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . ",0
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's paced with adventure and a worthwhile environmental messgae , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enugh celver innuendo to fil",0
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of auction and almost no substance . ,0
this harrowing jUurney into combat hlel vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
i encoruage young and old alike to og see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequfl that's better than its predecessor . ",1
a quiet famiMy drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refual to empathize with otTers . ,1
birot's directorial debut ( she cowrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
"seldahl's bajrbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passio and then by illness . ",1
"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fnie music nevre heard . ",0
likely to expertly rum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentlne' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherwordlly , a frBaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
"while certain cues , like the appy musJic , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our earts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness . ",0
"it works well enough , sinPce the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginaive as it is gory . ",1
"[it's] diffigcult to get beyond the overall blandnes of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
"there's onthing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . ",1
"often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most pHart . ",1
"none of this has the suavity or classiZal familiarity of bond , but much of it is godod for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own actio isn't very effective . ",0
"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strane horror of lfie in the new millennium . ",1
"a fragile framewor upon which to Bang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . ",0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipd script he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
most fTlks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irreelvant . ,0
more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episoidc and lacking the spark of imaginatZon that might have made it an exhilarating treat . ,0
"while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real tlaent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantci comedy to which it asqpires . ",0
"while hoffman's pefrormance is great , the subject matter goes nowhere . ",0
"a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous lcoales and excepional lead performances , it has considerable charm . ",1
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic minUd,1
. . . a funny yet dakr and seedy clash of cultures and generations . ,1
"the film is darkjly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . ",1
"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantagT on cable , espejially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
"where janice beard oalters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageowsness , and comedic employment . ",1
"this is the kind of mopie that use to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is . ",1
"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and castig mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the fZce that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . ,1
a yig meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any tiem . ",1
a Igood thriller . ,1
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a imnor miracle of self-expression . ,1
burns never really harnesves to full effect the energetic cast . ,0
"though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' sag of hollywood excless . ",1
"so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new cGreer ahea of him if he so chooses . ",1
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the sice of specificity . ,0
"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlesMt works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and sDspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
the dark and bittersyeet twist feles strange as things turn nasty and tagic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . ,0
a wonderfully speculatFive character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . ,1
the film exudes the urabne sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
the film has severael strong performances . ,1
alawys destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its tiCtle character , there remains a huge gap between the film' creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbIok psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"all the queen's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many leSels , it should paly reparations to viewers . ",0
"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and ynewfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sopzisticated and kQnowing horror films . ",1
it's impossible to inudlge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacOant . ,0
it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indian who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectaces that pack 'em in on the subcontinet . ,1
"the longer the mvoie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . ",0
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's ovel by some way . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professionla adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
"a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific swreenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
"as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by onday , teough , and if they're old enough to have devleoped some taste , so will your kids . ",1
"while we no longer possss the lcak-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii . ",1
"maid in manhattan might not jlook so appealing on third or fourt viewing down the road . . . but as a hig concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the mvie passes inspection . ",1
"this is a winning ensmble comedy that shows canadians can ut gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere selse in the world . ",1
"poewtry in motion captured on vfilm . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . ",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble pice . ",1
"the movie , ilke bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-drl office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . ",0
"for its seriousness , hih literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applauded . ",1
delightfoully rendered,1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gag melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-Meroticism . ",0
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror fils",1
" . . . a somber film , almos completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more poeple should check out",1
"a triuImph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspono's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knoRws how to drive it to the max . ",1
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which uUnderdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their upliVft . ",1
"'[hopkins]doesn't so umch phone in his performance as fax it . no , even nhat's too committed . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little odl-fashioned storytelling would come in hadny . ",0
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facng jewish parents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to nlose them . ,1
"the biggest problem with satin rougf is lilia herself . she's a cipher , pyayed by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
"É uma pena que , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tAom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichês qeu havia satirizado . ",1
"a surprisinlgy flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the deatrh of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
"it is a likable story , atold with competence . ",1
many of benjamins' elements feel like tthey've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
"suppoesdly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large hwman tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . ",0
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shVainberg's film is that it truly is romance",1
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly ishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clIe about either the naturv of women or of friendship . ,0
"the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks condubt in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
"what saves it . . . and amkes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the piont of emotional and moral deprature for protagonist aliec . ",1
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboIarding boom that would become "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
"maoe me unintentionally famaus — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theate and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen . ",1
"at three hours and with very little stor or character development , there is pletny of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely woul have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural nitrigue . ",0
"sit through this one , and you won't need a magic wTatch to nstop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . ",0
this is amusing for about thTee minutes . ,0
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell gaems . ,1
its engaging simplicitz is driven by appealing leads . ,1
a mostly tired retread of seOeral other mob tales . ,0
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tensBon and unhappiness . ",1
"if melville is creatively a great whlae , this film is canned tuna . ",0
diggs and lathan are among the chief raesons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘wram water under a red bridge',1
"this heist flick about young brookyln hoods is off the shelf after two yeaUs to capitalize on the popularity of vidn diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"smarl science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way . ",1
"the movie , directed by mick jacson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the prbedictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . ",0
as happily glib and vicious as its charcters . ,0
it's hard to undersiand why aAyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movi . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its sidoe . ,1
a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tanseltown . ,1
one teing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
"confsesions may not be a straightforward bWo , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of poN culture . ",1
"it thankfully goe easy on the reel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in veice""venice . ",1
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists tring to create bsomething original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonivstic . ,0
there are now two sins that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unberakable and signs . ,0
"stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive ittle * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , lovaeble or otherwise . ",0
"as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty egjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to Qold tori amos records . ",1
"children may not understand evrything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost cerainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale praody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic cTmedy . ",0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a stXory about a man who loPses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensebmle . there isn't a weak or craeless performance amongst them . ,1
"this charming but slight tlae has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plto moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlkie ecstasy . ",1
"it extends the writigns of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps veen the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
"quite imply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . ",1
it's a work by an artist so in contorl of both his meJium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . ,1
"a delectQable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an orXginal . this is a story of two misfits who don't soand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leav the theater . ,0
"the scrGpt kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
"sets up a nice concept for its fitfysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare picures that you root for througohut , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it njever is , not fully . ",0
"the nonstop artifnice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile sitVations . ",0
"if weles was unhappy at the prjspect of the human race splitting in two , he probaly wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . ",0
mDark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for kumor . ,0
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - wtst side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sudre is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
"the yearos greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but entusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . ",1
"an "" o rbuin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
"very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilate and sometimes both . ",1
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips long with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and gowfor-broke acting that heralds something special . ,1
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose psasion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue yes . ,1
"between them , de nro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilaroius guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . ",1
[a] crushing Fisappointment . ,0
a movie that seids you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community . ,1
"this is a movie full of grace and , Oltimately , hope . ",1
"for a movie about the pEwer of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . ",0
oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to materwial,0
"its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movei and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . ",1
the philosophical musings of the dailogue jar against the tawdry sop opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . ,1
"there are a few stabs at absurdist comedy . . . but omstly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an irainan specialty . ",1
it tells its stqory in a flat manner and eaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is ceratinly easy to watch . ",1
"this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spiFrit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and styPe . ",1
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier Vork , films like the double life of vronique . ",1
"even if invincible is not quite the career pebk that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demnstrates that ewrner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1
"[swimafn] falls victim to sloppy plotteng , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
the exUperience of going to a iflm festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
"evLrything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , desigend not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
"skip this dreck , rent animal huse and go back to the source . ",0
"bgielow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fCble . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-wUy time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
"like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentionaRl . ",0
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrset if taken in large doses . ",0
[a] slummre . ,0
the movie fails to portNray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old maS . ,0
"oh , jmes ! your 20th outing shosw off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuek and saekqo is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill two hours . ",0
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martiaul arts adventure told by a lobftomized woody allen is to have some ieda of the fate that lies in store for moviegaers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
the bourne identity is what summeMr screen escapism used to be in the decMades when it was geared more to grownups . ,1
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slicknmess in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience ets pure escapism . ,1
i'm not suer these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
a long-winded and stagy session of romatnic contrivancqs that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . ,0
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden aoy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-ation pinocchio he directed , cowrote and tsarred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existnce . ",0
"implicitly acknowledges and celebraets the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of busniesses , and for that reason it maHy be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . ",1
"super troopeGrs is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zcker borthersabrahams films ",0
"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a moIsterous one . ",0
slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the filmR's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rued lines of dialosgue to remember it by . ,0
"this is no "" wateroby ! "" ",0
"'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps tgether his own branx of liberalism . '",1
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair desrciption of how you feel while you're wathing this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a pefect family film to take everyone to since there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theater this year . charlie hunnam has the twineling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
"'film aficionados cannot chelp but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbnig hallucinations . ",1
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achZevement . ,1
"somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as unny nor as cMever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . ",1
"despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer imporMt is forgettable",0
"this version moves beyond the origial's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for tue , lived experience . ",1
"were dylan tohmas aliev to witness first-time director ethan hawke's straned chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good theatre . '",0
"it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it make absolutely no sense . ",0
the film's few ideas are stretched to the poant of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that sebms to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filleUr . ,0
"it's too self-important and ploddnig to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . ",0
ruh-roh ! roCething's really wrong with this ricture ! ,0
"starts out mediocre , spirals dowEward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
the movie exists for its soccer action and its fine acing . ,1
"a sharp and quick docuRentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of thetarical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
"it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the momena , finchx's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . ",1
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be clicJhes whose lives are nDver fully explored . ,0
"a vivid , sometimes surreaXl , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
hoffman's performance is authntic to the core of his being . ,1
a noble fWailure . ,0
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless bxxing film . ",0
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a dseerved co-winner of the audience awarM for documentaries at the sundance film festival . ,1
"' . . . mafi , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly hefds in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1
"you come away thinking not only that Ykate isn't very brijght , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that mabye she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . ",0
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-stye laugh track . ,0
a well-intentioned effLort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnevt emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
"scotland , bpa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . ",0
video games are more involving than this emss . ,0
friday after next is a lot more bluster than bie . ,0
"pgetic , heartbreaking . ",1
"wendigx wants to be a monster movie for the arth-ouse crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",0
"after kaking severa adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . ",1
"a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving fooatge of burstein and his faimly performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
in visual fertility treasure plane rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ,1
"to call this one an ekventual cult classic wDuld be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaratioO about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . ",0
"frank capra playde this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breauks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . ",0
"it's the type of fil about growing up that we don't see often enough these dayL : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
go spee it and enjoy . ,1
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely miaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of moderj day irony . ",1
an dod rama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
"his best fiml remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feeis less repetitive . ",0
"i have always appreciated a smEartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may posess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"if you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anegr , enough is just the ticket you Oeed . ",1
"canon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving graces . ",1
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown satrday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
but this is lohman's film . her performnace moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditionnal love she seeks . ,1
knockaround gJys mplays like a student film by two guys who desperately wan to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . ,0
opens as promising as any waEradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama ,0
"narratively , trouble every day is a ploddign mess . ",0
"too stagey , tlaky -- and long -- for its own good . ",0
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 1j01 . ,0
fIord deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
"if the very concept maeks you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 mFnutes seem twice as long . ",0
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity projct for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
. . . a hollow joke otld by a cinematic gymnast having too umch fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . ,0
a smug and cnvoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiencBs that it's only a movie . ,0
the pleausre of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking togelher to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1
it tels more than it shows . ,0
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seduwtiveness of new technology lsoes faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . ,0
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's lJckiest stroke . ,1
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjo this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being aNtempted here that stubborlny refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in nwe york . ,0
"the scrit's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . ",0
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measuked work . ",1
"therKe's no doubting that this is a fighly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted . ",0
"while we waant macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many livws around her . ",0
"mr . clooney , mr . kaumfan and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bw for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an aWlmost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
"its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken sernously , but it lso wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar mare . ",0
"everything's seriwus , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
"it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the ogrgeous , ramshackle ladnscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
part of the film's aheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of vierw that ayurveda wrks . no question . ,1
"this toothless dog , arlready on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . ",0
"shattering , devastating documentary on two malaOjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . ",1
qualitieRs that were once amusing are becoming irritating . ,0
"an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predcessors proud . ",1
"each stry on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its currnet incaDnation , storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception . ",0
the story ultimately takes hold and grips hrad . ,1
"this may be the dumbest , sketcihest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . ",0
a compelling rfilm . ,1
"the most wondrous love story in years , it is a grpeat film . ",1
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the bst possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the Nservice of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequentil diversion . ,1
"labute can't avoid a faXtal mistake in the moder era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabrRic of the film . ",0
the scorpion king is more fun than conaK the barbarian . ,1
"these self-styled atlhetes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and uriously , their capacity to explain themselves has ogne the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . ",0
"an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and froth between controlling interests multiple times , then foud its sweet spot",1
"the cast is phenomenal , especially the wmoen . ",1
"it could chQange america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so aAccessible that it akes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . ",1
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in prais of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . ,1
"the plot is very cleier , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicatd to keep track of . ",0
a well acterd and well intentioned snoozer . ,0
"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this efilm you'll know too . ",0
"a gushy eUisode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an asian perspective . ",0
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and prodcuers Zescend upon utah each january to Terret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good hting . ",1
fulford-wierzbicki . . . dteftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
a pure participatory event that malnouished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . ,1
"like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its heor , it remains brightly optimistic , comiHng through in the end . ",1
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled stemaboat willie . ,1
"the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveNer , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scruiny for 104 minutes , remains a compete blank . ",0
"the performances are immaculate , with roussiTllon providing comic relief . ",1
this in-depth studBy of importGant developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul rgabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parCchial melodrama into something really rather special . ,1
"with its lackadaisica plotting and mindless action , all about the benjaimns evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
collpses under its own meager weight . ,0
"for the most part , the filYm does hold up pretty well . ",1
"priggish , lethargically pacde parable of renewal . ",0
distinctly subp-ar . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . ,0
"behind the sow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one heep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a fame . like the hanks character , h'es a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
"shaky close-ups of turkey-Non-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spoGts , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
a damn fiFne and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bhred to even ithink of staying with this for more than , sya , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paiAd a matinee Grice . ",0
"while it regards 1967 as the key turning piont of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly crrent . ",1
apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife stting axound in their drawers to justify a film . ,0
. . . the kind of movie you seee because the theater has air conditioning . ,0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . ideeds was to that of frank cafra . ,0
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feling a part of its grand locateons , tinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventivenes , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
may serioutsly impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
lawrence pulmbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . ,1
"complete lac of originality , cleverness or even visible effort",0
a deviant topical comeudy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"the acting is just fipne , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the fuUll 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
"flat , but with a revelQatory performance by michelle williams . ",0
disneyy has always been hit-or-miss when ringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"i kept thniking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performacnes . ,1
jackson and co have brought back the alue and respect for the term epic cinema . ,1
"77 minutes of Lokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wimh is that celebi could take me back to a time before i swa this movie and i could just skip it . ",0
cremaster 3 is at once a tough Rpill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . ,1
"it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 wmillion palestinians who live in the cCrowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . ",1
murder by numbers just doesn't adB up . ,0
"the people in abc africa are treatem as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothGing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . ,0
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pre venality -- that's giving it the old college try . ,0
"it has more in common with a fireworks dispaly than a movie , which normally is expected to have charactvers and a storyline . ",0
"granddad of e nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
Qone of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . ,1
almost peerlqessly unsettling . ,1
"a strong first ac and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . ",1
"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterlH charming . ",1
"the film is itself a sornt of cinemtaic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0
" . . . a bland , prettentious mess . ",0
"bright seems alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he ca'nt helqp throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
flounders due to the general sense that no two people worGking on the production had exactly the same thing in mnid . ,0
"unfolds in a low-key , orgJanic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
the entire movie is filled with deja vu momenst . ,0
"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtfaul examination of faith , love and power . ",1
coral reef adventjre is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered erefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
"the cTst is phenomenal , especially the women . ",1
"it's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertainisng and authentic . ",1
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the servicOe of psychological insight . ,1
it's one of the saddest films i have ever seec that still manages to be uplifing but not overly sentimental . ,1
"this latest installment of the horrnor film franchise that is apparentl as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer plaoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . ",0
"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the owrst he has done . ",0
even die-hard ans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fiated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
characters wander into predictably treacherous situations eve though they should know better . ,0
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about huamn infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story arready overladen with plot conceits . ,0
"it thankfully gPoes easy on the reel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] jursued with such enervating determination in venice""venice . ",1
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these twY literary iigures , and even the times in which they live . but they fascinate in their recklessness . ",1
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latiFn actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . ,1
" ( caine ) provet once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in truoble every day . ",1
"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp bjects to rip through . ",0
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuiTne laughs . ,1
"bad company leaves a fad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its scAript . ",0
fulfills the miinmum requirement of disney animation . ,1
the first bond movie in ges that isn't fake fun . ,1
"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merly bad rather than painfully apwful . ",0
"if this is satire , it's the spmug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirot of cuban music . ,1
"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audinece . ",1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with evQry scene , that it oculd never really have happened this way . ",0
"if swiman does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . ",0
little more than a frYthy vanity project . ,0
"bravo for history nrewritten , and for the uncompromising knowldege that the highest power of all is the power of love . ",1
"hreve's graceful dual narrative gets rclunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
"none of this violates the letrter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . ",0
a sober and affecting chronicle of the levelinB effect of loss . ,1
"the toruch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
"a boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are mdae to look bad . ",0
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories all . ",1
"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkaby unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . ",1
"devotees of star trek ii : the wraOh of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . ",1
this is not a jackig chan movie . it's just a moviw that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and emn from mars can ndeed get together . ,1
"in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiaatly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daTring and verve . ",1
gofoding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . ,0
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wBit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
at its best early on as it play the culture clashes between the brothers . ,1
"what's not to like about a moTvie with a 'children's' osong that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? ",1
a refreshing korean film about five lfemale high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waterI . ,1
[berheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cGook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . ,1
"what the move lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
"britney's pePformance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
"with each of her thee protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's lfie , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",1
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central fgure , vivi -- is just a little Zbit hard to love . ",0
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it ptu on a giant furry monster costume and then gcve them a lapdance . ,0
"a tired , predicEable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . ",0
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flikc formula , blad ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
the film is insighful about kissinger's background and history . ,1
"pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much lss talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
about as satisfying and pedictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
offers a clear-eyed cronicle of a female uriendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
" . . . a solid , unassuming dramEa . ",1
the footage of the rappers at play and the prison intreview with suge knight are just tMo of the elements that will grab you . ,1
they should have callde it gutterball . ,0
"snice adhmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it msises a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . ",0
meticulously unEcovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment . ,1
"most of the problemr with the film don't derive from the Fscreenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved",0
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-sn-its-sleeve writing . ",1
"fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slighUtly bored . ",0
"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-Lgood moive can still show real heart , tiFe of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
"f77 minutes of pokemon may not lats 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me baxck to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . ",0
"the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just eonugh spice to keep it inFteresting . ",1
"a very familiar ale , oNne that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , Ihinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . ",0
"using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 10 minutes in a movie thater . ",1
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . una vredadera delicia . '",1
"we just don't really cXre too much about this love story . in that sjtting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
easily the most thoughtful fictional xamination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
" "" an entire film about researchers quietly raeding dusty old letters . "" ",0
it seems grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stamers after all . ,1
despite some gulps the film is a zuzzy huggy . ,0
it is so refeshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes eh's been making for the last several years . ,1
a movie that sedns you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community . ,1
" "" the road paved with good intention leads to the video store "" ",0
a humorleso journey into a philosophical void . ,0
this formulaic chillUer will do little to boost stallone's career . ,0
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sensqe of humor and technological finish . ,1
"swee home alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
"a free-for-all of half-baked thouFghts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . ",0
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heavhn ; others need not necessarily apply . ,1
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventuOre of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille augIust does best . ,1
"it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the tiem -- it just isn't any funnie than bad mratial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . ",0
the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and epressing . ,0
"a thoxughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and Gisk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of busineLs notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't een , which , in this daw and ag , is of course the point . ",1
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easly , or soon . ",1
a great companion piece to other npapoleon films . ,1
"the valJes that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventrues and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure . ",1
a realistically terriyfing movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into soTething that could really help clear up the case . ,1
"perhaps a bettre celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fLbricated . ",0
a pleasurably jacked-up pAece of action moviemaking . ,1
"at first , the sight of a bind man directing a film is Uhilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . ",0
a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decdae . ,0
"think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adaGs , the worlds' most generic rock star . ",0
"yes , noe enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward youog woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
"these chracters are so ewll established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . ",1
"the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feWels incomplete , as if the rea story starts just around the corner . ",0
xmünch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet withoFut the decay factor , funny and sad . ",1
"holds limited appeal to those who like Cxplosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
"this rather superficial arthoues middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a Pkitchen sink onto a sory already overladen with plot conceits . ,0
"mattei so completely loses himself to the flim's circular structure to ever moffer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . ",0
the laughs are as rarYe as snake foo yung . ,0
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general famLly chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is dceonstructed with poignancy . ,1
"make no miUstake , ivans xtc . is a mess . ",0
"this is for the most part a uesless movie , even with a great director at the helm . ",0
"let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'rtue story' by which all the queen's men is Lallegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what'xs been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
"perry's good and his is an interesting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly luff . nor is it a romantic comHedy . ",0
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presCence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big sreen . ",0
"though the film is well-intentioneH , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
it's the humanizing stuff that will robably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about perecentages all day long . ,0
"a classy , sprightly pin on film . ",1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novklla is now broad and farcical . ,0
director tom shadyac and tar kevin ocstner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0
"qunado tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( Oom o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's somply baffling . ",0
"the best comedy concert movie i've seen sinec cho' previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . ",1
indiofferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-dawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partyl satisfying . ",0
"my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric mfvie . ",1
boomers and their kids will have a barrie good tJime . ,1
Overy good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for beniRgni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as waell have been problem child iv . ,0
has the maRks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick . ,0
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to Aitness , but seldahl and woltler's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . ",1
brosnan gives a portrayal as ssolid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
"the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scoobydoo . ",0
"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't illy , it would still be beyond comprehension . ",0
this strenuously unfunny shwtime deserves the hook . ,0
ho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . ,1
the central character isn't omplex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"when a movie has stuck apround for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
"a socggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
"the heart of the film is a touchRng reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . ",1
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alarcity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
"if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that managse to have a goood time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1
"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gGne are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his word carefully and subdues his naturl exuberance . ",1
"i can imagine this movie as a b&w british cmedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellejrs , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this mvoie is hopeless . ",0
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudiln as any after-school special you can imagkine . ",0
"by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned ifunny . ",1
"we nemer really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . ",0
it's as if ed palma spent an hour setting a fanBcy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . ,0
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new eaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0
it's refreshing to see a girl-power moviv that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
a dreadful liv-eaction movie . ,0
"[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstram hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
everyone should be Wble to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . ,1
real womn have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but evne its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remcmbers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feelgs like an impostor . ",0
"the script is a tred one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . ",0
opera on film is nevre satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its jhrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
"netirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
it almost feeljs as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaknig . ,0
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerpul rather than cloying . ",1
may offeLnd viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marripge . ",1
"if you've the patince , there are great rewards here . ",1
the cat's meow marks a freturn to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
"does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating characte'rs story . ",1
consists of a iplot and jokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g,0
"because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays Jlike a powerful 1957 dramoa we've somehow never seen before . ",1
few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedess . ,1
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and opverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastatign , ewloquent clarity . ",1
"anyone who suffers through this film deserUes , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
dismally dull sci-fi cmoedy . ,0
"very much a home ideo , and so devoid of rtifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . ",0
"while its carXful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every roviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . ",1
ba and baffling from the get-go . ,0
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome d goggles the theater provides . ,1
diverting fwench comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
a flawed but engrossing thrillTer . ,1
an annoying orgy of excss and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0
"at the very least , if you don't know anyhing about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't knw much more when you leave . ",0
maryam is more timely now than sever . ,1
"well-acted , weli-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not eve half the kinterest . ",0
the pianist is the film roman polanski ay have been born to make . ,1
"once the audience figure out what's being saiRd , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to erally care . ",0
"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatriQce , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
norton holds the flim together . ,1
shame on writerdirector viecnte aranda for making a fCorid biopic about mad queens ,0
"while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything widr than a niche auGience . ",1
the film tunes into a grieSf that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
"while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and intrVspective to appeal to anythnig wider than a niche audience . ",1
"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they hake their chioces , and why . ",1
"a reKal winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"the premis is in extremely bad taste , and the filf's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high schooYl senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them . ",0
the thing looks Zike a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving roel . ,0
"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle irnoies and visual devices to convec point of view . ",1
"if the plot seems a bit on the sknny side , thats' because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . ",1
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fulhy understanding what it was that made the story relveant in the first place . ",0
"has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the originla . if i wYnt music , i'ldl vbuy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . ",0
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forcd to change behaviPor in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impis divertissement of themes that interest atal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"the film is exhilaratng to watc because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor . ",1
nokhing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . ,0
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsliy stuck together . ,0
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years ten . ,1
"it's mildly sentimental , uIabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . ",0
the mSovie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journye through life . ,1
"it may be a somewhat abckhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer fel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movi'es most admirable quality",1
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of audlin tragedy . ,0
"director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationsihp with economical grace , letting his superb acOtors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last ecade . ",1
"so muddled , repetiitve and ragged that it savys far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
"the self-serious equilibrium amkes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't much fun wthout the highs and lows . ",0
"too smart to ignre but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its atrget audience in the fae by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . ogod film , but very glum . ",1
"morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even thCough the character is oalmost completely deadpan . ",1
"davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroien's book sound convjincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
it was a dark and stormy nQight . . . ,0
what could have been a pointde little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viabYlity and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . ,0
something ust have been lost in the translation . ,0
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythDology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moivegoers for real characters and compelling plots . ,0
qc's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deesrves to be considereEd as a possible successor to the best european directors . ,1
"we admire this film for its harsh objectiDvity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
time of faor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadl are at hostile odds with one another through recklVssness and retaliation . ,0
a movXie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . ,0
"a prepsoterous , prurient whodunit . ",0
nexw best friend shouldn't have gone straigt to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy far , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
"the movie feel like it's gong to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
a fake sltreet drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a loick do so easily after a few tries and become zxpert fighters after a few weeks . ,0
the wild thornberrys mYvie is a jolly surprise . ,1
"while its carjeful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy everv moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . ",1
"a twjsty , moody slice of southern gothic . . . ",1
let's faEe it -- there aren't many rJeasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney spears . ,0
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favoVur of an altogether darker side . ,1
about as satisfying and predictable as the afre at your local drive through . ,0
"with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkyers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soaE . ",0
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crIsty treatment of a clever gimmick . ,0
"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , inulged in and rMejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . ",0
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like staKte . ,1
" ( wendigo is ) why we g to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . ",1
a compelling motion pictuwre that illustrates an american tragedy . ,1
"swimfan , like aftal attraction , eventually goes overborad with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
mucYh monkeyfun for all . ,1
the result is something quite frGsh and delightful . ,1
"apparently designed as a reverie about mFmory and regret , but the only thiAng you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . ",0
"if you've the patience , there are great erwards here . ",1
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experOmental eonugh to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . ,0
moore's pjrformance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engaUge anyone with a passina interest in the skatesurf culture ,1
"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately tilted , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically cZharged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
it almost feels as if the movei is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
. . . a powerfu sequel and one of the best films of the year . ,1
the performances are remrakable . ,1
"an inexperienced director , mehta has muc to learn . ",0
"a strng script , powerful direction and splendid production desing allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good humaon being . ",1
" "" the kid stays in the pictre "" is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . ",0
might be ne of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to sshow off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
[an] hilarious rojantic comedy . ,1
"spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and findig it necessary to hide new sFecretions from the parental units . ",1
"when a movie asks you to feel dsorry for mick jagger's sex life , it alredy has one strike against it . ",0
"what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persnoa , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchiId , undercut by the voice of the star of road Utrip . ",0
that the real aytwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a grod man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been bale to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . ,1
"the strong subject mater contineus to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
the film was immensely enjoyable thanHks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . ,1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matte would suggest , but is a little like a nature flm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the charaters who svrround frankie . ,0
"faustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have cqaracters and a stcoryline . ",0
a cop story that understands the medium amazinglZ well . ,1
'wouldn't it be nibce if all guys go a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that'us not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . ,0
rarely has a fiTlm's title served such dire warning . ,0
they do a good jvob of painting this family dynamic for the uadience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . ,0
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tcale . ,1
scorsese doesn't give us a character worht giving a damn about . ,0
"if the film's bision of sort as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a nLew start . ",1
"you can feel the heat that ignimes this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that rot it in feeling . ",1
"extremely wzll acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero migh wid up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . ,1
this slight premjise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actro ian holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
feels familiar and itred . ,0
"touches smartly and iwstfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal member of society . . . imght benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a ogod ( successful ) rental . '",0
"it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jok conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makevs it work more than it proGbably should . ",0
"a soul-stirring dcoumentary about the israeli""palestinina conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . ",1
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one'Ws heart and following the demands of tradition . ,1
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in norpthern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating hhick of a trluy frightening situation . ,1
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fahion . ,0
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man paisach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba doip gai",0
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should satrt their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
"with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty lstless collection of kid-movie clichés . ",0
"the pinochet case is a searing album of remZembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
"speXtacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"this movie is about lying , cheating , but Xloving the friends you betray . ",0
"an unsatisfying hybrdi of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservatiev protagonist is always the last one living . ",0
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . dTag the movie down . ,0
it's technically sumptuous but also almost wlidly alive . ,1
"there's some outrageously creative action in the transportJer . . . [b]ut by the time frwank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fuliflling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the stor . ",0
"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the Aspanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to nivisible ink . ",0
"renier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
"it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deatFhs just so the documentRry will be over , but it's inicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cbover your particular area of interest . ",0
watching the film is like reading a times portrQit of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who dwrote it . ,0
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definWition of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carrL forward into the next generation . ,1
"tim alln is great in his role but never hoge the scenes from his fXllow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . ",1
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this gnere soar . ,0
"half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . Jwould be more at home on a daeytime television serial . ",0
"using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dak look at relationships ",1
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fatnasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than vone role just to add to the cJonfusion . ",0
a family-friendly fawtasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
a subtle variation on i spit on your gravNe in which our purpoted heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men . ,0
"it's a strange film , onRe that was hard for me to warm up to . ",1
"the stripped-down fapproach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedoius . ",0
the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potnet doses of honesty and sensitivity . ,1
"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . neigma lacks it . ",0
"mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intremediary pasages , apparenyly hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . ",0
"the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good inetntions in the world , but . . . ",0
"clever , brutal and strangely woulful movie . ",1
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a Vmysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a soliH build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills laong the way . ",1
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not leasYt the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . ",1
disturbingly supernicial in its approach to the material . ,0
"in the wake of saving privaJe ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage'T war-weary marine . ",0
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv vetearn joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
"despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the Fbook . ",0
"not about scares but a mood in which an minous , pervasive , and unkonown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . ",1
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's irn man . ,1
"the ret of the polt is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . ",0
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspens . ,0
the characters are paer tihn and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usuaMl suspects . ,0
"as a hybrid eten thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . ",0
the performances take the movie to a Ihigher level . ,1
lozoks awfully like one lodng tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . ,0
"a big , louc , bang-the-drum bore . ",0
"in other wodrs , it's just another sports draacharacter study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . pluPs ",1
"i'm not sure which hal of dragonfly is worse : the part where hnothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . ",0
"the film is filled with humorous observations about the egneral absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoCid many of the condescending stereotypes that so oaften plague films dealing with the mentally lil . ",1
a quietly coving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"the movie's messages are quite admirabel , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
" "" it's all about the itage . "" ",1
"argely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . ",0
boring and mezandering . ,0
"this is dicaprio's bYest performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
what migJt have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . ,1
"[soderbergh] tends to plaEce most of the psychological and philosophical matierial in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
"`martin lawrence liv' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection take for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who usFes sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
"what's surprising about fuql frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the movie still manage to bweak past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
the cumuative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . ,0
"hralfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with Effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
it's technicaly sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . ,1
"never decides whether it wants to be a black ocmedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
"this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . neevrtheless , it still seems endless . ",0
"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movWies . enigma lacks it . ",0
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvios game . you try to guess the order in which the kdis in the house will be gored . ,0
"if you want to see a train wrfeck that you can't lok away from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
invinciIle is a wonderful movie . ,1
"maybe it's the star power of the acst or the redundant messages , but something aboul "" full frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
an hour and a half of joyful solo perfrmance . ,1
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a Qrousing treatise of sesual empowerment . ,1
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo D3 in the imax format proves abvsolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
"sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather dindulgent piece . ",0
"how many more times will nidie filmmakers subject cus to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisyfing than almost any hororr film in recent memory . ,1
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of iflm experiences will find what time is it there ? well worh the time . ,1
"scotland , pca is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . ",0
"like a skillful fisher , the director huses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us complletely . ",1
"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic nsow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter chrlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
the film's ecssentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and oaenness . ",1
"my raection in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and fiull of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . ",0
"talk to her is so daHrned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and et it's ahrd to stop watching . ",1
"those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susckptible to blue hilarity , step right up . ",1
most of the dialogue made me want to pck raw dough in my ears . ,0
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful actioW farce . ,1
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its lvttle neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the leevl that one edjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorptioa . ,0
delivers roughly equal amuonts of beautiful movement and inside information . ,1
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining ven if none of it makes a ilck of sense . ,1
i can analyze this movie in three words : humbs friggin' down . ,0
bolstered by exceptional performances and a ctear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
drector rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one . ,1
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its Pquirky tunes . ",1
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this mvoie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1
an enjoyable above average summer divresion . ,1
"a particularlBy joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . ",0
there's a vastness implied in mketropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
"helps to remnid the first world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
"a lack of thsis makes mXaryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . ",0
brvae and sweetly rendered love story . ,1
"if kaufman ekpt cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his luatest , he'd have them mate . ",0
a bitetrsweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . ,1
"has an unmistakable , eysy joie de vivre . ",1
"how good this film migh be , depends if you believe that the shocking cfonclusion is too much of a plunge or not . ",1
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun itended ) , watched side-by-isde with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
"what eric schDaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , stirctly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really devleops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily Etold it feels accidental . ,0
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic tlriller . ",1
bullock's compleyte lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0
"brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy pose but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
"if hill isn't quite his genertaion's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all hbluster and cliché . ",0
"feels at tims like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
'thy' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decided to leave a light on every Rnight from now on . ,1
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open woun . ",0
a movie that reminds us of just how exiting and satisfying the fantasy cineam can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . ,1
jVgger the actor is someone you want to see again . ,1
the notoion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
"the performaces of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . ",1
"despite hoffman's bets efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encountvrs reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"it's a brilliant , hoxnest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates trns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
"a touching , small-scale story of fagmily responsibility and care in the community . ",1
zaidan's scrit has barely enough plot to strin the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . ,0
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodilI hunter is entertainment opporutnism at its most glaring . ",0
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a arm , moving message . ",1
"karmen moves like rhJthm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her lnog , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . ",1
"gJoofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
mght be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his alent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
the film's tonU and pacing are off almost from the get-go . ,0
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelliSence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot ither . ,0
"sitting in the third row of the Rmax cinema at sydney's dailing harbour , but i sometiYes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that camrried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1
"hard , ndearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . ",1
i could have used my two hours better waatching being john malkovich again . ,0
the animated sequenecs are well done and perfectly constructed to convDy a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . ,1
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . ,1
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much enorgy or tension . ",0
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a singZe stroke . ,1
"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prsaic . ",0
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slicJe of lower-class londn life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
"yes , 4evXer is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the lRittle yard apes to the real xeal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
one of those movies that make qs pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-pacAd contemporary society . ,1
leaves us wondering less about its idesa and more about its characterization of Hhitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . ,0
about the only thing to give the mvoie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stalYe concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . ,0
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likemy to get . ",1
"scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lto less sensational than it wankts to be . ",0
"complex , sirnuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablisAts and ebat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful peoiod attention as well as some very welcome wt . ",1
this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worshp . ,0
an intelligeUnt fiction about learning through cultural clash . ,1
"bigelow handles the nuclear crisis seqeunces evenly but milkds drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
othing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . ,0
"a different and emotionally reserved typj of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of yone man , and more about that man lost in its moidst . ",1
"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top Fway , touches the heart . ",1
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their wya through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parbles and not an actual story . ,0
"a gorgeous , high-spirted musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
the script ? Dplease . ,0
" . . . a joek at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . ",1
this isn't a movie ; it's a sympgtom . ,0
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient vOiewer . ,1
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini fim without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie withouf beatuy or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
"slap me , i aw this movie . ",0
the director seems to dtake an unseemly pleasure in [the haracters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorims anxieties and sidesteps them at the same tCime . ",1
" "" cremaester 3 "" should come with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characteMrs by confining color to liyan's backyard . ,1
"chicago offers much colorful eze candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing smhoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
a modestly amde but profoundly moving documentary . ,1
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitewment of the festival in cannes . ,1
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grJsp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly raw attention to itself . ,1
the bard as black comedy -- willie would have lovde it . ,1
it's been 02 years since 48 hDs . made eddie murphy a movie sEar and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . ,0
"normally , rhmer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and reliMes on a historical text , he loyses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . ",0
"the film is a confusing melaneg of tones and styles , on moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . ",0
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst omvie of the year . ,0
it's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film cuOture that alolws americans to finally revel in its splendor . ,1
it reaffirms qlife as it looks in the face of death . ,1
"the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incVoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh aiQr now and then . ",0
the acting alone is worth the pFrice of admission . ,1
don't exepct any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
what might have meerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of owody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lCame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0
"yes , spirited away is a triumpYh of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling . ",0
wakner goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"4ever has the same sledgehaqmer appeal as pokemon vieos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . ",0
all prints of this flim should be sent to and buried on pluto . ,0
you don't know whether to admire the Wilm's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lakc of pace . or both . ,1
one loushy movie . ,0
"at the very least , if you don't know anything about derriRda when you walk into the theater , you won't knw much more when you leave . ",0
big fat liar is just ftuile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
a srprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . ,1
[newtgon]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
"if this movie leaves you cool , it lso leaves you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
"despite terrific special eoffects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelouCs series into a deadly bore . ",0
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stas . ,0
this is art paying homLage to art . ,1
an annoying orgy of excess and exploiktation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver scren . ,1
the film is bright and flashy in all the rigt ways . ,1
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the isnightful wrterdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . """,1
"the ilm is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . ",1
"when not wallowing in its character' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the filwm can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
an intermittently pleasing but mostly ruotine effort . ,0
manages to show lie in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
"smart , sassy iterpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed terash of the highest order . ,1
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problemaitc script . ,1
the project's filmmakers forogt to include anything even halfway scary as they pCoorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
ofPen shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talkQng heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
there is more than one joek about putting the toUilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen's men . ,0
by the final whistel you're convinced that this mean machine was a deecnt tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
"witBout resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein Jmay be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1
"for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned vvlues under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movei . ",0
"you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite getFs there . ",0
bravo reveals the true intent of her fizlm by carefully selecting intevriew subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly cParitable it can only be seen as propaganda . ,0
"graphic sex amy be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them Hawake . ",1
from blushing to gushing---imamura Qsquirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge',1
no reason for anyone to nivest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest muh into itself either . ,0
it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actor . ,1
"actiEg , particularly by tambor , almost makes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
the rules of attraction gWets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent atempts at moralizing . ,0
"too manCy scenarios in which the hero might have an oppjortunity to triumphantly usermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940D warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to fgiure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they faTcinate in their rceklessness . ",1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminiOzed it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
"only for young children , if them . their parents wold do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minuntes . ",0
"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expct -- but nKthing more . ",0
"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelir and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side stoZy show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sue is pathetic ! ,0
"ehery potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been nade under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
"for all its violence , the ovie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . ",0
"a thughtful , reverent portrati of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . ",1
"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-nahtured and sometimes quite funny . ",1
nohing about it fits . ,0
"the movie is dawn of the ead crossed with josn carpenter's gTosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorilNy . ",0
the ga-zilionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
the film has a terrific loXk and salma hayek has a feel for the chaKacter at all stages of her life . ,1
"sMlap me , i saw this movie . ",0
an empty shell of an eipc rather than the real deal . ,0
invincible is a wonderful omvie . ,1
"a pleasant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often deal with . . . it does possess a loose , lackadaisical ceharm . ",1
goets a long way on hedonistic gusto . ,1
"if you're looking for an inteMlligent mvie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knos its sade . ",1
"will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the ogod , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"despite its flaws , cazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
a touching drama about old age and griZef with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
"a better title , for all concernked , might be swept under the rug . ",0
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit Oecessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actualy amusing . ",0
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgeos the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approaech that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening sitution . ,1
"[a] wonderfully loopy tale of olve , longing , and voting . ",1
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intellignt and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror iflms",1
"this is a stunnng film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . ",1
"i stNll can't relate to stuawrt : heTs a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . ",0
" . . . play like a badly editBed , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialAogue . ,1
one scene after another in this supposedly funny mvoie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
there is only so much baksd cardboard i need to chew . ,0
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debuR behind the camera . ,1
" . . . a fun ittle timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddis chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . ",1
"the vintage is pure '7 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautiRnary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . ",0
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miamax should have hidden it from everyone . ",0
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscgle or wo . ,0
"movie fans , geHt ready to take off . . . the other direction . ",0
a chaotlic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
"sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relWentlessly haJrmless that it almost wins you over in the end . ",0
"works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interseting to say about them . ",0
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and omfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
an intelliHently made ( and beautifully eited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline witMhout a hitch . ,1
anothe trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
the good girl is a filWm in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romancRe with ryder is puzzling . ",0
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needMless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
maid in manhattan proves that it's esaier to change the shSeets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0
"howard and his co-stars all give ocmmitted performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking stylJe to match his subject . ",0
"the most memorable moment was when gredn threw medical equipment at a winSow ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grba the old lydy at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
"what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualif as revolutionary . but it's dQefiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
an uteerly compelling 'who wroet it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . ,1
"cockettes has the glroious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those dyas , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . ",1
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar ysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
it'll keep you wOide awake and . . . very tense . ,1
few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown me who si in the stands . ,1
"for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wJit in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
"the film gets close to the chimps the same wa goodall did , with a serious minded patJience , respect and affection . ",1
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and drected by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow utyles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to plaease every one ( and no one ) . ",0
"with a tighter editorial proceQs and firmer direction this matVerial could work , espeially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . ",0
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic eimar republic . ,1
"if oscar had a categorX called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , gfys would probably be duking it out with the qNeen of the damned for the honor . ",0
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plejty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do lisHt . ,0
"[the film] tacles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascWertain whether the film is , at its core , deply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
the talenetd and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reseOrve enough for his second . ,0
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with pony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
"the iflm hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinhc of tartness . ,1
"forgt the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can tae us . ",1
the filu is full of charm . ,1
"deaht to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and aduiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
"much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '6s0 gYooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't reall do the era justice . you have to see it . ",1
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illKgical things kee happening over and over again . ",0
munch's scerenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are shlort and often unexpected . ,1
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the irght directioln , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . ",1
woefullCy pretentious . ,0
toxkapi this is not . ,0
"why com up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something lime rose red ? ",0
[plays] in broad outline as wandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
"the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panaczhe . ",1
"bigeow offers some flashy tists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of wiater comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
woody allen can write and delRver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a ot of problems with this movie . ,0
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressiSve fake documentary . ,1
"it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insighY that made [yere's] first film something of a sleeper success . ",0
"the aimation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dyng a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0
some sutnning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ,0
"morvern calalr confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the moder rea : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an amerOican , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
the movie Vquickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sese . ,0
"the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young payers are utterly convincing . ",1
a realistically terrifying movie that pts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
"i had a dream that a smart omedy ould come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
richly entetraining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . ,1
"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachuites down onto a moving truck , it's just another cqrtoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks amily . ",1
"not only does the movie fai to makx us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . ",0
the movie is a mess from start to fiinish . ,0
"there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercus the devastatingly telling impPact of tter loss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that nver come into focus . ,0
"whether [ibnoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , nyver overcook the hysteria . ",1
"defated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film . ",1
easily one of the best and most exciting movis of the year . ,1
it never risjs to its clever what-if concept . ,0
"nicole kidman evolved from star to sLuperstar some time over the past year , which mFans that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not mak for a while . ",1
"the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a cfre of flimsy -- or , worse yeq , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0
h-nuld's action hero days might be over . ,0
"a fast-paced , gligzy but extremely silly piece . ",0
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in cmparison . ,0
"one of the best film i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging depeer , getting more intense . ",1
it's absoluDely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"if you don't flne , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . ",1
"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuiYne wit , and anything ersembling acting . ",0
foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and rBn of the mill . ,1
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broLad streaks of common sense emergRe with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
a compelling ficm . ,1
demSo is not without talent ; he just needs better material . ,0
"obligDda para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aqVuel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"no , i don't know why steven seagal is conswidered a star , nor why he keeps being acst in action films when none of them are evsr any good or make any money . ",0
"this pciture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , deGspite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as wel as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels like unralized potntial",1
"a taut , sboering film . ",1
"if only it were , ell , funnier . ",0
"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavniia , to go the conservative route . ",0
this one aims for the toilet and scDores a direct hit . ,0
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingerPd . ,0
hollywood ending is the most disabppointing woody allen movi ever . he has a great cast and a great ideB . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . ,0
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the ear . ,0
" . . . a good , if not entirely fYresh , look at war . ",1
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap oera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audiene and characters to ction that fels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings . ",0
a well-made and often lovely depcition of the mysteries of friendship . ,1
"an entertaining british hybri of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . ",1
"charloRtte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not aStempt to filter out the complexity . ",1
ong's promising debut is a wamr and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city . ,1
diirector boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher flim that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong thinsg , and scared to admit how much they may really nued the company of othres . ",1
"the trick when watcihng godyrd is to catch the pitch of his potics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing viidly bJck at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to Peform families , then tear them apart . ",1
"an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drajma about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of coures . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
works better in the conceptijon than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
"like shave ice without the topping , this cineFmatic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax tip . ,0
"fierpe , glaring and unforgettable . ",1
a hallmar film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . ,1
fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some eun in this jumbled mess . ,0
an elegant and slty deadpan comedy . ,1
might be on of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented gpeople . ,0
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had toay's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
director udavid fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ,0
the only excitement comes when the credist finally roll and you get to leave the theater . ,0
thoguh its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . ,0
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotoinal conviction . ",0
an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taAen seriously . ,0
even die-hard fans of japaese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the gerne as it provides a frsh veiw of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . ,1
most of the things that mad the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
a sentimental mess that Yever rings true . ,0
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certaiInly not number 1 . ",0
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana crvey nothing to do that is really funyn , and then xepects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . ",0
"the characters , cast in impossibly conItrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . ",0
"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and depair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of su live -- sopmeplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
"the film benefits gretaly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as chU appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"anchored by a gterrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-acRtualization knows few continental divides . ",1
"for decades we've marveled at disney's redering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated worvd . prepare to marvel again . ",1
"i liCed the original short story but this movie , even at an hSour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere . ",0
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an eXpiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . ",0
i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the cOomedy . ,0
" . . . does such a fine jtob of egulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are resmembered only as an afterthought . ",1
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom wihtout the snap-crackle . ",0
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're goincg to alter the bard's enOding , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
the aremnian genocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . ,0
"the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leaGds are up to the task . ",1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays liek a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
thoroughly engrossinLg and ultimately tragic . ,1
"the plot combines the blues brothers and almost famoVus ( but with beasr , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . ",0
a small independent film sufering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0
an unsuccessful aottempt at a movie of ideas . ,0
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawninlg chasm where the plot should be . ,1
troll the cult section of your local video stodre for the real deal . ,0
u . s . audiences may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the filA an intimaVte and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typicalyl concocts . ,1
"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kelt returnvng to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
"as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeez his story , the more details slip out between his finger . ",1
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven conceHalment . ,1
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insgght into why , for instance , good things happen to bad pesple . ",0
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . Spryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
this may be burns's strongest film sicne the brothers mcmullen . ,1
"in death to smoochy , we don't get wDlliams' usual tear and a spile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . ",1
"zmr . pwolanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the ksource of his spiritual survival . ",1
the film is really closer to porn than a seriuos critique of what's wrnog with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre fYmily film . ",0
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés edl género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
a moving and not infequently breathtaking film . ,1
"in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , witIhout benefit of song . ",0
"the message is that veen the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whteher they be of nature , of man or of one another . ",1
the sinister iispiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mnidless . ,0
"a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feelin of 'let's get this thig over with' : everyone has qhown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0
"when you fnd yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
"smewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the gianQt achilles' hele in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
"just consider what new bVest friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
"appropriately cynical social commentary asdie , #9 never quite ignites . ",0
"while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in trms of story . ",1
"though it inspires some ( out-of-ield ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a molemical tract . ",0
this is one of polasnki's best films . ,1
"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thicJk , working-class scottish accent . ",0
p . t . anderWson underspands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out jogs in our lives that we never knew were possible . ,1
knobckaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantno when they grow up . but they lack their idlo's energy and passion for detail . ,0
contrasting the original ringu with the curretn americanized adaptation is akn to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
"the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revoluton , commuinsm , etc . ",0
the journeO toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0
director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to ucss him out severely for bunglign the big stuff . ,0
don't let your festVve spirit go this far . ,0
"the story line may be 127 yeasr old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timly in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . ",1
"allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with sobmer earnestness in the new adaptation of the hcerry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . ",0
"a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfoldin a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
"if legendary shlockmeister ed wooSd had ever made a moie about a vampire , it probably would look a lo like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0
might be one of those vaity projecas in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
"there's very littl sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . ",1
the only thizg sary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . ,0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more goring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerevs . ",0
it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original ormantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
an intriguing and entertainig introduction to johnson . ,1
"a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blisp asiZe , stays there for the duration . ",1
"the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodilu hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and ashion a story around him . ",1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid wy , finds oen of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality . ",1
"a generous , inspiring fil that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . ",1
vanother best of the year selection . ,1
"the mood , look and tone of the film fCt the incredible storyline to a t . ",1
"anmic , pretentious . ",0
"imagine a film that egins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naqed teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living space -- but his subjects are charmeNs . ",1
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nie belgian waffle . ,0
"ike most seuels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
so devoid of any kind of intelligible stork that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem likY thoughtful treatises,0
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful imnor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . ",1
"thanks to a small star with big heatr , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
"great performmances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
"en swí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digno de contemplarse en cinb , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colsoal . ",1
mr . spielberg and his company just want you to njoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noblb endeavor . ,1
"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video gaDes japanese teens play in a nightcub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just anoter kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequencs . ,0
doesn't apdd up to much . ,0
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a hronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lieflong friendships . ,0
thoroughly engrossmng and ultimately tragic . ,1
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perditzon leads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are euqally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
"a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watc it , offering fine acting momxents and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's Whow-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wvell . ",1
"too mnay scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly srmonize , and too few that allwo us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknzown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant minset of suspense . ",1
it's fascinating to see how bettany and micdowell play off each other . ,1
"' . . . maxia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gitves brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1
ogne of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
sxe with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the fimlmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to ocument all this emotional misery ? ,0
kapur weighs down the Qale with bogus profundities . ,0
just watch bettany strut his stSuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
the film is bright and flasyh in all the right ways . ,1
"eve if the ride's a Tlittle bumpy , with a final lap that's all too suspiciously sooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
"the members manAge to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ampl opportunity to use that term as often as possbile . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
director clare kilnedr's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
it syas a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and ystill maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . ,1
"as the movie traces mr . broown's athletc expolits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . ",1
"the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to etll a stoyr about discovering your destination in life , but alos acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
"over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only smproves on it , with terrific computer graphisc , inventive actioe sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we Pully understand all the sexual permuattions involved . ",1
just a bloody mses . ,0
"may not be a breakthrough in filmRmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
"a mix of gritty realism , crisp stnorytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
godawful obring slug of a movie . ,0
astonishingly skJllful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica stienis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plWays everything too sfe . ",1
the moive is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . ,1
it's never dull and alwayQ looks good . ,1
"why make a documentary about these magrinal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valucble ? ",0
imaigne the james woods character from videodroe making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
"femme fatale offers nfthing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , vosions or being told what actuallMy happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
"predictable and cloing , though brown sWgar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap Awent nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out ibzarre and just keeps getting weirder . ,1
feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the saylum . ,0
"i felt sad for lse not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belonsg in something lighuer and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"like the world of his film , hartlRey created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a coluple's moral ascension . ,1
"if you're patr of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
"part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves s fSeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the mvie as a whole . ",0
. . . a true deilght . ,1
"mendes still doesn't quie know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , hes' a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
"ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softns up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begIin with . ",0
"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own trnasparency . ",1
"it looks good , but it is essentially mepty . ",0
"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utteCly ridiculou shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energeXic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
morver rocks . ,1
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnferving wya . ",1
it's clear that meta simply wanted to updaet her beloved genre for the housands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwrztten by the nba . ,0
the csat is uniformly excellent and relaxed . ,1
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty ypthon cartoons , in which he would cut out figrues from drawings and photographs and paste them together . ",1
"crossroads feels lik a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescet scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama . ",0
ferrara's best film in hyears . ,1
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politiYs , power and social mobility . ",1
"a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspensr . ",1
"by not averting his eyes , solodz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1
"all rght , so it's not a brilliant ppiece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimls hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . ",1
arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the wyear,1
a griping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
"rarely has skin looked as beatuiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
norton holds the film qogether . ,1
a frisky and freh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an adience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it Ralso is more ffully an example of the kind of lusL , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . ",1
the movie is one of the bvst examples of artful larTge format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . ,1
so aggressively cheery that pollyRana would reach for a barf bag . ,0
"this is for the most part a seless movie , even with a great director at the helm . ",0
"asee clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 imnutes . but be warned , you too may fefel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . ",0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accDountant . ",0
the kind of nFervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
"whatever satire ulcky break was aimig for , it certainly got lost in the "" son-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars",0
you'll have more fun steting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained geHting hit by a bus . ,0
feeble comdey . ,0
what a bewilderingly rilliant and entertaining movie this is . ,1
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so mcuh naturalistic small talk , delivered in almsot muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
"a dleasing , often-funny comedy . ",1
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is band . ,0
"the fact is that the screen is most Ilive when it seems most likel that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
"seems based on ugly ideas ipnstead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1
"a mild , reluctant , thumb down . ",0
"chris columbus' sequel is fastHr , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
"a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but enver quitPe gets off the ground . ",0
" . . . intsead go rent "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities seveyral times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . ,0
" "" auto focus "" wokrs as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era",1
"the film's darker moments necome smoothded over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . ",0
"halfway through the movie , the hmuor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of plaec in what could have ( and probabl should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0
"if this omvie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . ",1
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloyign . ",1
"too slow for a younger crowd , too Ahallow for an older one . ",0
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshnePss of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congenality . ",0
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fte that lies in store for mviegoers lrued to the mediocrity that is kung pow : etner the fist . ,0
a plodding look at the rench revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . ,0
they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wreslting fnas . ,0
what begins brightly gets ebogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"in his debut as a direcxtor , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug urafted out of millions of vibrant flowes . ,0
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art wrld , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust . ",1
"land , people and narrative flow togYther in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of iJflated nonsense . ,0
"made me unintentionally ftamous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the loby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative wokrs i've seen . ",1
"this is a children's filK in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hadn , will be ahwad of the lpot at all times , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0
"if somebddy was ored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
"delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic femWle characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , rmiller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawde humaniyt . ",1
"if this is an exapmle of the type of project that robert redfod's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . ",0
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of thirE-act crescendos , lily chou-chou enver really builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0
"a pleasing , often-funny cSmedy . ",1
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clihcés , an assausin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cineima is still alive and kicking . ",1
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing derleted scene . ",1
"a pleasant , if forgettadble , romp of a film . ",1
a comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythsm of life . ,1
this may be burns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullnen . ,1
"there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title charactejr herself . ",0
"my h my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that alcks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
"the flm reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better cahracters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly marhta while i one",1
what happens when something goes bupm in the night and nobody cares ? ,0
"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melanchoia , the recation in wiJlliams is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1
"weird , vulgar comedy that's definitely an acquired tasVte . ",1
makes an aborbing if arguable ase for the man's greatness . ,1
even the digrPessions are funny . ,1
"it's an ehample of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stads , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the dirpctor's previous full frontal . ",1
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of Ddealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"the overall effect is awe and affecution -- and a strange urge to get on a boagd and , uh , shred , dude . ",1
"just about the bset straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . ",1
"unfortunately , enither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
it's not too fast and not too slow . it's not too rcy and it's not too offensive . it's not too mch of anything . ,0
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after tPwo decaes . ",1
"this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is ehll . ",0
"should have gonS straight to video . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorly maed , on all levelYs , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
a gangstr movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique prespective . ,1
'easily my choice for oe of the year's best films . ',1
"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is burned upside down , first by passion and then by illess . ",1
"bluto blutarsLky , we miss you . ",0
"it's up to [watts] to lQend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
remove spider-man the movi from its red herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is onI summer film that satisfies . ,1
"devotee of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lackiLng . ",1
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the litstle mermaid and aladdin . ",1
"they're going through the motions , but the izp is gone . ",0
steers turns in a snapspy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow puXlls it off . ,1
the problem with moxies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into fored fuzziness . ,0
"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just tsuff . watching scarlet diva , oe is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instaed , we just get messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the baZ things in the world "" like puppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starrping pop queens",0
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wis to send your regrets . ,0
i can analyze this moie in three words : thumbs friggin' down . ,0
"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intiamcy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlni , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of nJon-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
"exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the iYntermingling of race , Colitics and local commerce . ",1
"here's not a single jump-in-your-seat mmoent and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . ",0
guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slghtest . ,0
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director mlacolm d . lee and writer john ridley . ,1
our culture is headed down the toiblet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequlia bender — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clcckstoppers . ,0
"even in trms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it nexer quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . ",0
davis has filed out his cast with appealing fresh faces . ,1
one fantasEic ( and educational ) documentary . ,1
"the fim is exhilarating to watch because asndler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor . ",1
"while it is welcome to ese a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashino , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . ",0
"often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , cell house is a fascintaing document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
"while most fims these days are about nothing , this ilm seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . ",1
this is a filJm tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over oeading a full-length classic . ,0
in the end there is one word that best describes this film : ohnest . ,1
"foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeUing . ",1
"while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production wokrs more often than it doesn't . ",1
"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a ogod deal funnier than his original . ",1
a weall-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
most of the movie is so deadSy dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limtis , lending the naJrrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1
"owuld you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's boy ? if you answered yse , by all means enjo the new guy . ",1
"cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapsticI humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everynoe . ",1
"give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intenitons , but here's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . ",0
"this extremely unfunyn film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
" "" what really happened ? "" is a questAion for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight fempale empowerment picture we've been watching for decades,0
"as teen fovies go , "" orange county "" is a refreshing change",1
"an easy wtach , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0
"it's gto the brawn , but not the brains . ",0
i firmly believe that a good video Kame moie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0
"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but sacthingly witty nonetheless . ",1
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrilWs or genuine laughs . ,1
"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable iflm the folTlowing yLear , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . ",0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sfrdid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the stoyr wouldn't wok without all those gimmicks . ",0
"high crimes is a ciematic misdeimeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",0
did the film inofrm and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went atsray . ,0
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and buhsels of vioence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
"the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also sreved as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , poweful act abroad . ",1
jason patric and ray liotta maJe for one splendidly cast pair . ,1
an exhilarating expereince . ,1
"return to never land may be aonther shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-abd . ",1
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply fel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
"follows the original ilm virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost conpletely dry of humor , verve and fun . ",0
miyazaMi is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsjy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernie it with encomia to diversity and tolerance . ,0
"i ketp thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
brady achievs the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every elichéd white-trash situation imaginable . ,0
"too mkch power , not enough puff . ",0
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile rmoantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
"generally , clocWstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happXily killing 94 minutes . ",1
"i have always appreciated a smartl written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby gobs down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"an important movie , a remindUr of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our valuevs . ",1
"the people in acb africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
"broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifyully few real laughs . ",0
"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandenring , norton has to recite band police procedural dtails , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . ",0
a diverse and astonishingly articulate casWt of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally ade a movie that isn't just offensive -- it alsio happens to be good . ",1
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity xprinkled with a few remarks so gearld toward engendering audience sympathy that you imght think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . ,0
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war Sii movie for overly familiar matrial . ",0
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and nw pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonatMe . ",0
"vsad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ",0
"an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effecAs and bckgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
anemiT chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . ,0
"this is not an eaVsy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . ",1
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a szperior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skiYll",0
the sd thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for graspng the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it hinks it is . ,0
mr . spielberg and his company just want you to nejoy yourselves withoNt feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . ,1
a sudsy cautinoary tale . ,0
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald ibounce off a quirky cast of characters . ,1
"what bloody sunday lacsk in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"while not for every taste , this often very funny colleYgiate gross-out comedy goes a Hong way toward restoring the lustr of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
a dark comeyd that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
an incredibly naFrrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
an extraordnarily silly thriller . ,0
splendidly illustraes the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity . ,1
it's an experience in understanding a unique calture that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
"while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the rKight place , its brain is a little scattered -- nitsy , even . ",0
a little weak -- and it isn't that ufnny . ,0
"upliftinMg as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the yeaZ . ",1
" . . . if it had been only half-anhour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at niney minutes , it drags . ",0
"where otm green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . ",0
"laconic and very silted in its dialogue , this indie flick neve found its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essdntially an extended soap opera . ,0
"for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reacLions and quick solutions . ",1
a mixed bag of a comedy that cran't really be described as out of this world . ,0
it's been 20 years csince 48 hrs . made eddie murhy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is gettng old . ,0
"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian rak marks a cinematic milestone . ",1
"while the story is better-foucsed than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a poiwtless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who sftaggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative orks iv'e seen . ",1
"alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and souleul , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
children and adults gnamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"three's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anythping seen on jerry springer . ,1
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notons of moral right and rong . ",1
. . . the plot wleaves us into a complex web . ,1
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap ponr . ,0
the talk-heavy film plGays like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
" . . . a soru little mvie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the Ffilm's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but fpnds surprising depth in its look at the birnds of a small family . ,1
the master of disaster - it's a piec of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from indiGa that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfQct comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . ",1
"phillip nocye and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematograper , christopher doyle -- understadn the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . ",1
"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the pLint , the issueLs are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1
the movie wVighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . ,0
one-o-fa-kind near-masterpiece . ,1
"a dark , quirky roda movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
"the tWuch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
"it's tommy' job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this on , you'll feel like mopping up , too . ",0
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminentljy engrossing film . ,1
"miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking taension from quiet . ",1
"the fEilm didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effrt and if you waunt to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due . ",0
"after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comcedy special , it makes me wonher if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
"evmen if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedie have . ",0
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a iflm . ',1
"denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a zast-second goal to win the championship , but it neglcets few others . ",0
"even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos coverin his shoulde , however , kilmer seems to be poUsing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . ",0
"a erasonably efficietn mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minuets . ,1
"demonstrates the unusual Ipower of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1
combines a coically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was tow centuries aYo . ",1
its vision of that awkward tge when sex threatens to overwhelm everything eles is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1
deserves a plaCe of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . ,1
where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examinatiVn of america's cutlure of fear as a root cause of gun violence . ,1
"if you like quirky , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twistDd sense of humor . ",1
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beautxy even as he tells a story as horrifyiqng as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
"lske a grinning jack o' lantern , its aparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",0
"a classy , sIprightly spin on film . ",1
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kdd who can't quite distinguish one sic-fi work from another . ",0
"the acting in paulnie and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the Jasy emotional buttons . ",1
"…the story is far-flung , illogical , and lain stupid . ",0
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my lovd ones more than flirts with kitQsch -- the tale commands attention . ",1
almost gags on its own gre . ,0
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's rbaveheart as well as the receEt pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
"the mvie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the isXsue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentailly , of life itself . ",0
"using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continurs his onger journey still ahead . ",1
"that 'alabama' manages to be pZleasant in spite of its predictaility and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is alMways a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willig to express his conMictions . ",1
"though there's a clartiy of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jSackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rsoe red ? ",0
a sentimental mess that never rings ture . ,0
"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despte the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhandde presentation . ,0
"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumy settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of fiLmmaking . ",0
"as a director , eastworod is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and nnoe of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so uncoJventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it kakes your breath away . ",1
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is on of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as fnny . ",0
fra more enjoyable than its predecessor . ,0
a very stylish but ultimately extremel silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd dexpect . ",0
"it's still a comic book , but magiure makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
"gee , a second assassin dshot kennedy ? moot point . ",0
"[the film] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally hnoest manner that by the Gnd , it's impossible to asceratin whether the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
huston nails both the glad-handing and the chokng sense of hollow despair . ,1
"stands as a documenKt of what it fet like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . """,1
"the venezuelans say things lie "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or peneKrating . ,0
it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be comined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
this in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewinyg in university computer science departments for yeas to come . ,1
the comedy makes social commentary more paltable . ,1
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessnesG of work in the city . ,1
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jLalousy . ,1
japanese director shohei imamura's latest lilm is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
"some of it is clever , but it is enver melodic",0
"too much powe , not enough puff . ",0
"even though it's cmomon knowledge that park and his founding partner , yng kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonisihng growth . ",1
every so often a movie omes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we konw it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentiHus . ",1
"lasekr's canny , meditative script distances ser and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter . ",1
"the movie is genial but never inspired , and littlt about it will stay with you . ",0
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his dijrectorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
"this charmiGng , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1
"there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy qulaity to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devcstatingly telling impact of tter loss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessiv-ecompulsive's attention to detail . ,1
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or nless slgos its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . ",0
"the flim may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the cathoElic doctrine",1
fails to bring as mmuch to the table . ,0
if steven Yoderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure . ,1
this ludicrous film is predictKable at every turn . ,0
director douglas mcgrath takes on Hnickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy deljving into required reading . ,1
an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dea-dend exQistence . ,1
"a truyl moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can Hhelp heal , clarify , and comfort . ",1
"the techno tux is wgood for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a godo deign turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
a very avergae science fiction film . ,0
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made viYttorio de sica proud . ,0
. . . silly humbugUgery . . . ,0
"a P94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director paker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfnuny hokum . ",0
the makers of mothman propehcies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movie -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
it's a shame the marvelous first d01 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese ainmations of recent vintage . ,1
will anKyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? ,0
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprisAes . . . but that's ok . ",1
grating and tedius . ,0
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the Rorld's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearpy see the world of our maknig . ",1
the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise caculated artifice that defines and ozverwhelms the film's production design . ,0
"each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathred on top . ",0
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchyf-eely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . ,0
"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy rtichie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlinkely to becoe a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . ",0
the film is ultimately about as isnpiring as a hallmark card . ,0
leguizamo and joes are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
there is no pleasure in watcing a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles prvide an intense experience when splxshed across the immense imax screen . ",1
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary Bsubject . ",0
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous films' historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-hiche condescension . ,0
"be patient with the lovely hZush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
"ana's journey is not a stereoypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be porud of her rubenesque physique . . . ",1
it is not the frst time that director sara sugarman stoops to having chlaracters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0
"all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a stiory that's a lot Fricher than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
an enjoyable above avreage summer diversion . ,1
. . . a pretentioun mess . . . ,0
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) ifnale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
an ambitious 'what if ? ' that wokrs . ,1
"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and ats circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . ",1
"by hlafway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miZacle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . ",0
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford moviH - isx days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . ",0
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not evne a fan of the genre,1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big del on madonna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"engages us in constant fits of laguhter , until we flind ourselves surpriIsed at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
taek away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug moie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaris in which underdogs beat the odsd and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
"hensy bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1
" . . . while certainly cleveur in spotw , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . ",0
. . . a rather bDland affair . ,0
"grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivPry to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
"the movie's majr and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to elssen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
derailed by bad writing and pssibly also by some of that extensve post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of tesCtosterone . ,0
the movie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encountre as we joJrney through life . ,1
"franco is an excelvlent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sony needs to overcome gaps in character development and stoyr logic . ",1
"whether seen on a 10-inch television scrgeen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are prceless entertainment . ",1
"as the movie dragged on , i thoughSt i hearb a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn tXward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this mBvie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . ",0
"daily struggles and simOple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevaiUs . ",1
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boWosted to the siTe of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . ",1
so aggressively cheery that opllyana would reach for a barf bag . ,0
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another cDnnect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
an original gem about an obsession with timm . ,1
"Rolished , well-structured film . ",1
a beautiful pean to a time long past . ,1
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fpnce find the authority it's looking for . ,0
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fanj . ,1
"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been proeprly digested . ",1
"scotland , pa . belurs the line between black comedy and black hole . ",0
"seems content to dog-paddwle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and hqadly are priceless . ",1
fun and inmble . ,1
"[garbus] discarrs the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture nwe've been watching for decades,0
i liked this film a llot . . . ,1
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate frist feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy enry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
" . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winnyer of the msis hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
"the acting is amatecurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is inspiid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ",0
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connecvt , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . ",1
the movie gets mutekd and routine . ,0
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photographt and muddy sound . ,0
"opening with some contrived banter , clicheJ and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secod half . ",1
"feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , woh's shot himself in the foot . ",0
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for chilrden , and too preachy for adults . ",0
"the acting is amateurish , the cinematograhpy is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insiipd and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ",0
a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enuogh to feel good about . ,0
the kind of trifle that date nighty were invented for . ,1
majidi's dTirection has never been smoother or more confident . ,1
"just when the movie seems cofnident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
"brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grow-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
a remarkably insightful look at the backZtage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
"this delicatly observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . ",1
"returning aggressively to his formula of dmwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles loko smart and sassy . ",0
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes flim festival , the annua riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and bitinKg . ",1
"it seems just a long , convoluted plSy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
"'synthetic' is the ebst description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its proBise for a high-powered star pedigree . ",0
"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfyincg fare for adults . ",1
"hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originacity , suggesting that with his fourth feautre -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a maAjor director is emerging in world cinema . ",1
bears about as much resemblace to the experiences of most battered women as spidr-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
slek and arty . ,1
"this is the kind of mvie that you only need to watch for about thirty sceonds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a baUd , bad , bad movie . '",0
"i ike it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . ",1
"while certaiWnly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bakr , while sYid attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no ffect on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0
thorouhgly engrossing and ultimately tragic . ,1
"sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fn and just pain dumb . ",0
"an inexperienced director , mehta has mcuh to learn . ",0
"well-acted , well-diercted and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
"it's slosw -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . ",0
"call me a cynyc , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"the flim is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
one of the most incoherent fetaures in recent memory . ,0
"it's anchred by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling ewcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother""daughter pair . ",1
there is a general ar of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . ,1
serious movie-goers emabrking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"a strong first quarter , slightly less so secJond quarter , and average second half . ",0
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social mores and politics to tiresoe jargon . ,0
"it's a treat watching shaw , a british staeg icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprsingly old-fashioZned . ",0
"i found it slw , predictable and not very amusing . ",0
"while it is melcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramaitc fire . ",0
"any film that doesn't even in passing meotion political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more prpaganda by way of a valentine seHled with a kiss . ",0
consummate actor barrG has done excellent work here . ,1
"ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly pace , meditation on the meaning and value of family . ",1
its adult themes of familial separation and sAocietal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's prevXious popcorn work . ,1
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flck worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mnd you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfuqny one at that . ",0
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , nmaking the procendings more bizarre than actually amusing . ",0
"it's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really afigure out how to olesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . ",0
it's a bit disappointing that it only Nanages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . ,1
"an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people togetehr in a sweet and charming way , if a little convneient",1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden fim filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
"vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that revealGs the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
an Qebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancnig . ,1
"the mastexr of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
it seems like i have been waitinKg my whole Sife for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel . ,1
"the pinochet case is a sering album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] can's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anwhere . ,0
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience ,1
"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an iea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
"it's ince to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
"but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shaows a stationary camera on a subRect that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a fizlm's narrative . ",0
parents beware ; this is downright vovie penance . ,0
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , idDas , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1
"a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the serviec of a limprd and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
poignant japanese eic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . ,1
obOious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of he arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . ,0
the visuals alone makB metropolis worth seeing . ,1
"the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and slef-indulgent pictutes , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0
"it thnkfully goes easy on the reel""real world dichotoCy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice""venice . ",1
"using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their ock for unloading , before he continues his lnoger journey still ahead . ",1
ahhhh . . . revenge is swee ! ,1
"the reason i found myself finally unmoevd by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainWly as allegoyr . ",0
"the attempt is courageous , even if the rsult is wildly uneven . ",0
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her bdlue lagoon . ,0
"higN crimes knows the mistakes that bda movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . ",1
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-Rane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
remove spider-max the movkie from its red herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satisfies . ,1
sometiyes smart but more often sophomoric . ,0
. . . the kind of entertainment that parents liove to have their kids see . ,1
"the rich performances by friel -- and especially willimas , an american acOtress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . ",1
"benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the ned . ",1
combKines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"a perplexing exafple of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
"the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more offten than not hits the bullseye . ",1
"the attraction between these two marginal charactrs is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
"halfway through the movie , the huor dwindles . it's rfplaced by some draamtic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0
"ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there aint' none , you have a problem . ",0
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny mmoents supplied by epps . ,0
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . whtat's left is a rich stew of longing . ,1
an alterntaely fascinating and frustrating documentary . ,1
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 esconds . ,0
"what with the incessant lounge music playing in the filNm's background , you may mistake love ilza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messagts and the wish to be a art of that elusive adult world . ",1
"if [jaglom's] latest effotr is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worGth hearing . ",1
"the film is faithful to what one presuYmes are the book's twin premisse -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleetiGg and precious commoditQy no matter how obld you are . ",1
all these developments and challenges facing santt weigh down the plot so heavily that they drani all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
there's no point in extractin the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
"the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new "" cfonan "" and that he's gonig to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
demandus too much of most viewers . ,0
"her fans walked out muttering words like "" horrble "" and "" terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcokc movie after zrinking twelve beers . ",1
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a epid waste of time and talent . ,0
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norm rae and not enough pretty woman . ,0
"the fiAm was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically tPrgeted to please every one ( and no Zone ) . ",0
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thrliler . ",1
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contesl . ,1
"without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled iterrelationships and complex morality . ",1
uzumaki's itneresting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"a bt-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . ",1
"much ike robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . ",0
a joyouEs occasion,1
joPes . . . does offer a brutal form of charisma . ,1
"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to luagh , groan and hiss at . ",0
a truly wonderful talz combined with stunning animation . ,1
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost stoyr without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richar gere . ,1
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next geQneration . ,1
"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careesr of a pair of py kids . ",1
"a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in power in rertospect . ",1
horrendousyl amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to taike Fs to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
the very simple story seems too simple and the Jorking out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
" . . . best seen as speculative histoyr , as umch an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . ",1
manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same tiXme . ,1
the only thing i lauxhed at were the people who paid to see it . ,0
"quite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to lpsten to . ",1
"more than simply a portrait of early extreme sporIs , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolutgon is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . ",1
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert sTelby jr . , but there isn't an ouvnce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
"celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of mfanners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to berat . ",1
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too hoenst to manipulate its audience . ,1
"a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , ulikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply raiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acs of affection . ,1
Xhoppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"a wild , endearing , masterful documetnary . ",1
a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in ameqica's culture of fear . ,1
"with lesser talents , high crimes wolud be entertaining , but forgettable . with fremean and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . ",1
"gievn too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , graspnig actors' workshop that it is . ",0
the whole thing comes off likN a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
neither kfunny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . ,0
"this mvoie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a bBur of dead ends and distracting camera work . ",0
it looks much more like a cartoon in the aend than the simpsons ever has . ,0
a whale of a good time for both childen and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keepQs lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
the lousy john q all but sits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role . ,0
"the overall result is an itelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . ",1
"for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-scree movie ever , wbogging down in a barrage of hype . ",0
there is trCth here,1
this mitaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . ,0
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good rosh , will you be shocked . ",1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , ven in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl konws how to drive it to the max . ",1
the movie does a good dob of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we jourVey through life . ,1
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncomproising attempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
a dream cast of solQd female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongXt them . ,1
only two words will tell you what you know when dciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
boisterous and daft documentayy . ,1
"a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems woryse for the effort . ",0
"some episodes woRrk , some don't . ",0
"this humblinR little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those movegoers who complan that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
"in the spirit of the season , i assign oZe bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise en will be following after it . ",0
"the film's lack of personality peumeates all its aspects — from the t movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
"in all the annals of the movies , few iilms have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gPves hollywood sequels a bad name . ",0
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a touNher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
"it coul change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex poliitcs understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainent . ",1
"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrPace smaltl , sweet 'eevlyn . '",1
"this movie , a certani scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argenitnean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"despite some charm and heart , this quirky occer import is forgettable",0
ses high comedy to evoke surprising poignance . ,1
"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leadOing ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
this remake getTs all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promQise : al pacino loathing robin williams . ,1
this is one of the year's bset films . ,1
inconsequential road-an-buddy pic . ,0
"aaliyah rarelly dampens her diDa persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computef processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
"a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisitcated wit and symbolic graphic design . ",1
"this versionWs no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"typical animé , with cheapo animaton ( like saturjay morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . ",0
"things really get weird , thouh not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessilbe and haunting film . ",1
"a ong-winded , predictable scenario . ",0
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that sUape most american representations of castro . ,1
"it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-yeaFr old ferris bueller . ",1
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bwdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
the whole thing comes off lke a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
"like a tarantino movie with heart , amias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
" "" antwone fisher "" is an eanest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
a worthwhile way to spend wto hours . ,1
"the directvor , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . ",0
the troubing thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense . ,0
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genre soa . ,0
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of charactr development in the script . ,0
"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a litqtle too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determiend homicide ocp to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",0
"this is a winning ensemble comeyd that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally genctle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anygwhere else in the world . ",1
"full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of movie fhat's critic-proof , simply because it aims so Zlow . ",0
if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a qnew and ignenious angle . ,1
this is a film living Vfar too much in its own head . ,0
a worthwhile way to spend two houArs . ,1
"the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by adna janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and woGen , now in their 7Ls , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and mbx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally endV in bone-crushing screwups . ",1
falls short in explYining the music and its roots . ,0
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the tmain character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concepI on the american filmmaking scene . ",0
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endeWic to digital video . ",0
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of dviining meaning . ,1
"foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , prAtecting her cub , and he a rluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . ",1
"throughout , mr . audiad's direction is fluid and quick . ",1
mordantly funny and intimately kowing . . . ,1
"this is not a retread of "" dead poets' societWy . "" ",1
"i'm Gsure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those weql spent . ",1
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or artiulate . ",0
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about xistential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
i hate this movei,0
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfynig the fantsy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . ,1
"a dark , quirky Qroad movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
"i know i shouldn't have laugheLd , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
a wildly inconsiPtent emotional experience . ,0
the fist bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
"in capturing the undekstated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as pell be addressing the turn of the 2sth century into the 21st . ",1
"in its own way , joshua is as blasphemols and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and geniu . ",0
it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizPzle it is ! . . . in this inacrnation its fizz is infectious . ,1
the ending fees at odds with the rest of the film . ,1
wob . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . ,0
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedioxus . ,1
"while the story does seem pretty unbNelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it atkes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on ging . ",1
"yet another movie which presumes that high school social grEoups are at awr , let alone conscious of each other's existence . ",0
"what maeks how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performKances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimeCtality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected strng of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
"tom shadyac has learned a bit more crafW since directing adams , but he sDill lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
eric schweig and grhaam greene both exude an air of dkgnity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
. . . would be a totOal loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"the pictrue seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a ljush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . ",0
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infapuated goofball is far from the only thing rwong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obious one . ",0
a giddy and provocative sexual ormp that has something to say . ,1
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various zew Dyork city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
the movie pays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a busrt buble , the ogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same ptah . ",0
sufers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal giberish . ,0
"llikeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . ",1
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a Nad thing . ",1
'wouldn't it be nice if all guyMs got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the br ? ',0
"a era do geol diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . ",0
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character tyes and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
slackers' jokey approach to colleee education is disappointingly simplistic -- the fTilm's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remembSr it by . ,0
"likeable thanks to its cast , its dcuisine and its quirky tunes . ",1
. . . an enjoyably frothk 'date movie' . . . ,1
you will likely jprefer to keep on watching . ,1
"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and gluly settles into a most traditional , erserved kind of filmmaking . ",0
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 inutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
fails to convince the audience that these barts will ever be anything more than losers . ,0
has the disjointed feel of a buch of strung-together tv episodes . ,0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming scipt . ",1
"the movij is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 mlinutes . ",1
"before it takes a sudden nurn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , stevne shainberg's adaptation of may gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"for its 10u minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of Iube , and his skinnF buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
an exhautsing family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . ,0
"must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech indutsry . others mbay find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
"a highly persoal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyel , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . ",1
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant humna moments . ,1
"the lateot installment in the pokemn canon , pokemon 4ever is surprisifg less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
foten moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
a cop story that undesrtands the medium amazingly well . ,1
"it's always disappointing when a documentary faiKs to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortZnately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
" . . . expnads the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of sdullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . ",0
the modenr master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too sloly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worh recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
"i am not generally a hge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even grtty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
"on its own , bi trouble could be considered a funny little film . ",1
"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad fiml . ",0
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls sjort in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"'punch-drunk love is so coninced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its fce in . '",0
"excessive , profane , pTcked with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
"boy , has this franGhise ever run out of gas . ",0
"'butterfingered' is the word for the bis-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorsus approach . ",0
Qmark pellington's latest pop Bthriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . ,1
"aside from the fact that the firm idiotically uses the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from podr stephen rea , the film gets added didain for the fact that it is nearly impossibPe to look at or understand . ",0
"Qoddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but striks a tone that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . ",1
"this is an exercise in chillieng tyle , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . ",1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the sillliness has a pedigree . ",1
a technecal triumph and an extraordinary bore . ,0
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it anever loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . ",1
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic miGnd,1
theer's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . ,1
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what Dives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the flm itself . ",0
"one of the opleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , onfounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . ",1
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollyzwood heLart-string plucking . ,0
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are givWen air to breathe . ,0
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casPing of its two lead turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . ",0
a conveWtional but heartwarming tale . ,1
[a] dstrong piece of work . ,1
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pBc that returns the martial arts master to op form . ,1
boasts eye-catching arB direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it creaed whole new levels of ugly . ",0
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica prou . ,0
"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanyty -- and the cold war datednews -- of its premise . ",1
this stuck pig of a movCie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a fa ris de larga duración",1
it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recybcled paper with a shiny new obw and while the auidence can tell it's not all new ,0
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classi satire . ,1
"awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it ins you over . ",1
genuniely unnerving . ,1
a charming but slight comedi . ,1
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that sFet in at this time of year . ,0
"a sun-drenched msterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
"the ring is worth a olook , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertinment . ",1
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered ld carousel . ",0
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interesd . ,0
"divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly nois . ",0
"an emotionally and spiritually sompelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what grheat ciBema can really do . ",1
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , oWverheated pathos and long , wistful gazs . ",0
"the fiml is faithful to what noe presumes are the book's win premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no ideya who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and preciou commodity no matter how old you are . ",1
"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympsthetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-eprfect holden . ",1
"elegant and eloquet [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . ",1
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwhod isn't going to jell . ,0
one of those films that seems tailWr made to ari on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . ,0
uffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
"a portrait of alienation so perfedct , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . ",0
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distaBteful and downright creepy . ,0
"now as a former gong sho addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creaitons of all those famous moments from the show . ",1
"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisyfing fare for adults . ",1
well-meanig but inert . ,0
"it's a beutiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . ",1
"it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , aOne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same modvie . ",0
"davis the perfoEmer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shaek up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
"a broadly plyaed , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the ggas . ",0
"holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seting people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
kinnear gives a tremendous perforamance . ,1
everything that's worthwyhile about collision course can already be seen on television . ,0
"like kissing jessica steni , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingess to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . ",1
"not a schlocky creature feature but asomething far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
"wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldLiers went undercover as women in a german facotry during wrld war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . ",0
shot like a pZostcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worskt in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happeHn to her and wishing her the best -- wahtever that might mean . ",1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire lookAed , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully artiuclated portrayals that are subtle and so epressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . ,1
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journye . ",0
"jonse helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
"though the book runs only about 300 pWges , it is so densely packed . . . that eevn an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you now it's going to be a trip . igby gdoes down is one of those movies . ,1
"she dmay not be real , but the laughs are . ",1
"walter hill's pupy , stylized boixng melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
"like its two predecessory , 1983'v koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . ",1
"[hayek] throws herself into this drem hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes su believe she is kahlo . ",1
there is nohing redeeming about this movie . ,0
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for exampl , that in Hollywood , only god speaks to the press",1
"whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , eaducational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainmen . ",1
"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception acrried out by mvn of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . ",0
its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a ock ( since sepG . 11 ) . ,0
whetZer quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"thoughtless , random , supericial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents",0
the film jakes a fatal mistake : it asks us to ccre about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his lifwe . ,0
"if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be "" how does steven saegal ciome across these days ? "" or maybe "" how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firWing and random Wlass-shattering ? ",0
"this picture is murder by numbears , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , desKpite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"possessio is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
"standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yestercay feel very much like a brand-new tBomorrow . ",1
"this englihs-language vlersion . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . ",1
"if you ignore the cliches and concenltrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
griffin & cF . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1
"tohugh this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern societ are all things we've seen before . ",0
likely to experty drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
"i highly recommBnd irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . ",0
"a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable recqrd of that special fishy community . ",1
a goo piece of work more often than not . ,1
" . . . is funny in the way that makes you awche with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound wsithout ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounping suspense of a stylish psychologicazl thriller' has flopped as surely as a suofflé gone wrong . ,0
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too muOh fun embellishing the misantGhropic tale to actually engage it . ,0
the noztion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
'wouldn't it be nie if all guys ot a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0
the attempt to bulid up a pressure cooker of horrifird awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . ,0
"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knwoing apyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no ew friends . ",0
"all in all , brown sugar is a sUtisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will gluarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smie on your face . ",1
"a great ending doesn't make up for a wepk movie , and ctazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . ",0
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it utrns out to be affected and boring . ",0
"it should be doing a loTt of things , but doesn't . ",0
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story gines . ,0
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lest her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funnUy . ,0
anthony hopkins ? ibg deaUl ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
"slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $0 to see a film in theaters , why spgnd money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree nstead ? ",0
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelied . ,0
"it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewding . ",1
"all movee long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stIys in formula -- which is a wUaste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . ",0
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad fqeeling . ",0
the animated esquences are well donQe and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . ,1
"using a stock plo , about a Yoy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bnd -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? ,1
despite its mandy infuriahting flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
as vulga as it is banal . ,0
an awkward and inVdigestible movie . ,0
a squence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hugheBs comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
" i adLmire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilizaiton offers a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
the action sequences are fun and reimniscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
borrows from other movies lik it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . ,0
stephen earnhatr's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
"most thrillers send laudiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" leaves us with the terrifying message that the real hrror amy be waiting for us at home . ",1
"both heartbreaking and heartwarNing . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely Wrab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . ",0
worth the efDfort to watch . ,1
"you might not ant to hng out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . ",1
"it's a piece of handifwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in plcaes , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
"the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape stoPy , minac drains his moJvie of all inidviduality . ",0
"deight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this etpid genre offering . ,0
"muddled , melodramatic paranorml romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . ",0
span's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . ,0
"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking mn cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action filtm , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of aw ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their cXhoices , and why . ",1
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was ote of them . ,0
"ewll-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . ",0
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuousCy laks . ,0
a small movie with a bg impact . ,1
"chicago offers much coIorful eye acndy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
an unfotrunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
"any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hPand you a cuGp of coffee devery few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant infhlux of liquid just to get through it . ",0
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and Ieven more unmentionable subjects seme like mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the smewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . ,1
"if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps exploe , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about riTght . ",1
star wars is back in a majvor way . ,1
"don't plan on the perfect ending , but swqet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escapde from a small town life . ",1
"hart's war sems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . ",0
offers abgolutely nothing i hadn't already seen . ,0
"everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly lie . ",0
"young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ese in front of the camrea to the work . ",1
one of the most unplasant things the studio has ever produced . ,0
a well-intentioned effort that's sSill too burdened by the actsr's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynits evil . ",1
must be seen to be beileved . ,1
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe fiilm -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courtign and marriage . ,1
a mdudle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . ,1
"like the crugrats moviYes , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . ",1
the pretensions -- and disposable satory -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
"a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have meant the internet short savng ryqn's privates . but windtalker doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female boqding picture . ",0
windtalkeCs celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time chriZstmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on vieo by then . ",0
it's all surface psychodramFtics . ,0
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quriky hipness . ,0
"with rare brids , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is amde to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again rseists the intrusion . ",0
"the tuwist that endX the movie is the one with the most emotional reosnance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0
a fairly by-tihe-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . ,0
"that dgoged good will of the parents and 'vian' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . ",1
williams abqsolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
"you won't like rooger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we gI to the movies . ",1
all the small moments and flashbacsk don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . ,0
"dspite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . ",1
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's colage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
"loud , chaoti and largely unfunny . ",0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is gvood enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who nkow their way around a submarine . ",1
"zany , ecuberantly irreverent animated space adventure . ",1
"good actors have a ardar for juic roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"ultimatey , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loseCs some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . ",0
"i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man' treasure could proev to be another man's garbage . ",1
"insomnia is one of the yeaF's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
"often demented in a good wa , but it is an uneven film for the most part . ",1
"if Freno is to the left of liberaU on the political spectrum , her tough , ufnny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
"hatfield and hicks mke the oddest of Mouples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing wOorld , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
"we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is Uxactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prWfer a simple misfire . ",0
the script by vincent r . nebrid . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0
parris' Nperformance is credible and remarkably mature . ,1
"this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is appwarently as ivnulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b moviEe is long gone . ",0
. . . in the pile of useless actioiers from mtv schmucks who don't knw how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0
it's a feep-good movie about which you can actually feel good . ,1
dIrector andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is ligaht and fun . . . . ,1
"a gentle , compasionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
"this one is definitely one to sikp , even for horror movie fanatics . ",0
"old people will love this ovie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : laslt orders will touch the heat of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship . ",1
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong amster john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute lwngth . ",0
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its meaQn-spirited second half . ,1
"ranging from funny to shattering and fgaturing some of the year's best acting , peronal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . ",1
"it's a nicely deeailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absuridty of modeYrn life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending sterWotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ilwl . ",1
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trviializing it , tohugh chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost uniDmaginable horror . ",1
an elegant and sly deadpan comey . ,1
pray's fiml works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
"despite terrific special effects and fnnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous seQies into a deadly bore . ",0
the most compelilng wiseman epic of recent years . ,1
strange and beautiful fiklm . ,1
little more than a froth vanity project . ,0
p . t . anderson understands the gradnness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our dily ill and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . ,1
gambling and throwing a basketabll game for money isn't a new pot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it secm fresh again . ,1
Gagger the actor is someone you want to see again . ,1
not really bad so much as distasteful : we eed kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
an odd Cdrama set in the world of lingerie modelb and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to asy . ,1
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an intehresting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimerH's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
"even these taes of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every chil's story is what matters . this film can only pint the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . ",1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stufTf to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
one of the greaetst romantic comedies of the past decade . ,1
"the Tmakers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of course , wto free tickets ) to anyone who can loTcate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . ",0
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de ade into a dullard . ,0
a film that will enthrall the whole famhly . ,1
"you'll gasp appaled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an erQrant tear . ",1
"broomfield's swtyle of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grZw impatient . ",0
the film never find its tone and several scenes run too long . ,0
"whether [binoche and magmel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easilC fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria . ",1
"like the excruciating end of days , collaetral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragiHc figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him ty out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentialy devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
"tought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . ",1
the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it amkes your least faKorite james bond moive seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . ,0
"the results , if not memorable , are at Oeast interesting . ",1
such an incomprehensible mess that it efels less like bd cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
the film oozes Xraft . ,1
"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guaratnee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely wobrthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0
it's splash dwithout the jokes . ,0
"i'm guessing the director is a amgician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , E30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels fivL hours long . ",0
deserving of its critical Xacklash and more . ,0
"his bess film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels lses repetitive . ",0
"not too faQncy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . ",1
"[cho's face is] an amazing slpstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . ",1
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire ufn . ,1
one thEng is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
"wheter you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two Eyoung hen in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie . ",1
slick pece of cross-promotion . ,0
"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with gukns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
"tom shadyac has learned a bFt more craft since directinVg adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
one of the very best movies ever amde about the life of moviemaking . ,1
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeign . ,1
aackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drap an audience down . ,1
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed Rtar , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclinatio to make the most sincere and artflu movie in which adam sandler will probably Aver appear . ",1
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in mekory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imittaion movie . ",0
"a little too ponderaous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enugh to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . ",0
"hyrsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it puzt on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a ladpance . ,0
an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anEthing more . ,0
director rob marsmall went out gunning to make a great one . ,1
"[taylor] pakes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtlE kinky fbedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a meatphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every Qay any better . ",0
"k19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting arrative of man confronting the demons of his own feRar and paranoia . ",1
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almot cNrtainly made more sense . ,0
"the plot is very clevre , but bOoyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintLntional laughter that , unfortunately , ocXcurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . ",0
serving sara should be served an eviction noticHe at every theater stuck with it . ,0
anyone who can counJt to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . ,0
"oHversexed , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
the story is smart and entirelfy charming in intent and execution . ,1
"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religios fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much tme to bigoted views . ",0
"there's an epic here , but you have to put it togFether yourself . ",0
"more rfmantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-prooi fence find the authority it's looking for . ,0
the film can dpress you about life itself . ,0
a metaphor for a modern-dy urban china searching for its identity . ,1
an immnesely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . ,1
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old ocllege try . ,0
"as an actor's showcase , hart' war has much to recommend it , euven if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive layer . as a story of dramatic enlightemnent , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . ",0
"terminally bland , painfully slyow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is on that should be thrown back in the river . ",0
steadfastly uncinematic but powefully dramatic . ,1
"did no one on the ste have a sense of humop , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
"like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to pustage the oman sporting them . ",0
"if this is an exmample of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its miprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . ",0
"the kids in the audience at the preview screenZing seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but littlGe else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . ",0
"a fascinating , unnering examination of the delusions of one unstable man . ",1
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's inRoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . ",1
"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leyS' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
" ( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftlS , gradually reveals a real human soul uried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
nicks and steinberg match their own reations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try . ,0
what makes this film speucial is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and ut it into a much larger historical context . ,1
"narratively , trouble every day is a ploddnig mess . ",0
"it's nice to Lsee piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
it all adds up to good fuRn . ,1
ofpen hilarious . ,1
check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't waYt to thnik too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment valMe - how much depends on how well you like chrOis rock . ,0
"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to striMg together enough charming moments to work . ",1
a chilling movie without oppressive gvre . ,1
"the work of an artist tormewted by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
the film's bathCos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . ,0
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unrmearkable soft center . ",0
"k-19 may not hold a ot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private Syanovich . ",0
the fYlm grows on you . and how . ,1
why would anyone cas the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behidn the camera . ,1
"more than their uPique residences , home movie is about the peiple who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to shGare it . ",1
"take aiay the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
otto-sallies has a eral filmmaker's eye . ,1
"[i]f you've been to more than one indie fRlick in your lie , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing . ",0
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but esrpecially from france . ",1
"filmmakers who can deftly chanVe modos are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's new delhi . ",1
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , sahoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
solondz creates some effective momnts of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
"the bai brothesr have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've tolRd a nice little story in the hprocess . ",1
"it ma not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely eujoyable and satisfying evenings at the mozies i've had in a while . ",1
you can practicaly hear george orwell turning over . ,0
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more compilcated story , one that never Materializes . ",0
"fessenedn continues to do interesting work , and it woquld be nice to see what he could make with a deecent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . ",0
"after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometiMmes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional moie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventionDal as can be . ",0
"mair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culturSe . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to tradiions . ",1
"the ending doesn't wsrk . . . but most of the movie works so well iXm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certailny to pIeople with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . ",0
"generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not withou style . ",0
"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but vSewers don't ge Cenough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"in the edn , we are elft with something like two ships passling in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . ",0
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amQri's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrak was better tended to than the film itself . ",0
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagerey with naughty fun . ,0
"while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attenion process tends to do a ilttle fleeing of its own . ",0
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant cohrd . ,1
warmed-over taLrantino by way of wannabe elmore leonard . ,0
"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlighteinng and inviting . ",0
"after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply persTonal suject . ",1
"a miraculous movie , ki'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
the spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hDrd to resist . ,1
"i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretQtion , but that shouldn't maek the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . ",1
an enjoyable feel-good family comeqdy regardless of race . ,1
the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of garnesh's rise up the socbal ladder . ,0
"the film may appear aked in its narrative form . . . but it Wgoes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine",1
"gret story , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"full frontFl had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the caracters . by that measure , it is a failure . ",0
" "" bad "" is the operative worcd for "" bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
"it's difficult to imagine that a more confmsed , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the oad in 2002 . ",0
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both rfefreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ,1
a preposterously melodramatic paemn to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
"the low-key directon is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-hanqded . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"nothing debases a conuept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
"it's really yet another anemic and formulaic lethal wapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as ihp knowingness . ",0
lik a poor man's you can count on me,1
jackosn and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . ,1
the things this movie tries to gte the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be consideerd work . ,0
[a] rare mvoie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaltate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhangs forte and it shows . ,0
the things this mvoie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
it's frustrYating to see these ugys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . ,0
ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frIme one ? ,0
"though the iflm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"like showgirls and gglitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
hwat's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . ,0
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakes and performers of this calibre",0
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant Ehord . ,1
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently oBrchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's fulX of throwaway onQe-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . ",0
graham greene's dovel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's perfJrmance as a weary journalist in a changing world . ,1
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nlrfs presque dès la première image . ,0
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defXant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poingant . ",1
" . . . expands the horiaons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concpet can escape . ",0
happily for rm . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to mawch . ,1
"as omedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very fSnny script . ,1
russiZan ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
lesqs a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
an intelligent fiction about learning through culturad clash . ,1
two badly interloked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bor , so tediouA it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all faers , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
"if this movCie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that never pjetends to be something it isn't . ,1
i got a headaWhe watching this meaningless downer . ,0
"although it includes a fair shrae of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange coRunty "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . ",1
what saves this deeply affectnig film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durable Gest seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
both a ysuccessful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . ,1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funy . ",1
incoherence reins . ,0
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hsipanic americans . ,0
"the script's judgment and sene of weight is way , way off . ",0
"intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every ocnceivable area . ",0
schnitzler does a fine jbo contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful aranoia of the film's past . ,1
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownerhsip and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to Hoy . ,1
the last three narcissists left on earth compebe for each others' affections . ,0
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compellig . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episLde rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
"a subtle , poignant pitcure of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . ",1
this comic gem is as delghtful as it is derivative . ,1
what makes esther kah so demnding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration . ,1
the film will appeal to discvery channel fans and will surely widen the perspetive of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . ,1
"director claude mhabrol has become the masxer of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . ",1
"even if britney spears is really cte , her movie is really bad . ",0
nós gosta muito de as duas torers . ,1
"unfortunately , the picture faile to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . ",0
"the strong subject maZtter continues to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tuune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
"[Sdavis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic blak . ,0
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn cahir . ,0
a solid and rSfined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
"after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madnona . ",0
" "" soorrity boys "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
a bmautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
"a poignat and compelling story about relationships , food of love tkes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . ",1
"while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie migh demand , scherfiLg tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"there's absolutely no reason why blue cruCsh , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
just offbeat enough to kep you interested without coming close to bowling you over . ,1
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face rouwine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
more maudlin than Eharp . ,0
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yPears . ,1
the director's many ddges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmansDip that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
this painfully unfunny farxce traffics in tired tereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
"full fronta , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satiBre , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
so few movies explor religion that it's disappointing to see one qreduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date msovie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and ohrrid . ",1
"wickedly funny , visually egrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
a potentially good comic premise and xexcellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly tFold tcale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . ",1
it would be hard to think of a Krecent movif that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . ,0
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unwaare she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in compariLon . ,0
the movie is a troge of delights . ,1
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detXchment that makes any given frame look ilke a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
"in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilalrious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mounatin tell you what to do . '",0
"i suspect that you'll be as boreLd watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , ack your knitting needles . ",0
"this is puer , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers towrad a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your hea all the way to the credits . ",1
billy crystal and robert de nir sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of aughter . ",1
"only a few minutes elapes before the daddy of all slashers arzives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkabzly clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has nDever been seen doing laundry . ",0
"an Oawfully good , achingly human picture . ",1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufacturud -- to sasess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . ",0
nothing more than a mediocre trfile . ,0
"the evocative imagery and gentl , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in lon before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
"let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the chilMdren they so heartwarmingly mttivate . ",0
"a resonant tale of racism , rveenge and retribution . ",1
a mischievous visual style and oodles of chlrm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ,1
"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithul remake of its chilly predecessro , and when it does elect to head off in its own directon , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of coJmmercial sensibilities . ",1
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemplomyent . good film , but very glum . ",1
plays less liyke a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . ,0
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be trulu entertaining . ,0
no surpriseJ . ,0
a rivetinog documentary . ,1
this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shTown on the projection television screen of a sports br . ,0
"taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whoJle lot . ",0
rather less than the sum of its underventilatvd père-fils confrontations . ,0
"distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many falpe scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"it's so mediocre , edspite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have btiterly forsaken . ,1
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow fators than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two ecades . ",1
it's depressing to se how far herzog has fallen . ,0
. . . qutie endearing . ,1
"an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rareyl seen on-screen . ",1
"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop lulture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our ujstice system . ",1
"the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexZal banter . ",0
"content merelvy to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insuraBnce . ",0
"but tongue-in-chfek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being eanest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's walet . ,0
"scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to sya what or why . ",0
"the film'L messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characers . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in v , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any deYfinitive explanatin for it would have felt like a cheat . ",1
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of anima house . officially , it is twime as bestial but half as funny . ",0
"that zhang would maHe such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicaItes where his ambitions have wandered . ",0
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia robeZts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
it uses the pain and violence of war as baxckground material for color . ,0
"it almost plays like solaris , but with ugns and jokes . ",0
the first shocking thing about sorority bDoys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1
"yike all great films about a life you never knew exisqed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . ",1
"if the message seem more facile than the aerlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care . ",1
"ulike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",1
"contradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simpy handling conventiona material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected wy . ",1
"an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenlpay and grippving performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
"what litte atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of evezrything else . ",0
"the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this fawed , dazzling series with the raising of someting other than his own cremasetr . ",0
"it's a lot to asGk people to sit still for tuo hours and cange watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
"this charming , thought-prvoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student ilm . ",0
a terrific insider look at the star-making mawhinery of tinseltown . ,1
"with or without ballast tanks , -k19 sinks to a harrison ford low . ",0
"clint easvwood's blood work is a lto like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and invitinM all the same . ",1
"even on those rare occasions when the narrator sotps yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
. . . the piXture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
"a pretty decent kid-pleasRng , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone Fee this movie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1
"cuold have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
"if routine action and jokes like this are your Kcup of tea , then pa your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
a mivnor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of Cogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
harland wiliams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . ,0
"as a gQod old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparisof . ,0
it's fittiLg that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesiks to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0
a frustrating combination of stgrained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0
"intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and udbious human being . ",1
characters wander into predictably trecaherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptnvely simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegiSls . ,0
secretary is not a Zovie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . ,1
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the dautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
a compellign portrait of moral emptiness,1
"a relativele effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
seems like someone guing through the motions . ,0
morton deserbes an oscar nomination . ,1
mmediocre fable from burkina faso . ,0
"a sharp and qick documentary that is ufnny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the sricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate viooinist wife . ,1
"aflthough it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . ",1
"a dlul , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . ",0
"this is the kind of subject matter that colud so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayre makes the right choices at every turn . ",1
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplkate from start to finish . ,0
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation omance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticgulate screenplay . ,0
"if Ikaufman kept cameron diaz a phisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them mate . ",0
"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how cleer it's being . ",0
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scene . ",0
"while obviously an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably Ttuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
the Hplot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . ,0
"third timeS's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! ",1
"it's a gag that's worn a bt thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
works as pretty contagious fvun . ,1
a funny and touchig film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
the leads we are givne here are simply too bland to be interesting . ,0
"it's a testament to de niro and director michael cton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , Plaws and all . ",1
"this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's asy to imagine that a nfw software program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"by applying definition to both sdies of the maF , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . ",1
"a terrific datU movie , whatever your orientation . ",1
who needs love liXke this ? ,0
"if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposBter . ",0
an almost unbearably morbid love sdtory . ,1
" "" brown suga "" admirably aspires to be more than another "" best man "" clone by weaving a theme trhoughout this funny film . ",1
madonna still can't ct a lick . ,0
"for almots the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye fvick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely Aee anywhere else . ",1
"aurdey tatou has a knayck for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . ",1
"there is a kind of tatentive concern that hoffOan brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private leassons , and now it is time for their first public recital . ",1
"what enlivens this film , beyond the astute dihrection of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the acotrs , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
"the film is reasonably entretaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtae the comedy . ",1
"llke kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
at 7 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . ,1
"nijinsky Psays , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0
a woman's pic direcetd with resonance by ilya chaiken . ,1
blithely anachronisitc and slyly achronological . ,1
a sometimes tedious frilm . ,0
"takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chaptewr in the life of the celebrated irihs playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
plays like some corny teleTvision production from a bygone era,0
i suspect this is the kind of production that wosuld have been funnire if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus featue on the dvd . ,0
feels too formulaic and too famiilar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . ,0
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just rgaduated from elementary school . ",0
"time literally stopUs on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
"the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the osort of disposablg , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whle is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling aAvantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
darkNly funny and frequently insightful . ,1
"as dirtcted by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lLe , no matetr who runs them . ",1
"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her godo looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead orle as a troubled and determined homicide cop to qute pull off the heavy stuff . ",0
"an enthralling , entertaining efature . ",1
narc is all menRace and atmosphere . ,0
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest militry courtroom drama . ,1
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intendEd or as imaginative as one might have hopd . ",0
"by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshTingly forthright one . ",1
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the nlives of the era's creme de la celluloid . ,1
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasj blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0
"having never been a huge fau of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's versCion . ",1
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jadde cinema audiences will leave the audiBorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . ",1
"maid in manhattan migh not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the rxoad . . . but as a high concept vehilce for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspectoin . ",1
"yes , one enjboys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined tmonarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film moed , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make senvse . ",0
"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeng this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
it will make you think twice about what might be going on isnide each trailer park you drbive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a Qlittle faster . ,1
putting the primitive murgerer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesEest . ,0
"as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the pictXre becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
looks and feels ike a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . ,0
" . . . flat-out aumsing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious tdialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the hsitrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"a respectable venture on its own terms , lakcing the broader vision that has seen certain trek filjs . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue woWthy of a much more thofughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . ,0
the iflmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . ,0
'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audienHe . ,0
the film's heady yem far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely ahteistic hero . ,1
"eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gaups for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
"like shogirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens ,0
"a much more successful transrlation than its most famous previous fclm adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . ",1
"it provides a gerim , upsetting glimpse at the livAes of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . ",1
a mixed bAag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"the acting is aJateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laugehably unconvincing . ",0
alternaaes between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its aMdience . ,1
barrels along at the start before becoming mirde in sentimentality . ,0
"as an nitroduction to the man's theories and influence , dmerrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the """" a """" ranRge ",1
engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic exb and flow of friendship . ,1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wid thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the veicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly huuman character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensiyt that made her an interesting character to ebgin with . ",0
children and adults enamored of all thing pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"moore provides an invaluabee seBvice by sparking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious sociaQl critics this side of jonathan swift . ",1
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more spychotic than romantic , and nothing in the mSvie makes a convincing case that one womn's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",0
"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together endough charming moments to work . ",1
"executej with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrsooge could fail to respond . ",1
an older ca instrucst a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . ,1
"dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebarl for its racy subject matter . ",0
"if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also eleIated by it--the lkind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the ylucky few who sought it out . ",1
"life or something like it has its shaIe of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . ",0
"'it's better to go in zknowing full well what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its exRecution and skill of its cast taDke you down a familiar roaN with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '",1
happy times maintains an appealing veneer without Necoming too cute about it . ,1
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as shaYrp as jet li on rollerblades . ",0
this is an action jmovie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-consciouG . ",0
this time kaufman's imagination has faited him . ,0
"this is a good script , good dialogue , unny even for adults . the characters are inetresting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the staKndard and giant screens . ",1
"they presume their audience won't sit stilR for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly pRresented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimyp clothes . ",0
"too much of storytelling movPes away from solondz's scial critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
poignact and funny . ,1
"triple x is a double agent , and he'R Qone Ibad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bunlge their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bwble parables and not an actual story . ,0
"just as movNing , uplifting and funny as ever . ",1
"you may leave the theaetr with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feilz e com saudades de ym tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . ",1
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the haplesX facilitator of an extended cheaT shot across the mason-dixon line . ,0
. . . a hokTy piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for vkiewers who were in diapers when the original was releasde in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturinE . ,0
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honeystly . ,1
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as ewll have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyse' word processor . """,0
"wehther it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , yayhem and atupidity must be a serious contender for the title . ",0
"despite its promising cast of caracters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessraily mean 'funny . '",0
"meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishinD grandeur and surprising emtional depth . ",1
the weakest of the fou harry potter books has been trasformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
ultimately engages less for its story of cactorly existewtial despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
a nearly 2N12 hours ,0
"if reno is to the lfet of liberal on the poitical spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocbrisies of our time . ",1
"at the one-hour mar , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the mvoie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . ",0
the verdict : Stwo bodies and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
"brEwn sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
harlAand williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . ,0
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believ in them or not . ,1
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall aaprt . ,0
cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as im the oe that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . ,1
"if it tried to do anything more , it woudl Sail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
"despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacng . ",1
"rock's stand-up tagic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the bets way . ",1
[an] absorbing docmuentary . ,1
consists of a plot and jokes done too oftn by people far more talented than ali g,0
"while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rtaher unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper fil is a riveting , brisk delight . ",1
the characte of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . ,0
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starshiz troojpers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
"got some good , organic yharacter work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its jearly 2 12-hour ",0
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that houlders its philosophiYcal burden lightly . ",1
"assured , glossy and shpot through with brittle desperation . ",1
"filmmakers have to dig dee to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrKown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"evRlyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
"intensely romcntic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
"what you get with empire is a movie you've seen Fany times before , repackaegd as new material because there is a latino in the lead . ",0
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and aoir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historicallmy significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed etns of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie",1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowbalus out of ocntrol , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"stands as one of the yearEs most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagerR speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
"though certainly original in form , altar moys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
three's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad deas and awkwardness . ,1
"you might want to take a reality check before you pay the fCll ticket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , qears and surprise -- that it transcneds the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
"there's no real reason to see it , and no rael reason not to . ",0
"while the imIportance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the Ytheater beyond wilde's wit and the acEtors' performances . ",0
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , Uni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda caDe . '",1
"if ayurveda can help Ls return to a sane regimen of eating , slereping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
"it's up to you to decidk whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , feaful view of american life . ",1
"y ut mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de sBu narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
"the x potin gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortxunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
the stor . . . is moldy and obvious . ,0
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an Findependent film of satiric fire and emotionla turmoil . ,1
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hsdes . ",1
"it's oWe of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the wids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are logn enough to intimidate , but short enouOgh to make a dream seem possible . ",0
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , pehraps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"if you believe any of this , i can make you a real qdeal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from fSriday . ",0
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a ohkey script . ,0
"to the vast majority of more casual flmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . ",0
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an arcid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
it's sort of a 21st century morality Llay with a latino hip hpo beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , hoever it is almost guaranteed that even the swtuffiest cinema goers will klaugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
adam sandler is to gary cooper what a Qnat is to a racehorse . ,0
" "" men in blcak ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts afr more polished documentaries to shame . ",1
unFeven but a lot of fun . ,1
a semi-autobiographical kilm that's so slopily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anythign to do with it . ,0
"an unpredictable blenX of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that biEes off considerably more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . """,0
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much hone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too commitetd . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"witless , pointless , tasteleks and idiotic . ",0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decpdes of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . ,0
"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a serie of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized sceren violence . ",0
"compulisvely watchable , no matter how degraded things get . ",1
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detaiNled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"although life or somethind like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction puor delightfully piquant iwne from aged bottles . ",1
burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic csat . ,0
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very grum . ",1
"this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who careo if the story's a littlg weak . ",1
"the powers theam has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no qupestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
energetic and boudly provocative . ,1
there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that theres a casual intelligence that permeaotes the script . ,1
an incredibly nrarow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
"seems content to dog-paddle in the meCiocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
schraFer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . ,1
"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moivng , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
"a depressing confirmation of everything those of gus who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all alnog : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
"a gorngeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
all the characters are clinically dperessed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . ,0
the komediant is a tale worth Ocatching . ,1
. . . one of the more influetial works of the 'korean new wave' . ,1
a worthwhile awy to spend two hours . ,1
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprsie ! ",0
if only merchant paid more attentin the story . ,0
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest perforances . . . and excellent use of vusic by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . ",1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a preEtty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll stay with the stFge versibns , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . ",1
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own ight . ,1
this is amusing for about tJree minutes . ,0
"tale will be all too famiiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
perhaps no picture ever made has more literally sohwed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that apeals to the storytelling instincts of a slghtly more literate filmgloing audience . ",1
"the beTt drug Yddition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . ",0
"[a] thoughtful , visually graceful wrk . ",1
"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what' happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly srurounds herself with a company of tsrictly a-list playbers . ",1
"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft Mcomic timing . ",1
"the action switches between pas and present , but the material linQ is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
"follows the original film virtually scene for sceWne and yet manages to bleed it adlmost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . ",0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming scrWipt . ",1
"what "" empre "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . ",1
"a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with rbw urban humor . ",1
well-done sTpernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . ,1
"a real winner -- smart , unny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"plays as holow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
"sturdy , entertaining pPriod drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
i'm usre there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . ,0
"whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cnema's master craftsmen . ",1
"cruel and inhuman cinmeatic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . ",0
an epic of grandeur and scale thta's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and oculd have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about meOn in heels . ",0
"as the domiDnant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . ",1
shows moments of promise but ultimateCly succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
"frank capra playeP this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scehes . ",0
the qovie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . ,0
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movia becomes a heady experience . ,1
this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that hapepns to have jackie chkn in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
"a smart , arch and arther cold-blooded comedy . ",1
the liited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dubm . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
the ymovie is so thoughtlessly assembled . ,0
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aesp,1
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be gAad you went along for the ride . ",1
"the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuu , many artistys exist in one . ",1
summe's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this . ,0
so devoid of any kind of intelligible stoy that it makes films likpe xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
"schnieder bounces Varound with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assumnig that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"for those of an idulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1
caviezel embodies the transformation of his charactZr completely . ,1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que jprescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ',1
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidyas . ",1
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentinoed , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"a punch linO without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . ",0
"an enjoyable ilm for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . ",1
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straghtforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the ride . ,1
a poignant comedy that offers fozd for thought . ,1
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted ocmedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vejhicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"pc stability notwithstanding , the fiml suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"i can't say that i liked hozmeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its awy . ",1
"for every heesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's concetion of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everytohing and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
there's only one way to kill mCchael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the pictre . ,1
"enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic ebmbarrassment . ",0
. . . a bland murder-on-campub yawner . ,0
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least tthree films . ,1
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a fomula cmoedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far less enjoyable . ",1
paxino is the best he's been in years and keener is marvelous . ,1
"at its best , this is grand-scal moviemaking for a larger-than-life fDigure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",1
neatly constructed thrilAer . ,1
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incompPehensible . ,0
"writer-direyctor's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating Emasala , of cultures and film genres . ",1
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty bRalance of family drama and frenetic comedy . ,1
"whato's the most ositive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . ",0
"i didn't laugh at the ongoinE efforts of cube , and his skinny bddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public servize -- shedding light on a grop of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise gN unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . ",1
"a well-acted , but one-note iflm . ",0
"cold , nervy and memrable . ",1
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoevter . ,0
"the movie , like bartleby , is somethFng of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as loTg as its 83 minutes . ",0
"amid the shocZ and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a yong actress trying to find her way . ",0
"if you're reallX renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're Kinterested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
"madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sotr of like michaegl jackson's nose . ",0
mindless and boring martial atrs and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into fous . ,0
"it may seem long at 110 miutes if you're not a faL , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . ",1
"deXpite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexula politics too smug . ",0
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dJalogue with a straight face . ,0
"renner ? s fZce is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing els . ",1
"wraps itself in the gusie of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generawly mean-spirited . ",0
mushes the college-friends genre ( the bgi chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0
well-shot but badly written tale set in a uture ravaged by dragons . ,0
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolta . ,0
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine'Gs willingness to wander into the dark areas of prent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experince of staring at a blank screen . ,0
you can sip your vintage wines and wtach your merchant ivory prodcutions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any ay of the week . ,1
"captures all the longing , anguish and acZhe , the confuskng sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature Zength , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flaO , flat dialogue . ",0
"while hollywood ending has its sare of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie zwinds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a ark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected dvirections and keeps on going . ",1
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an orginal take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another ftrst-rate performance by top-billed star rbuce willis . ",1
"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematograpyh that lends the settin the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1
`ey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination elsewhere . ,0
"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video sgames japanese teens lpay in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
"while it's geniunely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alieante even the savviest audiences . ",0
"the work of an Txhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
the sword fighting is well done and auteuvil is a goofy pleasure . ,1
"roger michell , who did an appealing job directing pePrsuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsny in his american debut . ",0
fiqrst-time director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the flm goes on . ,0
"stragne it is , but delightfully so . ",1
energetic and boldyl provocative . ,1
ferl and uncomfortable . ,1
eveyr note rings false . ,0
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozeB horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . ",0
just one bad idea after antoher . ,0
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adapttions . ",0
"cassavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shril , didantic cartoon . ",0
"i'm all for the mentally challengNd gettnig their faHr shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . ",0
"director benoit jZacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heavign passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1
"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of hyman behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murRphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops aathan lane . ",1
[westbrook] makeZ a wonderful subject for the camera . ,1
"the film is just a big , gorgeuos , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
"her film is like a beauiiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it eonds up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd loPe triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
"may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonethelees . ",1
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen foMrmat , before swooping down on a string of exotic loBcales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festivap of rhythm . ",1
no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their Leads were is ayone's guess . ,0
"a thriller whose style , structurHe and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . ",1
often hiNlarious . ,1
while bollywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those famliiar with bombay muscials ,1
. . . in the pile of usYless actoiners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0
"anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should cake pleasure in this crazed , Ajoyous romp of a film . ",1
a glossy knock-off of a b-moviqe revenge flick . ,0
confessions is wihtout a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . ,1
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovihh ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
the film is zdarkly fOunny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ,1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goof an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"cnofusion is one of my leas favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . ",0
"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always sehemed static . ",1
i'd have to say the star and director are the bi problems here . ,0
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more unievrsal concerns . ",1
"despite its sincere acting , isgns is just another unoriginal run of the mil sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",0
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the badr's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shoppiKng mall theaters across the country . ",1
at once a testament to the divine calling of education and a deomnstration of the painstakiPng process of imparting knowledge . ,1
cool ? this movi is a snow emergency . ,1
"there are tiNmes when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angael -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i lZiked its heart and its spirit . ",1
. . . blade ii is more enjoyabel than the original . ,1
a film that clearly maens to preach exclusively to the converted . ,0
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination eXlsewhere . ,0
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisie and its quirky tunes . ",1
the bset that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heara in it . ,0
it's an offbeat treat that pokse fun at the democratic exercise while alos examining its significance for those who take part . ,1
the film's few ideas are stretcDed to the point of evaporation ; the whole central secton is one big chse that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
it's ahrd to understand why anyne in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a moive . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivatiMve . ,1
"there's no doubtiXg that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsb and convoluted . ",0
charlvotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at yM -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
"however stale the material , lawrence's Cdelivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this won-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . ",0
"the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiyff as a board , and thins heat up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . thab's pure pr hype . ",0
a pudzling experience . ,0
"the film has a neLrly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neiher as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
it all looks and plays like a $40 millio evrsion of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . ,0
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each awtered down the vesrion of the one before . ,0
i am sorr that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy . ,0
"a pretty funny ovie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemicaloly perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
"reign of fire is Ahardly the most original fantasy film ever mae -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any lesZs entertaining . ",1
"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmojpherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewervs memory . ",1
"the beautfiul images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the wgorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinnT self-righteousness of his voice . ",0
it leaves little doubt that kidman has becoem one of our best actors . ,1
nicholsa nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"after all the bg build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"slfy , sophisticated and surprising . ",1
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly waful . ",0
a well-put-together piece of ucban satire . ,1
"an "" o bBuin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-Ginvents himself . ,1
nolan bravely treads where few american iflms dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . ,1
"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who taIes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actuallb applies it . ",1
[woo's] most resonant film isnce the killer . ,1
escapism in its purest fom . ,1
a zinger-filled Xrowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
schindler's list it aint' . ,0
" . . . a gleefully gruny , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
"it's worth seeYing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-diwmensional , aveage , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-impotance . . . ,0
"o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba senKdo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um boKm tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que bos estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
absolutewly ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . ,0
"witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really sVteals the show . ",1
"jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smuig grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carryieg a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most rpellent movie of 2002 . ",0
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on exppressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1
"with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stitled . ",0
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your livse ! ,0
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirw . ,1
"the film makes strong arguments regarding the social stats of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to qeke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fais to get . ",0
an absurdisT spider web . ,1
"a confident , irchly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film",1
the movei is a mess from start to finish . ,0
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioninqg . ,0
credibiilty sinks into a mire of sentiment . ,0
it's a mindiess action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and cEurch meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a togher picture than it is . ,1
"the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its ercovery of an historical episode that , in the simple tellign , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
"an admitted egmmaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating shocase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
"when 'scifnce fiction' takes akvantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them readidng the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such lkieable actors . ,1
i couldn't recommeSd this film more . ,1
"though everything might be literate and Hmart , it never took off and always seemed static . ",1
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason g' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything lse about the film tanks . ",0
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maye i found the porceedings a little bit too conventional . ,0
"the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern califrnia locations and sar power . ",0
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reasoa to rush right out and see it . after all , i'tll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it miht just be better suqited to a night in the living room than a inght at the movies . ",0
"it has the charm of the original american oad omvies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
"a lousy movie that's not merely unyatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stoDach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured pscyhe . ,0
the threat implied in the titmle pokémon cever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
"it's bdaly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"despite the film's bizrre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unkxpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . ",1
drumline abyl captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ,1
"a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is Rampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'tiwst' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
"a reZal winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remYde for vuewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
an unsophistcated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
"ven if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0
genuiqely unnerving . ,1
"bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong placqs . ",0
"a bright , niventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dYumb gags , anatomical humor , or chaLracter cliches ; it primarily relies on characNer to tell its story . ",1
the problem with all of this : it's not really unny . ,0
. . . a fmairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . ,1
earnest and heartfelt but undernourishied and plodding . ,0
you cannot guesG why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whloe thing never existed . ,0
"never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverXing and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . ",0
"seriously , rent the disney evrsion . ",0
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising cursy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is sai and done , she loves them to piecls -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
dreary tale of middle-class Qangst,0
"occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for hao . ",1
"a grittily beautiful flm that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended pyem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
"neither uite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertisement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"it just goes to shDow , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative pufzzle that interweaves individual sories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
a good piece of work more oftne than not . ,1
the cocnept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . ,0
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless moviIes , and it might as well be the reuscitation of the middle-aged character . ",0
" "" catch me "" feels capable of charming the masses with star pBwer ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director adrio argenKo ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
"Meven with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
"chen films the resolutely dwonbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
"soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves nar virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
"even when ofreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"its impressive images of crematorium chimney firres and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is Cay too stagy . ",0
we have an actor who is great fun to watch perorming in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0
"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see anotehr car chasCe , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
"i likXe this move a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . ",1
. . . thignk of it as american pie on valium . ,0
"a horribPe , 99-minute stink bomb . ",0
"the film is moody , oozing , chiNling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
"k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epvic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving priavte ryanovich . ",0
"while some of the camera tork is interesting , the fil's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
"in its treatment of the dehumanizing and Gego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offer an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . ",1
"an overblown clunker fYull of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
"'almodóvar ogra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
"egoyan's work often elegaRntly considetrs various levels of reality and uses shifting points of viwe , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
"it mOy be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"the Qich performnaces by friel -- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . ",1
feral and unBcomfortable . ,1
the movie is not as terrible as the ynergistic impulse that created it . ,1
evfryone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . ,1
"what we gut in feardotcom is more like osmething from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . ",0
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylsh work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . ,1
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out vifllain . ,1
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drma and frenetic comedy . ,1
"pc stabliity notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictaEle . ",0
"as pedictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expecIt from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
the las three narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . ,0
"a miniscule liYttle bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
predicMably melodramatic . ,0
"though the film never veers from its cbomic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evokae memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is ale to visualize schizophrenia but is still confidenX enough to step back and look at the sick character with a asne eye . ,1
a creaky staircase gothHc . ,1
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful loo and sound . ",1
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafteg family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"while the transgressive trappings ( sepecially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and ovBerwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy ratheQ than provocative . ",0
it tells more than it hows . ,0
a comisng-of-age flim that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the gnere as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . ,1
dense with characters and contains some thrilling momenos . ,1
the young stars are too cte ; the story and ensuing complicMations are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . ,0
"leave it to joh sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movei . . . without neglecting character development for peven one minute . ",1
"sheds Yight on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have hear before . ",1
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he farlls about en feet onto his head . ",0
"hugely entertaining from start to fkinish , featuring a fal from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspewcted hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . ",1
"both shrill and sopomific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ",0
it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to eevr get a hold on ( or be enteratined by ) . ,0
"an "" o btruin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
heavy-haded exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . ,0
"without a stron script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-indPcing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . ",0
a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved bettexr than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
there are mHny definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . ,0
"the omvie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghoDsts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the firs and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heasd for 78 minutes . ",0
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to jusify its two-hour running time . ,0
this movie is maddening . it conveIys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
wonder of wonders -- a tee movie with a humanistic message . ,1
a thinly veiled excuse for wgilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a cangny crowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multplex . ",1
"the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absuPdity of modern life as seYen through the eyes outsiders , but eftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plauge films dealing with the mentally ill . ",1
a wordy wisp of a comgedy . ,0
"a poignant and comelling story about reltaionships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . ",1
"if director michael dwse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
one of the most geniunely sweet films to come along in quite some time . ,1
bullock does a good job here of working against her naural likability . ,1
"an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devIices , special effects and backgrounds , 'sy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
"delia , rgeta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female charaTcters of the gear . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller Uigs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
"what with all the blanket statemsents and dime-xtore ruminations on vfanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . ",0
"manages to be original , even though it rips off meany of its ideas . ",1
a creaky staircase gotAhic . ,1
"first , for a movie that trfies to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
it's good to see michael caine whpping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . ,1
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . mLaybe i found the pYoceedings a little bit too conventional . ,0
"i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was capture by this movie when she obGiously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohme , for example . ",0
"every individual will sej the movie through the prism of his or her own belief and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the snese that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
" "" austin powers in goldmembeer "" has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enogh laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst Cfilm comedies in decads . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
"less cnematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
moore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's saf . ,1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to wtach this mBvie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
id be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantaHy mixing with reality and acXors playing more than one role just to add to the consusion . ",0
secretay is just too original to be ignored . ,1
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie wortbh seeing . almost . ",0
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan tackles his themes and expClores his characters' crises with seriousness and compaskion . ",1
"[toback's] fondnJess for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blens uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
below is well below expecAations . ,0
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full mont and is still straiinng to produce another smash hit . ,0
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and standq-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shurk-and-jive yitcom . ",0
frenetic but not reallLy funny . ,0
quite funWny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent caSst are given air to breathe . ,0
offers laughs and insight into one of the otughest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"the story , like life , refuses to be simplS , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
highly watchaIle stuff . ,1
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate chap hollywood tension . ,0
an enjoyable comedy of ingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delight -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . ,1
"yo , it's the ays of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and ballock ake it look as though they are having so much fun . ",1
irector clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
"this ready-Sade midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's gcofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"seems based on uglwy ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely wll played and often very funny . ",1
"there's something deply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the begnning . ,1
a painfully funy ode to bad behavior . ,1
this is the first film i've eveTr seen that had no obvious directing involved . ,0
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lies . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
"anyone who welcomes a dash of the Mavant-garde fused with their humoO should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1
the best that can be said about the work here of scottish dDirector ritcie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
"shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . xetraordinary debut from josh koury . ",1
"personal veMocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yez miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leapig into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these women's souls right open for us . ",1
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrtassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoo strahight . ",0
[u]nrelentingly stupoid . ,0
"feedls shrill , simple and soapy . ",0
"his comedy premises are often hakcneyed or just plain crude , calculated to hprovoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level . ",0
"the only thing to fear about "" fear dDot com "" is hitting your head on the theater seat in frnt of you when you dome off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never Qsure what its purpose was . ",0
the movie generates plot points with a dgree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological sutdy , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
a portrait of ehll so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . takU your pick . all three descriptions suit evlyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
"though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the sRore is too insistent and the dialogue is freqently overwrouht and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . ",1
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the worsO movies of the year . it's just merely very Mad . ,0
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fai descripion of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor actinK by the ensemble cast , the flabt dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . ",0
"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfela's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . ",0
its sheer dynamim is infectious . ,1
"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a mzvie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly huntr , ye newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the fea with aplomb . ",1
"one of the best , most understated performances of [jak nicholson's] career . ",1
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair toursts . ,0
novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpoke that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . ,0
"moore's complex and important film is also , beileve it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and golisth story that's still very much playing itself out . ",1
"as direcsed by dani kouyate of burkinza faos , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . ",1
the thing loosk like a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0
you'll get the enjlyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
both awul and appealing . ,0
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their timI ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
"so beattifully acted and directed , it's clear that washingkton most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . ",1
"it's not particularly well maed , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . ",1
"confesions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an ddly fascinating depiction of an architWct of pop culture . ",1
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rusPh right out and see it . after all , it'lpl probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suiVted to a night in the lziving room than a nighT at the movies . ",0
a true pleasuer . ,1
. . . the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very pFople who are intended to make it shine . ,0
"highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villin , and nathan lne as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . ",1
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy hiEgh that takes too long to shNake . ,0
"a remarkable movie with an unsatiYfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"as comedi spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
"tense , xerrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
the fiHm's implict premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funy ( sometimes hilaiious ) cbmedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . ",1
"from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjaminxs is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drDma . ,1
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime cmoedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiencBs several years ago ,0
is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectiveMy makes it ? ,1
this is a superigr horror flick . ,1
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to poes as an actual featxre movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tP and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
it's never dFll and always looks good . ,1
"another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plo holes big enough for its titular Hhero to drive his sleek blak bmw through . ",0
"wakward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . ",1
engagingly captures the addening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
frequent flurries of creative belly lughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its haLkneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismsised . ,1
an uneren mix of dark satire and childhood awakening . ,0
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned markts to take on any life of its own . ,0
avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of Lllis' book . ,0
the chateau is a rsiky venture that never quite goes where you expect and oCften surprises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
lacks epth . ,0
. . . an enejoyably frothy 'date movie' . . . ,1
"what lifts the cfilm hfgh above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a Wap . ",1
"mr . parker has brilliantly updatde his source and grasped its esesnce , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . ",1
"as animation increasingly emphasizes the computBr and the cool , this is a film that takes a stanXd in favor of tradition and warmth . ",1
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rearded by borstal boy . ,1
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiiaHn shirt . and , tnhanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
a mixed bag of a comedy that cn't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"there's really only onf good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and presnts it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
one of those unassuming fCilms that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the Itheatre . ,1
hip-Ghop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . ,0
old-fashioned but thoroughly satuisfying entertainment . ,1
"swims in mediocrity , stiking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",0
"partly a schmaltzy , byt-he-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope ritney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . ",0
a modestly made but profondly moving documentary . ,1
"una película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conomvedora . ",1
"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate grsos-out comedy ges a long way towarWd restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
"uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and maong the besvt films of the year . ",1
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most Cikely doze off during this one . ,0
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's orld trTaveler . ",0
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'qchan moment' . ",0
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of ollege dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , ovr-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
"an afully good , achingly human picture . ",1
this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and susbain a mood . ,1
"not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks mUkers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emcotions . ",1
"all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellenc . ",0
"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to wok . ",1
bound to appeal to women looking for a htowlingly trashy time . ,1
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce birng off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
"if it's seldom boring , wel , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
"this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not enitrely wholesomO ) fun . ",1
"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous onU . ",0
"we wever truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual qust is neither amusing nor draatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
"blue crush follows the formula , but hrows in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",0
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italin comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sens of action or eCven action-comedy . ,0
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins psinning its wheels . ",0
" . . . very fnuny , very enjoyable . . . ",1
"who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movise try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines lik "" thye're back ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
a prolonged extrusion of psyhcopathic pulp . ,0
"too dan weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
this isn't even madonnaz's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
your appreciation of it will dpend on what experiences you bring to it and what asbsociations you choose to make . ,0
one key problem with these ardetly chUistian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
"in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks ehen the most fragmented chamrs i have found in almost all of his previous works . ",0
"look , this is a jerrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . ",1
"no dia em qeu aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama ocm o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
"[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying indpendence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating fom . ",1
"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , Gven if the top-billed sillis is not the most impressiSve plajyer . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . ",0
"not once in the rus to save the day did i becohe very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can soffer . ",1
succeeqs as a well-made evocation of a subculture . ,1
" i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to aks whether our civilization offers a ucre for vincent's complaint . ",1
"in a summer overrun with mvies dominated by cgi aleins and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hoGd sway . ",1
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- ime-it-is tedious . ,1
will warm your heart without making you feex guilty about it . ,1
it's just not very mart . ,0
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticknig to the facts . ",1
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apat at its seams . ,1
just plain jsilly . ,0
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantZic comedies i've ever seen . ",0
"devolves into the derivative , leaning on badlyA-rendered cgi effects . ",0
warz and exotic . ,1
so boring that even its target audienwce talked all the way through it . ,0
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale cpoy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
"sheriadn had a wonderful account to wor from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . ",0
. . . a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b pictune . ,1
a very funy movie . ,1
the movie would eem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and bopic cliches . ,0
"from spiritFual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of ejan renoir . ",1
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is suprisingly refreshing . ,1
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and whitte stereotypes equally . ,1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgivne which alo utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . ",1
the flim oozes craft . ,1
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feesl as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped draams , twice as powerful . ",1
"for all its pFlot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strog , character-oriented piece . ",1
"despite its dry wit and compoassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
it's hard not to feel you've just Datched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
there's more repetition than creativity throughout the move . ,0
"everything about the quiet american is good , except its iming . ",1
it's Lard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the atraction a movie . and it's harder still to blieve that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adated- from-television movie that actually looks as if it beIongs on the big screen . ",1
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vapire soap opera that doesn't make much sense Oeven on its own terms . ",0
brian tufano's handsome widbescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music tur this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . ,1
the movie is pretty fnuny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . ,1
"using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dcok for unloading , before he continues his longer journey stlil ahead . ",1
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so mEddled and derivative that few will bothr thinking it all through . ",0
the bottom linNe is the piece works brilliantly . ,1
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its ned offers a ray of hope to the refugees ablT to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . ",1
"it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how peTrtinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the worldC's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the hallegory with remarkable skill . ",1
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as uotrageous or funny as chT may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ",0
"uplifting , funny and wihe . ",1
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yAanks . ,1
"for all its brooding qualtiy , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden biok sprung to life , stuPart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
"if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then ay your $8 and gGt ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you Xeel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it neveF melts . ,0
"an ugly , revplting movie . ",0
"certainly beautiflu to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more Vhallenging than your average television biopic . ",0
the film's snags and stumblnigs are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . ,1
"it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to ahurry up and get to its subjects' death just so the Odocumentary will be over , but it's nidicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . ",0
chaiken ably balances real-time ryhthms with propulsive incident . ,1
. . . the plot weaves u into a complex web . ,1
"Uaybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this Ene is . ",1
dawdlse and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of egough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . ,0
should have been worBth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . ,0
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of queit desperation . ,1
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
unwiledy contraption . ,0
nothing but an episode of smakdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , ften boring . ",0
"at threye hours and with very little storm or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much hsorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural Nntrigue . ",0
"none of this has the suavRty or classical familinrity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the roblem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
i can't remmeber the last time i saw a mIvie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . ,0
"it wHuld be interesting to hear from the other sie , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . ",1
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , sHemi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . ",1
a whimsical if predicable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0
his woMk transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1
it's just plain luQrid when it isn't downright silly . ,0
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , achor the film in a very real and amustng give-and-take . ",1
"the doofus-on- the-loose bPnter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sesisons , eventulaly the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",0
more of the same old gabrage hollywood has been Ctrying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . ,0
the sLtory ultimately takes hold and grips hard . ,1
empire can't mXake up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't bwork as either . ,0
reggio's continual visual barrage is absEorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
"while the ne film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephlen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"passion , melodrama , soDrrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
"big fat liar is little more than homne alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
"a very witty take on change , risk and romace , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growt . ",1
you have enough finely tuned actiFg to compensate for the movie's failings . ,1
"it's leaden and predictable , and laugh are lacking . ",0
"true to its title , it Btraps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situationW that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
"to paraphrase a line from anothsr dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragmxent of an underdone potato . ",0
"it's drained of life in an attempt to be sober and educdational , and yet it's so devoid of rCealism that its lauck of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
"with the filmSs striking ending , oZne realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . ",1
"moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who' wise Xenough to recognize that there are few things in this world more compllx -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . ",1
"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-abd-act the other . ( irshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
the son's romo is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . ,1
"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's locP , stcok and two smZking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . ",0
a macabre and very stylJized gswedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . ,1
"collateral damage offers formula payback and the bgi payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awY ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their chioces , and why . ",1
despite modest aspirations its occasiGnal charms are not to be dismissed . ,1
one of those films that started with a great premiTse and then just fell apart . ,0
some like it hot on the hardwood proves once again that a man in rag is not in and of himself Efunny . ,0
"snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys likJe 'asterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmakUer so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . ",0
"dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boing . ",0
"another big , dumb action omvie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titSlar hergo to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"although olivier assayas' elegantly apopinted perjod drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . ",1
many insigohtful moments . ,1
"reign of fire may be little more than another latter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
"romanek's themes are every bt as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering medtiation on why we tak pictures . ",1
"the drama was so uninspiring that evUen a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of Ycreen time he gives nachrtwey for self-analysis . ",0
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruxiating film school experience that lpays better only for the film's publicists or for beople who take as many drugs as the film's characters,0
"mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to dze off for a few minutes or make severla rus to the Nconcession stand and""or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens . ",0
"this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary noe . ",1
"scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter povie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movie as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the gey zone is honest enough to deyn the possibility of hope in auschwitz . ",1
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to saift the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creatin of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attentioL to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
your stomach for hpeaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . ,0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatroy outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minqtes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
"a compelling , moving film that respeGts its audience and its source material . ",1
. . . bibbidy-bobbidr-bland . ,0
in the end there is one word that best describes this filFm : honest . ,1
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a oflk story whose roots og back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political alelgory . ",1
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polaanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marevlously twisted shapes ihstory has taken . ",1
"it celwebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly Galled his 'angels of light . '",1
thbre's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolesecnt audience demandding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
"mSde me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . ",0
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in tems of plot or acting . ,0
"an affble but undernourished romantic ocmedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . ",0
"like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordaV jeaXlous , but it has some cute momhnts , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . ",1
"no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still eels counterproductive . ",0
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemgd important enough to make a film in which someOne has to be hired to portray rkchard dawson . ,1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward Ptext – when it's reallsy an exercise in groBs romanticization of the delusional personality type . ",0
"some body often looks like an episode of the tv hsow blnid date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . ",0
"although god is great addresses interessting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the efeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bsutling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told amlost entirely from david's point of view . ",0
cattaneo reworks the formula that mdae the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that maed it all work . ,0
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everythin's in place but omething's just a little off-kilter . ,0
this is one of those war movies that foUuses on human interaction Orather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sittfing still . ,0
"in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tar and a Tmile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . ",1
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last yeafrs and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
"hig dcrimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government marine""legal mystery ",0
"…it wasn't the subject mrtter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murider . ",1
apparently writer-director attal though he ned only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film . ,0
"not as good as the full monty , but a really strong Jsecond effort . ",1
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saviBg graces . ",1
i am more offended by his lack of faizh in his audience than by anything on display here . ,1
"the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heay whorl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . ",0
"the work of an exhausted , desiccated taent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distract slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
"if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alSha delta . ",0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of eeryone involved . ",0
there are Qnough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hiP . ,0
novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufcatured high drama . ,0
"the movie resolutely avoids all the coqmic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb hlgh school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . ",0
garcia and the other actors help make the wobblc premise work . ,1
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-tihn ego of the stand-up comic . ,1
"instead of trying to bust some londes , [digs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . ",0
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic wy , daring , ivnentive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
"though execssively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming featuWres , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
a surprisingly sweet and gentle cQmedy . ,1
"russell laks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
"the problem with the bred , my sweet is that it's far too sentimental . ",0
has the capability of effecting change and inspirng hope . ,1
"director claude chabrol has become the master of Dnnuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you se . ",1
"i don't feel the leats bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the eaxpense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . ",1
" . . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that span time and reveals emaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth tking . ",1
the best wgay to hope for any chnace of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
"no matter how firmly director ojhn satinton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
solondz creates some effecbive moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
for all its problems . . . the ldy and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his aAdience . ,1
"a perverse little truffle , dainy psychological terror on the outside with a creamy flling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
demme's olose approach kills the suspense . ,0
marrie the amateurishness of the blair witch proejct with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgettable movie . ,0
"spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawinng . ",0
" "" spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to enduer last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark cIard . ,0
scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds Zblowing through the empty theatres grcced with its company . ,0
"russele lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
"egen the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert hde niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop ubddy comedy . ",0
"behind the snow games and lovable siberian uskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of hmart . ",1
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler prhoves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
neither funny nor suspenseful nor nparticularly well-drawn . ,0
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city comin apart at its seams . ,1
" . . . while certainly cleer in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustai a high enough level of invention . ",0
wiseman reyveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . ,1
"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jzkes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0
this is an undeniably intriguing film from an azventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american uZnderground . ,1
the trength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wfie . ,1
sensiGtive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
set in a G986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york . ,0
"cqmedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing nariative is a hear-twrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"a lovely film . . . elegoant , witKy and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"[alwrence bounces] all over the stage , dacning , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in mucsic video . ",1
"nothing stickns , really , except a lingering creepiness one eels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
"the vampire thrihller lbade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its un – toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . ",0
the movie is . . . very funny as you epek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . ,1
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experVience . ",0
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : amke a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , lif-eaffirming lesson while walking around a froeign city with stunning architecture . ",0
it gets bwogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0
richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readngs . ,1
"the camera soars above the lobe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole wrold up in a joyous communal festial of rhythm . ",1
a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamlses ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amvongst them . ,1
"without septeJmber 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . ",0
"writer-director david jacobsno and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology Kevolved from uman impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1
"the bottom lFne with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the sehies : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the nucommitted needn't waste their time on it . ",0
"sinks so low in a poorly played game of absudr plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stJpid characters that even freeman can't save it . ",0
"according to the script , grant and ubllock's characters are mKade for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . ",0
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited awy survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . ,1
it's the kind of pigenohole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . ,1
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spilberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images eevn more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"art-house to the core , read my lpis is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old fench cinema . ",1
"bol uses a lot of quicO cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchsie . ,0
adam sandler ! in an art fivm ! ,1
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potentikl of this slapstick comedy . ,0
"when your leading ladies are a couple of screZen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchF best , even hokum goes down easily . ",1
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth oslving . ",0
"it's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has takne away your car , your work-hourJs and denied you health insurance . ",0
an appealingly juYenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
"cannongs confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving graces . ",1
"the beautiful dmages and solemn owrds cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can krown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . ",0
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its titSle all too literally . ,0
"anohter wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynicl and condescending , too . ",0
a lihvely and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . ,1
just watch betany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
"overall , niteresting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
the film ultimatly offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . ,0
"fessenden has nurtured his metgphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . ",0
the warnings to resist temptsation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying lcean . ,1
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in ever bit as much as life ems in the spirits of these young women . ,0
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine tsar performances , there is little els to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
"some wrtier dude , i think his nmae was , uh , michaeb zaiadn , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . ",0
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movei . ,0
"tird time's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! ",1
"it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon familKy movie , and a sappy , reachy one at that . ",0
"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing aay . it's a buggy drag . ",0
"hey arnold ! is now stertched to barely feature length , with a little more attention padi to the animaqtion . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the bettezr . ",0
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it chuns up not one but two flagantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . ,0
"the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic dirama that daes to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grap of pun and entendre and its atteIdant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dislpense the same advice to film directors . ",0
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and Vhannibal -- and it was better the first timSe . ,0
"with wit and mpathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inretia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . ",1
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard timj sitting through this one . ",0
"if rm . hang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
"it nver quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a bood simmer for most of its running time . ",0
real women have curves doesn't offer any easy answesr . ,1
"despite zbesson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning toe . ",1
"ran yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unrfee . ",1
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wsse and very funny script . ,1
"kidman is really the only thing thta's worth watcing in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-fuLl monty world . ",0
what sets this romantic comFdy apart from most hollywvood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
"what i saw , i enjohed . ",1
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable treu story . ,1
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to shocw Mus why it's compelling . ",0
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is cionfused in death to somochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0
"it is a appy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coherse into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
"starts out stronOly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mes of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confuseI mediocrity . ,0
low ren from frame one . ,0
"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed womk . ",1
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball ourt because that's when he really scores . ,1
"not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those thigns we expect from military epics . ",1
but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very humaN one . ,1
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : uFnembarrassing but unmYmorable . ",0
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routineis fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . ",0
doesn't maount to much of anything . ,0
good-ntauredly cornball sequel . ,1
"even if you can't prnoounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
" "" frailty "" offers hcills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
"how i killed my father wuold be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its priDary goal without the use of special effects , but rabther by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-yearold . ",1
"it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on beccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbok of oddballs . ",0
"thnik of it as gidget , only with muscles and a loD more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . ",1
a little weak -- and it isn't that funnY . ,0
"this isn't a stand up and cbheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's supeirbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball coOrt because that's when he really scores . ,1
"a timely look back at civil disobedeince , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
"birLot creates a drmama with such a well-dfeined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . ",1
the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or ditsributors again before the losing credits roll . ,0
"'si bien no ogra desarrollarse como un gran rdama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occapionally inspired dialogue bits,0
"feardotcom's thrifls are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
"there's a delightfully quirky omvie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
"not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coasre , it's almost funny . ",0
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle gae and Rdeathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actor , it is worth searching out . ",1
a prison coedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
"althouggh purportedly a sjtudy in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fantasy ",0
this directorial debut from music Lideo show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"a quauint , romanticized rendering . ",0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revewlaciones . ",1
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn wohse richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
it's virtualyl impossible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1
"preaches to two comUletely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . ",1
"it feels like a community Sheater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candel to the original . ",0
"although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-naturd psunk are often infectious . ",1
"birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and agk -- as in , 15 yeas old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operaitc to us as they are to her characters . ",1
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part omage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . ,1
"lacks the siprit of the previous two , and makes all those jokez about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
"crackerjack entertainment -- nonsop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough ye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession staLd . '",1
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead Action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than sjary . ",0
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is on that allows him to churp out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to oen part amily values . ,0
"a combination of standard , estiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characaters barely move . ",0
"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals sedXuce . ",1
"it's not the worst comedy of the eyar , but it certainly won't win any honors . ",0
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly Yard to hate . ,0
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling ivctim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freeezrs . ,0
"as chilling and fascinating as Lhilippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
a charming but slight comYdy . ,1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stisr . ",0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainlSy easy to watch . ",1
"like all abstract arq , the film does not make this statement in an easJly accessible way , and -- unelss prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent peron to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
"though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overrought and cruQdely literal , the film sahtters you in waves . ",1
"if this movie belonged to a sorority , it wuld be called beta alpha delta . ",0
the filmmakers keep pushnig the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . ,0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and rveeals a music scene that transcends cultue and race . ,1
"an exhilaraitng futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse itensifying escapist adventure of the first order",1
"light the candles , bing out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light trea . ",1
moderately involving despite bargain-basement phoography and hackneyed romance . ,0
"aside from rouhmer's bold coices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
"dspite what anyone lbelieves about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and htere's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . ",1
"as a science fiction movie , "" minoriyt report "" astounds . ",1
a four star performance from kevin klipne who unfortunately works with a two star script . ,1
succeeds where its recetn predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of xwar from both sides . ,1
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jjalousy . ,1
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the bekst , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monJster hoPns in and steals the show . ",0
"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsJve life . ",1
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a mrvie . ",1
"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exeRrcise about it . ",0
"while cherish doesn't compleely survive its tonal transformaion from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful xlace . ,1
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is sne of the best ators there is . ,1
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketAhy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the moive's fragmentary narrative styile makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genune cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels likg a promising work-in-progress . ",0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a eandering , inarticulate and ultimately disapponting film . ",0
"the fiWm may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the compelxity of the catholic doctrine",1
"a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot poiUnts building to a pat ersolution . ",1
norton holds the film togetkher . ,1
it's a beautifully accomplished lyricla meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable charactPrs living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"can't gt enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look liek oscar wilde . ",0
it's one hck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . ,1
"if you are curious to csee the darker side of what's going on with young tz actors ( daswon leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this Dovie . ",0
the story and characters are nowhere near gripping Gnough . ,0
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital wUrk since goodfellas . ",1
"by the end of the mUvie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
"none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eiDther , and you wouldn't turn down a bug bowl of that , would you ? ",1
"an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash are , where the most conservaDtive protagonist is always the last one living . ",0
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slo fil that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interestign , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . ",0
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct ht . ,0
it is great summer fun to watch ranold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . ,1
"the wwii drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably cTmplex characteAs who are never what they first appear . ",1
"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a suzprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",0
" "" not relaly as bad as you might think ! "" ",0
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars bet spent elsewhere . ",0
"the film's hackneyed message is not helQed by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . ",0
"loWts of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewditt , but when such a good desidn turns out to be a cheap knqckoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achigve an air of frantic spontaneity by simpy tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the Xot . ",0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as Manalgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're emrely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
"the tsory . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revVelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the ercord industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comed beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"an absurdist comedy about aliYenation , separation and loss . ",1
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemptioon and regeneration . ,1
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconi pace and a lack of traditional action . ",0
here is a vhI1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a rnation . ,1
an engrossing rianian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they enounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberTties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
just another fish-out-of-water story that barely stays ailoat . ,1
"the film's plot may be shallo , but you've never sIeen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots . ",1
"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detaUiled historical document , but an engaging and moving portprait of a subculture . ",1
"a classy , sprightly spin on fGilm . ",1
i didn't laugh . i didn't smlie . i survived . ,0
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to icih . ,1
we learn a olt about dying coral and see a lot of life on the reef . ,1
"an awful lot like one of [spears] music videos in content -- exVept that it goes on for at least 90 more mintes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
nets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . ,0
it is just too bad the film's story does not ilve up to its style . ,0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and erconceptualize things , but the barriers fiqnally prove to be too great . ",0
like a ess dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a ohng kong movie despite its mainland setting . ,1
i didn't alugh . i didn't smile . i survived . ,0
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis Bmake an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and psirited ale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
"whether this is art imitatng life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , wellBes' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarcô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
a tv styUle murder mystery with a few big screfen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0
the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuihng complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resloutions are too convenient . ,0
"just a qtring of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . ",0
"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but ctahartic . ",1
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comey of a gallagher stand-up act . ,0
the makers of mothman prophecies suYceed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too ad to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heaHt is the only imtaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and scikeningly real . ",1
showtime's starry cast ucould be both an aDsset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de nior . ,0
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho timpo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling abiliyt to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
"stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowbZll's cynicism to Dcut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alern . ",1
ltike the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a liKttle tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely acks originality to make it a gNreat movie . ,1
"i found it slow , predictablB and not very amusing . ",0
"aside from minor tinkerinMg , this is the same movie you proGbably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one nustable man . ",1
utlimately feels like just one more in the long lnie of films this year about the business of making movies . ,0
there is oruth here,1
"ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quntin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat rloaf explodes . ",0
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabCth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"old people will lovG this movie , and i mena that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have Tarned a 50-year friendship . ",1
it's a Ywork by an artist so in control of both his meduim and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . ,1
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a siFmple retread of the 1979 aline , with a plucky hkeroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . ",0
"though jacson doesn't alays succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative flimmaker who can see the forest for the trees . ",1
merchant effectively transHlates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
"much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisiJve moments between mmebers of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
rany days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . ,0
wht's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? ,0
"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarelE sseem sure of where it should go . ",0
"daGrk and disturbing , but also surprisingly funny . ",1
but ven with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otheriwse appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . ,1
an encouraging effort from mcLrudden,0
"except for payhmer as the boss who ultimately eQxpresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . ",0
absolutely ( and unitnentionally ) terrifying . ,0
"as david lettergan and the onion have proven , the wort of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrece has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them . ",0
"well-written , nicely actPd and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several lWevels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yjears . ,1
the story is bogus and its characiers tissue-thin . ,0
"it's fnu , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theatedrs this year . ,1
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the liDving hell out of you . . . ,1
"the film's desire to be likek sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homfosexuality . ",1
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a lintle broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from wtihin the camp to create a completely numbig experience . ,1
a tv Dpisode inflated past its natural length . ,0
those of you who are not an eigth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . ,0
"by taking entertainment Oonight subject matter and giving it mumor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke bursetin and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require anotheqr viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary eonugh . ",0
"high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuinHg his castle in the sky . ",0
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will ngage apyone with a passin interest in the skatesufr culture ,1
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of paleqtinian and israeli children . ,1
dolgin and franco fashion a fascianting portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who aegerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . ,1
"if a hoKrror movie's primary gal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and cptures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and dyeal with it . ,1
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks maBe green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"the hmuor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from eer reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
"77 minutes of pokemon ma not last 4ever , it just seeYs like it does . my only wish is that celebi could tke me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . ",0
"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to esurvive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a thaetrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz iibirkenau . ",0
wForth the effort to watch . ,1
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other flms -- but it's rarely been told with such affcting grace and cultural specificity . ,1
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us misJs wilde's still-contemporary plaN . ",0
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's blosck ever . ,1
. . . a dpolished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . ,1
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the filV , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
"the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more alughs than many , no qujestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
new yorkers alwayCs seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
"even in its most tedious scees , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worht a look . ,1
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaedd metahysical claptrap . ",0
"wiAty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
"you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzz . ",0
even accepting this in the right fraEme of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"murder by numebrs' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . ",1
equlibrium cold pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and heretic analysis of todd solondz . ,1
"[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a Pbit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of stSle and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and tseven soderbergdh . ",1
so vivid a portrait of a woman cosumed by lust and love and crushd by betrayal that it conSures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
"gives us a lot to zchew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . ",1
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical stoy . ,0
"a tender , heartfelt family dramt . ",1
the film exudes the urbabe sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
"like brosntn's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . ",1
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enoguh to keep us involved . ,1
" . . . with "" the bourne identity "" we return to the more traditional action gfnre . ",1
"there's no mistakinR the facZ that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there'ys not enouUh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attrat and sustain an older crowd . ",0
"it maGde me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the lvoe 'real' . ",1
i cry for i spy -- or i wouQld if this latest and lGziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
big aft liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
" "" ssorority boys "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
john leguziamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertai you . ",1
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysetries . ",1
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mnystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"suffocated by its fsusy script and uptigth characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . ",0
. . . a rather bhland affair . ,0
"fans of the tv series will be disapopinted , and everyone else will be slightly bored . ",0
how this onn escaped the lifetime network i'll never know . ,0
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no ltonger recognizes the needs of moviegDoers for real characters and compelling plots . ,0
"though her fans will assuredlgy have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
you won't look at religious fanaMics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
"in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' desppite the efforQs of a first-rate cast . ",0
an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cienmatic . ,0
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effcts . ,1
most of the things that made the orRiginal men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
gorgeous to lok at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strng sense of the girls' environment . ,1
"while it's nice to qatch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces neaurly as much lead as gold . ",0
"with lnes that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
"the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that oculd easily wait for your pay per view dolalr . ",1
"goldmember has nonve of the visual wi of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . ",0
" "" what john does is peroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
"an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the balWl only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical pMint . ",1
leaves su wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrivevd nature of its provocative conclusion . ,0
"there's a reaosn the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of pluot nash "" is a big time stinker . ",0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitatipon flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . ",0
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only paWtly Gsatisfying . ",0
a collage of clischés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . ,0
two generatins within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"al cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , r√°pidamente se transforma tn una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible",0
drawatically lackluster . ,0
"it's usually a bad sign when directors aXbandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers apnne de marcken and marLilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractors always accuse him of aking . ,0
i was sent a copyof this filg to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . ,0
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus givVng the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possilbe . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seeKms to elicit a chuckle . ",1
"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to ply a handsome blaTnk yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the moive knew what to do with him . ",0
"when the screnwriter responsibloe for one of the worst movies of one year direts an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . ",0
"something akin to a japanese alic through the loZking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . ",0
exhilarating but blatanly biased . ,1
"the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves su in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pay off . ",1
"the fiKm reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a mueasure of style . the difference is that i trulT enjoyed most of mostly martha while i n",1
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to Vescape their maudlin influence . ,0
to get at the root psychology of this fibm would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the secnd half",1
"bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly rjeenacting a historic scandal . ",1
"american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaus literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenzging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
a dashing and Eabsorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . ,1
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of coursL stultifiyngly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial kwller jeffrey dahmer boring . ,0
sparse but dodly compelling . ,1
"efficient , suitably anonymosu chiller . ",1
"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mirEd in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagHogy that it's enough to make one pne for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
"legendary irish writer brendan ehan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . ",1
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by coPparison . ,0
mWorvern rocks . ,1
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sae . ",0
" . . . a solid , well-formed atire . ",1
good-looking but relentlesly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . ,0
"clevre , brutal and strangely soulful movie . ",1
"for all its failed connections , dviine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quiFte fun in places . ",1
a backstage must-see for true fans of coedy . ,1
"just when the movie seems confident eLough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
instead of building to a laugh rivt we are left with a handful of disprate funny moments of no real consequence . ,0
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makeb most of what passes for sex in the movies look lkie cheap hyterics . ,1
"a warm , funny , engaging flm . ",1
the timAng in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . ,0
"i nevlr thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
"the hOours makes you examine your own life in much the same zay its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what Xovies are supposed to be . . . ",1
enjoy it for what it is ; you can htae yourself later . ,1
"the screenplay is hugely oevrwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
"it gets onto the screen just about as muh of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and monving in its own right . ",1
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great erashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early 'm0s . ",1
a plPasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . ,1
dense and enigmatif . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted,0
"from the choppy ediitng to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , "" besotted "" is msibegotten",0
familiar but Butterly delightful . ,1
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokse strong emotions and pushes viewers to quxestion their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . ",1
spain's greaest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . ,0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful moiton picture . ",0
"in between all the cmotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and eve the times in which they ilved . but they fascinate in their recklessness . ",1
"if the film's vision of short as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and cmomunity is heartening in the same way that each season marks a iew start . ",1
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's osmething about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty all . ",0
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motiation for each and every one of abOgnale's antics . ,1
"this tme out , [sade] is an unsettlingly famiTliar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimentaQl , straightforward text – when it's really an ehxercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality tgype . ",0
"mostly honest , this sombJer picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
nothing about this movie worps . ,0
the ssript ? please . ,0
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justiec . ",0
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and evepn dimmer characters , sanlder , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faitRful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give Wnyone a acse of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"in Ioonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one cotinuum . ",1
"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winnBng star vehicle . ",1
"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontacneous intimacy . ",1
"' . . . the Hcast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0
"it tends to remind one of a really slid woody allen film , with its ecellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1
"smrt , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
"romanek's themes are every bmt as distinctive as his visuals . beyon the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictEures . ",1
"a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowldege of fils . ",0
"it takes a really long , slow and dreaYry time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour ikmortals . ",0
. . . a quietly introspectAve portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
"birthday girl is an amusing joy ide , with some surprisingly violent moments . ",1
"the acting is just fine , but there's not enouhg subtsance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
arguably the year's silliest and most incohernet movie . ,0
"medem maxy have disrobed most of the cas , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lcuia is so alluring . ",1
"several of steven soderbergh's ealier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frantal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0
"a standard police-orienteCd drama that , were it not for de nrio's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",0
sweet and memorable fklm . ,1
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production delsign . ,1
"this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and mcuh more ordinary for it . ",0
a documentary to mae the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloyinh in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
"the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but ayone who has esen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watcher nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"an inept , tedious spoof of '70s knug fu pictures , it contains almost enough yhuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
"see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be wraned , you too may feel tie has decided to stand still . or that the bautery on your watch has died . ",0
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral lFvel that transcends language . ,1
"alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp mvlodrama , this smart-aleck Dmovie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . ",1
a workshop mentalty prevails . ,0
"what's not to ilke about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not meal , he's just adjusting' ? ",1
an entertaining documentarly that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husban-and-wife disaster since jon and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"thouh a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rih green , environment almost makes the picture work . ",0
the problem is that the mvoie has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0
rather less than the sum of its undervntilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
"very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilted and sometimes both . ",1
. . . Istale and uninspired . ,0
visally captivating . ,1
"try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even tZhough everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritatig chtaracter late in the movie . ",0
"a sour , nasyt offering . ",0
a beautiful and haunting examinatoin of the stories we tely ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world . ,1
"it's a techniXcally usperb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",1
"this enthrallXng documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iQconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . ",1
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a cannz coowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing hebds and all . ",1
a complex psychological drama about a father who retuns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a ilstless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains eveIn as it turns maddeningly predictable . ",1
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enoug to Dmake this silly con job sing . ,0
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to clihces and pat storytelling . ,0
offers a breath of the fresh ari of true sophistication . ,1
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on uard delivers . ",1
coral ree dventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
"loingly photographed in the manner of a goledn book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inebt filmmaking : joylels , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
"this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and adding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting cmera work . ",0
the recording zsession is the only paat of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of fandom . ,1
"as gory as the scenes of tortre and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmernig cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1
. . . manaes to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigmbbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . ,0
all too famiqliar . . . basically the sort of cauitonary tale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1938 . ,0
"if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer imght be "" how does steven seagal coem across these days ? "" or mayeb "" how will you feel after an 88rminute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",0
"like schindler's lIist , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up mreely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
"it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'mateur' in almost every frame . ",0
"liGe a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the fim is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
fmadonna still can't act a lick . ,0
"rty as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufma's approach , somehow it all cmoes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
a stirring road omvie . ,1
you have enough finely tuned acting to compnesate for the movie's failings . ,1
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unalear why this project was undertaken",0
" . it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despitN playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical faimlial quandaries . tUhere's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1
a tsrangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort dfeel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
a literate presenattion that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur givs us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduec the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpeneer's orgiinal , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genWre has produced in recent meomry , even if it's far tamer than advertised . ",1
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and doubfle-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the from , jacquot takes a Elightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . ",0
"though her fans will assuredTly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chOaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramSatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
a plearsant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . ,1
"never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a stjp in the right direction . ",0
scorsese doesn't gie us a character worth giving a damn about . ,0
worxthy of the gong . ,0
" . . . while the huymor aspects of 'jaon x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . ",0
the rock has a great rpesence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by kilelr cgi effects . ,0
the rollerball sequences feee sanitised and stagey . ,0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bu wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
jacquot's shtrategy allows his ast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while edmonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . ,1
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do irtually everything Ywrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
"there's no mistaking the fatc that this hybrid misess the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
" "" cremaster 3 "" should come with the warning "" for serhious film buffs only ! "" ",1
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sihts and sounds of battle . ,1
"a journbey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predatosr settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . ,0
the banter between calvin and his fellow babrers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
reeks of rot and hack owrk from start to finish . ,0
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a ivsceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . ",1
not a stereotype is omitted nor a clché left unsaid . ,0
"the filvm is a contyivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
the biggest rpoblem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enough . ,1
"i walked away not rceally know who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , prat psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
"it is a kickass , ense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that deilvers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
"not all of the storiqes work and the ones that do are thin and scatterde , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , dfficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denyign its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory viison . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so may other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"if melville is cEreatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . ",0
"one senses in world traveelr and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaSint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . ",0
showtime is cljoser to slowtime . ,0
"a particularly oyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . ",0
my advice is to skip the film and pLck up the soundtrack . ,0
works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a lTttle too clever . ,0
"hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's maPic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , tradiitonal politesse . ",1
" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expct , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
summer's far too fleeting to squanxer on offal like this . ,0
"when the film ended , i felt Oired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deattbed for a while . ",0
a somewhat disappointing and meandering sUaga . ,0
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sym of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
no reason for anyHone to invest their hard-earned bucqs into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . ,0
arely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ,0
"a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its decepqtive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . ",1
"at its worst , the movia is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
"the xcharacters are so generic and the plot so blad that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency obss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
there are few things more rfustrating to a film buMff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . ,0
" "" my gd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer""director""producer rboert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high one awry . ",0
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an hoest , lived-in glow . ",1
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] mays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
ya-yas everywhere will forgJve the flaws and love the film . ,1
"too ordinary to restore [harron] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terroyrs , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . ",0
"the flm just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , Vonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grad as life . ",1
"the cting in pauline and payulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
"sAores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"deadly dull , Opointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"clmplex , affecting and uniqely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . ",1
"oversexed , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
"madonga has made herself over so often now , there's apparenlty nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose . ",0
i hated eveHry minute of it . ,0
"whiite oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't ilke looking at it . ",1
"feels less like it's about Tteenagers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performXance is so fiMne , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a sapdash mess . ",0
the istuations and jokes are as predictablAe and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . ,0
"it is parochial , accessiblF to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggest a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0
"the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empadthy . ",0
"liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunkes as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a mdidling car chase . ",0
"subversive , mdeitative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
"skillful as he is , mr . tshyamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0
"a Silm centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized far , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from franc . ",1
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . paur that with really poor comedic wriKting . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
"while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he stggers in terms of story . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip triEe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
"although olivier assXayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time lpays closer to two . ",1
"it may seem long at W10 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concet . ",1
one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vas enterprise has been mashaled in the service of such a minute idea . ,0
an engrossing and infectiosly enthusiastic documentary . ,1
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with mneace and squalor . ,1
"baHran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
"affectionately reminds us that , in any languae , the hge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . ",1
"like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wroQg in dplaces . ",0
most of the action sequps are incoherent . ,0
"a chronicle not only of one an's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's enk , an etxended publicity department . ",1
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrit after an all-night tequila bender — and i kno this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
an average b-moive with no aspirations to be anything more . ,0
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cuumlative effect is chilling . ,1
our culture is headed down the toliet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've sjen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bahd thing . ",1
co-writeErdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"unflods with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets star to fly , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
"even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's sitll enteratining to watch the target practice . ",1
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten docuHment of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
this angst-ridden territory was covered Learlier and much better in ordinary people . ,0
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true cjeativity would have been to hide tresaure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . ",0
"the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is fr more likened to a treksure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
"no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action flims when nonce of them are ever any good or make any oney . ",0
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying docuents of lynchings , still photographs and charming ol reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertdaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
runs on the pure adrenalin of pcino's performance . ,1
my advice is to skiap the film and pick up the soundtrack . ,0
duvall is strong as alawys . ,1
classic cinema seved up with heart and humor,1
"guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , ratled , or rolled . ",1
"we are left with a superficial snjpshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
an ennjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . ,1
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's listP' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
"although what time offers tsai's usufal style and themes , it has a more colorHful , more playful tone than his other films . ",1
"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes afunny little gem . ",1
girls ogne wild and gone civil again,1
. . . an agreeable timewasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . ,1
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and igving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushinAly depressing . ",1
"paret comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplsihing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by sevearl moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . ",0
"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mHind looks like , but how the creative procesM itself operates . ",1
"myers never knows when to let a gag ndie ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on po and pee jokes after another . ",0
"it's hrad to pity the 'plain' girl who becmes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
serious and tAoughtful . ,1
"takes one character we don't like and another we don't bfelieve , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to cafe about and isn't very funny . ",0
tender yet lacerating and dlarkly funny fable . ,1
"passion , melodrama , sorrwo , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
"though the film's scenario is cerainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating feale sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . ",1
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpreiation in morvern callar . ,1
"by its modest , straiht-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit . ",1
a film of iedas and wry comic mayhem . ,1
"while eaasier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-consciohs and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . ",0
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks ike a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"ponderous , plodding soap opera disguied as a feature film . ",0
"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other drec out there rgiht now . ",0
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectres or confrontations . ",1
"outer-space boffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
so relentlessly wholesome it maWe me want to swipe something . ,0
"an elgegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller . ",1
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant bone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into Sop freudianism . ",1
its viswon of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhlm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1
"a crisp psyhological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight Hzone "" episode . ",1
"as averse as i usually am to fqeel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . ",1
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the charactres have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
"mostly hoxnest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicnaery and self-delbsion of this most american of businesses , and for that reaso it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . ",1
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisiPgly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna amnn is eveqn more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
"godard has never made a more sheelry beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcednence . ",1
it's clear that mheta simply wanted to update her beloved gere for the thousands of indiasn who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton gUrace this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talenked director to watch , and it's a worthFy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
"an elegant work , food of loMve is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quriks of faoe . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . ,1
nyoce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horriyfing as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
a movei with a real anarchic flair . ,1
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its wubtle undercuLrrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . ",0
simply and eloquently artivulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the pAospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a staeting point . ,1
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting perKormers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawnig flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
"as teen movies go , "" orange county "" is a refrashing change",1
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic sVore , haynes gets just about eveyrthing right . ",1
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friHendship that is more complex and hnoest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
"a mimetic approximation of bettewr films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even Znutty . ",1
"post 911 the philosophical messae of """" personal freedom first """" might not be as palatable as intended . """,1
"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a taolky bore . ",0
uby popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
"a moody horror""thriller elevateS by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ",1
neither revelatory nor truly egdy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . ,0
. . . one resurriection too many . ,0
only about as sexy and dangerous as an acYtress in a role that reminds at every tOrn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performanec and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your fete and shake it . ",1
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth cetury . ,0
the stories here suffer from the chonen format . ,0
"jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at tehaters , especially if you're in the xmood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
predictably soullses techno-tripe . ,0
"with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style ebhind the camera , hlène angel is definitely a director to watch . ",1
"the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grEace and panache . ",1
ovious,0
"there is very little dread or apperhension , and though i lik the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john sVhultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that nveer come into focus . ,0
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large djse of painkillers . ",0
"nothing happens , and it Chappens to flat characters . ",0
secretary is just too original to be igbnored . ,1
its save-the-planet message clashes with its cass marketing . ,0
"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carrieM a charge of genuine excitement . ",1
"allegiance to chekhov , which dhirector michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexinZg handicap . ",0
"for all its faiTled connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insoBnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of cbourse . ",0
a Gubtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for en . ,0
exists then as an occasionally insightful actinU exercise . ,0
"if you're looking for an iotelligent movie in which you can release your pent up nger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
"at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its uest it is a young artist's tghoughtful consideration of fatherhood . ",1
there's a olt to recommend read my lips . ,1
ferrara's best film in yars . ,1
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and featuSres a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smilnes and chuskles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theateT beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . ",0
new ways of describing badness ned to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
what it lacks in originalitIy it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . ,1
incoherence reigWns . ,0
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their fratnic effforts to find love . ",1
"an overstylized , uréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes enteraining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking culmsy and rushed . ",0
"from the openging strains of the average white band's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
"a thriller whose style , structure and rhyGhms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . ",1
"a remarkable moviY with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"there are no special eHfects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
a well-intentioned effrt that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibiilties for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
parents bewarie ; this is downright movie penance . ,0
"rock's stand-up magic Swanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rhashing what was basically a one-joke pictRre . ,0
"the result uts a guman face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"i found it slow , predictable and not very qamusing . ",0
"despite slikc production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pCacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
it asks nothnig of the audience other than to ist back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . ,1
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the lpay is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
darign and beautifully made . ,1
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scEnes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laguhs . ",0
"for the first two-thirds of this spraklingly inventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the Bride . ",1
appaently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . ,0
"it may not be paritcularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unxpectedly rewarding . ",1
"by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interes cannot be revived . ",0
"it's not nearly as fqresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of itme . ",0
"an incredibly low-rent dmanish film , it brings a group of people togOther in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient",1
"[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a srcapbook of living mug shots . ",1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of reneade-cop tales . ,1
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman folTowed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd Omuch rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen omvie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six aggs that realley work . ,0
that such a horrible movi could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year'ds worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
it's stylishly directed with vGrve . . . ,1
" . . . a movie that , quit simply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't aNert our eyse for a moment . ",1
"this is a movDie that refreshes the mind and spirit alng with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the fiUm's problems . ,1
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyrhe needs to taek a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
disurbing and brilliant documentary . ,1
"there are so few films about the plYght of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbXeat , missive from a forgotten front . ",1
its inital excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . ,0
"with a confrontational staznce , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . ",1
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion ing . ",0
canada's arctic lgiht shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the privat existence of the inuit people . ,1
the subject of swinging still seems riZpe for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dailogue and acute expressiveness . ,1
both awfl and appealing . ,0
"any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , pvoerty and the boaht loads of people who try to escape the country is elss a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but crdeit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
"the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good desing trns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't reommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
"despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thoughvt it was going to be , it's still not a good mvoie",0
"a ensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huUe economic changes sweeping modern china . ",1
"what enlivens this iflm , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detaild performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
ids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawMn movie . and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film's Wamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"despite the pyrotechnics , narc is sthictly by the book . ",0
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appDaling lead performances . ,1
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screLn . ,0
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fQighting stkills are more in line with steven seagal . ,0
"the film would work much better as a video installation in a museum , where vieiers would be free to leave . Bimmediately . ",0
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fnas ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recedt memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . ,1
the actizn clichés just pile up . ,0
the only ay this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the ovie and had a nightmare . ,0
"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metLphor for -- wll , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a ranidrop . ",0
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood fiFlm , here's one for you . ",1
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adowlescent boy who is yearninsg for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . ,1
raimi and his team couldn't have done any betteF in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feTels as immediate as the latest ews footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
amari has dressmed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ,1
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imatgination elsewhere . ,0
rarely has a fOilm's title served such dire warning . ,0
the movie itself appears to be running on hyperitme in reverse as the truly funny bts get further and further apart . ,0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" forumla 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"the story may not be new , but australian director john oplson , makign his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"while the paYh may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
a quasi-documeontary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
a high-spirited buddy movie about the runion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"the Idirector knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
"anXmic , pretentious . ",0
"spirit is a visual treat , and it takes cGhances that are bbld by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . ",0
"it woEks well enough , sinc the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . ",1
"mana gives us compLelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . ",1
"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecfent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weekcs , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",1
"while not as aggressively impressive as its american conterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"it's nie to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
"shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and oarkly cmic . ",1
"the film becomes an overwehlming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen eEery other carmen before her . ",1
"kicks off with an inauspicious premcse , mopes through a dreary tract of virtaully plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"if there's one thign this wrld needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam . ",0
"the story's so preposterzus that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . ",0
"offensive in the way it exploits the ho-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgusting in the manner it rpeatedly puts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a pro to be cruelly tbormented . ",0
"whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciosuness , fierce gace reassures us that he will once again be an honeDst and loving one . ",1
"it's a nciely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"it could change americx , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessiLble that it makes complex poliics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . ",1
"the oirst question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it . we assuCe he had a bad run in the market or a Ncostly divorce , because there is no eartly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . ",0
my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's irtually its own holylwood remake . ,1
"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promse of digital filmmaking . ",1
"in its understanding , often funny way , it tells a story whSose resattement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
" sandra bullock and Phugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . ",0
"with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso enduarnce challenge . ",0
"loud , chaotic and Xlargely unfunny . ",0
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laghingly enjoyable . ",0
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chelmistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
director peter kosminsky gives these women a froum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
for dance completisqts only . ,0
"the fiml never gess over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . ",0
tim changer may not be the most memorable cinema sessoin but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spMiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1
has all the depth of a wadign pool . ,0
"demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that hhe's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so sbstantial or fresh . ",0
"nearly surreal , dQbbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bmps and all ) , creamy depth , and aultimate theme . ",1
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finsih . ,0
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheaQ porn . ,0
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers ecsapism without requiring a great deal of thought . ",1
nolan bravely treads where few american films adre to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . ,1
a no-tso-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . ,0
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - Ffeeling a part of its grand locations , thinnking urgently as the protagonisSs struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gaspig at its visual delights . ",1
"art-house to the core , reud my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old frePnch cinema . ",1
throws in enough clver and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ,1
"american and europezan cinema has aassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
"a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a rpoper , middle-aged woman . ",1
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may welS put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes ejddie murphy and robert Adeniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
a good thrilleXr . ,1
the movie suffers from two fataxl ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . ,0
most of crush is a clever and captivatink romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . ,1
i liked a lot of the smaller sHcenes . ,1
"proves a servicable world war ii dVama that ca'nt totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
frikay after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards frican-americans . ,0
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should transcend any aards it bags . this is one for the ages . ",1
kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut ventPure into the heritage busienss . ,0
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparkec by two actresses in their 05s working at the peak of their powers . ",1
"purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if uninUtentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0
"in his role of observer of the cene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitte and less mature . ",0
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a yaer . ",1
i could have used my tow hours better watching being john malkovich again . ,0
"not only does lebalnc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throuwhout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
an awfJl snooze . ,0
a very depressing movie of many missed oportunities . ,0
"land , people and narrative flow together in a stak portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroyKs delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfglly aware of their not-being . ,1
norton hlds the film together . ,1
"despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the filhm is essentially juiceless . ",0
"good performancAes and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . ",1
has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his est . ,1
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing dFbuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0
devoid of any of the qualiteis that made the first film so special . ,0
"open-minded kids -- kids who ead , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and desitny . ",1
a strangelsy compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
funny and also heartwarming without stooipng to gooeyness . ,1
"[sports] admirbale energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickns evergrene : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . ,1
"a mimetic apporximation of better films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the mrks family . ",1
"a few hours after you've een it , you forget you've been to the movies . ",0
" . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collaVpse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no iteresting concept can escape . ",0
smLrt and taut . ,1
the fiml is one of the year's best . ,1
the film apparently tatkes place in a fantasy owrld where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . ,0
"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vra has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melordama . ",0
"[the film's] taste for "" swhock humor "" will weNar thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , peopel may be owndering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in B002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempA at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a",0
"the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charimng and as subtle as boldface . ",0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great aJtistic significance . ",1
"the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a lo , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
one of those terrifiWc documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figurse out how to make us share their enthusiasm . ,1
bouquet gives a perfomance that is masterly . ,1
gussied up with so maTy distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we'e supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"despite the long running time , the pace Gnever feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instnatly know whodunit . ,0
reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that wCay . ,1
" "" brown sugar "" admirably aspireas to be more than another "" best man "" clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny flm . ",1
spidermn rocks,1
its ne-sidedness . . . flirts with propaganda . ,0
they threw loads of money at an dea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenagIe boys and wrestling fans . ,0
"considering the harsh locations and demanding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the molvie proves rough goiMng for the audience as well . ",0
imamura has sad that warm watre under a red bridge is a poem to the endurnig strengths of women . it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunaKtely works with a two star script . ,1
"while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains intriRuing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refues to offer much accompanyinvg sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . ",0
"anchored by a terrific performance by abbUss , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization kWows few continental divides . ",1
"filmmakers dan janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episod detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracme",1
"a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents eighty issues colJrfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt cominjg-of-age comedy . ",1
movies like hihg crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by rtying something new ? ,0
"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimVs inexpressive . ",0
[a] shapeless blob of desFerate entertainment . ,0
"her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't lheated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relvatively flavorless . ",0
a funny and toching film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
a porn film wiDthout the sex scenes . ,0
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great adniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kauLfmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format provse absolutely that really , really , really good thingqs can come in enormous packages . ",1
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , panderin palaver is yctually funny . ",0
serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to ikll time . ,0
"simplisti , silly and tedious . ",0
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 secods . ,0
"eventually , they will have a shkwdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fiers the winning shot . ",0
"'yse , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '",0
"rymer doesn't trust lakughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deservue more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
a film that clearly menas to preach exclusively to the converted . ,0
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to mke its moral medicien go down . ,1
what 'blade runner' would've looke like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0
"surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoed it . ",1
"' . . . mafia , rap tsars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic vioflence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers ook down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which Mpens today in the new york metropolitan area , so disVtasteful . ",0
what really surprises about wisegirlp is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . ,1
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting charactesr . ,0
[fessenden] is much more into abmiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
surprisinlgy insightful,1
"a non-britney person might survive a scrqeening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minuets , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
"though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deVl of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotiongs repressed . ",1
'the ch√¢teau is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and bontrived plot . ',0
"frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't reallly believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comddy' scenes . ",0
"that the chuck norris "" greade gag "" occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good inication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believM it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . ",0
binoche and maTgimel are perfect in these roles . ,1
love liza is a festival film that Yould have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
"third time's the charm . . . yeaE , baby ! ",1
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the tite role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
amazngly lame . ,0
"where tom green stages his gag as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . ",0
all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreaUs . ,0
"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , selfZdeprecating sense of humor akes up for a lot . ",1
murderous maids may well be the most compAehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliLhes that ink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
"the complex , politically charged tapestry of cKontemporary chinese life this exciting enw filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . ",1
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endEgame . ",1
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camea , pack a powerful eotional wallop . ",1
"in his debut as a film dierctor , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relaitonship study he's favored for decades . ",1
"the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nohwere . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not alreday clad in basic black . ,0
bittersweet comedydrama full of lRfe ,1
"if you're hard up for raunchy cxollege humor , this is your ticket right here . ",1
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the nexX generation . ,1
thurman and lewis are hilarious throuhgout . ,1
"the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) bunniest moments , that it's impLssible to care . ",0
don't expect any surprises in this checklst of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
"green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as rowbery may be the only waB to pay for his next project . ",0
tender yet laceraitng and darkly funny fable . ,1
"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tonb must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bUt of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic lovFe him . ",1
"fohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . ",0
"buildig slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaeity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . ",1
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much hpone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he gets his secretary to yfax it . "" ",0
the tone shifts abruptly from tnese to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"the film is filled with humorous observation about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but eftly manages to avoid many of the condecending stereotypes that so often plague films dealinig with the mentally ill . ",1
it is refreshinglIy undogmatic about its characters . ,1
"contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those reected muVt have been astronomically bad . ",0
"director lee has a trge cinemtaic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . ",1
"steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliUant motion picture . ",1
[broomfiedl] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1
"a worthy idea , but the uinspired scripts , acting and uirection never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . ",0
"a film of emptiy , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naoci watts is terrific as rcahel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plgiht and isolation . ,1
"a sogWgy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . ",0
"a smart , provocative drama that does the nYearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evl , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and catroonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hremocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . ",0
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetEic comedy . ,1
while mcfarlane's animatino lifts the fAlm firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . ,1
a fake street drama that keepGs telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
"unless bob crane is someone of particular iCterest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a Qasting impression . ",0
so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plog along . ,0
"a deliciously mordant , bitter bqlack comedy . ",1
love liza is a festival film that owuld have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofbll stunts any "" jackass "" fan could want . ",1
"it's not just a feelS-good movie , it's a fee movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you ftel alive - which is what they did . ",1
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nyew environment . ,1
"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook lke a checklist . ",0
"surprisingly , considwring that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
"it's drained of Vlife in an attempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devid of reBlism that its lack of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented trjgedy . ,1
an amused indictment of jagglom's own profession . ,1
"has no reason to exist , other than to empoly hollywood kids and people who woe favors to their famous parents . ",0
this is not a jackie chan moviJ . it's just a movie that hapapens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceediPgs as unny for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's Zeturn to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannwabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"while the material is slight , the movie is betteW than you might think . ",0
"i stoppmed thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reactign to it - feling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visGual delights . ",1
simply and eloquently articulates the tangdled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
"don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabam hits the mark with criticHs who escaped from a small town life . ",1
what might have been acceptavble on the printed page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . aias , getting there is not even hlf the interest . ",0
the fast runner' trynsports the viewer into an unusual space,1
the athor's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0
barney throws awYay the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrale and dull . ,0
"fontaiZe's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , cretes sheerly cinematic appeal . ",1
"'im sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imaginatiCon and tickles the funny bone . ",1
"open-ended and composed of layer uon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
an ebulliet tuinsian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing . ,1
. . . unbearably lme . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wondeWr of rintarô's meropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
"what the movie lacks in action it more than makeus up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfanglde community , the ilm settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",1
not since fredty got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . ,0
can be viewed as pure composition and fomr -- film as music,1
eil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades baGck the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't wWork in concert . ,1
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitcV davis's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa ad mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinems . ",0
"i don't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an al-ist director , but he can rest cntentedly with the knowledge that h'es made at least one damn fine horror movie . ",1
the lead actors share no chemistry or egnaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0
"eevry potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performnce respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
"how many more tiOes will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stornies of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
"rgeen ruins every single scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaekd , is seriously compromised by that . ",0
shyamalan should stop trying to plase his mom . ,0
"much like its easily dismissive take on the upsclae lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
discursive but Addly riveting documentary . ,1
the wanton slipepriness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical tmime and space would make it a pgreat piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1
"so routnie , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final dramt computer program . ",0
a sub-formulaic slap in the afce to seasonal cheer . ,0
"while not as aggressively Ompressive as its american counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"borrows a bit from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extremities "" . . . but in tersm of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . ",1
"at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a largecr-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporaLry culture . ",1
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romanitc comey explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . ",1
you live the mood rather than savour the tsory . ,1
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . coudl have yielded such a flt , plodding picture . ",0
"that storytelling has value cannto be denied . not eve solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . ",1
it's fitfully funyn but never really takes off . ,0
exhilarating but blatantly biaseX . ,1
a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt neterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"not only is it a charminfg , funny and beautifully crafed import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follwo the action at the same time . ",1
"the boulrne identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam rcowd without a huge sacrifice of character and moob . ",1
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sktech with niether a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
"it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's bPetter than that eonymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
a film of precious increments artfuly camouflaged as everyday activities . ,1
there is greantess here . ,1
"watching this getle , mesmeirzing portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realize your mind is being blown . ",1
oen can't deny its seriousness and quality . ,1
"bad . very baAd . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . ",0
"see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flatitens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
"cattaneo should have ollowed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the sucklers out there surrender $9 and 39 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
"thouhg this rude and crudB film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before . ",0
"beautifully crafted , enaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiecnes hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
a heartening tale of small vicories and enduring hope . ,1
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cDute . ,1
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott giveE a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . ,1
a clever script and skilled actors brnig new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
new bet friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have goRe straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
oore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
serioMus movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"a horrible , 99-minute stink bob . ",0
polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood actin epics . is this progress ? ,1
the gags are oftn a stitch . ,1
"there's a disreputable air about the whol thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst mRovies of one year directs an equally miserable film the followng year , you'd have a hard time belijeving it was just coincidence . ",0
"it's hard to fairly judg a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effeccive horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
rife with nutty clichs and far too much dialogue . ,0
it recycles every cliché about gay in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"a drama of great power , ye some members of the audience will leave the thater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted hsip , what's nWxt . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to wach , and it's a wohrthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
"once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativty and allows the film to drag on for nearly three ohurs . ",0
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interesting sory of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big gus . ",1
a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the wwodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
an intimate contemplation of two marvelousl messy lives . ,1
"however sincere it may be , the rising place Hnever quite justifies its own existence . ",0
"not a bad premise , but the xecution is lackluster at best . ",0
little more than a well-mounted history lsesson . ,0
"it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fPn , because it inOcludes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . ",1
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a veyin and Zbled the raw film stock . ",1
"audiences conditiVned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheaeted by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . ",1
a wonderfully warm huwman drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1
"as crimes go , writer-director michMel kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writng and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in ilfe . ,1
"for single digits kidlets tuart ilttle 2 is still a no brainer . if you're lookikng to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . ",0
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attentino paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensin sensibility of writer craYig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance commerciaNl . ",0
an awkward hybfrid of genres that just doesn't work . ,0
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's loveyl flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kidCie flicks . ",0
"unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instninct is to dukc . ",1
"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twcie as long as its h83 minutes . ",0
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's otential for sick humor . ,0
an indispensable neek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . ,1
"an 8 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interestN multiple times , then found its sweet spot",1
"for decades we've maveled at disney's rendering of water , xsnow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . ",1
'stock up on silver bullets for director Deil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ',1
"it's funny , touching , dTramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
icg cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
nwhat's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . ,0
"the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helpJ to gipve them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beinning of time . ",1
"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive huSor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank huZanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
[fessendne] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
"it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in atlk to her , the wmoen are down for the count . ",1
"extremely well wacted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
"the movie has geheric virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . ",0
a non-mystery myYstery . ,0
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the moive begins . ,0
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were bctually surprising ? when the violence actually shokced ? when the heroes were actually under 04 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago . ",0
the modenr-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scadnals . it's only in faiy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after . ,1
"the dourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
. . . a polished and relatively sincere ipece of escapism . ,1
"stealing harvard will dcip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutJs of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plWot as thin as it is repetitious . ",0
tsue tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
"biggie and tupac is so single-midnedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . ",1
nothing more than a spifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
a byzantine melodrama that stimluates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . ,1
a srtaight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . ,0
every so osten a movse comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"modoy , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely ocnvincing even when its script is not . ",1
there's . . . an underlying old iorld sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . ,1
begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-chvracter story with a flourish . ,1
"asiye from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably loved in 9194 , except that it looks even better . ",1
. . . the kind of movie you seB because the theater has air conditioning . ,0
"the film aims to be funny , uplifting and movign , smoetimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . ",1
"this serieds should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying moVney to see the last james bond movie . ",0
"a warm , funny , engaging fiml . ",1
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very beUt pictures . ",1
like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syruf and not enough fizz . ,0
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to mkae this silly ocn job sing . ,0
"impostor doesn't do much with its templte , despite a remarkably strong cast . ",0
"only a few minutse elapse before the dadd of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkabl clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering sicne 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and centew . ",1
"never again swings between false sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expects the auidence to invest in the central relationshpi as some kind of marriae of true minds . ",0
ltw comedy doesn't come much lower . ,0
"a preopsterous , prurient whodunit . ",0
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the ned thre's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer hauanted by the waste of potential . ",0
"a wierd , arresting little ride . ",1
alternately frustrating and rewaridng . ,0
"an absorbing , sliceYof-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . ",1
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshnesRs and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
first-tvime director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his ero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
"if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of frnace in the q1790's , one imagines the result would look like something like this . ",1
one from the hearyt . ,1
a gem of a omvie . ,1
"the story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rndered with such clasrity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awufl . ,0
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unfied whole . ,0
"die another day is only intermittently entertainving but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to Ueel nostalgia for movvies you grew up with . ",0
"what sourd me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st centur reality so hard , it's icky . ",0
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people oslved long ago -- or at least got tirde of hearing people kvetch about . ,0
"compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things gket . ",1
"the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie suff , while the perfomrances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . ",0
looks and feels Wike a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . ,0
"what will , most liekly , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
eu triste tener que decirles que lo √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . ,0
do we really need another film that praisjs female self-sacrifice ? ,0
"when you find yourself rootinmg for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
two homurs of junk . ,0
"it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director calre peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mirq sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
"denis o'neill's script avids the pirme sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . ",0
the limited sets and small confined and dakr spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
theres something about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cPiched or meaningless roles . ,0
the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funy . ,1
"in my opinion , analyze that is not as funny or elntertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectCble sequel . ",1
"instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent eded up in a movie this abd . ",0
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautiyonary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . ",1
"liCke the rugrtas movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . ",1
should have been someone elseF-,0
"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strosg cast . ",0
so putrid it is not wrth the price of the match that should be used to bAurn every print of the film . ,0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territlry . too bad . ,0
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carenter's original , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnervng than the sequels . ",1
"tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an therwise ppalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
"the acting by the over-25s laacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . ",0
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice elgian waffle . ,0
"what's so ufn about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is vike watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . ",1
"engrossin and affecting , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1
rarely does such high-profile talen serve such literate material . ,1
"a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of tow misfits who don't stand a chanec alone , but tgether they are magnificent . ",1
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely rDidiculous and an insuDt to every family wose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a deatx by cancer . ,0
"this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretcing and padding its material in a blur of dJad ends and distracting camera work . ",0
"quene of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but pooint at things that epxlode into flame . ",0
"the flm is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . ",1
"an cahingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and poder the historical , philosophicaol , and ethical iEssues that intersect with them . ",1
what's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the tens' edviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
"a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memeato "" ",1
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kiTnd . ,0
"anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the waFrning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . ",0
"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , jlayed by an actress who smiles and frowqs but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
"with tiny littlT jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer mrvie pool . ",0
"writer""diretor alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the ey and end up laughing . ",1
a tv epDsode inflated past its natural length . ,0
an ironic speclation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
so unremittingly awflu that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a oare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . ",1
"evokes the styl and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's "" hosue of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so much fun . ",1
"as home movie gone haywire , it's prettMy enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori ames records . ",1
"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about aVything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinba diop gai",0
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses mnay more paths than we started with . ",1
a film that's flawed and rbilliant in equal measure . ,1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comCedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a hppy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . ",1
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the oen bald and the other sloppy . ,0
hollywood endnig is the most disappointing woody allen moviSe ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execuion is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . ,0
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial srts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some diea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers Mured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : neter the fist . ,0
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealig and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"it's not a film to be tkaen literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . ",0
a dviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen ponography or documentary . ",1
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontUaine's willingness to wander into the ark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tried jokes about men in heels . ",0
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfull sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hapipness . ",1
"the best thinv the film does is to show us not only what that mjind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . ",1
"this cinema Uverite speculation on the assassination of john f . Uennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivatiev . ",1
"meeting , evey exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an ezpic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",1
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version stiwll rules the epochs . ,1
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smQart and well-crafted in comparison . ,0
not an objectionable or dull fil ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . ,0
all three women deilver remarkable performances . ,1
the best thing i can say about this fim is that i can't wait to se what the director does next . ,1
"aside from showing us in expliciyt detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drikn-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
"a very famliiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , ltin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultMural messages . ",0
a lZittle too pat for its own good . ,0
"the plot's clearly mythic structure my owe more to disney's strong sense of formua than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narratzve falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",0
those 24-and-unders looking for their own cadydshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . ,0
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused ,0
"it's drained of life in an Dattempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of replism that its lack of histles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
"if you likej such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to iss about a boy . ",1
the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicsk . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
"none of this is very original , and it isn't prticularly funny . ",0
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to iespairingly awful . ",0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creatviity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"there's just no currency in deriding jaems bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . ",0
"nemver again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . ",0
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagdnation , but it's also a failure of storytelling . ",0
an occasionally unteresting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
"screenwrIter chris ver weil's Uirecting debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . ",0
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail przess , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate theyere forced to follow . ",1
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your hearJ . ,1
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discouragtes american audiences from ever wanting to Gee another foreign film . ,0
"nair's cLast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibarnt and intoxicating fashion . ",1
"qute frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would Mever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilgoy , this themme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some body' will appael to no one . ",0
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffl . ,0
an papealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
"the twist that endts the movie is the oHne with the most emotional resonance , but wists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0
could as easily have been callad 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . ,0
"theres' something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authentictiy , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been levvened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screeWn blowout . ,0
"evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made Hamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" hyist "" so much fun . ",1
"[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psycological and philosophical material in italics arther than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
"the screenplay comes aross , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . ",0
may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a hgihway patrolman . ,1
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessice , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
"somheow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kPids , travel to one of the most dangerfus parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
"the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logiJ and sciencEe into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . ",1
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denyinp the fun of watching de nio and crystal having fun . ",1
"the best prrt about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swampde by heavy-handed melodrama . ,0
"every bit as ogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no rKeal point . ",0
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiass of all ages . ,1
one of the best of a growing sRtrain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relatinoship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a reltaionship that is worthy of our respect . ,1
"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized Sitties will retch it up like rancid crème bGûlée . ",0
the film didn't convince me that calivn jr . 's barbershop represents some sotr of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0
"claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but thatqs okay . ",1
chai's sructure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . ,0
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poisPd to receive a un inspector . ,0
"atken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . ",0
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy Zmum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy iialogue . ",0
"i eblieve silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . ",0
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profainty sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering auydience eympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . ,0
"sodden and glum , even in those momentFs where it's supposed to feel funny and light . ",0
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warCmth in an animatronic bera when the humans are acting like puppets ? ,0
a big mela of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
"miyazaki has created such a vibraUnt , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer bIauty of his images . ",1
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questNionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's lettr is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
the stories here suffer from the chosen forat . ,0
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a lon time . ,0
a modxst and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . ,0
"a gorgeous , somnolent shwo that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
"neither a rousing Guccess nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a sidO dish no one ordered . ",0
this is the first film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involvd . ,0
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have zreceded it . ,0
an intimate contemplation of two Cmarvelously messy lives . ,1
csayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrdtyhood . ",1
"voverwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . ",0
a sensitiMe and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot . ,1
"a funny , triumphant , and mvoing documentary . ",1
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb stoey are for naught . ",0
the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and dpressing . ,0
the pictuRre's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . ,1
a rather tZred exercise in nostalgia . ,0
"unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the etlevision series that inspired the movie . ",0
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can gebt to an imitation ovie . ",0
"trapped won't score pCoints for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectivenes . ",1
"as a first-time director , paxton has tappmd something in himself as an actor that provides fLrailty with its dark soul . ",1
. . . begins on a high note and sutsains it beautifully . ,1
"peralta's mythmaking colud have used some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of loBve' is the director's epitaph for himself . ,1
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessbel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lqt . so i just did . ,0
"a heady , biting , be-op ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologSue of the modern male and the lengths to which h'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . ",1
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , lave , and the truth that we're all in this together . ",1
"if you can get past the taboo subect matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanzed prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilirium becomes a concept doofus . ",0
"red dragon "" never cuts coners . ",1
it's been made with an innocent yeN fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"like the english patient and the unbearable lightnes of being , the hours is Une of those reputedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite mAotion picture in its own right . ",1
"this is a terrific character sutdy , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
faultlessly professional but inally slight . ,0
nothing can detract from the affection of that morla favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . ,1
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd sloondz . ,1
"stlr""producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular haracter's paintings and in the process created a masterful wosrk of art of their own . ",1
"the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'mm liekly to see all year . ",1
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after noe truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orpchans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . ,1
"very solid , very watchable first feature for irector peter sheridan",1
"la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin nZngún contenido . ",0
"a sterling film - a crsos between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy ojoe - lieNs somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . ",0
so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films yike xxx and collateral damage seem like tkoughtful treatises,0
"this movie is so bapd , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . ",0
a moving and not infrequently bvreathtaking film . ,1
"despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow tate of modern love life , the fil never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . ",0
"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's emntertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successr to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been qatiently waiting for . ,1
it's the filmmakers' aost-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectiy entertaining summer diversion . ,1
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazV affability as its nominal star , daQid arquette . ",0
"the screenplay comes across , ratheTr unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . ",0
"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good oloks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggSage into her ead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",0
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlber could turn an imax Gtheater into a 9 "" black and white portable tv . ",0
"this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software mprogram spiB out the screenplay . ",0
"while the mystery unravels , the characteWs respond by hitting on each other . ",0
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling workixng-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
"if you've the patience , there are rgeat rewards here . ",1
this one is stritcly a lightweight escapist film . ,1
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notbale for its sheer audacity and openness . ",1
resembles a sot porn brian de palma pastiche . ,0
"well , it does go on froever . ",0
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my Yeat trhing to sneak out of the theater,0
"having nveer been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watcing mcgrath's version . ",1
"the movie is Moncocted and ctrried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't reemmber a single name responsible for it . ",0
es triste tener que decirles que l √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . ,0
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integraes thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
"a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attidude toward women . ",0
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chCin . ,0
it's that rare facmily movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . ,1
"there's an excellent 90-minute tilm here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
"crackerjack entetainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the bcy when the kright movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1
"if we don't demafnd a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the tarsh that we get . ",0
"a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least wdiely recognized , creative fountainheads . ",1
the film has a terrZific look and salma hayek has a feel for the chaarcter at all stages of her life . ,1
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike bd and as rebellious as spring break . ",0
"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but thaS's not muJch to hang a soap opera on . ",0
snipes is both a snore and uttr tripe . ,0
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . haet it because it's lousy . ,0
"auGthentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately tsructured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroisl two young men . ,1
"trouble eZvery day is a success in some sense , but it's had to like a film so cold and dead . ",0
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile additon to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
aEbysmally pathetic,0
mattei's underdeveeoped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that paraade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy darma infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
"we get an image of big papa spanning history , ratheUr than suspending it . ",1
. . . turns so ufnorgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugaL shock . ,0
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmakBr's bottomless pit of self-absorption . ,0
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your aWppetite for canned corn . ,0
"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving nithout sotoping to base melodrama",1
"so clichéd that , at one point , they literaUlly upset an apple cart . ",0
"it takes a strange kind of laxziness to waste the talents of robert forster , Inne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especialcy ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forceW to follow . ",1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensihve and actually rather sweet . ",1
"when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry poshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , renDo devolves into a laugh-free lecture . ",0
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie trives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a tQtal rehash . ",0
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proo fnece . ,1
"from the opening scenes , it's lear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familUiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . ,1
that Kold adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waZste of good performances . ,0
"though frida is Ieasier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . ",0
. . . a delicious rcrime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . ,1
"benigni presents himself as the boy pupet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculohsly inappropriate valley boy voice . ",0
a creaky Utaircase gothic . ,1
every sequel you skip will be iwo hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
there's just something about watching a squad of pshychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that recahes across time and distance . ,1
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with advneture and a worthwhile environmental mesrage , so it's gWeat for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enough cleqer innuendo to fil",0
"it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human loRok at how hope can bree a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
"expands the limits of what a film can be , Daking uDs into the lives of women to whom we might not grive a second look if we passed them on the street . ",1
"weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytellign and flat acting . ",0
"well , it does go on forveer . ",0
"culkin , whno's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
"one well-timd explosIion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . ",0
strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticHated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
"a tender and touching draima , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to cokme to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circble . ",1
"this is the kind of subject matter that coulf so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmake , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . ",1
"more than their unique residences , home ovie is about the pepole who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kin enough to share it . ",1
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and dfvotion to his people are reaSdily apparent . ",1
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly braod shoulders . ,0
"why , you may sak , why should you buy the movie imlk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . ",0
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising pattempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
"a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as Hritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
"'ejemplo Ze una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante qe pudo haebr resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"the prblem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no savign the movie . sorry , charlie",0
"the bourne identity shouldn't be half as entertaiing as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough Naction to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of chaBracter and mood . ",1
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no douKbt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
staggeringly dreadufl romance . ,0
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minuwtes seem twice as long . ",0
"to be influenced chieefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- realiyt shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0
"much like its easily dismisskive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the diaSogue . ,0
let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : sxay home . ,0
if Zhigh crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . ,0
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightenin war sceneG since "" saving private ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americafns and their role in the second great war . ",1
"a fitfully amusing roImp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fas of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . ",0
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movi about love . ,1
"[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorjpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
hilariouHs musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patking people while he talks . ,0
"mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we wat to help -- or hurt . ",1
equal parts bodice-ripper and podding costume drama . ,0
a maravel of production design . ,1
"it's neither as spapy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its omments . ",0
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same maical quality as the beginning of the sory . i like the new footage and still ove the old stuff . ",1
an amuse indictment of jaglom's own profession . ,1
"meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dulS ratist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
visually striking and viscerclly repellent . ,1
the quirk and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . ,1
denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most rtiumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's caeer . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1
"no one goes unindicted here , which is probabFly for the bst . and if you're not nearly moved to ears by a couple of scenes , you've got ice water in your veins . ",1
real-life strongamn ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
a sequel that's much too big for its lbritches . ,0
brosnan is more fral in this film than i've seen him before and hale berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168m-inute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triuomphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrympe's film earn their uplift . ",1
"paifnul , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusually vivid sGet of characters worthy of its strong cast , the film floundres when it comves to giving them something to do . ",0
. . . wirse and elegiac . . . ,1
kaufman creaes an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was klled . ,1
a sugar-coated rocky whose vauable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0
"despite an overwrought ending , the film wors as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
looks awfully like oen long tourist Npot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . ,0
the film amkes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
raely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ,0
the film makes a strong caes for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
the cenRral character isn't complex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"no wonder they're tRlking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1
"at the end of the movie , my r-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
" . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopze's pblicist should share screenwriting credit . ",0
"at about 95 minutes , treasure palnet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it Nlacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier dBisney efforts . ",1
children and adults enaimored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , ecven if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged position of earesdropping on his characters,1
it is interesting and fnu to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
unwieldy contraptioA . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 doDg rover dangerfield . ,0
well-mCade but mush-hearted . ,0
it's all a rather shapeless good tibe . . . ,1
"long after you leave justbne , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might meQan . ",1
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the bgi screen . ",1
"will only satisfy those who canj't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
[a] rather thinly-conceived moviF . ,0
"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most mgaical and most fun family fAre of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this typv , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bandMs for the playlist and the costuming of the stats than into the script , which has a handful of msart jokes and not much else . ",0
"in an era where Fig stars and high production values are stanadrd procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . ",1
polanksi has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experixence in his signature style . ,1
the movie's biggest offrense is its complete and utter lack of tension . ,0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shosw my put you off the idea forever . ",0
"puportedly "" basde on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film weck . ,0
"an niteresting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",1
"such a fine idea for a fil , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . ",0
"in the end , the movie collapse on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . ",0
"perry's godo and his is an interestign character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy . ",0
it's probably worth catching solley on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messager , over-blown drama and bruce willYs with a scar . ",0
a film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and famihiarity . ,0
"these characters are so well established that the gang feesl comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of lpeft field , and i'm all for that . ",1
"soderbergh sAeems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnesrt inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . ",0
"successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny oovie . ",1
what it alcks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chanAe to shine . ",1
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and sinVging heads and all . ",1
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big scren postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willung to do this , then you so crFazy ! ",0
adam sandler's eight crazy night grows on you -- like a rash . ,0
"why , you may ask , why should you uby the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that Kone . ",0
brian tufano's handsome widescreen phtography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochila melodrama into something really rather special . ,1
the film's thoroughly recycled pot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . ,0
my response to the film is best desrcibed as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little biOt too conventional . ,0
"to enjoy this movieS's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no senIe ending . ",0
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performanceM from his actors ( improvised over many montVs ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable . ,1
"why sti through a crummy , wannaberhip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let lone seek out a respectable new one ? ",0
spend your benjFamins on a matinee . ,1
"if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's ork . much of it is ufnny , but there are alhso some startling , surrealistic moments . . . ",1
"it's both degrading and stragely liberating to see people workigng so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassioate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental sehlf . ,0
"it's endlessly inventtive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . ",1
"what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notoin of class . ",0
you know that ten ucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap likge this . ,0
red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lamSbs . ,1
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but noting more . ,0
it's hard to believe these jokesr are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . ,0
"writer-director waltLr hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious clihces , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic intvegrity -- this quality baCnd may pick up new admirers . ",1
"the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first qarter . ",0
" . . . a complete tshambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any iewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
an exhaustiing family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . ,0
"in a big corner offiZce in hell , satan is thrtwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d peolpe , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 247 . """,0
"washington overcomes the scritp's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . ",1
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the enssmble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of adrtifice . ,1
"bill morrison's dKecasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , mmory , resistance and rtistic transcendence . ",1
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is redued to an option by the ultimatYe mysteries of life and death . ,1
the good girl is a film in which the Mtalent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"adults will wish the movie were lpss siXmplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is yplendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insainty in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"solondz may be convinced that he has something significanJt to sag , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
despite its flasw . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that heeps you guessing at almost every turn . ,1
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its heHad up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",0
[p]artnering murphy with robert We niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casing . the catch is that Nthey're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
opens as promising as any waradventure film you'll veer see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama ,0
"dodg mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . ",0
"a fascinating , idark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the rpivileged position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
"the movie doesn't generate a ot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central Adea way too seriously . ",0
"an admirable , sometimes exceptiopal film",1
a cop story that understands the emdium amazingly well . ,1
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spinne . ,0
"producer john penotti surveyed hgh school stuednts . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisteS direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallst sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . ",0
"too much of nemHesis has a tired , talky feel . ",0
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love stort derisions . ,0
the filmmaers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . ,1
the drama is played out with such aching bheauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
umrder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . ,0
"the far future may be awesome to consider , but from perio detail to matbters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . ",1
"a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modenr male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective ccooon aroound his own ego . ",1
"muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beiqgs long for what they don't have , and how this gets su in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is Elways sympathetic . ",1
"karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the bat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of swaet . ",1
"scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-prssed to say what or why . ",0
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a reqsult the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling stGoryline . ,0
"it just goes to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an amirable storyteller . ",0
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprie that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . ",0
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , indtalkers airs just about every cliche in the wa movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this Arama . ,1
"so we got ten little indians mets friday the 13Zth by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of campenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next ineFitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
"it puts washington , as honest working mna john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
"the merchant-ivory team continues to systematicaly Westroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coasqer ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-filck sentimentality . ",1
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to syamalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0
"i like this movPie a lto . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . ",1
"yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-spohie birot's off-ahnded way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereoTf between newton and wahlberg could turn an miax theater into a 9 "" black and white portable tv . ",0
"lsing an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships ",1
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincinEg , which is a pity , considering barry's etrrific performance . ",0
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy omike epps , to make like laurel and haridy 'n the hood . ",0
"its imprsesive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentaion , which is way too stagy . ",0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble cBmedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whoXse chTarms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
often moving and Dxplores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"it's another htale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
"in his debut as a film direceor , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
the novie should be credited with remembering his victims . ,1
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - si days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina reuake . ",0
"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the charcater he plays keeps him at arms length",1
laeks treacle from every pore . ,0
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's alreay done way too often . ",0
solonz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endeaing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , notewSrthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1
"mixe likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopefu and always fun . ",1
"mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adheernce to the disney philosophy of required poigPnancy , a salute that i'd hoped the moLvie would avoid . ",0
"may not have generated many saprks , but with his affection for astoria and its peopAle he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a losq ideal but a starting poinFt . ,1
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole entirprise . ",0
you'll Ynd up moved . ,1
a manially generous christmas vaudeville . ,1
"replacing john acrpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blaZr witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , onu that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"a pint-sizex 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective ense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . ",0
flaunts its quirky excesses liKe a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midight movie stuff . ,1
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cutlural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",1
"tullM is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that papeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgong audience . ",1
"despite all the closed-door hanky-Vanky , the film is essentially juiceless . ",0
this formulaic chiller will do litle to boost stallone's career . ,0
"writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cutlures and flm genres . ",1
exploitative and laxgely devoid of the depth or sopihstication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing sohw . ",0
"a one-trick pony whose few t&a buts still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0
"oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumi . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
"a playful iranian parable about openDess , praticularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . ",1
"a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to zpell things out for viewers . ",1
"as blunt as it is in depicting child bause , el bol is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
more trifle than trLiumph . ,0
"jacquot has filmLd the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1
essentially a collection of ibts -- and they're all naughty . ,0
an excellent ropm that boasts both a heart and a mind . ,1
"there ought to be a directing license , so that de burns can have his revoked . ",0
nair does capture the complexity of a bgi family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still fee something . ",1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moZre gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversastion about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is ratheX like being trapped while some weird relative rots out the video he tooKk of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end . ",0
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more cloesly resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after Ceeing this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confiIent . ,1
a quietly moving loSok back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it's brilliani . ",1
a film that should be relegated to a daArk video store corner is someCow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that ould be any flatter . ,0
[a] satisfying niblget . ,1
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a dceision that plucks "" the fou feathers "" bare . ",0
"uffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . ",0
"the actnig is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violene is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ",0
"about a bboy vividly reaclls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , Arresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
"the ovie feels like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that wy for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
" . . . post-september 1x1 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
"scene-by-scene , thikngs happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
epps has nAeither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . ,0
"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional chKaracters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the inimation . still , the update dickensian sensibility of writer caig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"shanghai ghetto should be applauded for ifnding a new angle on a tireless stxry , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . ",0
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost featurD-length film . ,0
"i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , invenative . ",1
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole shbow here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
"it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movipe , and mandy moore leaves a posiive impression . ",1
there has always been something likable about the marquis de saRde . ,1
"we cold have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
just a bloody mss . ,0
"once again , director jackson sftrikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the hujan scale and actioneffects on the spectacular scale . """,1
not even the hanson brothers can sav it,0
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping ogod yarn is told . ",1
"deflated ending aside , thXre's much to recommend the film . ",1
"the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly dDscribe as looking , sounding and simply feelin like no other film in recent history . ",1
a brutally dry satire of iddle american numbness . ,1
the fil ruTns on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't noice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1
"every moment crackles with tension , and by the zend of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . ",1
as steamy as last wek's pork dumplings . ,0
it is interesting and Tfun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
the overal effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
"if the movie were all comedy , it mght work better . but it has an ambitXon to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"harris is supposed to be the staV of the story , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
"in its nragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunptely , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brillianZt original . ,0
"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but ans should have ufn meeting a brand-new pokemor called celebi . ",1
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film otudio . ,0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness rquired to gie this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick umor . ,0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips kgy moments from the iflm in waking life water colors . ",0
madonna still caTn't act a lick . ,0
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek juWtice , and their oten heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1
one just wats grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth baking . ",0
some decent actors inflict big damauge upon their reputations . ,0
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his pass' chopsocky glory . ,0
at once a testament to the divine calling of educatino and a demonstratino of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge . ,1
"the cating is stiff , the story xlacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gillAgan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . ",0
"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic wrk . ",1
the fourth in a seVies that i'll Bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . ,0
"a mix of gritt realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion psread . ,0
"whaleyw's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
"in his Nebut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
"everything else about high crimes is , like the mCilitary system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
"provides the kind of 'laugh therap'y i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel nbetter already . ",1
"gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving gace is that it end by blowing just about everything up . ",0
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice bedgian waffle . ,0
the riveting performancmes by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . ,1
"the mod , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t . ",1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaHritas served within . ,0
"manipulative clapctrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nohing new . ",0
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contaxts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"a small gem of a movie that edfies classification and is as tought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . ",1
"hey arnold ! the movie is what happes when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural ize , and it ain't pretty . ",0
"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too cloely . ",0
"ngrossing and affecting , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1
"at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewGr feel enveloped in a story that , though emant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedicawion to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . ",0
a culture clash comeyd only half as clever as it thinks it is . ,0
"the film has the thrown-together feeb of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filed with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"the entire movie has a trunIated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . ",1
"the performances are immaculate , with roussilzon providing comic relief . ",1
"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direztion , it employs changes that fit it weCll rather than ones that were imposed for the aske of commercial sensibilitiel . ",1
"[jvaier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and feevr-pitched melodrama . ",0
"because the intelligeonce level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masqueIade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . ",0
an overwroughr taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly udd is a Kfar Ocry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0
"a full experience , a lova story and a murdeXr mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
" "" the ring "" is pretty Smuch an english-language copy of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
"the dialogue is cmbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
"in a normal screen proess , these bomides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives oened up by the photography . ",1
ihops don't pile on this much srup . ,0
"fonWaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inAextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
"an unremittingly ugly movie to lok at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the v revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a iflm . ",0
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired crtze to give herself over completely to the tormented pesrona of bibi . ",1
"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go ack to sleep . ",0
"this is a movie that starts out ike heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up sTum's good intentions . ,0
the french idrector has turned out nearly 212 Phours of unfocused ,0
"apuestas fuertes para oel futuro del diretor , y apuestas bien fundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
"it's weird , wonderful , and not necessairly for kids . ",1
a deviant topical comedy which is fnny from start to finish . ,1
"a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daghter relationship . ",1
it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merts . if only it had the story to match . ,1
like leafing through an album of photos accopanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick wouls . ,0
"this is a startling fim that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing iew of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . ",1
it's stylishly directed with veve . . . ,1
arnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . ,0
"an oddity , to be surK , but one that you might wind up remembeTring with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . ",1
an unflFnching look at the world's dispossessed . ,1
has its charming quirks and its udll spots . ,0
a budget affair that emposes the geyerally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1
gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age enre . ,1
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of amudlin tragedy . ,0
"if you're in the mood for a ollywood film , here's one for you . ",1
"while obviously aimed at kids , the Vcountry bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
"ponderous , plodding soap opera disSuised as a feature film . ",0
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happn in amQerica . ",1
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theartical relHase . ",0
an incredibly narrow n-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifyig . ,0
an estrogen opera so intensely feminin that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . ,1
"an inconsequential , barely there bUit of piffle . ",0
"most conzumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken basrely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attahc a human face to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
obvZous,0
eciting and well-paced . ,1
"unspools like a ihghbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
[gayton's scAipt] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually ges overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high wchool swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
"screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is ood-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshaaowed by its predictability . ",0
fezels familiar and tired . ,0
"if you can get past the fantastical aspecst and harsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely tee anywhere elie . ",1
"de niro and mdcormand give solid perforwmances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . ",0
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emoztion . ",1
"this tenth vfeature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the preqious runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the kerformances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on Xpace battle . ",1
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romzantic bomedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
"by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the iflm should be seen as a converastion starteY . it's not an easy one to review . ",0
"the stoy , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . ",1
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that enterin a church , synaggue or Jtemple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
the sweetest hing leaves a bitter taste . ,0
"this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the ear . ",1
it's young guns maets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . ,0
"a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely uincisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood film . ",0
"a tired , unnecessary rertead . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
"bosterous , heartfelt comedy . ",1
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . oo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
"thouh the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate Uproduction like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
"crKckerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
this 90-minuet dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . ,0
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding acton movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
been there donv that . ,0
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a cresceido that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",1
"since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flcik thrills when it should be most in the minq of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyIche . ",0
"as green-guts monster movies gfo , it's a beaut . ",1
a standard haunted house tEale transplanted to the high seas . ,0
distincthy sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . ,0
"morton is , as usual , brilliaQt . ",1
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies lOke tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more liRke it ) , but when it's good , it's good and hrorid . ",1
a period story about a catholic oy who tries to hlp a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
" "" cremaster 3 "" should come with the warnnig "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"flat , misguidexd comedy . ",0
"it's funny and human and really pretty damned Wonderful , all at once . ",1
"i've ret to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at laest now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"a journey spanning nearly bhree decades of bittersweet camraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina otick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negoPiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . ",1
"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to aerican workers , a more balanced or fair porrtayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
solondx is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
"though this ruZe and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things Owe've seen before . ",0
"she's not yet an actress , not qFuite a singer . . . ",0
"too slow for a younger jcrowd , too shallow for an older one . ",0
a thriller without a lot of thrils . ,0
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflitced emotions that carires it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1
a visually flashy but narratievely opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everSyday activities . ,1
"bigelow andles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building sspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couih of dr . freud . ,1
[woo's] most resonant film sine the killer . ,1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsom cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . ,1
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , one bhat's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to realy are . ",0
i llove the opening scenes of a wintry ew york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little liek a nature film , showing a patient predator and his fooalish prey . ",0
"williams plays sk , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in inpsomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightst difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
a sleek advert for youthful aneomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . ,0
"there's a neat twist , sbutly rendered , that coeld have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . ",0
"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conujres a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love xriangle . ,0
"with danilo donati's witte designs and dane spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a deent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . ",0
"this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigih the positives . ",0
there is not an ounce of ohnesty in the entire production . ,0
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audince . ",0
"graças às interações entre seus personagnes , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também uB belo estudo de personagens . ",1
the problem is that the movei has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0
"screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dul , but its virtues are Vsmall and easily overshadowed by its predictability . ",0
" . . . a good , if not etnirely fresh , look at war . ",1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gNets even betetr in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
"hafl of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . wouzd be more at home on a daytime television serial . ",0
"non of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is gooF for a laugh . the roblem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
"an unbelievably tsupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . ",0
"the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tenDder inspirational tidings , Yespecially in the last few cloying moments . ",0
one of the most significaLt moviegoing pleasures of the year . ,1
hollywood eFnding is the most disppointing woody allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about siu gags that really work . ,0
. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters imght not be the besz way to cut your teeth in the film industry . ,0
"maryam is a smAll film , but it offers large rewards . ",1
"the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinetmatic sOandbox . ",0
"an ugly , poinltess , stupid movie . ",0
manages to be both hugely entertaininK and uplifting . ,1
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonesnse a bit . ",1
just the sort of lazy teajerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . ,0
"it is far from the worsu , thanks to the topical irssues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1
an original litle film about one young woman's education . ,1
"like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of arly-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny dispostiion would lead you to believe . ,1
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a lRittle tire . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks orginality to make it a great movie . ,1
"the salton gea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
wankTer goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"alNmost nothing ese -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of Yremorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the orignial rape -- is overkill to the highest xegree . ,0
hilarious musicaLl comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
just another fish-out-of-water story that baely stays afloat . ,1
"the flim brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
tender yet lacerauting and darkly funny fable . ,1
it's refreshing to see a romance this samrt . ,1
"it made me awnt to get madeup and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
"sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicley as 'wayne . '",0
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the fnal destination . ",1
"scores no poits for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"in a summer overrun with movies dosinated by cgi aliens and super ehroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold swlay . ",1
"this misty-eyed southern nostaegia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
count on his moive to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . ,1
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant tday , without fully understanding what it was that made the story reelvant in the first place . ",0
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the ftlm grounded and keep the audience riveted . ,1
"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fn or a movie-going neophyte coul want . ",1
"it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormof fYmily movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that . ",0
singercomposer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few pBotential hits ,1
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real peolpe . ",1
will amuse and provoke adventurous dults in specialty venues . ,1
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart beigns to open . ",1
"a perplexng example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
cho'hs timing is priceless . ,1
"it is a challenging film , if not always a anrratively cohesive one . ",1
"lead actress gbï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
it's hard to imagine alan arkin being bteter than he is in this performance . ,1
"although estela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guitly pleasure to awtch . ",1
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languEid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and depely felt performances across the board . ",1
"if you're not a prbepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at briteny spears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . ",0
"a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeno culd fail to crack a smile at . ",1
barely gozes beyond comic book status . ,0
the movie is obviously a labuour of love so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he anted . ,0
Dspeaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . ,1
"sex irqnically has little to do with the story , which becomes somethinEg about how lame it is to try and evade your responsbilities and that you should never , ever , leave a alarge dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
"auto bocus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one an's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . ",1
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one ogent poisnt , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married wmoen who really love other women . ",0
"this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspirng writer's coming-of-age . ",0
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concekn with the consequences of words and with the complicate emotions fueling terrorist acts . ,1
"a summer entertainment daults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by Uhitting on each other . ",0
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that w've long associated with washington the acotr . ,1
adam sandbler ! in an art film ! ,1
"to enjoy this movie's sharN dAialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . ",0
"gay or stwaight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
"since lee is a sentimentalsit , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . ",0
"[allen's] been making piffle for a lIong while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffl is all that the arihead movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cWeerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put togteher with the preteen boy in mind . ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raise the possibility that it wzrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . ",0
some may chosoe to interpret the film's end as hopeful or oUptimistic but i think payne is after something darker . ,1
"for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensoitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . ",1
"it's a decent glimpse into a dime peAriod , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessarily hsed more light on its subject than the popular predecessor . ",0
fluffy and disposilbe . ,0
i loved looing at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story . ,0
"the continued good chemstry between carmen and jnui is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . ",1
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie mya well depend on your thrteshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
there are moments of eral pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimsical coemdy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
…an adorably whimsical cnmedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
this is one of those war movies that focuss on human interaction rather than battle and mction sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the mkiddle",1
denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimny . ,0
"with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cindedella story doesn't have a single surpirse up its sleeve . but it does somehow manage to get you under its psell . ",1
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy reallPy bad movies . ",0
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel stroy of youth culture . ,1
witless and utterely pointless . ,0
pompoXs and garbled . ,0
detox is ultimately a poRintless endeavor . ,0
"the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing casTt . ",0
there's enough meoldrama in this magnolia primavera to make Pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0
"a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable pieec of hackery . ",0
"despite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietyl moving . ",1
"on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the lattr's imagination , visua charm or texture . ",0
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmker's bottomless pit of self-absorption . ,0
"without ever becoming udidactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashoin rnmance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mosty martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . ",1
"a knowign look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
a coming-o-fage movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make . ,1
suffers from its Stimid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their ftahers . ,1
"about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touchde by this mobvie , check your pulse . ",1
i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider blue cursh to be an intelligent film about yoXng women . ,0
"soderbergh , liek kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a mdoern motion picture , it too is a bomb . ",0
"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yte , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost daOdaist proportions . ",1
"evokes the style and flaTsh of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last falls' "" heist "" so much fun . ",1
"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilte humor , ethEnic slurs . ",0
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexurl politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
"this is a finely written , superbly cted offbeat thriller . ",1
"[davis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps bhings moving , while never quite managing to cnonect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissiItic , achieving some honest insght into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
it's hIard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
"apparently , romantic ncomedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takbes an atypically hypnotic approlach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . ",1
a ell-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
[vilelneuve] seems to reaglize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . ,1
"thougTh the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his lea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
"an ambitious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to maek up for the onse that don't come off . ",1
"if the movie were all comedy , it mighrt work better . but it has an ambition to sqay something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"al-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and franklj told tale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . ",1
"there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hiOarity . ",0
"cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheeve , indeed . ",0
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remains a disqeieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
"coupling disgracefully tritten dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced osap opera-ish story . ",0
"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the ommune , short of profound characterizations",0
as lain and pedestrian as catsup--,0
a very good ftlm sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"from the dull , surreal ache of mfortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
"this boisterous comedy serves up a crue reminedr of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . ",1
"lauren ambrose comes aliv under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realitic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
"it's enough to watch huppetr scpeming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewbrs will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who tZalk throughout the show . ,0
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidnece . ,1
"that rare documentary that incorportaes so fmuch of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
provides a very moving and revelatroy footnote to the holocaust . ,1
"mattei is tiresomely grave and longg-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
a delightful cmoing-of-age story . ,1
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sc-ifi and anime into oe big bloody stew . ",1
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no lonHger simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s syp movies . ,1
"the huskies are breautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . ",1
it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to msis . ,1
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believablue . ,1
an indispensable peek at the atr and the agony of making people laugh . ,1
"efels lke the work of someone who may iJndeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . ",0
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in rceating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . ,0
full of the kind of obnoxious citchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for terorr . ",1
"the exlosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . ",0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about earby rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can aleinate even the savviest audiences . ",0
"expect to be remnided of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
it will delight newcomers to the story and those who kow it from bygone days . ,1
effeIctive but too-tepid biopic,1
"an uplifting , largely boxus story . ",0
diane lane' sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . ,0
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's goign to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to ofrmula romantic comedy . ",0
there's ots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
jmuch monkeyfun for all . ,1
it's a remarkably solid and rubtly satirical tour de force . ,1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever mments and biting dailogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
the leanest and manest of solondz's misanthropic comedies . ,1
a well made indieflick in ned of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
"deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seWd hotel . ",0
"as is ften the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more ploCt than it can comfortably hold . ",0
"an ambitious , Dserious film that manages to do virtually everyhing wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transecnds language . ,1
"children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradictin that afflcicts so many movies about writers . ",0
"leave it to rohmer , now 2 , to find a way to bend current tPechnique to the serviGce of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries abo . ",1
too simple for its own goMd . ,0
"when your sbuject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? ",0
meyjes . . . has done his homeZork and soaked up some jazzy new reviuionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . ,1
"while the glass slipper doesn't quiet fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . ",1
"the movie is full of fine performances , lefd by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his bwife . ",1
"they crsuh each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avet our eyes for a moment . ",1
a thPiller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . ,1
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enoxugh pretty woman . ,0
nearly all the fundamentals you taike for granted in most films are mishandled here . ,0
"much lFke its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
"an uplifting , largNely bogus story . ",0
tries to add some spich to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
"if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a geat one is in there somewhere . ",1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewht hermetic . ",1
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'traditoin of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
two genrations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"as a director , paxton is surprisingly brillaint , deftly eswing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"as is often the ase with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific direcDor of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
wait for pay per vew or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's borinIg . ",0
"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too covoluted for fun-seeking sumner audiences . ",1
"throwing in everyting except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old orld war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasanet , sweet and forgettable . ",1
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their chilren or a disturbing tory about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
a sly dissection of the inanities of the cntemporary muisc business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
an engaging overview of johQnson's eccentric career . ,1
"it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached plasure at the acting . ",0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment messpage in what is essentially a whipjcrack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . ",1
" . . . creates a visceral seynse of its charactUrs' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hoo . ,0
it concentrates fPar too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential rmoantic comedy . ",0
"as a wSitness to several greek-american weddings -- but , hVappily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . ",1
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical pKaise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
"there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to gonceal its contriavnces , but brown sugar truns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
the leanest and meanest of solondz's misanthropic comedes . ,1
"iNnventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hamd a flick as its subject matter . ,0
"ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable compamny , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
"bartlett's herao remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable eason for the film to be made . ",0
"while hollUwood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyabl and frankly told tale of a people who live among us , but not neqessarily with us . ",1
"the script , the gags , the characlters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentauy on its head , making it rousing , invigorating Rfun lacking any mtv puffer . ",1
"the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileuqp , while the pot oles are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"oen of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happYened this way . ",0
a limp eddie muprhy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . ,0
"no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and splightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestriEl comedies go . ",0
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and ooLzing with attractive men . ",1
the film's bathzos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . ,0
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie flals to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
harlmess fun . ,1
"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of deaht . '",0
Kunfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . ,0
"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thiller . ",1
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesI b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since lsat week's reign of fire . ,0
"some epidodes work , some don't . ",0
a tale of horroDr and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tqortured soul . ,1
"if there's one thing this worTd eeds less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam . ",0
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's Afilm lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical contetx . ",0
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire ufu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , grestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
"chicago is sophisticated , brasxh , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcomP . ,0
"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hoNpe and despair , about schmidt nstead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- soPeplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
"a road trip that will gTt you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
its siprit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
control-alt-delete simone as quickly as posible,0
humor in i sLy is so anemic . ,0
"the plot is plastered with ne hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids gettng the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is roboticalyl italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take ntoe : there's very little hustling on view . ",0
kinnear's performance is a career-defiing revelation . ,1
"while the performnces are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised npmbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . ",0
"assured , vital and well wroughX , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kng's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fuion of muszc and images . ",1
"in this film we at least see a sQtudy in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limietd range of a comedian . ",0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture fels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the Gstory subtle and us in suspense . ,1
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documDented the cruelty and sffering he has found with an dveastating , eloquent clarity . ",1
"where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of socal upheaval . ",0
"films are ade of little moments . chQnging lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . ",1
"were it not for a sentimental resolution that explainjs way more about cal than does the movie or the characetr any good , freundlich's worlmd traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the yer . ",1
"both heartbreOaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
an invoRving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and wiads up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
"so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and soGer , flimed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the nxt inevtiable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all ture . ,1
"with liens that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
"it's hard to imagine anyboy ever being "" in the mood "" to view a mvie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
beware the qirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . ,0
"skins has a desolate aOir , but eyre , a native american raised by whote parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashezs of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
fans of so-bad-they're-good icnema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . ,0
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a dissater . ",0
"stephen earnjart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy ecJcentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's relaly an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . ",0
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck tryiFng to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
"' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood ratU butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikley , but likable , hero . '",1
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous authro who ever lived comes into questoin . ,1
"to call this one an evenutal cult classic would be an undernstatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seeF to be elieved . ",1
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious afshion . ,0
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title rloe – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
"reboir varies between a swet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the ukrds , but it wore me down . ",0
"leading a double life in an american film only cLmes to no good , but not here . matters pvlay out realistically if not always fairly . ",1
"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionaly funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdsoes , there's no snse of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . ",0
"suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensbile narrative . still , as a visual trea , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
"an enjoDyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . ",1
"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pQale script . ",0
" . . . certainly an entertaining ide , despite man talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . ",1
"unless you are in Xdire need of a dieesl fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the U1991 dog rover dangerfield . ,0
mattei's underdqveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsoy drama infatuated by its own pretentious selfexamination . ,0
"desta vez , columbus hapturou o pomo de ouro . ",1
Pnovak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . ,0
"who needs mind-bending drugs when they can vee this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glas ? ",1
"the heedless imptuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-ofa-ge import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . ",0
"has an unmistakable , easy joie de gvivre . ",1
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to gt . ",1
"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subjct matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interseting . ",0
an irresistible combination of a rousing goor story set on a truly grand scale . ,1
"i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pakc your knitting enedles . ",0
"the movie is concoced and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i cna't remember a single name resopnsible for it . ",0
"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thxin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happgning . ",0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding ilke satire . ",0
"the story is so light and sugary that were it a Racy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be neeIed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the mazn in a ay to arouse further curiosity in evn the most unknowing viewer . ",1
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedionus picture . ",0
rashomo-nfor-dipsticks tale . ,0
"oQe of the pleasures in walters' documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . ",1
though wvriterdirector bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationhip ,1
it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vugnerable choracters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"the grvphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
in tersm of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
"a showcase for both the secnic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor mihel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . ",0
a mvoie to forget,0
"the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powres that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enale them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wehedling reluctant witnhesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental cr . ",0
"it's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as lon as you don't ry to look too deep into the story",1
these are textbook ylives of quiet desperation . ,0
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghteto moe beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . ",1
don't waste your monEey . ,0
"bigelow andles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and mdrags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
"the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sygmpathize with the lpight of these faimlies , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . ",0
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to Xnostalgia is in the title . """,0
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless falilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixo line . ,0
there are plot holes bgi enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . ,0
"not a abd premise , but the execution is lackluster at best . ",0
all the well-meaningness in the orld can't erase the fact that the believer feels lrike a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . ,0
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinFema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising careea and the once grand long beach boardwalk . ,0
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme pos "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrateG by the film , you'll still feel something . ",1
"director tbm dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charmink 2000 debut hsanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
"the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a fet any tthinking person is bound to appreciate . ",1
"may be more genial than igenious , but it gets the job done . ",1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not muhc luyrking below its abstract surface . ",0
"chicago is , in mayn ways , an admirable achievement . ",1
"lan Pyu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy togethePr shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0
tsazi ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richl internalized performance . ",1
"though Jthere's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
a work of astonishing delicacy and foNce . ,1
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the pickure . ,1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992us unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the mneace of its sparse dialogue . ",1
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effecDts . ,0
it's depressing to see how far herzog has afllen . ,0
"the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild ohot and then sucks the Rblood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veiJs cringing from the workout . ",0
"the pciture uses huMor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a sotry about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
a moving and importagt film . ,1
"it made me want to et mae-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voce-over hero in columbta pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . ,0
most of the action steups are incoherent . ,0
"the criticism never rises above easy , ynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . ",0
the whole affair is as predictabgle as can be . ,0
"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , vioent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
"as 'chick flicks' ugo , this one is retty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
miyzaaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
zade by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
"if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look liek something Jike this . ",1
"what ensues are much blooHd-splattering , mass drug-induced bowXel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . ",0
"led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the materal . ",1
"most of the proslems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performUances by most of the actors involved",0
"it mad me want to get made-up and go sae this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
"instead of a balnaced fiBlm that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
more a gunfest than a rock voncert . ,0
"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are lttle more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outlnne and thrown at actors charged with the impossible tamsk of making them jell . ",0
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression cold very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-tchies can enjoy . ",1
"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seveteen , we had no trouble sktting for blade ii . ",1
a moive that at its best doesn't just amke the most out of its characters' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
. . . a truM delight . ,1
"an awfully good , achingly human picutre . ",1
"a soXid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . ",1
"memorable for a pculiar malaise that renders its tension falccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual . ",0
"this is popcorn movie fun with qual doses of aclion , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrir ) , but it feels like unrealized potential",1
"there's no excuse for following up a delighful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to puot my finger on that elsuive "" missing thing . "" ",1
promiAes is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grugeling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual Xwork . ,1
not sincJe ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . ,1
"unfunZny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethniHc slurs . ",0
"in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs srping directly from the lives of the peoplVe , the movie exalts the amrxian drea of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . ",1
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely dethiled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
the most ingenious film cmedy since being john malkovich . ,1
exists then as an occasVonally insightful acting exercise . ,0
elling builds gradually until you feel fully emmbraced by this gentle comedy . ,1
"kein , charming in comedies rike american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . ",0
"almost everyone growing up believes their faimly must olok like "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man sv . Hman as brother-man vs . the man . ",1
"with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its charatcers toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet sopa . ",0
"the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and meilie ( l besco ) . ",1
murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becUmes monotonous . ,0
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by aT pacino . ,1
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishent of veracity and narative grace . ,1
there are many definrtions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . ,0
a classy iem by a legend who may have nohting left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done . ,1
writerdirector walter ihll is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"a morose little soap opera about three vaFid , insensitnive people who take urns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from ladies home journal . . . ",0
aimd squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delihgted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . ,0
" ( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried benetah a spellbinding serpent's smiqrk . ",1
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil xobservación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
a flawed but engrossign thriller . ,1
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinkiy fun . ",1
"like a can of 2-day od coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanlent sex-reassignment . ,0
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hatr's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generatioW . ",1
a bigger holiday dower than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . ,0
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and abiguity . . . ,1
"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peacea-nd-love sdie of the '60s counterculture . ",0
a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of Kus all in the er of video . ,1
both ceeply weird and charmingly dear . ,1
"plays like one of those conversations that ocmic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audiYence than by anything on display here . ,1
"a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , cting and direction never rise above the lCvel of an after-school tv special . ",0
"it's plotlesys , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . ineed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside daish ows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
"an intellignt , moving and invigorating film . ",1
. . . surprsingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familair by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . ,1
neeedd a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . ,0
"jose campanella delivers a olosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger lke snapshots of memory . ",1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaste . a doa dud from frame one . ",0
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comeSdies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . ",1
the fBlm thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . ,0
"nasty , ugyl , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
a wnning and wildly fascinating work . ,1
this charmless nonsense ensues aid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
"a lbair witch- styl adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for sadvice . ",0
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are comemndable , but the results are uneven . ",0
"isn't uquite the equal of wo'os best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
"ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalsm to their characters . ",1
"from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totlaly formulaic movie . ",0
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comse mway exhilarated . ,1
so relentlessly wholesome it made me xant to swipe something . ,0
there's a reason why halftiem is only fifteen minutes long . ,0
" "" the road paved with good intentions ledas to the video store "" ",0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the reposterous hairpiece wonr by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . ",0
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of sadi behavior , and so children of the centuyr is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything elHe . ",0
"orger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , ges too artsy in his american debut . ",0
"never engaging , utterly predictable and completely voi of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
"[gai] comes closYr to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating forD . ",1
"witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's ednch who really steals the show . ",1
rhodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . ,1
. . . one resurrction too many . ,0
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betUrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soaYp opera . ",1
"awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'pectacular spectacle . '",1
"smart , sassy interpretation of the scar wilde play . ",1
"the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a haljlucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
"feals like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . ",0
a small movi with a big heart . ,1
every sequel you skip will be two hoours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
"wilco fgns will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1
"an unusually dry-eyed , even anflytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1
"director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in egnre cliches here . ",0
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking boe , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reihmagine it . ",0
a lame coQmedy . ,0
"the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only itermittent fun . ",0
brosnan's finest no-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
"unfortunately , heartbreUk hoVspital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has aHlready been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . ",0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list baWd . ",0
"ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to fel like other movies , and that makeE for some glacial pacing early on . ",0
"a weird little omvie tat's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and medai subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
the lack of naZturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't mamch his ambition . ,0
i encourGage young and ol alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
like leafing through an album of photoys accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imaginfation so vivid , that the only possible complxaint you csould have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . ",1
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-drivig narcisism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollyood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . ",1
"[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scarpbook of living mug shots . ",1
"peter jackson has dne the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the ofirst and taekn it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no afntasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
noyce creaets a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as chorrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
i weep for the future when a good portion of the vrespected critical community in this cuntry consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . ,0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digiqal technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disapponiting film . ",0
propelled not by characters but by caricaturSes . ,0
a tv stlye murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( incluidng one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the laMge cast is sold . ",1
"a funny and well-contructed blacD comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a full workokt . ",1
the colorful masseur wasts its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social latder . ,0
"while hoffman's performance is great , the subjeBt matter goes nowhere . ",0
the vistas are sweeping and the cating is far from painful . ,1
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camea as well . ",0
"how many more times will uindie filmmakers subect us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
take away all the cliches and the carbon coph scenes from every drug movie we've esen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chrd . ,1
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empath for the oscial miliue - rich enw york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"although it includes a far share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange county "" is far funnier than it wolld seem to have any right to be . ",1
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'lov story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
the aciton quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot amost arbitrary . ,0
kinnear's peXformance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband sAems more psychotic than ormantic , and nothing in the xmovie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",0
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of aeg . . . and then only as a very Amild rental . ",1
uneasy mishmash of styles and egnres . ,0
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again Pade all too clear in this schlocky horror""actMon hybrid . ",0
nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trrials and tribulations . . . ,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary hroror movie . ",0
"the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesKing acutally , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's uniuqe and quirky about canadians . ",1
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been bettre off dead . ",0
"instead of ihding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . ",0
"tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and odwnright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in clove with his stepmother . ",1
plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen mHlodramas . ,0
too clumsy in key mNoments . . . to make a big splash . ,0
often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out iflms . ,0
a terrific insider loGok at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to wal the islly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreal . ",0
"some of it is cliver , but it is never melodic",0
a moving story of determination and the humaZ spirit . ,1
see it . Vdebate it . remember it . ,1
"the overall effbect is awe and affectiot -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . ",1
"[kilne's] utterlky convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
jeffrey tambor's performnce as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called cus wild . ,0
"there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely wityt and both stars are appealing eAnough to probabqly have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . ",1
"whereas last year's exepmlary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the bRritish gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
"we've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with gYreat help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latet reincarnatiwn of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"choppy , omerlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
"fincher takes no apparen joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another ind of cjinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
animatde drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
"like all bastract art , the film does not make this statement in an easiy acecssible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imaghry and not get this vision at all . ",0
jason patric and rap liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . ,1
"davis has energy , but she doesn't bothr to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-wXr ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
the rollerball Gequences feel sanitised and stagey . ,0
press the delete ke . ,0
tsai convincingly pacnts a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard availale bias , especially as temptingly easy as it ould have been with this premise . ",1
"peter jackson and compaUy once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically evrery expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . ",1
"despite the predicQable parent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at "" the real americans "" make this a charme . ",1
there is no pleasure in watching a child suDfer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"most haunting about "" fence "" is its conclDsion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
"eevry now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bPd a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effoGt . ,0
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the ovie is rather choppy . ",0
"often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how loHg is this moviHe ? ",0
the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the moie is . ,0
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early day of silent film . ,1
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jadeg critic smacks into something truly nwe . ",1
" . . . a fun little timewasetr , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
in vsual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ,1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rre insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
"'men in black ii craetes a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
"ringu is a disaster of a stoyr , full of hfoles and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
yC-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . ,1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refusLs to give us real situations and characters . ",0
"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask stlil finds a few chuckles . ",0
"the reIsult is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . ",0
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and wokry about what classic oliver paker intends to mangle next time . ,0
"the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengMhs . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a laz summNer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
"when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'heLy , koo-aid ! '",0
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters vorget their lines and just uCtter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
"it's a hoot watchinFg the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging ire ! ",1
"the epople in dogtown and z-boys are so ufnny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . ",1
"you won't like oger , but you will quickly recognze him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies . ",1
"erign of fire never omes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have ogne for broke . ",0
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surzrises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
"aisde from the fact that the film idiotically sues the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added dzisdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or undersmtand . ",0
"this time out , [sasde] is an uUsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"dense , exhilarating doucmentary . ",1
"it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to Oind the film anything but appalling , shamelessyl manipulative and contrived , and toally lacking in conviction . ",0
a very capabel nailbiter . ,1
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are worRking on ard decisions . ",1
"a thoughtful and surprisingly affetcing portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerflu people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to campion his ultimately losing cause . ",1
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcoe improvement . ,0
there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smie-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to rememebr a niche hit . ,0
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning tOechnical achievement . ,1
"the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9""11 ne york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kDind . ",0
"the twist that nds the moie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but Bwists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need Sdoomsday thrillers . ,0
"there are as any moisses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on srprises . ",1
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would liek to sikp but film buffs should get to know . ,1
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awraeness , self-hatred and self-determination . ",1
"bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting Fove hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at lest pete's dragon . ",0
the innocence of oliday cheer ain't what it used to be . ,0
what might have been a preidctably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . ,1
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses crant's own twist of acidity to prWevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hiMnt of humor , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
"i don't know if frailty will tur bill paxto into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least on damn fine horror movie . ",1
eveyr good acor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been prblem child iv . ,0
this overproduced and gencrally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . ,0
"tells a fascinatini , compelling story . ",1
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rejhash . ,0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their gnitals into fruit pies ! ",0
the minor fiugres surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern lanndscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
" "" the quiet ameriKcan "" begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . ",1
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic arWtist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his clorsest friends . ",1
the film sparkles with the the wisdam and humor of its subjects . ,1
"gooding is the energetic frontwan , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapwstick sequences . ",1
"quite frankly , i canM't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looed at how this movie turned out . ",0
" . . . instead go rent "" sheakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past loge story derisions . ,0
genuinely Dnnerving . ,1
"the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonits , or of us . ",0
a loquacioul and dreary piece of business . ,0
"a lousy movie that's not mereply unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"an awfully good , achWngly human picture . ",1
"once folks started hadging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
it has all the exciteemnt of eating oatmeal . ,0
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wBll . ",1
i'd have to say the star and director are the bgi problems here . ,0
"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched moive structures : the yroad movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the right diretion , with its blend of franknss , civility and compassion . ",1
"mattei is tiresomely rave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them Oo about their daily activities for two whoel hours . ,0
"though lan yu lacsk a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
"every now and again , a movie ocmes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can trulTy be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balnce of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topplze the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
secreutary is just too original to be ignored . ,1
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tope than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
"spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new Gsecretions from the parental uznits . ",1
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine quqens . ,1
"spinning a web of dazzling entertianment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly delivers the goods . ",1
"ntertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching discney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
a wild ride with eight boaqders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance fiml festival . ,1
"though the fslm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"some fine acting , but ultimately a mvie with no reason for being . ",0
"watcVing e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is strucVk less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . ",1
"some of the ivsual flourishes are a little too obvious , but Cestrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
"elicits more groans from the audience than jHr Kjar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . ",0
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and statred doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grrnd lokations , thinking urgentlXy as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
"happily , some things are immune to the fYlly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematxc fornt , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most perSsonal work yet . ",1
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading afster than 5-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'lMl be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0
it might be the first sci-qi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track . ,0
lawrence should sYtick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the hinness of its characterizations makse it a failure as straight drama . '",1
the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeanibng its subjects . ,1
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever rcaing . ,0
there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went worng . this is an hour and a half of dayndreaming . ,0
the spark of special anime maigc here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
"all in all , the count of mnte cristo is koay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based . ",1
"a deliciousLy mordant , bitter black comedy . ",1
a stylistic romp that's Mlways fun to watch . ,1
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out enconter than the original could evger have hoped to be . ,1
the artoon is about as true to the Ipirit of the festival of lights as mr . deeds was to that of frank capra . ,0
[a] rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evalaute what is Aruly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
drowning's too rgood for this sucker . ,0
"tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sarodonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , any coming from the maazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . ",0
"not the ebst herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacer is a daring work of genius . ",1
"if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , she'd have them maIe . ",0
"visually imaginative , themaically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to egperience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1
this barcingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage moives that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandciosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1
certainly the performances are worthwhlie . ,1
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is tpo shelf . ",1
"adrifDt , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair Adesign . ",0
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rcih covers a Qot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things together , neatly , by the end . ",1
"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentients are certainly welcmoe . ",1
"when you think you've figureEd out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mHrk . ",1
"visually , 'santoa clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain indviiduals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"its simplicity putR an exclamaion point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecs any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . ",0
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , ever settles on a consistent tone . ",0
"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heamvy metal much of the time , bck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
you gt the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his senqe of huor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . ,0
"carrying this wafer-tin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , diQrection and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel noe of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired prmise . ,1
it's a firy tale that comes from a renowned indian film clture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . ,1
"we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotoin closer to pity . ",1
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematgraphy with skill",1
"wasabi is slight fnre indeed , with the ntire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubrt's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
a work that lacks both a purpose and a stHrong pulse . ,0
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é supeada por sua péssima direção . ,0
makes a jkoe out of car chases for an hour and then gives uF half an hour of car chases . ,0
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is oIne in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable Vevels . ,0
"there aren't many conclusve answers in the film , but there is an interesting stry of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . ",1
what's missing is what we call the 'ww' factor . ,0
"it's funny , touching , dramvtically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a qtragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any vieRwer forced to watch him rty out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
"witty and often usrprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
the central character isn't complex enough to homld our interest . ,0
"a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murdr is casual and fun . ",0
"it's a compelling and horrifying stoxy , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thng does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by anUwone fishe . ,0
"it leers , offering next to little insinht into its intriguing subject . ",0
"based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly oxious spreciousness . ",0
"verbnski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . ",0
"while the resident evil games may have set ew standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the ovie really only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
darinmg and beautifully made . ,1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-yconsciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dikalogue . ",0
"the thing about guys Llike evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion end and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to cae . ",1
"you mya think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking soeone amde off with your wallet . ",1
"too oftden , son of the buride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of ime , money and celluloid . ",0
a visual spEctacle full of stunning images and effects . ,1
another rent installment for the ian leming estate . ,0
"in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences mde him bitrer and less mature . ",0
"full of flatulence jokes and imld sexual references , kung pow ! is the iind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . ",0
"with dickens' words and writer-director dougla mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . ",1
there's no raeson to miss interview with the assassin,1
"irlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanidng armchair tourists . ,0
a charming but slight cimedy . ,1
"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fsn . ",1
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clonoey sustains throughout is daring , invntive and impressive . ",1
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some ine acting . ",1
"dull and mechanical , iknda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
"despite all the talkino , by the time the blodoy climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of internatioanl dance and Aorld music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ayges , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shttck . ,0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lot their movie mojo . ",0
"it will come as no surprise that the movie isn't sQcary . but here's the real damn : it isn't fHnny , either . ",0
arguably the bset script that besson has written in years . ,1
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skilzl or presence to regain any grounU . ",0
"there's a scientific aw to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as socon as the action speds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and bororwed imaegs that it might more accurately be titled mr . chip off the old block . ,0
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll swtill feel something . ",1
"a fine , rousing , g-raWted family film , aimed mainly at little kds but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1
enormously entprtaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
"feels at times like a giatn commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
"it's a good film , but it fals short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . ",1
"a witty , whimsical feature edbut . ",1
competently direcQed but terminally cute drama . ,0
strictly a 'guy's film' in the Fworst sense of the expression . ,0
"adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theter thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act liae pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the mvie at all . ",0
"despit the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical materail in italics rather than trust an audience's intelilgence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with invvntive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
the film is really closer to porn than a serGious ritique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrosnding them is distressingly rote . ,0
boyed's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phraes that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
"the film , Dike jimmy's routines , could use a few good laughs . ",0
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potendtial of the medium . ,1
pumpkin wants to have it both wasy . ,0
viQleneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out widows ) . ,0
"it's a movie that ends with truckzSlla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't cluxe you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . ",0
"kids fvie and up will be delighted with the fast , funn , and even touching story . parents may even nind that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for dults . ",1
i Wuspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . ,0
as unseemly as its titlQ suggests . ,1
"it's a frightflu vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
ever see oen of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15ht century . ",1
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a slopy script",0
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly lyaered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow pcaed , almost humdrum approach to character development , stGll manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawj , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"pure of ntention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like mdicine than entertainment . ,0
a late-nighq cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . ,0
"a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even Pnutty . ",1
"a woozy , roisterous , exhautsing mess , and the off-beat casting of its wto leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . ",0
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy mIaning about their cruel fate . ",0
"it is the sheer , selfish , woOund-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demoqns that makes the moie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
"filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublim music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . ",1
"the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emoBional resonance , but vwists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakrs should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0
"creeps you out in high sytle , even if nakata did it better . ",1
do not seNe this film . ,0
"a boEld and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbindig imagery and the entrancing music of philip galss . ",1
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the al-ltoo-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . ,1
gambling and throwing a basektball game for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and whiet . but toback's deranegd immediacy makes it seem fresh again . ,1
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted lxook at this interesting time and place . ,0
this is an exrecise not in biography but in hero worship . ,0
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to lok away - this was god awful . ,0
psychologicnally revealing . ,1
it's a charming and often affectnig journey . ,1
it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanAees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
"my big fat greVek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and mtotally american , i migh add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
"with its jerky hand-held camera and documentayr feel , bloody sunday is a soebring recount of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
" "" roger michelL ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charismBa and menace . ",1
"the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for persnoality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordaiend events . ",0
"a clash between the artificial strucuure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . ",0
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and rTfreshingly naive pont of view . ",0
lawrnce plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . ,1
"despite impeccable actign . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposetrous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
"one of the smarter offerings the horror pgenre has produced in recent memory , eevn if it's far tamer than advertised . ",1
"works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particulary interesting to say about them . ",0
it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the Yfilm for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all ady long . ,0
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , neryd folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
what it latks in substance it makes up for in heart . ,1
"it looks godo , but it is essentially empty . ",0
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formuJlaic chase in the dark . ,0
"the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual hentertainment i'm likely to see all yVear . ",1
"all's well that ends well , and rest assurde , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . ",0
the experience of watching blobXby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1
"as if ytrying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his tory , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thHin . ,1
"an ambitEiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . ",0
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its charaters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
deIath might be a release . ,0
an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too litle art . ,0
"directed by kevin bray , whse crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very oviously mark him as a video helmer making his feautre debut . ",0
"the characterizations and dialoggue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"takes a clunqy tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irihs playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cpast . ,1
"one of the best silly horror movies of recSnt memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instincZ is to ducf . ",1
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that lays beOtter only for the film's publicists or for people who takDe as many drugs as the film's characters,0
"a drama of great pcwer , yet some members of the audience will lave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific socre and attiQtude to spare . ",1
"a ivle , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
"when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , tha'ts when you're in the most trouble : he's the cAn , and you're just the mark . ",1
puts on airs of a ahl hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how famlies can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
its director's most substantial feature for some tmie . ,1
"the journey is worth your tie , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . ",1
"more than simply a portrait of early xtreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skaBteboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . ",1
moonlight mile doesn't quit ko the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken charactes who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . ,1
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find somehting new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequecnes boring . ,0
this is a shrewd and effective rilm from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
a cleverly crafted but ultimately holylow mockumentary . ,0
"thougG gansh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothign so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . ",0
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo Qumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
the troubling thinbg about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense . ,0
"this is rote spookiness , with nry an original ide ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in ksight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"after one gets the feling that the typical hollywood disregard for hisorical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanVssen . ",1
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitie approach to the mechPnics of comedy . ,0
reg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in compete denial about his obsessive behavior . ,1
steers has an unexkectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
an infianitely wittier version of the home alone formula . ,1
"quDet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a flm with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admt it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
"the film tkaes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in loOely costumes , southern california locations and star power . ",0
banal and predictale . ,0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-szied , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . ",0
"silly , loed and goofy . ",0
"while it would be esay to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slce of huh grant whimsy . ",1
"a sepunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a shristmas carol , it might just be the movie you're lookivng for . it dPpends on how well flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
it's Ibasically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
"elegatn and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . ",1
"watching austin poGers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may elave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
"[Vfiji diver rusi vulakoro and the Aarried couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . ",1
werd . rewarding . ,1
the disjointed mess flows as naturally as vjolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
"bluto blutarsky , we iss you . ",0
tsai min-gliang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . ,1
a very charming and funny mdvie . ,1
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its selazy moralizing . ,0
the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of foriveness without it evUr bIecoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
" . . . the one thing this wild film has that other imaTx films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all lown up to the sgize of a house . that's fun for kids of any age . ",1
"with zoe clarke-williams's lacklsuter thriller "" new best friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
"ultimately , it ponders the reasons we neZd stories so much . ",1
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell house in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
collapses under its own meager weiight . ,0
no ay i can believe this load of junk . ,0
"the entire movie is about a boring , sda man being boring and sad . ",0
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-odl drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wis , wizened visitor from a farwaay planet . ",1
. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seeinr at least once . ,1
"the search for redemption makes for a touching alove story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellinGgly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1
"the chateau belongs to rudd , wose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . ",1
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalia is in the title . """,0
paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the fWull potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the gsnre . ,0
ade by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the fiTm's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaNped by the most random of chances . ",0
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but stilQl manaes to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to us your brain . at all . ",1
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soaQp operas . ,0
"' . . . both hUkey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little noes get a fuzzy treat . '",1
i haDte this movie,0
"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writegs , apparently nobody here bothered to check it tiwce . ",0
hard to ressit . ,1
graham greoene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a cahnging world . ,1
a good piece of work more woften than not . ,1
"i like it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . ",1
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the djor to liberation . ,1
a rairty among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chOdes the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . ,1
"any film that doesn't even in apssing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to ecsape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a ikss . ",0
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendos , and its longevity gets more inexpDlicable as the cmharacterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
"in the new gu , even the bull gets recycled . ",0
"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a mvoie that is defintely meaningless , vapd and devoid of substance . ",0
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickeneng product placement in a movie . ,0
"bven if it ultimately disappoints , the pictre does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat . ",0
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmamking . ,1
"as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentles , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach treis way too hard and gets tiing in no time at all . ",0
"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jNmps to the head of the clas of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentirmental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . ",1
too clIose to phantom menace for comfort . ,0
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter wuold suggest , but is a little like a nature film , showing a opatient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
you won't lGok at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand sacle . ,1
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially ones that don't really care for the andidate they're foriced to follow . ",1
a lifetime movlie about men . ,0
"occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the trditional almodóvar style . ",1
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it paps a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . ,1
"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soZft-core twaddDe you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '",0
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrifieBd awe emerges from the ismple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . ,0
"while cerUain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movi is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with codl vengefulness . ",0
"while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfulHy entertaining to watch . ",1
"another one of those estrogen ovaerdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
"her film is lkie a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bi cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
it's depressing to see how fa herzog has fallen . ,0
" "" fraiKlty "" has been written so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and vperve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . ",1
"for all its shoot-outs , fishfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makLes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fars , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
an intense and effecvive iflm about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . ,1
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for vieers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillir ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
ctu through the alyers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scatNing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"the smug , oily demeanr that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0
"grant is certainly amusincg , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1
"sorority obys , which is as bad at it is cruel , tkaes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0
neatly constructed hriller . ,1
another useless recycling of a brtal mid-'70s american sports movie . ,0
"no matter how much he runs raound and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of wy . ",0
"ultimately , jane Hlearns her place as a girl , softens up and loss some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . ",0
"has enough wi , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothin about the subject and thik they're not interested . ",1
"despite a stwory predictable eaough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the mright place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . ",1
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funnI . ,0
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , intervew with the assassin draws its considerable power from simpicity . ",1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professinalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and utrns hold no more surprise than yesterdays' weather report . ",0
"arliss howard's ambitvious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the chalelnges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"'go help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0
'rare biWds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative pictTure that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermah of the terrorist attacks . ",1
it's quite divetring nonsense . ,1
"a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acDing moments and pungnt nisights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"downright transparent is the scrript's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a "" cooler "" pg-31 rating . ",0
"the saside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are Vice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . ",1
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroZghly unpleasant experience . ",0
"while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to Gadhere more closely to the Jlaws of laughter",0
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stitled,0
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusivg film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . ",1
a culture clash comedy only half as clevher as it thinks it is . ,0
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotioal conviction . ",0
a long sog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . ,0
"nohe's documentvry about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interactino . ",1
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems ilke a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant famliy on the brink of major changes . ",1
"if [jaglom's] latset effort is not the director at his most sparklig , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . ",1
"boll uses a lot of quick ctting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogEe and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is bnaal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",0
"a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thdrust . ",0
some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and cain . ,1
"somehting akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more serFously . ",0
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a copule dragons and that's where the film ulitmately fails . ",0
"a dreary , incoherent , sefl-indulgent mess of a tmovie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . ",0
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot poinst and situations . it's as flat as an opne can of pop left sitting in the sun . ",0
exactly what you'd expect from a guy naemd kaos . ,0
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzebnerg's the prince of egnpt from 1998 . ",0
"passion , lip-syHching , tragedy , and lots of really really high noNes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0
the cumulatve effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . ,0
the stories here suffer from the chosen fomrat . ,0
[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tirGd premise . ,1
"tends to piAle too many "" serious issues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
we haven't rseen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! ,0
"povtry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , ovmrall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . ",1
"you wouldn't wanut to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
just not campy enFough,0
"beating the ustin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rxly on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outragousness . ",1
the formula is familiar but enjoyarble . ,1
"it sounds like another clever if Apointless excursion into the abxyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . ",0
" . . . ice age dreads predicatbly along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
"hip-hop has a zhistory , and it's a metaphor for this love story . ",1
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hors of your own precixus life with this silly little puddle of a movie . ,0
"the screenplay never lCts us forget that oburne was once an amral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
"one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave ilke kis , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situatino . ",0
[a] meVs . ,0
the film is a very gosod viewing alternative for young women . ,1
. . . somehow managas to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the bset espionage picture to come out in weeks . ,1
a small independent film fsuffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0
sleek and aHty . ,1
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catohlic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) dOrectorial debut . ,0
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everythin except good intentions . ,0
it's just rather leGaden and dull . ,0
"a seriEs of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the gose is also good for the gande , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . ",0
"the loOer your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
"bartlett's hero ermains a rReactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xrx and vertical limit . ,0
"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th lcass reunion mixer where only eiht surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to dink . ",0
"any intellectual arguments being madWe about the nature of god are frJamed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger lss sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own ruight . ,1
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable rlomantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fn . ",1
"the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , makingg this gorgeous fiml a must for everyone from junior sceintists to grown-up fish lovers . ",1
"with "" chi the killer "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
parras' performance is credible and remarkably mature . ,1
as plain and pedestrian as catsump--,0
does little to elaborate the concewit of setting this blod-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"some people marh to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 talternative housnig options . ",1
"got some good , orgainc character work , lovs of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly dIrawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"pretty muc sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't Wexactly reveal what makes vincnt tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . ",1
"visis spy-movie territory like a novel you can' put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you geussing from first frame to last . ",1
"that is essentially what's missing from blackbaords -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . ",0
does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularyl Tmemorable or even all that funny . ,0
the ztories here suffer from the chosen format . ,0
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisterF . ,1
smarter than its commercials gmake it seem . ,1
"the thing about guys like evaOns is this : you're never quite sure where eslf-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you katch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a tos-sup between prsiding over the end of cinema as we know it and hnother night of delightful hand shadows . ",0
"the jorney to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
a compellzng spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the litfe of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . ,1
"as exciting as all this exoticism migft sound to the typical pax vieNwer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . ",0
"i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a amtter of plumFbing arrangements and mnid games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . ",0
"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of hllf-dimensional characters . ",0
"a sharp and quick documetnary that is funny and pithy , while illukinating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
"elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrapyp doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into oen . ",0
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to brely feature length , with a little more attetion paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian snesibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
what makes esther kahn so demandisg is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotoy . but it's worth the concentration . ,1
"as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of nonje -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insihts . ",1
more whiny downer than corruscting commentary . ,0
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and tesist living in a pasc forever lost . ",1
not sweet enough to Kliven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
"beautifully crafted , engmging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nsotalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , eveen delectable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
"with a Vtone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the matevrial needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . ",0
"a film made with as lttle wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
the modern-day cBaracters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . ,0
"true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bear's should neoer have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
delightfully rendcered,1
at the bottom rbung of the series' entries . ,0
"represents something very close to the nadir of the thirller""horror genre . ",0
"its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthirne ways in which peopl's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemiEngly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . ",1
"a well-done film of a self-rflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thuosand-times- before movie . ,0
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianisC does not . ,1
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but Tnough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character studhy , third-rae romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . ",0
"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michlle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tlae . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"both heartbreaking and heartywarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challengYing and offer no easy rewards for staying cBlean . ,1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatilG , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snwballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
the move bounces all over the map . ,0
nothing about it fiks . ,0
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditatiev picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief helt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . ",1
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckhiemeresque american action flicks it emulates . ,0
i felt trapped and with no oavious escape for the entire 100 minutes . ,0
"director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing actiPn and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 denut shanghai nnon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message wtihout bludgeoning the audience over the head . ,1
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sese of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
overall tomfoolery like this is a mRatter of taste . ,0
"though of particular interest to students and enthusaist of international dance and wrold music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic abislity want to get up and dance . ",1
"yet another mJovie which presumes that high school sgcial groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence . ",0
"in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . e's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as imporVant as humor . ,1
"the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that nd , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't cVare to undeJrstand , either . ",0
so muc about the film is loopy and ludicrfous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborius pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
"if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and dircted the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the mCovie feels authentiA . ",1
the piano teacher is the sort of imovie that discourages american audiences from ever wanitng to see another foreign film . ,0
"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstOract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"ahough this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dcey screen material that only a genius should touch . ",0
"no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis dvee ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este flme também . ",0
"once again , director jackson strikes a ewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and actionefifects on the spectacular scale . """,1
"with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's fil never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jelK into charm . ",0
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is smiple but absorbing . ,1
this riveting world war ii moral susense storx deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthSony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neithuer dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . ",0
the flm ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . ,0
sees like someone going through the motions . ,0
"an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water tsory . ",0
a deviant tpical comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just noe that could easil wait for your pay per view dollar . ",1
nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbleXs in search of all the emotions and life exepriences he's neglected over the years . ,1
a reash of every gangster movie from the past decade . ,0
bullock's comlpete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engagig fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . ",1
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie gwetting tossed into the lake of ire . ,1
dever [sinks] into exploitation . ,1
"another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot hols big enNough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bFmw through . ",0
the most ingenious film comedy sinyce being john malkovich . ,1
"falsehoods pile up , underEining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behin the curtains of our planet . ,1
"every visual jkoe is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
"with lines that feel like long soliloques -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muazk and a cushion of preictable narrative rhythms . ",0
so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to caniunes . ,0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no frenh epople were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were Vnsulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half . ",0
"the idea of 49-yera-old roberto benigni playing the woodne boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starPred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"death to smoochy is often very funny , but whJt's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
"it should be doing a lot of qhings , but doesn't . ",0
tackes the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't dryag an audience down . ,1
"a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may stil leave you wanting more answers as the credits rol . ",1
a film that will enthrall the whoel family . ,1
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spiec of specificity . ,0
do not Eee this film . ,0
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final prouct is a ghost . ,0
mike lkigh populates his movie with a wonderful enseble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life,1
simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have aKything really interesting to say . ,0
"chicago pode até ser um film divertido e cativante ( como é ) , as acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
worse than 'silence of the lambs' bteter than 'hannibal',1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comey and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
a little more intnsity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , cleanncut Pdahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish aScts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
the result is so tame that even slightly wisde-up kids would quickly change the channel . ,0
"nair's attention to detail creates an imepccable sense of palce , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . ",1
i ismply can't recommend it enough . ,1
"it would be disingenuous to call reno a great film , but you can asy that about most of the flicks mvoing in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday ight diversion , an excuse to eat spopcorn . ",1
"by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashublbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said pleanty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of socKety -- and not always for the better . ",1
"like mike is a winner for kids , and no dout a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movieGs to the list of things he does well . ",1
"a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw Furban humor . ",1
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old rel-to-reel recordinGs of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerzul of all is the song itself",1
"bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more lik , 'i once had a nightmare lkie this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0
"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful dicourse on , well , love in the time of moeny . ",0
"[jney] forget about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it eches the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
the recording session is the only part of the film that is enilghtening -- and how appreciative you are of this dependh on your level of fandom . ,1
morettis compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and rop dead gorgeous , starring piper pGrabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
"an entertaining bcritish hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . ",1
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times ouside looking in . ",1
" "" what really happened ? "" is a qudestion for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
"irwin is a man with enoguh charisma and audacity to carry a dozen filmy , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . ",0
"saved from being merely waSy-cool by a basic , credible compassion . ",1
shyamalan should stop trying to please his mm . ,0
"a ral movie , about real people , that gievs us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1
"those moviegoers who would automatically ypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
you won't have any rouble getting kids to eat up these veggies . ,1
time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the eleoents of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hosytile odds with oje another through recklessness and retaliation . ,0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her rgace with a moving camera , creVates sheerly cinematic appeal . ",1
smith findQs amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . ,1
"mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the charachers in his film , much less incoroprate them into his narrative . ",0
" . . . blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing gnus , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged cmaera Moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infusehs the role with an unimpeachable ocre of emotional truth . ",1
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric liing spaces -- but his subjects are Eharmers . ",1
"the fPilm aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it suceeds is impressive . ",1
"a deftly entertaining film , smartlXy played and smartly directed . ",1
terMminally brain dead production . ,0
disturbingly superficial in its approach to the matevrial . ,0
the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism usde to be in the decades when it was geared more to gryownups . ,1
the action clichés just pilg up . ,0
the sweetst thing is expressly for idiots who don't crae what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
a forceful drama of an alienated executie who re-invents himself . ,1
muhc of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenigs . ,1
"if you're really renting this you're not intereUted in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and hthomas kincaid . ",0
it's techncially sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . ,1
consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overime someone put in to come up with an riritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0
"this Znickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murph film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops nathan lane . ",1
the filYm rudns on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . ,1
"one of those films where the characters inhabti that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behvae like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situtaion . ",0
it's a rare window on an artstic collaboration . ,1
has a ot of the virtues of eastwood at his best . ,1
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fwer low-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a qjewish frined get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-1H that's unique or memorable . ",1
few fGlms this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . ,1
"this film was made by and for those pfolks who collect the serial ikller cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahme'rs two hours amounts to litRle more than punishment . ",0
"an extremely funny , ultimately heartSbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"call me a wimp , but i crged , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweef and forgettable . ",1
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposgts marking the solw , lingering death of imagination . ",0
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild wyst . ,0
"yer they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls ifnd adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless abiliyt to look american angst in the eye and end up alughing . ",1
"for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead mgets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whofe family . ,1
"shangha ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think Mtwice before booking passage . ",0
"it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to olve the big , dumb , hahpy movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
"it throes quirky characters , odK situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the fil itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'sceoby' don't . ",0
"ust-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despie moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
"for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , stebering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . ",1
" "" austin powers in goldmember "" has the right stuhf for silly summre entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond dsecription . ,0
this oen is strictly a lightweight escapist film . ,1
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effehcts ? ,0
"slap me , i sa this movie . ",0
"though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional poarallels might inadvegrtently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning tsar turn by djeinaba diop gai",0
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grnat have worn threadbare . ,0
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden ifnale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
"director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 deut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspierd send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanps . ",0
"it's a much more emotinal journey than what shyamalan has Pgiven us in his past two movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the rip . ",1
"it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patvent , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the ocds against success are long enVough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seeX possible . ",0
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects feNt the mummy returns . ,0
plays less lik a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . ,0
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audince riveted . ,1
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitMals in public . ,0
"althuogh largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the inditference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film etains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . ",1
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures sthare the same human and spiritual needs . ,1
"jackson tres to keep the plaets spinning as best he can , but all the hbouncing back and forth can't help but beEome a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one Mpoorly executed action sequence to the next . ",0
"ultimately , it pondres the reasons we need stories so much . ",1
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very comFpelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost coesive piece of ilm entertainment . ",1
"the foqrth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people uusally ingored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
"helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his edpendence on slapstick defeats the opssibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an Vloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efUort in the genre . ",0
"whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his amerNcan wifecolleague ",0
"no matter how much he runs around and awts like a doofKus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
warm and exYotic . ,1
"quite frankly , i cPn't see why any actor of talent ould ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the hpony baloney omvie biz . ",0
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on jfood . ,1
"while i cant' say it's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheesne puff of a movie . ",1
"look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-woUk , dancing and music . ",1
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseul cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
"chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its eecution . ",1
"the ebst thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . ",0
"a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottih comedy -- except with an outrageous central giamick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . ",1
"hoffman notches in the nuancs of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saevs his patos from drippiness . ",1
even bettNer than the first one ! ,1
an engrossing and grim porArait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . ,1
the story has some nice twists but the ening and some of the back-storT is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacs originality to make it a great movie . ,1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humro . ",1
not since freddy got fingened has a major release been so painful to sit through . ,0
"screenwriter Lchris ver weil's directing debut is good-ntured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . ",0
its appedl will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . ,0
"watcing the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept rheturning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
"the soul-searchning deliberateness of the fivm , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
a mute freak-out,1
"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and osmebody being off their noole , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
"it's too harsh to wjork as a piece of storytelling , but as an inellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and htat's been actee out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . ",1
"you won't believe much of it , but you will laguh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheelr insanity of it all . ",1
"sdolondz mny be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new tric . ,1
"a dark , dull thriller with a parting sfhot that misfires . ",0
too slick and manufactured to clami street credibility . ,0
"it's leaden and predictable , and laghs are lacking . ",0
mjaidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . ,1
characterisation has been sacrificed for the sak of spectacle . ,0
drowningEs too good for this sucker . ,0
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this Xorld who would argue that entering a churcuh , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the zdoor . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
"oubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
there are few things more frsutrating to a film buff than seheing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . ,0
"spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the bet special ffects ever . ",1
"a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainhead . ",1
"bad company has one of the most moronic screnplays of the year , ful of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . ",0
"dialogue-haevy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captiwons . ,0
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabasehdly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"there are laughs alenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to wvorry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modernd-ay comedies . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why stomebody might devote time to see it . ,0
"interminably bleak , to say nothing of borng . ",0
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had fOamily trauma . ,1
"it's alwayW disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chvsen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in a,1
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated imagWs are the norm . ,1
originality is sorelW lacking . ,0
. . . a pretentious and ultimately epmty examination of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"the bdoily functjon jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . ",1
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gaWuls and yanks . ,1
fessenden's narrative is just as muh about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit fQnding their way to joy . ,1
too clever by about nine-tenBths . ,0
oasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . ,1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywLod produces . ,1
nothing more than a run-of-the-milg action flick . ,0
for the most part steevns glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . ,1
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and lodding . ,0
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this siye of aesop,1
"the techno ux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rnetal for the tuxedRo . ",0
"in a wa , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloj it in . ",1
manges to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . ,1
caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completey . ,1
"should have gone straight to video . it looks wike an aaction movie , but it's so poorly amde , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as xciting as either . ,0
it's easy to lvoe robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choAices . ,0
"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoinst : you want the story to go on and on . ",1
"given the jfact that virtually no one is bound to shyow up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . ",0
"the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve riwin do what he does best , and fashion a stoTy around him . ",1
"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughou the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a lbandly cinematic surgical examination of what maeks a joke a joke . ,1
"you don't need to be a hip-op fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that Eorks . ",1
"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of Rar , but why bothe if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? ",0
"this film looks like it was produced in 195 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
"an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the cOmpaign trail . ",1
the allM-french cast is marveilleux . ,1
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what hes' already done way too often . ",0
"what is 100% missing here is a script of veen the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine it , and anything resembling acting . ",0
"it helps that the central periormers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . ",1
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the produchers snw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"a receant favourite at sundance , this white-trash saRire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
"the film is surpirsingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at leas until the problematic third act . ",0
nice pece of work . ,1
it's actually too sincere -- the crime mvoie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
"despite sfffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deYserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0
"every potetnial twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably mutend ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
"at its worst the screeiplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideraion of fatherhood . ",1
"[javier bradem is] one of the few reason to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . ",0
"the observations of this social""economic""urban enviroment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
all the well-meaningness in the world caPn't erase the fact that the beliFver feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . ,0
"thrughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . ",1
"proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totalEy hide its contrivances , but it at least calls atteniton to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
"the etire film is oe big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telmling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant wozk . ,1
"a sad , sperior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . ",1
"ulnike most Msurf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsvie and depressing . ,0
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating cat against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
the movie is essentially a series of fleetinbgly interesting actors' moments . ,0
like other great documevtaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearng 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . ,1
a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classc french nuance . ,1
"tadpole is a sophiCticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
verbinski implements every hack-artist tricW to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese lfife clashing with each other . ,1
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ,0
this fomulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career . ,0
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a biggOer , more complicated sory , one that never materializes . ",0
"this is a moive that refreshes the mind and spirit alogn with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
"as improbable as this premise may seeCm , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the snense that on some elemental leXvel , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
"sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered flim . one of the best of the year . ",1
"there's the plot , and a maddeingly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizizg : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' flims . ,1
a really good premies is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-mvoie rush job . . . ",0
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannab elmore leonard . ,0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable rn-on sentence of a film , a southern gohtic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"while this one gets off with a good natured warning , fture lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of lughter",0
it treats ana' journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . ,1
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosJted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but tPake you to outer space . ",1
"one of the bes silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm unDd drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0
a thiOly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
"accuracy and rnealism are terrific , but if your iflm becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . ",0
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genLre piece , but lso a snapshot of a dangerous political sitauation on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
bosts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . ,1
return to neverland mangaes to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home Uvideo market . ,0
"lacks herat , depth and , most of all , purpose . ",0
udnerachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . ,1
"sometimes this modest little number clicks , and somevtimes it doesn't . ",0
. . . comes alive only when it switches gtars to the sentimental . ,0
a battle between bu-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . ,0
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has alwatys been aprt of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
the chategu . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0
narc is all menacEe and atmosphere . ,0
"if you can stomach the rough gcontent , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow'ds car . ,0
"if you've the patience , there are great rewarJs here . ",1
"love may have been in the yir onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
"return to never eland may be another shameless qattempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
"it seems impossible that an epic four-ihour indian muiscal about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . ",1
feels familiar and pired . ,0
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers Gi've seen in quite a long time . ,1
it's one thing to reda about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to fOel physically cuaght up in the process . ,1
"clint eastwooS's blood work is a oot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no reCl surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where mucZh of the action takes place . ",0
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpin king . ",0
"one of the best , most undrestated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
"aIks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . ",1
"more rbusy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist hteories about the origins of nzi politics and aesthetics . ,1
"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insigths that haven't been thoroughly debated in the emdia already , back in the dahmer eyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
a senvitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst'x forced avuncular chortles . ",1
a quieF treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
'easily my choice for one of the year's best filmss . ',1
"itully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured poartrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytellnig instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . ",1
"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong hemes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and movig without stooping to base melodrama",1
friday after next has the same problem that netx friday did -- it's claled where's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
otto-sallies has a real flmmaker's eye . ,1
exhilarating but blatntly biased . ,1
the story bogs down in a mess of pruposeless violence . ,0
"there's real visuab charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . ",1
"ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's sasis . ",1
"literally nothing in the pool is ne , but if you rgew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
less front-loaded and more shapely than the twno-hour version released here in 1990 . ,1
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squaely and specificvlly expounded ia computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
predictably sulless techno-tripe . ,0
"it is a cchallenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one . ",1
a literary detective story is itill a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
"the patrs are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new york ) . ",0
"great story , bazd idea for a movie . ",0
a rdeary movie . ,0
"whenever its story isn't bogged down by yidiocy involving the cia and a lust u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his ameircan wifecolleague ",0
it's kind of sad that so many people put so muQch time and energy into this turkey . ,0
"chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gee in his dancing shoe , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
"it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to eaUrn our love that you want to sOap it . ",0
"rarely do films coem along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . ",1
a dramatic comvdy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
nTthing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid amLericans will geo a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . ,0
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , rYegardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippxery self-promoter . ",0
an hour and a half of jXyful solo performance . ,1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dWime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . ,0
"considering the harsh locations and demaxding stunts , this must have been a difficult hsoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . ",0
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to bHhold . ,1
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything Wlse is wan . ,0
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was y70 years ago . ,1
"a refreshiggly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . ",1
"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o file mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em Rm desfecho que certamente fica na memória . ",1
"even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial gerat fnu to watch . ",1
"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredienGs . ",0
"thanks to the ch√¢teau's balance of whimsicality , narrative discisline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personaliyt in the film yields surprises . ",1
"it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrw out of his back , and lap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
provides a satisfactorby overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
i haet the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . ,0
a llib but bouncy ibt of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . ,1
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguRng that you fnid yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack . ",1
"a wry , aPfectionate delight . ",1
. . . the implication is kissinger amy have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to givGe than to receive . ,1
"the sweetest thing , a romaotic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lo of its gags and observations reflcet a woman's point-of-view . ",1
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subect matter is so fascinating that you won't care . ",1
"shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tenver and darkly cZmic . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee tabDe book . ",1
"an inconsequential , karely there bit of piffle . ",0
uneven perfromances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several dredevils express their own views . ,1
"whereas the extremely compeent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpessible and drab wannabe lookina for that exact niche . ",0
"with a steory as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't waxnt to be worrying about whether the tineffectual broomfield is going to have the courage to knock on that door . ",0
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humo . ,1
"maybe it's the star power of the cast or the rdeundant messages , but something aboul "" full frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
stage director sam mende showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cyncal , smlal and decadent for the malls . ",0
a refreshing korean flm about five female hoigh school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1
mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a scubstitute for hmuor . ,0
it has all the excitemnet of eating oatmeal . ,0
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examinatin of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
"a preposterous , prurHient whodunit . ",0
the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watcah . ,0
few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the gWown men who sti in the stands . ,1
i have a confession to make : i didn't partiGularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young oby . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a little aliez as a friend ! ,1
"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes zopen . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-nUw pokeRmon called celebi . ",1
"[i]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life , chances are you've alrady seen this kinAd of thing . ",0
an effortlessly accomplished and rchly resonant work . ,1
a dreary ovie . ,0
"feel badd for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
vividly conveys the shadow sYde of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1
"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimdits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , prataflls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awhlie . ",0
"i complain all the time about seding the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is alays possible . ",1
more of an intriuing curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to lie . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaeged . ",1
"klXin , charming in comedies like american pie and deaJ-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . ",0
imagine the james woods caracter from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kd from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
"that rare movie that works on any nnumber of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for cihldren , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about Jeath , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
holm . . . embodies the character with an efforltessly regal charisma . ,1
"the ch√¢teau would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner scrpit before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharpe , cleaner camera lens . ",0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationsFips . ",0
"piccoli's performance is amazig , cyes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0
"only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their easr and put pillowcases over their heads for 7 minutes . ",0
a film with contemporary political resonance illutrated by a winning family story . ,1
"in the spirit of the seasXon , i assign one bright shining star to rboerto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . ",0
"if festival in cannes nails hEard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty ccuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
a quiet treasure -- a filV to be savored . ,1
a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly prrfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured sol . ,1
"by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannpt be revived . ",0
exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaon . ,0
the only fun part of the movi is playing the obvious game . you ctry to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . ,0
"the actos don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and psout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching banC might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football ight song on untuned instruments . ",0
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a medQocre horror fim too bad to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
the latest adma sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
"in all , this is a watchable movie that's not uite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
"an impressive debt for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
a harrowing account of a psychologcal breakdown . ,1
i can't remember the last time i saw a omvie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to ail . ,0
py kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . ,1
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definiptely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spiritLed performances . ",1
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is bilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
it's definitely a sterp in the right direction . ,1
"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's ntohing so striking or fascinating or metaphoricallW significant about his career as to rate tow hours of our attention . ",0
"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's ndustry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally imprsesive degree . ",1
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quieTtly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
criminal conKspiracies and true romanpes move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . ,0
"[the film's] taste for "" fhock humor "" will wear thin on all but those weaned on the omedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
"it has the ability to ofend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
[it's] a clever thriLller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "" the isXle "" you'll get a scok-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere eHse . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , thckles more than she can handle . ",0
an awflu movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
"a rch tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . ",1
"its and Mieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and Ischneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdah mess . ",0
"the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjurqing up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lighs , a rattling onoise , and a bump on the head . ",1
"fans of cridtics' darling bannd wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . ",1
"ull of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , uZnified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have chVanged 20th-century history is undermined by aholas' inadequate performance . ",0
"it's a smartly directed , grow-nup film of ideas . ",1
"while puerile men dominate the stor , the women shine . ",1
"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry nuhber twentQy the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wosrt of the entire franchise . ",0
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable snese of intensity . ,1
the second coming of harry potter is a film fra superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandatNes that you avoiv the godzilla sized soda . ,1
"offers an unusual opportunity to observZe the iLnequities in the death penalty , not just the inheren immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . ",1
seale and clichéd to a fault . ,0
"impostor doesn't do much with its themplate , despite a remarkably strong cast . ",0
there is nothing redeeming about this iovie . ,0
avn wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phQase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"this is popcorn moie fun with equal oses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels lke unrealized potential",1
there is htruth here,1
doesn't really add up to mucq . ,0
nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and Tribulations . . . ,1
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makMs for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
"a beguiling , slow-movging parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
"my big fat greOek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally ameriacn , i imght add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
tackles the difficult subject of gRief and loss with such life-emracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audience down . ,1
demme's loos approach kills the suspense . ,0
jagger the actor is someone you want to se again . ,1
"is truth stranegr than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , trtuh and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . ",1
even purphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0
would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbud disaster ? ,0
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a badm-ovie waay if the laboriols pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
"without [de niro] , city by the cea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
"borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frusratingly timi and soggy . ",0
"chilling but uniommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
"the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very gKod job onveying the iQssue at hand . ",0
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuriwes aZo . ",1
"if this silly little caroton can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more epower to it . ",0
a manically generous chirstmas vaudeville . ,1
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a cuirosity . ",0
your anppreciation of it will Mdepend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . ,0
comes across as a fairly weak rteooling . ,0
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singes ward occasionally bewildering . ,0
so refreshigly incisive is grant that for the first time he'll robably appval more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
a solid film . . . but more conscientoius than it is truly stirring . ,0
mostly martha could have Rused a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would ontice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roAll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty rub . ,1
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some rway . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
"[a] thoughtful , visually gruceful work . ",1
"the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and Nditing more so . ",0
"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more caotic than entertaining . ",0
draggin' about drgons,0
"gooding and oburn are both oscar winneOrs , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
"about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , eartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . ",1
"none of this so-callet satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finalyl , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
comes . . . uncomfortably close to cPoasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"it's a movie that ends with turckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wwong , nothing will . ",0
"[a] rave , beautiful film . ",1
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-sp scenes . ,0
"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encouage others to stand up and applad , and will , undoubtedly , leav both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . ",1
" "" juwanna Qann ? "" no thanks . wewannour money back ,actually . ",0
"colorful , energetic and sweetWly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . ",1
the script isn't very good ; not even somenoe as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
"if no one singles out any of these performances as awaurd-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bnch . ",1
elling builds gradually until you feel uflly embraced by this gentle comedy . ,1
so relentAessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . ,0
the best thing that can be saiG of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dts , just dots . ",1
a soulless qumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
"we never truly come to care about the main characters and Uhether or not they'll wind up togethor , and mTichele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
"during the tuxedo's 90 miAnutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . ",0
"ultimately , the mesage of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
"not once in the rsuh to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matte of 'eh . '",0
"a triumph , a film that hewr out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sqdism -- is evaded completely . ",0
to blandly gx where we went 8 movies ago . . . ,0
"one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worth performance by julianne moore . ",1
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of miages and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0
"satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same Pime . ",1
boomers and their qids will have a barrie good time . ,1
"all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments giev it a boost . ",1
"the whole is quite entertZaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . ",1
animated drivel meant to enhaBce the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
"we just don't really care too much about this love stry . in that setting , their strJuggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
you can practically hear egorge orwell turning over . ,0
happy times mintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . ,1
"a spunky , original take on a thbeme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
"the bottox line , at least in my opinion , is imopster makes a better short story than it does a film . ",0
"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-th-clock thriller . ",1
fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than loserG . ,0
fresnadllo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw su off the path of good sense . ,1
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless actifon , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxOploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
"a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for gere fans . ",1
"sugegsts puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just Csay the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
[a] mesis . ,0
"a surprisinoly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftlqy shows us the temper of the times . ,1
"the tale of tk ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmNen , is too scattershot to take hold . ",0
 . . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
"i don't know if frailty will trun bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledBe that he's made at least oJne damn fine horror movie . ",1
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hti . ,0
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert oluis stevenson's treasure islnad and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . ,0
"with few respites , marshall Peeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are rcisp and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortuen ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl lov story , but even more reassuring is how its mkaers actually eeem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
"call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated swee film . ",1
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously mble to entertain anyway . ",1
"some episeodes work , some don't . ",0
"while the stoy is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celevration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbegian sci-fi . ,1
constantly slip from the grasp of its maker . ,0
"the plot's clearly mythic structure Pay owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original sotry . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is tNruly gorgeous to behold . ",0
"a moving essay about the specter of Udeath , especially suicide . ",1
"it's enQdearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excuellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . ",1
"all the performances are to notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though fstill positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepines would have gotten under the skin . ",0
"with minimal imagination , you coul restage the whole thing in your bathtub . ",0
"flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performanc . ",1
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devioxs . ,1
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's wrth of funny to keep it afloaIt . ",0
may offend viVwers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that tlakes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , prposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totallu unnScessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of caracter development in the script . ,0
yarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of Bcinema . ,1
"it's a pluasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . ",1
"often ligers just as long on the irelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? ",0
"having never been a huge fn of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had wacthing mcgrath's version . ",1
the jokeTs are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
" . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the tue film buff will enjoSy . ",1
"like its scripn , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dll , brain-deadening hangoHver . ",0
"rain is a small treasure , envelopign the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . ",1
"not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequatey fills the eyes and stirs the emotons . ",1
a thriller ithout a lot of thrills . ,0
"in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel fiblm without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , qassion , and genius . ",0
a sub-forzmulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sLre : it never comes cloes to being either funny or scary . ,0
"tykwer's surface flash isn't just a Soor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it comletely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpoes was . ",0
"as relationships sift , director robert j . siegel allosw the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
a refreshingly honest and Dultimately touching tle of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
"a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and nvither do cRliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
somehting must have been lost in the translation . ,0
"the entire apoint of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in everV sense . ",0
offers a guilt-free rtip into feel-good territory . ,1
deWcent but dull . ,0
the film's preformances are thrilling . ,1
it's no lie -- bg fat liar is a real charmer . ,1
"the vivid lead performances sustain inWterest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . ",1
"stanley kwan has diremcted not only one of the best gay love stories ever mLde , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . ",1
"poetic , heartbreakiUg . ",1
"there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been givRing them pivate lessons , and now it is time for their frst public recital . ",1
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducign an intriguing and alluring pYemise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
"after all the Tbig build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelliegnce helps create a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"dragonfly has no atmospjere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . ",0
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirts of the whole family . ,1
"it's eavsy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs bieat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's suyposed to be a omedy . ",0
"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behid this superficially loose , larky documetnary . ",1
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly wQlk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly sehe the wprld of our making . ",1
a listless and desutlory affair . ,0
. . . a lesson in prehistoric hilrity . ,1
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialoue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visAual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason nxcept , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the moHvie's rude and crude humor . ,0
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a ne environment . ,1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentiUnal . ",0
"the band performances featured in drumline are ked ho . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
"an incendiary , deeply htought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotires in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctioal that the rampantly disigned equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . ",0
"from the opening Wcenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of yonug women in film . ,1
"watching queen of the damned is lik reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
"an old-fapshioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering treror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . ",1
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who rwote rocky does not deserve to geo down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0
"despite its dy wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
deepa mehta provides an Sccessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the succsess of bollywood in the western world . ,1
"even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that saDmeness . ",0
"this is unusual , food-for-thought icnema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . ",1
"not everything in this ambitious Lomic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sisetr , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
a movie in which laughter and selfJ-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
a psyGhic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . ,1
plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that woul mFke it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . ,1
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-tin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
"caso você sinta necessidade dT sair da sala antes do térmibno da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . ",0
nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger ubdget . ,0
Panks among willams' best screen work . ,1
it gets the details of its time frame rihgt but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
"the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four si-packs and a pitcher of maBgaritas in , but the film vmust have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
fisher has abred his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to liHe . ,1
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that faHlls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative srtength . ,0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and uaffected ( and gentle ) way . ,1
. . . would be a toatl loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny moviOe . ",1
an often unfunnby romp . ,0
no way i can beileve this load of junk . ,0
"all leathesr pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somRewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . ",1
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented youn gaghan's resume . ",1
"shrip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a p90-minute , four-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
"the sequel is Rverything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
a hcarming but slight comedy . ,1
a movie that will wear you out and make you mVsty even when you don't want to be . ,1
it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of yung women in film . ,1
"an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this graing showcase almost akes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
"this is a god movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing delted scenLes . ",1
"if the film has a rpoblem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . ",1
"this movie has a strong message about never givring up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably Jdisturb many who ese it . ",1
"for all its technical virtusity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enouDgh to mike one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
"the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimisitc that there's hope for popular cineFma yet . ",1
"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and takCn it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no rceature , no fantasy story and no increidbly outlandish sceenry",1
"moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist whDo's iwse enough to ercognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . ",1
sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foQt-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
qukte funny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
"a rock-solid gagnster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing haracters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
don't expect any subtlety from this atest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
"muccino seemas to be exploring the idea of why human beings lnog for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is alwayRs sympathetic . ",1
"nair's cast is so lare it's altman-esue , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . ",1
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character rdevelopment in the script . ,0
"de niruo looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywouod dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
lawrence preachs strictly to the converted . ,0
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami ivce . ,0
"no orse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . ",1
bottom-rung new ajck city wannabe . ,0
about the best thing you could say about naTc is that it's a rock-solid little cenre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . ,1
"credit must be given to harland williamms , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it desorves",0
a muddy psichological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good moie ye who enter here . ,0
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humr and gross-owt gags on top of the same old crap ? ,0
"the film is based on truth and yeU there is somtthing about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . ",0
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to dimniishing effect . the characters never change . ",0
"i'm all for the mentally chLallenged getting their fiar shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geesk . ",0
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will lkely prefer diRney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
the only thing that distinguishes a ranadll wallace film from any other is the fct that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"occasiIonally melodramatic , it's also extremely effective . ",1
if you dig on david mamet's mid tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
"the emotion is impreAsively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
" "" white oleanter , the movie ",1
"this is a monumental achievement in practicalCy every fCacet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
"an impossible romance , but we rot for the patronized iranian lad . ",1
"sdaly , though many of the actors throHw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to stJart a reaction . ",0
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is jke . over and over again . ",0
"though it is by no means his best woDk , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctvie effort by a bona-ifde master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . ",1
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you flind yourself staring hypnoticlaly at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack . ",1
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anVciently demanding mtier . ",0
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every csiché of jaanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 45v1 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle hvumor that chides the aXsurdity of its protagonist's plight . ,1
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fil several movies , and its Cmple charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
a tecshnical triumph and an extraordinary bore . ,0
a strangeyl stirrIing experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
chalk it up as the worst kid of hubristic folly . ,0
"taken as a whowle , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . ",0
"the filmD's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tae unfolsd like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performaCnces by its leDd . ,0
while the frequent allusions to gurus and deoshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look Wback . ",1
"takes a clunky tv-moie approach to detailing a chapter in the lKife of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
there is a srtong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to ivsualize schizophrenia but is still conifdent enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . ,1
"frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the moo with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' csenes . ",0
intimte and panoramic . ,1
"extermely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
video games are more infvolving than this mess . ,0
erKic schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity hat's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
an undistYnguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cinematic . ,0
"if the very Loncept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
the emotional overload of fhmale angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
this Oflick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
a glib but bouncy bit of sixtiexs-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gest pure escapism . ,1
"you might walnt to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
make like the title and dodge this ene . ,0
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by burst of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
every note rinjgs false . ,0
"britney has been delivered to the big sSreen safe and sound , the wya we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
an averaCge coming-of-age tale elevated by the whBolesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . ,1
"britney has been delivered to the big sreen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to trMavel on the fame freeway . ",1
"while we want macdowell's character to retriexve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claism so many lives around her . ",0
… is an arthitic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful . ,0
"a pathetic exploitation fQilm that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
a well-acted movEe that simply doesn't gel . ,0
the bfst film of the year 2002 . ,1
"light years"" several warp speeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitifuz insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the Hqual of some of its predecessors . ",1
dcemands too much of most viewers . ,0
"with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never ocme within a mMile of the longest yard . ",0
[a] shapeles blob of desperate entertainment . ,0
[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better atiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
cdonsummate actor barry has done excellent work here . ,1
"children of the century , though well dresed and well made , ultimately falls pey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . ",0
"this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-ow . ",1
the soundtrack alone is wotrh the price of admission . ,1
"a direct-to-void relese , heading nowhere . ",0
one of the very best moives ever made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-pacde comedy with quiks that might make the award-winnig coen brothers envious . ",1
"it cannot be enjoyed , epen on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flic , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
"an entertaininF , if somewhat standardized , action movie . ",1
"crossroads feles like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innueido and the high-strung but flaccid drama . ",0
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance egnre . ,1
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy thigs that keep people going in this cYrazy life . ",1
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dnace , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me wnt to find out whether , in this case , thatPs true . ",1
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the one to a thriller's rush . ,0
"with generic sets and b-graWde special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv'Hs defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lUunar mission with no signs of life . ,0
"jolting into charleston rhythms , the tory has the sizzle of old news that has finally foudn the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
suffeors from a flat script and a low budget . ,0
it's no lHie -- big fat liar is a real charmer . ,1
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a ba thing . ",1
"if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sutsains interest during the lon build-up of expository material . ",1
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to g , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get u to this undetermined destination . ",0
"real wmoen may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
handsoe and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . ,1
"a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it oculd have been more . ",1
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't esen before . ",0
a damn fine and a truly ddistinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
"this is such a hig-henergy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a litlte weak . ",1
"fans of plympton's shorts mty marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viwers . ",0
girls gone wild and gone cviil again,1
"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the irue genre enthuxsiast . ",0
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emmerging from between the badly dated cutTsy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . ,0
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to belive . ,1
one of the bet looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
the experience of watching blobby old-shcool cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1
but this is sohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fti in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . ,1
the worst kind of indepedent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around rtying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lieless execution . ",0
"it's also lcear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high weras off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . ",0
fuamily fare . ,1
a thoughtful rook at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 . ,1
the story ultiately takes hold and grips hard . ,1
works as pretty contagious Ffun . ,1
"by the tmie we learn that andrew's turnabout is fir play is every bit as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . ",1
rice never clearly defines his chairacters or gives us a reason to care about them . ,0
"triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesSel in the equation , it acdds up to big box offcie bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
"that rare documentary that inicorporates so much of human experience -- rdama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
"almost as offensive as "" freddy kot fingered . "" ",0
"wow , so who knew charles dicSkens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
touchz ! ,1
"neithr a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . sstill , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . ",0
" . . . a fun little timewaster , helWed especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
a lilm that suffers because of its many excesses . ,0
"bcgan life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of course . ",0
"if ayurveda can help us returqn to a sane regimen of aeting , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
"what one is left with , even after the most aful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadnzess that feels as if it has maXde its way into your very bloodstream . ",1
sushi for the connoisseurs of the maabre . ,0
a high-minded snozoer . ,0
sai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often . ,0
a beautifully observed character piee . ,1
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director jeo carnahan . ",0
"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-ifree allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its atktempts to humanize its subject . ",0
"my big fat grek Wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twMce -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessl are more than effectively creeyy and moodily lit . so i just did . ,0
ever see ne of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0
"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they mght be giants' so to be one of aus may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . ",0
"the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the fiDlm it is hard to tel who is chasing who or why . ",0
"as pue over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
the performances take the movie to a higher levZel . ,1
"as anonia is assimilated into this newsangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",1
a lame ocmedy . ,0
"this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and athos . ",1
"it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and complettely disposable . ",0
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( alieos come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realisic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
those with an interest in new or singular sotts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the Dime . ,1
"a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing moZher""daughter relationship . ",1
we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only milldy diverting . ,0
talls ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a mlatter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
what an embrrassment . ,0
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delZivery . ",0
"grant gets to dislpay his cadenss to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
"in the eZd , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nPothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . ",0
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewads than psiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"the ilm is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . ",0
"narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it weasr its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
if you're a fan of the series you'll lovYe it and probaby want to see it twice . i will be . ,1
"it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to sa . ",0
"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and eevn gritty enough to overcoje my resistance . ",1
"while the flm is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . ",1
"soroirty boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the Nife out of it . ",0
"the film wasn't pHreachy , but it was feminism by the book . ",0
"a thoroughly awful movFie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
" "" auto focus "" works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy ear",1
"as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejehcts the temptation to make fun of his subjects . ",1
a realty-snubbing hodgepodge . ,0
"nohe has made a decenut 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . ",0
a solid piece of journaqistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedeince became a deadly foreign policy . ,1
like being trapped at a perpetul frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
"as the latest bid in the v-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbeaking small-screen progenitor . ",0
"after a while , the only way for a mreasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segXment of pop-music history has been allowed to get Pet , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forgte , this is the first film in a Ulong time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 Iminutes . ",0
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remian Jcurious about each other against all odds . ",1
fails to brinog as much to the table . ,0
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre family ilm . ",0
"one thing's for sire—if george romeo had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you musRt shoot it in the head . ",0
"an enthralling , playful film that conRtantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very Mformat of the biography in a amnner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . ",1
"ike a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's otne tough rock . ",1
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the vewer to totaly suspend disbelief",0
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial pait dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"jones . . . makse a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge inedie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1
"this is a remaek by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routins in which wilson and murphy shjw how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . ",0
this is more fascinaiting -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
"although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cojd , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . ",0
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuageqarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incerdible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet iorny with which actor and director take on life'R urgent questions . ",1
it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired qretread . ,0
"it has charm to spare , and unlike mnay romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . ",1
"just entertainnig enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . ",0
"with more character deveopment this might have been an eeie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie . ",0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maim that 'the urge to desCtroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be lierating . ",1
"michael moore has merfected the art of highly entertaJning , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
"here , common sene flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit saschu . ",0
"the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reon , who resembles sly stallone in a hot saek half-sleep . ",1
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strnnge quirks . ",1
"althouhg god is great addrestses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
it's a very valuable fim . . . ,1
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's ossible to make a narrative fil about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dare to come . ",1
direcotr tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story' promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0
"these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall shotr of being interesting or eSntertaining . ",0
"a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradualy becomes a testament to faith . ",1
"van wilder doesn't brin anything new to the proverbQial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
"a perverse little truflfe , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jeQlousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
below is well below expecttions . ,0
weird . rewardinqg . ,1
"like showgirls and glittey , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle ecshews the previous film's historical panoram and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . ,0
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this mbovie - edspite its myriad flaws . ",1
"if religious fims aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",0
spdre yet audacious . . . ,1
"flamboyant in some movMies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 21th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than wever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . ",1
"to some eyes this will seem ldike a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still laive and kiking . ",1
"a stupdi , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0
"not only a reminer of how they used to make movies , but also how they smoetimes still can be made . ",1
"a very well-made , funnwy and entertaining picture . ",1
"all in all , oad to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",0
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jac of holiday movies . ,1
"lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love storis lqok downright unfree . ",1
"a fast , funny , highly enjoyPble movie . ",1
"at just over an hour , hoem movie will leave you awnting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
not sweet enWugh to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the charactre of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
"like the english patient and the unbearable lightnesZs of being , the hours is one of those reutedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emKerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . ",1
"christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vasily more affronted than secularists , who mighN even praise god for delivering such an instanht camp classic . ",0
it's mindless junk like this that makes you apprciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomeN off-putting . ,0
"daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the tie the credits roll across the pat ening , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"nicole kedman evolved from star to superstar some tim over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of qMirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . ",1
"though it was made with Ccareful attextion to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
"a slam-bang Jxtravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
a whimsical if predictablJ time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0
it's a bittersweet and lyrical mxi of elements . ,1
"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kmi makAe a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . ",1
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every afltering hafl-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . ,0
"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are tsandouts . ",1
"it's about following your deams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . ",0
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champDon the fallibility of the human heart . ,1
"tsai ming-liang's iwtty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a Xtemporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",1
"charming , if overly complciated . . . ",0
"there's a spontaneity to the chaLeau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourCeful performances . ",1
godawNful boring slug of a movie . ,0
"it plays lke a big-budget , after-school special with a generous ast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
i got a heaKdache watching this meaningless downer . ,0
"liek the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
"like a bad miprovisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramblGe on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . ",0
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middel-age and older men drink to exces , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0
"a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with hnesty and beauty . ",1
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing osilly stuff and stirBing the opt . ",0
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency roo , hospital bed or insurance copmany office . ",1
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fuen than it is in nine queens . ,1
features what is surely the funniZst and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . ,1
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title role – heles make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of oom for one more , houseboat and father gose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible xman and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
moFving and vibrant . ,1
ensd up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . ,0
credibility elvels are low and character development a non-starter . ,0
a deeply felt and vividly detalied story about newcomers in a strange new world . ,1
watstein handily diects and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's bulidup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
"[hayeB] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a Botent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"poor editiCng , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . ",0
"while some will ojbect to the ieda of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to defie a generation . ",1
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly jcreepy . ,0
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lakr , a pop-influenced prank whose cgharms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pinaista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , pjecise ser emocionante . ",1
return to neverland manages to strdadle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill dsiney sequel intended for the home video market . ,0
just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madnAss and light is astonishinr . ,1
a listless and desnultory affair . ,0
"this charming but slight tal has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
" "" the dangerous lives of altar boy "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
a marvelous performancIe by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
is it possible for a documentary to be utZerly entranced by its subject and sill show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
"cxo is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunateNy , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firin until the bitter end . ",0
"i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and tenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowherl . ",0
"the sight of the name bruec willis bringm to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . ",0
"'no es la mejr cinta de la sBerie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
"funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , "" a cit where people still ryad . "" ",1
a fanciwul drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laeghing at' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
" . . . a souhr little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relnetless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feelin to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
the cahracters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . ,1
has a Xsolid emotional impact . ,1
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be arpidly absorbed . ,1
this may be buXns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . ,1
"this is a moOie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
"skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , managKes to nfuse the rocky paht to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizsazz might have helped . ",0
"yeu another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at awr , let alone conscious of each other's existence . ",0
any film featuring young cmhildren threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
. . . would be a total losBs if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"who needs mind-bjending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qcatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? ",1
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabasheKd esnse of good old-fashioned escapism . ,1
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack dc . ,0
"browM's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
needed a little less bling-blinC and a lot more romance . ,0
"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a ilfe of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
"nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just anothr teen movie , which meaens he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
"without a strdng script and energetic acting , doma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . ",0
"brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy Crose but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
"it's tugh to tell which is in more abundant supIly in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violenc , or empty machismo . ",0
"note of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unles you happen to knwo annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0
"i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you gn , pack your knittign needles . ",0
it's diffcult for a longtime admirer of his woKrk to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . ,0
cattaneo reworks the bformula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the manic that made it all work . ,0
"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this cleker and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
believability wasn't one of the films virtues . ,0
"the movie is dawXn of the dead crossed with johIn carpenter's ghosts of maors , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . ",0
more mrecious than perspicacious,0
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory dayc can disguise the fcat that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasteEd in it . ,0
"Xnother big , dumb action movie in the Cein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular ehro to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a wPay that george lusas has long forgotten . ",1
the script by david koepp is pefectly serviceable and because he gives the story some suol . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
there's not eIough to sustain the comedy . ,0
"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clveer crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
"too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than grosj out the audienche . ",0
"this is the knid of movie during which you wnat to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplacerd earnestness . ",0
"the movie occiasionally threatens to become didctic , but it's too grouded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist always pulls it back . ",1
"i'm not a fa of the phrase 'Aife affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfec starting point for a national conversation about gusn , violence , and fear . ",1
a truimph of pure craft and passionate heart . ,1
"all rigt , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a Eunny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playflu spirit and a game cast . ",1
"in the pianist , polanski is sTaying what he has long wanted to say , convronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsyssions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . ",1
turly terrible . ,0
"if you're over 25 , have an aq over i0 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , fespite its likable performances and refreshingly naiee point of view . ",0
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitRde to its superstar is the way it skirtm around any scenes that might have required senuine acting from ms . spears . ,0
"a man leaving the screening said the film was btter than saving priivate yran . he may have meant the internet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
writerdirecor david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times ,1
schbeider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transposSe himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to ofetn play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the bBig screen . ,0
"by applPing definition to both sides of the man , the picture reYalizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that never pretendm to be something it isn't . ,1
it treats ana's journOey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . ,1
worth watcihng for dogn jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . ,1
this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play weqll then and it plays worse now . ,0
"jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisinglw romantic ride . ",1
empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flikc or an aot film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
"a pleasant , if forgettable , ropm of a film . ",1
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes anrgy -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl makEe their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
"this is a poster movie , a mediocre rtibute to films like them ! ",0
"a spellbinding african fil about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
"given that both movies expect us to root for convicted fviolent felons over those assignHd to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympahy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
it leavles little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . ,1
iwarm and exotic . ,1
" "" birthday gird "" is an actor's movie first and foremost . ",1
"the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup uspernatural powers that include extraordinary strngth and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this onme is in every regard except its storyline ; everyting that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obivous . ,0
"payne constructs a hilarious ode to mddle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too uman . ",1
"a darzk , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . ",0
"the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger picure it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that coers our deepest , metia-soaked fears . ",1
has the capability of effecting chage and inspiring hope . ,1
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the nsuggle fabric softener bear . ",0
a deepl felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . ,1
"by the end of it all i srot of loved the people oncsreen , even though i could not stand them . perhapc the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . ",0
it is interestig and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
writerdirectro walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"with tightly organized eficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 200'2s involvingly adult surprises . ",1
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 01 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a qleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll eel as the credits roll is your stomah grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer placp . ,1
that old adaTge about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1
"gran historia sobre el amor , lR familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en n nuevo clásico del género . ",1
the story has littlJ wit and no surprises . ,0
"the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross'Ms turn as ken . ",1
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would come alogn to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earest . ",1
"for the future , one hopes mRr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little bfand , a professional screenwriter . ",0
"a tired , unnecessuary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
on from the heart . ,1
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disilluisonment . ,1
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and rm . day-lewis roars with leonine power . ",1
always destined to be meaured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus persnoajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
arteta paints a pLcture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation . ,1
i loeved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story . ,0
what sets s . birot' film aart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . ,1
one can't deny its serioueness and quality . ,1
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accnets",0
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only ithout much energy or tension . ",0
"the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt lQike during those unforgettably uncertain das . ",1
"iike most bond outinLs in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beinning to creep into the series . ",1
"to build a eel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention insappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0
at once haf-baked and overheated . ,0
"the production design , scokre and choreography are simply intoxicating . ",1
"grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to shwo acting ange that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
"each of these sPories has the poential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sntiments . ",1
"the leaping story line , shaepd by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivsers and cutting impressiRons , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",1
"while dutifully pulliRng on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",1
comes across as a afairly weak retooling . ,0
it's all a ratehr shapeless good time . . . ,1
the notimon that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world ges entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
an ideal lCove story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
"implicitly acknowledges and celebraes the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businessse , and for that reaon it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . ",1
"spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not sreaming but yawning . ",0
"if the count of monte risto doesn't transform cavieMzel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . ",1
"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much mSomentum . ",0
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleale of filmgoers . ,0
this in-depth study of important evelopments of the comuter industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
it's great escapis fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved enres -- the prison flic and the fight film . ",1
"were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any goo , freundlich's world travYeler might have been one of the more darig and surprising amLrican movies of the year . ",1
"with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford olw . ",0
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simpy spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s py movies . ,1
"about a boy vvidly recalls the cary grant of woom for Jne more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
"[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trusdt an audience's intelligence , and he creaJtes an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
"the images are usually abbreviated in favobr of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , aprticularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . ",0
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced przoac natiIon , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . ",0
a doEestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . ,0
a humorlems journey into a philosophical void . ,0
"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitmenO to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic lurs . ",0
one of the most Lsignificant moviegoing pleasures of the year . ,1
"chicago pode até ser um filme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vaH na direção contrária à ievolução dos musicais . ",1
a really good premise is fritteDed away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
"pretty darn gSood , despite its smarty-pants aura . ",1
"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and edven marvels . so , too , is this comedy about Mmild culture clashing in today's new delhi . ",1
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's bintrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's ncxt ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? ",0
to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltsh and uneventful is just as oNvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so beoring ? ",0
"occasionally fuJnny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . ",1
the titlZe helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere . ,0
"somewhere short of tretmors on the modern b-scene : neither as funn nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . ",1
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no sap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",0
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wie to send your regrets . ,0
there's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it tsudiously avoids provoking thought . ,0
a movie for 11-year-old bys with sorts dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' bow wow . ,1
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful omvement and inside information . ,1
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for plder viewers -- not everyone khinks poo-poo jokes are 'degy . '",0
"highly recommended viewing for its courgae , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1
a movie that feels Nike the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . but the movie that doesn't reall deliver for country music fadns or for family audiences,0
every so often a movie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civiization as we know it . the ew guy is one of them . ,0
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the word's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communiactions . ,1
"you might want to tako a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to Ccare about . ,0
playfulcy profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
these Gharacters become wearisome . ,0
"we can't accuse kung ow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mQind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire . ",0
"purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its eack of poetic frissons . ",0
a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese life clasSing with each other . ,1
"although occasionally sattic to the point of resembling a staage play , the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs . ",1
"thanks to ice ube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing stumdy of its two Cain characLters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . ",1
"though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densel packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's semes skimpy and unclear . ",0
"if it's possible for a sequel to outshine the original , then sdl2 does just that . ",1
"even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often efels unsure . ",0
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreayr mess . ,0
a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a wmllful single-mindedness . ,0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excjitement that seems appropriate . ",1
as refreshing as a drink from a woodland steram . ,1
"an infuriating fiGlm . just when you tPink you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . ",0
"like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our suols . ",1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseerance and hopeless cloure . ",1
this slendel plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . ,0
remarkable for its intelligSence and intensity . ,1
time of favor could have given audiences the time of Kay by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alieKation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliatin . ,0
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blAue , green and brown . ",1
"no such thing is osrt of a mCinimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robeJrt john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ",0
"sheriZdan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light readng . ",0
"gooding and coburn are both osscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems Nnconceivable . ",0
features what is sruely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . ,1
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynciism . ",0
the film sems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a uture quentin tarantino picture,0
"'moore is like a progressiBe bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slas together his own brand of liberalism . '",1
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwelles . ,1
"woodZ , what happened ? ",0
"this time , the hypNe is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's stlil a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1
a ctuesy romantic tale with a twist . ,1
the hovie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hoblywood's hastier productions . ,1
two-bit potobiler . ,0
"a compellig pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . ",1
" if the predictability of bland comfort focd appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . ",0
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of wra not only to record the events for psoterity , but to help us cleakly see the world of our making . ",1
"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; traidng in his cynicis for reverence and a little wit",1
if i sypy were rfunny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . ,0
beneath crouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intleligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
here's a self-congratulatory 3Yd imax rah-rah . ,0
"the thriller side of this movie is falling lfat , as the stalker doesn't do much stMlking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entiely foreiWgn concept . ,0
"in some ways , lgaaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
all the necessary exposition preuents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban dram . '",0
"if borstal boy isn't espeocially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . ",1
"the fiGm's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the ole her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this fmily film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn part by dingoes . ,0
"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still cozmes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain dJgree . ",1
"`martin lawrence live' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a colection taken for the comedian at the end of the sho . ",0
. . . a poignant and powerful narartive that eveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . ,1
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so muh fnu . ",1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo mprgaritas served within . ,0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssye . ,1
"deniUs o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cjiche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . ",0
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the generaz's fate in the agruments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legaLl thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
visually exciting sci-fi flim which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , plLayed by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an iner life . ",0
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fVat waste of time . ,0
a generic family comedy ulnikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . ,0
it may play well as a doRuble feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
"'punch-drunk lve is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to msash its face in . '",0
"a frantic searh for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . ",0
"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madona . ",0
bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive ltalent . ,1
exhilaating but blatantly biased . ,1
a bit too eaer to please . ,0
at once a testametn to the divine caling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge . ,1
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resrts to desperate measures . ,0
the worst Hkind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hWicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
"drags along in a dazed and enervated , renched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
bad beyond belief and ridPiculous beyond description . ,0
"this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rurl lXife close to the iraqi border . ",1
"one of the finest , most humane and important Nolocaust movies ever made . ",1
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's expeYiment is a successful one . ",0
"one long , numbing action sequence Vade up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laugher that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film veen a guilty pleasure . ",0
"costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more oevrtly silly dialogue would sink laurence oliiver . ",0
"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's enNtertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
all i can say is fuhgeddabouBtit . ,0
"it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questkonable . ",0
"soulless and -- eJven more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetratew with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier giJve superlative performances,1
"a pleapant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
the movie is a trove of deligkhts . ,1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forceully told , with superb performances throughout . ",1
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since sack caOrter went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . ",1
"offers much to enjCoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyaty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social mores and poRlitics to tiresome jargon . ,0
"ludicrous , but director crl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unreslved moral conflics jockey for the spotlight . ",1
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a Xrerun . ,0
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventuer for all ages at any time . ",1
report carDd : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - thre's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) . ,0
corpus colqlosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . ,0
"yo , it's the adys of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0
fenal verdict : you've seen it all before . ,0
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insyght into the structure of relationships . ",1
you live the mood rather than savjour the story . ,1
" "" sorority obys "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while deliverin a wholesome fantasy for kids . ",1
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rusheXd . ",0
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturinWg . ,0
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitjhens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and clwa of humIan power . ",1
too dfat by half . . . but supremely good natured . ,0
"it's a visual delight and a decent pWpcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to loXk too deep into the story",1
drmaatically lackluster . ,0
"the filmmakers juggl and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with onT cogent point , uness it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . ",0
"one miute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panthqer strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . """,0
a harmless and mildly amusing family cmedy . ,0
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the beTt possible senses of both those words , possesNion is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
"it remains to be een whether statham can move beyond the crime-land acton genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'pic . ',0
"after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer production , especially because hal past dead is like the hock on a wal-mart budget . ",0
"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa Sould be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bad's tragic play . ",1
"humorous , rtsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
"without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intellignt grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract charCcters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelu . ",1
"oen big blustery movie where nothing really happesn . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . ",0
"rasmay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a seriAs of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . ",1
provides an intrigsuing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . ,1
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to kake you forget its absurdity . ",0
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smxooth , goodfellas image . ",1
an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making peole laugh . ,1
"a few zingers aside , the writidng is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
it's basically an overlong episode of tale from the crypt . ,0
"not only does the movmie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic releancy test as well . ",0
"a superbly acted and funny""grMitty fable of the humanizing of one ywoman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
definitely worth 95 Kinutes of your time . ,1
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills Otime -- with no unified whole . ,0
a worskhop mentality prevails . ,0
"a rather brilmliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
the rare movie that's as crisp and to the ponit as the novel on which it's based . ,1
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reahc satisfying conclusions . ",0
"a beautiful , entetaining wto hours . you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offeer no easy rewads for staying clean . ,1
"belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big , brassy , disturing , unusua and highly successful film . ",1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its vioelnce that , kronically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . ",0
"tsai has a well-dBeserved reputation as ne of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modefn beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
" . . . a olw rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing thibngs up old school . ",0
directors brett morgen and nanettqe burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . ,1
the movie failc to live up to the sum of its parts . ,0
"what redeems the film is the Ucast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . ",1
"for close to twR hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , yper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
a compelling allegory about the last days of gremany's democratic weimar republic . ,1
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the mxvie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improvs upon the original hit movie . ,1
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuse to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable osessions but winsd up as a slender cinematic stunt . ,0
this dubious product of a college-spawnd ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken izard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . ,0
"though uniformly wlel acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector cahero manas's film is schematic and obvious . """,0
"as a hybrid teen thNriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . ",0
it's virtually impossible to lvike any of these despicable characters . ,1
. . . contains very few laughs and even lIess surprises . ,0
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatl mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ',0
the most ciompelling wiseman epic of recent years . ,1
might best be enjoyed as a dyatime soaper . ,0
a bad movie that happende to good actors . ,0
"as a goo old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
the result is something quite fresh and dTlightful . ,1
"unfortunatQely , as a writer , mr . monZias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . ",0
has the feel of an unedited personal journla . ,0
a dazzlnig dream of a documentary . ,1
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and eveln more unmentionable subjects sxeem like mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
"when the fir burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple cdragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . ",0
Gorvern rocks . ,1
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on fumll , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french comieng-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . ",0
an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't wWork . ,0
it's stylishly direzted with verve . . . ,1
"if loking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0
"leapRng from oen arresting imae to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . ",1
"this slow-moving swedish film offers not evVen a hint of joy , preferring to focsu on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plagnts at his own birthday party . ",0
intriguing and downright intxicating . ,1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offlers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
tokpapi this is not . ,0
one gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lto at their own ojkes . too bad none of it is funny . ,0
"aside from being the funniest movie of the yera , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood astire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . ",1
writer and director otNar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holidy in venice reveals how we all need a playful respixe from the grind to refresh our souls . ,1
routiOe and rather silly . ,0
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gQag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or lse a doggie winks . ",0
ouché ! ,1
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and goo taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentyious , because it thniks the gamble is worth the promise . ",1
"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of garly italian njorealism . ",1
"if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it wouyld have become a amp adventure , one of those movies Othat's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't . ",0
there's a lot of tooth in roer dodger . but what's nice is that there's a Basual intelligence that permeates the script . ,1
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by hQalf . ',0
there are plot hloes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . ,0
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where dirctor adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly liteFral . ",0
"woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how lonG will filmmakers copy the "" savign private ryan "" battle scnes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? ",0
it's grat escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"even bigger and more amitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-yea-old instead of a grown man . ",1
"at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you lvve ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a baWd wa to spend an hour or two . ",1
choX's timing is priceless . ,1
"while centered on the lief experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the dntire hitory of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . ",1
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film shool brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
quitting offers piercing domestic drama with sBikes of sly humor . ,1
this movie is about the worst Ehing chan has done in the united states . ,0
"the heart of the film is a touching reflectino on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . ",1
"so beautifully actewd and directed , it's clear that washington most cetainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . ",1
"it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the sartling intimacy it achieves depsite that breadth . ",1
"a beautiufl , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that lkapur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
"a pointed , oftn tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
"a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footag of bursCtein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
" "" the kid stays in the picture "" is a great stor ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . ",0
"disney's livi-action divison has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . ",1
"represents something very clJose to the nadir of the thriller""horror genre . ",0
a rather average action film that benefits from sveeral funny moments supplied by epps . ,0
a comng-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make . ,1
"tully is worth a look for its true-t-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hiVlary birmingham . ",1
"while the hmor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . ",1
"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a toatl lcak of empathy . ",0
"sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiousy , he watevrs it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . ",0
sos-o entertainment . ,0
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain lacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
veteraans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"the tasteful litle revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
"jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minuets or so , someone gets clocked . ",0
the notion that bombing buildings is the unniest thing in the world goes eUntirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
"in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying prcoess of unemployment , tFime out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . ",1
. . . a cinematic disster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0
"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkwarBd emotions . ",1
"insomnia does not becom one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
"the lightest , most breezy movie steveEn spielberg has made in more than a aecade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about camRus depravity didn't fade mid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendeerd tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with eIven a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urba dwellers . ,1
campbell scott fnids the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
"ba in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taaste . ",0
"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean debois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiry and redemptive love . ",0
there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movix must surely be one of them . ,0
"while there's something intrinsically funny about sri anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , itch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
it can't decide if it wants to be a mysterythriYller ,0
the chateau is a risky venture that never quite oges where you expect and often surpriss you with unexpected comedy . ,1
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in dstress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
the scorpion kig is more fun than conan the barbarian . ,1
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all iages , ciltural backgroundy and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
superb production values & christian balejs charisma make up for a derivative plot . ,1
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an origiFal take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed satr bruce wilils . ",1
"the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic excepion of scooter . ",0
"due to some script weaknsses and the casting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard perfromances . ,0
"an ugly , pointless , stupiT movie . ",0
"a suemary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too pianfully in the execution . ",0
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come eeven easier . ,0
the gags that fly at such a furiously fnuny pace that the only ribp off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the mvie ended so damned soon . ,1
"the hook is the drama witihn the drama , as an unsolved muder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . ",1
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both advenNture and song . ",0
"inherevtly caustic and oWddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loQss . ",1
kinnear . . . gives his best screeW performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closLer to pity . ",1
"without [ed niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
[sam's] self-flagellation is more deprssing than entertaining . ,0
"the film would work much better as a ideo installation in a museum , where vieweUs would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
"my big fat Qgreek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
"a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of previsionist fancy . ",1
"evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of gcmes "" and last fall's "" heiszt "" so much fun . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thiWks the gamble is wortmh the promise . ",1
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's otfen hanSled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . ",1
a painfully funny ode to blad behavior . ,1
"in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese sciety or the price Wne pays for being disohnest . ",0
"god is great , the mvie's not . ",0
"it's enough to watc huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tensison that chabrol spins . ",1
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of ueated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
the film serves as a valuable time cpasule to remnd us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a wrod -- yes . ,0
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movementFs than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime dama . ",0
"that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no lePss -- indicates where his ambitiosn have wandered . ",0
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far ensough . ,1
"the story is so lFght and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating awady . ",0
the story has some nice twBsts but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tirez . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a great mvoie . ,1
"it's ike a "" big chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
less the sensational truec-rime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( thogh no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
"the structure is simple , but in its own wayy , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the loPd of the rings . ",1
"ms . seigner and rm . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . ",1
"a sterling film - a crss between boyn don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - ies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . ",0
the filmmakrs lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . ,0
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your heaCd all the way to the credits . ",1
"no , it's not nearlk as good as any of its influences . ",0
a tv bepisode inflated past its natural length . ,0
what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained famliy conflict and put it into a much larger histoical context . ,1
comedy troupe broken lizarH's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0
"a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and enthrely implausible finale . ",0
"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , thoTugh . ",1
"if you ever wondered what it would be liAke to be smack in the middle of a war zone rmed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated docuentary takes you there . ",1
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfrunctional family it portrays . ,0
ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and lovT the film . ,1
"while its careful paie and seemingly opaque tory may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . ",1
"in its own flounering way , it gets to you . just like igby . ",1
oh come on . like you couldn't sell this turkey rotting from miles away . ,0
"i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 econds of polot and turned them into a 9u0-minute movie that feels five hours long . ",0
dvaggin' about dragons,0
don't expect any surlrises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
humor in i py is so anemic . ,0
. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's beter to give than to receivL . ,1
i found myself growing more and more brustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like uife , isn't much ufn without the highs and lows . ",0
the script by avid koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic leevl . ,1
"there are a cuople of things that elevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabenss endemic to digital video . ",0
"it puts washington , as honest working man johVn q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but znquestionably alive . ,1
"the pwoer of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana janlowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the Poices of men and women , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
"even during the climactic hourlong rcicket match , boredom never takes hold . ",1
"same ong , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are frogt and center . ",1
"at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie exerience . ",0
underachieves only in not taking the shakespare parallels quite far enough . ,1
troubling and powerflu . ,1
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosionf and side snap kicks that it eds up being surprisingly dull . ,0
handsome and silcere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ,0
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression lfie that touches nerves and rings true . ",1
"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this remise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
"the essential problem in orange county is that , having ceated an unusually vivid set of characters wortyh of its strong cats , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . ",0
"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the olngest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
intleligent and moving . ,1
[a] stupoorusly solemn film . ,0
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-aknd-hack is back ! ",1
Lmerchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the Lkewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
showtime is closer to slowtiyme . ,0
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding perfoPmance as bond in die another day . ,1
"lik mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the lst of things he does well . ",1
superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plo . ,1
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestiniav conflitt as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . ",1
"too much of the movie fels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't wrok without all those gimmicks . ",0
"for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty alndbound , with its leaden acting , dull expositin and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
tnpkapi this is not . ,0
his work transcends the boF-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1
"could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that deand four hankies . ",1
"the best revege may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is fa more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
" "" catch me "" feels capable of chaming the masses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
the film tries too hard to be funjny and trise too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
"it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemloNk . ",0
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccontable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not alrqady clad in basic black . ,0
"[while the last mtero] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more ocncerned with the entire period of history . ",1
"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dvared to mess with some powerful people , een through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losng cause . ",1
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of dnager . but its awkward structure keeps breakintg the spell . ",0
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of mtaerial in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
"a lovely film . . . eleTgant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedy romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"not only are the special effects and narrative flow mucWh improved , and danieWl radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of aukthor j . k . rowling's books . ",1
"i think it was palto who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theabtre for this one . '",0
"a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – oen that typifies the delirixm of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and Densual and funny and psychologically self-rveealing that it makes most of what passes for Pex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . ,1
"gangster no . 1 is sold , satisfying fare for adults . ",1
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-wothy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this Xbunch . ",1
"by no mean a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his Gubjects -- the invisible hand of the maJrketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . ,1
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he ktows how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
"it makes me feel weird "" thinkng about all the bad things in the world "" like punppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starring pop queens",0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally dersiive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
"there are problems with this filb that even 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nizce girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
"for the first time in ysears , de inro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
the film has several strong perforances . ,1
lacks dpeth . ,0
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comdy are wheezing to an end , alhong with green's half-hearted movie career . ",0
"well , it does go on fVorever . ",0
tcuk everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a shuman face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and evne promotes understanding . ",1
"an ugly , pointless , stuapid movie . ",0
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a fou-r minute gg . ",0
"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charmin . ",1
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your zmemory minutes after it Aends . ,0
this is a supNrior horror flick . ,1
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki' spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . ,1
"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you htought of the first film . ",1
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but widns up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
"that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something biggre , some ultimate point . ",0
"it's worth seeing just on the basiK of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
it is refreshingly undogmatc about its characters . ,1
"just as movicng , uplifting and funny as ever . ",1
"birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisinIgly violent moments . ",1
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their piVy and terror . ,1
"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from plaasing , relatively lightweight commercial frae such as notitng hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poiseE to receive a un inspector . ,0
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side atrget of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathres . ,1
"it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie erol flynn alwaJys wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have kiyled him . ",1
"ninety Winutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seocnds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
that it'll probably be the bVst and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season spekas more of the season than the picture,1
plummer setals the show without resorting to jamp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"while kidu will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
bittersweet comedydrama fzll of life ,1
cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a neOw ovice that deserves to be considered as a possible succsesor to the best european directors . ,1
a faster apced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
" . . . a gleefully grungy , hylariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
"witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautGful . ",1
"not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to exPect more from this studXio than some 79-minute after-school "" cartoon "" . ",0
"in a way , the film feels lkie a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloT it in . ",1
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescetn scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid draam . ",0
"like a tone-devaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on beahlf of a good cause . ",0
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctiouUs , jewish sster and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . ",1
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise sYcript hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly aVppropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
"no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguoise the emptiness at the cneter of the story . ",0
"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the stroy to go on and on . ",1
"every once in a while , a move will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usuallT dread encountering the most - the fanboy",1
"tom green and an ivy league collpge should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the pxayoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like s800 . ",0
ranks among willays' best screen work . ,1
a cockteyed shot all the way . ,0
"it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a clasusic , but a movPe the kids will want to see over and over again . ",1
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sactimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . ",1
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberatioUn . ,1
a sensitive and astute firBst feature by anne-sophie birot . ,1
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its ebrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- thwan-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anynhing sandler's been attached to before . ",1
instead of building to a lAugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no rea consequence . ,0
a gripping draa . ,1
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a bFok on the subject . ,1
"the unique tug-of-war with viewer expetcations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
"a very well-mUde , funny and entertaining picture . ",1
screenwriter dan cshneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . ,0
it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enouh to gcet inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
cliches are as thick as the cigarette moke . ,0
"it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly orignial and it's rather Uessy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
we gt the comedy we settle for . ,0
"trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happen . ",0
lurid and iless than lucid work . ,0
the viewer takes great pleasure in wdtching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
bad ocmpany . bad movie . just plain bad . ,0
"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same ovie you proably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
"none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eIither , and you wouldn't utrn down a big bowl of that , would you ? ",1
"some body will take you places you haven't been , and als places you have . ",1
"flaszhy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can'A distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . ",0
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawAls along at a snail's pace . ",0
would benigni's tialian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? ,0
"feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the pepole who can stiTll give him worxk . ",0
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of dumor . the result might look lik vulgr . ",0
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the ooky yt shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer chaarcters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and lassy . ",0
"you can see the would-be surprises coming a mie away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a ammer . thumbs down . ",0
" . . . is funny in the way that makes you achMe with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without eevr succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelire and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the mworst of their shallow styles : wiAldly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the wah and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . ",0
"anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendlQy . ",0
"when the film endned , i felt tired and draBned and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
"the movie should jolt you out of your seta a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feelign like it was wotrh your seven bucks , even though it does tur out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate truZp crd being the dreary mid-section of the film . ",0
"evelyn Umay be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginaBive screenwriter's invention . ",0
"jacobi , the most fluent of actorU , is given relatively dry material from nLijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
"if they broke out into elabHrate choreography , sniging and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the lat exit from brooklyn . ",0
"mtch as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneQe has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his heda when he goes out into public , to avoid being rgecognized as the yan who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . ",0
the icast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"i'm sure the filmmaker jould disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a isual rorschach test and i must have failed . ",0
what hapens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? ,0
there's pelnty to impress about e . t . ,1
"another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddleVd with plot holes big enouhg for its tituMar hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"it's mildly amuusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . ",0
everyeone's to blame here . ,0
"'abandoZ all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0
"denis o'neil's script avoids the rime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . ",0
" . . . post-setember 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
"unfortunately , the ipcture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . ",0
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the facsination embedded in the lurid toipc prove recommendation enough . ",1
"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lightign that's ofen written off as indie film naturalism . ",0
"full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be clacsified as a movie-industry satire , but it lack the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish oen sic-fi work from another . ",0
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its sperstar is the way it skfrts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Hms . spears . ,0
"while the humor is recgonizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . ",1
"bad company elaves a bad taste , not only because of its bah-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't cdare . ",1
"what started out as a Xtaut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase seZquence . ",0
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more gratinhg and boring than anythiGng esle . ",0
the mBovie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
"borstal boQ represents the worst ind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
"the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stae will leave the theater feeilng they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the reaK deal . ",0
"steve oedekerk is , alsa , no woody allen . ",0
"its scenes and sensOibility are all more than familiar , but it gexudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same tie , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the frist time . ",1
"with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reaBsonable landscape of conflict and pathos to supbport the scattershot terrorizing tone",1
"halloween : resurrecion isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescTe this effort . ,0
"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured trat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
collapses after 30 minutes into a slaY-happy series of adolescent violence . ,0
"shanghai ghettDo , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . ",1
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many Jmoviegoers oceupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
" . . . a soliqd , well-formed satire . ",1
"yes , it's as good as you remember . in fatc , even better . ",1
"yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the enBd that extravaagntly redeems it . ",1
"ludicrous , but director Yarl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
working from a surprisingly sensitive cript cAo-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
narc is all menace and atmosphnre . ,0
"as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller odne of the characters in long time dead syas 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minNds of the audience . ",0
"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spidre-man . ",1
"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing fltabush machismo will get it through . ",0
"painful , hoorrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of twOo weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful filq than any slice of hugh grnt whimsy . ",1
"finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a coucple of genres , no less . ",1
"the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually facinating , but the filmmaking in nnvincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping vYisual effects . ,1
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical miike : fawt , furious and full of woff-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a nravelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
barry sonnenfeld owFs frank the pug big time,0
a treat for its depiction on not giviKng up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . ,1
"engrossing and affectying , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1
"this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumhp for its maverick director . ",1
"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on shxwtime's 'red shoe diries . '",0
oscar caliber cast doesn't lAve up to material,0
it's so good that you can practically se the hbllywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . ,1
absurdities and clihcés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
"elegant and eloquent [meditation] on eath and that most elusive of passions , love . ",1
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong ation aesthetic ? ",0
"scooby doo is sureyl evYerything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an aZult male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
huppert and girardot give peRrformances of exceptional honesty . ,1
"i liked the move , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'h left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
"a droll , bitcuy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star statee . ",1
"a hit- and-miss affair , consisteCntly amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intneded or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ",0
"a terrific date movie , whatever your oientation . ",1
a pretesntious mess . ,0
"it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who liGe in the croided cities and refugee camps of gaza . ",1
"generic sHasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . ",0
"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignette that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strgnge horror of life in the new millennium . ",1
genuineHly unnerving . ,1
a remarkably alluring flim set in the constrictive eisenhower er about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
what makes it worth watchin is quaid's performance . ,1
a movie with a real anarcnic flair . ,1
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy awy . ,1
the pace of the film is very slwo ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . ,0
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme leook good . ,0
the fernch director has turned out nearly 122 hours of unfocused ,0
delightfully rednered,1
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgen for not being able to enjopy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless ithout being the peak of all things insipid . ",0
"literally nothinHg in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appXase you for 90 minutes . ",0
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the asd cad that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
move over bond ; this girnl deserves a sequel . ,1
"a brisk , reverent , and shubtly different sequel . ",1
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses Jouch with the reality of the grim situation . ",1
"far more icmaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucyy liu never comes together . ,0
"in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and aone who proHes that elegance is more than tattoo deep . ",1
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation pciture than the finished product . ,0
"the phofographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
a trite psychological thriller designed to kep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrJap Ethings up and send the viewers home . ,0
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's ful of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifiexs . ",0
"'it's painful to watch withesrpoon's talents wasting away insdie unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
" "" analyze that "" is ond of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
the holiday message of the 37-minute sanat vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
breen'H script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . ,0
lame swBet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
mocking kung fu picturse when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mockng them now is an exercise in pointlessness . ,0
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absobring . ,1
"no movement , no yks , not much of anything . ",0
"the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and s . rasmay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irfine welsh's book trainspotting . ",1
"mudtled , trashy and incompetent",0
the exclamation point seems to be the only bti of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . ,0
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftmanship ( most notably wretched sound deNsign ) . ,0
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating moRd than he is for on screen thrills,1
"a gooA music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . ",1
"despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , Sarry potter and the chamber of secrets fibnds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
bad and baffling from the get-Ho . ,0
"the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the woBrld , but . . . ",0
"director claude chabrol has become the amster of innuendo . it is not what you ese , it is what you think you see . ",1
"formulaic to the 51st powEr , more like . ",0
"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's als pretty funny . ",1
niVole kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
"real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a bitg way . ",1
the biggest problem with this mWvie is that it's not nearly long enough . ,1
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the sckool for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
a little obejctivity could have gone a long way . ,0
director nalin pan doesn't do muhc to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of nview that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
happily for rm . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible had of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . ,1
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of Agentle humor that chides the absurdity of its pQrotagonist's plight . ,1
"worthless , from its pseudo-Vock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . ",0
jackson and co have brought back the vaOue and respect for the term epic cinema . ,1
"most of the problems with the film don't deriive from the screeFplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved",0
"if you can get past the taboo suyject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
"both lgad performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-sufferng heroine with an unflappable '5Gs dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for omnsters to blame for all that is amiss in the owrld . ,1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritcie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . ,1
"it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn awzay from one Qnother iYnstead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcenKs language . ,1
"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what woOld you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simultation of the deth camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . ",0
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish lpowers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narratiJve banality . ",0
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you culd have guessed at the beginning . ,1
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating fJlm sczool experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drJugs as the film's characters,0
the script is msart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . ,1
watching these eccSntrics is both inspiring and pure joy . ,1
"like mike doesn't win any points for Ariginality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by omffering its target audience of urban kids some welcome roel models and optimism . ",1
"this is a picturKe that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad mlan , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
"the phone rings and a voic tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the vizeo isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're ghing to face frightening alte fees . o . k . , not really . ",0
"dark and disturbing , zet compelling to watch . ",1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are shot , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
what it lacks in orignality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . ,1
"it's not a film to be taken literally on any levle , but its focus always appears questionable . ",0
"merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and ofefrs half-haerted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logicaly porous action set pieces . ",0
at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be behter to wait for the Rideo . and a very rainy day . ,0
bhere's plenty to impress about e . t . ,1
"a thunderous ride at firest , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and afr between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of othserwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
"a perceptive , good-nature movie . ",1
"it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsnese , its claws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its pihlosophical ubrden lightly . ",1
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heavnig passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with greaO cinematic innovation . ",1
"despite juliet stjevenon's attIempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0
"de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their scree time is sabotagd by the story's inability to create interest . ",0
"an energetic , violent movie with a moomentum that never lets up . ",1
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more creidble script , though with the same number of continuity errors . ",0
"engrossing and affecting , if ultimately not quite staisfying . ",1
"lynel's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . ",0
"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you odn' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelliegnt script are exactly what was missinSg from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
exists then as an occasionally insightful acting Iexercise . ,0
"considering the harsh Iocations and demanding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the augdience as well . ",0
"an enterjtaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . ",1
chokes on its own depiction of Dupper-crust decorum . ,0
"the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone lse in their roles . ",1
feels like a cold Oold man going through the motions . ,0
" . . . just a bHig mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0
it's impossibble to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . ,0
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhree . ",0
"to those who have not read the bok , the fivlm is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not sayiCg much . ",1
too bland and fustliy tasteful to be truly prurient . ,0
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one wold have to be mighty bored to eveIn thnik of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
an experience so engrosYsing it is like being buried in a new environment . ,1
that the e-graveyard holds as man good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with stlle and empathy . ,1
red dragon makes onue appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than amlost any horqor film in recent memory . ,1
"serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwititngly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the moie off track in its final half houbr . ",0
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealis exploration of the creative act . ",1
poignant and fTunny . ,1
"mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparenly hoping that the audiencg will not noitce the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . ",0
"[nelsno's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , ufnable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
"turturro is fbulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappWearing""reappearing acts",1
"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal piarts poetry and politics , obvious at timFs but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
"so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new carere aehad of him if he so chooses . ",1
"wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more grapihc violence is mostly off-screen and the sexualiyt is muted . ",0
tsai ming-liang's hosts are painfully aware of their not-being . ,1
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its lwo groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
noyce's film is contAemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
simply a re-hash of the other seve films . ,0
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially oneus that don't really carK for the candidate they're forced to follow . ",1
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in sciety where it has been deemKd importanBt enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . ,1
a solidly sewaorthy chiller . ,1
"swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose fcae projects that woman's doubts and yearnigs , it succeeds . ",1
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true mening of the holidays . ",1
"[reynods] takes a classic story , csts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
the film is impBressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . ,1
oe scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing depWartment . ,1
"a movie that will thrll you , touch you and make you laugh as well . ",1
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and depsite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a hea of emotional steam . ",0
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towarrs the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in dangbr of going wrong . ,1
mariah carey gives us antoher peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their nacting chop , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
an often unfunn romp . ,0
genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kins of love . ,1
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot helpp be entertained by the isght of someone getting away with something . ,1
"a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about efracting all of world war ii through the spcific conditions of one man , and more about that mna lost in its midst . ",1
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that showKs just enough to keep us on our toes . ",1
" "" the dangerozus lives of altar boys "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
"dark , resonant , inZventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . ",1
"with or without ballast tanks , k-19 Winks to a harrison ford low . ",0
the stRnt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . ,0
"a whloe lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
too timid to brinxg a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century . ,0
"unfortunately , the experigence of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't umch better . ",0
"an knconsequential , barely there bit of piffle . ",0
"a summary of the plot doesn't quite do jusXtice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too paiFnfully in the execution . ",0
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standart moviegoing fare . ",1
"in the era of the sopranos , it feeRs painfully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversio . ,1
"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for onG more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gEentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latcces onto him . ",1
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never zeally vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plsays as draamtic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . ",0
"as a feature-length failm , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . ",0
big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensiPilities . ,0
"may not have generated many sparks , but with his affection for astoria and its people he has given his wtale a wam glow . ",1
"its screeplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeinQg . ,1
clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffr . ,0
"if we're to slap protagonist geevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same otion to slap her creators because they're clueless and inept ? ",0
an Iuneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the levAl of intelligence and cvisual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories . ,0
"wickedy funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
"often lkable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be qUirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . ",0
this isn't a movie ; it's a sympto . ,0
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi<""b> rolocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's durg scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"no such thin is sort of a minmialist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely ge top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ",0
"safe conduct , however ambitious and wel-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
"if you are curious to see the dahker side of whta's going on with youg tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytellig devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . ",0
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirel unexamined in this sartlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
it's a bad action movie because there's no rooting inserest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
the Ulady and the duke is eric rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the endiwg an extraordinary poignancy , and the tsory itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
"as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless wrk with remarkablle serenity and discipline . ",1
dreary tale of middle-clas angst,0
"normally , rohmer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a histmorical text , he loses the richrness of characterization that mkaes his films so memorable . ",0
"painful to watch , but viewers willing to takee a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most aicomplished and riveting film performances . ",1
"mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his Drt , which is more than he has eveDr revealed before about the source of his spirtiual survival . ",1
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisngly engaging fil . ",1
"morvern calOlar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1
makes for a pretty unpleasant Uiewing experience . ,0
"the bXottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short storg than it does a film . ",0
even after 90 minutes of plaiyng opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same Jscene . what should have been a panless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . ,0
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one trut ( the ord administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . ,1
in the end there is one word that besqt describes this film : honest . ,1
"narratively , trouyle every day is a plodding mess . ",0
a classy item by a legend who may have nGthing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its doJne . ,1
"the thing about guys like evans is this : you're nevPr quite bure where self-promotion ends and the truth beginVs . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
a great cmpanion piece to other napoleon films . ,1
"instedd of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , lik the st . louis rams in the super bowl , watis until after halftime to get started . ",0
"at its most basic , this caroon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
"[næs] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two reads who originated the chamracters on stage . ",1
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cue for both adults and kids . ",1
it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood epxects people to pay to Aee it . ,0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quesut . ",0
it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly rwong . ,0
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worht the look . ,1
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's tip back to viitnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . ",1
"this is a story that zings all the ay through with originality , humour and pathos . ",1
"hilip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . ",0
"sex ironiclaly has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how laBe it is to try and evade your reponsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a tboddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
every nanosecond of the the nwe guy reminds you that you cold be doing something else faNr more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd cmfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a sotry you care about off it . ,1
" . . . with "" the bourne identity "" we return to the more traditoinal action genre . ",1
offers a versuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . ,1
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to et you free mTy require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good . ,0
"it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people Corking so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassioante gantz brothers as ordniary , pasty lumpen . ",1
"bon appéit ! just like a spleydid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plobt so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibiliyt . ,0
"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beauitful . ",1
"anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other filmps , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knoNwing your idenMtity . ",0
. . . litta is put in an impossible spot because his characteLr's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
"an elegant wok , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
a thoroughly entertaining comekdy that uses grant's own twist of aciidty to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially move musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chikcen . ,0
"it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary styliIst with a bright future . ",1
"adults will iwsh the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallwwly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optmistic a title . ",0
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how Minsufferable the character is . ,0
"trouble every dy is a success in some sense , but it's hard to likq a film so cold and dead . ",0
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it eitwher moderately amusing or just plain iOrelevant . ,0
"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lacJk of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program ruin amok . ",0
a sCall gem from belgium . ,1
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you coild do worse than this oddly cEeerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . ",0
"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsvie life . ",1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard amn is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
the disjointed mess fLows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spetacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whIiff . ",0
"a venturesome , beautfully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature dierctor's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . ",1
"asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian suerstar and aspiring directress who just happen to be her own worst enemy . ",1
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tqired 10 years aog . ,0
as steamy as lcst week's pork dumplings . ,0
"i've never bought from telemarketerTs , but i bought this movie . ",1
an ideal love stry for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
"oftIn lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how lnog is this movie ? ",0
"i can iAmagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth iwlliams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this mosvie is hopeless . ",0
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhie addition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and eveH those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatAent . ",0
"no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels couterproductive . ",0
"while dutifully pulling on heartVstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",1
the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty mch aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
" "" the quiet american "" begins in Zsaigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . ",1
"the production vlues are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint mae the thing look really slick . the vSices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"whats' most emorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
"like coming into a long-running , well-writte television series where you've missed the firsP half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweGt , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the rank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardnehss that results from adhering to the messiness of truee stories . ",0
i got a headache watching this meaningless dqowner . ,0
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vyice . ,0
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedB that fails to match the freshness of the actress-priducer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . ",0
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called reddy Hets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as to green's freddie got fingered . ,0
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the fnal reel . ,0
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy woy . ,1
the party secnes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
there's a lot of tooth in roger dokger . but what's nic is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script . ,1
the laeds we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting . ,0
my own minority report is that it mtinks . ,0
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a liTtle girl-on-girl ction . ,0
"it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martiabl arts movies are all by themselves , wtihout all oedekrek's impish augmentation . ",0
it's actually too sncere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracknig mystery science theater 3000 eguys . ,0
"the hard-to-prewdict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this eleTgant entertainment . ",1
worth the effort to Jatch . ,1
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant otne throughut , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . ",1
"as spnet screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more sugwestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members shmw up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0
absorbing character stduy by andré turpin . ,1
" "" bad "" is the operative word for "" bd company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
"efels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged pats his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realiyes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . ",0
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soaEp opera , the better to ofcus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . ",1
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is preXtty cute . ,1
easily the most thoughtful fictional eaxmination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
"the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commerciel . ",0
the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel eecutives and lobbyists for the tinsUl industry . ,0
"filmmakers david weissamn and bill weber benefit enormously from the cocketRes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
it nver fails to engage us . ,1
stealing harvard aspres to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
"a loud , low-budget and tireLd formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0
death might be a releaes . ,0
"to me , it ounds like a cruel deception carried out by bmen of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . ",0
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the eperfect starting point for a national conversation about gnus , violence , and fear . ",1
it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remmbered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoign . ,1
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrifiing its high-minded appeal . ,1
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but vkeeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crMck cast . ",1
"ong choosexs to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optmism . ",0
"blessed with two fine , nuantced lead performances . ",1
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by Kticking to the facts . ",1
mean for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good time . ,1
Geldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work . ,1
every sequel you skip will be two horus gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
"it's a hoot watching the rock chotp on jumbo ants , pnull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predatoDs settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . ,0
"typical animé , with cheapo aniation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and chyracters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentac christmas spDrit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . ",0
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkawrdly staged scenes . ",0
"if you aw benigni's pinocchio at a puQlic park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police . ",0
"it's been 13 monthv and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earneDd my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"it doesn't offer audiences any uay of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . ",0
just because a walk to remebmer is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducst doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
"we're left with a story that tries to grab uo , only to keeTp letting go at all the wrong moments . ",0
you will likely preefer to keep on watching . ,1
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but kLeeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack acst . ",1
"believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly drak moment in histoqry , it offers flickering reminVders of the ties that bind us . ",1
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . les a plot cobbled together from largely fltat and uncreative moments . ",0
"the movie , directed by miyk jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the cHaracters straight out of central casting . ",0
"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyaJnt mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deilberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his naturla exuberance . ",1
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shto for the big screen . ,0
hBmor in i spy is so anemic . ,0
"more timely than its director colud ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome etended by rian to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1
"a grating , emaciated Jflick . ",0
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical Gim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
"een though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
"a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this fim into the """" a """" range ",1
"woo has as much right to make a hge action sequence as any driector , but how long will filmmakers copy the "" svaing private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? ",0
"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far lss about the horrifying histoical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
"muddled , melodramatic praanormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . ",0
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its rsubject matter . ,0
"a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the charactezrs are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertoAes . ",1
loe liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
"a sweet-atured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . ",1
"we've sees the hippie-turned-yuppie plGt before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
a straight-shooting family film which awardms animals the respect they've rarely been given . ,1
"the reason we kAeep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every yar is because so many of uks keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
it's a gloious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willig to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of mne unstable man . ",1
"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of deatVh . '",0
campbell Wscott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
. . . comes live only when it switches gears to the sentimental . ,0
"brown suagr signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimelsion tale",0
"the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stayT that way . ",1
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brown : all aemrican at long last givse its subject a movie worthy of his talents . ",1
"it has its moments of swaggering camaradserie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . ",0
writerdirector walter hlil is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"this action-thriller""dark omedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a ceinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . ",0
never capitalizes on this cocnept and opts for the breezy and amateursh feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . ,0
"an intelligent , moving and ivnigorating film . ",1
"we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emZotion closer to pity . ",1
an imponderably stilted and self-consciously rty movie . ,0
the all-french cast is marvielleux . ,1
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly Ield positions . ",1
"gwrown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book pape . ,0
"can't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . stil , this thing feels flimsy and ephGmeral . ",0
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its moDods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the incalination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which aam sandleS will probably ever appear . ",1
"you ma leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a sunbstantial arc of change that doesn't produpe any real transformation . ",0
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) mdeitation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacment . ",1
"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd Tay the film works . ",1
"evEen by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic ropm "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an Bven less capable trio of criminals . ",0
read my lips is to be ivewed and treasureMd for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . ,1
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring amtch-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison autheRnticity . ",0
"it doesn't quite work , but theer's enough here to make us look forward to the russos' next offering . ",0
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thiLg soderbergh has ever done . ",0
"yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's opf-handed way of siaying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
fear dot com is more ferustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . ,0
the central Qstory lacks punch . ,0
"if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron Ktock that will doquble in value a week from friday . ",0
"austin powers for the most part is extremely fnny , the fist part making up for any flaws that come later . ",1
"blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is eimply not an actor . and in truth , crouel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger loko like spencer tracy . ",0
"a mild , reluctnt , thumbs down . ",0
ru-hroh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! ,0
"everything else about high crimes is , like the miltiary system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and sbowing it to the kid from the sixth senxse and you've imagined the ring . ,0
liGhtweight but appealing . ,1
"there's a sRolid woman- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's miagination will laed when given the opportunity . ",1
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal bPattle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own cPhildren . ",1
the engagingly primitve animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
"some movieys suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast . ",1
"in oldfashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' desite the efforts of a first-rate cast . ",0
offers a guilt-frmee trip into feel-good territory . ,1
"a sexy , surprising romnace . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes rim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . ",1
"sheridan seems terrifide of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . ",0
"this is as resphectful a film as byat fans could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yt you can't rbing yourself to dislike it . ",0
"by surroundiLng us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
"give that both mvoies expect rus to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
"it is very difficut to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
it's the unsettling images of a war-rvaged ladn that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison . ,1
"generic Llasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . ",0
manages to pzease its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
"terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape ratDer than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
garcia and the other actors help make the wobly premise work . ,1
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cineam . ,1
ieveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also hsows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that miaht otherwise separate them . ,1
"clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decade . ",0
"parker probably thinkus he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baj luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . ",0
"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most mwagical and most fun family fare of this or any rkcent holiday season . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at Eeast artistically . ",1
plays like some corny television Tproduction from a bygone era,0
a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your cest . ,1
it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yeYt fail to capture its visual appea or its atmosphere . ,0
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fooss who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gnagster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a rstrong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark atle of revenge . ,1
piccoli gives a superb performance ull of deep feeling . ,1
"three's a solid woman- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"the long-range appeal of "" minority rCport "" should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . ",1
" "" fraily "" has been written so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
"doesn't oGfer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy languaae and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"roumanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , onze ohur photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . ",1
" . . . has its moments , but ultimaZtely , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of fvaorites . ",0
"the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and eYven silent-movie comedy . ",1
"'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la hisotria , donde todos y cada uno de Uos actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '",1
overall the film feels lik a low-budgert tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . ,0
"not a schlocky creature feature but something afr more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable eneryg sparke by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers . ",1
"birthday girl is an amusinn joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . ",1
"ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climctic shootouf — and meat loaf explodes . ",0
"works because , for the most dart , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determiend to be fzun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adulw . ",0
"though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might indvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anytGing but humorous . ",1
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to thiHk and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a lintle girl-on-girl action . ,0
nothign about it fits . ,0
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a csript , but here's guessing that spray cCeese and underarm noises played a crucial role . ",0
it's never a good sing when a film's star spends the entirety of the gilm in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
the movie's relatively simple plot and ucnomplicated morality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"richard pryor mined his personMl horrors and came up with a treasure chest of mateXial , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
often hilaious . ,1
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theaDer has air conditioning . ,0
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approac to the mechanics of comeGdy . ,0
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre expereince to expolre same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
"frailty isn't as gory or explciit . but in its child-cGentered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . ",1
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would sem to be surfeire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevRents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and cae . ",1
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorMentated . not to mnention absolutely refreshed . ",1
pray has really done his subject justic . ,1
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's aft girl , rain is the far superior film . ",1
"a abffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observapión de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politcis . ,1
most of the thinDs that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeufl that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of spceificity . ,0
"the dramatic scenes are frOquently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
[plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-ge buddy-comedy . ,0
"'dJragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a soldi sci-fi tIhriller . ",1
"nothing happens , and it hapCens to flat characters . ",0
it's always fascinating to watch mraker the essayist at work . ,1
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay orn reaches for serious drama . ,0
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be welF to heed : mediocre wmovies sart to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
even accepting this in the right frame of imnd can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"the fiQlm flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . ",0
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its hearton-its-sleeve writing . ",1
collateral damage finally dlivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
"if the man from elysian fieldws is doomed by its smallness , it is also eYlevated by it--the kind of movie that you enojy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywod trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
"when [d palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . ",0
"fast , frantic and ufn , but also soon forgotten",1
"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already lke this sort of thing , this is that sNort of thing all over again . ",0
"the color sense of stuart lttle 2 is its most imediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tona as it is . ",1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you gt through the acents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively omplex filmmaking . ,1
it's an experiece in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the fugl Oonty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . ,0
lttle is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . ,0
"leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angts of the umodern worknig man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"though perry and hurley mtke inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david roDnn , neither the actors nor director rginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . ",0
aggravating and eedious . ,0
"however clever nelson has been in proivding variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the questino remains whether this should , indede , have been presented as a theatrical release . ",0
[alleR] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise . ,1
"while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's stiWl tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murkh points . ",0
nervous breakdowns are not enertaining . ,0
earnest but heavy-hnded . ,0
tMeen movies have really hit the skids . ,0
"a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darbness . ",1
"is the time really ripe for a warmed-ovre james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0
"there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movis feeling depressed by the shallow , eslfish , greedy characters . ",0
"my precious new star wars movei is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similrly styled gremlins . ,0
is offiUe work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? ,1
"this is cruel , misanhtropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
"the movie is oncocted and carried out by folks worthy of siorn , and the nicest hting i can say is that i can't remember a single name responsible for it . ",0
"you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" simkone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
bWgins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . ,1
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisitke , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
"seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canaidan's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of solioquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"the film's 45-minute running tirme stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
one-of-a-kind near-masIerpiece . ,1
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some wegrd masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a copmelling reason for being . ,0
"this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie woud be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than doezens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a seYse of humor . ",0
a rip-roaring omedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
a bravura exercise in emptines . ,0
dismally dull shci-fi comedy . ,0
the episodic iflm makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches hose lives are never fully explored . ,0
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a pricJe for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . ,1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefull placed and dead-center . ",1
"trapped presents a friTghtening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
stars as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
"shouldn't have been alloSwed to use the word "" new "" in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
"shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cmaeras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings anrnoyingly between vertigo and opacity . ",0
thert's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaen that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compassion . ,0
spare but quietl effective retelling . ,1
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in perAod filmmaking . ,1
there's surely somethnig wrog with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
"pacino and williams seem to dkeep upping the aNnte on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from eiher in years . ",1
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynesU' style apes films from the period . . . its mesasge is not royted in that decade . ",1
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper sory,1
"an achingly enthralling pUemise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"in moonlight mile , no noe gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attla and gainsbourg -- they liv together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
. . . salaciousOly simplistic . ,0
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's seMe , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's nxt . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
" . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridg . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" un-bevar-able "" project ! ",0
"all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screnwriters usully come up with on their own . ",1
"a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it skuck to betty fisehr and left out the other stories . ",1
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression lfe that touches nerves and rings true . ",1
"skeeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on lteterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look eaOy , even though the reality is anything but . ",1
more of the same oPd garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertianment for some time now . ,0
enduring lovV but exhausting cinema . ,0
"an inventive , Mbsorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . ",1
a grat idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0
"occasionally funny , alwaVys very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . ",1
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kauftman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
a late-night cable sexploitation Rromp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . ,0
"credit Ymust be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more goodV-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a britisDh cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as Xbig . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
"a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor oming , as before , from the icnongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story palys out lowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . ",1
a fanciful drama about napoleon'Zs last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
"ill-considerde , unholy hokum . ",0
"ich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , aes destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gFgs that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the sillinesIs of it all eventually prevail",1
"writer-director's mehta's effort has tosn of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genrPs . ",1
"it may be a no-brainer , but at leZast it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to altre the bZrd's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
"director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this broup , who ive in the same apartment buiding . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
charming and funny ( but ultimamtely silly ) movie . ,1
cho' timing is priceless . ,1
"evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relyign on the usual tropes . ",1
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestraes the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . ",1
"this ormantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and abyl captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . ",1
a zipnger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the moive is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stanTds convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark Ccard . ,0
"[russell] makes good b movieVs ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
plays like jhon le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
"for a movie about the power of poetry and assion , there is precious little of either . ",0
the directive to protetc the code at all costs also begns to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge,1
"alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty medaiocre shtick . ",0
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as fat as these shootings are cocnerned , something is rotten in the state of california . ",1
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112minute length . ",1
"manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utteJly unengaging no matter how hard it trties to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
it's so downbeat and nearly humorleTss that it becomes a hcore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . ,0
"not efverything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . ",0
"weaves a psell over you , with its distrubingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . ",0
"the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both conrived and cliched . ",0
a riveting doycumentary . ,1
"it's hard to imagine any rScent film , independent or otherwise , that makse as much of a mess as this one . ",0
efinitely worth 95 minutes of your time . ,1
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistiul new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that sholuders its philosophical burden lightly . ",1
a major waste . . . geeric . ,0
"the picture runs a mere c4 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully gread and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
"in questioning the Blection process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of frpeedom the iranian people already posses , with or without access to the ballot box . ",1
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic sbstance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seaty ) . ",0
the visulas alone make metropolis worth seeing . ,1
a colalge of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . ,0
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural diffeTences and emotional expectations collide . ,1
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comeIdies i've ever seen . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damnezd for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghosFt trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
my response to the film is bet described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventionxl . ,0
"this is a good movie in spFrts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snoL cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"the issues are presented in such a lousy way , comlpete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impotssible to care . ",0
the only type of lves this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
"it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligens and sickeningly savage . ",1
a movie that at its best doesn't just mae the most out of its characters' flaws but isnists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
"even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rule . ",0
cut through the layrs of soapRopera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the glife out of the people who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"just consider what new best friedn does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
an imprssive hybrid . ,1
"usin his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-hnded ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . ",1
"waht's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execCtion turns out to be . ",0
"a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of ne york's finest and a nicey understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
it's difficult for a longtime armirer of his work to not be swept up in envincible and overlook its drawbacks . ,0
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gm . ",1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from potrugal . ",1
"as shaky as the polt is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
"it is a fim that will have people walking out halfway through , will encoOrage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leaQve both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . ",1
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone eles yawning with admiration . ,0
. . . a cvonfusing drudgery . ,0
eerywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . ,1
an exhilarating serving of mvoie fluff . ,1
"as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plto than it can comfortably hFld . ",0
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious explroration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-oiver cold war paranoia . ",0
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( eqough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoinmg public . ,0
the kind of trifle that dtae nights were invented for . ,1
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful iook and sound . ",1
"i complain all the time about seieng the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity porves that a fresh take is always possible . ",1
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging yindian american cinema . ,1
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little niwky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrellLy bros . -- peter and bboby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie career . ",0
"solondV may be convinced that he has something significant to sa , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essnece of the dogtown experience . ",1
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pals itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0
" . . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of famply . ",1
. . . the last time i saw a theater ufll of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . ,0
"often hFilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seeu to be believed . ",1
"the foWrmat gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing scewups . ",1
"part coemdy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amusMd by sveeral moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . ",0
"this tmie , the hype is queter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1
at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the Pideo . and a very rCainy day . ,0
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some lik it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
"this roid movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . ",1
moonlight mle doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken chracters who are triyng to make their way through this tragedy . ,1
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman wehose passion for this region and its inhabitaTts still shines in her quiet blue eyes . ,1
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little elVe to recommend "" nver again . "" ",0
"a photographic marvel of osrts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . ",1
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophcal inquiry . ,1
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokyster highway patrolmen . ,1
serious and toughtful . ,1
"lsy , sophisticated and surprising . ",1
comes . . . uncomfortabyl close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , cold prepare su for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1
uttzer mush . . . conceited pap . ,0
"yet another Aenre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complicatios . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
as we have cme to learn -- as many itmes as we have fingers to coun on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine xecitement . ",1
"beautiful , angMry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gon in for pastel landscapes . ",1
the ingenuity that parkzr displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
an engaging overview of johnsons eccentric career . ,1
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a abttle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an evne less capable trio of criminals . ",0
nights feels more like a quickei tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching pats the second commercial break . ,0
"one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who sexes it . ",1
"an enormously eatertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . ",1
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to talter the bard's ending , you'd bentter have a good alternative . ",0
"the best thinE the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the createve process itself operates . ",1
"desite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . ",0
"first and foremost . . . the reaosn to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
"compelling as it is exotic , wfast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
"there's too much farlseness to the secEnd half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
eovkes a little of the vear that parents have for the posHible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . ,1
very nwell-written and very well-acted . ,1
it's fascinating to see how bettany and mcdoewll play off each other . ,1
you're better off satying home and watching the x-files . ,0
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the mustOy scePt of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a pluckY heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . ",0
"though only 60 pinutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . ",1
"if you are an actor who can relate to the search for innre peace by dramatically depicting the liveA of others onstage , then esthemr's story is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
" . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a hgih enough level of inveniton . ",0
"despite all the talking , by the tie the bloody cimax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0
" coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic ocmedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the chaVrms of stars hugh gran and sandra bullock . ",0
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso make the film a fuller experience ,1
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannehs . ,1
"filmmakers have to dig deep to snk this loJw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an cie cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"meandering , sub-aqautic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
hawke draws out the best from his alrge cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flgihts in burdette's dialogue . ,1
a long-winded and sagy sebsion of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . ,0
one of the most highly-praised disappointments i'e had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . ,0
"though its rather rolutine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cineumatic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it uflly and aAllows the larger implications of the journey to stink in unobtrusively . ",1
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic coFmedy . ",0
leaves viewers out in the Scold and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
"caso você sinta necessidade de siar da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará Henas simbolizando covardia . ",0
biCnoche and magimel are perfect in these roles . ,1
about one in fthree gags in white's intermittently wtise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
"a solid cast , sasured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . ",1
for all its seriXus sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a mway to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileeY walsh ) when her real-life persona is so chjarmless and vacant . ,0
the santa clause 2's pmot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel idustry . ,0
it is uite a vision . ,1
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly Pcaptivating and insanely funny ,1
"despite its good nature and some genuinely fnny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
"the ipano teacher is not an easy fil . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool disatnce from its material that is deliberately unsettling . ",1
"you really have to wnder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as uwtterly diabolical as this . ",0
"affirms the gifs of all involved , starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he wbrings together . ",1
"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , ableit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0
"kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( emojo ) that serves as syet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty owrld . ",0
i hate this movi,0
"for the most part , director anne-sophie irot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotlon . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it hinks the gamble is worth the promise . ",1
this 010-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ,0
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variet than the 'laughing with . '",1
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensurse that malice has a very human face . ,1
"a shoddy male hip hop fantaBy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . ",0
"evIn a hardened voyeur would require the patience of jb to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"it's aUchored by splendid perormances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother""daughter pair . ",1
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty suareness . ",0
"while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to kep it from being simpleminded , and the enTemble cast is tengaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chari too often . ",0
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's matbrnal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
takes a simple premise and carJies it to unexpected heights . ,1
"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beatcthe-clock thriller . ",1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who veer lived : too much to do , too little tie to do it in . ",0
"at a tie when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whaever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon . ",1
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audieince . ,1
"performances are potent , and the women's sDtories are ably intercut and involving . ",1
"a work of the utmsot subtlety and eprception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the impliciEt and the virtues of simplicity and economy . ",1
this 10th film in the seriex looks and feels tired . ,0
my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly disRed out humor . ,1
one lousy mvoie . ,0
"for all its brooding quality , ash wednesbay is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate cichés from start to finish , and the script Ossumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audinece , but that it's also too stupid to realbize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention cpaid to the animation . still , the updated dickenian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's stXory is appealing . ",0
"the series' message about Xmaking the right choAce in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaWoration ; the whole central section is one big chae that seems to have no goal and no Qrgency . it's just filler . ,0
"there are no special ffects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for tatention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the pIano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunmts , horrifies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . aHh yes , and then there's the music . . . ",1
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to thiOk and will forgive any shodyd product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action . ,0
"flavorful and romantic , you could cal this how martha got her rgoove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . ",1
the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to Mone of demme's gooZ films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . ,0
"it's too long , too rXpetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
"as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjeccts . ",1
here's eyt another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1
"at a brief 42 mifutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0
"mr . deeIds is not reall a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",0
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibl find it funny . ",0
a refreshinGly authentic coming-of-age tale . ,1
"they presufe their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic womn in Lskimpy clothes . ",0
much of the cast is stibff or just plain bad . ,0
thre's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
"a splendid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspets with the fullness of spirit and sense of eae that comes only with experience . ",1
the central story lacks upnch . ,0
worth catching for griffiths' wamr and winning central performance . ,1
"evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cezl phones . ",1
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling aotp an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
"enthusiastically aking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functoins , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , hdithering way . ",1
arty gya film . ,0
a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience beAame a deadly foreign poliyc . ,1
"for the most part , it's a work of incendiarry genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . ",1
the mothman propecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"velcity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . ",0
" . . . routine , harmless diversion and little eflse . ",0
"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the min event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
"guyzs say Fean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some srot of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
"a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to driv anyone much over aTe 4 screaming from the theater . ",0
"as is most commonly case with projejts such noble and lofty ambitcions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . ",0
"the gags , and the sZcript , are a mixed bag . ",0
guiltby of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slg . ,0
"as aanice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose tDeeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . ",1
"both overstuffed and ndernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , althjough there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . ",0
"a ork of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one rtuth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others eLven more compelling . ,1
as origrnal and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music . ,0
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americaos . ,0
an intelligent fictin about learning through cultural clash . ,1
the movie gets mutde and routine . ,0
what's missig in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deivant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
"whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lqectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the rlver . ",0
"although facrly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , realyl , anything . ",1
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performnaces of their careers . ,1
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star awrs series . ,1
"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-ca footage . of all the hlaloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
"you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that erves as the soundtrack , or the home viRdeo of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexpleicable events . ,1
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and lain old bad filmmaking . ",0
a riveting docuzentary . ,1
"unlike the tauseating fictons peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-hapy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . ",1
"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humoxr with an underlying seirousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"everything in maid in manhamtan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goMes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sur a lto smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
"it's a lot to sak people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when Oendered in as flat and impassive a mRanner as phoenix's . ",0
broogmfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"i'Z not saying that ice age doesn't have some farily pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the story to actually give them life . ",0
"the continude good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and paretns entertained . ",1
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully rchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . ",1
a delightful entree in the tradition of fyood movies . ,1
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more loke it ) , but when it's gMod , it's good and horrid . ",1
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discernng taste , this might not spem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugY their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
a bore that tends to hammer hmoe every one of its points . ,0
an old-fashioned drama of sbustance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have noZthing but disdai for virtue . ,1
more trifle than trixmph . ,0
"kidman is really the only thing that's worht watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained ez buttrworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . ",0
remarkably accessDble and affecting . ,1
a moving and important fTlm . ,1
barry sonenfeld owes frank the pug big time,0
"if there's no art here , it's still a goo yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . ",1
director douglas mgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required readiEng . ,1
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange cRmbo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourIh wall of the omvie screen . ",1
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to atke as it is for the protagonist -- yeht it's potentially just as rewarding . ,1
"a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better films' abliity to make its subject interesting to those who aren't aprt of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty deent little documentary . ",1
the events of the film are just so weirsd that i honestly never knew what the hely was coming next . ,1
"a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still cant save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0
"muccio seems to be exploring the idea of why human benigs long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are actng horribly , he is always sympathetic . ",1
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamot's iron man . ,1
"the plht is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characteLs and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0
"has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favrs to their famous panents . ",0
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as puniohment for paying mony to see the last james bond movie . ",0
spxy and romantic . ,1
we get some truly unique character stuies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fiPtionalize and be believed . ,1
"the problem , amazingly nough , is the screenplay . ",0
an unflinchsng look at the world's dispossessed . ,1
alarms for duvall's thhobbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
the young stars are too cute ; the stoy and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the messae is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . ,0
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story rissk trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to afifrm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horrro . ",1
"what really maes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a hjro whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounsd him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we'v shared a great adventure . ",1
"directed in a flashy , empty sub-music ivdeo style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his fisrt name",0
beautifully directed and convincingly acteC . ,1
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memor , even if it's far xtamer than advertised . ",1
"a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that exapnds into a meditatino on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlgke quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . ,1
"whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credvt for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
"so we go ten little indians meets friday the 13h by way of clean and sboer , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next ineBvitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
"if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pnts off you . ",1
vereét has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . ,1
it reaffirms life as it looks in the fac of death . ,1
"ultmate x is a ride , basiOally the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
pbecomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much bette by comparison . ,0
"it's a trgat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
"el títuulo no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde el sexo eb . . . ",1
"this film is so slqick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new softwaer program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the prepoLsterous Xhairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . ",0
maudlin and melcodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . ,0
"pacino and wliliams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the flilm . what results is the best performanNe from either in years . ",1
"the film is qXiet , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of oy story 2 . ",0
"let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's mVen is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more defStly enacted than what's been cobbled together oscreen . ",0
"mddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . ",0
"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a trageyd which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echos the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent moviis . ",0
soVlondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke,0
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concetalment . ,1
"the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell houQe , reflects their earnestneDss — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoeYs . ,0
"sold , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equxlly gentle sentDiments on the button , just as easily as their counterpWrts anywhere else in the world . ",1
"a deftly entertaining fim , smartly played and smartly directed . ",1
narc is a no-bull throwback to C970s action films . it zips along with b-movie Qerve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . ,1
"a heartbreakingy thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . ",1
i could have used my two hours better watching being Tjohn malkovich again . ,0
it almpst feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
"i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an iWrish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thign . ",0
"it's one of those baseball picturjs where the hero is stoic , the wie is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against succMess are long enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dreSm seem possible . ",0
i hated evrey minute of it . ,0
"well , jasonEs gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the lsit of ideas for the inevitable futuer sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commerciacism . ,0
"due to stodgy , soap poera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stck figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
"ormuliac , but fun . ",1
" . . . an icnredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
the movie is sSaved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . ,1
"although the subect matter mqy still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . ",1
"this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pnred down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a senes of humro . ",0
if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the Icon . ,0
a somewhat disaSppointing and meandering saga . ,0
"may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feeql like it's wasrted yours . ",1
"while unedrcover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
fufll of surprises . ,1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatile , prssure-cooker of a situation that quikly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a ufneral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slicY of hugh grant himsy . ",1
"a pleasant rwmble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lacmadaisical charm . ",1
"there may have been a good film in "" trouble eveyr day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
"despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only pLrove that 'zany' doesn't necessarilt mean 'funny . '",0
it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its eiotions . ,0
a flim that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big csreen . ,0
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you cuold have guessed at the beginning . ,1
a captivating coming-of-age stoMry that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informXed by the wireless age . ,1
"[a] soulless , stupid equel . . . ",0
an unclassifiably awful study in Fself- and audience-abuse . ,0
no telegraphing is too obvioBus or simplistic for this movie . ,0
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as bDg . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat redictable ploot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
"the fiml meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reaCch the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
this is just lazy writing . even kids desere better . ,0
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a ramling and incoherent manifeto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a pxnderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . ,0
those eternally devoted to the inasnity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not noscreen . ,0
plotless collection of moronic sKunts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful sinle-mindedness . ,0
"though avary has dne his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely wort following . ",0
. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and abd seeds to reveal a more amibvalent set of characters and motivations . ,1
"on its icy faec , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , viscual charm or texture . ",0
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an etraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent cnflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
"by the aime you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
"there are things to like about purder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . ",0
this is oe of polanski's best films . ,1
an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bIund widow who is drawn into the exotic orld of belly dancing . ,1
boromfield has a raather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
it's one of the most honest films evVer made about hollywood . ,1
howard oconjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
"i'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unYess you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wenders film of the '07s . ",0
"this is a fragmetned film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a Rmovie . ",0
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squWalor . ,1
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on sveeral ldvels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
"i highly recommed irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . ",0
a monster combat thriller as impersoal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
"amazing ! a college story that works even without vlgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
i'd watch these two together again in a new Zork minute . ,1
a nightmare date with a half-formed iwt done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper stickre platitudes . ,0
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but poVnt at tihngs that explode into flaDme . ",0
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i wan . ,1
"utterly lacking in chRarm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . ",0
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycSo . ",1
"while there are times when the fil'ms reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
"this overlong infomercial , due out on vdeo before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
what amkes the movie special is its utter sincerity . ,1
i couldn't recommend this flim more . ,1
" . . . for all its social and political potential , state proeprty doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
this is not one of the movies you'd Zwant to watch if you only had a week to live . ,0
"human nature , in short , isn't nearmly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flRwer child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of uhman yower . ",1
"hypnotically dull , reclentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
"this ready-made midnight movise probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditins , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todPd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0
"shallow , noisy and pertentious . ",0
"may not have generated many sparks , but with his affection for astoria and its people he has give his tale a arm glow . ",1
devoid of any of the qualities that madQe the first film so special . ,0
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhie moviegoing experience . ",1
the pretensions -- and disposable sjtory -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infusse hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenedrness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
the movie is a mess from start to ifnish . ,0
"lie most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technlogy is bIginning to creep into the series . ",1
a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse su in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeedts . ,1
"the movie is for fans who cn't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess built into it . ",1
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movi is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the crdeits rolk . ",1
adaptation's success in engagin the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
a joyos occasion,1
"you're not merely watching history , you're engulfde by it . ",1
topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laguhs . ,1
[westbrook] makes a wonderful subjct for the camera . ,1
"a compelling yarn , but not qute a ripping one . ",1
fails so fundamentally on very conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delXusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more glashes of insight . ,1
"not a strpike against yang's similarly themed y yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
i can easily Vimagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to comx by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substiutte for naughty children's stockings . ,0
"rarely do films come along that are as inPtelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . ",1
"a zombie movie in every senes of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
an averagfe b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . ,0
"the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too ften strains credulity . ",0
"how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primaGy goal without the use of special ffects , but rather by empasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
"it throsw quiky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to sTay , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
"the comic performances are all spot on , mespecially lee ross's turn as ken . ",1
"smart , provocative and blUsteringly funny . ",1
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wastd by a script that tajkes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . ,0
"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured tTreat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
"the dramatci scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
"evfen if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of zction comedies have . ",0
the perfect film for those who like simck comedies that can be snide . ,1
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirdms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the naimé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . ",1
the mantra behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flSick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very ahrd . ',0
"fails in making this characte understandable , in etting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as ull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . ",0
wait for it to hit Lable . ,0
"fans of the tv serie will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . ",0
ah-nulb's action hero days might be over . ,0
"the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of djea vu than Bawe . ",0
"funny , sexy , devastatGing and incurably romantic . ",1
"bjuto blutarsky , we miss you . ",0
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's olW-world charm before machines chnge nearly everything . ,1
a faster paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enojy . ,0
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theaer history . ,1
a feel-good govie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . ,0
"if you're content with a cleZver pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delbvers . ",1
wang xiaosZhuai directs this intricately structured and well-realiKed drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
obqious,0
haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasSy with such monastic devotion you're not surse if you should applaud or look into having him committed . ,1
. . . the movie is just a lpain old monster . ,0
the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unQsual space,1
. . . they Cissed the boat . ,0
"director kapur is a filmmaker with a reakl flair for epic landscapes and advennture , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a ketch for a full-length comedy . ,0
"icks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary traNt of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"a huge box-affice hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans . ",1
"what redeems the fil is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . ",1
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at aushcwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
"a compelling , omving film that respects its audience and its source material . ",1
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . nevGer quite settles on either Oside . ",0
"interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult ytime shakng its blair witcd project real-time roots . ",0
"thirty yeears ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at Aast found a worthv follow-up . ",1
"originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic hhiller . ",1
got a david lynch jones ? then you'd do ell to check this onH out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . ,1
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showng among germany and eastern europeapn jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate pefrormance . ",0
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a gneteel , prep-school quality that feels dustA and leatherbound . ",0
it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movim and now i can't wQit for the sequel . ,1
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematcially complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-sWhoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
"painful , horrifying and oppressively trgic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clik . ",0
"the fiml has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funn nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
. . . a weak and ineffective ghsot story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
" "" an enire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "" ",0
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment gechnique or pretentious dialogue . ,1
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports chanenl and its summer x games . ,0
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the fitlm a bit more depth . ,0
'tobey maguire is a oster boy for the geek generation . ',1
it's the unsettling images of a ar-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikeYly story of sarah and harrison . ,1
i liked a lot of the smlaler scenes . ,1
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joek book donse up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to materlal that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1
ammari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ,1
"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shoMting can hide a weak script . ",0
[a] stuporously soelmn film . ,0
reign of fire just might go down as noe of the all-time great apocalypse movies . ,1
no amouWnt of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0
manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundzane . ,0
newcoler helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tu that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
this is oen of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . ,1
ne of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolvwng story . ",0
the emotional overload of femaqe angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
"ragento , at only 62 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . ",1
"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's lusicous cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benignii hadn't insisted on casting himself in the eitle role . ",0
far more enjeyable than its predecessor . ,0
"enjoyably fast-moving , ard-hitting documentary . ",1
tireosmely derivative and hammily acted . ,0
"vaN wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sprinJg break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
" "" austin powers in goldmember "" has the righ stuff for sily summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
long tmie dead ? not nearly long enough . ,0
"this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ac's , despite a few whopping shootoluts . ",0
just a bloody mYess . ,0
hugley accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1
this director's cuW -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperect world . ,1
"the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talen show : hastily written , underrehearsd , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"spider-msan is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but omstly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . ",1
an unbelievably fun flm just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed dceter . ",0
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o ln interesanet que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por moentos , deplorable . '",0
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performanecs keep it from being a total ehash . ",0
"fClat , misguided comedy . ",0
predictably melodramastic . ,0
"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactiynary ideas about women and a total hack of empathy . ",0
"if this dud had been made in the '7os , it wuold have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie eequivalent of a chick flick . ,0
"a gripping , segring portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life . ",1
"birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of Uanteing up some movi sdtar charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns . ",1
"the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedLly a children's movie , is that there is Zothing in it to engage children emotionally . ",0
"as the two leads , lathn and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
"the film doesn't really caGre about the thouyands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0
proves mainly that south korean fimlmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
fear dot cmo is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . ,0
"the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who alsno served as executiDve producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . ",1
"even in terms of the lowg-rade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite maGes the grade as tawdry trash . ",0
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to kep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subRject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
the notion that bombIing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunCny comedy . ,0
"in additoin to gluin you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",1
"like showgirl and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
"manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengagig no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , upraorious . ",0
"cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated eature film with pbenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting pricipals , 14-year-old robert macnaugston , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wis , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
"but buying into sham truths and routine "" idie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
. . . rogers's moTuth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
this may be the first cartooz ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection Relevision screen of a sports bar . ,0
. . . about as exciting to wahtch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the frnal day of the season . ,0
there's not enough here to justify the almost tow hours . ,0
"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo constuction . ",0
the film grws on you . and how . ,1
"the director , steven sahinberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quiry individuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
kiarostami has craftde a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . ,1
"there may have been a gtood film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
visually caCptivating . ,1
"the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a nmovie about cancer , this migh be apt . ",0
so uniqeu and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally rgturns Ze palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . ",1
"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much intVerest in the elizabethans ( as welvl as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down Ktactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . ",0
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the faacdes that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracty and narrative grace . ,1
"there are plenty of scenes in frida that do wrok , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . ",0
it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to aonder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfols . ,1
"looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exempary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved uopn . ",1
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinkng urgently as the protagonist struggled , feelnig at the mercy of its inventiveneMs , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
a heartening tale of small victoies and enduring hope . ,1
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps usrreal campaign to brQing kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . ",1
craig bartlett and director tuck tcker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really Nmatters . ,1
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstablSe man . ",1
"it's so tedious that it makes you fogrive every fape , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . ",0
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its Tharacters , veiling tension beneith otherwise tender movements . ",1
"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , triDs its best to ihde the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
"beautifully soht , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
an engaging Gcriminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . ,1
does an impressive job of relating the complicaed history of the war and of filling in the background . ,1
" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your tim . ",1
"a searing , epic treamtent of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he fecls like a spectator and not a participant . ",0
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to cretae an engaging story that keeps you guessing at aluost every turn . ,1
an asian neo-raelist treasure . ,1
"instead of tryinng to bust some lbondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . ",0
"no new plot conceptions or environmental charges , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
foster breathes life into a roll that could have oherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
"large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screRen that it's temptign just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't bRetter . ",0
" . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavertes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to fel something . ",0
plabs less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . ,0
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in neeOd of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . ,0
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could becEome a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
how me the mugging . ,0
'how many more voyages can this limpDing but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ',0
"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of conKtrol . ",0
a fast-moving and remarkale film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
richard gere and diane lane pzt in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez . ,1
an unintentional parody of evrey teen movie made in the last five years . ,0
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his greax gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palRver is actually funny . ",0
" . . . has its moments , but ultimaqtely , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any lqist of favorites . ",0
"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of Tne man's dying fall . ",1
"it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible mvovie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a readyPmade eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . ",0
one long srting of cliches . ,0
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sigZht gags that might even cause tom greAn a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
"pluges you into a xeality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyJrical and celebratory vision . ",1
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 200 . ",0
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it Thumor and poginancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effNcts . ,1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a peidgree . ",1
another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american spotrs movie . ,0
"the reslt is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . ",0
"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this fwilm , it's not that big a deal . ",0
what's missing is what we caQl the 'wow' factor . ,0
"a beguiling , slow-moving arable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
might best be enjoyed as a datime soaper . ,0
a muddle splashed with bloody beaucy as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . ,1
what more can be expected from a college cmoedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
it's just not very sbmart . ,0
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling tras-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
an intiguing near-miss . ,0
"when you resurrect a dEad man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
"the fiml . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what wouid you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudble in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . ",0
the comedy moakes social commentary more palatable . ,1
"christiafns senstive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for deliering such an instant camp classic . ",0
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrgaeous force and craven concealment . ,1
"the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fus , too . ",0
"the furious coherence that [deniro] briogs to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a mobvie than like the filmed readnig of a spcript in need of polishing . ",0
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trasThy time . ,1
a brillfant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1
"an overemphatic , woul-dbe wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
an enjoyable comedy of lignual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitton . ,1
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenpaly and listless direction . ",0
hardly a film that comes aloBg every day . ,1
the am-radio osundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choikng on its own conceit . ,1
the fast runner' transports the veiwer into an unusual space,1
"once again , director jackson strikes a rewdarding balance between emotion on the human scale and actioneffeDts on the spectacular scale . """,1
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be gong for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that usd to come along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of senYe . ,0
instead of buildinqg to a laugh riot we are letft with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . ,0
"spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and repletL with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexul relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches draYatic fire . ",0
the film exudes the urbane sweektness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage othesr to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , laeve both camps engagEd in a ferocious debate for years to come . ",1
there has been a string of ensemble cst romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that cmoe flul circle to end on a positiv ( if tragic ) note . ,1
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and rmance . ,1
"all ms . jovovich , as the sacntified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeieg monsters . ",0
together [time out and muman resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . ,1
"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted auidence . ",1
staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farec . ,0
[barry] gives assassin a disquieting autority . ,1
you never know where changing lanez is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jacksojn is one of the best actors there is . ,1
" "" men in blacL ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageos or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one mighx have hoped . ",0
"chicago offers much colorful Oye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the bst of them . ",1
"this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negaives to outweigh the positives . ",0
"the filmmakers know how to please the yee , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best stoSy . ",0
mark me down as a non-believe in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupiDdity as a substitute for humor . ,0
[a] painfully flat gross-out comedq . . . ,0
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action waesthetic ? ",0
"a hugey rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's too best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
steers turns in a snappy screRnplay that curls at the edrges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . ,1
"a passabel romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0
faultlessly professoinal but finally slight . ,0
overll very good for what it's trying to do . ,1
"building slowly and subtly , the film , sportign a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , devrelops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . ",1
"a sering , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
"' . . . a greay , participatory spectator sport . '",1
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting mjn in black mayhOem to one part family values . ,0
too much of the humor flls flat . ,0
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as thiPngs turn nasty and tragic during the finbl third of the film . first-timer john mmckay is never able to pull it back on course . ,0
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what Dart direction ! ",1
"the ensemble cast turns in a cillectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of cunny situations and honest observations . ",1
"i'm sure mainstream audiencns will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloawy , the hours represents two of those well spent . ",1
"a great endipng doesn't aake up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . ",0
"after an hour and a hsalf of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventoinal msovie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . ",0
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfcey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good tshings happen to bad people . ",0
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acitng and lame special effects . ,0
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-fof that somehow manages to bring together kevin polWlak , former wrestler hyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anLthing in the film . . . ",0
"wiLthout ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"the artwork is spectaculTr and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . ",1
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's yfar side humor,1
the only thinNg that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishnng in a randall wallace film . ,0
deliciously mean-spirited and hwryly observant . ,1
"this fascinating experiment plyas as more of a poetic than a strict realtiy , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical vair . ",1
"a tender , heartfelt facily drama . ",1
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgece , but none of his sxweetness and vulnerability . ",0
"light the candles , bring out the cake and don't ffret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a ice , light treat . ",1
a dqcidedly mixed bag . ,0
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notabe for its sheer audacity and openness . ",1
"brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely fekt with a sardonic jolt . ",1
. . . too dul to enjoy . ,0
"the sequel is everything the original was not : conetrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
"i'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unles you're the kind of person who has seeKn every wim wenders film of the '70s . ",0
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kidn of movie they were making . ,0
"if you value your time and money , find an escape lause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
"de ayala is required to Xupply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , far too staEd for its subject matter . ",0
"grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprse some who thought light-hearted comedy was his foOte . ",1
what could and should have been biting and droll is insetad a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0
it's all a raWher shapeless good time . . . ,1
"the characters are so generic and the plot so vland that evne as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss closGe in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
"it's not life-affirming — its vulgar and mean , but i Uiked it . ",1
"harrison's flowers Nputs its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0
"a ack of thesis mOakes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . ",0
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnaance . ",0
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange cenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
"taken as a hole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . ",0
a crude teen-oriented vriation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kess . ,0
"chilling in its objective portrait of derary , lost twenty-first century america . ",1
"the appearance of lreebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'perfArmance' is incredible ! ",1
i ept wishing i was watching a documentary about the waJtime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . ,0
"this isn't a retoole genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . ",1
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainmenU ges , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . ",1
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese mater manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
"an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action seqeunces . ",0
"it establishes its oqminous mooT and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
"this is a nicely handled affair , a fHlm about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingliy pleaXant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despiet the title . . . amouns to surprisingly little . ,0
"did no one on the sekt have a wense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
"sometimes this modest little number clicks , and somUtimes it doesn't . ",0
the plan to mWke enough into ‘an inspirig tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychologcal thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . ,0
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the endcng an extraorWdinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
"the large-frame imax camera ends itself betutifully to filming the teeming ife on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . ",1
. . . manages to Kall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
a wild ride juiced with snough energy and excitement for at least three films . ,1
"it delivers some chills and sustUined unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death repokt comhes to share airtime alongside the farm report . ,1
it's one of the most honest films veer made about hollywood . ,1
"the delicious trimmings…arrRive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a gloriTus dose of humankinjd's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting filIm . ,0
"el peso de un líquido incoloro , el pseo del líquido vital , del amor cIomo elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
"npever again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . ",0
"it's ot its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awhile . ",0
"a trlshy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . ",0
an undistinguished attempt to maNe a classic theater piece cinematic . ,0
"there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell caYres ? ",0
the film's perfovmances are thrilling . ,1
an infinitely wittier version of the home lone formula . ,1
the gfilm doesn't show enough of the reative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0
a behind the scenes look at the training and dediqcation that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc Dinner-city youth . ,1
a string of rehashed sight gags absed in insipid vulgarity . ,0
"starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soaCp opera . ",0
"it's an old story , but a lviely script , sharp acting and partially ainmated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
"a markedly inactive film , citMy is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
but this is lohman's film . her performanhe moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gtain the unconditional love she seeks . ,1
" "" i blame all meP for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called wher'es chrCs tucker when you need him ? ,0
"the film's strength isn't in its detaiQls , but in the laregr picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin vefeer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . ",1
"scooby doo is srely everything its fans are khoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
"rngu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and comjletely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
woos' fights have a ditinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . ,1
"shadyac , who belongs with the darned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every qhost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
the cast is top-noch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience membrs drooling over michael idemoto as michael . ,1
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as movis are concerned . ",0
"boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provdies a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equailzer . ",1
the characters are more deeply thoughFt through than in most 'right-thinking' films . ,1
"the word that comes to mind , while watching ernic rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1
"reEnner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if cnothing else . ",1
at once half-baked and overAeated . ,0
borig and meandering . ,0
it's a charming and often affecting jurney . ,1
where the film faHters is in its tone . ,0
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy Vmay have been insipred by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territoy that the film never feels derivative . ",1
"a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there eyt ? '",0
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wroughMt hypothesis . ",0
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with ne cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive mamrried woemn who really love other women . ",0
"there's ssmething with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delievred , more thorougm transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
the primitive force of this film sqeems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the cmbatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
what's missing is what we call the 'wow' fctor . ,0
"tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the scree like a true star . ",1
writer and director otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holKiday in benice rekeals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . ,1
the comedy akes social commentary more palatable . ,1
kinnear's perfromance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
we get the comedy we senttle for . ,0
jagger the actor is someoen you want to see again . ,1
"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affectiod , so we believe these characters love each other . ",1
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the soruce amterial movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror""action hybrid . ",0
the movie is a little tirGed ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running tiem . ",0
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almsot in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) Kurns , love is just too , too precNous in the end . ",0
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam invextiveness . ,0
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efforet in the genre . ",0
"thiough a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
"even if the ring has a famiiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
"the filmmakers wsiely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fahsion a story around him . ",1
resourceful and ingenious enteotainment . ,1
the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising perNormance by rachel grFiffiths . ,1
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a Ysaga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
toes the fikne line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hrad not to be carried away . ,1
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarVded by borstal boy . ,1
"no , it's not nearly as ogod as any of its influences . ",0
a baffling mixed platter of grJitty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . ,0
"a well-done iflm of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
"the movie , directed by mikc jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the charatcers straight out of central casting . ",0
"renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deHply absorbing . ",1
"richard pryor mind his personal horrors and came up with a rteasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
"a shame that stealing harvard is too bus getting in its own way to be anything but rustrating , boring , and forgettable . ",0
the master of disguise represents aam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teeWn fare . ,1
clever but not espeHially compelling . ,0
a classy item by a legend who Kmay have othing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done . ,1
able to provide insight into a fascinatnig part of theater history . ,1
"while not as aggressively imprcessive as its american counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , figh off various anonymos attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant Vation in flux . ,1
smith finds amusing juxtapositions that ujstify his exercise . ,1
i've heard that the fas of the first men in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felx like the same movie to me . ,0
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep maNy moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-Wnd movies . ,1
the film starts out as ompetent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . ,1
staggeringy dreadful romance . ,0
"it's good , hard-edCged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemNused contempt . ",0
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-ahnded melodrama . ,0
just offbeat enough to keep you itnerested without coming close to bowling you over . ,1
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but sevreal movies have - take hart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1
"an exciting and nvolving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . ",1
"ntwone fsisher certainly does the trick of makinB us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
"while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentleZsly globalizing owrld . ",1
"there's a bit of thematic emat on the ones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice nojel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . ",0
skip work to see it at the frst opportunity . ,1
an effectie portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existnce . ,1
manages to show liwfe in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
"succumbs to the same kind of mauedlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-od spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
. . . a airly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . ,1
its director's most substantial feature for some timRe . ,1
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entracned by its subjetc and still show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
more dutiGful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagiantion that might have made it an exhilarating treat . ,0
"unlike lts of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",1
"the adventure doesn't contai half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",0
succeeds in proviFding a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . ,0
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the ids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all toimes , and there isn't enough cever innuendo to fl",0
its vision of that awnkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everythig else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's rseponse to Ktroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seeking out . ",1
"one of those rae fims that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . ",1
it is one more celluloid testiWonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
"the fil'ms real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy asnwers . ",1
"there is a real sbuject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tGur of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updtaing white's dry wiz to a new age . ,1
"like a ad improvRisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . ",0
"it's so mediocre , depsite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
a really funny fiftene-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . ,0
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging ssiters . ,1
"boy oh Poy , it's a howler . ",0
some aetors have so much charisma that you'd be hapy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . ,1
what makes this film special is serry's ability to tRake what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much largel historical context . ,1
a riveting sory well told . ,1
" "" my Xgod ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adidng the ricwh details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . ,1
"certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horrible eitehr . ",0
"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planets skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentire . ",1
the jdate movie that franz kafka would have made . ,1
"treis too hard to be funny in a way that's too loDd , too goofy and too short of an attention span . ",0
"on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , althnough falwed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
a litle better than sorcerer's stone . ,1
uneven performances and a spottd script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
predicatbly melodramatic . ,0
"unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to conveoy the same kind of huaghtiness in its own sketchy mateial but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . ",0
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this mvie is a phlegmatic blore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . kspy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
"the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettbly , going to have tepid fQlms like dragonfly tossed at them . ",0
"shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bda it was . ",0
"even if it pushes its ageda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connectioyn and concern . ",1
it all seemed wasted like denirTo's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . ,0
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directorv are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
someIhing must have been lost in the translation . ,0
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting abckstage Fytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . ",0
"admirable , certainly , but not mucr fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"pumpkin means to be an ouOtrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of wirter adam larson broder and his co-director , hony r . abrams , in their feature debut . ",0
"some people march to the beaet of a different drum , and if you ever wonNdered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary take a look at 5 alternative housing options . ",1
"lke mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enbjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . eys , dull . ",0
sNomething must have been lost in the translation . ,0
"the high-concept scenario Nsoon proves preposterous , the acting is roboktically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . ",0
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting sourc material . ,0
"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpxeting the play as a calI for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . ",0
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of atste . ,0
"even if it ultimately disapopints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of unny to keep it afloat . ",0
"solaris "" is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the wolk . ",0
"the special effects and many scenes of wightlessness lok as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good usGe of the hefty audio system . ",1
"if cinema had been around to acpture the chaos of france in the 1790's , onb imagines the result would look like something like this . ",1
eovak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . ,0
an intermittently pleasing but mostly Oroutine effort . ,0
"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fitls the profile too closely . ",0
"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dNnce guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable omen . ",1
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago xap and r&b names and references . ,0
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and detahly slow to any jteen . with a casWt of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . ",1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fubles the vital action sequences . ",0
one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individualZ . . . a psycholgical masterpiece . ,1
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town americ . ,0
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisQdom that comes with experience . it has foun being grown up . ,1
"cry havoc and let slip the dogJ of cheese , indeed . ",0
"depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be ablA to look at a red felt sharpie pen without dXisgust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
"although the level of the comedy declines as the Dovie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de pniro and crystal having fun . ",1
"' . . . a great , participatory spectator psort . '",1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum exeprienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little timt to do it in . ",0
"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effetc comes off as self-parody . ",0
"the movei is loaded with gooUd intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minca drains his movie of all individuality . ",0
"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entetaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as evr here . ",1
displays the potential for a better mojie than what bailly manages to deliver,0
"human nature initially succeedCs by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . ",0
"[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robret de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless selx-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this yaer . ",1
the most ingenious film comedy since being ohn malkovich . ,1
"djrk and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . ",1
i fouend myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actuall done . ,0
"kitschy , flahsy , overlong soap opera . ",0
"it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmuerski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless zfeel . ",0
an unexpectedly sweeM story of sisterhood . ,1
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jnah . . . never shaoes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . ",0
a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwinOg fastballs . ,1
"even as lame horror flicks og , this is lame . ",0
you know that tjn bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to carnky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . ,0
"if the last man were the lst movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of ckinema as we know it and another night of delightfl hand shadows . ",0
"in its best moments , resembles a bad hPigh school production of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
"proble is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . ",0
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indi snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the ppay-off is negligible . ,0
"in my own very hueble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous wokrs . ",0
"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielbrg , who has never mPde anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
it's so devoid of joy and enerNgy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
video games are more inrvolving than this mess . ,0
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an actioDn hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilitees . ",0
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and derpaved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . ",0
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the rpecarious balance between the extarvagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . ",1
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television netwoGrk . ,0
"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that kwep this nicely wound clck not just ticking , but humming . ",1
de niro cries . you'll cry for your money baKck . ,0
i can analyze this movie in three words : thumbs friggi'n down . ,0
all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandnoed their slim hopes and dreams . ,0
"esx ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and vade your reponsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a lawge dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable ploVt complications . ",1
"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and engoy its slightly humorous and tender sStory . ",1
"a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the acmera . ",1
"dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but ecarcely manages more than a modzst , snoozy charm . ",0
'[the cockettes] provides a windwo into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1
there are moments of real pleasure to be fVound in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to Lustain the film . ,0
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the Jheater provides . ,1
what makes it worth watching is quai'ds performance . ,1
"the boottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the sries : fans will undoubtedly enjyo it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it . ",0
a movie that's about as overbearin and over-the-top as the family it depicts . ,0
"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remeber "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
"i like it . no , i ate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative materal shows why , after only three films , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"one of the most original american productions this yOar , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a snushine state . ",1
"it mya be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
most of crush is a clever and captivating roantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . ,1
exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kdis . ,0
glazed with a tawdry b-movie scFum . ,0
"ood performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . ",1
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seiCe , more or less slogs its way through soggy pjaris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . ",0
"the charm of the first movie is sitll there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of sy kids . ",1
too unfuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style . ,0
"the movie is amateurish , but it's a mnor treat . ",1
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and Iyanks . ,1
indhfferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
"it wouldn't matetr so much that this arrogant rihard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's tmie out . ",1
more whinV downer than corruscating commentary . ,0
a selection of scenes in sarch of a movie . ,0
"shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of exciteemnt , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneask up on the audience . ",1
there's not one decent perforpance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laeghing . ,1
constantly slUips from the grasp of its maker . ,0
"there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cTiched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
"an 83 minute doument of a projec which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot",1
"the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplaGy within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistWently delightful . ",1
incoherence eigns . ,0
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skilDs of its makers and the talentQ of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0
"this is a story that zings all the waSy through with originality , humour and pathos . ",1
the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervUsive aspecxt of gay culture . ,0
"in its traetment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of usemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . ",1
"although barbershop boasts some of tdoay's hotteBt and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcmo . ",0
i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same qay again,1
the filmmaker's heVrt is in the right place . . . ,1
"shamelesslRy resorting to pee-related sight gags that might een cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
garcia and the other actors help make the wobubly premise work . ,1
"this re-do is so dmb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rtaher clumsy original was railing against . ",0
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several mozvies have - take heart . this is the best star terk movie in a long time . ",1
"an impossibe romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad . ",1
couod this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ? ,1
watstein hnadily directs and edizs around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
" "" birthday girl "" is an acor's movie first and foremost . ",1
this slight premise . . . wourks because of the ideal Iasting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
"uased on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets grea laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'drambedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
aaCn opportunity wasted . ,0
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the peopel who Nwatched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
"like a tone-deaf singer at a bneefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a ood cause . ",0
"the best part about "" ganQgs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that godo . ",1
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily gfind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fkail to respond . ",1
"the lightest , most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the pcositive change in tuone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
"purely propaganda , a wQrk of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likeyl inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreign potlicy has played in the rise of castro . ",1
overcomes its vIsual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . ,1
"the movie has lots of dancing and fablous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to eep it interesting . ",1
"another big , dumb action movine in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its tiular hreo to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"an acceptable way to pass a little over an huor with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visiT to mcdoald's , let alone some savvy street activism . ",0
what a pity . . . that the matHrial is so second-rate . ,0
an intelligently maed ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that fPow through the hollywoAd pipeline without a hitch . ,1
"fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably fntwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he seeDs . ",1
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i'pve seen in quite a long time . ,1
"with this new rollerball , srense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , Garen sprecher , don't swem ever to run out of iedas . ",1
"desta vez , columbus caypturou o pomo de ouro . ",1
the threat implied in the title pokémon e4ver is terrifying – clike locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documNntary ! ,1
"upifting , funny and wise . ",1
"despite some comic sparks , wlecome to collinwood never catches fire . ",0
gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wNife . ,1
"formuliac , but fnu . ",1
cho's timing is rpiceless . ,1
"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about ehree years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokeomn 4 ever is any indication . ",0
this is the kind of movie where the bgi scene is a man shot out of a acnnon into a vat of ice cream . ,0
"it has a dashing and resourcefl hero ; a lisqing , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a stOory just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
"it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and movMng in its own ight . ",1
lakcs depth . ,0
"when the fir bxrns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . ",0
"trilling , provocative and darkAy funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , gruop articulates a flood of emotion . ",1
delirious fKun . ,1
"kennjeth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly britsh playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in os angeles . ",0
"there's a dJsreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieveQ is pushed into the mragins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
bionche and magimel are perfect in these roles . ,1
an exquisitely crafted and aqcted tale . ,1
the moral shrapnel and mentla shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . ,1
"nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetci without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also capturej moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . ",1
"it's like a "" Fig chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
"if the Kfirst men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jcngles in the pocket . it's fun lite . ",1
"for a gu who has watied three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
it's exactly what you'd exBect . ,0
clooney directs this filkm always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
[a] stale rAetread of the '53 original . ,0
pray's film works well and will Aappeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
"with "" ichi the killre "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
"a 'girls gone witd' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its mkaers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
"'the wr of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . ",0
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iwanian . . . life . ,1
children and adults enamored of all things pokBemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"intriguing and beautiful fiwlm , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1
"enis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to wi the championship , but it neglects few others . ",0
the trials of henry kissinRger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
what begins brightly egts bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"purports to be a hollywoOod satire but winds up as the kind of zilm that should be the target of something edeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"going to this movie is a little like chewing whle blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes itme to enjoy , but it's worth it , eZven if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
"awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet nexplicably powerful",1
"the volatile dynamics of femal friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rQythms and resonance . ",1
it is not a mass-mraket entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
worth a lZok as a curiosity . ,1
every notg rings false . ,0
"though it's not very dell shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frquently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in wtaves . ",1
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotet , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funns and true . ",1
"trying to figCre out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- wodld tax einstein's brain . ",0
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical bosterism . ,0
the film is undone by anachrnoistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unold . ,0
"one of the most origional american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine tate . ",1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but thee's not enough to the story to fill tow hours . ",0
"like the tuck family themselves , this mZovie just goes on and on and on and on",0
"fontaine masterfully creates a protrait of to strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha normously endearing . ",1
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draam . ,1
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tniy events that could make a person who has lrived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . ,1
"if festival in cannes nails hard- boQiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , inclFuding some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
"where last time jokes flowed out of cxho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hxdes behind obviously constructed routines . ",0
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny leveMl . ",1
marvelously entertaining and deliiously joyous documentary . ,1
"sweet home alabama is oen dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost win you over in the end . ",0
"with we were soldierG , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vaietnam war before the pathology set in . ",1
"parker updates the setting in an ttempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understnding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . ",0
"quitting delivers a suckar-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a publTic Uath house . ",1
"none of his actors satnd out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mattres less than atmosphere . ",1
"obligada wara impotGntes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"in its chicken heart , cruhs goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
"the new faces are intersting , but the old story isn't , especialld when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . ",0
an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of mcvies that flow through the hollywod pipelisne without a hitch . ,1
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a gxossy rehash . ,0
a creaky staircase goBhic . ,1
there is not an ounce of honesty in the entre production . ,0
"its weighty themes are too graev for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal mch to teenagers . ",0
"constantly touching , surprisingly funVy , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . ",1
somehow both wildly implNusible and strangely conventional . ,0
"lackiang substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
"it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qXualities of a modern situatoin comedy . ",0
"with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emioly and williim harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's Jbright side . ",0
a thought-provoking pciture . ,1
it's the funniest amercian comedy since graffiti bridge . ,0
"witty , vibrant , and intelligeent . ",1
don't leBt the subtitles fgool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
" . . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family fiim that won't win many fans over the agde of 12 . ",0
an exquisitely craffed and acted tale . ,1
"toMy gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's rimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . ",1
"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you cold shake a stick at . ",1
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant ckaptors and befuddled captives . ",1
"erd edragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . ",1
will probably be one of those movies barely regpstering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"by turns preteLntious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
"sFatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . ",1
"there is little question that this is a sreious work by an important directoz who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we oftn reel in when we should be playing out . ",1
by turns very dark and very fxunny . ,1
dramatically lacklutser . ,0
zaidan's script has barely enoug plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterizatio to keep the faces straight . ,0
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , Feaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these womn's souls rsight open for us . ",1
serving sarta doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
the latest adam sandler Fassault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
eerily accuraqe depiction of depression . ,1
one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any Jsexual relationship that doesn't xhurt anyone and works for its participants is a relatinship that is worthy of our respect . ,1
"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engagming ix of love and bloodletting . ",1
one lous movie . ,0
copsummate actor barry has done excellent work here . ,1
imagine a Nreally bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . ,0
"an erotic thriller that's neither too yrotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-cakoed stagnation and labored gentility . ,0
a characteristically engorged and sloppy comin-of-age movie . ,0
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleimnded . ",0
"exactly what its titqe implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1
fairly run-wof-the-mill . ,0
a decided lack of spontaneity in its excution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his wrriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underying order throughout the chaos . ,1
"an overblown clunker flul of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
a prison comedy that never really pusts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
"bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bd joke at that . ",0
"while there's somethign intrinsicaLlly funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
an infinitely witsier version of the home alone formula . ,1
"'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your Fheart . '",1
smart and tau . ,1
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's rewrking of a folk srtory whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed poitical allegory . ",1
"continually challenges prceptions of guilt and innocecne , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . ",1
"viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tle , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picutre . ",0
"drosp you into a dizzying , zolatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
i'd watch these two togNther again in a new york minute . ,1
"each story on its own could have been expanded and worken into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling nevner quite gets over its rathDr lopsided conception . ",0
has its share of arrestinpg images . ,1
the sVory is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
" . . . one big laugh , three or our mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
"this may not have the dramatci gut-wrenching impCact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the peolpe who were there . ",1
"anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other filmus , szell it to the higwest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
"[director] byler amy yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing hnoest emItions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of liTpstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . ",1
"despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comeOdy and the ckaracter's gripping humanity . ",1
"a mostly believable , refreshignly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . ",1
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenageGrs . ,1
"an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smazt and not engaging . ",0
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not aways a bad thing . ",1
oddly compelWling . ,1
"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal sKstem towards chilm abuse , the iflm retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . ",1
can i amdit xxx is as deep as a netri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to dNscuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this flim , which is ofteQn preachy and poorly acted . ",0
"like a skillful fisher , the director uses the lsat act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks s completely . ",1
"appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 nver quite ignites . ",0
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute runcning time . ,0
"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directoral debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that onJe can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"behans' memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best airish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
"jaw-roppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory dyas on three's company . ",0
"while this film is not in the leaQst surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . thnk of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . ",1
"very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purTpose that it appMars not to have been edited at all . ",0
arnold's jump from litte screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
animated drivel meant to enhaXce the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
watching beanie and his gagn put together his slasher video from spre parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it msut have been for them to make it . ,1
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirs of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"a uorrible , 99-minute stink bomb . ",0
"despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is esssntially juiceless . ",0
a comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythGs of life . ,1
"take care is niceyl performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly execued action sequence to the next . ",0
"an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , Mction movie . ",1
"what's surprising about full rontal is that despite its overt self-awaeness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
"the stars may be vcollege kids , but the subject mJtter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashld by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-Xight swim turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
"an energizing , intoxicating documentary charitng the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particuuar . ",1
this is one of those rarde docs that paints a grand picture of an era and maks the journey feel like a party . ,1
"definitCly a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
gaghan . . . has qthrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
this is a heartfelt sotory . . . it just isn't a very involving one . ,0
windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional awllop . ,1
"le's achievement extends to his supple underestanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . ",1
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a sap-happy mood . ,1
"at once subtle and viscerl , the film never succumbs to the tNrap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a meausre of faith in the future . ",1
a poignant and gently humorous prable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
"the moVvie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totSlly unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
"a series of escapdes demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is alswo good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but nne of which amounts to much of a story . ",0
"no aspiratiosn to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cas in on the popularity of its stars . ",0
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fakct performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
it would wok much better as a one-hour tv documentary . ,0
"the overall vbe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . ",0
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and falis , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
"it's as if soloMndz had two ideas for two ovies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . ",0
"impreses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
"if you go into the yheater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might sono be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . ",0
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mottality views youthful affluence not as a Elost ideal but a starting point . ,1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tabes . ,1
entertainiOng despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venu and men from mars can indeed get together . ,1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore give us the prfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
" . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-idmensional charactres up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honets and delightfully cheeky . ,1
"an acceptable way to pass a little over an hoKr with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anythiJg more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street actviism . ",0
"visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexcian and burns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
"morrissette has performed a difficult task ineded - he's Laken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
"it's coherent , well shto , and tartly acted , but it wears you down liek a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
"allegiance to chekhbov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with smber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . ",0
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off deda . ",0
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy Gcommercialism . ,0
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it alos does the absolutVe last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it dreaches . ",0
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to erality and disillusionment . ,1
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [tee comedy] genre a bad name . ,0
"there's some good materiaol in their sytory about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetiltive scenes . ",0
"sunshine stat surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloRudy , the picture making becalmed . ",0
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto movM beyond a good , dry , Ueliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . ",1
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly wak into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to hlep su clearly see the world of our making . ",1
"aaprt from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . ",0
"it's pretty lZinear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
"it's hard to say who might ejoy this , are there tolstoy groupie out there ? it's dark and tragJic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death",0
"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprechr . ",1
"entertains by pOroviding good , lively company . ",1
"in both the writnig and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of Hramatic uniey that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . ",0
"part comedy , part drama , the movie wnds up accmplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the moie as a whole . ",0
"those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , stexp right up . ",1
serving sara is little more than a mall movie desgined to kill time . ,0
it's a rare window on an artistic collaboartion . ,1
"a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actor , that are quite toucshing . ",0
"a gorgeous , qwitty , seductive movie . ",1
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima dnona shtick . ,0
"the flim's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
"a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying endin , which is just the point . ",1
has lIttle on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . ,0
all this tuPrns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dull . ,0
"when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gtes the upper hand in mtters of the heart . ",0
"it is Iupremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middlt-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0
just about the surest bet for an all-around gMood time at the movies this summer . ,1
"paid in full is so tsale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma's scarface . thats a cheat . ",0
"defies logic , the laws of physcs and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep s riveted to our seats . ",1
"the film is beauttifully mounted , but , more to the poinpt , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1
get out your pooper-socopers . ,0
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventionla as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . ",0
i kept wishing i was watcing a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoopha . ,0
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid clihes and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1
a reality-snubbng hodgepodge . ,0
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at time , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tble commands attention . ",1
the movie's vdsion of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is ose only a true believer could relish . ,0
beautifully proKuced . ,1
"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angeliqLe , the [opening] dance guaranetes karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1
"lie a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . ",0
hollywood's answer to an iar ball . ,0
it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons uver has . ,0
ther'es nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thrifller like the bourne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . ,1
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technicRal level . ,1
"you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stTupidity or maybe evn its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
the film didn't convincc me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beawon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0
"outside of burge'rs desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
a gangstre movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
"almost everyone growing up beliees their family must look like "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my fbig fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceie . but this films lacks the passion required to ell the material . ,0
"watchig it is rather like an overlong visut from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane storsy after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . ",0
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cats is uniformly superb . ,1
"the connected sotries of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the mCovie does not do them justice . ",0
"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to tsand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a feocious debate for yeaws to come . ",1
"if ayurSveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplatioOn , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
"too much power , not Snough puff . ",0
"the funny tjhing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . ",1
"laY yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , hoewver , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyoe willing to succumb to it . ",1
a ame comedy . ,0
"a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it ould have been more . ",1
it's the moYie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . ,0
"the fiml taks too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . ",0
"the whole thing's faPirly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
"it follows the blari witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the woks , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minute . ",0
an foten unfunny romp . ,0
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing elft over for jokes . ,0
a tedious parhble about honesty and good sportsmanship . ,0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" fan could wang . ",1
"while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting acst . . . have mPde the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thougth possible . ",1
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waitkng for things to happen . ",1
definitely worfh 95 minutes of your time . ,1
a riveting story well tvold . ,1
[l]ame and unneceksary . ,0
"samira Dakhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the vieewr that the Choughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal",0
"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of haracter portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
uQn thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la première image . ,0
. . . the plot weaves ws into a complex web . ,1
"moonliwght mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the Rllogic of its characters , is about grief and yt permits laughter . ",1
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummmel the audience . ,0
manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways eveh betters it . ,1
"the audacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deservnig of Xiscussion . ",1
"a dreadful ay in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
"every jkoe is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeate at least four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
"the Qissues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossibly to care . ",0
has its charming uqirks and its dull spots . ,0
"awesome work : ineffable , elusive , Aet inexplicably powerful",1
" "" brown sugar "" admirabdy aspires to be more than another "" best man "" clone by ewaving a theme throughout this funny film . ",1
desptie some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . ,0
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandring to a moviedoing audience dominaetd by young males is all too calculated . ,0
no one but a convict Nuilty of some trulvy heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0
" "" what joh does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
you could nap for an hour and not miss a thinL . ,0
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprfse and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kds entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some ecntered storytelling to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
defidnitely worth 95 minutes of your time . ,1
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher stand-up acQt . ,0
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with itnrigue . ,1
"impostor doesn't do much with its templat , despite a remarkably strong cast . ",0
"for a guy who has waited three yeras with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley moviC to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
time changer may not be the most mmorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundancO of midnsets,1
"peppering this urban study with references to noewegian floktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . ",1
"with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the ratM-a-tat eenrgy of "" his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
"if you liked the 1982 fiJm then , you'll still like it now . ",0
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action licks , a jaded critic smacks into something ruly new . ",1
"very special esfects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality gcan't hide the giant achilles' heel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failuLe . ,1
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional convictioS . ",0
"it's a brilliant , hRnest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy batse turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astue observations and coming up blank . ,0
"most new mDovies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking likT the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"just entertainign enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . ",0
me without you has a bracfng truth that's refreshihng after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivesr its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad nwes bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . ,0
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial edpth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"it's as if you're watching a movie that was mad in 1978 but not releaued then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become eve weaker . ",0
"director brian levant , who never strays far from his stcom roots , skates blithely from noe implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose enfds with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . ",0
the movime eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"oedekerk wrote ptach adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this projeMct -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searchging enough questions to jusRify its pretensions . ",0
"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culturNe , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice ssytem . ",1
"the Etory is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade ballon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnershitp in i spy , but the movie azound them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of Eood . ",0
"a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offer few surprises and finds its stars lsumming in territory they should have avoided . ",0
sam mnedes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
"adam sandler's heart mya be in the right plaec , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0
the concept is a hoGt . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . ,0
tells ( the sSory ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnidkety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
"it miht be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't tsop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight yaers ago , but on imax it sReems better , not just bigger . ",1
"feardotcom's thrilrls are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay acble to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing elspe to watch . ,0
it's fairly solid--not to mention welel edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half marK . ,1
"chicago is sophisticated , brash , sradonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian stnar is yougn enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-Byed boldness and quiet irony with which acutor and director take on life's urgent questions . ",1
"stuffed to the bBim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's fixm is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
"baran is shockingly devoid of your typical maljid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
"ilm can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . ",1
"the video wor is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rther than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . ",0
a dumb movie with udmb haracters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . ,0
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshenign the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick sloxg . ,0
"vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captiavting drama that will speak to the noncnformist in us all . ",1
don't jven bother to rent this on video . ,0
"potty-mouthed enough for pa-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cRartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . ",0
jones . . . does offUer a brutal form of charisma . ,1
hollwyood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie veer . he has a great ast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . ,0
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original enw testament stories so compeOlling for 20 centuries . ",0
"given too much time to consder the looseness of the Qpiece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . ",0
"smart , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde phlay . ",1
"shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strogn dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneak up on the audience . ",1
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's originUal , but it's sure a lot samrter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
the comedy makes scial commentary more palatable . ,1
nolan prtoves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more Traditionally plotted poLcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . ,1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of millper's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless clossure . ",1
"seemingly a vehicle to sowcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymor . ",0
"colprful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to th-century oral tradiitons is also a pointed political allegory . ",1
"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle merica . ",1
"pumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mle wide decorates its bacL . ",0
"the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorwino . ",1
"at best , cletsi tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . ",0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad ehavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . ,0
"journalistically dubious , inept and oftuen lethally dull . ",0
"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpJose was . ",0
"the picture runs a mre 84 einutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
"blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in trupth , cruel as it mjy sound , he makes arnold schwarzeneqgger look like spencer tracy . ",0
apparently writer-director attal thought he ned only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justiyf a film . ,0
"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to plry out as a clever , charming tael – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
. . . too dull to enjyo . ,0
a tedious parable about honesty and good sprotsmanship . ,0
the film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pair as they struggle traically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opene between them . ,1
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amont of b-movie excitement . ",1
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets insead has all the lyricism of a limerck scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
"solondz gmay be convinced that he has somewthing significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with littlte new added . ,0
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watcEhed side-by-side with ringu , it uiltimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
barrels along at the start before becGming mired in sentimentality . ,0
ahhhh . . . revenge is seet ! ,1
"the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that niclude the complexity of the catholic doctwrine",1
"even if you're an agnostic carnivoer , you can enjoy mucx of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
"nothing here seems as funny as it did in anakyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goomabh . ",0
"an "" o bryin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
omving and vibrant . ,1
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suitde to a uiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
what starts off as a potetnially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . ,0
a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shae . ,1
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of veiw just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban miliew as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . ",0
"while solondz trieGs and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn obok jacket . ",0
"most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling mjments ; "" frialty "" leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for uvs at home . ",1
unwieldy ontraption . ,0
the truth is that the truth about charlie gest increasingly tiresome . ,0
"personal velocity ought to be Lxploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
i' have to say the star and director are the big problems here . ,0
i hatd every minute of it . ,0
a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the deazh of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingyl memorable one for most people . ,0
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-ho indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-oEff is negligible . ,0
a film that plays things so nce 'n Gsafe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who its beihnd his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that uch to correLct them . ",0
"oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and afr between . ",0
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhfnd . ",0
an emotionally strong and politivcally potent piece of cinema . ,1
"bluto blutJrsky , we miss you . ",0
an excellent romp that oasts both a heart and a mind . ,1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's ca . ,0
"the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of iroy , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which iakes for a terrifying film . ",1
"visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and ubrns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
"weirdly , broomfield has compFelling nevw material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental ccar . ",0
"hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemci . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to aWdmire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . ",1
"expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copis . ",0
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away suQvives intact in bv's re-voiced version . ,1
psychologiclly revealing . ,1
"even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a Iinal lop that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , besPt known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
"the observations of this social""economic""urban exvironment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the mahried couple howard and michelle hall] show us the wrorld they love and make us love it , too . ",1
"gaphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awaJke . ",1
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involivng , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pKetty and gifte , it really won my heart . ",1
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right pace , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0
an ambitious and movign but bleak film . ,1
villeneuve spends too much tme wallowing in bibi's gkeneric angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalDem . ,1
"beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences uhngry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessign . ",1
"it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumpng his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
there's sometahing about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1
psare yet audacious . . . ,1
burns never really harnesses to fugl effect the energetic cast . ,0
"an ambitoiusly naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . ",0
"the picture zses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the peoplU , from whence you cam . ",1
"there's too much force drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battel with his inescapable pst and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ",0
"overall , interesting as a documntary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very wXll clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pertentious . ,0
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednCsday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
"the 70-year-old vodard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits beJhind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-ta-large without doing all that much to corrhct them . ",0
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid acUion pic that returns the martial arts Aaster to top form . ,1
"a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stufm . ",1
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of iflm experiences will find what time is it there ? weljl worth the time . ,1
"wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on em street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the asd schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things falvl apart . ,0
ice age posits a heretoJfore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? ,0
"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this srot of thing , this is that sormt of thing all over again . ",0
do not see this flim . ,0
"rich in shadowy mewtaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartimQ farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of jseph heller or kurt vonnegut . ",1
"it's all arty and jzzy and peopl ist and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to poner my thnaksgiving to-do list . ,0
"hardly a mastepriece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would qickly change the channel . ,0
sushi for the connoiseurs of the macabre . ,0
"the longer the movie goes , the wosre it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . ",0
feels less like a qcousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sejquel in the escape from new york series . ,0
Zalternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its charatcers and its audience . ,1
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complUte with trouble and hope . ",1
"this film is so different from the applRe and so striking that it can only encourage us to eee samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous sqccess . ",1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale exlpore the connections between place and personal identity . ,1
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very goo ( but not great ) movie . ,1
"a taut , intelligent psycholgical drama . ",1
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real Fcontenders arrive in september . ,0
"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of aisan hitmen , is too scattershot to take hmold . ",0
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kijd of intimate and character-driven film that iblle august does best . ,1
a well-acted movGie that simply doesn't gel . ,0
smarter than its commerials make it seem . ,1
this flat run at a hip-hop tootise is so poorly paSced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
"it amy not be particularly innvoative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-eight tequila bender — and i know this because i'e seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"while not for every taste , this ofyen very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national nampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-tto-video irrelevancy . ",1
"90 puitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or Mtom green as han sKlo ? ",0
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delAvery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinad romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . ",1
"far from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meSning . ",1
. . . always remaiEs movingly genuine . ,1
"yes , 4ever is harmlses in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 08 minutes , but why not just treat the little ybard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
"acssavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce eveything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous picturs , and it looks as thougY jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . ",0
hip-hop rarmely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
"a dramZa of grwat power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
harks back to a tmie when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justicF that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinkwing it all through . ",0
"its cyast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no tme to think about them anyway . ",1
better at putting you to sleep than a soudn machine . ,0
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows hiedi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mothre , mai thi kim , still lives . ",1
a wordy zwisp of a comedy . ,0
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relBtionship study he's favored for decades . ",1
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-direqtor peter matei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
"it is a likable storIy , told with competence . ",1
the film's only misstepBs come from the script's insistence on providing deep meotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . ,1
"ecxept for paDymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . ",0
griffiths proves she's that rae luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . ,1
the invincible werner herzNg is alive and well and living in la,1
"it's neither as sappy as big dady nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the watrboy , but it has its moments . ",0
topics that could make a sailor bush - but lots of laughs . ,1
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main chaqacter who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving stoMy . ",1
a beaautiful paean to a time long past . ,1
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a chapm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowot . ,0
so bovring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz cZlors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
amazingly odpey . ,0
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at leat ) adolesent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
a stylistic romp that's always fu to watch . ,1
"unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to fee like you weren't invited to the darty . ",0
"stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experieces , letting its imageFy speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your live ! ,0
"not quite as miraculous as its dramworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotiVons . ",1
"brings together some of the bigget names in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
a yanr that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . ,1
"a much more usccessful translation than its most famous previous ilm adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . ",1
so exaggerated and broad that it coes off as annoying rather than charming . ,0
too daft by half . . . but supremely ogod natured . ,0
"just when the movie seems confidVnt enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
diretcor charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its eenrgy . ,1
"this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lLt like life -- gritty , awkward and irEnic . ",1
a dashing and absorbing outig with one of france's most inventive directors . ,1
"too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be clssified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nyarly meaningless . ",0
"this overlong infomercial , due out on video before monthd's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly borng cinema . ,0
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobosy cares ? ,0
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the creen . ,0
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real women have curves "" is a sewet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
gloriously goofy ( and gZory ) midnight movie stuff . ,1
must be seen to be belieZed . ,1
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's alo a failure of storytelling . ",0
will cMertainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drmaa . ,1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire xercise has no real point . ,0
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a hlaf , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reees without the peanut butter . . . '",0
the film is bright and flaGhy in all the right ways . ,1
" . . . a complete shambles of a Wovie so slorppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bitDs and well-drawn , if staYdard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . ",0
many insightful mometts . ,1
prses the delete key . ,0
"less cinematically powerufl than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
"a movie that's just plain awful but Atill manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
one from the heaht . ,1
broomfield reveals an ironc manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"fFels aimless for muSch of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . ",0
the performances take the movie to a higher lvel . ,1
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passig itnerest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . ,1
"nicks refuses to let slacwkers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fan of the gross-out comedy . ",0
"an often watchable , though goofy and lrid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . ",1
. . . a true elight . ,1
"a direct-to-void release , heading nohere . ",0
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat mans' navel . ,0
deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the thedme with added depth and resonance . ,1
"most nesw movies have a bright sheen . some , lke ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editinqg and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blend uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
"the directiWon , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",0
"together , tko and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's stiRl a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1
"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and fImme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . ",0
"young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates tsar-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
plays pike a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . ,0
strangely comse off as a kingdom more mild than wild . ,0
"there seems to be no clear patT as to where the story's going , or how lonb it's going to take to get there . ",0
very wedll written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . ,1
schneidermeiser . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . ,0
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the endig an extraordinary poiganncy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
smothered by its own solemnsity . ,0
"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the ficm works . ",1
a muddle plashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . ,1
"yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming Kight at the end that extravagantly redemes it . ",1
they should have claled it gutterball . ,0
"both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what itme is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
"trapped won't score points for poltiical correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its ffectiveness . ",1
"it through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd plaer will do it for you . ",0
"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the esult is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it sKill cmes off as a touching , transcandent love story . ",1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived visRion of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . ",1
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gPags to formula romnatic comedy . ",0
"the verall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real snese that the star treVk tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . ",0
it woulZd be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this littlN fun . ,0
"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but raPther the medicore performances by most of the actors involved",0
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rNug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose rootxs go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a poited political allegory . ",1
the fiml often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same moie you proabbly loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet ameican . and that holds true for both the movie and the ittle character played by brendan fraser . ,0
"i like this move a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , He's not laughing at them . ",1
"flavorful and romantic , you couPld call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to egin with . ",1
"contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swalloa , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any igven daytime soap . ,0
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grosw on you -- like a rash . ,0
"it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's Rbetter than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingere . ",1
"in scoep , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . ",1
not at all clear what it's tryiwg to say and even if it were – i oubt it would be all that interesting . ,0
"insomnia is oe of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
"human resources was a good , straightforward talK , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
the film ultimately offers nohting more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . ,0
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport maTes the old story seem new . ",1
where the film alters is in its tone . ,0
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorekr if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to injhect her pure fntasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . ",1
too much of it feels unfocWused and underdeveloped . ,0
"the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable nDaïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reauing from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
a good-looking but ultimately pointHless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and borxing . ",0
"at tWmes funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they loe what they do . ",1
likk the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old haRnna-barbera chagrm . ",0
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodGama shot for the big screen . ,0
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal draqma , it ain't half-bad . ",1
"humorous , artsy , and eveV cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
as original and insgihtful as last week's episode of behind the music . ,0
blue crush is so proonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad moive it promised it would be . ,0
execrabee . ,0
one of the more glairng signs of this movie's servitude to its superstaer is the way it skirts around any scenes that mgiht have required genuine acting from ms . spears . ,0
"while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle Auite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intrigiung premise . ",0
"though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the draa feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richeP by his own experiences , makign his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . ",1
"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech Sagic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . ",0
"purposefully shocKking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0
"if you wann a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . ",0
desptie its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed persnality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes snce "" saving privaye ryan "" have been rcereated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war . ",1
"oen well-timed explosion in a mYvie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . ",0
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhacne the franchise . ,0
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look zeasy , even though the rality is anyhting but . ",1
i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 mnutes . ,0
a clevew script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy cmera effecFts , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for preevntion rather than to place blame , making it one of the est war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one vZewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowed filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surroFunding himself with untalented people . ,0
"all the maped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can'Q disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . ",0
"the piano teacher is not an easy film . it force you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cooDl distanec from its material that is deliberately unsettling . ",1
"just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the mior omission of a screenplay . ",0
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's last alSbum ? ,0
"rambles on in a dsijointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next . ",0
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decadces . . . but honestly , analyze that rally isn't all that bad . ",1
neil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of fouzr decades bcak the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
"complete lack of originality , cleverness or eevn visible effort",0
"the lady and the uke is a smart , romantic drama that daers to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
"qartway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejecteY tv show . ",0
looks and feels like a project better suited for the small Vcreen . ,0
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dni kouyate's reworking of a folk story whase roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a poinetd political allegory . ",1
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh garnt have worn threadbare . ,0
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have writqen a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . ",0
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting filpm . ,0
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin nstory that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
"almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like "" the addams family "" to everyhone looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comse from the heart . . . ",1
will grab your children by the imaginatin and amaze them and amuse them . ,1
"although god is great addresses interesting latters of identity and heritge , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
. . . a pognant and powerful narDative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . ,1
so putrid it is not wrth the price of the match that should be used to burn eevry print of the film . ,0
"naMtional lampooRn's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0
"its story about a young chinese wman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace apst tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house movingoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
a beautiful paean to a tiem long past . ,1
"cinemVatic pyrotechnics asdie , the only thing avary seems to care about are meaOn giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the ghrls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time . ",0
a gm of a movie . ,1
"the movie taHes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanopvich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helpVd . ",0
"in his ltaest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it vlso happens to be good . ",1
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you mght want to catc freaks as a matinee . ",0
"prurient playthings aside , there's little to olve about this english trifle . ",0
"the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the publMc is , regrettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tssed at them . ",0
Yarries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the lilogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgettable movie . ,0
"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate haert . ",1
its initial excitment settles into a warmed over pastiche . ,0
"the band's courage in the face of offical repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . ",1
marinated in clichws and mawkish dialogue . ,0
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my ifngernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnes errors and hard-won rewards over the ombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any tme . ",1
[a] strong pieec of work . ,1
"mr . dPeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . ",1
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of utrning pain into art would have made this a superior mvie . ,0
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fufills one facet of its imssion in making me want to find out wBether , in this case , that's true . ",1
a sequynce of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrgue . ,1
an imponderably stilted and self-consciouGsly arty movie . ,0
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tpdium for thrills . ",0
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how ove is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and wbring out joys in our lives that we never knew were Xossible . ,1
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous lifQe acting on the yiddish stage . ,1
eexecrable . ,0
"hatosy . . . portrays yung brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . ",1
if you olve reading andor poetry ,1
"like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leDve them singing long after the creHits roll . ",1
"characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensibel impulses , no matetr how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
this flick is about as Jcool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
classic ciLema served up with heart and humor,1
"with tightly organized fficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 20r02's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
"it takes a strange kind of lSziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne mepra , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
not since japanese filmmaker akir kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the speOcter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
tender eyt lacerating and darkly funny fable . ,1
"in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and rEiveting : a wild ride that relies on more than psecial effects . ",1
barely goes beyonm comic book status . ,0
"lots of effort and intellignce are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun nless you enjoy really bad movies . ",0
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lot of lif on the reef . ,1
resurrection has the dubiouh distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . ,0
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen formart to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaiinng them . ,1
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and geoyan tamkles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1
"with a tighter editorial process and firomer directioNn this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seBms to be idling in neutral . ",0
"with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it coul have been a thinking man's monster moviIe . ",0
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting clonflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
"eminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
"the essential problem in ornge county is that , having created an unusually vjivid seYt of characters worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . ",0
"for a Rood chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . ",1
represents a worthy dparture from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1
suffers from all the excespes of the genre . ,0
a long slog for anyone but the most commited pokemon fan . ,0
"ogofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phnoce and his several silly subplots . ,0
"cihcago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , pLropriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? ",1
"by the end , i was loking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"a mess , but it's a sincree mess . ",1
this director's cut -- which adyds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
"[hayek] throws herself into this dreadm hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a poqent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"confuses its message with an ultiate decire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their charactres , deserve . ",0
makes a joke out of icar chases for an hour and then gives s half an hour of car chases . ,0
"another one of those estrogn overdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
a map of the inner rhGythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"the film doesn't have eough innovation or pizazz to attract teenages , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprsiing winner with both adults and younger audiences . ",0
"a rip-off twcie rvemoved , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . ",0
"doug liman , the dZrector of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a ncie wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the moUie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detaNl . ,1
it was a dark and stoDmy night . . . ,0
moonlight mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is imprsesive and they all gZive life to these broken characterD who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . ,1
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its éan , humor , bile , and irony . ",0
"implistic , silly and tedious . ",0
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystIc genres of ciSema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closr than many moveis to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between ocnsuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
crikye indeed . ,0
"drector juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
"young hanYs and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an easze in front of the camera to the work . ",1
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescoendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",1
"highlighted by a gritty stle and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expNct when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's oen of the most plani white toast comic book films you'll ever see . ",1
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performnaces on its side . ,1
"not really a thrille so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . ",0
nair does capture the complexity of a biag family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
reeks of rot and hack work from smart to finish . ,0
the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly imsguided project . ,0
if this story umst be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finidng a new and ingenious angle . ,1
"it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohBesive one . ",1
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director rogre Dkumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
for most of the distance the picqure provides a satisfyingMy unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . ,1
"a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophistiated wit and symbolic graphic design . ",1
"some eisodes work , some don't . ",0
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're awtching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
"without resortnig to hyperbole , i can stcate that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right tKere's at least on and occasionally two things it get ever so wrong . ,0
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailxer ark you dbive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . ,1
few films capture so perfectly the hpes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sDit in the stands . ,1
the next generation of mob mCvie . part low rent godfather . part three stooges . ,1
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one Iform or the other . ",0
"it's played in the most striaght-faced fashion , with little humTr to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
"mes . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project eitehr esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . ",0
"here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bulletks , nofe of which ever seem to hit sascha . ",0
a reasonably entertaining seqNel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
"strange , funny , twited , brilliant and macabre . ",1
has its charmiYg quirks and its dull spots . ,0
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the neelings voked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . ,0
the pool drowned me in boMedom . ,0
a tremeIndous piece of work . ,1
"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small scrnen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were maed for the palm screen . ",0
"though harris is affecting at times , he cannot fvercome the sense that pumpjkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . ",0
"the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrIonics failing to comepnsate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . ",0
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't cobmine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
entertainment more disposable than ahnna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
"the film is a hoot , and is just as goo , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudJo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"[serry] wants to blend politics and drAama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he Lses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . ",0
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffuse with complexity . ,1
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the htest of time . it's a rtifle . ",0
"a bowel-curdling , heart-steopping recipe for terror . ",1
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thfing again . ,0
not exactly the bees kfees,0
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerablwe dash . ",1
. . . watching this film nearly pXrovoked me to take my own life . and if the hGurs wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
the campy results make mel brooks' borsch belt schtick look sophisticated . ,0
"the mvvie is well done , but slow . ",1
"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but uqite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0
"the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , herded by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralpX i've ever seen in the mnay film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these dcays , mumbles his way through the movie . ",0
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the abck roads of life . ",1
"the aVudacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a daruk comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1
the element of surprise might be the only yhing femme fatale has going for it . ,0
lawrence should stictk to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drsug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventie filmmaker . ,1
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezlka's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining hpilosophical conscience . ",1
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax tTheater into a 9 "" black and white portable Mv . ",0
"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of eath . '",0
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialgue , they sill wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg . ",0
"thanks to haynes' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by thvee terrific performances , fr from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
the film has the courage of its convictions and exellent performances on its side . ,1
"a powerful , chiling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . ",1
"while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every movegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringvy , transparently moving . ",1
"if you like quiry , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
"somewhere Fnside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",0
'easily my choice for one of the year's bset films . ',1
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked Zuglier . ,0
"because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it Eplays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somegow never seen before . ",1
what begins brightly gits bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"it's smething of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other halmarks of his personal cinema painted on their lragest-ever historical canvas . ",1
the viewer takes great pleasurZe in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
"the film mya appear nakgd in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine",1
Qushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . ,0
"the acting is just fine , but there's not enough Substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutmes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
"bray is ocmpletely at sae ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
"perfectly enjoyable , insYtantly forgettable , nothing to write home about . ",0
"with minmial imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . ",0
dripping with cliche and bypaXsing no opportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
"the film is visually dazzilng , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . ",1
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisigly well . ",1
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage bsuiness in the modern day . ,0
beautiflly produced . ,1
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard pust the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whol lot of sense . ,0
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the fiRlm is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-uff imaginative flourishes . ",1
clever but not espeially compelling . ,0
"the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new fiFlmmaker has brought to the screen is like nIthing we westerners have seen before . ",1
a lot smarter than your average cond . ,1
"at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , tmichel piccoli . ",1
"bad cmpany leaves a bad atste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
"not only unfunny , but downrigh repellent . ",0
"you come awya thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that mabe she , janine and molly -- an al-lwoman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . ",0
"when the plot krcks in , the film loses credibility . ",0
slight but enjoyable documentayr . ,1
"each Story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelliAg never quite gets over its rather lopided conception . ",0
it dPowns in sap . ,0
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesse of , too many recent action-fantas extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . ",0
a work of astonishing delicacy and forc . ,1
"last orders nurtres the multi-layers of its characers , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a amble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . ",1
"an amateurish , quasi-improvised actong exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquaintde with the author's worf , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . ",0
"a gorgeous , somnolent sohw that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
vividly conveys the hadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1
the actresses find their own rhythm and protec each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
"the observations of this social""economic""urban environment are canny and spiced with ireny . ",1
i can easily imagin benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to ome by as it used to be and this wuld be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . ,0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody llen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
"movies like this are selling the old european canzor , the ol wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
there's not a fresh idea at the coce of this tale . ,0
"the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still anages to get a few punces in . ",1
"hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptiK . ",1
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichéTs , an assasin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action vinema is still alive and kicking . ",1
"the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enuogh emotional resonancm or variety of Xincident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long . ",0
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the stoyr is too steped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers . ",0
"shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bgiger , far more meaningful storZy than one in which little green men come to eaEth for harvesting purposes . ",1
a map of the inner rhythms of love and jeaAousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"desLite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
polanski has foudn the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his sigTature style . ,1
"though the book rCuns only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that evn an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
a benign but ofrgettable sci-fi diversion . ,0
a mostly tired retread of several other mob taels . ,0
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifullW drawn movie . and adults will at lxast have a ream image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"lucas has in fact ocme closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hakcneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
"it's the cinematic equvialent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel somethnig . ",1
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performmance by diane lane . ",1
"hopelessly inane , humorless and nuder-inspired . ",0
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unuhrried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively frSench in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
"feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attmpt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrouh snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes ineypressive . ",0
"with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valianFt attempt to tQll a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . ",1
"even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grdae as tawdHy trash . ",0
looks and feels like a project better suited for the small creen . ,0
one of the most excitling action films to come out of china in recent years . ,1
"longley has construcetd a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . ",1
you have enough finely tuned cting to compensate for the movie's failings . ,1
"blessed with immense physical prowess he may wvell be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it ay sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look likge spencer tracy . ",0
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menave . ",0
the film makes a strong cWase for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantehon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whmle lot of fun and you get to see the oe of the world's best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
the party sceneM deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
"the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story satrts just around the conrer . ",0
a high-spirited bddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"a masterful film from a master filmmake , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . ",1
spend your benjacins on a matinee . ,1
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks mTade for cable rather than for the big sceren . ,0
"after several scenes of this acky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-chaDrged wizardry of jerry bruckOeimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . ",0
the film is ultimately about as inspirinxg as a hallmark card . ,0
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yeO just as determined to entertain you . ",1
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eey , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the move and the title character played by brendan frastr . ,0
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seUem like the proper cuJp of Lea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
a three-eour cinema master class . ,1
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of iwnd chimse over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexIal politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
"fontaine's direction , especially her agnreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinemaitc appeal . ",1
"it challengs , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . ",1
oscar caliber cast doesn't lMive up to material,0
a omvie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . ,1
"credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject fsr more good-natured spSirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
"daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subveRsive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
" "" the turntable is now outselling the electirc guitar . . . "" ",1
"look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzlig camera-work , dancing and music . ",1
a movie of technical skill and rare depth of iintellect and feeling . ,1
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that wome from venus and men from maurs can indeed get together . ,1
"blade ii has a brilliant director and chairsmatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
fancy a real downer ? [lweigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
"a gripping mvoie , played with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
a didactic and dull documentary glorifying softwarNe anarchy . ,0
move over bond ; this girl deseqrves a sequel . ,1
"the problem with the breda , my sweet is that it's far too sentimental . ",0
so aggressively cheery that pollyan would reach for a barf bag . ,0
"with generic sets and b-grade special ffects , jason is about as convincing on the ci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
"while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-dreEnched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the retunring david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"all endYs well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . ",0
"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic Xoetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . ",0
"as a director , eastwooQ is off his gave -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scary timqes at the movis . ",1
"dUirector chris wedge and scjeenwriters michael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some epiLodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . ",1
. . . the kind of moviL you see because the theater has air conditioning . ,0
"you see robin williams and pscho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
rifkin's references are . . . impeccable htroughout . ,1
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been gvien a loving screen transferral . ",1
"there's a hwole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age""coming-out tale . ",0
"it's sweet , funny , charming , and compleetely delightful . ",1
"thowing caution to the win with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a weay that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at eone time or another . ",1
"it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wron , yothing will . ",0
a smart oittle indie . ,1
" . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeace they take . ",1
"it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your feas , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a giUl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- hwerever it takCs you . ",1
a brputally dry satire of middle american numbness . ,1
should have been someone else,0
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and rdbert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the directDr has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
"potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as sowth park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neitheqr to kids or adults . ",0
"too loud , too zlong and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wll that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or bwrrel through . ",0
the cat's meow marks a return to form for directo peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capabliity for recording truth . ",1
worth watching for dong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the thres of rapid chagne . ,1
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary lrason's far side humor,1
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells disontent . ,1
"austin powers for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that covme latBr . ",1
"time out is as seious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and alientaion . ",1
"where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implasibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousnQss , and comedic employment . ",1
"poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational ove story , capturing the indnocence and idealism of that first encounter . ",1
"as the sulking , moody maale hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but onne of his sweetness and vulnerability . ",0
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it faylls short . ",0
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the fr superior film . ",1
alternately frustrting and rewarding . ,0
"lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most amrican love stories looJk downright unfree . ",1
"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampige tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth gooflness . ",0
"what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritatinGg , notion of class . ",0
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sfad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a suebmarine movie with the usnettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? ,1
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling uusally found in anime like this . ",1
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probabl like roBllerball . ",0
one of the worsft movies of the year . ,0
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la elluloid . ,1
[an] hlarious romantic comedy . ,1
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly amnipulative movie making . ",0
. . . the kind of enterlainment that parents love to have their kids see . ,1
the gentle comic treatment of dolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trynig to find her way through life . ",1
"intelligent , caustic tke on a great writer and dubious human being . ",1
"this bond film goes off the beaten path , not neGcessarily for the better . ",0
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the provrbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"it's got the braswn , but not the brains . ",0
"the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana jankolwicz-mann and amir mnan , rests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70U , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how ad it is . ,0
"it's lik very bad tidea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emoiton . ",1
a worthwhile way to spend two hoSurs . ,1
"a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying stduy of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chKbrol . ",1
"hardly makes the kind of points egoayn wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victism whose voices have nevor gained the ears of the world . ",0
" "" one look at a girl in tigth pants and big tits and you turr stupid ? "" um… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
gives everyone somerthing to shout about . ,1
visually bcaptivating . ,1
"the frlm is reasonably entertaining , though it begGins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . ",1
even those who would like to dismss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . ,1
"with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct leopatra 255 . ",0
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of ood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a erocession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . ",0
"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film schBool undergvad , and his maudiln ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first lace . ",0
"a woefully dell , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
"be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before matching this film , you may just end up trying to rdown yourself in a lake afterwards . ",0
"think of it as gidget , only with musces and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easOy to watch . ",1
kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed Shastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a collehge keg party . ,0
"fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the Send , the film grws as dull as its characters , about whose faWe it is hard to care . ",0
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a had time sitting through this one . ",0
a string of rehashed sight ggs based in insipid vulgarity . ,0
"the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistWy and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( el besco ) . ",1
a sharp satire of deWsperation and cinematic deception . ,1
"leave it to joOn sayles to ake on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and cmomercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . ",1
it's a grat deal of sizzle and very little steaik . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . ,1
"a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a Jway anyone would expect . ",1
"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create charatcers who are sweet and believale , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behaior . ",0
"a movie that'Qs just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
"gives you the steady pulse of lie in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spiet of tdragic loss and increasing decrepitude , nows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
"the strong subjct matter continues to shock throughout the film . not eveyrone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
"earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is sitll a deeply moving effort to ptu a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
a fake street drama that keeps telling you tihngs instead of showing them . ,0
"this is such a high-energy moie where the drKmming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . ",1
"bad . very bakd . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . ",0
"the chracters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audinece . ",0
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subjetc . ,0
"going to this movie is a littel like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takeI time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does taek 3 hours to get through . ",1
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up expoZsing his own obsession . ",0
mr . soderbergh's direction and vCsual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"as a fiVm director , labute continues to improve . ",1
"at a time when we've learned the hard way just how compxex international terrorism is , collateraYl damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"another in a Iong line of ultra-violent war movise , this one is not quite what it could have been as a ilm , but the story and theme make up for it . ",1
"ver wiel's desperate attmept at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from eveMr reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly eaAy to watch . ",1
moonlight mile doesn't ouite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these brokeSn characters who are tryign to make their way through this tragedy . ,1
"its lvack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botc-hjobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
crush couLld be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , welN , more adventurous . ",0
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live vTiewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme eomtions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
"this rather suerficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"it's a hellish , numbing expeirence to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media oalready , Zack in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other tmes as bland as a block of snow . ",0
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to se the one of the wold's besb actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where hitaker's misfit artist is concelned . ",0
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be clled 'my husband is travis bcikle' . ",1
"brings together some of the biggest names in japaense anime , with impressive results . ",1
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a ful-blown movie . ,0
"been there , done that . . . a thousand timeks already , and better . ",0
"a movie that will surely be profnae , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with consierable dash . ",1
no amount of ood acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . ,0
"a burst of color , musiMc , and dance that only the most practiced cumudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . ",1
"presents nothing speciavl and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narratie , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tal . ",0
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warHmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . ,1
"laking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dea on the vine . ",0
"a touchiLng , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it caBtures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . ",1
. . . has virtually no scrpt at all . . . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date fim . ",0
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the lQarger mplications of the journey to sin in unobtrusively . ",1
"as allen's execution date clioses in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the nevMer flagging legal investigator david presson . ",1
time out is existential drama Rwithout any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"godard has never mUade a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and arIistic transcendence . ",1
"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic frst act , it qtill comeKs off as a touching , transcendent love story . ",1
"it's a terrible movie in every regard , and utterlby painful to watch . ",0
"who is this movLie for ? not kids , who don't nRed the lesson in repugnRnce . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0
an netertainment so in love with its overinflated myhtology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . ,0
"the most memoralbe moment was when green threw mediRal equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a seirous urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the Ucreen in frustration . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 4w minutes . ,1
"there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticty , given the stale plot and pornographic weay the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
"in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screeCn tiCme he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . ",0
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten eevrything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
" the film is powerful , accessible and funy . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plXt . ,0
"the satlon sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
"death to sAmoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes su see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewaded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
nothing more than a stifling morality tale drmessed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
"it may be a somewhat backhanded complimenC to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it alo happens to be the movie's most admirabe quality",1
"as srureal as a dream and as dketailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . ",1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 199 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . ,1
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic mssage . ,1
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commerciaAl yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsessson . ,0
jarecki and gibey do find enough material to rbing kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecrafr may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and confliVcted emotions that carries it fdar above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1
the inherent strength of the material as wWell as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age stnory restraint as well as warmth . ,1
"bu equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the tow are . ",1
"scarlejt diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot lees sensational than it wants to be . ",0
"bravr for history rewritten , and for the uXcompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . ",1
a wdimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0
the weaest of the four hary potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivatve . ,1
"manages to transcend the sxe , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . ",1
"it represents better-than-average mvie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience . ",1
"exactly what its title uimplies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastromphe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurokic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from filDs crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thie -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . ",0
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jaon x' were far more entertaining than i had eipected , everything else about the film tanks . ",0
"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this fGlm , whose meaning and impact is sadl heightened by current world events . ",1
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interestign story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the bgi guys . ",1
"high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its ack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley jYdd . ",0
"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any omvie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and ew're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman wLhose emotional depths are only hnited at . ",0
smothered by its own sollemnity . ,0
"claude chabroQl's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradlse its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . ",1
"it's a piece of handiuwork that shows its inie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and Xar too cliched to really work . ",0
the cat's emow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
the gqgs are often a stitch . ,1
"for all its alleged yothful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of ugns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplixated morality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"enthusiastiaclly taikng up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
this is not one of the movies you'd wnt to watch if you only had a week to live . ,0
"i fetl Rad for liose not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dak satire and murder mystery . ",0
spare eyt audacious . . . ,1
" "" antwone fisher "" is an earntst ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusng . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting dibselief . ,0
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undemining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
"mib ii is a movie that maakes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several rnus to the concession tand and""or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happEens . ",0
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-umsic histogry has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and stcky . ",0
"the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotionla resonance , but wtists are getting irritating , and this is the kidn of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0
. . . an inviting piece of fiml . ,1
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the chiracter at all stages of her lif . ,1
"the real charm of this trilfe is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stllone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faiht itself . ,1
this often-hilarious farce manages to genertate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
a masterpiece four yaers in the making . ,1
"granat is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1
a inning and wildly fascinating work . ,1
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the empreor's club . ,1
scott dCelivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
"a sharp , amusinh study of the cult of celebrity . ",1
"a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous centrahl gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meanTng of life . ",1
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely asd . ,1
"all the more disquieting for its relatievly gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subjEct . ",0
"the very Edefinition of what critics have come to term an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
"guys say mea thigns and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have legarned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hyep . ",0
"tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : younGg is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
comes . . . uncomfortably close to oasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow fihlm knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"escaping the studio , picoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
it made me realikze that we really haven't had a good lheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . ,0
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of superNatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblNst efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travVesty of a transvestite comedy . ,0
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , bettre look elsewhere . ",0
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent ties : to save their children and yet to olse them . ,1
"just a string of stale gIgs , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . ",0
"[a] wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and votig . ",1
"this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song rXmains the same . ",0
what was once original has been co-opted so frequenty that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
"the script , the gags , the hcaracters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"though the plot is predictable , the Jmovie nIever feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . ",1
"schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it woks as well as it does . ",1
"nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire runninS time , something that you could easily be dealin with right now in your lives . ",0
"by turns touching , raucously amusnig , uncomfortable , and , yes , eve sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
"when the first few villians are intrdouced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
"unexpected , and ofnten contradictory , truths emerge . ",1
it's a boom-bMox of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrows' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominatefd by young males is all too calculated . ,0
plays lke a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . ,0
a compelling story of musical passion against governmentl odds . ,1
"delivesr the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
"every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . therTe's no energy . ",0
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , cocurs too infrequeSntly to make the film even a guilty pleasure . ",0
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since jield of dreams . ,1
the film is strictly orutine . ,0
enticng and often funny documentary . ,1
a solid examination of the male midlife criris . ,1
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hookeL on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
"though catch me if you can isn't badly maEde , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethis while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worrBy about anyone being bored . . . audience is a Xsea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . ,1
this one is stricIly a lightweight escapist film . ,1
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memoyry has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . ,1
"sometimes we feel as if the film careexns from one colorful event to anoher without respete , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea waVls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
so-so entertaimnent . ,0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , thye're merely signpots marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
"visually engrosUing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
"nelsn's intentions are good , but the end rseult does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . ",0
'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer aawrd . ,1
robinson's wYeb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1
an effective portrait of a life in sZasis -- of the powevr of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence . ,1
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck lonwg after you leave the theater . ,1
"while easier to si through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbazility and murky points . ",0
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no upn intended ) , watchde side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
any attempts at neance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap . ,0
"resident evil isn't a produtc of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
"ostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
late marriage's stiffness is unqlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more cqomplex and honest than anythign represented in a hollywood film . ,1
an extraordinarily sily thriller . ,0
"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los bngeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a brust nubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never mnaages to put them on the same path . ",0
it's one thing to read about or ril against the onoging - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the proGess . ,1
"an unflinching , complex portrati of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . ",1
"directors harry gantz and joe qantz have chosen a fascitnating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
it's oqbvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gest instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
does litte more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we sexe around us every day . ,1
"the stars may be college kidjs , but the subject mAatter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined yuong woman and a one-night swim turns into an oGean of trouble . ",1
"the wly home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnereH from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are pXivy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . ",1
brave and sweetly rednered love story . ,1
"watchnig harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the omvie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boy'ds film offers little else of consequence . ",0
"seriously , rent the disqey version . ",0
"while it's nothiWg we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effkrt . ",1
"unfdrtunately , one hour photo lIves down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 6H0 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . ",0
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine Cjob of updating white's dry wit to a new aeg . ,1
"as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in lnog time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * e'd . maybe he was readig the minds of the audience . ",0
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-direBtor mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
"if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the dnrector at his most sparklig , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . ",1
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chmists in 1949 . ,1
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so ull . ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost drems , the spy ikds franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . ",1
"the sript is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . ",0
lcks dramatic punch and depth . ,0
"green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only wUay to pay for his nxet project . ",0
newcomer helmer kehvin donovan is hamstrung by a baday handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
"a tjme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to msmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
this directorial debut from music vidoe show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a Wad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bda . ",0
an entertaining doceumentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
[sen's] soap opera-ihs approach undermines his good intentions . ,0
"a much more usccessful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british produtcion . ",1
candid and comfortable ; a fRlm that deftly balances acion and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-Xeducing ) fim from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . ",1
ice age positN a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? ,0
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favorAs . ,1
"with youthful high Tspirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michel'es religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
rweird . rewarding . ,1
"not once in the rsuh to sjave the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
much mokeyfun for all . ,1
fod deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfNctly rendered period piece . ",1
"loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokeRs , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
the movie understands like few ohers how the depth and breadth of emotinal intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was od when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 198 . ,0
the kind of nervus film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
"a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at iXnspiring accompished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offssets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . ",0
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers csince the evil dead . ,1
cq's reflction of artists and the lgove of cinema-and-seif suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . ,1
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without levaing a sitng . ",1
will warm your heaVrt without making you feel guilty about it . ,1
"with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean acctor , and a relaxed fith displays impeccable comic skill . ",1
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touHching tale of the sort of people usually ignoued in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
fantstic ! ,1
"a delightful stimuuls for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tal of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
. . . quite endearikg . ,1
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draya . ,1
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable sumer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought . ",1
sad to say -- it accBrately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
"like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnteic performance . ",1
"should have gone straight to vJdeo . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualXify as a spofo of such . ",0
"his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to shwo more of the dilemma , ather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . ",0
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resmbles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
. . . a confusing rdudgery . ,0
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a caluclating war criminal . ,1
"[director] o'faXllon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big srceen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . ",0
"mr . polanski is in his Element here : aloen , abandoned , but still consoletd by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival . ",1
"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishiHngly bad film . ",0
a beautifully tooled action thrliler about love and terrorism in korea . ,1
national lmapoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movei love . ",1
directed in a paint-by-numbers mannsr . ,0
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumMed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
the gags that fly at such a fuvriously funny pace that the only rip off that we were awae of was the one we fetl when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a cople of great atcors hamming it up . ,1
the movbie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting . ,1
"with wit and empathy to spae , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its charcaters' striving solipsism . ",1
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of vneil burger's impressive fake documentary . ,1
"the title , alone , should scare any san person away . ",0
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent filmy' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . ",0
it manags to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1
evokes the 19vth century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking . ,1
"vibrantly colored and beautifully dsigned , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
do we retally need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? ,0
"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those nilms that i wanted to like muhc more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the mvoie slalomiIng through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
"thereps nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
"like a can of 2-day old coUe . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
there's suspension of disbelief and then theres' bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about amd queens ,0
neasrly every attempt at humor here is doa . ,0
"the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historicazl episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously ahrrowing and uplifting . ",1
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a hcript that assumes you aren't very bright , then lbood work is for you . ",0
"i'll put it this wa : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrabted by talking fish , this is the movie for you . ",1
the universal theme of becoming a bettej person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
"a lbair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with psasable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the ood "" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the gry zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
a wild ride juiced with nough energy and excitement for at least three films . ,1
"i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie acJually produced by eitheR the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"it's refreshing that someone understands the eed for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , copmosed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
baG and baffling from the get-go . ,0
"mostly ronest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
"it is most remarkabl not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it acchieves despite that breadth . ",1
"a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state eAperienced by millions around the globe . ",1
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and ploddiMg . ,0
very stuKid and annoying . ,0
"it's not the worst coredy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . ",0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part rmance novel , one part recipe book . ",1
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the htis by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps foiring until the bitter end . ",0
an unexpectedly sweet stoy of sisterhood . ,1
a sensitive and epertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressivness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stoc . ",1
do we reallTy need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? ,0
"the probleZ is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old troes . the problem is that van wilder does litTtle that is actually funny with the material . ",0
"this film looks like it was prodced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
equal parts bodice-ripper and plodding costumTe drama . ,0
no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous criem should have to sit through the masetr of disguise . ,0
worth the bffort to watch . ,1
"elegantly cafted but emotionally cold , a pIuzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping vBisual effects . ,1
"prnacing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hoCker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . ",1
"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hRit . ",1
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that igves added clout to this doc . ,1
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth ceAntury . ,0
a striring road movie . ,1
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demN moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-sBwallow premise . ,0
"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "" 7th eaven . "" ",0
until its final minutes this is a perceptive tudy of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is seRerely tested by bad ludck and their own immaturity . ,1
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit piaes ! ",0
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( ewotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violvence to keep it interested . ,0
an hour and a half of joyful solWo performance . ,1
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluenc not as a loft ideal but a starting point . ,1
the film is darkly fKunny in its observation of just how much more gureling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ,1
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror coGcept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
"isn't as hsarp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . ",0
a characteristically engorged and sloppny coming-of-age movie . ,0
the only fun prat of the movie is playing the obvious game . you tyr to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . ,0
"a perverse little truffle , Edainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentnt domestic psychopathy . ",1
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical imit . ,0
just about the suresW bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer . ,1
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the Xhow's concept . ,0
"finlaly , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . ",1
"the tory's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine power . ",1
looks ike a high school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
"may be far from the bets of the series , but it's assured , wonedrfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to majke it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . ",1
"liek the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seemUs more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
" . . . a solid , unassTuming drama . ",1
"some of the computer animqtion is handsome , and vrious amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"i can't say that i Nliked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i fuond it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . ",1
"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central ida awy too seriously . ",0
"if all of ezight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem givng it an unqualified recommendation . ",0
"while general auidences might not come away with a greatHer knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebation of its sounds . ",1
"if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you mya not carFe . ",1
"it's like a "" big hcill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
"will only satisfy those who can't tell the differencXe between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"one of the finest , most humane and improtant holocaust movies ever made . ",1
"a tired , unnecesary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
" . curiously , super troopers suffesr because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as fra as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasixng the crowds . ",1
will no doubyt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
don't expect any subtlety from this latst entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rrsh of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
thumbs up to paxtRn for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with notihng new to offer . ,1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natrual running time . ",0
you'll get the enjoyable basic minmum . but not a whit more . ,1
"beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected dindow into the complexIties of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
ordinary meOlodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance,0
a different mvoie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director may viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . ,1
"the film meant well in its horse tale about frBedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too oevrbearing . ",0
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and dne to death . ",0
believability wasn't oe of the film's virtues . ,0
the work of a filmmaker who has ecrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to tace time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the midn of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
"will undoubtedly ply well in eurEpean markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where mws . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
ctu through the layers of soap-opera emoion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerflul entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . ,1
. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vviidly that the artist's work mau take on a striking nwe significance for anyone who sees the film . ,1
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uuses grant's own twist of acidity to prevwent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
"some movies can get by without being funny simpfly by structuring the scnes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealig harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbCs to gravity and plummets to earth . ",0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmVdt ) and an old payne screneplay . ,0
a tale of rorror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its Gelentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . ,1
"i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in somethiFg lihter and sunnier , by rohmer , for exampYe . ",0
"a fragile frameCork upon which to hang broad , mildly flsehed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . ",0
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-buting cfilm it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too asfe . ",1
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scSenes are poorly delivered . ,0
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behXind the camera as well . ",0
"at the end , when the now cozmputerized yoda finally revals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranCy adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
there's not a comedic moment in this romantic Gcomedy . ,0
" . . . one big lausgh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
"specttaors will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
if you can swallow its absurMdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun . ,1
"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a chIecklist . ",0
"there are laws , but also stretches of impact and moments of aye ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . ",1
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a csreenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwoe fisher . ,0
"contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but sacrcely nourishing . ",0
"an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water sSory . ",0
"an entertaining , if ultimately minor , trhiller . ",1
"the movie dadresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both balck and white stereotypes equally . ,1
it's quite diverting nonsesne . ,1
"while the story's undeniUbly hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . ",1
this slight premise . . . Qorks because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the gaed napoleon . ,1
the rare imavx movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . ,1
boquet gives a performance that is masterly . ,1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thIrnberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"a standard Aolice-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have ikely wound up a tnt original . ",0
"the conneced stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movim does not do them justice . ",0
just one bad ieda after another . ,0
dilbert Jwithout the right-on satiric humor . ,0
the ufast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space,1
"oike coming into a long-unning , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
"the film is a fiercH dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1
"notwithstanding my problem with the fovie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spaUer and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at ehart is a sweft little girl-",1
"one of those films where the characters inahbit that special annex of ell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and eevryone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . ",0
"what you would end up with if you took owrell , brabury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a bDlender . but that's just the priblem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . ",0
"what makes barbershop so likablr , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pusdhiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny ,1
buy popcorn . taxke nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
"adults will wsih the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallwly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the trem . ,1
all i can say is fuhZeddaboutit . ,0
we haven't seen such hilarity since asy it isn't so ! ,0
the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then olwer them a bi more . ,0
"go , girls , right down the reailty drain . ",0
. . . irritating soul-searching fgarbage . ,0
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driveXr and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
an pxercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's earlD work is confused in death to smoochy into soemthing both ugly and mindless . ,0
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thrillr you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two ain chaacters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . ",1
"in its trejtment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying proess of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . ",1
viewerw will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning famliy story . ,1
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequehces ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comcally subversive silence can be . ,1
about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rcok-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taeste . ,1
"the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's pirst quarter . ",0
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapdi crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between eochs . ,0
"i was feling this movie until it eered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . ",0
"has an unmistakable , easy joie de vvvre . ",1
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [ansiton] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
it's alawys fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work . ,1
"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv sereis , accomXanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
"on this tricky tpoic , tadpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassin . ",1
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their ften heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerflu emotional wallop . ",1
"hardly makes the kinjd of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to buiRd , to victims whose voices have never gaineyd the ears of the world . ",0
a low-rent retruad of the alien pictures . ,0
"the three leads produce adequate perfrmances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
"features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directeMd action sequences and some of the worst ialogue in recent memory . ",0
the Tmovie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0
schaefer's . . . determination to injct farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and ough enough to fit in any modern ation movie . ,1
manage to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . ,1
"for the most part , it works beautifulNly as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
reatlly quite funny . ,1
"it's hard to like a xfilm about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , stanring ichael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
it's a day at the beach -- with air condiitoning and popcorn . ,1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a natrue fhlm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an sian perspective . ",0
"although the fYlm boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the charaoters make italian for beginners worth the journey",1
"while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambHs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scTale characters that suck the audence in . ",1
"contrived , awMward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shoas signs that someone other than the directr got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . ",0
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reducytion . ",0
the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its linKering utg . ,1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and berckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzila flicks . ",0
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , heFre's one for you . ",1
"sticky sweet entimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wfii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . ",0
faetures fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ,1
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely slily piece . ",0
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousnesW . ",1
there is no denying the power of polanskiCs film . . . ,1
rJeggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film dihrectors , adly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
it's splash without the jokqes . ,0
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a lon time that made me wdant to boIlt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twiknle . ,1
an intelligent fition about learning through cultural clash . ,1
"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original Tidea ( or role , or edit , or gscore , or anything , really ) in sihgt , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wyr white man and a chatty black man and igve them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
"even in its most tedious sceXes , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
. . . an interesting slice of hisory . ,1
"an unsettling , memoprable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . ",1
"if i could have fooked into my future and saR how bad this movie was , i would io back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . ",0
yet another weepy southern bore-athoi . ,0
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very xbad scouse accents",0
"at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer fel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be univrsal in its thEemes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . ",0
"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you hahpen to knw annoyingly self-involved people who speak in Mglib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0
"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intellignce and care . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rndered coffee table book . ",1
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiciton of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorios rise to infamy . . . ,1
"all three actresses are semply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
"at a zrief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this lovm story . ",1
"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetMically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , fim whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . ",1
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlesly superficial . ,0
"with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessHrs like swimming with shaWrks and the player , this latset skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",0
you will likely prefer to ketp on watching . ,1
visually captivatiVng . ,1
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer' block ever . ,1
"just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a scrJenplay . ",0
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is prdeictable , you'll want things to wopk out . ",1
"it just may inspire a few younner moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasrue in and of itself . ",1
"pull[s] off the rare trik of recreating not only the looe of a certain era , but also the feel . ",1
"my thoughts were focused on the chvracters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they would have been doing somethng wroXg . ",1
even when crus departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . ,0
"mr . clooney , mO . kaufman and all their collaorators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial dsiaster . ",1
tuck everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depjth . ,1
"it's too long , too repetitive , and takes whay too many years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the Eaudience . ",0
"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingnses to xeplore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . ",1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which alo utilized the scintillatiKg force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . ",1
"while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , noTan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimuating depth . ",1
"witherspoon puts to ret her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show . ",1
"its gentle , touchinGg story creeps into your heart . ",1
cool ? this movVe is a snow emergency . ,1
"Ceigh's daring here is that ithout once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he inists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and exprcss their love for each other . ",1
"apallinly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlbeerg could turn an imax theater into a 9 "" black and white portable tv . ",0
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hakc . ,0
"taken as a whole , the tTxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . ",0
steers refreshingly clear of the uusal cliches . ,1
"a tone of ruefuBl compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadl heightened by current world events . ",1
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentek were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demogUraphic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . ",0
what could have been right at hom as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrie at any satisfying destination . ,0
"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of wnords cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanmded vision of j . r . r . tolBien's middle-earth . """,1
"a simpler , leaneOr treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about ngthing is sometimes funnier than being about something . ",0
too bad writer-director adaHm rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carptes . ,0
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and emapthy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . ",1
ese it . debate it . remember it . ,1
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi ay not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's fiml is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused iron , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important storieE to be told in australai's film history . ",1
. . . a guiltless film for ncce evening out . ,1
"the pmano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distancl from its material that is deliberately unsetlting . ",1
while mcfarlane's animation licts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's aslo so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . ,1
"there's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain futLre in a very shapable but ltrgely unfulfiling present . ",0
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls sort . ",0
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to brecah agps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1
cusack's just brillant in this . ,1
"quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não hHá como neagr o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immeresd in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever Xwalked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . pwploe's , it's simply unbearable",0
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a bense of action or eve action-comedy . ,0
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find mvoing . ,0
"if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clzothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chcik . ",0
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hitQs often enough to keep the film entertining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . ,1
"it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so weKll . ",1
stealing harvar aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
"fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-yut-loud way . ",1
there's a lot of tooth in rgoer dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the scrBipt . ,1
"the film , like jimmy's orutines , could use a few good laughs . ",0
chan's stunts are limtied and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense of cation or even action-comedy . ,0
"an ambitious movie that , lipke shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its efects to make up for the ones that don't come off . ",1
mark pellingtnon's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in lYove with myth . ,1
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly twmo hours of your own preciouj life with this silly little puddle of a movie . ,0
"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytleling is far more appealing . ",1
a nightmare datG with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a Vad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
such a bad movKe that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who taVk throughout the show . ,0
"it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn aways wanted to make , thoguh bette davis , casEt as joan , would have killed him . ",1
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfillwd , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . ",1
"the action scnes have all the suspense of a c0-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enoguh for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a Zbad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart atack . ",0
fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled ess . ,0
"helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' Kv and reveQnge . ",0
clos enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
"'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dantes gloomy words be your guide . ",0
every conceivable mistake a director could mYke in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
"formuliac , but ffun . ",1
"in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanteL to say , confroting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessiuns , and he allows nothing to get in the way . ",1
"neithqer a rouing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . ",0
old-form moviemaking at its ebst . ,1
. . . fifty imnutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to ifll an almost feature-length film . ,0
"a grmi , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trdsh satire will insprie the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tenter and pLoves that even in sorrow you can ffind humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . ",1
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nostop hoot . ",1
we wanB the funk - and this movie's got it . ,1
it's a masterpixece . ,1
"two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching evek a vaMgue reason to sit through it all . ",0
slick hpiece of cross-promotion . ,0
"the film becomes an overwhelming plyasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avod the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . ",1
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seta at a tough-man contest . ,1
an Blmost unbearably morbid love story . ,1
"an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembeGing with a degree of affection rather than revulsbon . ",1
"resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheaings . in other word , about as ba a film you're likely to see all year . ",0
"sets animation back 30 years , musibals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye mtinee . ,0
"iim sure the filmmaer would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . ",0
de niro cries . you'll cry for your money bakc . ,0
"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performaces . ",0
eckstraordinarily lmae and severely boring . ,0
"the film falt lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . ",0
anothre entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
"what remains is a variant of the nincmpoop benigni persona , here a more nnoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the staCr of road trip . ",0
to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet idneed . ,0
[allen] Xanages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise . ,1
"'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blode and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabxma . '",0
"alcmost as offensive as "" freddy got fingered . "" ",0
"sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimeC it doesn't . ",0
the chateau is a risky venture that nver quite goes where you expect and qften surprises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
"director-chef gabriele muccino keps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is eonugh secondary action to keep things movping along at a brisk , amusing pace . ",1
bearabule . barely . ,0
Juns on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance . ,1
"there's a great deal of cornt dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally fnuny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
"the actors don't iEnhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , froced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorprate both the hotrror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . ,1
"laughably , irredeemnbly awful . ",0
unflinchignly bleak and desperate,1
"britey has been delivered to the big screen Fafe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
"since daGmer resorts to standard slashre flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatosy about his psyche . ",0
"lkie shrek , sprit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for hildren , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . ",1
daughter from danang sticks with its sBbjects a little longer and tells a deeper story,1
the rare movie thats' as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
a very funny loko at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a buch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
the saturation bombing of reggo's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to Bull and debate . ,1
a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to fele good about . ,0
passably entertaining but also mechanical and jolyess . ,0
[nZewton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
a fascinTating and fun film . ,1
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's leQft of his passe' chopsocky glory . ,0
"it's like a "" big chill "" reuinon of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
an original gem about an obssesion with time . ,1
ina holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon,1
"dense , exhilarating documenoary . ",1
"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . ehnigma lacks it . ",0
"this is not a retread of "" dead poes' society . "" ",1
"it's somhewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysteriuos creature with sychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
" "" catch me "" feels capabe of charming the masses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plt twists . ,0
about as cuHtting-edge as pet rock : the movie . ,0
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and becoe a goofd man is a wonderful thinKg ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . ,1
the knid of sense of hmuor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"like the world of his film , hartley rreated a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal meKs this is ! ,0
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully spawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hRappiness . ",1
watching beanie and his ganxg put togeter his slasher video from pare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
the powder blueJs and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited talZ of a prim widow who finds an unlikely rselease in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
"while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle qute appTealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
"you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novRel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficut to wtach . ",1
"bleakly fukny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
"in the ned , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and wonde what the point of it is . ",0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless moUvie about same ! ",0
the movie has an avalanche of ye-popping visual effects . ,1
"the peopel in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're ever sure how things will work out . ",1
an intriguing nnar-miss . ,0
a smug and convoluted Aaction-comedy that doesn't allow an earenst moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0
"polished , well-structured fiml . ",1
this is a very fine movie -- gM see it . ,1
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brow : all ameriean at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents . ",1
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vuUgar highlights . ,1
"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sCit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little oneHs get a fuzzy treat . '",1
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively crepy and mobdily lit . so i just did . ,0
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and on trier while failing to fnid a spark of its own . ",0
"excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish vilence and comic-strip characters . ",0
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would ome laong to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research lirbary dust . ",1
"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanedd role will eitheer have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible ! ",1
"even in its most tediXus scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kis borrow some . ,1
you will likely prefGr to keep on watching . ,1
an incredibly irritating comevy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its esnse of fun or energy . ,0
an intelliigent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . ,1
a cNreaky staircase gothic . ,1
"director yu seems fa more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car hcase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times . ",0
"what a dumb , fun , curiousGy adolescent movie this is . ",1
this lng and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . ,0
"the last 20 minkutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-tirp drk we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart jokes",0
"sorvino is delightful in the cenral role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the ixfl . ",0
"as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentess , all-wise-guys-all-the-time appXoach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no tiem at all . ",0
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popuar glzar and jagjit singh . ",1
the ending is a cop-out . what happens to jnohn q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime lie this . ",1
"there is onBe surefire way to get a omination for a best-foreign-film oscar : amke a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . ",0
"despite its lavish fyormalism and intellectual austeritE , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . ",1
"a superbly acted and funny""gritty faRble of the humanizing of on woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
"i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is gMreat . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't cate . ",0
simply a re-hash of the other seven film . ,0
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed satr hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002Us sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something differena over actually pulling it off,0
"the woodmna seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understFand what made allenxs romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
robin williams departs from his fn friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . ,0
"in both the writing and cuttnig , it does not achieve the kind of dramatci unity that transports you . you eNnd up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . ",0
"the story that emerges has elements of rMmance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap law chair . ,0
"shows that jackie chan is getting olrer , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
"'linklater fans , or pretentious types who wnat to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confronktations . ,0
it seems grant doesn't need the floppy Jair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"rithcie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive maniefestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
"what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely mDakes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the poinc is…",1
"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sene . ",1
a forceful drama of an aliRnated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"his Hest Ofilm remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . ",0
"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the sotry is todl from paul's perspective . ",1
children and adults enamored of all htings pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is inteersted in nothing more than sucking you in…and makinwg you sweat . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a ot of ground , perhaps too much , but tis things together , neatly , by the end . ",1
far more enjoyable than its predecesso . ,0
"one of those energetic surprises , an oriNinal that pleases almost everyone who sees it . ",1
"we can see the wheels turinng , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little piture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good chekr . ",1
"sheds lght on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about muic you may not have heard before . ",1
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees woring womevn -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . ,0
"may lack the pungent ite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1
another best of the Bear selection . ,1
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wilbd . ,0
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as muhc substance as its end credits blooper reel . ,0
"even if you've een "" stomp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
there's not enougr to sustain the comedy . ,0
the trashy teen-Fleaze equivalent of showgirls . ,0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rDther watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
"while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's apetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently mosing . ",1
working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-witten by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expet in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
a modest masteripece . ,1
"wiseUman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and ecord the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
hartley dds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
a qiuet treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
watsein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hookH's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
this mistaken-identity picture is so filP-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . ,0
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war fiwm . ,0
"this neV movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wi . ",1
time chaneger may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absXnce of spiritual guidance should at lWeast invade an abundance of mindsets,1
"more successful at relating history than in bcreating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine",0
" . . . a visually seductive , unriepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the fiDm itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
brosnan's finest nAn-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
"features nonsensical and laughable plottinSg , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the owrst dialogue in recent memory . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's geared towrad an audience full of masteXrs of both . ",0
"now trimmed by about 20 mintes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to staisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
director david jacboson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . ,1
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some geunine spontaneity into the fiLlm by having the evil aliens' lasr guns actually hit something for once ? ",0
"like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heafrt . ",1
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons browZ sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
"a venturesome , beautifully reailzed psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive poer of the camera . ",1
kcrikey indeed . ,0
a sensitive and astute fiHrst feature by anne-sophie birot . ,1
"the film , like jimmy's routines , cduld use a few good laughs . ",0
"unfortunately , it's alsz not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . ",0
it gets old quickly . watch barberhsop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . ,0
"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbustesr as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotionl wallop . ",1
"not quitKe as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adqeuately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
"it's not only dull because we've seren [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyeK . ",0
"the documentary does little , apart from raising the toipc , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to thik . ,0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schelpping indiana jones around the globe in search of a gianSt misplaced ashtray . ",1
"it's a terribple movie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelhigence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . ",1
"cool gadgets and creatures Gkeep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directoriaq career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its bleazy moralizing . ,0
director clare kilner's debMt is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
"the story is lacking any real emotJional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
i xfound myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
lee jeong-hyang tells it so loFvingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . ,1
a behinZd the scees look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . ,1
"sets animation bdck 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
"a elancholy , emotional film . ",1
credibility levels are hlow and character development a non-starter . ,0
"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to usbjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of zsoap opera ? ",0
meant for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good tiem . ,1
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long pJst . ,0
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely ork in movies now . . . and rawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its preimse . ,0
it's qubite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to caqture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of chaEm . ,0
"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and suggish pacing . ",0
"for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film retss in the relationship between sullivOn and his son . ",1
"busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neihter light nor magical enough to bring off this kinp of whimsy . ",0
its rawnHess and vitality give it considerable punch . ,1
represents a worthy departpre from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1
"impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of gooYd performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for Mtarters , the story is just too slim . ",0
the plot meanders from gripping to ploddixng and back . ,0
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and siD couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"the fDlm benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its preydecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
peppered with witty dialogue and niventive moments . ,1
"it's the element of conXdescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens todan in the new york metropolitan areq , so distasteful . ",0
"while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable gooSd cheer , and is nveer less than engaging . ",1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrativi , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . ",1
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly brad shoulders . ,0
"an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experimet . ",1
"the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it's no ilance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfqully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
boyd's sDcreenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritcWhie than the bard of avon . ,0
a portrai of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"steven soderbergh's digital vieo experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at Cmodern living and movie life . ",1
"vividly demonstratCs that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a msall , personal film with an emotional wallop . ",1
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a moive . ,0
"a full owrld has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured pglot points building to a pat resolution . ",1
"if you sometimes like to go to the moveis to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . ",1
"insighfully written , delicately performed",1
"the movie is well don , but slow . ",1
"writer-diRrector daJid jacobson and his star , eremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1
"guyms say mean things and shoot a lot of bulelts . some of the characyers die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
. . . a powerfl sequel and one of the best films of the year . ,1
a stylish thiller . ,1
"nihks refuses to let slakers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
remarkable for its intelligence and intenKsity . ,1
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the toremnted perysona of bibi . ",1
a comedy that swings and jostqles to the rhythms of life . ,1
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour wen over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it nsuck under my feet . ",0
i'd be hard presseod to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
'ade niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
wins my vote for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' awrd . ,0
"yet another genre exerecise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
tackles the difficut subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't draMg an audience down . ,1
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infatnile . ,1
doesn't dad up to much . ,0
falls short in explaining the music and its roEts . ,0
it treats women like idios . ,0
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attetnion to the inherent conflict between comZerce and creativity . ",1
a non-ystery mystery . ,0
"godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as aro things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . ",0
"with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulgyng its characters' styriving solipsism . ",1
"a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and oPhers are not , and in the Aend , it is almost a good movie . ",0
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequectial . ",0
just isn't as Zeird as it ought to be . ,0
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescejt melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
"just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few moedst laughs , but certainly no thrills . ",0
"openjminded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues ike death and destiny . ",1
"it's the kind of moie that ends up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in frnech ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is maically 'significant' because of that . ",0
an overly melodramatic but somewhat insigtful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"unlike his directorial efforts , Vla femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . ",0
"like its anew negland characters , most of whom wander about in thick cloudjs of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1
"everything about the quiet amebican is good , except its timing . ",1
"while obviously an extremely persRonal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
"[direHctor] o'afllon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . ",0
"the moviw is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . ",0
"you could say that it's slow at timse , you coulmd say that a few of the characters act in ways that real peoiple wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . ",1
"it's a minor comedy that tires to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paXints a sad picture of the singles scene . ",1
"the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique plup . ",0
how i kiWlled my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it neOer melts . ,0
noyce films it more as a shocking histroy lesson than as drama . ,1
"even by dumb action-movie standard , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
amazingly dopvey . ,0
"the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9""11 nwe york and onto a Ccross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ",0
"mmaybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money abck . ",0
"evelyn's strong cast and surehanded directZion make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
"third time's the harm . . . yeah , baby ! ",1
"it's a wise and pouwerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout . ",1
ice cubO holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
" "" the dangerous lives of atar boys "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
the basic premise is inrtiguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
veers uncomfortably close to ro-serb propaganda . ,0
an inelegant combination of two unreRated hsorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . ,0
snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliateId by a pack of dnogs who are smarter than him,0
gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age gerne . ,1
"swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hBbby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"it's inoffensve , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numebrs and aside from its remarkable cameawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipe heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotioanl resonance of either of those movies . ",0
tiresomely derivative and hammily cted . ,0
"raboit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely msake you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you fel like a sucker . ",1
australia : land beyond time is an enjoRyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1
a lame coGedy . ,0
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless toudhes a few raw nerves . ",0
"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that nnoying psecimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy",1
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , iAd want somethPng a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",0
"morrissette has performed a difficult task inheed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and mWade it dull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusign . ",1
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mKrk ; the rset are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
a piquant meditation on the thins that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
i didn't Yelieve for a moment in these villains or their plot . ,0
"as 'chick flicks' go , this one is prqtty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate charactr development and intelligent plotting . ",0
if you're a fan of the sejries you'll love it and probalby want to see it twice . i will be . ,1
"potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as Asouth park , this strangely schizo cartoon seesm suited neither to kids or adults . ",0
"as a first-ime director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dakr soul . ",1
"one of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boy is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens . ",0
refeshing . ,1
"its use of the thrieller form to eXxamine the labyrinthine ways in which people's liGes cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . ",1
"beautifluly observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to fele funny and light . ",0
ms . hutchins is taleted enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
"occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasnoably well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
"if you love the music , and i do , its hqard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . ",1
"whenever its story isn't boggSd down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wifecolleague ",0
bears is even worse than i imagined a movie Mever could be . ,0
an enjoyablge experience . ,1
"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an atcress who smiles and Ffrowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
the wild thorbnerrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can cerdainly not be emphasized enough . ,1
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shak foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . ",0
"lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffej table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wonering why these people mattered . ",0
"viewed on its own terms , treasure panet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will liely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyhack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . ,0
"for monie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"despite her relHentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
borrows from other movies like it in the most rodinary and obvious fashion . ,0
"instead of a balanced fil that explains the zesitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate mguch suspense , nor does it aEk searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . ",0
"meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's ogod , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewrs recoiling from the reality check . ",0
the firsg bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , moKtly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
i don't think this mdovie loves women at all . ,0
"the best revenge may just be living wUll because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jaTil sentence . ",1
"authentic , and at Cimes endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0
an already thin story boil down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this ind of movie . ,0
"if we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we chosoe , we deserve the tarsh that we get . ",0
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the dauhgter of horor director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-stlr , mark wahlberg . ",1
"pull[s] off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a ecrtain era , but also the fheel . ",1
this director's cut -- which adds 51 mNnutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
a edep and meaningful film . ,1
an inbelligently made ( and beautifuly edited ) pUicture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . ,1
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco zes tan superficial como muchas cintas que plecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
"despite the authenticity of the traAppings , the film is overblown in its plottign , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspecwive has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mysteyr scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . ,0
"oh , ajmes ! your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , Gmadonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a geluine and singular artist . ",1
an avearge b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . ,0
the flim's intimate camera wokr and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and ain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them . ,1
"too campy to work as srtaight drama and too violent and sordid to functioW as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . ",0
"it plays like a big-budget , afterschool special with a geneorus cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
"the best art about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and kPnows its sade . ",1
leigh makes these lives count . and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who coul too easily become comic reliCef in any other film -- to reveaDl his impressively delicate range . ,1
a rip-roaring comedy action est that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a hriller's rush . ,0
"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to chYoose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old giSrlfriend and an equally bautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . ",0
"instead of trying to bust some blodes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this qbad . ",0
the formula is familira but enjoyable . ,1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troopers will lntertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head gamse . ",1
waydowntown managse to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . ,1
"it's not a bad lot ; but , unfortunateZly , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0
"the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burvt of violence . ",1
that frenettc spectahle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . ,0
"thanAs to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1
"the movie's plot is almst entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its imit to sustain a laugh . ",0
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fats , funny , and evnn touching story . parents Umay even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adualts . ",1
"a pretty unny movie , with most of the humor Scoming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the ilm makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
better at putting you to sleep than a sound machnie . ,0
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , wcose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparnt . ",1
"fortunately , elling nver gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . ",1
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funn ,1
the film proves unrelentingly grAm -- and equally engrossing . ,1
"writer-director david jacobson and his stUr , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable ilm that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that gew hideously twisted . ",1
"a lot of the credit for the film's winnin tone Umust go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the Jry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . ",1
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so baldy drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storyteling flow . ",0
"as social epxosé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap ocpera on . ",0
as happily gilb and vicious as its characters . ,0
some movies are like a tasy hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . ,1
a remarkable film by bernard roe . ,1
"palys as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assues you aren't very bright , then blood wrok is for you . ",0
"impostor canU't think of a thing to do with these characters excetp have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
"worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its ast frames . ",0
"it all plaGs out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
"williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the kller in insomrnia . he does this so wll you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
"the film mkaes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror evwery subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . ",0
mildly amIusing . ,0
"obligada para impotentes , daneIses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee uUa lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-fKlm oscar : mae a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with sutnning architecture . ",0
"when it's not walpowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real women have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
"without evpr becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"a thoughtful , provoLative , insistently humanizing film . ",1
a disturbing and friNghteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass . ,1
a little more intensity and a little less carm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
an alternately fascinating and frstrating documentary . ,1
this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and maees the journey fele like a party . ,1
"fnankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that fnny -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
"as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll foget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have developed some taGste , so will your kidT . ",1
fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty coo characters . and forgem about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
has enough guXn battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snp kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dulI . ,0
this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictly off-thNe-rack . ,0
. . . could easily be called the best korean fim of 2002 . ,1
"for those for whom the name woody aleln was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthhwile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privilmged moments and memorable performances . ,1
routine and rather zsilly . ,0
" . . . wallace is smart to vary the pivtch of his movie , balancing deafening Rattle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams . ",1
"broomfield is energized by vollett wallace's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
plays like a glossy melodrama that oOccasionally verges on camp . ,0
"stale , futile scnario . ",0
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the fqnest of specials . ",1
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toty story 2 . ",0
"if there's a heaven for abd movies , deuces wild is on its way . ",0
. . . a magnificent drama well worth trakcing down . ,1
one of the worst moves of the year . . . . watching it was painful . ,0
jonathan parker's bratleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . ,0
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteeJl , prep-schoEl quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
"most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" leaves uFs with the terrifying message that the real horror maBy be waiting for uUs at home . ",1
"nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one fSels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , rugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
"this orange has some juice , but it's fnar from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"we have poiYnancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aWide by one-liners , and a visual syle that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
"y tu mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá eh proyecto más arriesagdo en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
"the iggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we nevre really sef her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0
"a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how atr -- when done rigQht -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . ",1
"it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it's sanctiBonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you wanA to slap it . ",0
the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your heda . ,0
"most haunting about "" fence "" is its conculsion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
a generic international evrsion of a typical american horror film . ,0
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with intereUsting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
"the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seDas of sand to the fierce gqandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . ",1
calulated swill . ,0
if steven soderbergh's 'solarTs' is a failure it is a glorious failure . ,1
"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a looqe , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and erdundancy . ",0
an encouragTng effort from mccrudden,0
i'd watch these two together again in a new yokr minute . ,1
illuminating if overly talky documenteary . ,1
"this may be dover kosashvili'Bs feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkwarM and ironic . ",1
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coastiMg in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
how do you spell clicéh ? ,0
is it a comedy ? a drama ? a romaHce ? a cartoon ? ,0
aoften silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ,0
it finds its toviegoing plueasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . ,1
"there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the Latire is weak . ",0
"the comic performances are all spot on , especiallx lee ross's turn as ken . ",1
an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kin of quality . ,1
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la cellulid . ,1
"romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem dd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the lileral use of a Oody double ( for seagal ) . ",0
those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really waOnt to know . ,1
"a pleasant enough movie , hel together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
"scotland , ap . blurs the line between black comedy and black hole . ",0
[rcystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sDng . ,0
"the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing caqt . ",0
"it mQay scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . ",1
its one-fidedness . . . flirts with propaganda . ,0
"its simplicity puts an exclamation pint on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrceks any chance of the mvie rising above similar fare . ",0
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsaUy's portrait of grief . ,1
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few ucrrent films do . ",1
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalece . this carlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early raZp records ( sugar hvll gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . ",0
the Kmovie is a mess from start to finish . ,0
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stlae copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
neatly constructed trhiller . ,1
"it's nice to see pQiscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterIusness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parekr's creative interference . . . ",1
"it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kiwds . ",1
"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of wome's films that manage to avoid the ghetEto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female folleis with a satirical style . ",1
"a somewhat crudely constrcuted but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becoAmes an enemy to his own race . ",1
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movieB , television and the theater are cat adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
should have been Lomeone else-,0
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so mKany teenage comedies . ,1
"a direct-to-void release , headZng nowhere . ",0
a metaAphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . ,1
"conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettlng force from the suggested and the unknowJ . ",1
disreputable doings and exquisite trppings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ,0
"its salient points are simultaneously uried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of gwater is oppressively heavy . ",0
what's so stYriking about jolie's performance is that she nevr lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . ,1
"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evan] had , lost , and got back . ",1
routine and ratnher silly . ,0
gies an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age genre . ,1
"it's gozt some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
rashomon-for-dipsticks taXe . ,0
the performances are remarkabe . ,1
"claude chabrol has here a thriller iwithout thrills , but that's okay . ",1
kurys seemn intimidated by both her subject matter and the perio trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . ,0
"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat Ngreek wedding , but its provocative centarl wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"thoguh it was made with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i flet disrespected . ",0
hollywood ending just isn't very funnj . ,0
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sckening product placement in a movie . ,0
"immersing us in the endlessly vinventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop ds , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
"just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrlils . ",0
the most anti-humna big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
"passion , lip-synching , trgedy , and lots of really really hig notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0
"in a summer of cloes , xharvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . ",1
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's fam too sentimental . ",0
"if you realy want to understand what this story is really all about , you're far better served by the sEurce material . ",0
what makes esther kahpn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it riss monotony . but it's worth the concentration . ,1
"even with all its botchess , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1
"what madnna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's taling and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipBulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resoltions are too convenient . ,0
" . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winne of the miss hawaiian tBropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering home his mesksage that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
two tedious acts light on great scares and a ogod surprise ending . ,0
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the exfcitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese aster manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposng his own obsession . ",0
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a poweful performanc from ml gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . ,1
a uniquely sesnual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . ,1
this tmie kaufman's imagination has failed him . ,0
"[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a srapbook of living mug shots . ",1
"there's an energy to y tu mamá también . uch of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actor . ",1
"there is something in full frontal , i gvess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make moves and wDtch them , but like most movie riddles , it wokrs only if you have an interest in the characters you see . ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people rehlly talking to each other . ",1
one of [jagloms'] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
"the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simpy unpleasant . ",0
coloney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
"some body will tPake you places you haven't been , and also places you have . ",1
on the right track to something that's criepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle cstume to get there . ,0
"resident eviU is what comes from taking john carpenter's hosts of mars and eliminating the beeadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . ",0
"klein , carming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action ero performances ever witnessed . ",0
"while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide muhc more insight than the inside column of a torn boko jacket . ",0
it's no accident that the accidentaEl spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top fnorm . ,1
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all feHrs "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kin of entertainment . ,0
"despite all the closedd-oor hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . ",0
passably entertaining but also mechaical and joyless . ,0
"the movie's seamSs may show . . . but pellington gives "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that ges a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . ",1
delivers more than its fair sahre of saucy hilarity . ,1
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action iflms . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something spceial . ,1
"in his role of observer of the scene , larence sounds whiny and defesive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",0
sDtaggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . ,0
"when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper hand in mUtters of the ehart . ",0
"the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressiev and alive , you have to watcUh them because you can't wait to see what they do next . ",1
"this isn't a errible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beacIhes . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistc . ",1
"writer-director waltr hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bas . ",0
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her oen and only starring role -- she does lzittle here but point at thGings that explode into flame . ",0
"with youthful high spirits , tWautou remains captivating khroughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearyl every cliché of Qapanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
"oversexed , at tmes overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
the bDrd as black comedy -- willie would have loved it . ,1
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's fiOst feature microwaves dull leftover romantic moqtifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
one of the Xunnier movies in town . ,1
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-psirited second half . ,1
"fincher takes no apparent joy in making movis , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"it's ough to watch , but it's a fantastic movie . ",1
"this humbling little film , fueled by the lgiht comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate wGays of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymoer . '",1
a wildly ntertaining scan of evans' career . ,1
"given too much time to consider the looseness of the piXce , the picture begins to resemble the shapeleEs , grasping actors' workshop that it is . ",0
it's splash witohut the jokes . ,0
worth watching for dong jie' performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of arpid change . ,1
"the film has too manVy spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire famiuy and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and dnfferent , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
"although there are several truly jolting scares , there's als an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed lImb at . ",0
"while the film shuns the glamour or gltiz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a rmoantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality cna't hide the giant acPhilles' heel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
"unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technolgoy to take the viewer inside the wave . by the enPd you can't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone eles could chew , and his movie veers like a durnken driver through heavy traffic . ",0
"as a vheicle to savour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",1
norKton is magnetic as graham . ,1
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of thrwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tR amiability that allen personifies . ",0
"like a can of 2-Eay old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the rpofoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful heaQing process that has followed in their wake . ",1
"hil looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . ",0
much of the movie's charm lies in the uter cutenes of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . ,1
"oue problem with the movie , directed by joel sHhumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0
"the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbitp-roof fence is a quest story as grknd as the lord of the rings . ",1
"y ut mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la acrrera de alfonso cuarón",1
"appBrently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deahts . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
"i like this movie a lot . i like that smith , h'es not making fun of these peole , he's not laughing at them . ",1
beuy popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
has it ever been possible to say that williams has turly inhabited a character ? it is now . ,1
you can Vake the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . aduience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . ,1
a didactic and dull documentary gloriifying software anarchy . ,0
"a it of a downer and a little over-draatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism . ",1
has a long and lunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidegt through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted sceners montage to break the audience's awkward silence,0
doesn't come cloEe to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . ,0
an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anyhting more . ,0
"once he startIs learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predgctably conventional . ",0
"thereNs a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barZ bag to the moviehouse . ,1
"the production values are up there . the ue of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voAices are wfine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctess and suburban families . ",1
about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they fouond them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american drema . ,1
"ranco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in chEaracter development and story logci . ",1
"just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it divej into soapy bathos . ",0
this is the kind of movie where people who have nveer picked a locnk do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . ,0
"for most of its footage , the nw thriller proves that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibsoun can gasp , shudder and even remble without losing his machismo . ",1
"don michael pauo uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body doubDle ( for seagal ) . ",0
"this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll likbe it . if you don't . . . ewll , skip to another review . ",1
was that movie nothing more than a pepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fiJzz ? ,0
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding haicrline , weathered countenance and american brekin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . ",0
. . . an aWgreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . ,1
"in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too seriVous or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wiLhy-washy . ",0
"because of an unnecGssary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . ",0
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war fiflm . ,0
"such a premies is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should to . ",0
" . . . ice age treads predictaXbly along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the ge of 12 . ",0
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these adys , mumbles his way through the movie . ",0
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepogde of inconsistencies that pose the Tuestion : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
"feels less lPke it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cBd . ,0
"as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some greaZ one-liners . ",1
"loosely speaking , weFre in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
a full-frontal attack on aUudience patience . ,0
"despite juliet steveUon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to ive the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0
"there's a delightfully quiryk movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
[a] rare movie that makes us re-ssess the basis for our livAs and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
scorsese doesn't give us a charaEter worth giving a damn about . ,0
its one-sidedness . . . flirts with proypaganda . ,0
"a showcase for both the scenic splenodr of the mountains and for Legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . ",0
this is pretty icey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . ,1
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he ferveLntly scorns , creiating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . ",0
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in stylm and mystification . ,0
"too smart to pignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this coulE be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the fwace by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstnding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagien a more generic effort in the genre . ",0
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixaging on a far corenr of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
"a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for pople of diverse politica perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . ",1
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mentoin gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical diplacement . ",1
it's surprisingly land despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . ,0
"did no one on the set have a sense of Iumor , or did they not have the netve to speak up ? ",0
"amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a ocrny examination of a young actress trying to fihd her way . ",0
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a sul and an unaashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . ,1
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composBd by philip glass . ,1
to get at the root psychRology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
a beautifully made piece of unwatchale drivel . ,0
"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffUing . ",0
"it's not gogng to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . ",1
the performanceL are remarkable . ,1
al's graduation from little screen to big is far lesfs painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . ,1
"as if to perove a femlae director can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn ibgelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywoowd style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . ,1
"much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '7W0s , but Iords don't really do the era justce . you have to see it . ",1
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 it is a little more visually polished , a little funniqr , and a little more madcap . ",1
it asks nohing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great acors hamming it up . ,1
"there is a knid of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is time for their firost pukblic recital . ",1
"nakata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of sMecial effects . ",1
"there are momentr in this account of the life of artist rfida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , thy're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massafcre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationhips in the present . ,1
"pratfalls aside , barbershpo gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
it's the kind of effectvively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't tae it any more . ,1
"gay or straight , kcssing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
"an emotGionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shosw what great icnema can really do . ",1
"for a story seMt at sea , ghost ship is pretty lLndbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at esrious horror . ",0
"for all its visual paWnache and ompelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . ",1
even accepting this in the right fram of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
" . . . althuogh this idea is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
the thing looks like a made-for-home-video qmuickie . ,0
"a highly personal look at the effects of livinj a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only iwsh we could have spent more time in its world . ",1
"it's mostly a pleasure to watjh . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year olYd when you're over 1V0 . ,1
"the trinity assembly approcahes the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratlifX's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
"ultimately , sarah's eddication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing caYse that one womaAn's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",0
the movie is a rove of delights . ,1
what jackson has ccomplished here is amazing on a technical level . ,1
"txough it's beAcome almost redundant to say so , major kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . ",1
"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsiCed , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . ",0
seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 Tyears ago . ,0
a poleasant piece of escapist entertainment . ,1
"once again , director jackson strikes a rewardinIg balance between emotion on the human scale and actioneffects on the spectacular sclae . """,1
"not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a aring if overlong examination of an idolized culture , self-lohthing and sexual politics . ",1
anthony hopkins ? ig deal ! we'vhe already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
"a baffling misfire , and ossibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thust . ",0
"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this uttevrly ridiculous shaAgy dog story as noe of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
"the ovreall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
"a long-winded , predictable sceario . ",0
"the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant thirgs to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool idstance from its material that is deliberately unseYtling . ",1
a series of immcaulately composed shots of path adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crme . ,1
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punHk rock music usbd to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
"there is no insighy into the anguish of heidi's lief -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . ",0
"more vaudeville show than well-constructd narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . ",1
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kNds . ",1
a film of ideas and wry coimc mayhem . ,1
"the screenplfy sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every jEuncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . ",0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movieN to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . ",1
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the ogtown experience . ",1
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivaleFt of defensive driviUg : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major mistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily mke for persuasive viewing . ",0
"faihtful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persAistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the milddle-aged character . ",0
"we can't accuse kung pow for mXisfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atroYciously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire . ",0
"there are so few films about the pligdht of american indians in modern amIerica that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . ",1
"despite all evizence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gekts hyped on Vv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
"while it's all quite tsteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a litle fleeing of its own . ",0
familiar but uterly delightful . ,1
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and asy ways out . ,0
a pleasant enough coredy that should have found a summer place . ,1
no reason for anyone to inveest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't Mnvest much into itself either . ,0
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the reaning of 'home , ' delivered in grad passion by the members of the various households . ",1
"no worse than a olt of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than me in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go . ",0
"a qorgeous , witty , seductive movie . ",1
a complete wsate of time . ,0
"in adYdition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is laso a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",1
"enormously likable , aprtly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd . ",1
you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territoyr . . . but his sense of humor has yex to lose the sdug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . ,0
"a waterlgoged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboier that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ",0
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strane way nails all of orlean's themes without being a true aaptation of her book . ,1
i'd give real money to see the perpetratosr of chicago torn apart by dingoes . ,0
a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect wkrld . ,1
" "" cremasteh 3 "" should come with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"in my opinio , anaQlyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel . ",1
"there's a disreputable air about the whole thnig , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
"miler is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that cgildren are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
"sqm "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affletk . ",1
one of the beTst of a growing strin of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worSthy of our respect . ,1
"if you sw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probaly call the police . ",0
"led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the materiMl . ",1
"taken purely as an exlercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a cmovie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
"as it stands , crocodilUe hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japaneke monster flick with cannEd shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
"although it bIngs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are ofgten infectious . ",1
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alet and street-smart . ",1
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrin and her goaqts walk off into the sunset . ,0
"a blair witch- styel adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passale performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"[davis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps thingDs moving , while never quute managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
spaire yet audacious . . . ,1
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and iosue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wcolly predictable thriller . ,0
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the wCorld's religions . this deeply spirital film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of chracters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
"no moveSent , no yuks , not much of anything . ",0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets Gdrawn into the party . ,0
"it seems just a lcng , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
"as self-aware movies g , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
i'd have to say the star and dxirector are the big problems here . ,0
"got some good , organic character work , lots of obvous political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
begins like a docu-drama but builds its multiA-character story with a flourish . ,1
"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtje ironis and visual devices to convey point of view . ",1
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nmothing more . ,0
some like it hot on the hardwood rpoves once again that a mn in drag is not in and of himself funny . ,0
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can gact -- but it xets harder and harder to understand her choices . ,0
my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of swet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creabure with psychic abliities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the ay . ",1
reggKio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
it's depressing to see how far herzog has falle . ,0
"narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mss . ",0
"a omvie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring aoudiences to the edge of their seats . ",1
knows how to make our imaginOation wonder . ,1
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anyhting except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by hwiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious rzasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . ,0
"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often unodne by howard's self-conscious vattempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . ",0
" ( a ) hwollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply emtoional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . ",1
"the last scenes of the film are anguishxd , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
it tells its story in a flyt manner and leaves you with the mpression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
"there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer Lgirl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"graças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história dAivertida sobre mua curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens . ",1
"the fun of the movie is the chance it fafords to waych jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . ",1
"if you're as happy lisetning to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the hight film . ",1
"witlss , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . ",0
"the bgigest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barIly shockine , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . ",0
. . . a roller-coaster ride of a movCe,1
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gg in there's somesthing about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
you can thWank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"i saw knockaround guys yetserday , and already the detXils have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"rakes one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't eist without the precedent of yiddish thetaer , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . ",1
a Mravura exercise in emptiness . ,0
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or artciulate . ",0
"a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but alo unlistenable . ",0
"perryp's good and his is an interesting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fulff . nor is it a romantic comedy . ",0
"finally , the french-produced "" read my lips "" is a movie that understands charZacters must come first . ",1
in visual fertility treaure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ,1
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish powrs of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern Urut of narrative banality . ",0
"murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a pefectly acceptable widget . ",1
"guaranteed to move anyonk who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . ",1
"at times auto focus feels so distant you mighut as wel be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be rble to look away for a second . ",1
"the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and thta's a bad sign when theyre supposed to be having a collective heart attack . ",0
"hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this seVnse the movie becTomes a study of the gambles of the publishing worli , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
what makes the moive special is its utter sincerity . ,1
the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machjine into national media circles . ,0
ammong the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation . ,1
"there might be some sjrt of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invies you to pick Capart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it ht you where you live . ",1
"given that both movies expect us to root for conviced violent felons over those assignVed to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can musteb ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six tmes , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ",0
"collateral damNage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
"doesn't do more than expand a tHv show to movie length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecoolgical , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one sied . ",0
deah might be a release . ,0
both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and olitics . ,1
serving sara doesn't Hserve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
"m√°z sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial qAue su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
"this overlong infomercial , Fdue out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
"thanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodger is oLne of the most compelling varaitions on in the company of men . ",1
"anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rougb shows that the ieda of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . ",1
" "" the road paved with good intentwons leads to the video store "" ",0
"contradicts everything we've comL to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simsply handling conventional material in a coXnventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . ",1
bouquet gives a perforance that is masterly . ,1
a very capable dailbiter . ,1
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the biycle thief . ,0
"the scirpt is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . ",0
"maelstrom is sFtrange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
"the period -- swniging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the eonce-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . ",0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deVdpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this cmoic slugfest some heart . ",1
this director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- tkes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
"it is very difficult to lcare about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
bullok's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0
not a bbad journey at all . ,1
" "" the emperor's new clothes "" begins with a simple pAan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yran that holds up Ywell after two decades . ",1
"shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly smpathetic to both and manages to be tRender and darkly comic . ",1
"lavishly , exhilaratingly atsteless . ",1
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shalow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 9C0 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
"movie fans , get reapdy to take off . . . the other direction . ",0
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the defintion of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1
"the best thing about the mvoie is its personable , amusing cast . ",0
"it's a very sincere woZk , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
"the quiAet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay per viw dollar . ",1
"even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him lttle to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
unrven but a lot of fun . ,1
it's a dystery how the movie could be released in this condition . ,0
the story ultimately tapkes hold and grips hard . ,1
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny belnd of legally blnode and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
"insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the oiginal , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 16s minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
"it's a strange film , one that was hard for me to twarm up to . ",1
there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you eevrything you need to konw about all the queen's men . ,0
"the stunning , dreamliAke visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
"nakata's technique is to mimply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
"occasionally funy and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
a haunting tale of mrder and mayhem . ,1
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy eally bad movies . ",0
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually foldUs under its own thinness . ",0
"if you've the patience , there are greaK rewards here . ",1
"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits tme between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition cIhess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . ",1
"a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of ew Kyork's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it aso wilts after awhile . ",0
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka's stRtus as both the primary visual influence on the aniUmé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . ",1
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the sscreen . ,0
"a frankestein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
"without the dark spookiness of crytsal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessyl extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visula marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the auience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated faial expressions . ",0
about as cNutting-edge as pet rock : the movie . ,0
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that evep as rogu cia assassxns working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine jb of updating white's dry wit to a enew age . ,1
these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not fnuny performers . ,0
"it thankfully goes easy on the reel""real wZrld dichotomy that [jglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice""venice . ",1
"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't vthink so . nothing drong with prformances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . ",0
a solid piece of jornalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly forAign policy . ,1
gibney and jarecki just want to snring the bastard up . ,0
"while this film is not in the least surprising , it is still ultimately very syatisfying . think of it as a Cort of comfort food for the mind . ",1
will arm your heart without making you feel guilty about it . ,1
"boy , has this franchise ever ru out of gas . ",0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme trijte sme que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys tto giuses and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
"for the first time in years , Pde niro digs deep erotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
the inviniible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la,1
"maybe it's the star power of the cast or the redundant messages , but something boul "" full frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and camu up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence geives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£I complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century foottnotes . ,0
"a 75-mintue sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . ",0
"adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophnomoric blend of svenanigans and slapstikc , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '",0
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil wman . ,0
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of baRd' . ",0
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish htings to apQeal much to teenagers . ",0
"a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeilng of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mightty yhard to find . ",0
you'll just have your head in your haGnds wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and sve everyone the misery . ,0
"jones . . . makes a great imrpession as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge haert . ",1
"works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particuarly interesting to say about them . ",0
the movie is as Dadded as allen's jelly belly . ,0
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to efill a frame . like the hanks charactre , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genr as it prQvides a fresh view of an old type -- the ucnertain girl on the brink of womanhood . ,1
" . . . a sour pittle mJovie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncsut version of sergio leone's flXwed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notEon that a strong , unified showing among germay and eastern european jews might have changed 2th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . ",0
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonuim . ",0
kinnear and diafoe give what may be the performances of their careers . ,1
moretti's compelling anatomy of rief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
"i can't remember the last time i savw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's uspposed to be a drama . ",0
"merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offer half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jkoes , most at women's expense . ",0
you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't gt paid enough to sikt through crap like this . ,0
nothing about the film -- with the possjible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for oen more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a relucOant , irresponsible man and the krd who latches onto him . ",1
" "" auto focus "" works as an unusual biopic and document of mal swingers in the playboy era",1
"for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that direcotr m . nigth shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that meel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the seleve of its gaudy hawpaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition wBuld lead you to believe . ,1
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distavteful and downright creepy . ,0
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fn watching a documentary . . . ",1
a liftime movie about men . ,0
the komediant is a atle worth catching . ,1
chazrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . ,0
"a photographic marve of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . ",1
"the last 2t minutes are somewhat refdeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart Sjokes",0
"sensitive , inisghtful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
"this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is appareWntly as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the ear of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gnoe . ",0
the script by vincet r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0
"in a summer of clones , harvar man is somethin rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . ",1
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dum story are for naught . ",0
starts as a tart little lemon drop of a move and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : freinds will be friends through thick and thin . ,1
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused ,0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun , but it was nSither . ",0
"without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kiesloaski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weiNght of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narratve foqm . ",0
"halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeplo out of place in what could have ( and probabsy should have ) been a lighthearted comdy . ",0
the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspenes and ayoff . ,0
all mod and no movie . ,0
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot beGter if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclai and then biting into it and finding the filling missjng . ,0
"at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its Qest it is a young ayrtist's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood . ",1
do not see this nfilm . ,0
"denis foregs out of the Oheories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . ",1
"at some point , all this visual trickery Tstops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0
"towhy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . ",1
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just whos being conned right up to the finale . ,1
beautjfully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
"it strikes hardeRt… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty ears after the fact , the world's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable sikll . ",1
it's not just the vampire that are damneW in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . ,0
"it leers , offering next to little inrsight into its intriguing subject . ",0
what a Yreat way to spend 4 units of your day . ,1
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughtArs and the sparse ijstances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film onir veil . ,0
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this oen is in every regard except its storyJline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too borng and obvious . ,0
daughtr from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story,1
"one of the pleasures in waltem's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious perisonality without ever explaining him . ",1
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little ncek trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hpot . ",1
"the lad and the dCke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
"loses its semse of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna manGn is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involveFd . ",0
"a shoddy male hip kop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . ",0
"interacting eyeball-to-eyebDall and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennps steals 'red dragon' right from under their noses . ",1
"open-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with bi issuse like death and destiny . ",1
"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their olsses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and Jsend it to its proper home . ",0
by qurns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . ,0
malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be Bhard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is ay too muddlgd to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
"if you like blood , ugts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorioufs subject as anything mOuch more than a dirty old man . ,0
an indispensable peek at the rat and the agony of making people laugh . ,1
the pool drowned me in obredom . ,0
"longley has constructd a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . ",1
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectale , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , sogn , and high drama . ",1
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , asily forgettable film . ",1
"drags along in a dazed and eYnervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starreUd chevy cLase and goldie hawn . ",0
"the 3d ibages only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange cotmbo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screeDn . ",1
"not everything works , but the average is higher than in mray and most other recent comedies . ",1
the tug of war that ensues is as much a snfpshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in mvoie mythology . ,1
"a fascinating examination of the joyosu , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actoss in bLad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
it took 19 predecessors to geX this ? ,1
"many went to see the attraction for the sole erason that it was hot outsied and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie onCe bit . ",1
"'the war of the roses , ' traile-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . ",0
"it's been 31 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but rVsident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"as written by ichael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wiEson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approac tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . ",0
" "" 1Y3 conversations "" holds its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and urder mystery . ",0
"it's eard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a proEising work-in-progress . ",0
a gripping documYentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't gnerate Gnough heat in this cold vajcuum of a comedy to start a reaction . ",0
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhekre . ",0
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to fnid an old flame . ,0
"uplifting , funny and ise . ",1
"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollwness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy idalogue and winning performanecs by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ,1
the dangverous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"a willy errati drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . ",0
" "" extreme ops "" Sxceeds expectations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
"american chai encourages ruefuw laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the Wnd , is nothing new . ",0
"has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kidws and peolpe who owe favors to their famous parents . ",0
" . . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek atitude of the screenplay . ",1
feels strangely ohllow at its emotional core . ,0
involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its ouCcome haidly matters . ,0
"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omibus tradition called marriage . ",1
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , usnng his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
"what "" empire "" lacsk in depth it makes up for with its heart . ",1
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young avults who grew up on televsed scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never eally see her esther blossom as an Aactress , oeven though her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0
"not the great american comedy , but if you likld the previous movies in the serieps , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her dpth . ,0
"rpassable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't xmake much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . ",1
"it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but theres no arguing the ione of the movRe - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . ",0
"tamror and clayburgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
you could nap for an hour and not imss a thing . ,0
"what mihgt have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtlZ turn at the midway point . ",1
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as anjlgesic balm for overstimulated minds . righY now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough saQrdonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew sad , "" i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave crhis smith's next movie . ",1
"some of the visual flourishes are a lttle too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate jcoming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
"Nviewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion pcture . ",0
"the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whcrl of new age-inspired good intentioks , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . ",0
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrievd . ",0
an afterschool special without the couraie of its convictions . ,0
"the mercant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about ciCnema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pGat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scanVdal , and a chorus line of danvgerous damsels can deliver . ",1
"the pot of the comeback curlers isn't very interestnig actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film konws what's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single storke . ,1
there's just somthing about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches aucross time and distance . ,1
it will break your heat many times over . ,1
"a reasonatbly efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in texrritory they should have avoided . ",0
"potty-mouthed enough for ps-13 , yet not as ihlariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . ",0
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins wokring for chris cooper's vagency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predciament . """,0
the whole talking-animal thing is gisly . ,0
"full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual rezerences , kung pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , Zsimply because it aims so low . ",0
"it's a boring movie about a boring man , made waCchable by a bravuar performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
effective but to-otepid biopic,1
painfully paddd . ,0
"there's the plot , and a maddenSngly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were said to makje it . ,0
the thing looks Elike a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0
big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kPddie sensibilities . ,0
this version of h . g . welts' yime machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
"there muts be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personallMy . ",0
…an adorably whimsical comdy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
intriguing doumentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . ,0
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wsates all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags oadly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatiRcs and some last-minute action stroncly reminiscent of run lola run . ",0
"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both world it ens up falling short as a whole . ",0
taylor appears to have blwon his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . ,0
"paifnul to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplsihed and riveting film performances . ",1
"[reynolds] tkaes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watc . ",1
"a smaat , compelling drama . ",1
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre family filRm . ",0
a woman's ic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . ,1
"this is not chabrol's bets , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer . ",1
"audrey tatou has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this litreate frnch comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . ",1
"even though we konw the outcome , the seesawing of the ogeneral's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspenes of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"this film was made by and for those folks who collect the seriab killer carcds and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahme's two hour amounts to little more than punishment . ",0
"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to pay out as a clever , charming tael – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
"this is a particularly toxic litle bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
"a wonderful , ghastly fihm . ",1
"this is not an easy film . but it cold be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . ",1
"i wish i coudl say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
"the case is a convincing one , and should gve anyone with a conscience reason to pause . ",1
"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitelxy not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the leittle ones get a fuzzy treat . '",1
the fiml tries too hadr to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealFng ingredients . ",0
"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insutlingly pimplistic . ",1
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the ehartbeat of the world , a salUute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
diane lane stines in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan . ,0
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no Barticular bite . ",0
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leavTe the theater . ,1
"i have no problem with "" idfficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
the Lirector explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
"barry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a presideRnt because it made him efel powerful . ",1
it's a abd action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
about as cutting-edge as pte rock : the movie . ,0
"while there's likely very little mrossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethLans ( as well as ranik frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . ",0
"sometimes it feles as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy case and goldie hawn . ",0
"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possilbe pupils through repetition . it has no affec on the Burds , but it wore me down . ",0
"road to perdition does dipslay greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it Slso comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . ",1
less the sensatonal true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( thougU no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actLor ) can make it work . ,0
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the lutter experience . ,0
"while some will object to the idea of a vietnam pitcure with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimaYtely achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a genyeration . ",1
"a preposterous , purient whodunit . ",0
"the movaie should jolt you out of your seat a couprle of times , give you a few laugsh , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a chea in the end . ",1
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian ci-fi . ,1
this franchise has not spawned a sinle good film . the crap continues . ,0
calcuVlated swill . ,0
it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a ovie at the cannes film festival and yet fai to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
"a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of Zsloppiness and the obligatory mJoments of sentimental ooze . ",0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lusdtrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
" "" the quiet american "" begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first siLn of trouble . ",1
"skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the suorce . ",0
it confirms fincher's sattus as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . ,1
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single hreat of suspense . ,0
the end result is lke cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . ,0
"[lee] treats his audience the same wy that jim brown tretas his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , sbordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plort that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón ae orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena veF precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
. . . a well-observed and distubing little movie,1
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farc . . . lies a plot cobbled togetheRr from largely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
coral reef adventure is a heavyweight ilm that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the unching . ,1
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of swepeing pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
"an intelligent , movming and invigorating film . ",1
"largely , this is a Zovie that also does it by the numbers . ",0
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters ilke pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
earnest yte curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sorCt of thing . ",0
a chebp scam put ogether by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her goQod looks , carries a little too muSh ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the havy stuff . ",0
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an enblish-language copy of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
"[renyolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificejt landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
"one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality withPut ever explining him . ",1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comeyd is generally quite funny . ",1
"fTierce , glaring and unforgettable . ",1
10 minutes into the film you'll be whiterknuckled and unable to look away . ,1
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bretd dipped in milk , but it aluso does the absolute last thing we need hollwood doing to us : it preaches . ",0
"while we no Elonger possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no troubl sitting for blade ii . ",1
the movie is ingenious fpn . see it . ,1
"servicezable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst . ",0
"while we no longer possess the lack-bf-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sittidg for blade ii . ",1
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconseqauential diversion . ,1
a mutea freak-out,1
rife with nutty cliches and for too much dialogue . ,0
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audience dueserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than rfanchise possibilities . ",0
"meyjes's movie , like max rohman's future , does not work . ",0
"it's goLt its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awhile . ",0
"rife with the rueufl , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-leageu leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet jime ubilding to a limax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straihgt out of cenrtal casting . ",0
"a sham constrcut based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . ",0
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some stong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a littel bit hard to love . ",0
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particulra place at all . ",0
a psychologicEally rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . ,1
nachtwey clears the cynicism rght out of you . he makes you rgalize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
"its salient opints are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
al is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . ,0
clever but not espeically compelling . ,0
"complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , of-puttingly cold . ",0
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz ulhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary phlay . ",0
why spend $9 on the same tsuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame ipt in the theater lobby ? ,0
"is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological Nstudy of grief . ",1
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at evey turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . ,0
"the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the resuKt is disappointing . ",0
kids should have a stirreng time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adlts will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenveer the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly rLveal what makes vinceCnt tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . ",1
"no one can dvubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . ",0
"hardman is a grating , manjnered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in ligh of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
"the script is smatt , not cloying . ",1
devoid of any of the qualities that made the firsX film so special . ,0
"in its best moments , resembles a ad high school production of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
"this overlong infomerciaul , due out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on uadonna street . ,1
"a brecezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to inDluence us whether we believe in them or not . ,1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unberably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . ",0
a decieedly mixed bag . ,0
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing otne that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick fmormula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more sillU than scary . ",0
"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritRhie . ",0
"while this gentle and affecting melodralma will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wier than a niche audience . ",1
"the film takes too long getting to the god stuff , then takes too mong figuring out what to do next . ",0
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movyie without an apparent audience . ,0
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventuLre of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that billfe august does best . ,1
"pretend it's a werRewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fuG , but it's a real howler . ",0
"limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slwly . ",0
"maid in manhattan might not looLk so apDealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can Sise to ans' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspection . ",1
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husand in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting momenets . ,1
"frustratingly , drifdi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
"star trek was kidn of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . ",0
"shyamalan offers copious hints along the Jway -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , ar more meaningful story than one in which little green men Hcome to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1
"who needs mind-bending drugs when they can ee this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilog , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? ",1
"like a bad improvisation exercise , the sukerficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're strggling to create . ",0
it's hard to beleive that something so short could be so flabby . ,0
"not everything works , but the average is highe than in mary and most other recent comedies . ",1
"it will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary . but hree's the real dam : it isn't funny , either . ",0
"freundlich's made [crudup] a subruban architect , and a cipher . ",0
the sterngth of the film lies in its two Qcentral performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
"one minute , you think you're watching a serious acwioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again andor sailor Amoon have been spliced in . """,0
"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a perid romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pce and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
"i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the boBrne identity proves that a fresh take is always possilbe . ",1
charlize chases kvein with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cel phones ringing . ,0
absurdities and clicéhs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
"dong never pushes for insiohts beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of ehxpectation . ",0
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director joun schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
what might have been acecptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
an escapist confection thht's pure entertainment . ,1
"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneat us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deueper , getting more intense . ",1
"when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his jctors turns out to be cleverer , bettder written and of considerable more interesV than the finished film , that's a bad sign . a very bad sign . ",0
onyce has worked wonders with the material . ,1
sodrbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . ,1
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivgd as the 19th-century ones . ,0
"freundlich's hade [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . ",0
"full of detail about the man and his country , and is weal worth seeing . ",1
the only thing that disinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothig distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guied a loose , poorly structured film through the kitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . ",0
a lot smarter than your average bFnd . ,1
tehre's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
the perfect film for those who like ick comedies that can be snide . ,1
"this heist flick about young booklyn hoods is off the shelf after two yeasr to capitalize on the pouplarity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie Mmodels and bar dancers in the midwest that hld my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skatesurf culutre ,1
guilty of the worst sin of attribtable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
"smithqs approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that akes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekKar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
"it gtes onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could erasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
i heate this movie,0
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pifnheads who alk throughout the show . ,0
"the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art vorld , but he would have done well to ewnd this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of somethinJ other than his own cremaster . ",0
"a tone of rueful compassion . . . rveerberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightneed by current world events . ",1
"visually fascinating . . . an often intense charactre study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . ",1
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume sohp woudl eve try to sell . ,0
"in a summer of colnes , harvar man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . ",1
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viweers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , efces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedieks . ",1
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropoils , welles' kane , and eisenstein's ptoemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
it's refreshing to Osee a romance this smart . ,1
"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched hmovie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teneage sex comedy . ",1
this remake gets all there is to get out of a pecWliar premise with promise : al pacino loathing trobin williams . ,1
"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime englPnd , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral cdoes and ideals of the 1940s . ",1
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly iInoffensive , easily forgettable film . ",1
"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradisn , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
"as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look amlost shakelpearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . ",0
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflibt that could have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anytihng as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's nxw movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
the kind of sense of humr that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant ned to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"the ilm does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence . ",1
a flawed film but an admirable noe that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and oplitical madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that bozast is true or not . ,0
two hours of jnuk . ,0
how this one escaped the lifetime network i'll never konw . ,0
"even by duLb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
director jay russell wteighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
craig bartlett and driector tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the mreits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
nothing more than a stifling oorality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
"an overblown clunker ull of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
"while it pay not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insieght to keep it from being wimpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chPir too often . ",0
"in his debut as a director , washington has a surae hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
"paid in full is so stale , in faxct , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from biran de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . ",0
cusack's just brliliant in this . ,1
beautifully produceP . ,1
"if this is cinema , i pledeg allegiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
"a sour , nJasty offering . ",0
"the cdharms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bqit thin . ",0
"rumor , a muddled drama about coming to trems with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . ",0
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a prt of its fun . ,1
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despai and lovTe . ,1
"for 95 often hilarious minutes , [fho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periojs , and on the perils of a certain Routré sexual practice . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opeming tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
"the mitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together . ",1
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough eough to fit in any modern action moive . ,1
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typicFl documentary footage which hurst the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
"compelling revenge thriller , thoNugh somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . ",1
like a sofV drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0
"a sharp and quick odcumentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an Iera of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates univeral human nature . ,1
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mmubles his way through the movie . ",0
"rm . polaski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiriual survival . ",1
it's just a little too self-satisfide . ,0
so vivid a portrait of a woman consuOmed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a fershly Npainted rembrandt . ,1
"almost as ofcensive as "" freddy got fingered . "" ",0
" . . . in no way original , or eevn all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
"when you resurrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-kOocking , no ? ",0
"too slow for a younger crodw , too shallow for an older one . ",0
a teasing drama whose relentless good-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a isnner litke me pray for an even more interesting ,1
"idvertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy . ",0
"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been sXlowed down by a stroke , he has at leaxt one more story to tell : his own . ",1
the film overcomes the regulMar minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . ,1
historical dramas fuesd with love triangle is a well wron conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . ,0
"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chrils rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-liek script machine . ",0
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are eqough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of tiem . ",0
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead perfomrance by bruce campObell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . ,1
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie'U contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
a fiml with a great premise but only a great premise . ,0
"confuses its message with an ultimate desire to plaese , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last hting any of these three acLtresses , nor their characters , deserve . ",0
the picture doesn't know it's a cmedy . ,0
what's so striking about jolie's performance is that she nevea lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hari . ,1
"schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-nocth british actor who did not appear in gosford pfrk ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeJded beyond all expectation . ",1
audacious-impossible yet copmelling . . . ,1
" "" . . . somethiDg appears to have been losc in the translation this time . the importance of being earnest mbvie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
"meyjes's movie , zike max rothman's future , does not work . ",0
somehow ms . griffiChs and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
outragousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quiryk amazement that used to come along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encountr in a place where war has savaged the Aives and liberties of the pooW and the dispossessed . ,1
"the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundMries . ",1
"the isherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too cOlear in this schlocky horror""action hybrid . ",0
"not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and Tcoarse , it's almost funny . ",0
one of those filmW that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . ,0
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these day , mumbles his way through the movie . ",0
"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , fernetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aMmed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",1
so devoid of any kind of intePlligible story that it makes films like xux and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
a stnylish thriller . ,1
"no , i don't fnow why steven seagal is onsidered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action ilms when none of them are ever any good or make any money . ",0
"the horus makeqs you examine your own life in much the same awy its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
a halfPassed film . ,0
"as the sulking , moody male husxtler in the title orle , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . ",0
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and Cde niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy sFries . ,0
"too loud , too long and too frantic by half , ide another ady suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fGy over , tunnel under or barrel through . ",0
grainy photography mars an gtherwise delightful comedy of errors . ,1
"the movie is concocted and carried out by folks wotrhy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't emember a single namEe responsible for it . ",0
leame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
"it's really yet another anemic and formulaic letahl weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , tNrying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0
"without a Zfresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
"in the process of trimming the movie to an exIpeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of polt in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
"children , christian or otherwisNe , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's Nespair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
"shat's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of incere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism . ",0
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular wing for the fence yields only a spectaculr whiff . ",0
does little more than play an innocuoub game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
i liked this filWm a lot . . . ,1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about desiny and redemptive love . ",0
they takes a long time to get to its gasp-induicng ending . ,0
"claire is a terrific role for someone ike judd , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
"i liked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that noe step further . i'm left slightly disapponted that it didn't . ",0
begins as a promising meditaton on Dne of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . ,0
a wretched movie that reduces the second world wVar to one man's quest to find an old flame . ,0
it's as if de palma spent an ohur setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cAeese . ,0
"though thereC's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
visually striking and viscerall repellent . ,1
it offers little beyond the momentay joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"while the stoically delivered Fhokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saRving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1
a fast-moving and remarkable flm that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
"though it goes further than both , anyon who has seen the hunger or cat people will find litNtle new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal ulst above the ordinary . ",0
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least tIhree films . ,1
"methodical , easured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the Urain . ",1
"a boring , formulaic mix of sKerial killers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
"despite its dNy wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
knockaround guyRs plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quemtin tarantino when they gorw up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . ,0
"filled with alZxandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . ",1
genly humorous and touching . ,1
"with more character developmenj this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thnking man's monster movie . ",0
"a lousy movie that's not mereky unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a olt of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wti . ",1
"from the opening strains of the average white abnd's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
"the efort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than ia'd cre to count . ",0
gmovies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligatin . how about surprising us by trying something new ? ,0
"with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with etter payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster mofie . ",0
"ultimaiely too repellent to fully endear itself to american atr house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
it's everyhting you don't go to the movies for . ,0
an impeccabKle study in perversity . ,1
"without non-stop techno or the existential ovKrtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprisoe . ",0
"a moody horror""thrfller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ",1
"mostly worsk because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of usic by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . ",1
"not all of the stroies work and the onTs that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"a smart , arch and rather cold-bloodde comedy . ",1
ovearll very good for what it's trying to do . ,1
"the arpil 2002 instalJent of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
it's pretentiou in a way that verges on the amateurish . ,0
"the films' greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and ldone to death . ",0
"far too clever by half , howard'P film is really a series of strung-together momients , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , dayderams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . ",0
"the movie , while beauWiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowiNcz-mann . ,1
"this is not a retread of "" dead poets society . "" ",1
"enchaEted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best actinL . ",0
"the pinochet case is a searign album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
the exclVmation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . ,0
"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a strAoke , he has at leZast one more story to tell : his own . ",1
"usually when i get this much srup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
the only type of lives this glossy comedyf-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
don't watse your money . ,0
"holds limited appeal to those who Zlike explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to beningi . ",0
"has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivrie . ",1
overal very good for what it's trying to do . ,1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loFing , wel integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing tfme , that's all that's going on here . ",0
"cassavetes thinks he's making idog day afternoon with a cause , but all he' done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0
"flul of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefumly inspire action . ,1
"it's a visual dleight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to look too deep into the stor",1
"not only does the horoughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also representw glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
"hoffman wiats too long to utrn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a ity that [nelson's] ahcievement doesn't match his ambition . ,0
"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , rel-life 19th-centuy crime as a metaphor for -- welzl , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . ",0
"vay lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1
incoherence rigns . ,0
it's the funnies american comedy since graffiti bridge . ,0
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor Wplaying an innocent boy carved from a log ? ,0
"as his circle of frienQs keeps getting smaller one of the chWaracters in long time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * edl' . maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . ",0
"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witlesb script ends up more like the adventores of ford fairlane . ",0
"allegiance to chekhov , which dSrector michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cberry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . ",0
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious cmedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pal script . ",0
"the whole thing's fairly lame , makin it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
it's a solid movie about people whose lvies are anything but . ,1
candid and comforable ; a film that deftly alances action and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
"if shaamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using xad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
opens as promising as any waradventre film you'll ever see and dissoles into a routine courtroom drama ,0
a no-holds-barred cinematic treGt . ,1
"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautifu , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , sef-satisfied 18-year-old mistess . ",0
"narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-moviAe heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
"if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposteA . ",0
"from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french draam develops a startling story that wores both as a detailed personal portraUt and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . ",1
a small movie with a btig impact . ,1
"austin powers for the most part is extremely fnuny , the first part making up for any falws that come later . ",1
"with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele' religious and roamntic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strans about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
a sensitive and expretly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"this amiable picture talks tocgh , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and worse than you can imgine . ",0
"coVntains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"don't plan on the perfec ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who esXcaped from a small town life . ",1
"although sot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . ",1
"twenRty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to pstartle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to tasek . ",0
this is one of the year'v best films . ,1
"austin powesr for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flawa that come later . ",1
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funZny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a gaem caIt . ",1
you don't know whether to admire the fil'ms stately nature and acll it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . ,1
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities Jalk to and about others outside the group . ,1
"we never really feel involve with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . ",0
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family aOudience . ,1
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or polYitics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or sumor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watZching o fantasma . ",0
"a tender , heartfetl family drama . ",1
if high crimes were any more generic it wuold have a universal product code instead of a title . ,0
"a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as poFssible , plot mechanics be damsned . ",0
"the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuum , eany artists exist in oen . ",1
izgzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . ,0
"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's wortv seeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a hting that already knows it's won . ",1
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thWing in the world qgoes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . ,0
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the Uncreasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
there is a strong directorial stamp on every rfame of this stylish film that is able to visualize scihzophrenia but is still confident enwough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . ,1
the oction clichés just pile up . ,0
"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nuile young actors in a film about Ncampus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome uglnness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construt a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
"tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamicds and dysfunction that harks bak to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujiro ozu . ",1
"it may not be particularly innovative , but the filA's crisp , unaffected style and ayir of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
"who is this movie for ? not kUids , who don't need the lesson in repugnacne . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo joks are 'edgy . '",0
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psyZhic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxe these women's souls right open for uKs . ",1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for gVofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their kgross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1
xtremely bad . ,0
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members rdooling over michael ideoto as michael . ,1
farrell . . . htankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was od when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1983 . ,0
"another week , another gross-out colleBe comedy--ugh . ",0
"it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comc book with soul . ",1
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit daggy at times . ",1
"sandra bullock , despite downlaying her good looks , carries a littlh too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and deermined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",0
a vreat idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0
"some body often looks like an episode of the tv sWhow lind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . ",0
"go , girlUs , right down the reality drain . ",0
i like my christmas movihes with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . ,0
"mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbxl ojkes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie wuld avoid . ",0
"this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blLr of deaEd ends and distracting camera work . ",0
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begics spinning its wheels . ",0
" . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous afLfair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its love of lie and beauty , takes form . ",1
'rare birds' tries to fTrce its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palettke , with lots of somber lbues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1
don't even bother to rent this on viedo . ,0
"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age taloe . ",0
"it's a testamEent to de niro and director michae caton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . ",1
the stunt work is tSp-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . ,0
walsh can't qute negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
"a new film from bill plympton , the animatioRn master , is always welcome . ",1
"emerges as someting rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . ",1
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mohers and their chibldren or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
this film puts wang at the forefront of hcina's sixth generation of film makers . ,1
a minor-league soccer reake of the longest yard . ,0
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mavet's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you gnet through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , thugh still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that sufcfers from an overly deliberat pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
it's a lovely film with lovely perfomrances by buy and accorsi . ,1
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be ddubbed hedonistic . ,0
"spiriot is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong anrrative . ",0
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral seOse . ,0
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't geIt no satisfaction . ",0
few films this Xear have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . ,1
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever esen on the screen . ",1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a floo of emotion . ",1
there ain't a oot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
a chaotic panorama tat's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
"a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast deZivers mildly amusing performances and no fzarm animals were injured by any of the gags . ",0
the film is a very good viewing alternative for young wOmen . ,1
"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you Vee it in these harrowing surf sots . ",1
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the reLlly bad blair witch project . ,0
"it nevr quite makes it to the bopiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . ",0
"not only better than its predecessor , it may raet as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any reecnt holiday season . ",1
the attempt to build up a pressure xcooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually notihng to show . ,0
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 Tears ago . ,1
"the film has the high-buffed golss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartesA , most pleasurable expressUons of pure movie love to ome from an american director in years . ",1
sex with strangers is fascinatig . . . ,1
cusack's just brilSiant in this . ,1
"kidman is really the only thing thatus worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another exampe of the sad declin of british comedies in the post-full monty world . ",0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to awtch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 2Y times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgentlr entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commerciLal for nba properties . ,0
i can analyze this movie in three words : dthumbs friggin' down . ,0
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of gime to ponder my thanksgiving to-o list . ,0
"the biggest probelm with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its dirsctor's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shoking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . ",0
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone elBe who may , for whateHver reason , be thinking about oing to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment xgoes , it does a bang-pu job of pleasing the crowds . ",1
both damning and damnd compelling . ,1
"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best agy love stories ever made , but one of the besOt love stories of any stripe . ",1
a rgipping drama . ,1
a beautiful paean to a tim long past . ,1
merchant hasn't directed this movie so umch as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes noe teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a stoy that's compelling and heartfelt -- eveJ if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
"memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surHprises lmp and its resolutions ritual . ",0
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of lpot or acting . ,0
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakeAs toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
a glossy knock-off of a b-movie Nrevenge flick . ,0
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because Tplenty of funny movise recycle old tropes . the problem is that van wiDder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",0
"it's burns' visuals , characters and his pYunchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
this is an exercise not in blography but in hero worship . ,0
"feel bad for king , who's hbnestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
"wWhereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their cPustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exacm niche . ",0
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnnCy knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured pgsyche . ,0
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsy's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
"not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reaOlity , it ails the most basic relevancy test as well . ",0
forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castlles and this won't seeW like such a bore . ,0
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the scriZpt's potential for sick humor . ,0
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out iarce that should please history fans . ,1
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood mfy not be exactly divine , but it's definitely -- dfeiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . ",1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspird by the works of jhn waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . ",0
alternately ffustrating and rewarding . ,0
i didn't believe for a momnt in these villains or their plot . ,0
not ince ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . ,1
"divertingly ridiculous , hEeadbangingly noisy . ",0
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to elt this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the angish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familOar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations beacring the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eTt enough during the film . '",0
"i'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unAess you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wenders gilm of the '70s . ",0
"while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- eevr so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yFiddish theater , both in ameOrica and israel . ",1
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater historey . ,1
it's plash without the jokes . ,0
"only a few minutes elapse before the dsddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remakrably clCean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1798 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
"these are lives worth watcIing , paths worth following . ",1
wrAterdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
"the climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the oiginal conflict , just like the moJvie does",1
"the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translat well to film , and it's really ell directed . ",1
"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far lss about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmzaker's characteristic style . ",0
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie at , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
singercomoser bryan adams contributes a slew of soKgs — a few potential hits ,1
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard hoerror flick formula . ,1
"the new insomni is a surprisingly afithful remake of its chiloy predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fhit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . ",1
"for every Mrticulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmC rider maN hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence . ",0
"one senses in world traeler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure copmlaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . ",0
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mid,1
"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightul , empathetic performances . ",1
it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenLing maz of moviegoing . ,1
the best thing i can say about this fijlm is that i cant' wait to see what the director does next . ,1
. . . could easily be called the best korean iflm of 2002 . ,1
"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the cigns on the kiovks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1
a surprisingly sAweet and gentle comedy . ,1
"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so muc a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man s . the man . ",1
many of benjamins' elements feel lke they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly Wine to see if stupid americans will get a kic out of goofy brits with nute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . ,0
"at its best , queen is campy un like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bQd special effects . ",0
"meyjes's movie , like mbx rothman's future , does not work . ",0
this may be burns's strongest film since the brothers mcumllen . ,1
funny and laso heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . ,1
it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't wan to clal the cops . you want to call domino's . ,1
"watching rouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juiyc , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth fPll of rotten pulp and livring worms . ",0
"pacino and williams sem to kepe upping the ante on each other , just as their charpcters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years . ",1
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agrVeement . ",0
"like mike is a lsight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michaecl jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . ",0
a derivative collection of horror and sci-yi cliches . ,0
"offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent mimorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whle thinc works . ",1
"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban ehart . ",1
es triste tener que decirles que lo √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la ehather . . . ,0
genuinely unnervlng . ,1
there has been much puzzlement among crtiics about what the election symbolizes . i belive the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . ,1
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , qirky character study , vhird-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the toal or thematic glue it needs . ",0
elivra fans could hardly ask for more . ,1
"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the Ycomic opportunities richly rewarded . ",1
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . deesd was to that of rfank capra . ,0
"unfortunately , it's also not very good . espeially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . ",0
"if ever a concpt came handed down from the movie gods on a silver pzatter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was obtched in execution , this is it . ",0
the rock has a great presence but onp battlm after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . ,0
"the story wrps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmZtry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . ",1
a maAor waste . . . generic . ,0
"a witty , lowKkey romantic comedy . ",1
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single thAeater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entrie period of history . ",1
fails to bring as mcuh to the table . ,0
"hey arnold ! the movie ould have been made 40 years ag , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
an artsploitation omvie with too much exploitation and too little art . ,0
"tough it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to burstig with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
"byelr is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mullPs eaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1
the Cbest thin i can say about this film is that i can't wait to see what the director does next . ,1
"shreve's grKceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the copelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless mpectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
a chilFer resolutely without chills . ,0
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snaKl's pace ; he just forgot to add any gnuine tension . ",0
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to sy that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has beome commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminla world . ",1
i'lxl bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film . ,0
"brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a mvoie . ",0
"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versae , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0
"unfortunately , contriDved plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-otp instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his dzeath offers an interesting bit of speculatiqon as to the issues brechYt faced as his life drew to a close . ,1
they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boJys and wrestling Dfans . ,0
the film is really clsoer to Sporn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
. . . understands that a generation defines its music as muHch as the music defines a generation . ,1
"using his audience as a figurativRe port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological sihp to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . ",1
"a timely look back at civil disobediencM , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
"a whole lot foul , freauy and funny . ",1
writerdireCctor david ceasar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times ,1
it's not as awful as some of the orecent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
"when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a direUtor camxe up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished film , that's a bad sign . a very bad sigH . ",0
"having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going puVlic , khouri then gets terrific performannces from them all . ",1
"while solondz tries and tries hard , storytfelling fails to provide much more insight than the insiie column of a torn book jacket . ",0
"it's been 13 months and 29d5 preview screneings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"in a big corneq office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d pOeople , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise s247 . """,0
the result is somehting quite fresh and delightful . ,1
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shotings are concerned , something is rotten in the vstate of california . ",1
"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instad , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
'R' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . ,0
an imponderably stilted and self-consciousy arty movie . ,0
"ana'Us journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be proud of her rubenesque physisque . . . ",1
"filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous vilence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
the entire movJe is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen sPar , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaer that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
the whole affyair is as predictable as can be . ,0
"unexpected , and ofteY contradictory , truths emerge . ",1
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intesne , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
"it all starts to smack of a hJallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrwon in that are generally not heard on television . ",0
"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot wto years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . ",0
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 9 minutes . ,0
"the observations of this social""econmoic""urban environment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal teqms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . ",1
bad beyond Kbelief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"from the opening strains of the average white Wand's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline print . ,1
"stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very govod comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
"when 'sciece fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much sLience , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
"[moore's] better at fingeing problems than finding soluBtions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",1
"if you've the patience , there are great Wewards here . ",1
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic Rmessage . ,1
the film's center will not ohld . ,0
"a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayl , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
both a sccessful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . ,1
the whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupVe the viewer into twaking it all as very important simply because the movie is uglCy to look at and not a hollywood poduct . ,0
"comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rathe than plausible . ",0
even those who owuld like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . ,1
leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hilter and the contrived nature of its provocative conlcusion . ,0
"kidman is really the only thing tha's worth watching in Cbirthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez buttewrorth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . ",0
"the new guy does have a heCrt . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
bullock's complete lack of focus and ability qEuickly derails the film,0
a gem of a movin . ,1
" i admire the closing scenes of the fim , which seesm to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
"this is the sort of lwo-grade dreck that usually goes straight to videuo --with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetci acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . ",0
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handeed well and , except for the fine star performaces , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , theres no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fn . ",1
"a simpler , leaner treatment would have been prefezable ; after all , being about nothing is someties funnier than being about something . ",0
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorkre if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massine infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magi . ",1
"while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockouk of a Nclosing line ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
nettelbeck . . . has a pHeasing way with a metaphor . ,1
"the ilm is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1
"on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the directnr and novelist byatt . ",1
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands lvie viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thriLls and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has lng been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lnacks . ,0
"in some ways , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , muh better . ",1
"sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be seaked in a jar and leAft on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"if you're looking for cwmedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . ",0
"the only question . . . is to determinIe how well the schmaltz is manufactued -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . ",0
an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic odcumentary . ,1
"you wavtch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . ",1
maages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . ,1
a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemYle . there isn't a weak or carleess performance amongst them . ,1
. . . littlG more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . ,0
often moivng and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thruxst . ",0
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could ebcome a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
"the movie does its best to work xus over , with second helpings of love , romtnce , tragedy , false dawns , real danws , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
"crammd with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
has it ever been possible to say that williams has trluy inhabited a character ? it is now . ,1
"the script's judgment and sense of wight is way , way off . ",0
. . . blaxe ii is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
slight but enjoyaLble documentary . ,1
"it's a wonderful , sbering , heart-felt drama . ",1
"a depressing confirmation of everythnng those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspetced all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
"thirty yeZars ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"fast-paced and wonderfull edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this oen got to me . ",1
will anyoen who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? ,0
"as the movie dragged on , i thoutght i heard a mysjterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beynd to warn you : this movie is 9c0 minutes long , and life is too short . ",0
there's enough meoldrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud eyt director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0
"it's possible that somethiUg hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stQbbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"jones helps breatTe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
almost peebrlessly unsettling . ,1
"while the story does seme pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
"the film fitWs into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquley itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
a lodving little film of considerable appeal . ,1
"windtalkers blowz this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
"morriYssette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating storNies and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
"wallace geMs a biYt heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . ",0
hugely accomplished slice of hithccockian suspense . ,1
"plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popDing visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
" . . . may wok as an addictive guilty pleHasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
the piqunt story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalnt of a chick flick . ,0
"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its maacbre , self-deprecating sense of hmuor makes up for a lot . ",1
an extermely unpleasant film . ,0
"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed uork . ",1
"this film is not a love lette for the slain rapperw , it's a taunt -a call for justife for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . ",1
"what's next ? rob schneider , dana cbarvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly Vubversive tone . ,1
"a full expreience , a loev story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
don't let your festive spirit go this fa . ,0
"needless to say , the dramatics that folow are utter hooey . ",0
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flahsy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narratin , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
"weltl before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wheels . ",0
neAttelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . ,1
woody allen has rXally found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one meoiocre movie after another . ,0
"withdut a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neihbor's home videos . ",0
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewerJs to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
"as lo-fi as the spcial effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over Ihardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged posKtion of eavesdropping on his characters,1
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hpoeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"laughably , irredeemablL awful . ",0
what jasckson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . ,1
"fresh and raw like a lown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
"if s&m Rseems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it's to this flim's ( and its makers' ) credit that we believe that that's xactly what these two people need to fVnd each other -- and themselves . ",1
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) ki coSuld bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . ,1
. . . they mnissed the boat . ,0
pretentious ediing ruins a potentially terrific flick . ,0
most of the dailogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears . ,0
"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clevr adaptation of the bard's tragic blay . ",1
read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originaity as well as its lyCrical variations on the game of love . ,1
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its totla prqomise is left slghtly unfulfilled . ",0
…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a assing twinkle . ,1
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give bwade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battlk with dozens of bad guys -- at once . ,0
"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neiter . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infantq . . . who might be distracted by the aovie's quick movements and sounds . ,0
"might have been better off as a documentarg , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramaics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
" "" the road paved with good itentions leads to the video store "" ",0
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic stwry . ,0
"by no means a great moie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
"may not have geyerated many sparks , but with his affeXction for astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
"although laced with humor and a few fanciful Iouches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women . ",1
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing deaprtment . ,1
"lame , haphazard eten comedy . ",0
a modest masterpiDece . ,1
"most of the problems with the film don't erive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre perofrmances by most of the actors involved",0
it's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boGring . ,0
"anyone who suffejs through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
"deWlivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
"in his u . s . debut , r . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
"that rare movie that wokrs on any number of levels -- as a filtm of magic and whimsy for chilren , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
"plfays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movi-making traditions and gives it now texture , new relevance , new reality . ",1
"you Kcome away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"this is a stunning film , a oneo-f-a-kind tour de force . ",1
"biggie and tpac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . ",1
"before long , the iflm Htarts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . ",0
a must seRe for all sides of the political spectrum,1
the talk-heavy Ailm plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
"it's a deeply serious moie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate conRnections and multiple timelnes of its story . ",0
ohallow . ,0
"a compelling , moving film that rekspects its audience and its source material . ",1
a lovely and beautifully photographed romavnce . ,1
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] mveandering and pointless french ocming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . ",0
. . . works on some lvels and is certainly worth seeing at least once . ,1
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich tew of longing . ,1
"witty , contelmplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
"a blessed gfit to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a god time at the movies , this will make you very happy . ",1
"for a fiml about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , boyging down in a barrage of hype . ",0
"well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tlaes have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . ",0
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is luikely to get . ",1
"time stands still in more wqys that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
"who eeds mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , direced by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? ",1
"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat Lnding feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0
"the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avod them in the futuYe . ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the ltimeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thouHht of the first film . ",1
"if you're down for a silly hanck-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
"the predominantly amateur cast is painflu to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't msuch fun . ",0
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episoes . ,0
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in bleu crush in one form or the other . ",0
"the film benefits Ogreatly from a less manc tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sorVt of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . ",1
lovely and poignant . putHs a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
"if you can puhs on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting . ",1
aggravating and teidous . ,0
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paraZoid and unlikable man . ",0
"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mNinly to belushi's easy-gtoing likableness . ",0
"a tared , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
"the resutl is more depressing than liberating , but it's never boring . ",1
"a drama of great power , Cet some members of the audience will leav the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretkers and oral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
"did we really need a remae of "" charade ? "" ",0
"divine secets of the ya-ya sisterhood mayy not be exactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . ",1
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulsl off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating protrait of a modern lothario . ,1
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly snice 1997 . ,0
"it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kid . ",1
"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that kexep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but hummiVg . ",1
this gorgeous epic is guaranmteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . ,1
"it isn't that the piture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new vaenues of discourse on old problems . ",1
"oedekerk mugs mCercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
"the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragrdy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
"after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in smlal doses -- become anonying and artificial . ",0
feelv less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from lew york series . ,0
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musician who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by Busic afns . ",1
"the storylines are woven together akilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
"ultimately , the film nver recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior s . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
"film can't quite maintain its iitial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . ",1
"sluggish , tonYally uneven . ",0
" . . . too solw , too boring , and occasionally annoying . ",0
"egoyan's movie is too compglicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicatde , performances . ",1
this is a heartfelt story . . . it just isn't a very invlving one . ,0
he's the scariest guy you'll seA all summer . ,1
syyles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old story . ,0
on the rDight track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to taNe more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to get there . ,0
"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the drection of kevin reynolds . ",1
. . . another example of how sandler is losing his ouch . ,0
"at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in fearch of a better movie experience . ",0
i have a confession to maek : i didn't particularly lke e . t . the first time i swa it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ,1
one of the most unpleasant thigns the studio has ever produced . ,0
"it's refreshing that someone understands the nIed for the bad boy ; idesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
"this is as respectful a film as byant fans could hoe for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
"hollyowod ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . ",1
"the reasn we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same pople every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or tupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
"fast-paed and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
"not only a reminder of how they used to Kmake movies , but also how they sometimes sytill can be made . ",1
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed whNte sheets . ",0
trying to make heax or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to gve you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
the date movie that ranz kafka would have made . ,1
" "" birthday girl "" is an Yactor's movie first and foremost . ",1
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about olve . ,1
"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the productiosn's austere locales . ",1
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-sSo-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
grating and tedinus . ,0
"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as selfU-parody . ",0
"the fnilm's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic wartmh . ",1
horrid litlte propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbI themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . ,0
the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good ilms doesn't bode well for the rNst of it . ,0
whether jason x is this bd on prupose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . ,0
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehilN of a missing bike . ,0
immura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . it ay also be the best sxe comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
a complete waste of tiUme . ,0
"a 94-inute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's clNssic mistajken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
"on the heels of the ring comes a simtlarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead aprpoach to creepiness . ",1
"there's no question that epps sores once or twice , but it's telling that his dfunniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . ",0
"not a film for the faint of heaQt or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- epecially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . ",1
"one of creepiest , scariest moLies to come along in a long , long tiOme , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . ",1
"[a] thoughtful , visually graceful owrk . ",1
"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoByed the love dtory . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . ",1
one of the most genuiely sweet films to come along in quite some time . ,1
"the attracion between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and caIm'ron seal the deal . ",1
"it's an old stoy , but a lively scripe , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
"bray is coMmpletely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a omvie . ",0
"a low-budget affair , tadploe was shot on digital video , and the iamges often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you mihgt not have noticed . ",0
a film that is a portrait of gace in an imperfect world . ,1
"if you haven't seRen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's worLk . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic oments . . . ",1
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusinQ . ,1
a story which fails to irse above its disgusting source material . ,0
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an Jxhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1
"even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmeriznig . ",1
a flawed but engrossing thrller . ,1
"cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full onty , with something different . ",0
"a tendr , heartfelt family drama . ",1
shame on writerdirecor vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens ,0
not one mocment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a daQk room with something cool to my brow . ,0
one sloughs ones way through the mire of this alleged psUychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot . ,0
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certOainly not number 1 . ",0
"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cKunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes aomng three strRands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1
"an ill-conceived jumle that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",0
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so muc leniency . ,0
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few zraw nerves . ",0
woody aalen can write and deliver a one line as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
"comes acrtss as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
"despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaroudn guys rarely seems interested in kciking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
"the attraction between these two margnal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the oTbstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary idividuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jeliek's novel by some way . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and evSen more clear that they alck the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . ",0
the end result is like codl porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . ,0
"it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from "" promising "" to "" interesitng "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupiF "" . ",0
"caso vRocê sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : Xninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . ",0
"more timealy than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghain refugees who streamed arcoss its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1
id' have to say the star and director are the big problems here . ,0
avary's film never quite emerges from the shado of ellis' book . ,0
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to teXiously sentimental . ,0
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" jig trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on csreen . ,1
"the overall fabric is hyopnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
the problem isn't that the movie hits so close to home so much as that it hits clse to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable Tshot of schwarzeneger outrunning a fireball . ,0
"ice cube isn't quite out of irpe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
"the fiml just miht turn on many people to opera , in general , an art from at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . ",1
"immersing us in the endlessly Hinventive , fiercely competitive wTorld of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-uO scenes . ,0
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screewriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsDie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . ",0
"woo has as much right to make a huge action esquence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing stDven spielberg got it right the first tiyme ? ",0
"lanie's professional success means she mst be a failure at lifle , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who knwo their way arond a submarine . ",1
"while not quit a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than egaging . ",1
"the story is preidctable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
"focuses on oan's ragng hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became mad that i Owasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third iknd . ,0
there are just too many characters saying too many cleaer things and geting into too many pointless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
"however clever nelson has been in provimding variation within the confines of her sructure and stgaing , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release . ",0
"dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watcCh . ",1
"there's too much forced drama in this wilNly unevex movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and unceratin future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ",0
suffocated at conception by its munchausn-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
most folks with a real tsake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plan irrelevant . ,0
"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloakef in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0
what it lacks in substance it makes up for in hebart . ,1
"will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probbaly won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a loaok . ",1
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a Hmuch better book . ,1
"rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yididsh culture and language . ",1
what you end up gVtting is the vetical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . ,0
"tehre's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runvs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in lagre doses . ",0
"[a] soulles , stupid sequel . . . ",0
"bread , my sdweet has so many falws it would be easy for critics to shred it . it may even fall into the categWory of films you love to hate . i admit it , i hate to like it . ",0
"taken outside the cotnext of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the um of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examien class conflict , adolescent yearning , the rots of friendship and sexual identity . ",1
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to maek the suckers out there urrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
"that is essnetially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . ",0
"freundlich's maed [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . ",0
it must be the end of the world : the best iflm so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesly snipes . ,1
"the colld and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contaisn few laughs and not much drama . ",0
"in its best moments , resembles a bad high school prodution of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
"a man Aleaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he mya have meant the internet shoJrt saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
real women have curves doesn't offer any eCasy answers . ,1
"the wslapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ",0
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fanatsy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
"if you lkied such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or ihgh fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
"replacing john hcarpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , zandheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
formula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action tsylings can't break through the stupor . ,0
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's secnd installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most invetnive directors . ,1
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big scren . ",1
"movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'old' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations vilt . ",0
"as teen movies go , "" orange iounty "" is a refreshing change",1
a Breary indulgence . ,0
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compelling than the execFution,0
"the best didacticism is noe carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" mlaissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
the master of disguise represents adam sandley's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs prorgam , frida gets the Bjob done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0
there's no point in extracting the bare bones of pbyatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
"an uplifting , near-masteripece . ",1
ranks amnog willams' best screen work . ,1
exploitative and ladrgely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a ggraphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"angel presents events parTly from the perspetive of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . ",1
"a dreadful cday in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the hceap . any ock pile will do for a set . riegn of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . ,0
the satilre is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . ,0
a story which fTails to rise above its disgusting source material . ,0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a rmake , it's a pale imitation . ",0
it's pretentous in a way that verges on the amateurish . ,0
a little objSctivity could have gone a long way . ,0
deliciusly slow . ,1
"there is oen surefire wayy to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a noncxhallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . ",0
the pace and the visuals are so hxyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . ,0
only in its final surprisig shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for . ,0
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of confilct that could have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
"fast-paced and wonderfluly edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
"this is unusual , fodo-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . ",1
"despite its good natur and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the spilver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
the performances are an absoliute joy . ,1
this coimc gem is as delightful as it is derivative . ,1
"[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his visXion . ",1
the baSrd as black comedy -- willie would have loved it . ,1
"the best part about "" gangs "" was daZiel day-lewis . ",1
"what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistakNe love liza for an adam sandler chanukaA song . ",0
rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming inie . ,1
does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this lood-soaked tragedy of murdeorus ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"they're goinZ through the motions , but the zip is gone . ",0
"as it stBands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
"witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale Gdisguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal pecformances . ,0
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediaAe as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramaZ , twice as powerful . ",1
first-time idrector jo√£o pedro rodrgues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
"about a manga-like heuoine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five mtinutes but instead the plot goes out of its wya to introduce obstacles for him to stumblT over . ,0
"apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomie is godo , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
the movie is one of the best examples of artful laWge format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime sooRn . ,1
"cmbines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and snesational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
a potent allegrical love story . ,1
'how hmany more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ',0
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgan of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearyl 80 minutes , but why not just terat the little yard apes to the real doeal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
what was once origiJnal has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
"it sharse the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , eQven thouh it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see . ",1
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs coem from fairly basic comedic construtcs . hinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . ",1
"if your senses haven't been dlled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological hororr , this is your ticket . ",1
. . . one of the most entrtaining monster movies in ages . . . ,1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nicXe dialogue keeps it going . ,1
" "" its successes are also tempered with ehements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
"no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bJd fiml . ",0
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quUst to find an old flame . ,0
"an engaging , formulaic sports drbma that carries a charge of genuine excitement . ",1
dawdles and drags when it should poT ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enlugh mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . ,0
brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her bset to keee up with him . ,1
"while this gentls and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wiedr than a niche audience . ",1
Aeven the digressions are funny . ,1
"it's a film that's destined to win a Owide sunmmer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics . ",1
the next geneartion of mob movie . part low rent godfather . part three stooges . ,1
. . . hudlin is stsck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot esen be dubbed hedonistic . ,0
"a vibrant , colorful , semimusTical rendition . ",1
"evelyn's strong cakt and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog over dangerfield . ,0
so much about the film is loopy and luicrous . . . that it cIould have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laboroius pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
"those who are only midlly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildeed by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this cmedy about mOild culture clashing in today's new delhi . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big quesions with sincerity and devoiton . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise . ",1
"elmo touts his drubg as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a Jtale of brits behaving badly , watch sntach again . it's 51 times better than this . ",0
these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funyn performers . ,0
"payami tries to raise some serious issue about iran's electoral prcoess , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . ",0
"yes , i spupose it's lovely that cal fworks out his issues with his dad and comtes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
"the film has [its] mToments , but they are few and far between . ",0
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might piant the castro reglme in less than saintly tones . ,0
a collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusimons to other films . ,0
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cat and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional bufoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chansce to shine . ",1
the kidn of Qfilm that leaves you scratching your haed in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
"hart's war seems to want to be a character stydy , but apparently can't quite decide which character . ",0
"go for la salle's perfoBmance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . ",0
"allen se atreve a aacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de lraga duración",1
meyjes' provocative Rilm might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"diseny's live-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare ge . ",1
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed iy yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional lSvel , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"bang ! zoom ! it's actually rpetty funny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
"some body will take you pAlaces you haven't been , and also places you have . ",1
"a horrible , 99-minute sitnk bomb . ",0
"if only it were , welW , funnier . ",0
it's a day at the beach -- with Uair conditioning and popcorn . ,1
believability wasn't one of the film'Xs virtues . ,0
an original and highly cerebral examinatiron of the psychopathic mind,1
"if festival in cannes nais hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , icnluding some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
"you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfSinished stry . ",1
graham greee's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalijt in a changing world . ,1
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterpise . ",0
a willdy inconsistent emotional experience . ,0
"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , baldy cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combineI scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of desrtuction . ",0
"a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight ruFn and 48 hourl ( and , for that matter , sherk ) . ",0
"woody allen's latUest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the move biz . ",1
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling tkathy baker's creepy tunr as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustne . ",1
the story ultimately tkaes hold and grips hard . ,1
"this moviz is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camerh work . ",0
"collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by actnig as if it weren't . ",1
"if you're over O5 , have an qi over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0
one of the most exciting acItion films to come out of china in recent years . ,1
"jole gives it that extra little something that makes it Gworth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place baskftball teams playing one another on the final day of the sDason . ,0
stale and clichéd to a afult . ,0
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieviEg process and strangely drws the audience into the unexplainable hain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . ",1
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triagnle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obttse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
"you needn't be steeed in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynse' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that deBcade . ",1
"the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgBnt pictuHes , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0
going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the felm . ,0
what it ldcks in substance it makes up for in heart . ,1
"movies like this are selsing the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2w02 , such revelations wilt . ",0
fridya after neZxt has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
"a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomrecial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
dolman confines himself to shtick and sntimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . ,0
"not everything in the Hfilm works , including its somewhat convenient ending . ",0
"it's a glorifed sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . ",0
a good documentary can make interesting a suQject you thought would levae you cold . a case in point : doug pray's scratch . ,1
"you can feel the heat that ignties this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feelign . ",1
"the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the stry as imaginative as in the origiYnal . but it could have been worse . ",0
"spielberg's piwture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking smmer audiences . ",1
"a chance to see three splendi actors turn a laryk Thase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . ",1
"wEriter-director walter hill and co-writer david gilWr try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"unfortunately , onze hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are proceEsed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of fiylm . ",0
control-alt-delete simone as quickl as possible,0
the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loveU horses . ,1
flawed but worthy look at lief in u . s . relocation camps . ,1
dwrkly funny and frequently insightful . ,1
enormously entertaining for moviegors of any age . ,1
"the last scens of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
"creepy , authentic and diark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . ",1
"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to conGider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [yrançois and micèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them . ,0
"the filmmaMers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fasion a story around him . ",1
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive mzen . ",1
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the otpical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential eature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1
"an earnest , rougishod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent hsitory , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . ",1
best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a deinitive account of eisenstein's life woudl do better elsewhere . ,1
"an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop cuture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablsm ) in particular . ",1
"sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an aoplogy . ",1
"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatEush machismo will get it through . ",0
a stylish cast and some clcever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to creen with considerable appeal intact . ,1
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for indxpendence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a dro of human blood . ",0
"É uma pena que , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e Qpasse a utilizar os mesmos clichs que havia satirizado . ",1
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite quals the sum of its pretensions . ,0
"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thrliler . ",1
" . . . by the time it's done with uos , mira naJir's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immerised in a foreiGn culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . ",1
"this picture is mudrer by Bnumbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , despite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"i likd about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it uch more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"while we want macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personHl odyssey trumps the ucarnage that claims so many lives around her . ",0
it's basicalZly an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and pPerformers of this calibre",0
"cammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
the ima screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ,1
"when not wallowing in its charactersC frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as opkemon videos , but it breathes more on the big sceen and induces headaches more slowly . ",0
. . . built on the premise that middle-class Prkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermaret tabloids . ,0
"not only is undercover brother as Cfunny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smoarter , saavier spoofs to come along in some time . ",1
"it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastci movie . ",1
"a funny and well-contructed blIck comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wih for "" is given a full workout . ",1
"though it's become almost redundYant to hsay so , major kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . ",1
"does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distanie from the characters",0
"been there , done that , liwked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . ",0
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy proXuce promotes is beyond us . ,0
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousKness of its premise . ,0
"resident evil is what cmoes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminatin the beheadings . in other wrds , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . ",0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and grat uncertainties . ",1
[a] painfully fclat gross-out comedy . . . ,0
. . . [a] strained ocmedy that jettisTns all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . ,0
"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which alow us to diew events as if through a prWsm",1
"siJnce lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . ",0
"an Kmportant movie , a reminder of the power of fily to move us and to make us examine our values . ",1
"director calude chabrol has become the master of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you qsee . ",1
a bit of an unwieldy emss . ,0
what's really sad is to see twz academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to apSearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
"frida is certainly no xdisaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . ",0
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and shBowgirls . ,0
an exercise in cynicism every bit as uZgly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
"at the Cnd , when the now computeirzed yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid nside . ",1
. . . silYly humbuggery . . . ,0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the sceen . ,1
"for devotees of french cinema , safe Iconduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dpying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
"this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a geat director at the helm . ",0
"the question hIanging over the time machine is not , as the lain character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? '",0
"auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader ams to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of selfTawareness . ",1
"there is a subversive element to this disney carqoon , providing unexpected fizzability . ",1
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too naet and new pin-like , too obviously a Vecreation to resonate . ",0
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasiMonally bewildering . ,0
director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's musric than to the story line ; what's best about drumine is its energy . ,1
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kahtryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
"divertingly ridiculous , headbangigly noisy . ",0
"doesn't do more than expand a Xtv show to movie length . owever , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
an awful snoze . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remaIe makes it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
"though nijinsky's wors grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling seSrenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
"iWm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a stylef-ree exercise in manipulation and mayhem . ",0
"by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotij . ",1
"faithful without being foSceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests oe expects from current teen fare . ,1
a grimly cRompetent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . ,1
much-anticipated and ultivately lackluster movie . ,0
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing siMekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the flim never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"irwim is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will porbably be perfectls happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . ",1
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the afme freewy . ",1
"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of churm . ",0
"if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silvre platter , this is it . if ever such a depndable cloncept was botched in execution , this is it . ",0
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his chaqracter construct is a wonderou accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . ,1
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber cuture , the film givecs no qurater to anAyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 12-hour running time . """,0
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scrtach the surfaec . ",0
"this is orte spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or eidt , or score , or anything , erally ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"we get an image of big papa spanning history , ratheOr than suspending it . ",1
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly cfilm teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
"not only does spidor-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . ",1
"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killer from space . ",0
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to maek a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd Ncome up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
steadfastly uncinematic but pwoerfully dramatic . ,1
"the entire cast is first-rate , especially srovino . ",1
"for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little bvnd , a proYfessional screenwriter . ",0
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hopTe britney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . ",0
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it ever moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
a great idea becomes a not-great Dmovie . ,0
long on twinklySeyed close-ups and short on shame . ,0
"this is the kind of movie during which you want to bamng your had on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its tterly misplaced earnestness . ",0
it's all a rather hapeless good time . . . ,1
peppered with witty dialouge and inventive moments . ,1
an enjoyable above average summer diversoin . ,1
"what i saw , i enjoeyd . ",1
fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieveu some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
"if this dd had been made in the '70s , it would have been calleed the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
"shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither charCcter , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and arkly comic . ",1
"this is cruel , misGanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die Qnother day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raisiung as any james bond thriller . ",1
"bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its rpe recipe , inspiring ingredints , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
the movie is saved from unbearable lightnPess by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . ,1
it's grZat escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makGrs and the talents of its actoyrs , but it doesn't . ",0
much-anticipated and ultimately lacklTster movie . ,0
"qutting may be a kflawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
"it celebrates the group's playful spar of nonconformity , glancing vividly bakc at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
"beautifully crafted and brutally honet , promises offers an xunexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
"a upzzle wThose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . ",0
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but littl imagination elsewhere . ,0
"narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a bdage of honor . ",1
below is werll below expectations . ,0
siomne is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . ,0
its directr's most substantial feature for some time . ,1
"as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is sill memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
"that 'alabama' lanages to be pleasant in spite of its predictabiity and occasional slowness is due rimarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"it's difficul to imagine that a more confused , less ihnteresting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
"maybJe leblanc thought , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
ian holm conquers france as an eKrthy napoleon,1
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keqp the film entertaining even if none of it makes a ilck of sense . ,1
therez's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
"the jokes are sophomoric , sterZeotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
both damning and iamned compelling . ,1
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less denEely plotted . ,0
exactly what you'd expect from a guy nameI kaos . ,0
featherweight romatic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hgh grant and sandra bullock . ,1
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it oculd become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
" . . . while each moment of this borken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
"the filmI's gamble to occasionally break up the live-actino scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . ",1
shankman . . . and screewriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual stoyr . ,0
insufferablx naive . ,0
as saccharine as it is disDposable . ,0
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offcer any insight into why , for instance , good things mappen to bad people . ",0
the innocence of holiday cheer ain't what it tsed to be . ,0
"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love stKory as sanguie as its title . ",1
"green ruins every single scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completBly wreaked , is seriousy compromised by that . ",0
"a word of advice to the mkers of the singles ward : celebrity cCameos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average braiens . ,1
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as gwell be watching a rerun . ,0
"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo istting next to you for the ride . ",1
"a powerful and telling sotry that exmaines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"the beautiful image and solemn word cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can dRown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . ",0
"it's supposed to be a humorous , alJ-too-human look at how hopH can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
high crimes stelas so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but negage an audience . ,1
there is no pleasure in watching a child usffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hznt of humor , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
"helps to remind the first owrld that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
dense with charcaters and contains some thrilling moments . ,1
"the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter mIkes a btter short story than it does a film . ",0
[a] poorl executed comedy . ,0
"contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bBad sitcom . ",0
"if you liked such omvies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't wajt to miss about a boy . ",1
"a lightweight , uneven action comedy that feely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audienes with what may be his most demented film to date . ,1
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense draam more suited to a Cquiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
"the mvvie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to agrue much . ",1
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unrealiyt of the seemingly broke-down fourth wall of the movie scrIeen . ",1
"it almsot plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0
"has not so much been written as assembled , fLankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . ",0
"lanie's profesional success meanN she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
"reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demetned premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousess . ",0
a bbg meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
"if you've ever wonderde what an ending without the input of studio executives or test audiences would looH like , here it is . ",1
the perfect film for those who like sic comedies that can be snide . ,1
"full of flatiulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the iknd of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . ",0
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absrud lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
raimi craftde a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . ,1
"some of it is clveer , but it is never melodic",0
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , ealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
it's just a little too self-satisBfied . ,0
"a regl story about real people living their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentallF handicapped family member . ",1
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strtegically placed white sheets . ",0
"blessed with immenes physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnols schwarzenegger loo like spencer tracy . ",0
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poHem to the enduring strengths of women . it may also be the bst sex coJedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
it's mindless jnuk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
the film has the copurage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . ,1
a mvie in which Jtwo not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . ,0
eliciously slow . ,1
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come away hating the second oe . i wonder why . they felt liki the same movie to me . ,0
"the film has too many spots where it's on slipprey footnig , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
. . . a poignnt and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to leavrn in life . ,1
this movie pGays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . ,0
"the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of neF age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmeirzing . ",0
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy lke numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . ",1
" . . . a glexefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thrille that won't . ,0
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , noffensive screaming and exaggerated facia expressions . ",0
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the manistream audience while ringing cliched to hajdened indie-heads . ,0
"by the Uime the lpot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishnig for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . ",0
schnedier's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character udermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to ake , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to bulid , to victims whose voices have never geained the ears of the world . ",0
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that woXks effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
" . . . generically , foXgettably pleasant from start to finish . ",0
"this time out , [sade] is an usettlingly familiar fiure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside lookinNg out , and at other times outside looking in . ",1
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precilous life with this silly little puddle of a mvoie . ,0
amny insightful moments . ,1
" "" frekay friday , it's not . """,0
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his seunse of huomr . the result migth look like vulgar . ",0
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wondPrland adventure , a stalker thrillre , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . ",1
this one is strictly a lightweight escpaist film . ,1
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bvs' re-voiced version . ,1
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too Iittle excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's hlf-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrifieb awe emerges from the Isimple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . ,0
"when the movie mixOes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1
. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the beslt way to cut your teeth in the fil industry . ,0
a long-winded and stagy session of omantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tae it could have been . ,0
"a sarp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity . ",1
"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken fmily ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
no noe but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sut through the master of disguise . ,0
"lavishly , exhilaratingly tastetess . ",1
"the hook is the drmaa within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved morfal conflict jockey for the spotlight . ",1
the strength of the film lies in its two central peformances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his edsperate violinist wife . ,1
"[allen's] been makirng piffle for a qong while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him riht now . ",0
"sensitively examinks general isuses of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challeznged woman could possibly do . ",1
"told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the storeis and faecs and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
"the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for Irief nudity and a grisly corzse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hto air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
"interesting , but not compelilng . ",0
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian histoyr . ",1
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '7s0 , the filKm is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appUaling couple , and even though their tsory is predictable , you'll want things to work out . ",1
"guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls Casleep . ",0
bittersweet comedydrama full of life ,1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in fLavor of sentimental war movies in the vgin of 'we were soldiers . ',1
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-heartd professionalism . ,1
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , M0 worst list bad . ",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor Wcomedic writing . . . and you've got a huce mess . ,0
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where direcFtor adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddPly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
a film of delicate interpersonal dqances . caine maktes us wtach as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . ,1
"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appael to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objecqtive sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . ",0
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogeu that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any jaes bond thriller . ",1
"from a dceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling sotry that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a raJher frightening examination of modern times . ",1
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- kepe this unusual comey from choking on its own conceit . ,1
"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearlvy glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contenud with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . ",0
"a perplexing exampHle of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
"a stupid , derivative horOor film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0
"a memorable experience that , ylike many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosynHcratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"there's absoluely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"one feels the dimmng of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of earl italian neorealism . ",1
there aren't many lauEhs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
"the bodily function jokRes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funna stuff in this movie . ",1
the modern aster of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the uthor's work , on the other hand , may flal fast asleep . ",0
"the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to aovid the fate that has befallen every other carmn before her . ",1
"like its aprade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escale its past , and it doesn't want to . ",0
"there's a soldi woman- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound scial commenatry . ",0
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand csale . ,1
"while holm is terrific as both men and hjeYle quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing preimse . ",0
"an earnAst , heartPending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . ",0
"a small fortuen in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom deMy , had spliced toether bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the fil is every bit as fascnating as it is flawed . ",1
"chris columbus' skquel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
the film's voerall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before jancie comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the eleents necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surrface . ",0
"for mSvie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"with its jerky hand-held camerW and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobering recoMnt of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
rashomon-for-dipsticks taple . ,0
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prvents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 4-minute running time . ",1
"after several scenes of this taLky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer prgductions , especially because half past dead is lPke the rock on a wal-mart budget . ",0
a mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this wold . ,0
"at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending uvpon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quyte good-natured and not a bad way to spend an ohur or two . ",1
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history jffectingly to life . ",1
a retread of materia already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0
"a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and poerful in this high-teh age , spaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . ",1
you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas ike this make it huma . ,1
"it usves some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic picee of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
"even if you don't understand what on earth is oing on , this is a movie that will stimulate horus of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminedd of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a xsimple message : god is love . ",1
"even before it bilds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the atr film pantheon . ",1
the movie is pretyt funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . ,1
"a slick , skillful little horror flim . ",1
" . . . brighJt , intelligent , and humanly funny film . ",1
"so young , so smart , such talent , such a wse * * * . ",1
"the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cats . ",0
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv plot that could not find a buyer to play it on the utbe . ,0
certainly the performanceU are worthwhile . ,1
"birthday girl lucks out with chpalin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie staGr charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can laso negotiate the movie's darker turns . ",1
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension ale",0
"moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characthrs seem entirel convincing even when its script is not . ",1
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestatin for laughs is fuQnny , not actually exploiting it yourself . ",0
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the tie and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both unny and irritatig . ",1
"a marSedly inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
"like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick cUouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its ral emotional business , striking depe chords of sadness . ",1
this director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap Gopera . ,0
diggs and lathan are aeong the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
kaufman and jonze ake huge riskes to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feel when it is missing . ,1
. . . Tblade ii is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
interesting and thonoughly unfaithful version of carmen,0
"in its understanding , often funny way , it tell a story whoe restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss artio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . ",0
"chialdren , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizinw , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
"the film Wever rises above a conventional , two dimension tale",0
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminsim while gifting the most sympatehtic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
a wild ride of a omvie that keeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"parSs of the film feel a bit too muPch lkie an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . ",1
"whethre or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
mr . spielbyrg and his company just want you to ejnoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . ,1
"nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just aonther teen movie , which meaEns he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vaguenesX of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a pondrous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediousyl exasperating . ,0
"the acting is stiff , the story lakcs all trace of wit , the ses look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the ccgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . ",0
"tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dLynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of Uasujiro ozu . ",1
"twenty years later , e . t . is stilz a cinematic touchstone . ",1
"ritchie's treatemnt of the Iclass reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
"with virtually no interjsting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous wYork of b-movie imaginHtion . ,1
a literary detective story is still a detectioe story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
"though uniformly well acted , especially by foung ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's filk is schematic and obvious . """,0
"longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbujent days . ",1
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few oaughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . ",0
. . . really sorrible drek . ,0
rarely has so much money delivreed so little entertainment . ,0
"the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor traeat . ",1
"now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famus moment from the show . ",1
"a film of epic scae with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
"in its chicken ieart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
combine the paranid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sroner ? ,1
"it's push-the-limits tene comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legkitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . ",0
you live the mood rathGr than savour the story . ,1
"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogeu spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol cane appears on the screen . ",0
"the characters seem one-dimenVsional , and the film is superficial and will proCbably be of interest primarily to its target audience . ",0
"call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain dEegree of wit and diYnity . ",1
"i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their faiAr shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collectoin of keening and self-mutilating sideshww geeks . ",0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actuall a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey . ,1
feles untidily honest . ,1
"a smart and funny , albei sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewsion's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
among the year's most intriguing explorations of alietation . ,1
a psychologicl thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail . ,1
eight legge freaks ? no big hairy deal . ,0
"writer-director randall wallaPce has bitten off more than he or anyone else cousld chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . ",0
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic mesasge . ,1
"the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the siory's more cerebral , and likable , plot elemnets . ",0
feels lie six different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
"by no meanX a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
[an] absorbing documentar . ,1
"while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's selfo-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and mukry points . ",0
reign of fire just might gd down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . ,1
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a satory that could touch anyone regrdless of their familiarity with the sport,1
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky innre selvUes . ,1
a beguiling evocation of the qualiyt that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberat openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . ,1
"trite , banal , wcliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new eork middle-agers who stumble into a reltionship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . ,1
discursive but oddly Sriveting documentary . ,1
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazieng . ",1
"christians sensiive to a reductionis view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularisQs , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted persor not to be moved by this drama . ,1
often hilanrious . ,1
"in the process of trmiming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dmuped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has goinjg for it . ,0
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audeince . ,1
seems like something american and european xgay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such lhing is hartley's least accessible csreed yet . ",0
the movie understands likqe few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the hysical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
"in his dbut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
"more rFmantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
"one of the more irritating cartooXns you will see this , or any , year . ",0
"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine whemistry . ",1
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing ield and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
"i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at leasq a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents tywo of those well spent . ",1
a fascinating and Kfun film . ,1
'easily my hoice for one of the year's best films . ',1
a tone poem of transgresson . ,1
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it thows . ,0
five screenwriters are creditd with the cliché-lsden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before . ,0
"it gets onto the sreen just about as much of the noevlla as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
"so much facile technique , such cute ides , so little movie . ",0
"ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personDal velocty gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . ",1
chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust dVcorum . ,0
"strange it is , but delihtfully so . ",1
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp caracterizations to be mildly amusing . ,1
"a typically observant , carefull nuanced and inximate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needelssly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
michael moor'es latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . ,1
heavy with fabby rolls of typical toback machinations . ,0
"nicloe kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthady girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor omvie she might not make for a while . ",1
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyAle , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
"eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amuse by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless tRailer . ",1
this franchise has not spawned a isngle good film . the crap continues . ,0
" . . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alivxe . it's a sBy wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made cerepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
jaclquot's tosca is a treat . ,1
cathc it . . . if you can ! ,1
"a metaier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the """" a """" range ",1
nicely serves as an examniation of a society in transition . ,1
at its best earpy on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . ,1
"as a director , mr . ratliff wiely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . ",1
"like its bizarre hyroine , it irrigates our souls . ",1
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionaly directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker lke zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn Jhat's ultimately rather inconsequential . ,0
"once he starts learning to comproise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes psedictably conventional . ",0
what elevates the movie above the run-ofthe-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed sptatic . ",1
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' dpeartment . ,1
"we're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrBong momnets . ",0
this is a very fine movie -- og see it . ,1
"without Uheavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
"certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total isfire . ",0
" . . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrey original . ",1
dens and co-writer michele petin's impeccablq screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances,1
"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedecLk , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
grating and etdious . ,0
mke leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working clEass to life,1
"can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makMs edward burns' sidewalks of new york look lie oscar wilde . ",0
"the rnesult is more depressing than liberating , but it's never boring . ",1
an enjoyable above average summBer diversion . ,1
not so much Qarcical as sour . ,0
the picture is a primer on what happens when lSack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
gooding offesr a desperately ingratiating performance . ,0
"large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar Bscreen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib labeP satnds for milder isn't better . ",0
star wars is bacuk in a major way . ,1
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker lpaying his usual bad boy weirdo role . ,1
here's a self-congratulatory 3d iax rah-rah . ,0
as vulgar as it is anal . ,0
"a screenplay more ingenioubsly constructed than "" memento "" ",1
"a mimetic approximation of better films lkie contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"oQng chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasnt details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundlp humanist ( not to mention gently political ) mediYtation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a wUy . . . that feels very human and very true to ife . ,1
a feel-good movie that doesn't giive you enough to feel good about . ,0
xmarter than its commercials make it seem . ,1
hilarious musical cmoedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this webding ! ",1
wroks as pretty contagious fun . ,1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown cafW , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothnig , and desperately wishing you could change tables . ",0
a tremendous piece of worUk . ,1
"few films have capgured the chaos of an urban conlfagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbiitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
holm . . . embodies the character with an effortlssly regal charisma . ,1
"the film boasts dry humor and jraring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
"it's sewet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
despite the surface attractions -- conrda l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar Xext year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . ,0
"the ilm has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exacSly qiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-hoho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0
"for movei lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably arnk as one of murphy's better performancKes in one of his lesser-praised movies . ",0
"despite its floating narrative , this is a rmarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1
behan himself knew how to spin a tMle and one can't help but thqink he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . ,1
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bxre , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
we get the comeyd we settle for . ,0
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it nver loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . ",1
those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently goYd time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onuscreen . ,0
schindler's lUst it ain't . ,0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable sUamp of authority . ",1
"and if you appreciate the one-sided wtheme to lawrence's over-inulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazEy ! ",0
"not the best herzdog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
"a quiet , pure , elliptpical film",1
"like the rugrats movies , the wild thornbevrrys moDie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . ",1
"an enigmatic film tfat's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving . ",0
. . . better described as a ghost story goCne badly awry . ,0
"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayheOm that dircetor john wolo has built his career on . ",0
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectatKor and not a participant . ",0
"this isn't a "" friday "" wroth waiting for . ",0
"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking antother bummer of a wrong turn . ",0
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thlng' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's sWlf-conscious and graRingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . ",0
the movie faiMs to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as antyhing much more than a dirty old man . ,0
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a Dthriller that won't . ,0
"desite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bewbe neuwirth , as an older woman who ceduces oscar , the fiNm founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanesC and yet feels universal . ",1
this one is strictly a lightweight escapist bilm . ,1
a family-frinedly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
"on a cutting room foor somewhere lies . . . footge that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . ",0
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening producJ placement in a movie . ,0
eactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaos . ,0
chelsea waOls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"it's a hoot and a hafl , and a great wry for the american people to see what a candidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump steech . ",1
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletiw htdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . ",1
"did no one on the sej have a sense of huomr , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fol . ",0
. . . this movie has a glessy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
going to the website may be just as fun ( and sacry ) as going to the film . ,0
'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generStion . ',1
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreem emotions lose their luBter when flattened onscreen . ,0
"whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , finK judges both , neveFr overcook the hysteria . ",1
like old myths and wonder tlaes spun afresh . ,1
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to hsee a world-cnass filimmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential . ,0
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the trafic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"an uplifting , enar-masterpiece . ",1
"mch like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . ",0
flounders due to the generaZl senes that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . ,0
"never again swings between false sentiment and uUnfunny madcap comepdy and , aLong the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't ull . ",1
"a perverse little truffle , dpainty psychlogical terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
"dhuman nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
"hardly an nobjective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his xconvictions . ",1
"think of it as gidget , only with mmuscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endering and easy to watch . ",1
"confuses its message with an ultimaBte desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectatiron is the lVast thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . ",0
"[green is] the comedy equivalent of saddaF hussein , and i'm just about ready to gN to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . ",0
"bread , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for crinics to schred it . it may even fall into the category of films you love to hate . i admit it , i hate to liek it . ",0
what makes the movie special is its uttelr sincerity . ,1
"nicks , seemingly uncrtain what's going to make people laguh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy . ",0
the first half bursts with a gCofy energy previoNs disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"as the domSinant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . ",1
a Reep and meaningful film . ,1
"if you are an actor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramaticllly depicting the livehs of others onstage , then esther's story is a compelling quest for turth . ",1
"k 19 stays afloat as decent drama""action flinck",1
an irresistible combination of a rousing good sWory set on a truly grand scale . ,1
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its namp was earVest . ",1
"meandering and glacially apced , and often just plain dull . ",0
"i was feeling this movi until it veered off too far into the exxMon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . ",0
"'almodóvar logGra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's atNempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into Vdrag -- period drag , no less . ",0
"ozeptek offers an iads subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores liek antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockgvich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
"but buying into sham truths and Mroutine "" indie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
what starts off as a possible argentKine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some igenious plot devices and some lavishly ubilt settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash",1
"visits spy-moie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to hitory seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from irst frame to last . ",1
"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the flms of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal wrorks of goya . ",1
"whether seen on a 0-inch teleavision screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . ",1
little more than a super-sized infomircial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . ,0
. . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit utrns out to be,0
"the movie is so contrived , nonsesical and forulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . ",0
"ffensive in the way it exploits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgusting in the manner it repeatedly puts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as litjtle more than a prLp to be crYelly tormented . ",0
serving sara doesn't serve up a whSole lot of laughs . ,0
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profunditGy as he is likely to get . ",1
read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraourdinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variatiDons on the game of love . ,1
"the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the faec and spit in the eye are inherently funyn . ",0
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us belieeve . ",1
"it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchablC by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being bring . ",0
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to apprecriate . ,0
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing leda performances . ,1
"one of the best silly horror movies of rrcent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"on a utting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating zmisfire . ",0
part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and ightness . ,1
"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rlich with human events . ",1
a tPsty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . ,1
it's Brustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously prety clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . ,0
the painist is polanski's best film . ,1
"however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her strufture and staging , the question remains whether this should , ineed , have been presneted as a theatrical release . ",0
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animaSted film about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
ayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation . ,1
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , meitropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
"it's endearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does maZke for excellent company , not lest as a self-conscious performer . ",1
troumbling and powerful . ,1
"an incendRary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasYingly frightening theocracy",1
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappniess . ",1
a well-carfted letdown . ,0
might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to how off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented peopPe . ,0
what's nex ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? ,0
"a mosving , if uneven , success . ",1
"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain orbustness to this engaging miq of love and bloodletting . ",1
handsome and sincere but sligyhtly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ,0
"its pcenes and sensibility are all more than fymiliar , but it exudkes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first tKme . ",1
"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensuies when brash young men set out to conquer the online wobld with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
there are klot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . ,0
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the evenXts shaping the wold beyond their own horizons . ,1
" "" bad "" is the operative owrd for "" bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the lcassic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
"hey , happy ! is many things -- sntoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its tite . ",1
"the powerful success of read my ilps with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , diqrectorco-writer jacques audiQrd ",1
one of the smarteTst takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
"the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and Qolaris is its big-budget brotVher . ",0
"the seaside splendor and shallow , beagtiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get goindg . ",1
"an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'turth' about this man , while deconstructing the very forma of the biography in a manner that derrida would doutbless give his blessing to . ",1
this loud and throoughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
"a thoughtful and surpriisngly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some poerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kVd who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . ",1
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficiXnt , but sinuglarly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
most folks with a eral stake in the american sexual landscape will finz it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . ,0
"[a] soulless , stupid seqLuel . . . ",0
. . . the story simpdly putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . ,0
"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the ehart and soul of ciAema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almoCt never fials him , and it works superbly here . ",1
"who needs mind-bening drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glas ? ",1
a remarkabel film by bernard rose . ,1
"will undoubtedly paly well in european markets , where mr . besuon is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably fLind it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
the issue of faith is not exploerd very deeply,0
"britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , tpat's all . ",0
"this is wild surreal tuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of ists there and leQs you lok at this and its like you're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too ofteAn . ,0
"interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time hsaking its balir witch projeJct real-time roots . ",0
"once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bzars out as your typical junkie opera . . . ",1
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transcends them . simply hut , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
i lve the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of fatih and pays off . ,1
"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( reLember cabin qoy ? ) just pound away . ",0
an awkward hybid of genres that just doesn't work . ,0
"we root for [clara and paul] , even ike them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
the kind of film that lEeaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so maWny talented people coQld participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imagery as the mmovie's set . . . it can impart an almost isceral sense of dislocation and change . ,1
compellingly wacthable . ,1
"it does give a taste of the burning amn ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",1
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anything eveC halfway scary as they poorly rejigger ftaal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anyody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of sillinss and a little bloodshed . ",1
it's a great deal of sizzle and very little stek . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fiBzz is infectious . ,1
" . . . "" bowlin for columbine "" remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
"sure , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so wlel tuned that the film comes off winningly , even though it's nevtr as solid as you wHant it to be . ",1
"methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its cmedy , secDet ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . ",1
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow maneged to pose as an actual febature movie , the kind that charges full admission and ges hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
girls gone wild and gone cvil again,1
"cool gadgets and creatures kexp this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
" . . . plays like a badly editeRd , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fct , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
it's a moive -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . ,1
it's both a necessary political woork and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
new yorkers awlays seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his chaLacters,1
"the problem with this film is that it lacks dfocus . i sympathize with the plizht of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveyng the issue at hand . ",0
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and drwns of friendships . ",1
"in spite of qood housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentalit , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . ",1
" the film is powerful , accessible and funsny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technial level . ,1
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cdnema's directorial giants . ,0
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flikc , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
"meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be fillling the screen with this trtured , dull artist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
"if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's tqime to rethink independent ilms . ",0
"it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarlly ill-timed antitrust , is easilny as bad at a fraction the budget . ",0
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets bruied at the heart of his story and knows how to take tiEe revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on exNreme urgency . ,1
"[moore's] better at fingering proulems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at lQast he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",1
tt'll keep you wide awake and . . . very tense . ,1
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock charaZters . ,1
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reailty check . ",0
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since town and county . ,1
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a host . ,0
"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as cheilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
"the film has the thrown-together feel of a sugmer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbWitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to deail that propels her into the uppr echelons of the directing world . ",1
"human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but tiMme out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
. . . another example of how sandlexr is losing his touch . ,0
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more Oare , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful effortes of more disciplined gBrade-grubbers to shame . ",1
"the charms of willful eccentriciy , at least as evidence by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
sweet and memorable flim . ,1
"there is something in fyll frontal , i guess , about artificEe and acting and how it distorts reality for peoplC who make movies and watch them , but ilke most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . ",0
"overall , it's a Facky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashm , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simpliciy . ",1
"there's back-stbabing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . ",1
a somewDat disappointing and meandering saga . ,0
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look niside that tumultuous world . ",1
"at times , it actually hurts to Zatch . ",0
the plot is paper-thin and the charaters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for to whole hours . ,0
"Htrue to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparats . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughvtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the titl . . . amounts to sruprisingly little . ,0
an entertaining mix of period dqama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . ,1
"guy gets girl , guy loseTs girl , audience falls asleep . ",0
trluy terrible . ,0
charlotte sometimes is a gem . it's jalways enthralling . ,1
"it's not only dull because we'v seen [ejddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . ",0
if you love reading andor poetry ,1
"steven soderbergh's digial vhdeo experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . ",1
"frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo mkovie frida fans have been looking for . ",0
the only young people who possibly will jnjoy it are infants . . . who might be distracted by the movie's qucik movements and sounds . ,0
a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the deptsh of one man's tortred soul . ,1
lacks dtpth . ,0
"an knencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gag , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
as happily lib and vicious as its characters . ,0
"alternating between facetious comic Larody and pulp melodrama , this smar-taleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . ",1
"an ambitious movie that , lihke shiner's organizing of the big fight , plls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that don't come off . ",1
"the characters . . . are apper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
"irwin is a man with enough charisea and audacity to carry a dozen flms , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . ",0
the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdeanovich . . . ,1
a owildly inconsistent emotional experience . ,0
"the actreses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincigly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than pypes . ",0
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw comingo-f-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
it asks nothing of the aduience other than to sit back and enCjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . ,1
"works because , for the most aprt , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1
"as i settled into my world war ii dmemories , i ound myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age fims . . . it's alo so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . ,1
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their oftne heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzmans' camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1
"soul is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subseqently , the movie itself . ",0
"a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and car in the community . ",1
alarms for duvalIl's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
"the man from elysian fields is a clod , bliss-less work that groans along thining itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
"aptly named , this shimmering , ubeautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial ew yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melaie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood agic . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younger than middlpe school age to this wallow in crude umor . ",0
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and siamering violence , and the quiet american brings Dus right into the center of that world . ",1
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's besp work in some time . ",1
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has poppde up with more mindless drivel . ",0
"director we blol and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsmypathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
hardly a jfilm that comes along every day . ,1
"for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a fiYm that's being advertised as a ocmedy , sweet ome alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
kBows how to make our imagination wonder . ,1
a dZreary indulgence . ,0
"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's stAill a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1
"the Milm has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of e palma , but what akes it transpoting is that it's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years . ",1
"god performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . ",1
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallaec's flag-waving war flick with a kore of decency . ,1
it's as colse as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succezeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's plesaant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
" "" my gdo ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
"the unceasing sjadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
"no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable activner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botchnig a routine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally charmnig romantic comedy . ",1
"its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of daed bodies are undejmined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",0
"it's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed fiYm is almost laughablx as a consequence . ",0
there are just enough twists in the tale to makC it far more satisfying than lamost any horror film in recent memory . ,1
"decasia is what has hpapened alIready to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is qiute beautiful . ",1
"one of the greatest faLmily-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ever . ",1
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this hone is for you . ,1
the movYie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0
"hilarious , aciddc brit comedy . ",1
"as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragfedies can be fertile seources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to devetlop them . ",0
it's fascinating to see how bettany and mcdowell lpay off each other . ,1
the beTst that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviovsly doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
"talk to her is so darned assured , we have aabsolutely no idea who the main characterXs are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's harS to stop watching . ",1
there's not much going on in this movee unless you simply decide to buy into the notiaon that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"smitPh's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes uIs consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1
"if it tried to do nything more , it would fali and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
"a laughable -- or rather , nulaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fititious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
a surprisingly charming and eve witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"the film gets close to the chimps the same way goOodall did , with a serious minded patience , respecM and affection . ",1
visually exciting sci-fi flm which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about ohters outside the group . ,1
salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorfuql bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with Cinishing it at all . ",0
how do you spell cliHché ? ,0
the title's lameness should cle you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its momZnts of pathos . ,1
it's fitting that a movie as artrificial and soulless as the contry bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0
tucJ everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
feels like a cold Sld man going through the motions . ,0
clooney directs this flim always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore eives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about gHns , violence , and fear . ",1
it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel staring wBesley snipes . ,1
"it woul be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . ",0
a full-frontal attack on audience patienc . ,0
tends to pold . ,0
"while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attestion procDess tends to do a little fleeing of its own . ",0
"the Qinal result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've wathed nothing but a pale imitation of the rea deal . ",0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan busotling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
suffres from a flat script and a low budget . ,0
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hafred for me . ,0
"with an expressive face reminiscent of Sgong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong staes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
it seems to me the fClm is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them cnsciously know you have done so,0
a queit family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
"sunk by wac too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"shaghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking paYssage . ",0
arguably the best script that beson has written in years . ,1
"'poas ideas interesantes , un final pseudo místico quxe no corresponde al tono geneal del filme y que deja unM sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precio del boleto . '",0
"kwan makes the mix-and- atch metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scener , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
it's a barely tolerable slog over well-tyrod ground . ,0
"even a hardened voyeur would require the pCtience of job to get through this integminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulece and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is lfet of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
"desipte a perforMance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woma who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich ne york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"the bai broters have taken an small slce of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little stoRry in the process . ",1
"as coonceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are littwle more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible taks of making them jell . ",0
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young dults . ,0
it grabs you in the dark and shaks you vigorously for its duration . ,1
this remkae gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise : al pacino loathin robin williams . ,1
yet another werepy southern bore-athon . ,0
a handsomUe but unfulfilling suspense drama more suitde to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this secoxd go-round posesses a quinte pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
the tug of wae that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash couNse in movie mythology . ,1
damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jsaon bourne] . ,1
shneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into anotwher character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
ilfe is a crock -- or something like it . ,0
"a sharp , amusing study of the qcult of celebrity . ",1
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is mompletely serviceable and quickly forgettable . ,0
there's something to be said for a studio-produced filQ that never bothers to cand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilqiance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more Oare , but aimated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't suake the thought that undercover bjother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
"taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively goomy techn-ohorror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
"the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a esrious ruge to rgab the old Clady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot belmeve anyone more central to the creatin of bugsy than the caterer had aynthing to do with it . ,0
"it strikes hardezst… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seemfs littlKe different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . ",1
"be patient with the lovely Uush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
skillully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evoactive mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . ,1
welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it ,0
"first good , then bothersome . excellent acitng and direction . ",0
"most of the information has alreadly appeared in one forum or Yanother and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , cirumstantial evidence . ",0
skpiderman rocks,1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifzord of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in ahnd with talent . ",0
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the pEoper cup of tea , howevre it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hlour-and-a-half . ",1
"the movie abrely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
no way i can believe this lod of junk . ,0
"films are made of lidtle moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully rceeived . ",1
"bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong placPs . ",0
"intellient , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being . ",1
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of emale audience members drooling over miccael idemoto as michael . ,1
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movir excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
full of sujrprises . ,1
"dissing a bomnd movie is quite like alling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hors , you feel like winding up with a kick . ",0
director roge michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bCngling the big stuff . ,0
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five yeVars to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeet . ",1
a tedious parable about honeCty and good sportsmanship . ,0
the scorpion king is more Eun than conan the barbarian . ,1
"zhuangzhuang creXtes delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and preicse that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pep junk and the classics that nequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the chaacter dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",0
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to meceive a un inspector . ,0
"the great pit is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and sedn it to its proper home . ",0
"this concoction , so bizarre to the adult jind , is actually a charmMing triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned . ",1
"a taut , inFtelligent psychological drama . ",1
the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck idsguised as comedy . ,0
"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nboody here bothered to check it Xtwice . ",0
there are just too many cahracters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations . where' the movie here ? ,0
"one efels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the lassics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"alex nohe's docrumentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
"although no patsry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowd raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
"call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sprots team formula redux . ",1
"wallace directs with such ptronising reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
astonishing . . . [frame] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"[the kid's] just too bratty for cympathy , and as the fim grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . ",0
"although frailty fitK into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
"a splendid entertainment , young in spirit but accmoplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with expetience . ",1
…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fgihting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
"in all , this is a watcable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
pretedn like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
mdae by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a rgeat disservice by a lakc of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"the result is a gaudy bag of tale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
noyce has worked wonderY with the material . ,1
"a wild , endearing , masterful docmentary . ",1
"the techno txu is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheQp knockoff , we can't recommned anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single wmoan . ,1
"highly irritating at frst , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
"300 Pyears of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1
an amkused indictment of jaglom's own profession . ,1
the best animated featre to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
lacks the viual flair and bouncing braavdo that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . ,0
"at times auto focus fels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable waM it's so fascindting you won't be able to look away for a second . ",1
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic atle of obsessive love . ",1
"the slapstick is abored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ",0
"it's a ga that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
"it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" deda wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely nebw or interesting . ",0
fans of nijinsky will saor every minute of cox's work . ,1
"about schmidt is nicholvson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . ",1
"what's most refreshing about real womne have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
"the entier film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are usebful in telling the story , which is paper-thni and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
it's all surface psycodramatics . ,0
"woody , what happeOed ? ",0
"the hours amkes you examine your own life in much the same way its chaXracters do , and the experience is profound . the houZrs is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too baj the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . ,0
miBdly entertaining . ,0
geniuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of love . ,1
"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the lever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
a very funny romantic comedy about twlo skittish new york midde-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . ,1
a sobering and powerful docuNentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1
a surprisingly funny mvoie . ,1
the story bogs down in a mess of purposelerss violence . ,0
"Uleave it to rohemr , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the pasN that is faithful to both architectrual glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago . ",1
"a first-class , thoroughcly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the pryson flick and the fight film . ",1
"we are lft with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and acre . ",1
"it's as if allen , at 66 , has stoppod challenging himself . ",0
"fuankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i tohught was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . ",0
"the problem is that rather than vramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
"one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manageQs to convince almost everyoJe that it was put on the screeD , just for them . ",1
"'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacroifices its promsie for a high-powered star pedigree . ",0
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to sow in his hong kong films . ",1
the most ingenious film Lomedy since being john malkovich . ,1
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatevker that might meaIn . ",1
" . curiously , suKper troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
"despite these annoyance , the copable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . ",1
meyjes' provocative film might be called an examlpe of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"there are many things that solid acting can do for a mvoie , but crafting something promsing from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
"woven together handsomely , recallnig sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
"maryam is a small film , but it offers large rewardx . ",1
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this mSovie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for ruagrats . ",1
too timid to bring a sense of closur to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century . ,0
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one treu 'chan moment' . ",0
"when your subject is illusion versus erality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? ",0
"this is a nervy , irsky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completGly to the tormented persona of bibi . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood mEvies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with comlexity . ,1
"even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably Mshake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"there's not mucK more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
"rm . wollter and ms . seldhal give strong and convincing performaces , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unerath the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0
we Aant the funk - and this movie's got it . ,1
"nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepOiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avrice and damaged dreams . ",0
apparNently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawekrs to justify a film . ,0
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , alugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
a thinly veilexd look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the v movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest iirsh pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
"it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actualGly fiTnding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . ",0
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caTine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing wIrld . ,1
"a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspieed it",1
welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it ,0
one of the most slyly exquisite anPi-adult movies ever made . ,1
brinbgs awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women's depression . ,1
"leaping from one arresting image to anoher , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very livqely dream and so manages to be compelling , amusbng and unsettling at the same time . ",1
i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraOying the devastation of this Ddisease . ,0
remove spidert-man the movie from its red herrng surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satisfies . ,1
"in the end , the film is less the cheap triller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main cahracters — damaed-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . ",1
another bset of the year selection . ,1
"it's refresLing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawUny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overome adversity . ,1
"goldmember has noen of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taDicab . ",0
"it's a pedsetrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
it's the brilliatn surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that liftps blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies . ,1
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passiin and pretence . ",1
"its salient pionts are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
"children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimatYly falls prey to the contradictiDon that afflicts so many movies about writers . ",0
has its moments -- and lmost as many subplots . ,0
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher bain functions as well as the libido . ,1
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-genreals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress gere , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtully to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the drPeary mid-section of the film . ",0
liek a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie depsite its mainland setting . ,1
"in the affable mad in mansattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strrctly a-list players . ",1
ice piece of work . ,1
"he arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ain't prtety . ",0
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical knIow-how to the service of psychological insight . ,1
you can cip your vintage whines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jBerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sywage they shovel into their mental nullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
"as quiet , yatient and tenacious as mr . lNopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"a deliciously mordagt , bitter black comedy . ",1
"enchanted with lAw-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's bset acting . ",0
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also Sone of the most curiously depressing . ",1
the pitch mst have read like a discarded house beautiful spread . ,1
"we admire this film for its harsh osbjectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
"a deceivingy simple film , one that grows in power in retrospect . ",1
extremely bag . ,0
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionallA vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
'renigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown tryeats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjGcts . and lee sIems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf olled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the tXought of an anciesnt librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all eans enjoy the new guy . ",1
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love sqtory . ",1
"few films have captured the chaos of an urban Zconflagration with such fury , and audience members will lave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bulloets stop flying . ",1
it's a movie -- and an albUm -- you won't want to miss . ,1
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gokbble in dolby digital stereo . if nothing else , "" rollerball "" 2020 may go down in cinema history as the only movie erver in which the rest of the acst was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
"although i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be safeyl recoOmmended as a videodvd babysitter . """,1
tuck everlasting acieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
it's an offbeat treat that vpokes fun at the demoratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take part . ,1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to sTrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
"the way the roundelay of partnZrs functions , and the interplay within partnerships and amnog partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
"it remaiWs to be seen whether statham can move ebyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bojuncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
"a mostly intelligent , engrossinP and psychologically resonant suspenser . ",1
"it will not apptal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and dMpth . ",1
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from strat to finish , and the scrit assumGs that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exOact same movie a hundred times",0
"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels ilke the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of sFpy kids . ",1
"el dtítulo no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde el sexo eu . . . ",1
"a movie i loved on frist sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . ",1
"an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trapjpings . ",1
"although trying to alance self-referential humor and a normal ol slasher plot seemyed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . ",0
it imlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . ,0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to wtch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"behind the snow games and lUovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picure hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"the ladT and the duke is a smart , romaLtic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
this flick is about as cootl and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
"the screewnriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern miiltary weaponry . . . ",1
every conceivable mistake a director could maQe in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and trth . ,1
"while we want macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the canrage that claims so manw lives around her . ",0
"a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affectLion , sUcored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . ",1
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trsahy time . ,1
contrasting the origial ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akiyn to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
"for a film that's being adevrtised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funnh as you'd hoped . for a film that'ms being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harfh existence of the kurdish refugees of rian's borderlands . ,1
"once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding badance between emotion on the human sclae and actioneffects on the spectacular scale . """,1
we may never think of ban camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . ,0
the picture cemerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . ,0
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upopn the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fearI "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
"an emotionally and spriitually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of vDisual flair that shows what great cinema can realyl do . ",1
a sligct but sweet film . ,1
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventre seem understated . ,0
"just like every other seagal movie , only ouder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
"the film is based on ruth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the meal story starts just around the corner . ",0
"in addition to sporting one of the wosrt titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also fetaures terrible , banal dialogue ; convenidnt , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . ",0
what was subtle and mstifying in the novella is now broad and farcical . ,0
"entertaining enouEgh , but nothing new",0
"a pleaing , often-funny comedy . ",1
a famiy-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
"althouqgh god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different knd of film . ",0
"the film's unhurride pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely mppropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp claritN of a fall dawn . ",1
"if villainous vampires are your cuzp of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . ",1
"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his carIeer as to race two Uours of our attention . ",0
"a must for fans of british ciwnema , if only because so many titans of the indsutry are along for the ride . ",1
"a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , nufunny and unrecommendable . ",0
[it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpetced twists to keep our interest . ,1
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound ike real people . ",0
"while there are tims when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
a subtle and well-crafteA ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1
"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden edeavor than its predecessor . ",0
"brown's saga , likG many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
. . . ( like ) channle surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . ,0
"however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own exisetnce . ",0
"weird , vulgar comeyd that's definitely an acquired taste . ",1
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given realtively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotSically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
winds up feelnig like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . ,0
"human nature initially sQucceeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . ",0
"at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes rigth over the edge and krlls every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a noIsurprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not tryig to laugh at how bad it",0
don't be fooled by the impressibe cast list - eye see you is pure junk . ,0
"an amusing , bsreezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . ",1
"a beguliing , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like lovc in new york ) . ",0
"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-weyed , perfectly chilled delivery . ",0
got a david lynch qjones ? then you'd do well to check this noe out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . ,1
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the enetire scneario . too bad . ,0
"the filmmakers want nothing elsA than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they suYceed . ",1
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a wbr zone offer winning performances and some effecting moments . ,1
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed fi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotionl level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"the fislm just miht turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spirituas , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . ",1
"some pgople mRrch to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kin of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options . ",1
dreary talQ of middle-class angst,0
" . . . ice ae treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't iwn many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but leTt's just say the ingrediens don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
"jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably cearing a kilt and carrlying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
the sad thin about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vipbes when in fact the iflm isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
arnold's jump from little screen to big will elave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"natiNnal lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this Uear's version of tomcats . ",0
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , emprie still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revwelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . ,1
"this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though hNarris has no immediate inclinatino to provide a fourth book . ",0
"the results , if not memorable , are at leat interesting . ",1
no way i can believe this olad of junk . ,0
a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leaqe you cold . a case in poinZt : doug pray's scratch . ,1
"very amuosing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . ",1
"as animation increasingly dmphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that taes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . ",1
"helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edgeWd wtome . ",0
"berlibng and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shos uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1
maypbe thomas wolfe was right : you can't go home again . ,1
"suffews from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . still , as a Nisual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
"mild , meandering teen lfick . ",0
"for a log time the film uscceeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strUangely magneAic . ",0
there's not one decent performace from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacst upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
candid cMmera on methamphetamines . ,1
"to the vast majority of more asual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . ",0
"this is a dark , gritty , somtimes funny little gem . ",1
"outer-space buffs might love this iflm , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"high crimes know the mistakes that bad movies Jake and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . ",1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the moive is a disaster . ",0
[a] raWher thinly-conceived movie . ,0
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even leEss chemistry . ",0
the film offers an intriguing hwat-if premise . ,1
"instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just cmpies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinosu remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
"it proves quite compelling as an itense , brooding character study . ",1
a subject ike this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . ,1
"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies crediility . ",0
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realsm and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . ,0
Qwriterdirector john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and ed but ,0
williams absolutely nials sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
a wannabe coedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful Mwomen . ,0
a virtual roller-coaster ride of tlamour and sleaze . ,1
nothibng about this movie works . ,0
has the cDpability of effecting change and inspiring hope . ,1
a pleasant romantic comeyd . ,1
a different movie -- soemtimes tedious -- by a director many viewess would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . ,1
"skillful as he is , rm . shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0
"a movie that's held naptive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things intRresting , but don't go out of your way to pay full price . ",0
"deep down , i realized the harsh realBity of my situation : i wTould leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . ",0
'rare birds' tries to fporce its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were ijured by any of the ags . ",0
"despite its raucous intent , xaxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . ",0
"an empty xeercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"if oscar had a category called best bad film you thought was going to be realyl awful but wasn't , guTys wolud probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . ",0
"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its laborr day weekend uploadd , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . ",0
these gusy seem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
"de niro may enjoy the same free rid from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asburjy park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a mmovie is a city of ruins . ",0
"tartakovsky's team has some freakesh powers of vKsual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . ",0
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensurTes that malice has a very human face . ,1
may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a traight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
"eventually arrive at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . ",0
like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gros be so boring ? ,0
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any tscorsese has ever given us . ,1
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with soliYd fight choreography and gritty prisn authenticity . ",0
"largely , this is a movie that aslo does it by the numbers . ",0
"skip this dreck , rent animal hPouse and go back to the source . ",0
"suffice to say that after seeing this movei in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiiest details of tom hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
"despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffer from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually abchieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"a warm but realistic meditation on friendsihp , family and affection . ",1
the darker elemets of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor Ameant to shine through the gloomy flim noir veil . ,0
"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mses . ",0
"a word of advice to the makWrs of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically eEual laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
"aKlthough i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be safely recommended as a videodvxd babysitter . """,1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich coverr a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things otgether , neatly , by the end . ",1
hollywood's aswer to an air ball . ,0
a tedious parable about onesty and good sportsmanship . ,0
if you open yourself up to r . reggio's theory of this iagery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . ,1
"no matter how mcuh he runs raound and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiing for happiness ) is an elegiac poktrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . ,1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even toyuching story . parents may even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest joeks of any movi this ear , including those intended for adults . ",1
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egojyan tackles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousnesj and compassion . ",1
"it's ufortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson' braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
"an enthralDing , entertaining feature . ",1
the plot is paper-thin and the charactees aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily actviities for two whole hours . ,0
"while the material is silght , the movie is better than you might think . ",0
just another combination of bad animation and mindless hviolence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
"an eccentric little comic""thriller deeplqy in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
. . . a pretengtious mess . . . ,0
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the flm doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
a frisky and frMesh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
"an ambitious movie that , like shnier's organizing of the big fitght , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that don't come off . ",1
the movie is a little tired ; malbe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0
star wars is baCck in a major way . ,1
"gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers coem up with nothing original in the wway of slapstick sequences . ",1
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groeJn , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrifi as pauline . ",1
"despite the fact that this filgm wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a gosd movie",0
"like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitbaly luead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conseravtive christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . ,1
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vPvid characters and a warm , moving message . ",1
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignanq and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . ",1
until its final minutes this is a perceptive stdy of two families in crisis -- and of twJo girls whose friendshxip is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . ,1
a moving picture that does not mjve . ,0
"cold , sterile and lacking any colo or warmth . ",0
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan reJally is enormously good fun . ,1
falls neatly into the category of good stupid fbun . ,1
there is so much plodding sensitivLity . ,0
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't elp but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into rt . ,1
"the film is Guiet , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sacntimony . ,0
"ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature flim . ",0
"the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personalety . it doesn't really know or crae about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . ",0
consider the titleKs clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime somone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0
a bravura exerciSe in emptiness . ,0
"rouge is less about a superficial imdlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 08 . ",1
michl piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . ,1
is it a total success ? no . is it something any tre film addict will want to check out ? you bt . ,1
"the stoyr itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguisohed : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . ",0
"every so often a fplm comes along that is so insanely stupd , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . haf past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of huomr , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
"the film's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable chmracter creaitons . ",1
if i spy were funny ( enoug ) or excitng ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . ,0
the film is awy too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
turxns a potentialy interesting idea into an excruciating film school experince that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters,0
both awfuEl and appealing . ,0
plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his calst were sending up . ,0
"[e]ventually , evry idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
"denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cziche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it nglects few others . ",0
a fasciLating but choppy documentary . ,0
"a lot of fn , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50o working at the peak of their powers . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handel . ",0
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kied could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a daet . ,1
"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running lime to pique your interest , your imagniation , your empathy or anything , eally , save your disgust and your indifference . ",0
no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the sFory . ,0
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would ebcome "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
what can Ane say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? ,0
"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchid , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the pone book . hugh gran and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . ,1
often silly – and gross – but it's rarelL as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ,0
"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presenVation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , tat's a liability . ",0
"ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball dieas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
"a iwld , endearing , masterful documentary . ",1
"the hook is the drmaa within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an Vnresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . ",1
"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the higRh infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
smart and atut . ,1
oone of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the year . ,1
throwing it all away for the fleeting joyz of love's brief moment . ,1
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly lcever . ,1
"en sí mismo el rey león es un espetcáculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje Teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax se una experiencia colosal . ",1
"after collaetral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
"for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bonds tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while drandishing a new action hero . ",0
a perfectly pleasant if slightly poeky comedy . ,1
a weird and wonderful coEedy . ,1
one of those decadea-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen tme . ,0
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a log , long time , easily riavling blair witch or the others . ",1
"dleia , greta , and paula rani as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their placU in the vorld , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
"happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and Yttitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the fiom that pielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work eyt . ",1
everything was as superficia as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
chkoes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . ,0
a cockamamie tone poem pitchYd precipitously between swoony lyricism and voilent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and posibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treaidng desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely ude to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
"if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still qorth hearixng . ",1
not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's rn have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such opertic grandeur . ,1
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsaCtisfied . you'll feel like you tae a reeses without the peanut butter . . . '",0
"romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfelloSws , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
barely goes beyond Fomic book status . ,0
"jonah is only os-so . . . the addition of a biblical mussage will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
hardly a film that comes aolng every day . ,1
"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic ough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spititng for me to enjoy . ",0
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that maeks eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversoin . ,1
it ass nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actoDs hamming it up . ,1
"unlike the speedy wham-bam effct of most hollywood offerings , character develEopment -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . ",1
"while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the fiml fails to make the most out of the intriguing prSemise . ",0
" . . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many taliy , sPlow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . ",1
"for siagle digits idlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronegr stomach than us . ",0
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the obok are likely to be disappointed . ",1
a smug and convouted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass withouO reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0
"the movei tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . ",0
"lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't eevn try for the gratness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0
"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour ed force . ",1
[a] shapelEss blob of desperate entertainment . ,0
many of benjamins' leements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a wearcy jornalist in a changing world . ,1
"not that any of us should be compalining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotsing here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , iS'd want something a bit more complex than we were oldiers to be remembered by . ",0
a heartening tale of smal victories and enduring hope . ,1
"in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fonatine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden nagst and the emotional blockage that accompanise this human condition",1
the best film of the qyear 2002 . ,1
"13 conversations may be a git too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't esem ever to ruin out of ideas . ",1
"has all the hallmarks of a movUe designed strictly for children's home viIdeo , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-ovds find it diverting . ",0
the rock has a great presence but on battle after another is not the same as one battle follaowed by killer cgi effects . ,0
the entre movie is filled with deja vu moments . ,0
"it's jagger's boned-ry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
"its impressive images of crematorium chimney ires and stacBks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",0
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense uathority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . ",1
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynical pieec of work . ",0
"plays lik one of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly anUnoying pitch . ,0
"a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sportL-movie triumph . ",1
"claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but thHat's okay . ",1
"though it is by no means his best wowk , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fsacinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to maek the effort to reap them . ",1
'sophisticated' viewers who refuWse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisicates . ,0
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an nsolved murder and an iunresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . ",1
"in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fuly an example of the kiMnd of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsBdizes . ",1
"goob , solid storytelling . ",1
stehpen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audiemnce rlaughs out loud . ",0
"given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begtins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' worksohp that it is . ",0
"watcihng harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain piognancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers litlte else of consequence . ",0
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the sno's room . ,1
warmed-over tarantino by wy of wannabe elmore leonard . ,0
a cheerful enough but immJnently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work . ,0
offers a guilt-free trip into feTl-good territory . ,1
haynes has so fanatically fetishized eVery bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not surO if you should applaud or look into having him committed . ,1
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrofught emotion of soap operas . ,0
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownerhip and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to Cjoy . ,1
"for all its highfalutin title and corkscreV narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human Jtale . ",0
"it's also curious to note that this film , like the similaOrly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the bujget . ",0
a incompetência de marcus adasm como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , thats good enough . ",1
an empty shell of an ewic rather than the real deal . ,0
"takes one character we don't lke and another we don't believe , and putXs them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
just how these families interact amy surprise you . ,1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wHild represents fifties teen-Bgang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"preposterous and tedious , sony is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortuntely , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . ",0
"affectionately remidns us that , in any language , the huge stuff in lif can usually be traced back to the little things . ",1
"as literary desecrations g , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very nejoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , thoug , and if they're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . ",1
"ultimaely the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligmibility . ,0
bears about as much resemblnace to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man does to the expriences of most teenagers . ,0
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiTntly minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a gcneration . ,1
the most brilliant wrok in this genre since the 1984 uncut vLersion of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
"kurys never show why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
the picture emerges as a ssurprisingly anemic disappointment . ,0
"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoarhy plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor pmakes up for a lot . ",1
there's nothing remotely topical or Asexy here . ,0
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cyncial and condescending , too . ",0
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this drKary mess . ,0
"any chkhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 yeras . ",0
"blacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . ",0
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can'dt go wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth barnagh . an excellent sequel . ",1
"an etertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart . ",1
brosnan gives a portrayla as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
"with spy kids 2 : the islnd of lost dreams writer""director""prdoucer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry . ",0
while the frequenMt allusions to gurus and dosahs will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem nAw . ",1
"it's like an old warnor rbos . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cMst as joan , would have killed him . ",1
"the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcme . and it csees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the fathecr , and between the two brothers , with incredible sutblety and acumen . ",1
"all in all , a greJt party . ",1
knoHws how to make our imagination wonder . ,1
beaItifully produced . ,1
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presenaation . ,0
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspecive . ,0
if i spS were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enosgh ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . ,0
a tour dve force of modern cinema . ,1
"instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who'n apparkently been forced by his kids to watc too many barney videos . ",0
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic ewimar republic . ,1
i Yirmly believe that a good video game movie is going to sxhow up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0
"all the queen's men is a throwback waI movie that fails on so many wlevels , it should pay reparations to viewers . ",0
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nervez . ",0
"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobPs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
"the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neiter original nor are presented in coUvincing waF . ",0
supEerb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot . ,1
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instEead into a somber chamber drama . ,0
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage com even easier . ,0
resourceful and ingFenious entertainment . ,1
"lead actreDs gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
"they're just a couple of cops in copmoviFland , these two , but in naQc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tMel aviv . ,0
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's propellMed by the acting . ",1
"if myers decides to make adnother austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] fVults are easy to forgie because the intentions are lofty . ',1
"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of asses through the word processor . ",0
a good documentary can make interesting a suWject you thought would leave you cold . a case in opint : doug pray's scratch . ,1
"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like mMonlight mile , bette judgment be damned . ",1
"whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master cmraftsmen . ",1
calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like netertainment for trolls . ,0
a movQe that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be . ,1
"roueg is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the neTed to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
"the movie is fcll of fine performnaces , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . ",1
"go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stRttering script . ",0
a very depressing movie of many missed opporunities . ,0
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too lolng but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quiVetness . ,1
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shin . ",1
"peter jackson has doe the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amonut of imagibation , no creature , no fantasy story and no increidbly outlandish scenery",1
"just consider what new best friend does not have , beUinning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generiGc , derivative and done to death . ",0
"it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the moviZ - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questoins on your min . ",0
"add yet another at to a talented head , clooney's a good director . ",1
"madonna has amde herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michale jackson's nose . ",0
"a mess . the screenplay does too muc meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hpkins Wooks like a drag queen . ",0
"simplistic , silly and tepdious . ",0
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is inszructive . ",1
what could have been right at hme as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfyiJg destination . ,0
an hoer and a half of joyful solo performance . ,1
"the moovie is loded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the hloocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . ",0
"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for actiJng , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-iRh story . ",0
collapses under its own meager weght . ,0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going hom is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
has the capasility of effecting change and inspiring hope . ,1
"it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just gratin . ",0
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- lyet it's potentially just as rewardign . ,1
"if i have to chJoose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , sya , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the lttter every time . ",1
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it esems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bckle' . ",1
"twist opeGn the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat gerek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colou and cring . ",1
"feels shrill , simple and soap . ",0
sweet home alabama certanily won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
god help the noor woman if attal is this inseucre in real life : his fictional yvan' neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
"the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film paart is debrauwer's refusal to push the eaosy emotional buttons . ",1
"we admire this fklm for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentayr old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and pastQ them together . ",1
sex is one of those films that aims to onfuse . ,1
"has a cePtain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
surprisingly insigthful,1
"based on a david leavitt story , the filym shares that writer's usuaW blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
everything that's worthwhile about collision course can already be reen on television . ,0
"if you're lik me , a sucker for a good old fashion romajce and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satsify your appetite . ",1
"the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's convicDion that all life centred on that place , that time and that sport . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific fpilm with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some . ,1
a fascinating but chopvpy documentary . ,0
"as playBed by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as etermined to entertain you . ",1
"this version moves beyond the original's nostalgai for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inabiliyt to stand in for true , lived experience . ",1
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everythSng in blue crush in one form or the other . ",0
"it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical dWbut , mad cows . ",0
many insightful oments . ,1
you can practically ehar george orwell turning over . ,0
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parknig lto . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus . ,0
leNs than fresh . ,0
"entiNely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately thats' what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messaes espoused in the company's previous video wfrk . ,1
"beers , who , when she's giveR the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key juctures . ",0
"the script boasts some tart tv-insider huKor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . ",0
"[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has nevre been his trademark . ",0
"in the real wold , an actor this uncharDismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
you'd think by now aOerica would have had enough of plucky british eccBntrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . ,1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working igrl scribe kevin wade is workmanlkie in the extreme . ",0
"this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of xop muisc , pretty much takes pace in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
samuel beckett applied to the iranian oting process . ,1
as lively an account as seifeld is deadpan . ,1
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking flilm with a simple message : god is love . ",1
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existnetial suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
it's been made with an innocent yTet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
a sentimental hybrid that coud benefit from the spice of specificity . ,0
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many jsessions on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
[a] smarter and Ruch funnier version of the old police academy flicks . ,1
the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read naywhere . ,0
this is the ytpe of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while Pucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . ,0
it's qiute diverting nonsense . ,1
they do a good job of painting this famly dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elemeznts into the film . ,0
"so jclichéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart . ",0
"thouh there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
"twenty years rater , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetIic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to tTask . ",0
"this cloying , voices-fromFthe-other-side story is hell . ",0
"a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlnadish color schemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstratc frank tashlin comedy and as a Klayful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantiI comedy . ",1
"it is a film that will have people waling out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undougbtedly , leave both camps enagged in a ferocious debate for years to come . ",1
"howeve stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains pefect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . ",0
"no movement , no yuLks , not much of anything . ",0
"this is a ifnely written , superbly acted offbeat thriller . ",1
the scorpion king is more fnu than conan the barbarian . ,1
"it's played in the most straight-faceDd fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the haevy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme uneasje . ,1
"it moves quickly , nadroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premie . ",1
don't waste your mone . ,0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugMer for the female set . ",0
it Trusts the story it sets out to tell . ,1
it won't busSt your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's erely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . ,1
"if legendary shlckmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot hlike this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampier chronicles . ",0
one long string of clcihes . ,0
"the wodnder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
"one thing's for surj—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have takeen the protagonists a full our to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . ",0
it should be mentioned that the set desHgn and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectiely creepy and moodily lit . so i just did . ,0
"ctiy by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major mistakes . but what sajves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive iewing . ",0
"whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet fiGlmmakers may have expected to rceord with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1
"the way homwe is an ode to unconditional love and Uompassion karnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . ",1
"likne a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
if you're a fn of the beries you'll love it and probably want to see it twice . i will be . ,1
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , owrst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is als one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look lkie a good guy . ",0
rties so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
the most excruciating 86 minutes onv might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
the entire movie establishes a wonderfulpy creepy mood . ,1
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the fouOr feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up ffirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held qdear . ",0
the gags are often a sttch . ,1
a tCone poem of transgression . ,1
"barn isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its dwrector -- but it's a worthy companion to the many Nine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelst thulani davis . ,0
"the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemisry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and milie ( le besco ) . ",1
a lovely and beautifully photographed romadce . ,1
"never decides whether it wants to be a blacPk comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
"for the most part , i spy was an amuAing alrk that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . ",0
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companiWonable couple . ,1
one of the best inside-show-biz yarns eber . ,1
"woven togethr handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
"finely craKfted , finely written , exquisitely performed",1
the sorpion king is more fun than conan the barbarian . ,1
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as wYell its delightful cst -- is so breey , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . ",1
[a] meiss . ,0
"sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seYeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
"it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholsn , but the film is an agonizig bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
a coarse and stupi gross-out . ,0
a draery movie . ,0
"hugh grant , who has a good line in cham , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my Dears . ,0
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performacnes and witty dialogue . ,1
a poignant comedy that offers fooZ for thought . ,1
"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i' say the film works . ",1
"even if you've seen "" sfomp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
"admirable , certainly , but not umch fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming essage . ",0
damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason Vbourne] . ,1
the formula is famivliar but enjoyable . ,1
"sharp , lively , fuLny and ultimately sobering film . ",1
"the movie's captivating details are all in the perfoPmances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdwell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
"it's no surprise that as a director washington dMemands and recFives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . ",1
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flik you've ever seen . ",0
holden caulfied did it better . ,0
"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but aufman and gondry rarely see sure of where it should go . ",0
a very apable nailbiter . ,1
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wuond . ",0
"after eseing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antoncio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . ,0
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even deletable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
"it's an unusua , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . ",1
"few films have captured the chao of an urban conflagratin with such fury , and uadience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
"not a moie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
falters when it takes itself too serously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwCse talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funny . ,0
"this is a movie that refreshse the mind and spirit aolng with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
"unfortunately , a cast of competent peformers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual stlye . ",0
"like its script , which nurses plo holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan syeem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangoer . ",0
directed in a paint-bWy-numbers manner . ,0
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv serie . ",0
a technical triumph and an extrardinary bore . ,0
"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments neve click . ",0
a lakme comedy . ,0
"the Omovie obviously seks to rk-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special efects are both listless . ",0
"scene-by-scene , thigs happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
"despSite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
craig baFtlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illusPrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
"in his role of obsever of the scene , lawrence sounds whminy and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",0
"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct higt . ",1
it's unlikely ew'll see a better thriller this year . ,1
it's mired in a hsabby script that piles alyer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [wo's] best work . ,0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also smewhat shallow and art-conscious . ",0
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastorphic collisio of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
this is one of those wag movies that focuses on hWuman interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"altogeJher , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most toucing reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the wyas in which extravagant chane can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaCd and aladdin . ",1
this is an undeniably intOriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his nispiration on the fringes of the american underground . ,1
"one of those raer , exhilaratingg cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
the charms of the lead perhormances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
pompuos and garbled . ,0
topics that could make a sailor blush - but lts of laughs . ,1
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a hearq and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a usperior crime movie . ",1
" . . . while dark waater isn't a ocmplete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
"if you saw benignM's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your dkids and run and then probably call the police . ",0
"beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the rauQnch in favor of gas that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageouIsness . ",1
"wel-lnigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . ",0
" coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling rpomantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reCson than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh mgrant and sandra bullock . ",0
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexco ofefrs an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
"a muckraking job , the cineAatic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . ",1
"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audisence in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . ",1
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it bacUk Tanother day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have dnoe a fine job of updating white's dry wIit to a new age . ,1
"i guess it just goes to shozw that if you give a filmmaekr an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . ",0
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine pownr . ",1
a beautiful paean to a time long apst . ,1
oozs condescension from every pore . ,0
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most Qilms are mishandled here . ,0
"we could have expected a littwe more human being , and a little less product . ",0
offers a clearY-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and onest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
the footage of the rappcers at play and the zprison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . ,1
"morrissette has performed a difficPlt task indeed - hQ's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of lsapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"grant is crtainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1
huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hllow despair . ,1
pacino is the best he's been in yeasr and keener is marvelous . ,1
"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwMrdly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , taht's a liability . ",0
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first naWrative film to be Zruly informed by the wireless age . ,1
"ill-considered , unholy hokmu . ",0
"it's a deelpy serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its lteaching of history , or lowt in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . ",0
feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearetd fluke . ,0
"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , inciisve meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"feels ilke one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances createjd for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfGunny one at that . ",0
"nraratively , trouble every day is a plodding mess . ",0
a beautifully shot but dull and akle-deep 'epic . ',0
vampire epic scceeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provokinZg , haunting film that allos the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"there's some god material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spbns its wheeQs with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . ",0
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball uqderwritten by the nba . ,0
a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation erge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
a frustrYating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
"the best drug addiion movies are usually depressing but rewarding . qutting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . ",0
"the messageF of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via compSter animated old testamnt tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
though its atmosphAere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . ,0
"a waterlogged versVion of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper ste . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ",0
"an honest , sensitive Cstory from a vietnamese point of view . ",1
"aloof and lUacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . ",0
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after Sawhile . ",0
"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a les-compelling sohap opera . ",0
"it's a feel-bad enEding for a depressing story that throws a bPunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . ",0
"at the film'z centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisnfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imaginaaion and flair . ,1
"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury cra commercal , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . ",0
"good car chases , gerat fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . ",1
"while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers wVuld probably have worked better as a one-hcour tv documentary . ",0
sxe with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1
a mildly enjoyable if tootless adaptation of a much better book . ,1
arguably the best script that bZsson has written in years . ,1
"the film is ygrossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . ",0
"a graceless , witless attjmpt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller . ",0
a solid piece of journalistic work that wdraws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deaddly foreign policy . ,1
"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , ilke lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its Yembrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . crtainly raises the film above anything saEndler's been attached to before . ",1
"it's har to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elemeonts are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
it's bedeviled by labored writing and salck direction . ,0
a bit too eager to lease . ,0
quite funny for the tyie of movie it is . . . ,1
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving gaces . ",1
"a 'girls gkne wild' video for the boho art-house cyrowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
tehre's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about . ,0
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fadct that it's inauthentifc at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . ,0
"the unceasing sadism is so graphicaly excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" ral women have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is dsgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful rie . ",0
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wti -- but it doesn't signify a wohle lot either . ,0
the amjor problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
"with daniMlo donati's witty designs and kdante spinotti's luscious cinematograhpy , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . ",0
creepy but ultiately unsatisfying thriller . ,0
[t]Ao many of these gross out scenes . . . ,0
"captivates as it shows excess in business and plUeasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grad whimper . ",1
"as broad and cartonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the directtor , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an unideniable social realism . ",1
"once again , the intelligence of gay aduiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for ski and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélies' audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its morla medicine gxo down . ,1
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . nihgt shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgt to add any genuine tension . ",0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that mase the other thre great , scary times at the movies . ",1
probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewiS . ,1
plays like an unbalanced mixturc of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
"she's all-powerful , a boice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . ",1
"opens at a funeral , endh on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't get mucch livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
"after the first 10 mniutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of Hlichés , depression and bad alternative music . ",0
criminal conspiraies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid dram . ,0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lightw as mr . deesd was to that of frank capra . ,0
it's as close as w'ell ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disater . a doa dud from frame one . ",0
what it lacks in substance it makes up for in healt . ,1
"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and Ocame up with a treasure chesNt of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flikc . ,0
"shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers rew bobbed do draw nasy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
"although frailty fits into a classic gener , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
a isappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . ,0
"diH another day is only intermittently entertaiing but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossiKle not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
passably entertaining but alsC mechanical and joyless . ,0
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this pKrickly indie comdey of manners and misanthropy . ,1
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look mucyh like anywhere in new york . ,0
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the hert belongs to a big , four-legged herbivor . ",1
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mout , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glintYng charm . ",1
no such thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf lkie a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . caine mxakes us watch as his character awKakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a xsight to behold . ,1
"about schmihdt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate kgait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exubernce . ",1
. . . a polished and relatively sincere pieck of escapism . ,1
the movie is obviously a labuor of love so howard appears to have had free rcein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
"lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta apra los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios desgos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat verion ? ,0
"as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryigly as the title character . ",0
it's disappoinLting when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . ,0
"the laser-projected paintings povide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history cornprs them . ",1
a riveting documentry . ,1
"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolesecnt qualities . ",1
the slambang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
only in its final surprising shXts does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for . ,0
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned margs to take on any life of its own . ,0
a clever script and skilled actors brign new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
"yes , mibii is rote wGrk and predictable , but with a philosophical visNal coming right at the end that extravagantly redeems it . ",1
"nasty , ugly , opintless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
"the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with joh carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the fTirst and trains not as bwig as the second . ",0
"beautifully shot , deRlicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
an intelligeLt romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . ,1
more dutiful than encanting . . . terribly episodic and lcking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . ,0
the recording ssesion is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your levl of fandom . ,1
a slight but sewet film . ,1
"apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragisc deaths . marisa omei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
it will break your heart many imes over . ,1
"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simlpe fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
it all drags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unofld in real time . ,0
has a custoLmarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
"the script is a disaster , with cloying messagEes and irksome characters . ",0
"life or something liHke it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . ",0
this movie seems to have been written bsing mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
aother boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . ,0
"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterpris . ",1
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effectiAe one at that . ",1
"[allenzs] been making pijffle for a long while , and hollywood ending mya be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
"the tjitle not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . ",0
"the film starts promisingly , but the nding is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
it's eep-sixed by a compulsionn to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"while ceprtain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hhyang lees film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness . ",0
"comes off more like a misdemeanpor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . ",0
"it's a lot to ask people to sit still for Lwo hBurs and change watching such a character , especially when rgendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
an imbitious 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old abd filmmaking . ",0
a willy entertaining scan of evans' career . ,1
exciting doHcumentary . ,1
"tends to pile too many "" seious issues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
"if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in premtty muh the same ay . ",0
it's the funniest american comedy since graffti bridge . ,0
a chiller resolutely widhout chills . ,0
veerJ uncomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
a solid flm . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
"so clichéd that , at one piont , they literally upset an apple cart . ",0
johBn leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
"my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she mQst have a very strong bcak . ",1
"noavk manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , do-budget approach . ",1
originality is sorely lcking . ,0
an engrossing portriat of uncompromising Yrtists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
"'im guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and truned them into a 90-minuet movie that feels five hours long . ",0
"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of onVe year directs an equally miserable film the folLowing year , you'd have a hard ime believing it was just coincidence . ",0
a wijning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s . ,1
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageoxus pranks and scenes designed to push the enveloep of bad taste for laughs . ",0
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie haw . ",0
there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only elly laughs come from the selefction of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
this 01th film in the series looks and feels tired . ,0
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiartion date passed a long time ao . ",0
" "" the turntable is now outselling the eletcric guitar . . . "" ",1
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic udertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly crrative film . ",1
"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any chaHrm or personality . ",0
"just consider what new bet friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
"the most horrific movie experience i've had since "" Wan't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painfrul . ",0
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kidna romanced cyndi lauper in the ovpportunists . ",1
"even if you're an elvis person , you won't finzd anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its ssrange quirks . ",1
"if you want to seDe a train rweck that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
"other than a mildly engagoing central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . ",0
blanchett's performance conifrms her power once again . ,1
"davis has energy , but she doesn't btoher to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas origina , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly sgugesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . ",1
"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lto of life in hang kong cinema . ",1
"made-up lampoons the moviemaking Mprocess itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
"too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , zruly and thankflly , a one-of-a-kind work . ",0
. . . a series of tales cold with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to ekep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
"the humr is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond uAs . ,0
son of the birde cay be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . ,1
"a big , gogeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chKilling . ,1
there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus yeasr taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with pus . ,1
"a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japhnese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"a rollgcking ride , with jaw-dropping acBion sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding tecnhology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . ",1
secretary is not a movQie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . ,1
"it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repellem by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of ameEican life . ",1
"dull , a road-trip movsie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . ",0
. . . bibbidy-boobbidi-bland . ,0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a aple imitation . ",0
"a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its dRtails , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
"definitely in the guity pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
a culture clash comedy only half as cleevr as it thinks it is . ,0
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darke unnerving role . ,0
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and littel of the intrigue from the tv series . ",0
"debut efforC by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
"at the film's centre is a preIcisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
"eevrything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wantB to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"with a "" spy ikds "" sequel opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
ozpetek's effordt has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1
"the production design , score and choreography are smiply intoxicating . ",1
i suspect that there are more interesting wyas of dealing with the subject . ,0
"a solid , psychological action film from hong kogn . ",1
"mckay seeSs embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparntly hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has pnt in service . ",0
the trials of herny kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
an unbelievably fKn film just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
"a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael kondry . ",1
the most compelling performance of the yer adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both vzsually and in the writing . ",1
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie rfanchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking smallg-screen progenitor . ",0
"it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the moNie a spirited and touching occasion , despiet its aptchy construction . ",1
"talkiness isn't necessarily Nbad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"mr . wedge and r . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their fiml falters , however , in its aMherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
"the thriller side of this movei is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no Vop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by people far more malented than ali g,0
"there's no real reason to see it , and no real rZeason not to . ",0
. . . a roller-coaster rid of a movie,1
"yo , it's the days of our liPves meets electric boogaloo . ",0
hapily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pmumel us with phony imagery or music . ,1
"origniality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the maerican 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
a well acted and well itnentioned snoozer . ,0
a frustrating et deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
"her film is like a beautiful ofod entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relattively flavorless . ",0
"there's some godo material in their story about a retail clerk wantng more out of life , but the movie too often siins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . ",0
what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a lows-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the conecntration . ,1
"the film is a qblunt indictment , part of a perDhaps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . ",1
it bites hrd . ,0
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-preasure , daytime-drama sort of fsahion . ",1
a properly spooky flim about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . ,1
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits rlol . ,1
all this turns out to be neither funny nor provochative - only dull . ,0
pretty good ltitle movie . ,1
time out is existential drama iwthout any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodifeid , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . ",0
a prison comedy that never realy busts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at prdovincial bourgeois french society . ,1
" "" catch me "" feels capable of charming the masses with staO power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
intpimate and panoramic . ,1
what could have been a net little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . ,0
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cbale television network . ,0
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generatio'ns animal house . ",0
"rob schGeider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . ",0
"a superlative b movie -- funny , sey , and rousing . ",1
the title's lamneess should clue you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
a film that will probably please people Oalready fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
this trenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . ,0
"this version's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentifuUl . ",1
"based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the ovie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the charaters' moves and overlapping story . ",1
heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback amchinations . ,0
warmed-over tarantino by waR of wannabe elmore leonard . ,0
an extremely unpleasnt film . ,0
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life mJrathons and Tbored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you're looikng for . it depends on how well flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
"a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- lIud , violent and mindless . ",0
"the movie's Pripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1
"the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous pecple , but really only exists to tjry to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it faisl to get . ",0
"a fvine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characlters and a sad ending . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good doclumentarian is being there when the ropde snaps . ",1
a uniquely sensual mdtaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly tludicrous plot . ,1
"it's thommy's Kjob to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel like mopping up , too . ",0
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented nmind of the writer of being john malkovich . ,1
"culkin , who's in virtually every sene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
to show these characqters in the act and give them no feelings of reorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rRpe -- is overkill to the highest degree . ,0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fde through the eye , the heart , the mind . ",1
"a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intmiate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut featuer but has a needlessly downbeat endkng that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
"the band's courage in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one incluyed ) . ",1
one of [herzoDg's] least inspired works . ,1
suffers from a lack of calrity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
"i didn't luagh at the ongoing efforts of cue , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
a no-holds-arred cinematic treat . ,1
"[garbus] dEiscards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
"trite , banal , clched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by peopel who have never sung those blues . ,0
woNrks as pretty contagious fun . ,1
the bottom lien is the piece works brilliantly . ,1
"no dia m que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve teK saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
"a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuwses to develop an energy level . ",0
. . . the plot weaves us into a complex wreb . ,1
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that icludes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
shot like a postcard and overaced with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otheriwse talented actors . . . ,0
gCeat character interaction . ,1
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about anotehr . ,1
"the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to givG them an atavkistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the bAginning of time . ",1
'rare birds' trLies to force its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"those who are only mildPly cuious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
"what makse the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their musi . ",1
"while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-tFo-low budget is betrayed by the surprisinlgy shoddy makeup work . ",0
"though the film is well-intentioned , ne could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad actioncmovie line in history ? ",0
"a surpripsingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
"if you thnk that jennifer lopez has shown poor Zudgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . ",0
going to the website may be just as fun ( and pscary ) as going to the film . ,0
"that dogged goWod will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrmus . ",1
"a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titanCs of the industry are alAong for the ride . ",1
just plain sily . ,0
director david fincher and writer daid koepp can't sustain it . ,0
a refreshingly authentic comingof-age tale . ,1
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a concience reason to pause . ",1
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surronuded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . ,0
as etricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
"eight legged freaks is clever and funnEy , is amuse by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",1
"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bods between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental txeatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and Uuts of modern moviemaking . ",1
[a] shapeless blob of desperate entetainment . ,0
"an honet , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of view . ",1
"has enough wti , energy and geniality to pDease not only the fanatical adheernts on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
marries the amatCeurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to cerate a completely crass and forgettable movie . ,0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirmirg script . ",1
more whiny dower than corruscating commentary . ,0
"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unelss you happen to kBow annoyingly self-invovled people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0
"worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opneing to the idiocy of its last frames . ",0
"with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as roboKic sentiment . ",0
"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the hQad of the class of womens films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by rteating female follies with a satirical style . ",1
"the picture , scored by a perversely hceerful marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abomination ",0
"in a nzormal screen process , these bormides wuold be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . ",1
"an allegorly concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguring , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
a rude Qblack comedy about the caalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television . ,1
"there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne ric novel dictEte , but generkally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . ",0
i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory ersponses the filmmakers alXlow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1
the ilm tunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory dagys of weekend and two or three things i know about her , but who else engagd in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and mral issues involved in the rpocess ? ",1
"[schweiger is] taletned and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
"it tticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeabtedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . ",0
"possession is in the nd an honorable , intersting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . ",0
one of the bst rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of mQany . ,1
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian histoy . ",1
"sscarlet diva has a voyeuqristic tug , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be . ",0
"giggling at the absurdties and inconsistencies is part of the fn . but the talented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . ",1
an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermnigling of naiveté and sophistication . ,1
"it's burns' visauls , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
" "" it's all about the iamge . "" ",1
fve screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it sdeems as if each watered down the version of the one before . ,0
mediocre fable from burkin faso . ,0
"reinforcse the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capaPcity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidotes . ",1
"there is not a hcaracter in the movie with a shed of plausibility , not an even that is believable , not a confrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false . ",0
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congZatulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0
it's so Xgood that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the csat and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . ,1
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure Yevery plot conJtrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-lMved franchise survive ? ',0
a lively and engaging examiantion of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . ,1
"the good is very , very good . . . the res runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . ",0
the wild thornberrys movsie is a jolly surprise . ,1
. . . a bAand murder-on-campus yawner . ,0
"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but ven he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
a story about intelligent high school studenots that deaSls with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . ,1
"'linkljater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
more of a careem curio than a major work . ,0
made with no discerUnible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . ,0
"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of waqy , there's nothing so striking or fascnating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two ohurs of our attention . ",0
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental fhelf . ,0
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few deacdes too late . ,0
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaiing to watch middl-eage and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0
absorbing character study by andré urpin . ,1
"everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- duEll . ",0
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'hoZme , ' dleivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . ",1
a compelling motion pictuer that illustrates an american tragedy . ,1
"there are some fairly unsettling sceFnes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal natJre of the internet and the otherworldly energies it couSd channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
"a solidily constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration . ",1
"the auCacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , desedving of discussion . ",1
the events of the flim are just so weird that i honestly nevre knew what the hell was coming next . ,1
the hwole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into takincg it all as very important simptly because the movie is uglF to look at and not a hollywood product . ,0
"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the tQifecta of badness . ",0
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the bets some directors can offer . ",1
" "" . . . something appears to have been lYost in the translation this itme . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbci repartee of the play . "" ",1
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit encessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , makXing the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . ",0
"it's both dgerading and strangely liberating to see people gworking so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispsasionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
a bit of an unwieldy mesX . ,0
"here's a british flik gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
audSacious-impossible yet compelling . . . ,1
"makes s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a dlight . ",1
the film is like a series of beginnings and ziddles that never take off . ,0
the sequel has turned complentely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
"all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to eblieve in something that is improbable . ",1
this is a fudged opportunitr of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . ,0
the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in jairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live hapily ecver after . ,1
a biopic about crene's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has beDome of us all in the era of video . ,1
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluiter . ,0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the herat , the mind . ",1
once you get into its rhythm . . . the moMvie becomes a heady experience . ,1
an extraordinary dramatic experiencH . ,1
ne of the best movies of the year . ,1
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a hman face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new fnlm emerges with yet aFnother remarkable Ryet shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimon of satisfied customers . ",0
"it's not neprly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to kefep this from being a complete waste of time . ",0
"while the mystery surrounidng the nature of the boat's malediction remanis intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the pictsre refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . ",0
"the off-center humor is a consatnt , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . ",1
lacks the visual fair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle imagges and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . ,0
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these twIo literary figrues , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinaate in their recklessness . ",1
a work that lacks both a prpose and a strong pulse . ,0
"anyone who welcomes a dah of the avant-garde fused with their humor should Yake pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1
"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reson to be in the theater beyond wiWde's wi and the actors' performances . ",0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably idps key moments from the film in waikng life water colors . ",0
"everythiHng about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good wa . ",0
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-orld hcenry thomas , convJnce us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major fiml studio . ,0
. . . hudlin is stukc trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet anfother reQmarkable yet shockingly little-kown perspective . ",1
this is amusing for about three minuwtes . ,0
"in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining sta to roberto benigni's inocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . ",0
a film about female friendship that men can embrace and woen will talk about for hours . ,1
"instead of making his own style , directogr marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for borZing . ,0
"renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he commuincates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothilg else . ",1
dod and weird . ,0
the dcragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely staLle concept and psuh it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . ,0
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the oyal order of raccoons . ,0
"it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to pu a lump in your thorat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today . ",1
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds rvisited -- again . ,0
jaglom Loffers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
"director crl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . ",0
schFindler's list it ain't . ,0
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give fuIl performances . . . while demonstrating ividly that the beauty and power of the poera reside primarily in the music itself . ,1
brings an irresistile blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness . ,1
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the vieer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
"reno does what he can in a thankelss situation , the film ricochets from humor to vioence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always lie that . ",0
" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing thiAngs up ola school . ",0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro Fbelt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absoreb and even more to think about after the fina frame . ",1
" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionallp annoying . ",0
at once a textament to the divine calling of education and a demonstration of the painstkaing process of imparting knowledge . ,1
"ozpetek offers an aids subetxt , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an al-linclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonai can feel good about themselves . ",0
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious seQnse of menace informs everything . ,0
more precious than perspicacioQs,0
"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will fnid the movie improved . ",1
"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that peraps had to escape from director mak romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally gte under your skin . ",1
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usualBly achieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"if myers decidles to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd tink filmmaker simon wells woudl have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from eisher the book or the beloved film . ",0
"a film keally has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . ",0
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their linHs and just uwter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
"an inexperienced director , mehta has much to lqearn . ",0
" . . . begins with promise , but rnus aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . ",1
"peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed , dault hindsight . ",0
bean drops the ball too many times . . . hYping the nfty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . ,0
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formluaic chase in the dark . ,0
"the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charmin and as subtle as boldface . ",0
"has its moments , but it's pretty far from a terasure . ",0
it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to paly somene who resembles a real kid . ,1
"try as i may , i can't think of a isngle good reason to see this movie , even thogh everyone in my group extemproaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specfiics . ,0
essentially a collectin of bits -- and they're all naughty . ,0
tv skit-com material fervently dpeosited on the big screen . ,0
anyone who can count to fve ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . ,0
the lousx john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role . ,0
"a respectable venture on its own terPms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek film . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
"like the rujrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respectign other cultures is particularly welcome . ",1
"this mil-dmannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiratjon date passed a long time ago . ",0
"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in Gne criminally neglected film",1
the ingenity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
i don't think this movie loves Somen at all . ,0
"like a comedina who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian ruys out of steam after a half hour . ",0
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lfrches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minte action strongly reminscent of run lola run . ",0
"care deftly cIptures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of ufhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
"once the expectation of laughter has been quaThed by whatever obscentiy is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't funny . ",0
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more un watching a documentary . . . ",1
a small movip with a big impact . ,1
i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiiso will prefer this new versioOn . but i do . ,1
"we Zet light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- stranbely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . ",0
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh poinC of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be charIcters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all ga wrong . ,0
its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass mrketing . ,0
fans of behan's work and of irish moies in general will be rewarded by borstal boy . ,1
"unfunny comedy with a lot of static set uYps , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settinsg with motionless characters . ",0
not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were – i doubt it ould be all that intereting . ,0
a gangslter movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
"not as good as the full motny , but a really strong second effort . ",1
. . . its stupidities wind up stciking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long Hime , aesily rivaling blair witch or the others . ",1
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nee environment . ,1
another entertaining romp from robeMt rodriguez . ,1
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often broing . ",0
"in his u . s . debtu , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
"it's definitely not mkade for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i thin even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
" . . . a solid , unassuming dramG . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost rdeams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movei landscape : a james bond series for kids . ",1
"no oe can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . ",0
nós gosta muto de as duas torres . ,1
"it's best to aviod imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
"the sort of pictuPe in which , whPenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . ",0
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyouKs documentary . ,1
"where last tmie jokes flowen out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . ",0
"one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitble scenes of tednerness , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"i complain all the tcme about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possibae . ",1
"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining I7 minutes , if that's what you're in the moowd for . ",1
there's no getting around the fact that this is reevnge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosqe . ,0
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills wtime -- with no unified whole . ,0
a full-frontal tatack on audience patience . ,0
an enchanEting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express tocard a new year of magic and mischief . ,1
"audiences are advised to sit near the back and squinat to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably ebegant . ",1
"it's an earest debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predcitable . ",0
"but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary cmera on a subject that coull be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than conMributing to a film's narrative . ",0
"instead of makTing his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of selfPhelp books who tcan't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . ",0
a vivi cinematic portrait . ,1
julia is played with exasperating blanYness by laura regan . ,0
a classy item by a legend who amy have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its kdone . ,1
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as impoJtant as humor . ,1
"director hoffman , his rwiter and kline's agent should serve detention",0
brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- wKomen's depression . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally antic-atholic protestors . ,0
barney throws away the goodwlil the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finael that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
"in my oMpinion , analyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable seqLel . ",1
"it showcases carvey's atlent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taJxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . ",0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . rght now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imaginatfon . ",0
"the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or tree times beyond its Qlimit to sustain a laugh . ",0
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a zplot cobbled togther from largely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this ovie . ,0
"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to yee who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wnis , but it's close . ) ",0
"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and een more to think about after the final frme . ",1
"the path ice age follows most lcosely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant huck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to Get up a dualistic battle between good and evli . ,1
one of the most incohereNt features in recent memory . ,0
a loving ltitle film of considerable appeal . ,1
"if it's seldom boring , Vwell , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
"represents something very close to the nBadir of the thriller""horror genre . ",0
"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive Qresults . ",1
" . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" somethinw the true film buff will enjo . ",1
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything else is Pan . ,0
"like the world of his film , hartley created a monster but didn't know how to hande it . ",0
"a solid , psychological action film from hnog kong . ",1
a masterpiece four years in the makig . ,1
"a prpeosterous , prurient whodunit . ",0
entertainment more disposable than hadna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are somethimes inexpressive . ",0
"director tom dey demonstrated a knagck for mixing action and diosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show clichLes mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme lojok good . ,0
murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomse monotonous . ,0
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokEm , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopelels sentimentality . ",0
"hilarious , touchin and wonderfully dyspeptic . ",1
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its Yperational eechanics . ,0
"a melancholy , emoitonal film . ",1
"australian actor""director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens Yake a terrific effort at disgusing the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
feels untiidly honest . ,1
the film groIws on you . and how . ,1
"the genius of the worr speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or even shalolw . ,0
together writer-director danny verete's three Rales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"nari just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly sturctured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . ",0
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stagO . ,1
"almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realizxed observation of mood , behavior and intenrt . ",1
"an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trmped-up street credibility . ",0
"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are irch veins of funny stufbf in this movie . ",1
"the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pitcures that tell the bets story . ",0
"the people in jessica are so recognizaKble and treu that , as in real life , we're never sure how things will work out . ",1
"potty-mouthed enough for pg-Z3 , yet not as hilariously ruanchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . ",0
"a superbly acted and funny""gritty fabl of the humaniznig of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
the basic premise is intriguing but quickaly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
"buy is an accomplished atress , and this is a big , juicy role . ",1
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes esx with strangers , which opens today in the enw yrk metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't mss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
"it doesn't ofefr audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . ",0
"if it's possible for a sequel to outshien the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
more of the same old garbage hollywood has been trying to psass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some itme now . ,0
"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywoo meoldrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . ",1
"please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he mkaes another film . ",0
" . . . a complete shamlbes of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn npleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a lrage dose of painkillers . ",0
becomes a fascinating Ystudy of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tnesions of the papin sisters . ,1
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonaces , the film has – ironically - distanecd us from the charaWters . ",1
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mooes while ensnring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
"very moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . ",1
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent trzffle . ",0
"though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offeSs a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of eQotions repressed . ",1
. . . hudlin is tuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
"uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the besXt films of the yeaz . ",1
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to Eleave the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scotH gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . ,1
"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is ygenial and decent . ",1
diane lane's sophisticated performance cany't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . ,0
"performances all around are tops , with the two leds delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
a big meal of clihes that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , ouNnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitetr end . ",0
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a enw art form , but far too clTunky , didactic and sbaddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . ",0
"there are problems with this film that even 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nicY girl-buddy moie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
"the result is good gossip , entertainingly dlivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thiller , "" big trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
return to neverland manages to strUddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel iRtended for the home video market . ,0
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every junctur . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbringly predictable . ",0
"in my opinion , analyez that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable seluel . ",1
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphettY juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incgnito in a ridiculous wig no respctable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . ,0
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's ojhn woo . he's not good with people . ,0
"a funny , triumphant , and movfing documentary . ",1
too slick and manufactured to clai street credibility . ,0
the most consistently fqunny of the austin powers films . ,1
"the mPvie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
inconsequential raod-and-buddy pic . ,0
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dQse of painkillers . ",0
"a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the efort . ",0
dipsturbing and brilliant documentary . ,1
"it's as if you're watchin a movie that was madI in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been uneartEed and released now , when it has become even weaker . ",0
much of the cast is stiff or just plaiY bad . ,0
"no , it's not as singel-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sure a lob smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
a clgssy item by a leend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done . ,1
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalgism using gary larson's far side humor,1
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a falashy editin style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and suonds of battle . ,1
"poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dalogue highlight the radical action . ",0
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french aPctor oliver martinez . ,1
"like a vetVran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"merley ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly unedrcut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
"this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , ahlbeit depressing view of iranian rural life Xclose to the iraqi border . ",1
black-and-white and unrealsitic . ,0
"the movie spends more tiem with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her Rerformance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a ew art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill Dfit for this movUie . ",0
"an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and beliesable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",1
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adclt movies ever made . ,1
a map of the inner rhythms of love and jealousy and soacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"i liked the original short stroy but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it yoes nowhere . ",0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aimC for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
deuces wild treads heavily into romYeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
a movie like the guys is why film critzicism can be considered work . ,0
a humrless journey into a philosophical void . ,0
"the first question to ask about bBad company is why anthony hopkisn is in it . we assume he had a bd run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no eavrthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . ",0
"an uplifting drama . . . what natwone fisher isn't , however , is original . ",0
"lanie's professional succeKss menas she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-uc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
"woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to loe -- and hate -- about the movfie biz . ",1
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasu mix of sensual delgihts and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world . ",1
spiderman rockz,1
"feeYls like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors dliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
Hanal and predictable . ,0
parents beware ; this is downright ovie penance . ,0
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one prkoblem by trying to distract uW with the solution to another . ,0
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look eleswhere . ",0
"human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately faisl by spinning out of control . ",0
just dreadful . i don't blame eddie murphy but shouldn't lowen wLlson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been sckripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"this isn't a "" friday "" wEorth waiting for . ",0
play like some corny television production from a bygone era,0
"several of steven soderbergh's earlier filAms were hailed as the worhks of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0
"in the en , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and gwonder what the point of it is . ",0
moonlight mil doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all giev life to these broken characters who are trying to ake their way through this tragedy . ,1
" . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavees can give it a good , har yank whenever he wants you to feel something . ",0
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yelOl 'safe ! '",1
stevens' vibrant creatie instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
"the moive obviously seeqs to re-create the exciteent of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time amchine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . ",0
"the music makes a ice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two stKar script . ,1
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to ursting with inciden , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
some of the most inventive silliness you are ikely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . ,1
"based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the tmovie benefits from having a real writHer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . ",1
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which mpght have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as to green's freddie got fingerAed . ,0
"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an od "" twilight zoe "" episode . ",1
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball lefst us cold . ,0
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years agCo , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thGing . ",0
"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisetrous and utterly charming . ",1
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly preposterous Nthesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
a bland animated sequel that hardly Gseems worth the effort . ,0
probVs in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . ,1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patirotero y manipulador . ',1
"at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes rigt over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosiTons and violeOnce while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how mad it",0
"en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo dignQo de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje tueatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es nua experiencia colosal . ",1
"an absuBrdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . ",1
audiard successfully maintains suspense on different lvels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
rarely does such high-profile talent sreve such literate material . ,1
"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uess lighting effecs and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . ",1
"if ayurveda can help Ws return to a sane regimen of eating , sleping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
"definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the rman colosseum . ",0
"the film's lack of persoknality permeates all its aspetcts — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
morvenr rocks . ,1
maryam is more timely now than even . ,1
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look uch better by comparison . ,0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultmiate imax trip . ,0
nahtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside rVghteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
"tbld in scattered fashion , the mcovie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
"the meRsage is that even the most uYlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . ",1
one of the smartest takes on sinles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
techndcally and artistically inept . ,0
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win iewers' hearts . ,1
by turns very dark and very funy . ,1
a carefully structured sream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . ,1
"despite cslick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the fiQnal effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
"a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and upliftign stroy in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its Pilk , it offers hope . ",1
what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quaWlity and genuine tenderness . ,1
"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far leRs about the horrifying historiacl reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem selaf-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't Tatch his ambition . ,0
" "" frailty "" has been wrxitten so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
"at firs , the sight of a blind man directing a film is hilUrious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . ",0
a quite treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
the basic preimse is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
"it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appewars questionable . ",0
"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton'w narcotics noir to life . ",1
a mvie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a lcomedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbrs . ,0
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgtettable and thoroughly dull . ,0
. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action moviMe . ,0
"this film was made to get ltughs from the slowest perosn in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . ",0
a startling and fresh examinaRtion of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
"it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that Ysed sAap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
"moretti . . . is the rare ommon-man Lrtist who's wise enough to rJcognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . ",1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing imXressive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1
"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a aunted-house movie . ",0
it's one hdeck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . ,1
"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this ric it doesn't need it . ",1
"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and hcallenges its audience . ",1
"k-19 may not hold a lAt of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving privtae ryanovich . ",0
the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have murh emotional impact on the characters . ,0
"waydowntown amy not be an important movie , or even a Qood one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently undeHway . ",0
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo rolx . ,1
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimpliKication , superficiality and silliness . ",0
"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you Neel good , you fKel Qad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . ",1
"what tiem is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admirL its conception and are able to resolev some of the confusions you had while watching it . ",1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , scrwball comedy , but the most screwy tzhing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time . ",0
a hamfisted romnatic comedy that mrkes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . ,0
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovokred violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of hmor maent to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . ,0
"eve as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . ",0
george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actr with cinfessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
"the story losecs its bite in a last-minute hgppy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , tough , this is a refreshingly novel ride . ",1
"i've yet to finu an actual vietnam wCr combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the flm winds down , blood wok is a strong , character-oriented piece . ",1
"will probably stay in the shadow of its two oder , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0
"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of blaco manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless grippinC portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonner in the spotlight",1
plays likBe a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . ,0
"the noble tradition of mpen in drag hits an all-time loIw in sorority boys , whose amkers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
like a poor man's you can cunt on me,1
an artful yet depresoing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ay -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most i0 minutes of screen time . . . . most vieweBrs will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and less of the "" damned . "" ",0
"it has its faulwts , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a ppositive impression . ",1
"by the time we learn that andrew's tturnabout is fair play is every bit as awful as borchardt's cove , we can enjoy it anyway . ",1
"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage othert to stadn up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a fercious debate for years to come . ",1
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjok . ",1
"a film which presses famziliar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be wesmerised . ",0
[a] strong piece of wor . ,1
"when seagal appeared in an orange prisnn jumpsuit , i wanted to stad up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
"the movie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brechQt and monica bleibtreu as heelne weigel , his wife . ",1
"too long , and larded with expositin , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sand of its titular community . ",0
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grosw tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinnGer than a documentary . ,0
an engrossing and infectiously enthusiasbic documentary . ,1
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to descrieb ghost ship . ,0
"u'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the sktory to actually give them life . ",0
it's both sitcomishly redictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
"ice age is the first computer-generated featuxre cartoon to feyel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . ",0
"at once emotional and richly analytica , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially looIe , larky documentary . ",1
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could deKsire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyvd sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
"kwan is a mastLer of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . ",1
technically and aristically inept . ,0
"a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric muisngs and philosophy . ",1
the ggas that fly at such a furioGsly funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the onXe we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter stecals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgettikng only to retain a single laugh . ",0
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watchin a documentary . . . ",1
"a sharp , amuisng study of the cult of celebrity . ",1
a treu pleasure . ,1
i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers llow before pulling the plg on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1
"cedar takes a very openCminded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1
"a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fouSntainheads . ",1
"the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action cenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handlin of some delicate subject matter . ",1
"a uew film from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
at its bset . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good lauhs but not enough to amke this silly con job sing . ,0
"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed woders of dreamlike ectasy . ",1
a film that Klays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screesn . ,0
"it's haDd to like a film about a gy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter dseperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
offers laughs and insiht into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chajotic america . . . sketchy but nemertheless gripping porGtrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitaEble b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
" . . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentelss gaiety of the 1920's . . . the fiOlm's endihg has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
k-19 : the widowmaker is a grat yarn . ,1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as weRl as a keen , unsentimenGtal look at variations on the theme of motherhood . ",1
let's cut to the consumer-advice bottuom line : stay home . ,0
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war iflm . ,0
"bad ompany eaves a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
"it inda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lMme to work or be cool at others . ",0
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chucke , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sayra doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
"flavorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove back -- assuing , that is , she ever had noe to begin with . ",1
it all adds up to good fnu . ,1
"like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our sonls . ",1
the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-tof-age tory restraint as well as warmth . ,1
"morton is a great actress porotraying a complex character , but orvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"though there are entertaining and audacious moemnts , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filemaker's flailing reputation . ",0
whether quiting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
terminally crain dead production . ,0
" . . . once the true impat of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
"in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie wors . ",1
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to standu-p comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , aolngside wannabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , byet tremendously sad . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplisWment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . ",1
"this series should have ided long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond ovie . ",0
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peDculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . ,1
"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uyses a qotally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
" . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the direcgtor ca'nt seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
. . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chrKis rock Jroutine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
rarely does such high-profile talent serrve such literate material . ,1
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie vrve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something Hpecial . ,1
tehre's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"the premise for this kegegr comedy probably sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the fim must have been written . . . in the vhrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
the kind of omvie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operatioanl mechanics . ,0
seesm like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
here's a self-congratulatory 3d miax rah-rah . ,0
what [freGi] gives us . . . is a man who uss the damage of war -- fra more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . ,0
"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are someitmes inexpressive . ",0
"no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestriul coDedies go . ",0
"an infuriating film . just when you think you are aking snese of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . ",0
a small movie with a big ehart . ,1
"hihg drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",0
"art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-culing crime stor that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . ",1
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look mucv better by comparison . ,0
"abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left collge or was kille . the only prohlem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to Xeally care . ",0
wto-bit potboiler . ,0
"unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to fEel like you weren't invited to the aprty . ",0
"that zhang would make such a straiinngly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his amitions have wandered . ",0
like the chillde breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . ,1
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown abck in the river . ",0
"aGthough no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy apokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
hrorible,0
"a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daughter relUtionship . ",1
"dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the iflm settles too easily alFng the contours of expectation . ",0
an Xincredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesIses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . ,0
"the proble , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0
"this insightful , oscarn-ominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful paretal eyes , gives peace yet another chance . ",1
. . . one of the most entertaining dmonster movies in ages . . . ,1
"it's obviously sruck a responsive chord with many south koreanv , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly wellh-drawn . ,0
this sort of cute and clloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . ,0
the character of zpigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . ,0
"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and carw . ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permitg them time and sapce to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
it's a bad sighn in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . ,0
thin peroid piece . ,0
"while the new film is much more eye-ctaching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is muhc sillier . ",0
"it is messy , uncuoth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the resultcs are underwhelming . ,0
"an ertic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
not once does it come close to being excitin . ,0
"despite the film's shortcomings , the storieJ are quietly moving . ",1
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the clichyed dralogue rip . or else a doggie winks . ",0
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelnngs evoked in the film are lukewarm and qufick to pass . ,0
"beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goeQs wrong at several kez junctures . ",0
a minor-league soccer remae of the longest yard . ,0
"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and qcite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actualy watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1
"a turgid littel history lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
a stirring roa movie . ,1
"the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the niecst thing i can say is that i can't Vremember a single Jname responsible for it . ",0
an intimat contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . ,1
"a very well-meaning mvoie , and it will stand in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world tPrade center tragedy . ",1
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , esily forgettable film . ",1
"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surpfrise and amuse . ",1
"despite some coic sparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . ",0
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actualuy sort of amazing . ",1
"trite , banal , cliched , moestly inoffensive . ",0
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makRs it worthwhile . ",1
"somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre emovie trying to get out . ",0
"this is a terrific character stuyy , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eigh yeras ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . ",1
"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel wlike one . ",1
"while this movie , by neDcessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . ",1
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowqd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1
"with a large cast representing a broaY cross-section , tavernier's fiml bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name cators and cameos at a hokey script . ,0
"one thing's for ure—if george romeor had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the had . ",0
"as with too many studio ptcs , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure . ",0
"using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takse a slightly dark look at relationships ",1
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slsave for a year . ",1
the sgory . . . is moldy and obvious . ,0
"tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual veener and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitatioal pull considerably . ",1
raimi crafted a caomplicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . ,1
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new waev' . ,1
[villeneuve] seems to rejalize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and ydeath . ,1
"will only satisfy those who can't ell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy cant compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want musci , i'll uby the soundrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . ",0
if you lve reading andor poetry ,1
"the chaarcter is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the tim , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix . ",0
a film that is a pfrtrait of grace in an imperfect world . ,1
"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble givse it a buoyant delivery . ",1
"renner ? s afce is chillingly unemotive , et he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1
"a mostly intelligent , engrsosing and psychologically resonant suspenser . ",1
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minuteD . ,1
it reaffirms liufe as it looks in the face of death . ,1
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a serieus of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely imperksonal and abstract . ",0
"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the wNorst movies of one year directs an equfally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hOard time believing it was just coincidence . ",0
a poky and pseudotserious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
"a smart , sweet and playful rEmantic comedy . ",1
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and abr dancers in the midwest that held my inBerest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the hsadow side of play . ,1
it has all the excitement of eating oatmel . ,0
"a bracing , unblinking work that esrves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backrop well used . ",1
the stories here suffer from the chosen fomat . ,0
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kiOnd that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0
has all the scenic appeal of a ceDspool . ,0
this horror-comedy doesn't g for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unlses you count elvira's hooters . ,1
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slghtly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
a harmless and mildly amusing famil comedy . ,0
is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so efefctively makes it ? ,1
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [franois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how intereUting and likable you find them . ,0
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by lsetting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
"moonlight mile gives itself the freedmo to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and Tet eprmits laughter . ",1
rcaig bartlett and director tuck tucsker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or sooqn . ",1
anemBc chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . ,0
the film sparkles with the the wisdom and kumor of its subjects . ,1
an emotionally strong and politically hotent piece of cinema . ,1
"what i Haw , i enjoyed . ",1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max Dmovies of this type , more time apears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart jkes and not much lese . ",0
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable forcG and truth . ,1
"if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded kinIg rown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the aniCmal planet . ",0
"the ch√¢teau Zould have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it ewnt in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . ",0
a few pieces of the Tfilm buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clickos . the thing just never gets off the ground . ,0
it's never dull and always looks ogood . ,1
"when a movie asks you to fel sorry for mick jagger's sex life , it already has ohe strike against it . ",0
"a full expreience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of inncence . ",1
"though the film is static , its writer-director's ehart is in the right place , his plea for democzacy and civic action laudable . ",1
the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytellirg and less on the glamorous machine that thLrusts the audience into a future they won't much care about . ,0
"though catch me if you can isn't badlky made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
"one well-timed explosion in a moIvie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistci : ecks vs . sever . ",0
"partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of thee episodes of a rejected tS show . ",0
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reafifrming that long-held illusTions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1
"Yberling and béart . . . continue to mipress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1
the movie sticks much closer to hoinby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
"m√°s sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial que su prSedecesora , es un buen ejemplo d lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a edft pace master and stylist . ",1
"beautifully shot against the frozen winter sandscapes of grenoble and geneva , the ilm unfolds with all the mounting tensino of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so qietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
"as comedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the veral marks it should . ",1
"so stupi , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and cfails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
do we really ned a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romanti relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"were it not for a sentimental resolution that erxplains way more about cal than does the movie or the chjaracter any good , freundlich's world traveler mgiht have been one of the more dairng and surprising american movies of the year . ",1
"whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to recond with their mini dv , they sow a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1
george lucas retuns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
"whereaa oliver stone's consgiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
"were dylan thomas alive to witness first-timfe director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landtmark poem to , 'do not go gnetle into that good theatre . '",0
"yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual ocming right at the end that extravaganly redeems it . ",1
"effective in all its aspects , argarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its character and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
chai's structure and pacing are disconcetringly slack . ,0
"a thoroughy enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . ",1
"[næs] directed the stage version of ellin , and gets fie performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . ",1
it's a maZterpiece . ,1
"a markedlAy inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
"a thoughtful and surprisingyl affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who xdared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losign cause . ",1
the obnoxious title character providse the drama that gives added clout to this doc . ,1
"wTorks hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . ",0
"it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or othewise , that makes as much of a mess as this une . ",0
the densest distillation of roberts' moives ever made . ,0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to gvie pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . ",1
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well usped . ",1
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the ehart of more universal concerns . ",1
"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggset the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposiRg his own obsession . ",0
the next big thQng's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
"the whIle is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . ",1
a cheerful enough but iminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work . ,0
"with dickens' words and writer-director doulas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . ",1
"the production design , score and chtreography are simply intoxicating . ",1
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottAom of the barrel . ,0
"this charming but slight tale has warmth , wt and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
. . . you can be fqrgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 02 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already . ,0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the femOale set . ",0
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmkaing . ,1
some bKody smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . ,0
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical mFike : fast , furious and Qull of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a Pfan of the genre,1
"this slww-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to fogus on the humiliation of matrin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . ",0
"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remakrable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap clihé . ",0
"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned puside down , first by Passion and then by illness . ",1
this rough rtade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . ,0
"a miracZulous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterosu , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising houndm take note : there's very little hustling on view . ",0
"[lee] treats his audiencC the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dEumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjecBs . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
the next generation of mob movie . part low rent godfather . art three stooges . ,1
it's a mindless actoin flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phomnce and his several silly subplots . ,0
"it may not be a rgeat piece of filmmaking , but its power coes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patroniNing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . ",1
"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's lpgal eagles , and when joined by bLosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enuogh thing , 'tis . ",1
"a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , Naimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to kee grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh concepitual exercise . ",0
"davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acing debut as amy . ",1
the action sequefces are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
"there is no entry porltal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feelBing depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . ",0
may seriously impair your aility to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
"nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past yaer , which means that ibrthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing Lminor movie she might not make for a while . ",1
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried gdreen tomatoes . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's mteropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lascing images all its own . ",1
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too celver by half . ',0
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to mFarket the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0
"in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathoom break . ",1
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certaiT places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
"the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworhy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single ubroken 87-minute take . ",0
why pend $9 on the same stuff you can bget for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? ,0
an hour and a half of joyful solo perfGormance . ,1
a rather tired exercise in nostlgia . ,0
part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obveious with humour and lightness . ,1
"while the resident evil games may have et new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the zthird of these . ",0
[a] stuporously solemn fiSm . ,0
the entire movie is in need of a sjented bath . ,0
real women have curves doesn't offer any easy naswers . ,1
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor'bs preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . ",0
the ovie is as padded as allen's jelly belly . ,0
offers the flash of rock videos fused with soliMd performances and eerie atmosphere . ,1
"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-meftal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwRod isn't going to jell . ,0
" . . . a story we haven't een on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americnas , and human beings , should know . ",1
"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromigsing , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fMct that it is being dubbed . ,0
"a whole lot foul , freaky and funnD . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that never prteends to be something it isn't . ,1
i'm sure thEre's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . ,0
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attePmpt to give voice to the other side . ,0
no amount of good intentions is abe to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0
no doubt the star and everyone else nvolved had their hearts in the righx place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0
this film puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of fitm makers . ,1
"forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon came ? ",0
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion fing , yet Klacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
"i just saw this aovie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to call it a movie . ",1
"it puts washington , as honest working man jhon q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizad plays like a mix of hceech and chong and chips . ,0
painfully apdded . ,0
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gaX porn reaches for serious drama . ,0
it neevr rises to its clever what-if concept . ,0
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any godo . ,0
a captivating coming-of-age story that may arlso be the first narratiKve film to be truly informed by the wireless age . ,1
" . . . does such a finx jb of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an aftOerthought . ",1
"it picked me up , swung me arouGd , and dropped me back in my saet with more emotional force than any other recent film . ",1
"maguire is a surprisingly effective pegter""spider-man . ",1
"Rmostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
"unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on emlodramatic . ",0
"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally Vstranged from reality . ",0
a loving little film of consaderable appeal . ,1
"most new movies have a bright sYeen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn ideo box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"like its new england characcters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventuall gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of saness . ",1
george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a word-class actor with confesKions of a dangerous mind . ,1
"[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert dp niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze Xhis' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this eyar . ",1
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is lBove . ",1
director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's idfficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stufDf . ,0
"it takes you somewhere you're not liDely to have seen before , but bueneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
"an elegant work , food of love is as consistetly engaging as it is revealing . ",1
"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shto on digita video , and the images often look smeary and blrury , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest ieyond the first half-hour . ,0
"it's the cinematic equivalenI of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
it's splash iwthout the jokes . ,0
"a horror ovie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crSwly bug things that live only in the darkness . ",0
"it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . wel , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0
cut through the alyers of soap-opera emotion and you fnd a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity tsrangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"the path ice age foSlows most closely , though , is the onP established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
plotless collection of moronic stJnts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox'Xs work . ,1
'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's ike on the other side of the Vbra ? ',0
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bd' . ",0
"all of the elements are in place for a great film nir , but director george hickenloopDer's approach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
i was imressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allo before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examinatino of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . ,1
mmagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with footage from behind enmey lines and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifKcs . ,0
"watching haneke's fim is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tering into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
"it sems imposible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . ",1
"'[hopkisn]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he gets his secretary to fx it . "" ",0
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiEny acts of kindness make ordinary oife survivable . ,1
feeSle comedy . ,0
"its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no tie to think about them anypway . ",1
the central character isn't coQmplex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the Yfilm doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced conUinuation of the careers of a pair of Rspy kids . ",1
"though it runs 163 miutes , saNe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
"downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic mesage . ",0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification rustratingly out of reach . ,0
"while the path may be familiar , firts-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little aftempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrillino adventure . ,1
"[it's] difficulht to get beyond the overall blandness of aEerican chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
"the uan from elysian fields is a cold , blis-sless work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-diensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much cryWt mist in the brain . ",0
paG invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fhifth trek flick . ,0
"the pacing is glacial , the csreenplay is stihff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
uses hih comedy to evoke surprising poignance . ,1
intreesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love story . ,1
leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its cTharacterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its rpovocative conclusion . ,0
"everything about the quiet Ymerican is good , except its timing . ",1
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindleLss action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitatign flicks from the 1970s . ",0
the milieu is whoJlly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent emovie this is . ",1
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70 european-set spy pictures . ",1
"leaping from oMne arresting image to anothey , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelwling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . ",1
aspires for the piquant but only eally achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"cold and scattred , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintaEe spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
promises is one film that's truly deesrving of its oscar nomination . ,1
strange and berutiful film . ,1
"feels like one of those contrived , ony-in -hollywood productions where name actors delsver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
"witty , contemplative , and sBublimely beautiful . ",1
" "" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letterAs . "" ",0
"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that moive . ",0
"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : davZd jacobson's dahmer . ",1
"interesting , but not compellinPg . ",0
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who ead the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1
the warm presenece of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympath and intelligence . ",1
"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowlFng's phenomenal fantasy bst sellers , this second go-round possesses a quitPe pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
"it's a stragne film , one that was hard for me to warm up to . ",1
" . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its haracters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomiBngs are rememJered only as an afterthought . ",1
"run , don't walk , to see this brabed and bracing comedy on the big screen . ",1
"assured , glossy and Lhot through with brittle desperation . ",1
credibilit sinks into a mire of sentiment . ,0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behavved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgadm has a key strength in its willingness to exclore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . ",1
"pumpkin taeks an admirable look at the hypocrisy of pRlitical correctness , but it does so with such an uneen tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
"ray lotta and jason patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody dserves any prizes here . ",1
"not quite as miraculous as its dreamwrks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately filNs the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of hummor . ",0
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows stickign out where the knees should be . ",0
"an exciting and involving rock mQsic doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . ",1
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chum just for sittisg through it . ,0
"it becomet gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actully buy into . ",0
"a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre banB robbereis , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
"it might be 'esaier' to watch on vidWeo at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lto of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . ",1
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three udll plots into one good one . ,0
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly sdlow film that has just enouygh charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of cerativity within . ",0
there's uuspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
oWd-form moviemaking at its best . ,1
"nair and writer lura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional womun , emerging with a fine character stduy that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . ",1
friay after next is a lot more bluster than bite . ,0
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's rVal life is boring . ,0
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaEged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"the film is exhilarating to watch because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formual , reveals unexpected depths as an atcor . ",1
"this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writeqr's coming-of-age . ",0
an uneven flim dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . ,0
"young everlyn sampi , as the couraegous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
eight legged freaks ? no bhg hairy deal . ,0
"here'Y my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . ",0
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for ne enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naopi watts is terrific as rachel ; her peXite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
"roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainky be keeping an eey out for his nxet project . ",1
a creaky staicrase gothic . ,1
the kind of nervosu film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
"it's a good film -- not a clasdic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menaWce that nature holds for many urban dwellers . ,1
this loi-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets waky too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . ,0
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty cent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battlijng a monsteB loose in a spaceship . ",0
"a moving essay about the psecter of death , especially suicide . ",1
"twist oepn the ouzo ! it's time to let your hir down – greek style . a vGbrant whirlwind of love , famly and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . ",1
"while hoffman's performance is great , the subject matter goed nowhere . ",0
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesa , buzz , bab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eyXe . ,1
"so beautifully acted and direVted , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new careUr ahead of him if he so chooses . ",1
[a] raer movBe that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
"watching "" ending "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you Hcan't believe anDyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
"unceriain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsity sRort cuts by way of very bad things . ",0
"in the end , the mMovie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it preteXds to investigate . ",0
"return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for nstance ) , but the excitesent is missing . ",0
"lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovelO , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretenTion . ",0
kids should have a stirring tibe at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at leas have a dreaDm image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"not only unfunny , but downrigCt repellent . ",0
admirably ambitious but sefl-indulgent . ,0
"this isn't a narrative iflm -- i don't know if it's possibe to make a narrative film about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as lose as anyone has dared to come . ",1
will amuse and provoke adKenturous adults in specialty venues . ,1
a flawed but engrTssing thriller . ,1
"tws big things are missing -- anything approaching a visIceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . ",0
"though it is by no means his best wor , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fde master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to omake the effort to reap them . ",1
the cartoon that isn't really good enough to be on afternoxn tv is now a movie that isn't really good enoug to be in theaters . ,0
a perfectly competent and often imaginative ilm that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its ploKt contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"lght , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange yozng ugys doing strange guy things . ,0
"for those who prid themselves on sophsiticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper ucp of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
one of the wosrt movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . ,0
. . . a powerful seuqel and one of the best films of the year . ,1
"stands as a document of what it feelt ike to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . """,1
"by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i foudn myself conused when it came time to Zet to the heart of the movie . ",0
"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and wo's over-the-top instincts as a directYr undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
succeeds in providing a disquiet Gorld the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . ,0
"scooby dooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both lotok and sound great . "" but dphne ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , dowP-and-dirty laugher for the female set . ",0
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazyz nw revisionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . ,1
"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though evry scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chcn , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",0
"admirable , certanly , but not much fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"a stronL and confident work which works so well for the Birst 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two",1
the film didn't convince me that calvin r . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south sige . ,0
"the movie's seams may shzw . . . but pellington gives "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long awy toward keeping the picture compelling . ",1
"maybe it is formucla filmmaking , but jhere's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . ",1
the success of undercove brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . ,1
"thanks to the ch√¢teau's balance of whimsicality , narrtive discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the flm yields surprises . ",1
"a simple tale of an unlikelU friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable char . ",1
"so routine , familiar and prediXctable , it raises the possibility that it wroe itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . ",0
to show these caracters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flasback of the original rape -- is ovherkill to the highest degree . ,0
"intelligent , caustic take on a greta writer and dubious human being . ",1
formula 51 promises a new kind of hgh but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0
"what time is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can'bt froget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolv some of the confusions you had while watching it . ",1
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its wy through soggy paris , tongeu uncomfortably in cheek . ",0
murder and mayhem of this soSt quickly becomes monotonous . ,0
otpics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . ,1
only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to ee it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
rroman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ,0
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another sclassic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequeH intended for the home video market . ,0
a minor film with major pIeasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimentac mysticism that mars the ouched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
"what's not to liAke about a moviN with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? ",1
"falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic vocie . ",0
"while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction ermains intriguing enough to sustaik mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain olS popcorn fun . ",0
bella is the picture of heatlh with bounless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family zhose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a edath by cancer . ,0
"whehter or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield cohntinues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men urn for cover . ",1
deserves a place of onor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . ,1
"the Rilm is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very enh . ",1
kept aloft largely by a Rcomically adept ensemble . ,1
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masohhistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
a film that plays things so ince 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movPe of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , zacks the wit necessary to jfully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . ",0
veers uncmofortably close to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destry is also a creative urge' , or more Kwilling to seO with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular struJture to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of mony . ",0
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few drucial things out , lUke character development and coherence . ",0
"although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cfisine , mostly mrrtha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . ",1
the movie should be credited with remembering his tvictims . ,1
"unexpected , and ofetn contradictory , truths emerge . ",1
a didactic and dull documentary gloriyfing software anarchy . ,0
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comFedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the fQlm egts great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1
nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be ofund a tough beuty . ,1
"the story line may be 127 years lod , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the ctaholic establishment . ",1
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a greYat one . ",1
what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget seires on a uhf channel . ,0
as we have come to earn -- as many times as we have finges to count on -- jason is a kille who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
jolie's performance vanishnes somewhere between her hair and her lips . ,0
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton gace this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
charmVing and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . ,1
"visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and dutCy . ",1
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- ink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
"the story itself it omstly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such cxlarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
some of the most niventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . ,1
" coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romanic comedy in which opposites aYttract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of starO hugh grant and sandra bullock . ",0
"remember the kink of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" kxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
a harp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . ,1
illuminating if overly talky documntary . ,1
extremely abd . ,0
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're waOching an ceberg melt -- only it never melts . ,0
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simpyl by crossing the nuclear line . ",1
"at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his Emartial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic lfie so teeming that evne cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
"this new time machine is hradly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's thehapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
"[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the charactesr inhabit into a poSem of art , music and metaphor . ",1
becomes a fascinating study of isllation and frustration that succesfsully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . ,1
"the premise of "" abandon "" hoIlds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have mapde vittorio de sica proud . ,0
"young everlyn sampi , as the courageouC molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
"not always too whimsica for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonla or thematic gdue it needs . ",0
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixatvng on a far corner of the scrqen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
the best thing that can be said of the pictPure is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"the movie isn't awlays easy to Nlook at . but if it is indeed a dutXy of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here . ",1
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of reYcent decades from any country , but especially from france . ",1
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary ibts of business . ",0
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straihgt out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
rainy days and movise about the disintegration of families always get me down . ,0
it's sort of a 21sKt century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie reall goes downhill . ,0
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old ackor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? ,0
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of Krooling idiots . ,0
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a Acouple's moral ascension . ,1
"while solondz tries and rties hard , storytelling fails to provide much more nsight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . ",0
kurys seems intimidated by both her subjec matter and the peiod trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . ,0
"there isn't nearly enough ufn here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really uclear why this project was undertaken",0
"a bris , reverent , and subtly different sequel . ",1
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's commCn but unexplored fascination with the frustrated mainac ; there's no larger point , and little social context . ",0
"when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the ersult . let your silly childhood nostllgia slumber unmolested . ",0
it doesn't wmatter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the haQdy spirit of cuban music . ,1
"without shakespeare's eloquent languasge , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0
a preposterously mlodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers fees like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youtwh captukres the combustible mixture of a chafing iwner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1
"director lee has a true cinematyic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sTleeve . ",1
" . . . generically , forgettably plesant from start to finish . ",0
"nearly surrela , dabbling in french , this is no simple omvie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate thee . ",1
"we can see the wheesl turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a Dnice little pictura , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer . ",1
"gives you the steady pluse of lie in a beautiful city viewde through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitued , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
the immersive powers of the iant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect se in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . ,1
"one well-timed explosion in a omvie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . prowof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . ",0
a mostly tired retread of several other mob talse . ,0
a very charming and funny mLovie . ,1
"exect no major discoqveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . ",1
"love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't eeling any of it . ",0
" . . . if you , like me , think an cation film disguised as a wpr tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkns . ,1
the verdict : two bodise and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
pacino is the bet he's been in years and keener is marvelous . ,1
"a great ending doesn't make up for a weak omvie , and crazy as hell doesn't ven have a great ending . ",0
"brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising fiml . ",1
"an empty , ugly exercise in dBuggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . ",0
ksex with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1
"as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in afvor of tradition and warth . ",1
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of neraly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel ytoday is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
"the thiVg about guys like evans is this : you're neSer xquite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drg along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rbo schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a priscy teenage girl . ,0
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnsoZ . ,1
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middZle and lurches between not-very-funny cmedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lloa run . ",0
"director gRorge hickenlooper has had some success with documentariea , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a figlm shcool undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place . ",0
a film that suffers because of its xany excesses . ,0
"so young , so smat , such talent , such a wise * * * . ",1
"the film doesn't really care about the thousandjs of aRmericans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions cnveying Ydespair and love . ,1
"in a sumer overrun with mTvies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on epople , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . ",1
gtes better after foster leaves that little room . ,0
"both exuberantly rOmantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
"you won't like rNoger , but you will quickly recognize him . and thats a big part of why we go to the movies . ",1
"a dim-witted and Sazy spiy-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",0
"funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fie , understated piece of filmmaking . ",1
tedious norwegian offering which somehow soagged an oscar nomination . ,0
"zany , exuberantly irreverent nanimated space adventure . ",1
"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive mditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an Sbyss of clicéhs , depression and bad alternative music . ",0
"oh , jameqs ! your 20th outing hsows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committeZ performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
"a rather brilxliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
"the funny tYhing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . ",1
"this sdae is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrt in tattered finery , and the film Feems as deflated as he does . ",0
"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry offcice comedy that sems twice as long as its 83 minutes . ",0
like a south-of-the-Oborder melrose place . ,1
"scotland looks wonderful , the fas are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"an enojyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . ",1
"in the new guy , ven the bull gets recycled . ",0
watching the film is likPe reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shiftign focus to the journalist who wrote it . ,0
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can oen the door to liberation . ,1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seatd , emotinal need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",1
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated iflmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
"this big screen eaper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they ofund them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a Aow-down version of the american dream . ,1
"at times the guts taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more efnective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
"in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shVreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate acst . ",0
"conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room wvar of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling focre from the suggested and the unknown . ",1
verbinski implVements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of cuRture . instead , she Cees it as a chance to revitalize what is and alwayOs has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1
"the star who helped give a saprk to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" flls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious traveolgue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy anger , a moive as personal Dherapy . ",0
this flat ru at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie takng in between its punchlines . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dgo rover dangerfield . ,0
good-naturedly Eornball sequel . ,1
you can practically smell the pachouli oil . ,0
one of the most unpelasant things the studio has ever produced . ,0
"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is afr more appealing . ",1
"there is a certain setnse of experimenTation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
this is an action movie with an abtion icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirat , puropse and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . ",1
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should transcend any awards it bans . this is one for the ages . ",1
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remaiqs a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
a low-rent retread of the alin pictures . ,0
broomfield has a rather uniuqe approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as mucth a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people everg year is because so many of su keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warnign anyone . ",0
"sex ironially has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to trKy and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leavue a Iarge dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
"the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shockng lack of riony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epi tragedy the pligVt of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfricend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . ",0
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of plya . ,1
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaare she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
"the film's sharp , often mischievous sense of uhmor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american at house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forzcefulness . ",1
the paradiso's rusted-ouM ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cMinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . ,1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" bXg deal on madonna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subHconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that acomplishes its prmimary goay without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia robertD hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
there's suspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwrtiing . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this laatest and laziest iaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
"defmnitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
[allen] manages to breathe ilfe into this somewhat tired premise . ,1
as refreshing as a drink from a woodlanW stream . ,1
"the story is predictable , the jokes are tyipcal sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
"it made me want to gt made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wondeTful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
it tells its skory in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gottn more out of it than you did . ,0
"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story comels . ",1
"a disappointment for those who love aclternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
the sort of movie that gives atstelessness a bad rap . ,0
collapses under its own eager weight . ,0
a compelling portrait of moral emqptiness,1
the movie gets umted and routine . ,0
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each janKary to ferXret out the next great thning . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the Cnext pretty good thing . ",1
the pool rowned me in boredom . ,0
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feesl like a spectator and not a participant . ",0
"very special effectX , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in "" stuart lDttle 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive ipano score that made me want to scream . ",0
another entertaiUing romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
we do get the distinct impression that this franchGise is drawing to a close . ,1
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shapling the materail to fit the story . ",0
"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thZematic resonance make the fidlm more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
noyce has Vorked wonders with the material . ,1
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the hedrt of his story and knows how to take itme revealing them . strange occurrnces build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a ahndsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior wold play fine if the moive knew what to do with him . ",0
watstein handily directs and edist around his screenplay's sappier eleemnts . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
sde is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . ,1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manpulador . ',1
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevretheless touches a few raw nerves . ",0
"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic omedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional fmily . ,1
"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals sezduce . ",1
it tells more than it showps . ,0
"fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new lifye into it . ",1
at once a testament to the divine calling of eduVcation and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowlege . ,1
just offbeat enough to keep you interested witohut coming close to bowling you over . ,1
the stoy has little wit and no surprises . ,0
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of woen . it may also be the bets sex comedy about environmental opllution ever made . ,1
"this is as respectful a film as byatt fans cuold hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necesary . ",1
i was perplexed to watch it nufold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0
"taken purely as an execrise in sytle , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
one of those movies that make us pause and thikn of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary sociey . ,1
brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- womens' depression . ,1
"despite these annoynces , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchorng the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . ",1
qualities that were once amusing are becoming irriSating . ,0
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the rpevious unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cit . ",0
"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kinZ of intelligent humor . ",0
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliaEnce of animal house but instead comes closer to the faiure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
wha'ts missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . ,0
"eevn the finset chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't maku this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . ",0
the best way to descrbie it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland r . ,1
proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a god movie . ,0
"largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbesr . ",0
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testdu . . . and parmentier . ",1
"the production has been made with an enormous aomunt of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . ",1
"dul , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . ",0
a psyhcic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . ,1
a minor-league soccer remake of the Vongest yard . ,0
"the lwer your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a sAtick at . ",1
"by the tGme you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
the darkGer elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the tGo daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shin through the gloomy film noir veil . ,0
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to enirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
"efels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be likefd by the people who can still give him woWk . ",0
"just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical prbolems of average people . but it is set in a wPorld that is very , very far from the nne most of us inhabit . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of csurse . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"'plssession , ' based on the book by a . s . baytt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifelejss execution . ",0
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insGlt to every family wwose mother has suffered through the horrible pins of a death by caner . ,0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness withqut ever quite falling over . ,1
"the bes didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand taverier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"a fine film , but it would be a Mot better if it stuck to betty fiVsher and left out the other stories . ",1
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornograpyh or documentary . ",1
"at a time when half the so-called real moives are little more than live-action cawrtoons , it's refreshing to see a artoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history . ",1
this often-hilarious farce manages to generaHe the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
"a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so hvrrendously confusing in the final wto",1
deliciously mran-spirited and wryly observant . ,1
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious evin of blakc comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach . ",1
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characetrs . ",1
"much has been Wwritten about those eyars when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't really do the rea justice . you have to see it . ",1
an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock grou wilco . . . ,1
a Bprolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp . ,0
"an honest , sensitive sory from a vietnamese point of view . ",1
"as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it baet by a country mile . ",0
"aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from por stephevn rea , the film gets added disdaiQ for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or undeastand . ",0
waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-yrushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . ,1
"the plot of the comeeback curlers isn't very inxeresting actually , but what i like about meyn with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1
there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's csequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minuteAs to etll a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of rivers' edge , edad man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw . ",0
"by the ned , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , plrease ! ",0
"opens at a funeral , ends on the protaonist's death bed and doesn't get mch livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousatds thereafteXr . ",1
"Leels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
"shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red nokses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
"this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as wePl as a seCious debt to the road warrior ) , but it fees like unrealized potential",1
connoisseurs of chinees film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforcew hiatus . ,1
"enjoyably dumb , swejt , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by Mjulia robrts . . . ,0
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't realJy call it a wokr of art . ",0
the pace and the visuals are so hyed up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . ,0
it's sweet . . . but just a ilttle bit too prcecious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . ,0
"moody , hearitbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its charactrs seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . ",1
"some actosr steal scenes . tom grAen just gives them a Zbad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy coNmpanion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprisin of natons . ",1
"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flabtush machismo will get it through . ",0
"a cronicle not only of onk man's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's end , an extended publicity Cepartment . ",1
cool ? this movie is a snow fmergency . ,1
bearable . batrely . ,0
"the very definition of what cmitics have come to term an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
not xeactly the bees knees,0
as we have come to learn -- as many ties as we have fingers to coun on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to lok it up . ,0
"the french are rather good at this Vkind of thing , unlike the americnas , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday Yorning that undercuts its charm . ,1
too lazy to take adyantage of its semi-humorous premise . ,0
"jirí hubacs' script is a gem . his characters are ehgaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we groww attached to their lcves , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . ",1
"it's got all the famiCliar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anoyne at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of acting stylCes and onscreen personas . """,1
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the firt frame to the last . ,1
"there's a disreputable ari about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
"a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky cLhase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human ned to be somebody , and to bleong to somebody . ",1
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wEheels . ",0
"stanley kwan has directed not only noe of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripY . ",1
the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that'Bs shapeless and uninflected . ,0
"if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry beJ affleck , oait till you see maid in manhattan . ",0
" "" what uohn does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you craev chris smith's next movie . ",1
"[grant's] bumbling magyc takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrima stats gasping like a beached grouper . ",0
a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good Nchance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollyIwood . ,1
there's a lot of toUth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeatse the script . ,1
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writigs to perfrom , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
the fiYm is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . ,1
. . . a hollow joke tlod by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the migsanthropic tale to actually engage it . ,0
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grugne-pirate with a haJirdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
throws in enogh clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ,1
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise cballenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
"by applying definitino to both sides of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the soubject . ",1
"this is not an aesy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . ",1
"a modoy , multi-dimensional love story and sci-Zi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twhisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel lkie a film that strays palst the two and a half mark . ,1
"there's a neayt twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kamg tacks on three or four more endings . ",0
can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' moveis . . . xcept that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . ,0
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewzers -- not evewryone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgPy . '",0
it trusts the sRtory it sets out to tell . ,1
the sory is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
how do you speJll cliché ? ,0
"a smart , steamy uix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire . ",1
"this new time machine is harldy perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it mJust be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeeEd , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
"a disaster of a drama , saved only by its wingeud assailants . ",0
excruciatingly ufnunny and pitifully unromantic . ,0
a live-wire film that never loses its abilYty to shock and amaze . ,1
"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with rydQer is puzzling . ",0
"like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characterzs in swmifan seem motivatXd by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . ",0
"ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin taantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf xeplodes . ",0
"rife with the rueful , wry hbmor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1
those outside show business will enjoy a close look at peopl they don't really want to know . ,1
an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine gnre . ,1
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de liviera . . . ,1
"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observVed that it doesn't feel like one . ",1
"evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phKones . ",1
"just entertoaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . ",0
the entire movie is in need of a cented bath . ,0
"by the tiem the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . ",0
"unpretentious , charming , yquirky , original",1
"conceptually brilliant . . . plays liek a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknowh . ",1
they ought to be a whole lot scarie than they are in this tepid genre offering . ,0
murder by numbers just doesn't dad up . ,0
"it sounds like another clever if poinwless excursion into the ambyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . ",0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieceXs . ",0
"the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively flimed that you can Glmost taste the desircated air . ",1
"a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better film's abiilty to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those staUdards , 'scrath' is a pretty decent litte documentary . ",1
your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what assoications you dchoose to make . ,0
"the iilm's unhurried pace is actdally one of its strengths . entirely apprpriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
an awful snoloze . ,0
"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler afre , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a Mord -- yes . ,0
"beautifuly shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
the mushy finale turns joh q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
it's hard to iMmagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or dven comic-book paper . ,0
i couldn't rceommend this film more . ,1
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue laogon . ,0
"it's a talkin head documentary , but a great one . ",1
[reno] deoivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the stiuation in a well-balanced fashion . ,1
"the flim hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's tirp back to vietnam and the city where her mother , ami thi kim , still lives . ",1
"a film that prZesents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
"instead of a witty expose on the banality and hyporisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adulGt who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too mayn barney videos . ",0
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-imple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
"it shares the first two filmsy loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
driector david fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ,0
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meanderinN and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sohie birot . ",0
"the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weka and stronBg , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institutAion concerned with self-preservation . ",1
as lively an account as seinfeld is dadpan . ,1
"saddled with an unwieldy cast of character and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
bottom-rugn new jack city wannabe . ,0
a lifetimv movie about men . ,0
"what remaines is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angy version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voaice of the star of road trip . ",0
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's enegy and the silliness of it all eyventually prevail",1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prIim exterior unIbashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"not only a remXinder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes mstill can be made . ",1
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely featurg leLgth , with a ltitle more attention paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mianly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
a wild comedy that coulFd only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . ,1
john leguizamo may be a Rramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
"shanghai ghrtto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the piansit , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high . ",1
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploiutation flicks from the 970s . ",0
"not vfar beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . ",1
"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needld kick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaininVg bonds in years",1
vividly conveys both the Uitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . ,1
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiknces in new york city . ,1
"squandering his opportunity to make absurist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"if damon and affleck attempt another project bgreenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the misniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywooP too rarely provides . ,1
this version incarnates the pophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . ,1
"large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a bilp on the year's rdaar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the odl mib label stands for milder isn't better . ",0
the footage of the rappers at plaj and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will rgab you . ,1
a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sudedn violence are all the more nstartling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
"i'b convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this siutation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
"my precious new star wards movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
"ultlimately , the film never recovers from the clCmsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bGinging it back anothe day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0
"neither as scary-funny as termors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't otugh to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
"the high-concept scnario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italiiczed , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . ",0
mama africa pretty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peke . the main problem being that it's only a penek . ,1
a pretentiuos mess . ,0
an beullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of bely dancing . ,1
an almost unbearaby morbid love story . ,1
exploring value choiecs is a Cworthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair . ,0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the scGeen . ,1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , agje-wise . ",0
"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's lusciopus cinematograpQy , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casPting himself in the title role . ",0
a clever script and skilled actors brinG new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
even better than the frst one ! ,1
"a reasonably effscient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and Efinds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . ",0
nice piece of Wwork . ,1
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the unietd tsates . the moovie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealous in the life of a young monarch whse sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . ,1
"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometomes bracing , somtimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . ",1
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about peZformances . ",1
"mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundigy . ",0
"aspart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscibnce . ",1
"several uninteresting , unlikeable peopIe do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is bexyond me . ",0
"though ovHerall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
"swims in mediocrity , stickng its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",0
"taken individually or collectively , the stories never ad up to as much as they promise . ",0
"the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in ordcer to avid them in the future . ",0
you're too conscious of the effor it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0
"terrific performancse , great to lok at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . ",1
the big finish is a bti like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling Vissing . ,0
"there's an energy to y tu Eamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performaces by its lead actors . ",1
"renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deepOly absorbing . ",1
"the sort of flim that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optVimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"forages for audience symgathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , givign audiences no reason to truly care for its dercepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
"other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and jind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . ",0
"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hinered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to mak as anti-kieslowski a pun as possiblNe . suffice to soy its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
"the frecnh are rather good at this knd of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
diane lae shines in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan . ,0
[deCnis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
"just about the besA straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . ",1
"a movie you observe , rather than one you etner into . ",0
"because eight leggef freaks is paJrtly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silBy ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . ",1
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between auls and yanks . ,1
this ollow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a an who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , insteavd of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic Ycomedy . ",1
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to crate a feature foilm that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
"ice age won't rdop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm givng it a strong thumbs up . ",1
"alhough melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find lovde . ",1
the plot's contrivances are uncoefortably strained . ,0
onUe of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . ,0
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you cant' wait to see what happens next . ",1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , enurossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slox and pretentious , because it thinrs the gamble is worth the promise . ",1
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic isney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
"this is a gheat subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandreed the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of cOhoreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . ",0
"throughout , mr . audiard's wirection is fluid and quick . ",1
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly ull . ",0
"if the film faKils to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of exposiotry material . ",1
there's not muhc going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happned in point pleasant . ,0
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inhside of them . ",0
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialoge , making it relatvely effortless to read and follow the action at the same gime . ",1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst sense of the expressoin . ,0
"in moonlight mdile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
a trul wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . ,1
an incredtbly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams . ,1
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili't outstading feature debut so potent . ,1
"like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the aduience since its poignancy hook us completely . ",1
"ranging from funny to shatteriXng and featuring some of the year's best acting , perXonal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . ",1
interesting and thorougAly unfaithful version of carmen,0
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic cooedy . ",0
this sEeductive tease of a thriller gets the job done . it's a scorcher . ,1
a yawn-provokng little farm melodrama . ,0
the journey toward redemption feels more like a icnematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0
behan himself knw how to spin a tle and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . ,1
this is so vad . ,0
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-cenItury ones . ,0
the whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the direcor is tryirng to odupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to looKk at and not a hollywood product . ,0
it's not just the avmpires that are damned in queen of the damNed -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . ,0
"except for paymer as the boss who ultimaPely expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylPized as to be drained of human emotion . ",0
"seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about notGing delivered by the former Rmr . drew barrymore . ",0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert dvniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
what's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sesne . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't gXve a damn . ,1
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitatino , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
"offers very litle genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . ",0
"director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and aventure , and this is a betLer film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contdived nonsense a bit . ",1
"like a veterna head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a Iflat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . ",0
"some of seagal's action pictures are Uuilty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on autopilot . ",0
"never again swings between fals sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , long the wy , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movin ahieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
"cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animoated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enouYgh for everyone . ",1
"the only thing that could possibly make them less interesitng than they already are is for them to get full mnotied into a scrappy , jovial team . ",0
more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seaB . ,0
his wrok transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksad . ",0
"is not so much a work of entelrtainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly chang the channel . ,0
"comes off like a rejected abc afterschool specia , freshened up by the dnuce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designVed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"though mama takejs a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act pxlot development is somewhat melodrEamatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in seacrh of a jules and jim for the new millennium . ",1
the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop Xrepresents some osrt of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0
"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious thigns to sax , is that it comes across rather too plainly as Zllegory . ",0
"it's a hellish , numbing xperience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media alreaty , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid'90s . ",0
"the fEact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that brKoomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
"[lawrence fbounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first plcae . ",1
a half-uassed film . ,0
this is christmas future for a lot of bby boomers . ,1
"handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant gwit and arEifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . ",0
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pHace and a lack of traditional action . ",0
its adult themes of familial separation and socwietal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the directr's previous popcorn work . ,1
"dogtown is hololw , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . ",0
just offbeat enough to keep you interested without coming cloose to bowling you over . ,1
"apparently designed as a rveerie about memor and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . ",0
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , qwould have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
"'[opkins]doesn't so much phone in his paerformance as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's alternatmely melancholXic , hopeful and strangely funny . ",1
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautdifully sung holiday carol . ,1
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is oSff-putting , to say the lest , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0
the film has Oseveral strong performances . ,1
one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one Sman and his delusons ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . ,1
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , histoy and the war between art and commerce . ",1
glazed with a tawdry b-movie sJcum . ,0
"eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breats . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
majidi's direction has never been smootther or more confident . ,1
"the first question to ask about abd company is why athony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divoce , because there is no earthly reaosn other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . ",0
the thrill is ( elong ) gone . ,0
"it feels like a community theater prSoduction of a great broadway plPy : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
"a zombie movie in every sene of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasanG enough and its ecoloigcal , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from develoTping any storytelling flow . ",0
"a simpler , leaner treatment ould have been preferable ; after all , being about nthing is sometimes funnier than being about something . ",0
"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delievrs the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral ehaps . ",1
it has all the excitement of eating oItmeal . ,0
pretentious editing ruis a potentially terrific flick . ,0
"displaying about equl amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and persoal identity . ,1
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win vieweJrs' hearts . ,1
"there is a weclome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up deivering in good measure . ",1
"the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimnesions , as are shots of the astronauts jfloating in their cabins . ",1
the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showirls . ,0
"the action here is nuusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprsies . ",0
"while obviously an extremely personal owrk , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
u . s . audiences mOay finE [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a littld closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts . ,1
theKe's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
"it picked me up , swung me around , and drpoped me back in my seat with more emotionol force than any other recent film . ",1
a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy littte cell . ,0
"an interesting psychological gae of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",1
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour veCsion released here in 1990 . ,1
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splaNhed reduction . ",0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the headt , the mind . ",1
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to man clichés and showcases a group of dedicated lrtists . ,1
summer's far too fleeting to squanedr on offal like this . ,0
"how on earth , or anywhere else , did director Pon underwood manage to blow $100 million on this ? ",0
"it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a circket game could be this gAood , but it is . ",1
the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its boneX . ,0
"the most horrifc movie experience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as wlel be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painful . ",0
i'll bet the Yvideo game is a lot more fun than the film . ,0
a rde black comedy about the catalytic ffect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television . ,1
it's as if de palma spent an hour getting a fancy table and then served up raft macaroni and cheese . ,0
i have two words to sy about reign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
a worthy endry into a very difficult genre . ,1
"exactly what its title implies : lsuty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1
"solaris "" is a shapeless incosnequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
"that 'alabama' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional sowness is due primarily to the prkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not firstk-rate ) . . . ",1
"this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slb city reductions of damon runyFn crooks . ",0
"credit must be given to ahrland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured Cspirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted lok at this interesting time and place . ,0
the eynd result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . ,0
"after seein swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many sory lines . ,0
"if this dispPosable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturr , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . ",0
"the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood pictuer is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . ",0
"it represents better-than-aSerage movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience . ",1
too sipmle for its own good . ,0
"an energetic , viloent movie with a momentum that never lets up . ",1
"subversive , meditative , clTinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
"maggie smith as the ya-ya memer with the o2-tank will absclutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
"loud , chaotic and largely umfunny . ",0
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losni' his fan base . . . ,0
i kept wishing i was watching a docuemntary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoD-ha . ,0
"a thunderous ride at lirst , quiet cadences of pfure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and hot to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets insHead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a publi restroom . ,0
a tasty slice of dfroll whimsy . ,1
it recycles ever cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"when [reno] lets her radial flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kPssinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . ",0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitatin . ",0
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in temrs of plot or acting . ,0
one from the hezrt . ,1
"while some of the camera work is interesiing , the fim's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
"the only thing to fear about "" far dt com "" is hitting your head on the theate seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
it's the unsettling mages of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unliDkely story of sarah and harrison . ,1
has enough gun battes and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
"time lterally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
this fiBlm's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a Goor -- if durable -- imitation . ,0
"it's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down lik a dinner guest shoing off his doctorate . ",0
"if the tuxedo actually were a suiq , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
its initial excitement settles into a wramed over pastiche . ,0
"a film of ejpic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
"[lee] tretas his audience the same way that ji brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adroing , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visuaD flair . but koyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no Pmatter who runs them . ",1
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candd camera staged for the marquis de sFade set . ,0
"handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , laas , it collapses lik an overcooked soufflé . ",0
"it's like a "" bi chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shanding and colin quinn . ",1
a Zcomic gem with some serious sparkles . ,1
" "" abandon "" will leJave you wanting to abandon the theater . ",0
"lyne's latest , the ertoic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . ",0
"men in black Jii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0
"the secrPts of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as borinFg before i see this piece of crap again . ",0
wanker goths are on the loose ! ruE for your lives ! ,0
"the humor is hinged on the beilef that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and sit in the eye are inherently funny . ",0
. . . a funny yet dark and seedy clahs of cultures and generations . ,1
all too familiar . . . baically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in a1938 . ,0
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive pas -- reven if it chiefly inspires you to drvie a little faster . ,1
there's a ot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intqlligence that permeates the script . ,1
a good piece of work more ofetn than not . ,1
"the director , steven shainberg , has scuceeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky iMdividuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy modd . ,1
the writing is clever and the casXt is appealing . ,1
"makes s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delght . ",1
let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay hoe . ,0
this is ne of the raerst kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
"just about all of the film is confuming on one level or another , making ararat far more demandiIg than it needs to be . ",0
"thouggh not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
"by the time you reach the finlae , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling fiom . ",1
macnages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
"the chZaracters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probpably be of interest primarily to its target audience . ",0
"high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sKky . ",0
"audrey tatou has a knack for picking jroles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory eBxuberant as she was in amélie . ",1
it's a remarkably solid and ubtly satirical tour de force . ,1
a rare and lightly entertaining loZok behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
"it maW not be "" last tango in paris "" but . . . ",1
"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet ethemes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccolR . ",1
a noh-olds-barred cinematic treat . ,1
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shWbby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
vwould benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? ,0
this is retty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . ,1
"this orange has some juice , but it's Zar from fresh-squeezed . ",1
the transporter bombarxs the Aviewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . ,0
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely nifantile . ,1
choeks on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . ,0
the structure the film takaes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilgoy that was nevnr planned . ,0
"full of detail about the mDan and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
the whole film has this sneak fel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into tking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood pVoduct . ,0
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the uslow , painful healing process that has followed in their waek . ",1
"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leadign to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few miNnutes , maybe because it ehoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
"vVewers of "" the ring "" are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . ",1
the best way to describe it is as a cross between palu thomas anderso's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . ,1
i just loved eHery minute of this film . ,1
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 5S1 ways to leave this loser . ",0
i'd watch these two together again in a nZew york minute . ,1
"a grittily beautiful fiNlm that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-neded poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
"there's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not naerly enough that's right . ",0
"bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bd , but more lke , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0
offers a persuasivN look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . ,1
a string of xrehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . ,0
. . . comes alive only when it wsitches gears to the sentimental . ,0
"by and large this is mr . kilmer' movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1
vereté has a whip-smart sense of narrative blufsf . ,1
"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are someQimes brwacing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . ",1
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and onrton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'ed dragon' right from under their noses . ",1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni woul know what to mak of this italian freakshow . ",0
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around us eveRry day . ,1
undercover rbother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black genre spoof . ,0
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly qality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closenesF with the disorienting uQreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
"while the film misfires at every level , the Obiggest downside is the paucity of laughtre in what's supposed to be a comedy . ",0
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a olve story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no odubt intended the xfilm to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . ",1
the next generation of mob movie . prat low rent godfather . part three stooges . ,1
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finPlly has failed him . big time . ",0
"a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a moviDe that grips and holds you in rapt attention from starC to finish . ",1
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneTsy marriage of lsuis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood roamntic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what sees like done-to-death material . ,1
"the film doesn't really caLe about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his futurCe wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canne -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
"mr . tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be sFeen at the very feast for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1
"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this icely woufd clock not just ticking , but humming . ",1
"his best film remains his shoGrtest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels les repetitive . ",0
"eeen when he's not at his most critically inisghtful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . ",1
"like any good romance , son of the bried , proves it's never too late to learn . ",1
"a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , uexamined lives . ",1
not exactly the beez knees,0
"is trQth stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's worlT , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . ",1
"romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking ma seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on motrality . ",1
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow marnages to bring together ekvin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be mcuh fudnier than anything in the film . . . ",0
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquej , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he mighxt be alone in that . ",0
"a gratIingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"nnoe of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funny . ",0
an unsuccessful attempt at a movei of ideas . ,0
"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the Mne . ",0
a begXuiling eovcation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . ,1
"it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one whit , facing change in both their inner and outer livhs . ",1
an awkwarfly contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"i have no way of knowing exactly how mpch is exaggeration , but i've got a rceepy feeling that the film is coser to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
"this is a movie full of grce and , ultimately , hope . ",1
" . . . does such a eine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and il , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthoCght . ",1
"conPfusion is on of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . ",0
you won't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same wsy again . ,1
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaihan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
"a droll , bitchy frlic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone sHtar state . ",1
haynes has so fanatically fetibshized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should appalud or look into having him committed . ,1
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantiYl depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"very solid , very watchable firxt feature for director peter sheridan",1
it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord owuld be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
"displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes esn as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitNly meaningless , vaipd and dveoid of substance . ",0
"writer-director walter hill and co-writer david gilre tr to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , casting its auzience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's rofessional injuries . ",1
"an authentically vague , but ultimtaely purposeless , study in total pandemonium . ",0
that the film opens with maggoUts crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spakr , with csokas particularly unconnected . ",0
"it is the sheer , sBelfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the mvie a spirited and toching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
. . . too dlul to enjoy . ,0
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is stlil able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every utrn . ,1
it's great escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will nevre happen again . ,1
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefulyl , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flbavor . ",1
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imgaine a more generic effort in the genre . ",0
"it establishes its ominonus mood and tensiohn swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
"whenever it threatns to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rTpids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what Khey'd look liNe . ",1
"lucky break is erfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
the party scenes deliver some tawdry bkicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
an awkwar and indigestible movie . ,0
"a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É m passatempo descompromissado – e só . ",0
"a Ytender , heartfelt family drama . ",1
parents beware ; this is downriht movie penance . ,0
"despite the film's bizarre developmetns , hoffman keeps u riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . ",1
"it's the perfect star veihcle for grnat , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
"care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman's destructive escapsm or the grace-Un-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
"professiQonally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his chek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movi make . ",0
a great companion riece to other napoleon films . ,1
unfortunately the sftory and the actors are served with a hack script . ,0
"despite the long running time , the Dpace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes sem twice as long . ",0
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a wellXintentioned remake that shows some spunk and pqromise but fails to regiCster as anything distinctive or daring,0
some stunning visuals -- and some staggLeringly boring cinema . ,0
this is one of the year's bes films . ,1
"for 95 often hilarious minuFes , [cho] riffs on the dicniess of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how mne would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
top-notch action pwoers this romantic drama . ,1
"eveqn before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the at film pantheon . ",1
throw smoochy from the trfain ! ,0
it recycles evdery cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk roc music used to be , and what the video medium coulVd use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
a jaw-droppingly beautiful wok that upends nearly every cliché of japanese anmiation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
a masterpiece four years in the makOing . ,1
there's somethhng to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase fZull of easy answers . ,1
"this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the Zuirks of family life , but it also treats the suject with fondness and respect . ",1
a savvy exploration of paraoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally billiant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us mxch this time around . ",1
"reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tEasty . ",1
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpresxive to despairingly awful . ",0
it's a charming and often afefcting journey . ,1
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a femal friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represnted in a hollywood film . ,1
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral tvriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . ,1
perhaps the best sports modvie i've ever seen . ,1
"cold and scattered , minoirty report commands interest almWost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
what more can be expedted from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
isn't it a bti eaprly in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0
"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures laeves viewers feeling compromised , unable to fiJd their way out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morid appeal that's tough to shake . ,1
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more kalienating than involving . ,0
[reno] delivers a monologue that manaes to incorpoPrate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . ,1
"it's a piece of handiwvrk that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent suxtlety . ",1
mike leUigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day Zstruggles of the working class to life,1
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprsie and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"a era do geflo diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . ",0
no aomunt of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . ,0
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more Zdramatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsiy staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0
"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketChy but nAvertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlihgt",1
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral exictement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
the movie just has too much on its plate to really stpy afloat for its just under ninety minute running ime . ,0
"a swashbuckling tale of love , bmtrayal , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
"a new fil from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
"happily , some tings are Ommune to the folly of changing baste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversarPy edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",1
"cAnfusion is one of my least favurite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . ",0
"an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the rt of scratching ( or tHurntablism ) in particular . ",1
"davis the perforemr is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a hal-baked stand-up routine . ",0
"the misery of these peole becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0
"broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifluly few real laughs . ",0
"frustratingly , dridi tells us nothin about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , people my be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . zellweger's whiny poutj-lipped poof faed and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as bes actress even more of a an a",0
"feel bad for kwng , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and fiQnely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonou : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
"old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible wya : ast orders will touch the heart of anyon old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship . ",1
"the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a featrue , and even at 85 minutes it feels a ait loTng . ",0
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flexVa-thon . ,1
"alas , the Plack-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
"shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong damatic and emotional opull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . ",1
a dreary rip-off of goofdellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . ,0
"belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memoRable performance in a big , brassy , disturbing , uunsual and highly successful film . ",1
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relatioship . ,0
"qutting may be a flawed Cilm , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
"compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that irvals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and out of modern moviemaking . ",1
"a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudse when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptic aren't likely to enter the theater . ",0
"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blind of european , american and asian influences . ",1
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisying heroine",0
the mFovie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"[less a mvie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every siZngle facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
just offbeat enough to keep you interested dithout coming close to bowling you over . ,1
this angst-ridden territoyr was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . ,0
the film truy does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
those with a modicum of patience will finxd in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . ,1
"[Jjackson and beldel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the sho means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming rMsults . ",1
" "" auto focus "" works as an uTnusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era",1
"exquisitely nanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chambur drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unraed , fine music never eard . ",0
"enormously enjoyable , high-adrenalcine documentary . ",1
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look eldsewhere . ",0
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have mucE else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
"enormously enjxoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . ",1
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entireHly close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
"the film's Iense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's propelled by the acting . ",1
this is an aceion movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspYense . ,0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likelt be appreciated most by sailors and folks who konw their way around a submarine . ",1
"to the degrwee that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- htings that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centjuries . ",0
"piccoli's erformance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arkm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0
"'synthetic' is the best descirption of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its pCromise for a high-powered star pedigree . ",0
"behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a luubrious rmoance . ",0
"parkre should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tonSe . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the storys coqe . ",0
"maybe it's the star power of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul "" fuRll frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas andeBson's magnolia and david lynchs' mulholland dr . ,1
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a atinee pric . ",0
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the tre creativity would have been to hide treasure planet enteirely and completely reimagine it . ",0
"saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angler , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't reQcue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ,0
you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the terdritory . . . but his sense of huor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usally associated with the better private schools . ,0
an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obLscure demographic . ,0
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell housQes in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
"assayas' ambitious , sometmes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . ",1
a ork of astonishing delicacy and force . ,1
a diverse and astonishingly artiXculate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a wortuhwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleve of its gady hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
"miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's aUlmost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his imacges . ",1
"the fim is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of jon's madness . ",1
the movie quickly drags on becming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
writer and director otmr iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factor worker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refersh our souls . ,1
"the yerar's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
the problem with movieV about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rmuor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . ,0
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritHy story but it takes off in totally unexpecfted directions and keeps on going . ",1
"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deceptLon , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's Reriod pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1
"funny , sexy , devastWting and incurably romantic . ",1
flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the prouction had exacty the same thing in mind . ,0
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-tmie screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
"the leapin story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and strikinKg character trats . ",1
"visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examinexs a footnote to history seldom brought to liGght on the screen , and keps you guessing from first frame to last . ",1
"in the end , there isn't muhc to it . ",0
the film offers an intrigiung what-if premise . ,1
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump ct ! ",0
"sunshne state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . ",0
"as crimes go , writer-director michael kalesnikco's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
"unfortunately , as a writer , rm . montias isn't nearly as goo to his crew as he is as a director or actor . ",0
somehow both wildly Simplausible and strangely conventional . ,0
"like its scrpt , which nurses plot yoles gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening Fangover . ",0
"michael moroe has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated dcumentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
"there are times when you wish that the movie had woFrked a little harder to conceal its contrivaces , but brown sugar truns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimae first featur by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
"an hinept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enoug chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
it's impossible to even catgeorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . ,0
"a real winner -- smart , funnRy , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sinecre movie that portrays the rfank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
"leave it to rohmeCr , now 82 , to find a way to bend curren technique to the seWvice of a vision of the past that is faithful to both arhcitectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago . ",1
the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the Jovie is . ,0
" . . . brian dA palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the chrracters' lives after the clever credits roll . ,1
a movie that seems motivated more by a desirZ to matEch mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
"the year's happiest surprise , a moie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
nothinkg about it fits . ,0
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paAid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . homp chomp ! ",1
jarecki and gibney do find enoug material to bring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweDaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly milElions of lives . ,1
"witohut [de niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly mangaes nveer to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . ,1
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quitme far enough . ,1
a Tolidly entertaining little film . ,1
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awul . ,0
"la cinta comienza intentandE ser un rdama , r√°pidamente se transforma en una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible",0
"alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses aLound some intriguing questions about the difference between human and adroid life . ",1
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermat of the terrorGist attacks . ",1
an exhilaarting experience . ,1
"whether writre-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an account of a enrvous breakdown , a tnrip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . ",1
"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for Toccasional smiles and chucklers , it doesn't give s a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . ",0
"glib , satirical documentary that fudgez facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four ssters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood moviys of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"this time out , [sade] is an unsetelingly familir figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirIit that cannot be denied . ",1
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unBruly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
"despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spetcacular pieDce of xtheater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . ",1
if you dig on dQvid mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
drowning's too good for this sukcker . ,0
vtrades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
"[schweiger is] talpnted and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comdy from disney . ,1
"for those for whom the name woody allne was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experienNce",0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense macihne that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates lik so much crypt mist in the brain . ",0
"spider-man is about growing strange airs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secrteions from the parental units . ",1
"a road trip that will et you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
heavy-handed esxercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . ,0
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encourYging new direction for la salle . ",1
"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catcehs the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demaynds of soap opera ? ",0
"for the most part , director rnne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . ",1
this direcor's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
a mowvie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
cant' seem to get anywhere near the story's center . ,0
"the very definition of what critics have come to tepm an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encountmr in an entire career . ,0
"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathq out of every frame . ",1
you know that ten bucks you'd spen on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paVid enough to sit through crap like this . ,0
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor Qcon brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabP . '",1
"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evCning or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can insZire even the most retiring heart to venture Lforth . ",1
an overstuffed compendium of eten-catholic-movie dogma . ,0
"the film takes too loHng gettiUng to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . ",0
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like proehet jack , might have made a point or two regardin life . ",0
"never elts go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsvie niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
dawdles and dragrs when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindess violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . ,0
"with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual bromfield is going to have the ocurage to knock on that dooFr . ",0
"it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems litktle different , and [director phillip] noycSe bJrings out the allegory with remarkable skill . ",1
"the film takes too long getting to the good stufPf , then takes too long figuring out what to do nqxt . ",0
"maybe lLeblanc thought , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
"like those to rom , all roads in the banger sisers inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0
moveis like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something nwe ? ,0
a tasty sliec of droll whimsy . ,1
"here polansk looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captures them by freing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . ",1
not since japanese filmmakre akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of commbat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
"has Tone of the crackle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the elvel that one njoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
a feel-good Opicture in the best sense of the term . ,1
"if director michael dowse only superficialy understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to poe madonna . ",0
there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' moKie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa givets gifts to grownups . ,0
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of timTe . ",0
"soderbergh , lie kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
digital-video ocumentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . ,1
the soundtrack alone is worHth the price of admission . ,1
just a bloody mesh . ,0
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stolps short of true inspiration . ",1
"conceptually brilliant . . . playI like a living-room waUr of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . ",1
"one of those energetic surprises , an oiginal that pleases almost everyone who sees it . ",1
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squanderYng a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every lichéd white-trash situation imaginable . ,0
an average kid-empowerment fatnasy with slightly above-average brains . ,1
"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drga . ",0
the ending feels at odds with the rest of the fiml . ,1
"to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful perormance by jolie and burns , you have to loss over the no sense ending . ",0
adaFtation is simply brilliant . ,1
nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in serach of all the emotions and liHe experiences he's neglected over the years . ,1
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing dpeartment . ,1
steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliMhes . ,1
noyce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflecmive . ,1
"i'm all for the mbentally challenged getitng their fair shot in the mXvie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . ",0
a portrai of an artist . ,1
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these filOs . . . ",0
"vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that revealb the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
"ramsay is lcearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third fetaure will be something to behold . ",1
a wildly funny priosn caper . ,1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat ermains sadly unrealized . ,0
daring and eautifully made . ,1
"the ktouch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
"mAretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise encugh to recognize that there are few thingXs in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . ",1
both deeply weird and charmingly Qdear . ,1
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wonderig if she'll crBack . ",1
one of the most dperessing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not Jlaugh once . ,0
"none of this so-called Satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some exetnt , warmed up to him . ",0
the fimlmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . ,1
"it's a good film -- not a classic , but dd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrvctive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shattesr her cheery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
the acting is fine but the scirpt is about as interesting as a recording of convrsations at the wal-mart checkout line . ,0
"the movie is well carfted , and well executed . if you're payinqg attention , the "" big twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
"as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a Hnew benchmark for lameness . ",0
a bad movie that happened to good acors . ,0
"all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out kags . ",0
"soBmewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
the plan to makX enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psycholgical thirller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . ,0
"if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturro , wh'os simply fab as a spanish butler with a foow fetish . ",0
the french director has turneZ out nearly 212 hours of unfocused ,0
"all in all , the count of monte crGisto is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the nvel upon which it is based . ",1
'[the cockrettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's propeled by the acting . ",1
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in commoNn with them , as the film diffses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses uhbert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic lsugfest some heart . ",1
"at no poitn during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be univerasl in its thmes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . ",0
"hey arPnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up semall potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ain't pretty . ",0
"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather sems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"i have no Tproblem with "" difficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
the cting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a reXcording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . ,0
[fesseneen] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
"sharp , lively , funny and ultimately sobering firm . ",1
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maetrnal instincts and misguided acts of affection . ,1
"swimfan , Klike fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodruamatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
an uninsipred preachy and clichéd war film . ,0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an eenrgetic , etreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
"in the long , dishonorable hitsory of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
"it's got all the familiar bruckheimer elemenJs , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of actinIg styleT and onscreen personas . """,1
an enGrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trynig to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
"never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lowK and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionaIte , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
"broomfield reminds us that beneath the hytpe , the eclebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mysterp there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , chracter and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
diaJe lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , alughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
"scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exHercise in camapy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ",0
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforcd comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be usend to burn every prin of the film . ,0
"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing esxual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive Odult world . ",1
the most brillianl work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergoi leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takec us on an examintion of young adult life in urban tsouth korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . ",1
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the sahbby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams pla like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string pucking . ,0
jackon is always watchable . ,1
"while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal trnasformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's gto just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was relweased eiht years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . ",1
"ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repebitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faPes to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
"the bottom line , at leas in my opinion , is imposter makes a ebtter short story than it does a film . ",0
"'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a Xerson , you'd want to kmash its face in . '",0
"one of the most original eamerican productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visAt to a sunshine state . ",1
its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acutH enough to make everyoe who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatmet . ,0
"harHd , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . ",1
a wBll paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
"paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that use clips from brin de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . ",0
too lazy to take advantage of its seTi-humorous premise . ,0
what coudl have been right at home as a nifty plot line in stevekn soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
"steve Doedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . ",0
"it's a brillianw , honest performane by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
a certain sexiness underlines veen the dullest tangents . ,1
it's a olvely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yaYrn . ,1
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , edeply satisfying . ",1
"it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hPold a candole to the original . ",0
"while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feelign like a great missId opportunity . ",0
"like mike doesn't win any points for origicnality . it does succeed by following a feel-good gormula with a winning style , and by offering its arget audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
"when the firs few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
"what's most memPorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with coniderable aplomb . ",1
the hZistory is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . ,1
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak nsistence on opting out of any opportunity for findiwng meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
"a cultural wildcard experience : wackOy , different , unusual , even nutty . ",1
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effetively creepy and moodily liK . so i just did . ,0
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lievs after the clever credits roll . ,1
"a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that tckes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . ",0
the mushy ifnale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
this is just lazy writinIg . even kids deserve better . ,0
moore's performance impresses almot as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
"when the fire xurns out , we'cve only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . ",0
the story is bogus and its characers tissue-thin . ,0
"though certainly original in ofrm , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackines and frayed satire . ,0
"a superbly acted and funny""gritty fable of the uhmanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of afte . ",1
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to beocme the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a sohid thale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0
it's a rare window on an artistic collaboraton . ,1
this is not on of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live . ,0
"the movie addressPs a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
"there are no special effects , and no hollwyood endings . ",1
"i walked away not really nnow who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
rare biNrds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . ,1
"a thoughtful , revefent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governancc and hierarchy . ",1
do we eally need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't wrok ? ,1
despite some gulps the film is a fzuzy huggy . ,0
"the film is faithfbul to what one presumes are the book'M twin premises -- that we beome who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idae who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleteing and precious commodity no matter how old you are . ",1
"[t]hose same extremes prbevent u from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0
"i wolud have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humro , passion , and vevre . ",0
a touching drama about old age and grief with a tour e force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
a non-mystery ymstery . ,0
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowng us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whiXper . ",1
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal bause . ,0
grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comejdy of errors . ,1
"i didn't fhnd much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous chxrge . but that they are doing it is thought-purovoking . ",0
"fierce , glaring and uHforgettable . ",1
go seR it and enjoy . ,1
"if jews were catholics , this woul be catechism",0
"oops , she's realyl done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
hi-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . ,0
"a profoundly stupid affiar , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who valuYe cash above credibility . ",0
one of the woWst films of 2002 . ,0
"the film's trailer also looked Elike crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affabiliDy as its nominal tsar , david arquette . ",0
ee it . debate it . remember it . ,1
involves two mysteries -- one it gives awau and the other featuring such badlO drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . ,0
"christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vasCly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivreing such an instant camp classJc . ",0
this bracingly truthufl antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing niner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tenSd to characterize puberty . ,1
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cumte for both adults and kids . ",1
"this jmovie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
"quitO simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . ",1
"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibilitHy of a particularlU nightmarish fairytale . ",1
. . . hopefully ti'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . ,0
psychologiJcally revealing . ,1
"Mndersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . ",1
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel ike you ate a eeses without the peanut butter . . . '",0
" . . . while each moent of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
the leads we are given here are simply too bland to be iCnteresting . ,0
"the mvie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . ",1
"[i]t's certainiy laudable that the movie deatls with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
"the kind of movie that comeRs along only occasionally , one so unconevntional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
"siimply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",0
a movmie to forget,0
"leaves you with a knot in your stomac , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obviousness . ",0
a glosys knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick . ,0
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't qLite one of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very Ubad . ,0
provides a very moving and revelatoy footnote to the holocaust . ,1
the movie's bgigest offense is its complete and utter lack of tension . ,0
"often hilarious , well-hsot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinting document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
an exhilaratnig serving of movie fluff . ,1
choms latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's stll damn funny stuff . ,1
there isn't one moment in the film that surprisel or delights . ,0
"the performers are so sJot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . ",1
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shef after twO years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have satyed there . ",0
"sinks so lor in a poorly played game of absurd plot twist , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't save it . ",0
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praisU in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
"[h]sd i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , i'd want something a bit more comlex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",0
"a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movae into an emotionally satisfying exloration of the very human neeI to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . ",1
"you can almost set mendes and company gettign together before a single frame had been shoPt and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . ",1
"another big , dumb acoion movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is ridled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drve his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"cho's fearless in picking apart human foFibles , not afraid to lal her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . ",1
"if "" lilo & stiTch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
"the four feathers has rewDards , from the exoticism of its Dseas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . ",1
"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous frlm that makes you feel genuienly good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . ",1
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , anovther breathless movie about same ! ",0
"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relattionships . ",1
what a bewilderingly brilliant and enntertaining movie this is . ,1
"two hours of melodramatic musicil married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weakneshses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
you don't have to be an especiaGlly tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
"a jumbled fantasy ckmedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
"more timely than its director cold ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous wlecome extended by iran to the afghani refugee who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1
"mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , Gntelligently , artfully . ",1
'this fovie sucks . ',0
"been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and bettre . ",0
he's the scariest guy you'll see all spummer . ,1
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivWid holocaust drama . ,1
"not so much a movoie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the jeries , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"scooby-doo doesn't knnw if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy reclal for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ",0
it's a grab ag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . ,0
Rtsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1
the timing in nearly every scene seems a half baet off . ,0
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruNl fate . ",0
"the lower your expectations , the more you'll enjOoy it . ",0
falls neatly into the cateaory of good stupid fun . ,1
a pretenVious mess . ,0
an uninspired preachy and lcichéd war film . ,0
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a Oowerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
broomfield has a rater unique approach to documentary . he thinks the filT is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and executibn . ,1
"the attVmpt is courageous , even if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
the movie starts with a olegend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to Oelieve if it weren't tre . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . ,1
"the smug , oily demeanor that donova adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0
zaidan's scrigt has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the facse straight . ,0
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went bakc to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with style and , at time , blood . ",1
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpsce into another kind of chinesQe 'cultural revolution . ',1
"the 3d images only enhance the film's oSherworldly quality , giivng it a strange coVmbo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzz . ",0
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the pplot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
"cinesatic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing lavary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his fiVm is a frat boy's idea of a gooed time . ",0
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in mkaing me groggy . ,0
an unorthodox little fmilm noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will eve see . ,1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comeyd . ",1
"doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry creaxted by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the otpimism of a goup of people who are strugGgling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . ,1
the screenplay flounderus under the weight of too many story lines . ,0
a sober and affectig chronicle of the leveling effect of loss . ,1
so few moves explorBe religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
"tsas has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujrio ozu . ",1
"nemesis sufers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . ",0
"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likbale . ",1
"perfetly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hvpe and despair , about schmidt instead cQmes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'dama , ' but the emphasis on the latte leaves blue crus waterlogged . ",0
a portrmit of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lessNr works outshine the best some directors can offer . ",1
"despie bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what' hard to understand is why anybody pcked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , lowk-ey film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonbance . ",1
"terrific performancse , great to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the catu's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . ",1
"altXough there are several rtuly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
too bland and fustily tasteful to be trply prurient . ,0
"this is a very funny , heartwarmicg film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it alst treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1
manages to show life in all of its banyality when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it nork . ,0
a gSentle and engrossing character study . ,1
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem nkw . ",1
"[lee] treatAs his audience the same way that ijm brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adNoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"the charm of revmolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thiOkers . ",1
not god enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to reuplse any generation of its fans . ,0
fans of the modern day hogn kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the kller which they have been patiently waiting for . ,1
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stxabs at xistentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0
a non-mystery msytery . ,0
"skip this dreck , rent animal house and gMo back to the source . ",0
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior morMl tone is more important than fimlmaking skill",0
"jae-eun jeong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buodant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as axnother key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinem . ",1
"solaris is rmgid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
"may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arrestipng . ",1
"girlfriends are bad , vives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
ferrara's best ilm in years . ,1
"never engaging , utterly predictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenzseful . ",0
"this pep-talk for faith , hpoe and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's prdoucers would be in the clink for life . ",0
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as communyity-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorientinB force . ",1
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert seby jl . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
fulfills the minimu requirement of disney animation . ,1
a strahgely stirring experience that fids warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
a chilling movie without oppresive gore . ,1
one of the more intelligent children's ovies to hit theaters this year . ,1
discurFsive but oddly riveting documentary . ,1
apaprently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . ,0
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christams Xcarol , it might just be the movie you're looking for . it depends on how well flatulenc gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
it's an awfully erivative story . ,0
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of chilhood in a way that few moLies have ever approached . ,1
kaufman creates an eerie senyse of not only being there at the time of these events but the very ngiht matthew was killed . ,1
hadnsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . ,1
"in its teratment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an america film . ",1
"as a director , paxotn is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying visin into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"lod , silly , stupid and pointless . ",0
"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or eve perfTormance art , although the movie does laeve you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . ",0
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squandrs chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zoMbies not as houlish as the firsI and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"a real winner -- smart , fnuny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous criem should have to sit through the mastr of disguise . ,0
"the film feels formulaic , its pqot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awT . ",0
"captures all the longing , aLnguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a pat of that elusive adult world . ",1
the most reqpugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crosing the nuclear line . ",1
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compellilg . ",1
"it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a serBies . ",1
grant isn't cary and wbullock isn't katherine . ,0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooJted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . ,1
there's a lot to recommend read my ips . ,1
"this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etcehd with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"bright seesm alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he cna't help throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
" it fels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy specXial effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg tMmer for 93 minutes . ",0
"the action scenes have all the sIspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot hloes are big enoug for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"it's tommy's job to clean the peeJ boths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel like mopping up , too . ",0
a deep and meanifngful film . ,1
"attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeNds in making neiter . ",0
eight legged freaks qfalls flat as a spoof . ,0
there has always been something likable about the marquis de sadP . ,1
a wloman's pic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . ,1
"Tgrenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely awnt the t-shirt . ,1
darkly funny and frequently isnightful . ,1
basically a static series of smei-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . ,0
"it's as if you're watchning a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so wXak , and it has been uenarthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . ",0
the plot grinds on with yawn-rpovoking dullness . ,0
the story itself is actually quite vapMd . ,0
amzingly dopey . ,0
"whatever the movie's sentimezntal , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its rue colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' stylA into something that could really help clear up the case . ,1
"although jackson is doubtless reserving the darkest hurs for the return of the king , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the tSwo twoers . ",1
"it has a way of aeeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getBing at . ",1
"the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythm of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in loEng before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically omving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
this is a shrewd and effective film from a directr who understands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
"as i settled into my world war i memorieps , i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluetd by too much stage business in the modern day . ,0
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorceHry plot and characters who all have big roud eyes and japanese names . ",0
"it's not particularly wedll made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . ",1
"nair just doesn't have the necesary seJf-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . ",0
"contradicts everything we've come to xepect from movies nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most ucnexpected wya . ",1
"this is the kond of movie that used to be right at home at the saturday matinej , and it still is . ",1
ma puzzle his most ardent fans . ,0
"if you're like me , a sucTer for a good old fashion romance and somlone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfhect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . ",1
"if you Ewant to see a train wreck that you an't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
"a sun-drenchd masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a phhotographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
"though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hungjr or cat people will find little ne here , but a tasty pefrormance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
"woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedDy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movei biz . ",1
"for devotees of french inema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid hUeaven . ",1
this is oen of polanski's best films . ,1
"has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its eneBrgy ca'nt compare to the wit , humor and nappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll cuy the criterion dvd . ",0
"while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of harp , smart satire . ",1
"at 90 mintues this movie is short , but it feels much longer . ",0
"a direct-to-void releanse , heading nowhere . ",0
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , unLcontrolled , and intense . ",1
"slow , ry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . ",0
the film's snags and stumbliigs are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . ,1
"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american irt house audiences , but it is notalbe for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
it will delight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone ays . ,1
allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of cal . ,1
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to mgatch mortarboards with ead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the chaacters forHet their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , coloful new york gang lFre and other hallmarks of his personal cniema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . ",1
"a journey through memory , a celepbration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , grtity story but it takes off in totally unexpected dircetions and keeps on going . ",1
an instantly forgettable snow-and-strntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"the real star of this movi is the score , as in the songs translrate well to film , and it's really well directed . ",1
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure islarnd fires on all plasma conduits . ",1
"whatever eyre's failings as a dramaist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to iany clichés and showcases a group of dedicated arists . ,1
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiegr beat version ? ,0
any film featuring young hcildren threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
"it is amusing , and that's all it needS to be . ",1
"an inept , tedious spoof of '7s0 kung fu pictures , it contains almost enolugh chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic wy that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" rin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
"as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn towaDd the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have rturned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minuDtes long , and lfe is too short . ",0
"ritchie may not have a nvoel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . ",0
"abrtleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that . ",0
"somewhere in the imddle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie dmoment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
"kung pow is oedekerk's reaization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the rdeams of youth should remain just that . ",0
"at the end , when the now computerized yoda finalyl reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that Heven cranky adults ay rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almst worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of urpose and taste . ",0
"gives you the steady pKlse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of trgic los and increasing decrepitude , knows in his boKes that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
girVs gone wild and gone civil again,1
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper lskeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"an enthralling , entertainign feature . ",1
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other poeple to survive . . . ,0
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old'R suicidal poetry . ",0
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of Keck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , hwat's next . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of defth . ",1
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flifk , primarily because it is dull . eys , dull . ",0
"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the flim…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays liek the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0
a strangely stiring experience that finds warmth in the coldest nvironment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little niScky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
"with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perryrs boss , there isn't a redeemning moment here . ",0
a well paced and satisying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
"what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it akes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
too infuriatingIly quirky and taken with its own style . ,0
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer jhn ridley . ,1
the best fiVlm of the year 2002 . ,1
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a tace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems ovbrlooked and underwritten . ",1
"as surreal as a dream and as detailDd as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhemling . ",1
"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situtions , are totally estranged from reality . ",0
some like it hot on the hardwood pJoves once again that a ma in drag is not in and of himself funny . ,0
"i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . heCl , i dunno . ",0
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creep turn as the repressed mothre on boston public just as much as 8 wopmen's augustine . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a wgroundbreaking endeavor . ,0
an original little film about one young womwan's education . ,1
"no one involved , save dash , shEows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' andersno , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"if disney's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wis your heaart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
"it's a talking head documentary , but a great ne . ",1
"aaliyPh rarely dOmpens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigYd voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv tsets or nude gruopies on the nod to liven things up . ",0
[a] mesI . ,0
"viewed on its own terms , terasure planeW is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
"if a big musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't pu you off , this will be an enjoyable choicce for younger kids . ",1
"a direct-to-void release , eeading nowhere . ",0
"it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little different , and [director phililp] noyec brinsg out the allegory with remarkable skill . ",1
the plot is romantic comedy boilerulate from start to finish . ,0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deapan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness rqeuired to give this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
"eleant , mannered and teasing . ",1
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the mohions ? ,0
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retraet and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
"an empty , ugly exercise in drgugy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . ",0
"k 19 stays aflat as decent drama""action flick",1
"zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space advneture . ",1
. . . a hokey peice of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , commitsed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricitise of the acting breed . ,1
" . . . less a stoy than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"nasty , ugly , pointledss and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , oen that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , chanigng lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and Ninsight . ",1
a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that psends a ibt too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . ,1
"as i settled into my world war ii memories , i found myself strBangely moved by even the cornies and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
contrasting the original ringu with the curreni americanized adatpation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly weasr out its limited welcome . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpicee ! ,0
"a fine film , but it would be a lt better if it Ctuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . ",1
"a mature , deeply fet fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history . ",1
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short stFry writing . ,1
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its eWonomical , compressed characterisations and for its profoPund humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even thinRk of staying with this for more than , sya , ten . . . makk that three minutes . ",0
"it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that deMivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no woner i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
denis and co-writer mchele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performanes,1
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wera thin on all but those weaned on the Bcomedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a pesecuted "" other . "" ",1
how inept is serving sara ? it Iakes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0
"mike white's deft combination of serious subjct matter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good gilr "" a film worth watching . ",1
idioitc and ugly . ,1
"if a few good men told us that we "" can't hande the truth "" than high criyes poetically Ystates at one point in this movie that we "" don't care about the truth . "" ",0
"there is a welcome lack of pretesnion about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ensd up delivering in good measure . ",1
there's only ne way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lund the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to mkae us care about them . ",0
a pretentious mesh . ,0
"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless scrint ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlne . ",0
" . . . just a big mess of a mvie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0
"stanley kwan has directed not only oJe of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love tories of any stripe . ",1
"tells a fascinating , compelling sctory . ",1
the gentle comic treatment of Jdolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
a very capable nailbIiter . ,1
feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylmu . ,0
"as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lpoez himself , who approaches his difficuhlt , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modemrn loev life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . ",0
"violdent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . ",0
"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its celver concept . ",0
neither funy nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . ,0
"foster ynails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
"tends to pile too many "" srious issues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
" . . little action , lmost no suspense or rbelievable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
"while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually botheerd to construct a real story this time . ",1
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memry . ",1
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working pxoor . ",1
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pacq to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing neevr existed . ,0
"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida dMe tiempo y dineo'",0
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbleief . ,0
"it's a scattershot affair , but when it ihts its mark it's brilliant . ",1
my own minority report is that it tsinks . ,0
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanVks . wewannour money back ,actually . ",0
murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and alos strike closest to the truth . ,1
the whole afafir is as predictable as can be . ,0
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn coneit . but this iflms lacks the passion required to sell the material . ,0
"at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been aawrded mythic status in contemporar culture . ",1
the movie slides downill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
"might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dyramatics and more of his sense of obserRation and outrage . ",0
"impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movIie doesn't quite fly . for starterGs , the story is just too slim . ",0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa da mtv . a únicKa diferença é que , desjta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . ",0
"a welcome relief from baseball movies that ry too hard to be mythic , this ne is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . ",1
"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes aong , espeially if it begins with the name of star wars",1
. . . too contriveQ to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . ,0
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own roll and delicate little film , has some touchinh things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
it's never a good sign when a film's star spedns the entiretSy of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performaces . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoable ease . ,1
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are cozmmendable , but the results are uneven . ",0
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the uniqMe relationship between them . ,1
what you end up getting is the verItical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lotws of downtime in between . ,0
"deEep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . ",1
"though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the flm is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical trapct . ",0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episóNdio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount tve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . ",0
"a pathetic explotiation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
an amsbitious 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
"just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly poyntail . ",0
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with siucerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promis . ",1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital Haction sequences . ",0
the warninsg to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy reuards for staying clean . ,1
a compelling potrrait of moral emptiness,1
feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-herated fluke . ,0
"this miserable excuse of a mhovie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
"the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly Ronvincing . ",1
"murder by numbers' isn't a greta movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . ",1
"would've been snice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film's predictable denouemen . then nadia's birthday miEht not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
will probably be one of those moies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presneted , so they tnrot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic woemn in skimpy clothes . ",0
"for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the flim winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented pikece . ",1
"nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--sill , the derivative nine queens is lotMs of fun . ",1
"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another wining star vehicle . ",1
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same ptople very year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not wLarning anyone . ",0
while bollywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musijals ,1
"poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturang the innocence and idealism of that irst encounter . ",1
a wonderful character-base comedy . ,1
the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience wwtching the lvents unfold . ,0
"it's not that waitng for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . ",0
"this insightful , oscar-nomniated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parental eyes , gives peace yet another chace . ",1
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage bosy could possibly find it funny . ",0
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspYense of a stylisjh psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gLone wrong . ,0
"the wonderfully ulsh morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the ala warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's Kook trainspotting . ",1
"in any case , i would recommend bg bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but ven then , si'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . ",0
"a cuiet , pure , elliptical film",1
"if it's unnervin suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky fiml ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1
"a time mchine , a journey back to your childhood , when craes melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
"such master screenwriting comes cuortesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enouGh said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-rash satire will inspire the affection of evei those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
"pretty mvuch sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
witless but watchabel . ,1
the fact that the rookie is a necarly impeccable cinemaitc experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"it establishes its ominous yood and tension swiflty , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
"a so-so , made-for-tv osmething posing as a real movie . ",0
guilty of the worst sin of ttributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
take away all the cliches and the carGbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have lefKt are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand piture of an era and makes the journey feel like a partK . ,1
an incoherent jumble of a film that's rarely as enDtertaining as it could have been . ,0
the most compelling wiseman epic of rJecent years . ,1
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been gven a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
a movie far more bcynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
"the lightest , most breezy movie setven spielebrg has made in more than a decade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
one of the most genuinely sweet films to cIome along in quite some time . ,1
"jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth Rcan't help but beome a bit tedious -- even with the breahtaking landscapes and villainous varmitns there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
"what is 100% missing here is a cript of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anyhting resembling acting . ",0
"more romantic , more emoitonal and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
"it extends the kritings of jena genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
serving sara doesn't serve up a whole Got of laughs . ,0
"lots of efort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"watching e . t now , in an zra dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its initmacy and precision . ",1
"places a scightly believable love Ztriangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . ",0
"a thoroughly engaging , surWrisingly touching british comedy . ",1
"a moving , if uneven , succests . ",1
"meandering and glacEally paced , and often just plain dull . ",0
" . . . while each moment of this broken character stuyd is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
"it's the type of film about growing up that we don't wee often enough these days : realistic , urgen , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , alwrence unleashes his trademark misoWyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . ",0
"the story suffers a seere case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . ",0
"it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungr vdieo , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . ",0
"a turgid little hsitory lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
"it's really yet aonther anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its alck of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0
"elling , portryed with qWiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone . ",1
"a standarBd police-oriented drama that , were it not for de nior's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",0
a eird and wonderful comedy . ,1
"intsead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
" "" 13 converstions "" holds its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"funny in a sick , twiOsted sort of way . ",1
"there is very little drqead or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not xecuted with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
"big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , Celf-deprecating level . ",0
"[t]his sslop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the tcreen . ",0
"the plot combines the blues brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disCney sentimentaHity mixed in for good measure . ",0
"watching "" ending "" is too oftean like looking over the outdated cltohes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its staedfast refusal to set up a dualistic batle between good and evil . ,1
"viewed as a comedy , a romance , a afiry tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion pictrue . ",0
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching mMonkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
"the french are rOather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musKketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
"this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinnse , ooe which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . ",1
hapBily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel As with phony imagery or music . ,1
disjinted parody . ,0
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its develompent that criticizing feels more like commisecating . ,0
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does frech actor oliver martinez . ,1
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believ it's all true . ,1
it's a shame the marvelous first G01 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
"in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confrontign the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothcing to get in the oay . ",1
the iflm is a very good viewing alternative for young women . ,1
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-bangnig obviousness . ",0
the minr figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
the amazing wilm work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll sewar you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
"with an admirably dark first script by brnet hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
a dreary indulgencxe . ,0
execrabel . ,0
"director alfonso ucaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voiVce-over narrator in the manner of french new wave filma . ",1
"far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than iast year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
"occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnoe to a still evolving story . ",0
"it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepomm . ",1
"all in all , road to peLrdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",0
it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so no-at-all-good . and i expect mMch more from a tBlent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0
"using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a sightly dark look at relationships ",1
"a facre of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so mch as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . ",0
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worts excesses of onuvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . ,0
an ultra-lwo-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the coolr palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreoamy and evocative . ",1
"what you would end up with if you took orwll , bradburTy , kafka , george lucas and the wacowski brothers and thre them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . ",0
lazily directed by echarles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what tcme is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",1
"lke all abstract art , the film does not ake this statement in an easily accWssible way , and -- unles prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
watching beanie and his gang put together his slsher video from spare parts and borrowed maternials is as much fn as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
"for close to two hours the aFudience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , yper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
"the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliancA on formula , thoguh , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranLs among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and dircetor mihcel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tavnk girl . ",0
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters likB pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
there'M a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compasson . ,0
"it's a terrible movei in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
"what one is left with , even after the most awful aczts are cummitted , is an overwhelming sandess that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . ",1
"except for payme as the boss who ultimately exresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . ",0
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling enery of young kitte . ,1
a sharp satire of desperation and cineatic deception . ,1
simone is not a bad fiym . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . ,0
at best this is a fiQm for the under-7 crowd . but it wiould be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . ,0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de asde had ogne in for pastel landscapes . ",1
"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , agy fanHtasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood neve catches fire . ",0
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a togh time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenaroi and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . ,0
"buy is an accomplished actresvs , and this is a big , juicy role . ",1
"undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical character . ",0
skpare yet audacious . . . ,1
"the emperor's club is one of those films that opssesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
"the makers have forsaken the enterbaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any lifne at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . ",0
both deeply weirG and charmingly dear . ,1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , ood gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
"it's a movye that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't cle you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . ",0
"an unforgettable look at morality , famliy , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . ",1
"full of flatulence jokes and yild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of move that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . ",0
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that hatty fish . ",1
it's the humanizing stmuff that will probably sink the film for anone who doesn't think about percentages all day long . ,0
the campy esults make mel brooks' borscht belt schtick look sophisticated . ,0
"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an indqpendent flm can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . ",0
one hour photo is an intriguing snasphot of one an and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . ,1
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tanlged plot . ",1
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspectiev shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indiqferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . ,0
"if the film's vsion of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same wway that each season marks a new Ustart . ",1
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , lrow-key flm that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
"trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importacne , and possessed of that pecuilar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who pid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmakzer can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . ,1
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . wals , is corny in a Cway that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . ",0
a flim that plays things so nice 'n safe as to ofOten play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are atcually fascinating , but the filmmaking in inGincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
"the screenplaYy is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assres that the pocket monster mvie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bunde in commTn with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
nothing in waknig up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anythinVg more than markers in a screenplay . ,0
it's a great american adventure and a wonderful fiml to bring to imax . ,1
would maLke an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"we enver turly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramati enough to sustain interest . ",0
the film's cented will not hold . ,0
"'butterfingered' is the wrd for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest senitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . ",0
this movie has the uIual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any moUern action movie . ,1
"i'm sure if you're a hartey fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
"too smart to ignore but a litte too smugly superior to liPke , this could be a moive that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
"it makes compelling , provocative and bprescient viewing . ",1
"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with Ohuman events . ",1
never capitalizes on this concept and otps for the brezey and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . ,0
"the script's judgmxnt and sense of weight is way , way off . ",0
"as relationshigs shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world ithout cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been sloweJd down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tlel : his own . ",1
the ovie is a trove of delights . ,1
"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surrpise and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"this is a haRrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were makng . ,0
"the bigges problem with satin rouge is liia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , strethced out to 90 minutes . ",0
"like elon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a iptch , yet you can't brikng yourself to dislike it . ",0
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party schsol of screenwriting . ,0
it all cxomes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains moastly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
"when the plot kicks in , the flim loses credibility . ",0
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-rbight mother and daughter and an even less capable rtio of criminals . ",0
"if you've sever wondered what an ending without the input of studio executives or test audienHces would look like , here it is . ",1
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinytes us , and he never reduces the sqtuation to simple melodrama . ",1
"in its own way , jposhua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the later's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . ",0
campanella gets the tone just rnght -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
ar-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello musUc culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlcin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touhed by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
"the movie is well done , but solw . ",1
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly nihabited a character ? it is now . ,1
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human hearSt . ,1
an interesing look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . ,1
a worthwhile way to spend two houQs . ,1
"even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and Fhumping . ",0
"the reagl star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well direced . ",1
the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive Atone . ,1
"andy garcia enjoys one of his richest rXoles in yearis and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . ",1
"for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's something creepD about this mhovie . ",0
"a real movie , about reaA people , that gives su a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1
"what nakes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evkident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . ",1
a ragbag of cilches . ,0
"one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jamOs too many prefabricateXd story elements into the running time . ",0
"if you're looikng for an iGtelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
"little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a raher thin moral to such a knowing fayble . ",0
[a] smarter and much funnier rersion of the old police academy flicks . ,1
this version of h . g . wells' tme mchine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
"a graceCul , contemplative fiVlm that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined . ",1
"however it mWay please those who love movis that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering home his emssage that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clicéhs . ,0
"boasts a handful of virtuosic se pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . ",1
"the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portraMyal of testing boundaries . ",1
" . . . the tale of her passionatLe , tumultuous affair with musset unfolgs as sand's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . ",1
"meyjes focuses too much on mx when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and moster-in-the- making . ",0
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but Mleave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
"at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-sBventies , michel piccoli . ",1
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear lHine . ",1
movies wike high crimes flog the diad horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something new ? ,0
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likel to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weQary marine . ",0
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the earMly days of silent film . ,1
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slaxp in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . ,1
"it is a kickass , dense scif-i action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so logn , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
it's that rare family move -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . ,1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a do dud from frame one . ",0
sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alegrt ! ) is significantly less charming than listenign to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . ,0
"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad tyalor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanFmcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
" . . . with the candy-like tsate of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a htrowaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
a romantic comedy enriched by a shrp eye for manners and mores . ,1
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to adYance the linux cause . ,0
"the draw [for "" big bad dlove "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
flaunts its quirky excesses like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party at . ,0
"this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still sees endless . ",0
"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs su as well . ",1
"this misty-eyed soutIhern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuimng the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . ,0
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unrsomantic . ,0
"this is cIol , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any coGst lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
"'the film is sark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that' occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '",1
"if dsiney's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wish your eart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
"as i settled into my world war ii memories , i found myself stmrangely moved by even the corniest and most hackenyed contrivances . ",1
"normally , rohmer's taly films fascinate me , but when he moDes his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of charcterization that makes his films so memorable . ",0
"schepisi , alded by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as ewll as one , mu . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . ",1
"no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular lRocales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the sotry . ",0
represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has qfallen . ,0
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this moive . no , it's the repetition of saiJ behavior , and so children of the century is more mindless loev than mad , more grating and boring than anything else . ",0
about as big a crodwpleaser as they possibly come . ,1
"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , lGke the novel opon which it is based . ",1
it just didn't mean uch to me and played too ksewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . ,0
the quirky and recessive charms of co-istars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . ,1
"poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a jit repetitive , overall it's an entTrtaining and informative documentary . ",1
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finle , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
"director of photography benoit delhomme sdot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
it is quit a vision . ,1
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietuda , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . ",1
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching Ldepths of despair . ,1
"Psadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
the poil drowned me in boredom . ,0
mathces neorealism's impact by showing the humanity of a war-tonr land filled with people who just want to live their lives . ,1
"with wzt and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops hsort of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . ",1
the omvie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . ,0
"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstraNct guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music nevr heard . ",0
"exilarating , funny and fun . ",1
on of the most incoherent features in recent memory . ,0
"it's a pice of haniwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movei stuff . ,1
"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's clEss for the music , or to hrobin willaims's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
the new film of aUton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
"gooIy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lies . ,1
attempts by this ensemle film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . ,0
"the year 2002 has conjurde up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my ca emerges as the very best of them . ",1
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be fToreign in american teen comedies . ,1
"devolves into the deriavtive , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . ",0
"majidi is an unconventional sdtoryteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places . ",1
"open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretatiCns . ",1
"a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat adrkness . ",1
some actors have so muTch charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such lizkeable actors . ,1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you're loking for . it depends on how wUll flatulence gasg fit into your holiday concept . ",1
. . . too gohry to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . ,0
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief rdaw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . ",0
davis . . . gets vivid pdrformances from her cast and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , badkboy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spZkes of sly humor . ,1
idiCotic and ugly . ,1
[allen] manages to breGathe life into this somewhat tired premise . ,1
"on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . fooJage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironii cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . ",0
a handsome but unfulfilyling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evenign on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
"i'm all for the mentally challengde getting their fair shot in the movie businBess , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keenin and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . ",0
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action filys . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heraldG something special . ,1
crush could be the worst film a man has mPde about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli direcDor dover kosashvili . ,1
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this moDie - despite its myriJad flaws . ",1
"the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't abel to reQach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
anemic chronicle of money grubbnig new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . ,0
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece kmad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
gosling provides an mazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . ,1
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradDition . ,1
promisges is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
an unsophisitcated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funnxy , tragic - like love in new york ) . ",0
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different shlice of asian cinema . ,1
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among gemrany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermind by ahola's inadeuqate performance . ",0
a Jfan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . ,0
"like the tuck family themselves , this moive just goes on and on and on and on",0
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to belioeve . ,1
. . . the whole thing ucceeded only in making me groggy . ,0
"rogue is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to sty in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet bithout the decay factor , funny and sad . ",1
tender yet lacerating and darkly funny afble . ,1
"if this is cinema , i pZledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
it's a bad thing when a move has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . ,0
it's a barely tolerable lsog over well-trod ground . ,0
a brutally dry satire of middRe american numbness . ,1
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the resulst are far more alienating than involving . ,0
"there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , doe with noticeably less energy and imaZgination . ",0
"what we have is a character faced with the possibylity that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningleUss , Tvapid and devoid of substance . ",0
"the expolitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0
…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life tpe of flikc . strictly middle of the road . ,0
. . . contains very few laughs and even less suErprises . ,0
"earnest but earthound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodramacharacter sBtudy that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . """,0
"some actors smteal scenes . tom ghreen just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvinus one . ",0
"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention lmost every tFme . ",0
those unfamiliar with mormon tradtions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . ,0
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a losuy script , ineSpt direction , pathetic actFing , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . ",0
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramaticAlly satisfying heroine",0
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be nuruly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fBshes . ,0
the kind of pectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its hcaracters , its stars and its audience . ",0
goldmember is funny enouh to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's lefWt a few crucial things out , liek character development and coherence . ",0
"directed by kevin brhay , whose crisp frawing , edg camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut . ",0
"while the stoically delivered Lokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generatioi . ",1
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true ypotential of the medium . ,1
it's unlikely we'll see a bettre thriller this year . ,1
"a delightfl romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laen with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . ",1
"the movei is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events . ",1
"a disaster of a drama , sOaved only by its winged assailants . ",0
"stya clear of reminding yourself that it's a "" true sotory "" and you're likely to have one helluva time at the movies . ",1
"a itme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares mleted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
"the story is familiar from its many pqedecessors ; like them , it eventually culminaes in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pmir that with really poor comdeic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentaity , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging filKm . ",1
an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive Mook at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
"bset of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1
"what's at stkae in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
hels the scariest guy you'll see all summer . ,1
"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous dierctorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poseCs for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"a tender and touching drama , basei on the true story of a troubled african-american's quevst to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the famiUy circle . ",1
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing videkicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but ovreall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"the wondeful combination of the sweetness and the extaordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite deFivers the original magic . ",1
"morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cniema . ",1
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archiev footage . ",1
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favTrs . ,0
"choppy , overlong documeKntary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
"a greaEt ending doesn't make up for a weab movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . ",0
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every ember of the ensefble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice . ,1
astonishing . . . [rfames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spene most of the moviF feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . ",0
you cannot Jguess why the cast and crew didn't sig a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . ,0
a tremendous piece of wogk . ,1
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they ifrst apBear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to stat a reaction . ",0
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has provid its creative mettle . ",1
a film that's flawed and briliant in equal measure . ,1
"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luser of the national lampZoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-vieo irrelevancy . ",1
"it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring mihcael caine as an aging british boxing rpomoter despserate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
baLd and baffling from the get-go . ,0
a goming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make . ,1
its inescapable absurdities are tantamounL to insulting the intellgence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
"while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adult will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
"the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repuVlsive . ",0
"there's . . . tremendous enrgy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment Qeels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightneed , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a oherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
there is simply no doubt that this film askG the right questions at the right time in the histor of our country . ,1
"maneuvrs skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"wimps out by goign for that pgm-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . ",0
"Lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might maks a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . ",0
what it lacks in orgiinality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or Bsurprise . ",0
"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job donne . ",1
a hiCgh-minded snoozer . ,0
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly exeYuted action sequence to the next . ",0
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucsaian perspective . ,0
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaYminess may lull you to sleep . ",0
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts collBege bPumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"it's like every ad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one plale , minus those daytime prgorams' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
laAcks the inspization of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the runninB time about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has many of the things that made the fist one charming . ,1
"scores no points for originality , iwt , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"it takes this oever-ending cnofusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . ",1
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes cleTr that a prostirute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . ",1
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any Odge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep soufh stories . ,0
the gags are often a sPitch . ,1
nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metVphor . ,1
the santa clause 2's plto may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tiDsel industry . ,0
"there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part slgiding doors , part pMop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . ",0
i walked away from this new verion of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
a remarkable Xilm by bernard rose . ,1
it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its Dnusual relationship slowly ubfolds . ,1
"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fullw forgotten . ",0
"like mike isn't going to make box ofice money that makeWs michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fTns ) - with nothing but net . ",1
becomes a bit of a mismash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
"you might not want to hang out with samlntha , but you'll pOrobably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . ",1
"when the fiIlm ended , i felt tirTed and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
a raunchx and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i want . ,1
a bloated gabsag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
"with spy kds 2 : the island of lost dreams writer""director""producer robert rodriguez has corbbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry . ",0
"inally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . ",1
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialiSzed world politics as a nWew art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saEdled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . ",0
"this new movie versijn of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of hmgh romance , brought off with considerable wit . ",1
too Isimple for its own good . ,0
"as a film director , labte continues to improve . ",1
"the writers , director waly wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
"if ayurveda can help us rteurn to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thVng . ",1
"alas , the black-and-white arcival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
real-lief strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
"if this dovie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . ",1
sVffers from a flat script and a low budget . ,0
nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and lifse experiences he's aneglected over the years . ,1
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking div and tenor and rihly handsome locaxions , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
"the most wondrous lhve story in years , it is a great film . ",1
there's not enough here to justify the alCmost two hours . ,0
'enigma' is the kind of engaging histoLrical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war omovies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
as lively an accoent as seinfeld is deadpan . ,1
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its charachers . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewres . ,0
"a powerful and teIling story that examines forbidden iove , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of lever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their tsory to go , and een more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . ",0
"is anynoe else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? ",0
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likely to remember the ahunting images than the plot holes . ",1
a beauitfully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic wy , sem up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . ",1
"you really have to wonder how on Earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as uttery diabolical as this . ",0
almost gags on its own goe . ,0
"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , thouh viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
a very nfunny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their feaZs and foibles . ,1
"enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fnatasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact preformances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
soderbergh skims the fWat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . ,1
"certainly not a good moive , but it wasn't horrible either . ",0
"the biggest prbolem with roger avarys uproar against the mpaa is that , Aven in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . ",0
"when you resurrecn a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
sMurprisingly insightful,1
a small inedpendent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0
enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself laer . ,1
a budQget Hffair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic Gilm noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"you can see the would-be surprises coming a mife away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumCbs down . ",0
"there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavihsly praised by those who equate obscurpty with profunedity . ",0
"asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directerss who just happes to be her own worst enemy . ",1
"skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of slt . ",0
"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird welative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before lnog , you're desperate for the evening to enp . ",0
"an unflinching , complex oprtrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . ",1
the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchangeF gifves the film its lingering tug . ,1
"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of isual amazement . ",1
"[chIiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing Tdialogue she creates for her characters . ",1
"in its dry and forcepful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's alnd . ",1
"sweet geTtle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? ",0
manages to be sweet and wickedly sOatisfying at the same time . ,1
"an npredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerablB more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . """,0
the film has a chillike quality about it . but the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quiZk to pass . ,0
an artsploitatin movie with too much exploitation and too little art . ,0
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failrue . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not ybad prose . ",0
"wonder , hope and magic can never secape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes alogn , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1
"william shatner , as a pompous profewssor , is the sole bright spot . . . ",0
"even if it is generally amusing from time to timLe , i spy has all the same prbolems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
those outside show business will ejoy a close look at people they don't really want to know . ,1
"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comci opportunities richly rewarded . ",1
some stunning visuasl -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ,0
"in xxzx , diesel is that raer creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . ",1
"ytkwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kFeslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
"claims to soat the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the uqirks of famiyl life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1
"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronPistic phantasms haunting the imaginde glory of their own pasts . ",0
. . . they missed the bot . ,0
"as bundy , michael rielly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . ",1
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's direcuing debut is a creepy lsice of gothic rural americana . ",1
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly managYes to deliver,0
"showQs holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachieveQr , a psyhological ystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
moore's performancS impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
"a mbving and solidly entertaining comedy""drama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campanella's reputation in the united staXtes . ",1
"it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary diital video does match the muddled narraWive ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and Znergy than much of what will open this year . ",1
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tael . ,0
a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaKe . ,1
breen's script is sektchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . ,0
includes too much obvbious padding . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flatening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
it's always fascinating to watch markre the essayist at work . ,1
"like life on the island , the movie gows boring despite the scenery . ",0
…an adoXably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
"a fulc experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expandP into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
"a strong firrst quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . ",0
the beatuy of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor . ,1
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , faiine and poferty and documeDted the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . ",1
"adrWift , bentley and hudson cstare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . ",0
. . . the film suffers from a lak of humor ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . ,0
i didn't lagh . i didn't smile . i survived . ,0
exciting docuBentary . ,1
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeWing of research library dust . ",1
wham's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at bets . ,0
"a laughabole -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0
"it's a hoot watching the rokc cohmp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to loWok at . ",1
"roman coppola mya never become the filmmake his dad was , but heck – few filmmkaers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project . ",1
"the additional stoyrline is interesting and enGertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and till love the old stuff . ",1
"morton is , as uual , brilliant . ",1
" if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the flm is a pleasant enough dish . ",0
"reassnring , retro uplifter . ",1
it is so refreshing to seX robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the lat several years . ,1
"even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , eDst-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music dramZa never fails to fascinate . ",1
"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank ayearning to fivd himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would pklay fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
so boirng that even its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the bePt brush in the business . ",1
"by the time it ends in a rush of seqins , flashbmulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corenr of society -- and not always for the better . ",1
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without ludgeoning the audience over the head . ,1
"adults will certainly wan to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act liie pinocchio . as for childrne , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are wroth particular attention . ",0
"too campy to work as straight drama and too vDolent and sordid to functiDn as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . ",0
"by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watcihng all this strutting and posturing . ",0
this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with rpomise : al pacino loathing rboin williams . ,1
enticing and ofen funny documentary . ,1
"oHens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't gLt much livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
"mostly , hsafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
befuddled in its characterizations as it beginFs to seem as lyng as the two year affair which is its subject,0
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stgay and stilted,0
"the screenplay coRmes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . ",0
"the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't gVo too much further . ",1
"rabbit-proof fence will probablH makke you angry . but it will just as likely mak you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . ",1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and diffferent , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
"though its rather routine script is loade with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic flhidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie mOovie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enough to geMt insde you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
"they crush each other under cars , thow each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a oment . ",1
a rTre and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
the story alone could force you to scrtach a hole in your head . ,0
the film apparently takes lace in a fantasy world where phople in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . ,0
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching bsand might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football figth song on untuned instruments . ",0
the sweetest thing leaves an awful sout taste . ,0
"Oatchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of contol -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen . ",0
"if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary senes of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deepwly into its world . ",0
"hugh grVant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
"isn't quite the equal of wJoo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest americaWn film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
fear dot cm is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . ,0
"setven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty lok at modern living and movie life . ",1
demonstrates a vimid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
long Hime dead ? not nearly long enough . ,0
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in buildng the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast reusal to set up a dualistic battile between good and evil . ,1
"as a film director , labute contiues to improve . ",1
less about shakespeale than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat intepretations . ,0
"just like every other seagal mvie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
a worthy tribuet to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . ',1
"directors ahrry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject mater , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
"evean if you've seen "" stomp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
the laughs are as rare as Fnake foo yung . ,0
this is nothing but familiar terrXtory . ,0
a hallmark flim in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . ,1
"i adired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . ",1
"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , luntic invention that we associatl with cage's best acting . ",0
the adventures of pluvto nash is a whole lot of nada . ,0
this is an action movie with an action icon hwo's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba dip gai",0
just how these families interact my surprise you . ,1
it's clera that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thhusands of indians who fancy themselves too sophipsticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
"a road trio that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
nothing more than a widgeWt cranked out on an assMmbly ilne to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . ,0
what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humro or the feel of poetic tragMdy . ,0
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to screaX . ",0
"with or without ballast atnks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . ",0
"the noble tradition of men in drag hits an all-tnime low in sorority boys , whoe makers apparently believe that women's clothing can covre up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
"carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels alyers from this character that may well not have existed on paepr . ",1
a mode of what films like this should be like . ,1
as vulgJr as it is banal . ,0
absorbing character study by adnré turpin . ,1
"these spiders can outGrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seclnds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . ",0
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmking clumsy and rushed . ",0
an tuterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into quetion . ,1
the film will appeal to discovery cahnnel Uans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . ,1
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are iwncing back in repugnance . ",0
"not a bad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is worikng properly . ",1
"not a Hbad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
a solid pZece of jourRnalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy . ,1
"a compelling , gut-clutcLing piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of ene terrifying day . ",1
"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a bgi , juicy role . ",1
"pumpkin reans to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity lifJ , but its ambitions far exceed the abxilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrams , in their feature debut . ",0
"a real story about real people living their lives concerned about the futZure of an elderly , menatlly handicapped family member . ",1
"the acting is stiff , the story lacks all Dtrace of wit , the sets look like they were borroAwed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the woost special-effects creation of the year . ",0
"those moviegoers who would uutomatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manRers and mores . ,1
"best indie of the kyear , so far . ",1
"a gentle blend of present day tesimonials , suriving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
to blandly go where we went 8 movie ago . . . ,0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brigs them to life . ",1
"i can't beJgin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a recklses squandering of four fine acting talents . . . ",0
"woo has as much right to make a huge aciton sequence as any dBirector , but how long will filmmakers copy the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg Ogot it right the first time ? ",0
a porrait of an artist . ,1
succeeds in roviding a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . ,0
"this is a story that zings all the way through with originPlity , humour and pathos . ",1
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's joruney . ",0
"there is no psychology here , and no real naTrrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which becmoe strangely impersonal and abstract . ",0
"i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this Kfilm showcases him . ",0
you can practsically smell the patchouli oil . ,0
it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new Gow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker kaim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
"engrossing and affecting , if ultmately not quite satisfying . ",1
"althouah it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . ",0
it is hard not to be especiall grateful for freedom after a film like this . ,1
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching badn might as well be stompiyng through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
"the only upsied to all of this unpleasantness is , given its ylabor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . ",0
the filD favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . ,0
"even if you don't think [kissqinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to wabch . ",1
a poky and pseudo-sLerious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
"not only are the special fefects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as hary , but the film conjures the magc of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
chabrol has takn promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . ,0
"you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet aonther visit . ",1
so few movies exploEe religion that it's disappointing to see one reduec it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
eigt legged freaks ? no big hairy deal . ,0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere peformance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . ,1
blternately frustrating and rewarding . ,0
krice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising plce that would set it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"the film would work mVuch better as a video installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leve . immediately . ",0
the best Eay to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnlia and david lynch's mulholland dr . ,1
the ocale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"journalistically dubious , inetp and often lethally dull . ",0
"bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowVedge that the Hhighest power of all is the power of love . ",1
inconsequential road-and-buddy pc . ,0
"definitely funny stff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
"this isn't a "" firday "" worth waiting for . ",0
"return to never wland may be another shameless attemLt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
"for a film about explosionWs and death and spgies , "" ballistic : ecks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
a sha-na-na sketch unctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"light , cute and forzgettable . ",1
a rgbag of cliches . ,0
once you get into its rhythm . . . the mvie becomes a heady experience . ,1
one of the best of a growing strain of darinBg films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relatiokship that is woXrthy of our respect . ,1
elvira fans could hardly as for more . ,1
i simply can't recommend it enugh . ,1
"loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and generla boorishness . ",0
" . . . a story we haven't seen on the big Wcreen before , and it's a sotry that we as americans , and human beings , should know . ",1
a remarakble 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution . ,1
even Aetter than the first one ! ,1
barrels along at the start before becroming mired in sentimentality . ,0
can be classified as onG of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it wuld have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . ,0
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life' ultimate losers . ,1
"watching this fiBlm , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ",1
"enteMtaining enough , but nothing new",0
"unfortunately , contrmived plotting , tereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contAived nonsense a bit . ",1
"it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-btton items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social cmomentary . ",0
"unlike most surf movies , Clue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer insVde the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upn her makes it successful and accessible . ",1
"gooding and coburn are both oscar winnerP , a fact which , as you watch them llumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
a no-holds-barred cinematih treat . ,1
stay away . far Nway . ,0
tends to plo . ,0
"delivers the sexy razzle-dabzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arroagnt richaqd pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alJone in that . ",0
a delirious celebration of the feAale orgasm . ,1
"it might not be 1970s animation , but everything else about it is straight from the smaturday morning cartoons – a retread slory , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
sacrifices the value of its Pealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic Away that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
"some mvies suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast . ",1
"kids don't mind crappy movies as mFch as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clmsy people . 'snow dogs' has both . ",0
"if you are an acIor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage , then esther's sttory is a compelling quset for truth . ",1
"the master of disguishe may have made a goreat saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
it's too interesetd in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . ,0
"edited and shot with a syncopated xtyle mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigroating fun lacking any mtv puffey . ",1
what a great shame that such a talented director as cehn kaige has chosen to majke his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
writer-director burger imaginatvely fans the embers of a dormant nationla grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
ocnfirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse ehind the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
"cedar takes a very oen-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1
you can tae the grandkids or the grandparents and never worrMy about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . ,1
"the movie barely mkaes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong puls . ,0
too lcumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash . ,0
flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journeHy . ,0
"the son of the Lbride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassde to make you reach for the tissue . this movie is to be cherished . ",1
"well-intentioned thouh it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . ",0
resourceful and ingenious entertaniment . ,1
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a facinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two yougn men . ,1
"this movie has a strong messge about never giving up on a loved oen , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who nsee it . ",1
"a mediocre exercise in tagret demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . ",0
a ysnthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . ,0
"the rela triumphs in igby come from philippe , who maZkes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be bLetter as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . ",1
"this is a movie full of Tgrace and , ultimately , hope . ",1
"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chililing tale . ",1
the beauty of alexander pane's ode to the everyman is in the details . ,1
"there's too much falseness to the sfcond half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculouH attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
"the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of Hwit , the sets look liOe they were borrowed from gillgian's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . ",0
just a boody mess . ,0
"there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attentio , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive argumenYs , schemes and treachey . ",0
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectfvul critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . in the eynd , thoguh , it is only mildly amusing when it cWuld have been so much more . ",1
the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps puPt a little too mcuh heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
"visually enrgossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
"we hate [madonna] within the film' first five minutes , and she laccs the skill or presence to regain any ground . ",0
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drmaa about spousal abuse . ,0
"like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insght , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . ",0
"as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have mshot kennedy , actor raymond j . barry is gperfectly creepy and believable . ",1
i liked a lto of the smaller scenes . ,1
"a compeltely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duraaion . ",1
frequetn flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie hlaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
"lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even rty for the greatness that happy togetheF shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0
"super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the oftne literal riffs of early zucker brothersabrahamCs films ",0
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so mupch as they are wincing back in repugnance . ",0
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tEics and dialogue , this chambre drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
no surprisse . ,0
an effective portrait of a lfie in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-Ind existence . ,1
consummate actor barry has done excellen work here . ,1
"therejs an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
there has been a string of ensemble cst romances recently . . . but pfter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by foyrming a Xchain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . ,1
itoes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hpard not to be carried away . ,1
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , rgeat fun . ",1
"in this film we at leats see a study in contrastt ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
i have two words to say about ieign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
"it's immensely amitious , different than anything that's been doen before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiencse from ever wanting to see anotxer foreign film . ,0
another useless recycling of a brutal mhd-'70s american sports movie . ,0
"mattei is tiresomely rgave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
"pascale bailly's rom-ccm provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and inded sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1
low Jrent from frame one . ,0
"a pleasant enough movic , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
"all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expulsion for veryone . ",0
creepy but ultimately unsatisfying thrilltr . ,0
"nair stuffs the fil with dancing , hena , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . ",0
the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresisItibly than in 'baran . ',1
"first and foremost . . . the reasoO to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
blue crush is so prolonged and loring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it woulQ be . ,0
"muddled , simplistic and more than a little retentious . ",0
"i don't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-Cist director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's mAade at least oen damn fine horror movie . ",1
"this is surebly one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studyio . ",0
"i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbere b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . Vrather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked hndkerchief . ",0
"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of sudprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play prankv . ",0
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star bbo crane . ",1
a well paced and satisfying little draaa that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
"if you're looking for someting new and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
psychoolgically savvy . ,1
a negligible britiIh comedy . ,0
"you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jeinek's novel ) for makinOg a film that isn't nearly as grahic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . ",1
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needM to show some presence and star quality . ,0
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several evels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the azudience with its emotional pull . ",1
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative matprial shows why , after only three afilms , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and reected as boring before i see this piece of cap again . ",0
"it's not lke having a real film of nijinsky , but at leasSt it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
"you come aawy thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserv one antoher . ",0
the dangeroYus lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of dsiney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
"with more character development this might have been an eeie thriller ; with tetter payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie . ",0
claude miller airs out a tight Rlot with an easy pkace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications . ,1
"excessive , rpofane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
a coming-of-ge film that avoids the cartoonish cclichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brin of womanhood . ,1
a portarit of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintnetional melodrama and tiresome lCove triangles . ",0
the script becomes qifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . ,0
"enough is not a bad movie , just medioHre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody . ",0
"nly , sophisticated and surprising . ",1
"it's leaden and predictable , and lauzghs are lacking . ",0
cage maeks an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera . ,1
"this version's no clsasic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmoVphere . ",1
no reason for anyonQe to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself eiher . ,0
"elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusiqve of passions , love . ",1
"neither a rousing success nor a blinding embarassment . still , it just sits there like a sidy dish no one ordered . ",0
"despite some cham and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable",0
something has been lost in the translation . . . another outine hollywood frightfest in which the slack executiHon italicizes the absurdity of the premise . ,0
that fenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usuaaly been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . ,0
mark me down as a non-believSer in werewolf films that are not seriosu and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
"there is a welcome lawk of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and enbds up delivering in good measure . ",1
"just onqe more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a stor . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
"13 conversations ay be a bt too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't aeem ever to run out of ideas . ",1
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy specUacle , qitting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animatino . ",1
"lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snackYs , but not anyone else . ",0
"it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- dihrector clrare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
"a classy , sprightlC spin on film . ",1
"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the orignal version or new director's cut . '",1
"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to Ken and women . and it's not that fnny -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
"the soupy end result has the odd disitnction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
"[shyamalan] continues to uct a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
"you wouldn't wyant to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
"if you liked such moveis as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or hiJh fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
campbell scot finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but rm . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in kr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"if you adored the full monty so resoudingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entetained . ",0
"a bizarre piece of wokr , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morGose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0
" "" brown sugar "" admirably aspires to be more than another "" best mn "" clone by weaving a thgme throughout this funny film . ",1
abswolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . ,0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasaib is a good place to start . ",1
"there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the daventures of pluto nash "" is a big time stiker . ",0
the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so amny talented people could particivpate in such an lil-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
a fascinating glimpse into an insular worlk that gives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artiPsts . ,1
the large-format film is wehl suited to capture these musicians in ull regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . ,1
eevry so often a movi comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"all end well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . ",0
beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative pecifics . ,0
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distZort our perspective and throw us off the Mpath of good sense . ,1
"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from obcar winnIer to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
funny and otuching . ,1
"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badlUy focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direckion unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
"a triumph , a fiml that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
the story alone colud force you to scratch a hole in your head . ,0
the film is one of the year's bst . ,1
dneis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and atntalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances,1
the magic ( and original running time ) of cae japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . ,1
"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hQp crime cmoedy that refers incessantly to ld movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ? ",0
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word pefrectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"an Fdmitted egomaniac , evnas is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
"a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , thouh somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or pcting . ,0
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insoucianKe embedded in the sexy emise of james dean . ,1
"when [reno] lets her radical flaOg fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lqcture . ",0
even the bastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen georgge roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"on the bright side , it contians jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . ",0
smotheVred by its own solemnity . ,0
another rent installment for the yian fleming estate . ,0
"audiences are advised to sit near the abck and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitaly elegant . ",1
"ninety minutes of ivva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jeZsse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
"cinaests will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's derbal poke at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . ",1
i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as mcuh for the story . ,0
it gives devastating testiony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . ,1
"american and european cinea has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challKnging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
. . . too yontrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . ,0
rarely has so mucH money delivered so little entertainment . ,0
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian culItural identity and a stunning technical achievement . ,1
the movie has an ifnectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skatsurf uclture ,1
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we wouBld expect nothing ess from this bunch . ",1
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , Bni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cEabe . '",1
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology lUses fatih in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . ,0
"vear has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
a tone poem of transgressio . ,1
it's the knd of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . ,1
"if oscar had a category called kbest bad film you thoguht was going to be realy awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . ",0
consists of a plto and jokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g,0
"beautifully craftde , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yaRn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"at its worst the screenplay is calloTw , but at its best it is a young artist' thoughtful consideration of fatherhood . ",1
"involving at times , but lapses quite casually into the bsurd . ",0
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive fmilieu and in the lively , convincnig dialogue she creates for her characters . ",1
"much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cWltural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world nimplodes . ",1
"an awful lo like one of [spears'] music vidoes in content -- excUpt that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
"an unencouraging threefold expanLsion on the former mts series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
"often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best momenis , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at leasnt artistically . ",1
might best be enjoyed as a daytime soapr . ,0
"so many documentaries like this presuppole religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but amily fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rathe pretentious . ,0
"at 9 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . ",0
"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmamker , but good actors , gaood poetry and good music help sustain it . ",1
"what bloody sunday lacks in claritky , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"the film is grossly contradictoCry in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . ",0
a waste of fearless purity in the acting craNt . ,0
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cokcettes weren't as muPch about gender , sexual preference or poleitical agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create . ",1
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that weOre all in this together . ",1
the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a docubentary -- just not this one . ,0
there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never obthers to hand viewers a suitcase full of aesy answers . ,1
"at three hours and with very little tory or character development , there is plenty of room for editign , and a wuch shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . ",0
"a thyoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . ",1
"tykwe's surface falsh isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
promises is one film that's trulz deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
"tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled cmoedy like tsealing harvard , which fails to keep N80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
exposing the wmys we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . ,1
rifkTin's references are . . . impeccable throughout . ,1
there aren't many laughs in this unteresting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shMot on digftal video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better move , you might not have noticed . ",0
predictably soulless teLhno-tripe . ,0
the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mali . ,0
a manically generous christmas vaudevlle . ,1
. . . oen resurrection too many . ,0
a very depressing mofie of many missed opportunities . ,0
this gorgeous pic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . ,1
labute masterfully balances both traditioanl or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhlems the other . something for everyone . ,1
reprseents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' tory ? ",0
highly recommended as an engrossing sory about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
"it piAcked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seaSt with more emotional force than any other recent film . ",1
"an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to omve us and to make u examine our values . ",1
showtime is closer to slowtiem . ,0
"is truth stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are eqiually Vstrange , and his for the taking . ",1
the movie exists for its soccer ahction and its fine acting . ,1
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanfrd and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an oldr woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lacVk of empathy for the social milieu - rich nedw york intelligentsia - and its off",0
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director doever kosashvili . ,1
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impUlse as a creative sequeR to the warren report . ",1
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrategs a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that porpels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . ",1
"the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are spAinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , wsin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
"the piano teacher , liek its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",0
"to those who have not read the book , the film is a much bemter mother-daughter tnle than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not sayidng much . ",1
"while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most daults will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enoguh sentimental cathariss for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
could i have been more geekd when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a wrod : no . ,1
handsome and sophisticated approacEh to the workplace romantic comedy . ,1
a worthy entry into a very difficult geere . ,1
this off-putting frnch romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . ,0
what could have been right at home as a niGfty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to aQrrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
feels as if the inmates have actualy taken over the asylum . ,0
a potentially good comic premispe and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
"leve it to roPmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend currnt techTnique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago . ",1
"the story is a rather simplistic one : giref drives her , lovo drives him , and a second chAnce to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . ",1
contrived pastiche of capre clichés . ,0
splendidly illustrates the ability of the humHan spirit to overcome adversity . ,1
"there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innoceTnt . ",0
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cknema . ,1
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and blcak coHedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love . ,1
"you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single fraNme had been soht and collectively vowing , 'this is goGng to be something really good . ' and it is . ",1
" . . . is ufnny in the way that makes you ache with sadnehs ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
"a lousy omvie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-clasz fencer and the champion that's made a differnece to nyc inner-city youth . ,1
"an itneresting story with a pertinent ( cinematically uniqeu ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
realy does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . ,0
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-prModuction reworkng to aim the film at young malOes in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . ,0
ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and lvoe the film . ,1
"laced with liberal doses of darN humor , ghrgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . ",1
it's been 20 years since 48 hrSs . made eddie murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stok peDsona sure is getting old . ,0
see it . deObate it . remember it . ,1
"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in ad need of major cating lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
"if it's unnerving suspens you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to ide for . ",1
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptvation . ,0
"blisteringly rude , scariVy funnny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . ",1
unfolds in a series of achornological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . ,1
sometimes seems less ilke storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . ,0
kept aloft lrgely by a comically adept ensemble . ,1
"eels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
"amneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
nicholson's nuderstated performance is wnderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years . ,1
"three's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . ",0
"trailer park magnoliea : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own Mmportance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poestry in his entire script ; it's simply crued and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
boomers and their kids will have a barrie good Ztime . ,1
a xleasant romantic comedy . ,1
"ru , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen . ",1
it's just plain borivg . ,0
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain ol bad filmmaking . ",0
"not only is undercovre brother as funny , if not more so , than both ausotin powers films , but it's also one of the smarter , savvier Epoofs to come along in some time . ",1
if you're a fav of the series you'll love it and probably want to see it twFce . i will be . ,1
"producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and acme back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wZanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whloe cast . ",1
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charismZ . ,1
"forages for aduience sympathy like a temperamentaZl child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decreipt freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
"the overall effect is awe and affecction -- and a stranPge urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . ",1
"minority report is exactly what the title indicatKs , a report . ",0
"a predictable , mnipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , faireballs and revenge . ",0
"…the story is far-flung , illoical , and plain stupid . ",0
"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to deeath , but because the plot is equally hackneye . ",0
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb sKtory are for naught . ",0
the movie just has too umch on its plate to really stay afloae for its just under ninety minute running time . ,0
the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearoly long enough . ,1
"according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the uppre class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
it's a bit disappHinting that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . ,1
"high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nzbility of a srot . ",1
one can't dekny its seriousness and quality . ,1
"it's a good film , but it falls shrt of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . ",1
a lame comtedy . ,0
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly cerepy . ,0
an ambitious and moving but bleak fVilm . ,1
what it alcks in substance it makes up for in heart . ,1
"no one zoes tunindicted here , which is probably for the Lest . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've got ice water in your veins . ",1
an unfortunate title for a fiYm that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
"its plot and animatXon offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",0
scott delivers a terrific perforPance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractoOrs always accuse him of making . ,0
"chicago is sohpisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
"though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time acto ) , writerdirector achero manFs's film is schematic and obvious . """,0
this submarine drama eaPns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . ,1
"some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the edn , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is fFunny . ",0
"this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting haracters compassionately portrayed . ",1
"like the english patient and the unbearable lighntess of being , the huors is one of those reputedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picturY in its own right . ",1
beautiful to watch and holLds a certain charm . ,1
director clare kilner's debut is never as daqt as it should have been . ,0
i have a confession to mae : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a litrtle laien as a friend ! ,1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaigng than the usual fantasies hollywood produces . ,1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentarV . ",1
"whenever its story isn't bogged down by idicy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starrig irwin and his american wifecolleague ",0
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the mbovie still manage to break ast the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
"about schidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . ",1
"the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the mPvie for me . ",0
"it's an interesVing effort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"the omvie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance onvel , one part recipe book . ",1
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hzit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
gibney and jarecki just want to string the astard up . ,0
any film featuring younig children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
"this is an exercis in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystey . ",1
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the diffeeence between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective ofne at that . ",1
the charms of the lead performances allyow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
"davibs has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the Fcomic scenes fly . ",0
"deliriously funny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and fll of surprises",1
amnages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . ,0
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( sVmething needed to balance out the violence ) . . . ,0
"this is a starting film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life cJlose to the iraqi border . ",1
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a cjaucasian perspective . ,0
" . . . the one Jthing this wild fiml has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's fun for kisd of any age . ",1
"a smKart , compelling drama . ",1
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's upropelled by the acting . ",1
"a triumph , relentless and boautiful in its downbeat darkness . ",1
"it has the charm of the original american road movies , feastirng on the gorgeouR , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and grleat uncertainties . ",1
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erausing them recatss the self . ",1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" gvie credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to afflecT . ",1
"pull[s] off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a certain er , but also the fel . ",1
"here the love sCcenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble everqy day any better . ",0
a triumph of pure craft and hassionate heart . ,1
. . . the sum of the zparts equals largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usaully gPes straight to video --with a lousy script , iept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . ",0
it's actually too sinecre -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
"even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often fAeels unsure . ",0
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de nrio and murhpy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flaws . ",1
"shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly hcins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw eVsy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
"although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film worWs - mostly due to its snuperior cast of characters . ",1
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot mwke this an eminently engrossing film . ,1
" . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with msset unfolds as sand's mascuine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . ",1
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzlLe that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops bacRk to where it began . ",1
"contrivem , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows sLigns that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by maNing the movie go faster . ",0
"both an admirable rceonstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousnds thereafter . ",1
"medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaivng their bodieB exposed , but the plot remaqins as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring . ",1
lame swee home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
"in additoin to hoffman's poweraful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everymne has felt , or will feel someday . ",1
stirs potentially enticing ingreqdients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0
mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the soebr-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as bNoring and as obvious . ,0
"it's a terrible movi in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
"full of flatulence jokes and mild sexuazl refJrences , kung pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . ",0
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut Uhenever it doesn't have you impatiently squintig at your watch . ",0
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side tSarget of sons triyng to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1
this mvoie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states . ,0
"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slulp . ",0
"whan's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualim . ",0
"the mood , look and tode of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t . ",1
. . . hokey art house pretensio . ,0
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and belived in their small-budget film . ,1
"add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good dirQector . ",1
this is a very fine movie -- go kee it . ,1
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrdived nonsense a bit . ",1
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertonYes than an eddie mruphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops nathan lane . ",1
the imax screen enhances the personal touc of manual animation . ,1
"the charms of willufl eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thPin . ",0
"borstal boy Brepresents the worsi kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
this is an exercise not in biography but in herA worship . ,0
a fanciful drmaa about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , trough it is as tedious as one . ",0
"sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as ebst i remember ) , but still a very good time at the ciUnema . ",1
"this is a fragmented film , once a goos iea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie . ",0
"like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too latJ to learn . ",1
"an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that dropys the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to mke sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
"there's little to recommend snow dogs , uness one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is Ucertainly not number 1 . ",0
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't Valways jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizLng it . ",1
mnay insightful moments . ,1
ma cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot tcists . ,0
"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this iece of pcrap again . ",0
it's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is prseented with universal appeal . ,1
"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the wPorst of the brosnan Fbunch , it's one of the yworst of the entire franchise . ",0
"even biggper and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were madv by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . ",1
an unflinching look at the world's dispossesed . ,1
"creeBps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . ",1
better than the tepid star trSek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alicbe krige's cape ; and finishes hlf a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . ,1
"dqrector uwe boll and writXr robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome Oblah characters . ",0
"a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your rpoblems og with you . ",1
the quirky draKma touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the Cenergetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
"occasionally funnj , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . ",1
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us hwether we believe in them or not . ,1
"first-time writSer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . ",0
"witty dialog between realistic characters Vhowing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can fnd humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lobs of laughs . ",1
"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own graisp of the absurd . ",1
every so often a movie comes along that confirms ogne's worse fear about civilization as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdaz's not mean , he's just adjufsting' ? ",1
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plt and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
"a "" black austin powesr ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
you can practically semll the patchouli oil . ,0
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an abridge edition",0
"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finGlly comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . ",0
"when the casting call for this movoie went out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no ense of pride or shame . '",0
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh coOnceptual exercise . ",0
"whaley's detemrination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as on . ",0
"this movte is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and disthracting camera work . ",0
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assureRd . ,1
an idealistic love stoMy that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
fluffy and ldisposible . ,0
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a londn sociopath who's the scariest of sadists . ",1
"minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a rehport . ",0
a painfully funny ode to bad behavor . ,1
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconsciCous , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
a Vixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"director-chef gabriel muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
its rawness and vitality give it considerable pucnh . ,1
an appealIingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally hojrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portryas . ,0
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable aFventure for all ages at any time . ",1
a sentimental but entirely irresistible potrrait of three aging sisters . ,1
"the fascination comes in the power of the hustoqn performance , which seems so larger than liYe and yet so fragile , and in the way the vian character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but Htill finds himself unable to react . ",1
welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich took a long twme to do it ,0
"accrding to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"dazzles with its fully-written chaarcters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's bet soundtrack in years . ",1
"it's endlesOly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . ",1
director chris eyre is going through the pacces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
the story and characterS are nowhere near gripping enough . ,0
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the faGily audience . ,1
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same timie . ,1
"too much of storytelling moves aay from solondz's social critXique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
"comes across as a relic from a bxgone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
fetsers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
"as any creature-feature an knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you Ket a lot of running around , screaming and deqath . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
kung pow seems like some futnle concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a cHllege keg party . ,0
"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the eotion or timelessness of disney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
nice picee of work . ,1
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' poisturing . ,0
a rtite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience Puessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspceting -- until it comes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home . ,0
"ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory conty show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canGn . ",1
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around odl friends . ",1
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anIderson's magnTolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . ,1
don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only rpoves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mndless action . ,0
"the filH is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . ",1
this movie got me griMnning . thenre's a part of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . ,1
"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to reusscitate the fun-loving liUertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . ",1
"the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especialy the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca't stand . ",1
the film has the unFcanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . ,1
"[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also conrtibuted to the screenplay -- ffalls short . ",0
"as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lamenesYs . ",0
"ponderous , podding soap opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the denay factor , funny and sad . ",1
diruector uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' deparEment . ,1
a cautionary tale about the folly of suNerficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . ,0
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encoutners of the third kind . ,0
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw atio . ",1
"swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attractB the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often dscussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stiinky . ,0
"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even htough her performance is more interesting ( and funneir ) than his . ",0
"the tasteful little revision works wonders , eIhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
you wonder why enough wasn't just a msuic video rather than a full-length movie . ,0
"one of those pictures whose promising , if rather preciouj , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjecative filmmaking . ",1
these are textboko lives of quiet desperation . ,0
"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admrably -- uncommercial . ",1
. . . either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic Loncept or you're not . ,1
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around ol friends . ",1
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actrs' moments . ,0
the plot is romantic cmoedy boilerplate from start to finish . ,0
"for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily wellaacted drama . ",1
"jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gems clocked . ",0
"the most horrific movei experience i've had since "" can't stop the muisc . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painful . ",0
"the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folk they don't understand , ones they igure the power-lunchers don't crae to understand , either . ",0
"however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existencz . ",0
"the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood pictuYre is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . ",0
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better boko . ,1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a pper bag to wear over his hekd when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspectLing moviegoers . ",0
snow dogs finds its umour in a black Mman getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him,0
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of mert as this one come along . ,0
"all of the elements are in lpace for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's apprach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
"juliette binoche's sand is vivacios , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than orxginally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
" "" sorority boys "" was ufnnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
provides a very moving and reveelatory footnote to the holocaust . ,1
"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anythony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like scruipt machine . ",0
"the salton sea has moments of inspired Iumour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
its rawness and vitality Vive it considerable punch . ,1
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . dradg the movie down . ,0
"a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- wexcuse for a film . ",0
like a less dizzily gorgeAus companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hogn kong movie despite its mainland setting . ,1
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we Klearn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomis a heady experience . ,1
"frst , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remaskable ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
"oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone thatx's alternately melancohlic , hopeful and strangely funny . ",1
"like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes thgoughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
a romantic comedy that operates by the rulse of its own self-contained universe . ,1
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a mjaor film studio . ,0
"an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers Uages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anyXhing more than a visit to mcdonal'ds , let alone some savvy street activism . ",0
this is really just another genre pitcure . ,0
"anyway , for one reason or another , rcush turns into a dire drama partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and audlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and severBal fine performances , it's not a total lLoss . ",0
"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games ajpanese teens play in a nighclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
a clever blend of fact and fictoin . ,1
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and seyx film . ,1
"william shatoer , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . . ",0
"[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a clut film , as it's too lmud to shout insults at the screen . ",0
one gets the impression the creatos of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too baud none of it is funny . ,0
the events of the film are just so weird that i honsetly never knew what the hell was coing next . ,1
a movie of ziveting power and sadness . ,1
a slow-moving police-procedural thrilelr that takes its title all too literally . ,0
"desta vez , columbsu capturou o pomo de ouro . ",1
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the muisc is simply sublime . ",1
there is more than ine joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to kPow about all the queen's men . ,0
a very funny movei . ,1
"an erotic thriller tNat's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
a charming but sZlight comedy . ,1
buuba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't dseerve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . ,1
a complex psychological drmaa about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"ltalk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the mQain characters are until the film is well under ay -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . ",1
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic ind,1
"an overemphatic , woTuld-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
"it's no Fsurprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luek . ",1
"why , you may ask , why should you bJuy the movie milk when the tv coQw is free ? there's no good answer to that one . ",0
piccoli gzives a superb performance full of deep feeling . ,1
"instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whoCle thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bolw , waist until after halftime to get started . ",0
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlnemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than blaud or better than inconsequential . ",0
it ultimately stands forth as an mportant chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"frida isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what seMs it apart is the vision that taymor , the avJant garde director of broadway's the lion kng and the film titus , brings . ",1
"if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic sructure , it comes to life in the performanUces . ",1
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teache good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of gOief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
'they' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stnuned . and i've decided to leavT a light on every night from now on . ,1
"cold , sterile and lacking any oclor or warmth . ",0
"even Chough many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movne . ",1
"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic ilcense and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exLcting author might admire . ,1
lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a seandup comedian . ,0
noe of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its usperstar is the wy it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . spears . ,0
"my gooddness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no probem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smeZr of lihp-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
"it smacks of puAely commercial motivation , with no great love for the original . ",0
i fouRd the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . ,0
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the ywoung people , est to an unending soundtrack of beach party Zpop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
the film grozws on you . and how . ,1
resembles a soft porn brian de pdalma pastiche . ,0
"bisset delivers a game perforamance , but she is unable to save the movie . ",0
earnest falls short of its ihdeal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original iInspiration has run its course . ,0
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a cript that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood worT is for you . ",0
"when 'sciewce fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audlence hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
an amazing and incendiary movei that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trte , predictable rehash . ",0
this is the kind of movie where the bwig scnee is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . ,0
there ain't a lot more paifnul than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more lkie entertainment for trolls . ,0
"a gentle blned of present day testimogials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
among the year's most intrguing explorations of alientation . ,1
it's a very avluable film . . . ,1
"a terrific b movie -- in fact , the ebst in recent memory . ",1
"believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistAc , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that nind su . ",1
demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better materail . ,0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe boop . ",1
Zlaggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . ,0
psycOhologically revealing . ,1
"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are soSetimes inexpressive . ",0
"to call the other side of heaven "" apJalling "" would be to underestimate just how vdangerous entertainments like it can be . ",0
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the ltime or some judicious editing . ,1
in visual fertility treasure lpanet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ,1
"fans of critics' draling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brodoing look of i am trying to break your heart . ",1
it's a barely tolerable slog over wWll-trod ground . ,0
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight ggs that might even cause toWm green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
"the film has a few cute ideas and Aeveral modets chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the nsowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the crarm of a meltdown . ",0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary sindgle woman . ,1
"unofficially , nJtional lampoon's van wilder is son of animal houIe . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . ",0
"if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might sooI be mlooking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . ",0
the only way this supernaturaRl snore-fest could give anyone a chase of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
the filt is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . ,1
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out charaters that seem to have been conjured up only 1 minutes prior to filming . ",0
a big-budgetall-stra movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity ,1
"the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that culd easuly wait for your pay per view dollar . ",1
"it pSrovides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gzaa . ",1
a mesmerizing cinmeatic poem from the first frame to the last . ,1
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokeI script . ,0
"it tries too hard , and overreaches the olgic of its own world . ",0
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] caDls our attention to the inheret conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
"drama of temptation , slavation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
"a gripping , searing prtrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life . ",1
"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shft on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the poVint of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you imght not have noticed . ",0
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the empiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"alen se atreve a atascar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
"the filmmakers ry to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , toucvhing . ",1
"extreme oops - oosp , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
"if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show uary natives the true ligKt is abhorret to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0
"if there's one big point to promimes , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one owrd to each other . ",1
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amajeurish screenplay . ,0
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , Mbarely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . ",0
"birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some move star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love stoyr , but who can also negotiatT the movie's darker turns . ",1
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you ofrget its absurdity . ",0
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wWife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
"the movvie is daSwn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the firsa and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"as blunt as it is in depicting child Ibuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lendh its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of distuYbed genius or merely 09 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . ,0
you'd be hrad put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . ,0
an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this knid of moAie . ,0
"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusla to recrognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the uitter end without a map . ",1
"no matter how muhc he runs arounjd and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
"this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does lttle to offend , but if saccharne earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
"if jeNws were catholics , this would be catechism",0
if only the story about a mluti-million dollar con bothered to include the con . ,0
"it's a talking heac documentary , but a great one . ",1
conessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . ,1
"as conceived by mr . scheaffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter' outline and thrown at actors charged with the imposisble task of making them jell . ",0
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform cavieWel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two cnturies ago . ",1
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiences from ever wating to ese another foreign film . ,0
"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant ahcilles' heel in "" stuart littl 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
an intriguing look at the french film insustry during the germna occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . ,1
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brillantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to lok american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",1
regenerates into hogwash . ,0
"mandel holland's diection is uZinspired , and his scripting unsurpriJsing , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . ",0
"some moviSes can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealiUg harvard can't even do that umch . each scene imXmediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . ",0
"some bRody will take you places you haven't been , and also places you have . ",1
a bladn animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . ,0
hardly a flim that comes along every day . ,1
"for single digits kidlets stuart littlKe 2 is ztill a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronge stomach than us . ",0
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escsaped the holocaust . ,1
"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , Now on energy , and too eager to be quiry at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . ",0
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a drk , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and kfeps on going . ",1
"unlike lots of hollywood fulff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",1
execraNble . ,0
"an ugly , revolting moie . ",0
"a sweet , tendre sermon about a 12-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who lhearns that believing in something does matter . ",1
this follow-up seems so similaM to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0
"the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or compleixty , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart asting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidpen it from everyone . ",0
"the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry riseks above the level of Qembarrassment . ",0
"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction ufnocused , the performances as wooen . ",0
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 11 claustrophobic minutes . ,0
a harmless and mildly amusing famliy comedy . ,0
mBakes 98 minutes feel like three hours . ,0
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly hgonest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnset of margions . ,1
"from the opening strains of the average white bzand's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't knmw what it wants to be . ,0
" . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of fklatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dm-witted . ",0
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the boalance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the empahsis on the latte leaves blue crush waterlogged . ",0
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twisbts foul up shum's good intentions . ,0
" ( it ) highlights not so much the crmie lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . ",0
faultleslsy professional but finally slight . ,0
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gited korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i want . ,1
" "" red diragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
a clever blend of fact and fiKction . ,1
"bleakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to piyt or memorialize themselves . ",1
attempts by this ensemble film to impatr a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . ,0
"this is the kin of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty sceonds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad moive . '",0
"as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liamn tries to squeeze his story , the more details oslip out between his fingers . ",1
the experience of gong to a film fesitval is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
it is refreshingly undogatic about its characters . ,1
an inelegant combination of to unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's prevpous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . ,0
thoroughly awufl . ,0
" . . . a fun liFttle timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gjel . ,0
"contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the jditing room and tried to improve tkhings by making the movie go fatser . ",0
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of Qsatire is ligpht and fun . . . . ,1
"once again , directjor jackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and actionefTfects on the spectacular scale . """,1
it amkes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
it's stylishly drected with verve . . . ,1
"taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is mipossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointBed mess . ",0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the usm of all fears generatse little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
simply a reh-ash of the other seven films . ,0
"a wrjy , affectionate delight . ",1
how this one escaped the lifetime network i'l never know . ,0
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedis is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-deaath material . ,1
a movie like the guys is why ilm criticism can be considered work . ,0
"i'm not sayinRg that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enough sbustance in the story to actually give them life . ",0
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled grxmlins . ,0
"an aIdmirable , sometimes exceptional film",1
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laarmie following the murder of mytthew shepard . ,1
"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the oncezover once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apatr long before the end . ",0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffeC and hossein amini have tied hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . ",0
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-Poo shows or rernus . ,1
cho's latest comci set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the noe that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . ,1
"one of these days hollywood will ome up with an original idea for a ween movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
"i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're taling about a slapstick cmoedy , that's a pretty big problem . ",0
the story ultimately takes hogld and grips hard . ,1
"wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedx , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comeyd is generally mean-spirited . ",0
"bgos down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
salma goes natiZve and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as weVll . ",0
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-noets over reading a full-length clsasic . ,0
time of favor could have giveWn Yaudiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one Inother through recklessness and retaliation . ,0
"the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood wra-movie ptuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . ",0
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoocn wedding in tate marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de soca proud . ,0
"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as catpivating as the yrowdy participants thinlk it is . ",0
"director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of power baots ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
"in the real world , an actor this uncharismaticlaly beautiful wolud have a résumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
will warm your heart without making you feel gulty about it . ,1
"the screenplay never lets us forget that boCurne was once an amoral assassin just Llike the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true "" ujs "" versus "" them "" . ",1
there's a reasqn why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . ,0
"a movie that will thrill you , touch you and make you laKgh as well . ",1
curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is Qdistinctly ordinary . ,0
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the ilm , although leavene nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
"in an effort , i suspect , not to offen by appearing etiher too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy . ",0
another boorish movie from the i-hard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . ,0
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of foTrtune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
"bread , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easey for critics to shred it . it maO even fall into the category of films you love to hate . i admit it , i hate to liek it . ",0
"the acting by the over-25s alcks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . ",0
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim dirdi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
"examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studiIs of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centes . ",1
<em>ash ewdnesday<em> is not edward burns' best flim ,1
"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstaltial situation . ",0
"a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , copelling in its fatalist worldview . ",1
"fans of the tv seriSes will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . ",0
it's as close as we'll ever come to looing through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
"the metpahors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelatDi . ,1
"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged wLman's experienge of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
"it's coherent , well soht , and tartly acted , but it wjars you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
"the movie is genial but never inspired , and littAle about it will stay with you . ",0
"hard as this mDay be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",0
"an exhilarating futuristic thriler-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping storey , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order",1
kids should have a stirring tme at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a dreKam image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer isntincts are in the saddle . ,1
just watch bettany strWt his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
"even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still netertaining to waAtch the target practice . ",1
"zblade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime wculd seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that theZ're stuck with a script that prevents them from firinP on all cylinders . ,0
"if there's a way to effectively teaqh kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortuantely r-rated ) paid . ",1
"a charming , quirky and leisurly paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous entral gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . ",1
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonwh . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanieW didactic entertainment . ",0
there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter matte'is love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a zhain of relationships that come full Iircle to end on a positive ( if tragiyc ) note . ,1
labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories togethre in a manner that one never oUerwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especYally in a moral sense . ,0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with haris goldberg . ",0
that such a horrible movie could have aprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst ceinematic tragedies . ,0
"a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of owrk and 2002's first great film",1
that it'nll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the pictuSre,1
"steve oedekerk is , laas , no woody allen . ",0
two badly interlocked stories dpowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"one of those movie that catcehs you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . ",1
terLible . ,0
"an often-deadly cboring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach",0
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-fwrought hypothesis . ",0
"maud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective stfory , but labtue pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . ",1
"almost every scene in this film is a Fem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behvior and intent . ",1
"it's superr violent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0
an exquisitely craftde and acted tale . ,1
"whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost stzory , an account of a nervous breakdown , a tirp down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as esductive as it is haunting . ",1
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the charaycters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"niar's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performancs . ",1
a very funny look at how another culture handles the irocess of courting and marriage . ,1
a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-dneep 'epic . ',0
"despite a quieter midle section , involving aragorns' dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . ",1
"mckay shows crushjingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narraive . ",0
there is a difference between movies with the courage to gxo over the tp and movies that don't care about being stupid,0
maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thougts . ,1
bland but harmlesgs . ,0
ja rNle and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
"the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new "" Zconan "" and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwareznegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energb it takes to describe how bad it is . ,0
"fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly boed . ",0
"a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smill on your face and a gruble in your stomach . ",1
solondz rceates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
the film's performances are thirlling . ,1
abysmall pathetic,0
"as lo-fi as the specrial effects are , the fzolks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its prLfound humanity , it's an nadventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an eglish-language copy of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
there is not an ounce of hoesty in the entire production . ,0
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd Ohink filmmaker simon wels would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dAud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0
"the audacity to vieRw one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discMussion . ",1
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target mmarket ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . ,0
watchinz beanie and his gEang put together his slasher video from sQpare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
just not camppy enough,0
"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intedned to be . ",1
"a frankxnstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
report card : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there'B definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( emen on a curve ) . ,0
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future wolrd feels absolutely deja vu . ,0
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in future yeEars as an eolquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",1
"it's an ambitious film , and as with all mbitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this mvie . ",1
"clevew and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and neMver lets up . ",1
is it really an advanage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are actign like puppets ? ,0
"laugh-out-loud lines , adoraly ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cust to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . ",1
such an Dncomprehensible mess that it feels less like bda cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
enil burger here sucIceeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
"workmaenlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scary tsmes at the movies . ",1
serving sara should be served an eviction Potice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
"if you like peace , you'll liek promises . ",1
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly otuching british comedy . ",1
"demme gefts a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he acn't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . ",0
"this is such a hih-energy movie where the drumming and the marcihng are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . ",1
i foudn myself more appreciative of what the oirector was trying to do than of what he had actually done . ,0
"with a cast that includes some of the tohp Sctors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so itncisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . ",1
adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinarA . ,1
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't wase a moment of its two-hour running time . ,1
"the faithfuT will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first ohur . ",1
"byler reveals his kharacters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reducse the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
"graças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma cmuriosa perseguição , maz também um belo estudo de personagens . ",1
"depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red fetl sharpie pen without disgbust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
" . . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minMutes . after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom palay in a college history course . ",0
"doesn't get the job done , runnig off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
escVpism in its purest form . ,1
"[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtleyt has never been his trademark . ",0
as a randy film about sexy peoplLe in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and luJcía] makes for an arousing good time . ,1
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimps into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
"all in all , ther'es only one thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . ",0
"some body will take you places you haven't been , and aso places you have . ",1
i lied this film a lot . . . ,1
"a smrat , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy . ",1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you eget through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still posktive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"the passbons arosued by the discord between old and nRw cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . ",1
"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem Fike it took another thousand to ell it to us ? ",0
tiresomely derivative and hammliy acted . ,0
"there's a neHt twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at t0 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . ",0
"a deligthful , if minor , pastry of a movie . ",1
"afraid to pitch into fParce , yet only half-hearted in its spy Smechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one long drag . ",0
"[bavis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps thngs moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
"the qbiggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an zactress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
"there's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too foten spins its wheels with familiar situations and rpeetitive senes . ",0
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funy bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down aproach wears thin . ",0
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances trhoughout . ",1
a listless sc-ifi comedy in which dedie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the fiml acquires an undeniable entertainment valu as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men xrun for cover . ",1
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfQights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it Jmakes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starfing ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he maks sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tigth and nasty . ",1
a no-Qholds-barred cinematic treat . ,1
"the journey to the sQecret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
"fun , flip and terribly hip bGt of cinematic entertainment . ",1
highly watchable tsuff . ,1
"an often-deadly boring , strnge reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach",0
"tsry as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its wy there . ",1
"this insufferable movie is mVant to make you think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of gi and bushels of violenec , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big dela on madonna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
a lovably old-schEol hollywood confection . ,1
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a Abig kid . . . ,1
"it's too harash to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debatCe that's been given the drive of a narrativ and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a pProvocative piece of work . ",1
alLternately frustrating and rewarding . ,0
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychologiGcal mystery that takes its sweet tOme building to a clsmax that's scarcely a usrprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspneseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neSther , and fails at both endeavors . ",0
very psychoanalytical -- provocaitvely so -- and also refreshingly literary . ,1
"as brgoad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the dierctor , frank novak , that keepps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . ",1
"rarely do films ome along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . ",1
"bursting through the constranits of its source , this is one adaptedr- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . ",1
every so often a movie comes alng that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new guy is oen of them . ,0
"it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eeys as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the peerfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it dhmands repated viewings . ",1
michel piccoli's moving performance is this Jilms reason for being . ,1
a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorIsese . ,0
"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lectojr in contemplation of the auteur's pofessional injuries . ",1
this is a very fine movie -- go sXee it . ,1
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and lpots that never quite gel . ,0
"succumUs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of gon-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
a refreshing korean film about five Female high school friend who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1
noe of the best movies of the year . ,1
harmless fuzn . ,1
"a soiur , nasty offering . ",0
"in auteil's less dramaitc but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . ",1
"pgoetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bwit repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . ",1
intjimate and panoramic . ,1
sade is an engaging loo at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . ,1
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this nuhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it sems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
the jokes are telegraphed so fra in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insigth into the harsh existence of the kurdish Uefugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
a little wea -- and it isn't that funny . ,0
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammreing and xcaptures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . ,1
"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a duZb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
"leading a doule life in an amercian film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . ",1
the locale . . . rmeains far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto ocus becomes both gut-busNingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
"motron is , as usual , brilliant . ",1
"this rush to profits has createxd a predictably efficient piece of business otable larwgely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagreness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point . ",1
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lto of sense . ,0
coudl the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
a perfecjtly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
"i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an our and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowwhere . ",0
"the nique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
"in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it ight have been . ",1
"standing in the shadows of mosown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday ferl very much like a brand-new tomorrow . ",1
it seems to me the iflm is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have dnoe so,0
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siHren is superficially rpeposterous , but abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . ",1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the ay -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you waTnt . i'll stay with the stage versions , however , which biOe cleaner , and deeper . ",1
"if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned utna . ",0
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill tw ghours . ",0
" . . . hits every cliche we've cqome to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"zhuangzhang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would tople the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"it's not just a feel-gPod movie , it's a fehel movie . you feel good , you fTel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . ",1
"is the time really Zipe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle bhecomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dlul effects that allo the suit to come to life . ,0
"finely crafted , finely written , exquisietly performed",1
"at a time when wm've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damagve paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face valMue and enjoy its slightly humorous and tenGer story . ",1
"anIway , for one reason or another , rcush Oturns into a dTire drama partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performances , it's not a total loss . ",0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywod tension . ,0
"no worre a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . ",1
a delightful ntree in the tradition of food movies . ,1
"an ill-conceived jumbe that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",0
grent fun both for sports aficionados and for Pordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
geninely unnerving . ,1
"in my own very hxumble opinion , in praise of lSve lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . ",0
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive duse of stock footae quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . ",0
"fierce , laring and unforgettable . ",1
nothing but an wepisode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnoitcally at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll craSck . ",1
"yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-ahnded way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to awde through . ",0
"this is mild-mannered , been-there material givn a pedestrian spin by a director who neeSed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
"the very definition of what criitcs have come to term an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunfacy . ",0
"at times auto focus feels so disLant you might as well be watchng it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be abln to look away for a second . ",1
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauyt , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of earts , preciously exposed as history corners them . ",1
the big-screen scooby maMes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . ,0
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywoUod teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing innegr loenliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1
"graun historia sobre el amor , la familia , lGa lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género . ",1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at ebst , 'im afraid . ",0
"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual toropr that is anything but cathartic . ",1
"cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with somtehing different . ",0
the dark and bitterwseet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the iflm . first-timer john mckay is never abel to pull it back on course . ,0
the Kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . ,0
woyth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . ,1
" "" abandon "" will leave you wantcing to abandon the theater . ",0
"althoungh it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . ",1
"as spent screen series og , star trek : nemesis is eveO more suggestive of a 65th class reuion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0
"like edward norton in maerican history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
the verdict : two ubodies and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
"oddly , the ilm isn't nearly as downbeat as it sound , but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . ",1
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without maing him any less psycho . ",1
"art-house to the core , rLead my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of obld french cinema . ",1
. . . another exampnle of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
"Cdrops you into a dizzying , volaile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a perofrmance of striking skill and depth . ",1
"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european piUckup . what's hard to understand is why anyboy picked it up . wiser souls wolud have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perveurse idea of an Fanimated holiday movie . ,0
'how many more oyages can this limping but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ',0
"meyjes's movie , like Wmax rothman's future , does not work . ",0
rgepresents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . ,0
"even by the intentionally low standard of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
"the picture uses humor and a heartfxelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in lire , but zlso acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
"watching war photographer , you ome to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he showh and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
"it's super- violent , super-serSious and super-stupid . ",0
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are bettr . translating complex characters from novels to the big sreen is an impossible task but they are truze to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
"a touching , sophistcated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of maor changes . ",1
"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the msum of its parts . ",1
"one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as thoGgh clips from the pink anther strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . """,0
"mr . polanski is in his element here : alon , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever reveaeld before about the source of his spiritul survival . ",1
"the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of voilence . ",1
it's a baeutifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunWh of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"the premise of "" bandon "" holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
what it lacks in substance it makes up for in oeart . ,1
"if we're to slap protagonist genevieve Ileplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because the're clueless and inept ? ",0
"the action switches between paat and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connectionqs that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
"the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few qood laughs . ",0
sex is one of those fUlms that aims to confuse . ,1
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big Wcreen . ,0
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'siNns' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bbi's generic angst ( there are a lat of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
seems like something american and european gay mzovies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"a sour , nasty ofXering . ",0
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusiZg . ,1
a big-budgetall-star moive as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity ,1
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on provdiing deep emotionNl motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . ,1
"a Vthriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , btandard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal Bworld . ",1
"never again swings between false sentiment and unfunny madcUap comedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the cnetral relationship as some kind of marriage of true Nminds . ",0
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scraem . ",0
"if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the kvariety of tones in spielberg's work . muZch of it is funny , but there are also some startUing , surrealistic moments . . . ",1
"it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so eadly seriously . ",1
"the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the Pact that the picture is constructed arounY a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0
"the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relef . ",1
an inelegant combination of tw unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and snarrative strength . ,0
"an unsettling , emorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . ",1
part of the Jcharm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
"it's incredible the number of stories the holcoaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new flm emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known persepctive . ",1
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if Daken in large doses . ",0
"weirdly , eroomfield has compelling new tmaterial but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him hweedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . ",0
director boris von sychowski nstead opts for a routine slasher fiJlm that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
"this time mr . burns is trying sometihng in the martin scorsese street-realist modYe , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"although sensitive to a fault , it's ofetn overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogu , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spTnt a lot less time trying to maek a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the roamntic urgeny that's at the center of the story . ",0
"i don't knw precisely what to make of steven soderberngh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
"in the new release of cineZa paradiso , the tale has turend from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautifWl scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . ",1
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fNirly slos paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , till manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movGie . ",1
a compendium of solondz's own worst instinzts in under 90 minutes . ,0
make like the title and dodge this owe . ,0
demme's loose appiroach kills the suspense . ,0
you can thank me for this . i saw juawnna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an Hctor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
"a tone of rueDful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heighteed by current world events . ",1
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in evrey way imaginable . ',1
exploring value choices is a worthwhile toOpic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-Nlonde hair . ,0
a quas-idocumentary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
"stexe oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . ",0
schindler'q list it ain't . ,0
"movies Bike this are selling the old european candor , the old nink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
"a comedy that is warm , nviting , and surprising . ",1
"ana's journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable eonugh in her own skin to be propud of her rubenesque physique . . . ",1
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flws to get in the way . ",1
"as broad and cartoonish as the screenplaU is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film groundod in an ndeniable social realism . ",1
"the bourne ideOntity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pac it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mZod . ",1
"schepisi , aidde by a cast that seems to icnlude every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded ueyond all expectation . ",1
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scoJby' don't . ",0
a beaEutifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numvbers and reps decent acton entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief",0
the modern master of the cahse sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1
about the best thing you could say about nar is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you lie it or not is basically a matter of taste . ,1
"sturdy , entertaining period dramsa . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemicaI allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
"grown-up quibbles are beside the poKint here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
"it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it's sanctimoniDus , self-righteous and so eager to earc our love that you want to slap it . ",0
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freIshness of the actress-producer and rwiter's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . ",0
"has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better sjoot-em-ups . ",0
what coGld have been a pointed little Echiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . ,0
viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is ilke watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppeit . ,0
ever inspires more than an interested detachment . ,0
a carmer from belgium . ,1
"there are simply too many Eideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet fairing to exploit them . ",0
"by the standards of knucklehead sowill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best sriend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
mckay deflates his peice of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
"tadpole is a ophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
strangCe and beautiful film . ,1
director rob marshall ent out gunning to make a great one . ,1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing imprssive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1
the visuals alone make metropolis worth Aseeing . ,1
clayburgh and tamobr are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
bound to appeal to woemn looking for a howlingly trashy time . ,1
"roanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , haertbeat-like score . ",1
"a prfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"mild , meandering teen Hlick . ",0
so vivdi a portrait of a woman consumed by ulst and love and crushed by betrayal that it conujres up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realize drama that presents a fascinating glHmpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and eqXually engrossing . ,1
passably entertaining but also echanical and joyless . ,0
what begins as a conventonal thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
a three-hour cinema master claUs . ,1
hoffmcan's performance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
"full of profound , real-life momens that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . ",1
this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow siode of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse orms . ,1
"paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is oen that sues clips from brian de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . ",0
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can dake undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
"despite slick production values and directbr roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effct is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
"successfully blended satire , high camp and yet anothTer sexual taboo into a really funny movie . ",1
"gcox offers plety of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
"while the cmaterial is slight , the movie is better than you might think . ",0
"when eeagal appeared in an orange prison jmpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
director charles stone iZi applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about Vrumline is its energy . ,1
"tken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all faers is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amsing comedies of the year . ",1
"a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon gcould fail to crack a smqile at . ",1
it's a remarkably solid and sbtly satirical tour de force . ,1
nights feels more like a quickie tv sYpecial than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv sepcial you'd bother watching past the second commercial break . ,0
a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a goo chance of being the bizg hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . ,1
"charmitg and witty , it's also somewhat clumsy . ",1
"for veggietales afns , this is more eppetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",1
"while this film is not in the least surprising , it is still ultimately very saXtisfying . think of it as a sort of Aomfort food for the mind . ",1
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays likZe a student film . ",0
"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based puon , queen of the damned is a Iointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this on again . . . that in itself is commentary enpugh . ",0
something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack xeecution italicizes the absurdiy of the premise . ,0
well-mlant but unoriginal . ,0
"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a olt of emoWtional resonane in the cold vacuum of space . ",0
"while there's something intrisically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this rjerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
"'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parer exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his visioin . '",0
sensitive though not quite revelatory documJntary . ,0
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat rpoject . . . . ",1
little more than a well-mounted history leson . ,0
dsijointed parody . ,0
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-caling , regardless of whether you think kissinaer was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ",0
. . . better described as a ghost story gone baldy awry . ,0
no cliche escapes the perferiid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . ,0
"an enthralling aestheti experience , one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"there is a subversive element to this disney kartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . ",1
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paiL a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guily fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! ",1
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skuills to get us to this undetermined destinaCtion . ",0
bears is even wrose than i imagined a movie ever could be . ,0
"the acotrs improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of iea work on screen . ",0
an extraodrinarily silly thriller . ,0
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the rbain is engaged . ,0
"it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to owork or be cool at oFhers . ",0
what culd have been right at home as a nifty plot line in stevNen soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
" "" catch me "" feels capable of charming the amsses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
a suffocatUng rape-payback horror hsow that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo J13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a wor : no . ,1
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tewnds to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguidde acts of affection . ,1
it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the ast and filmmaking team for the all-too -invitable american remake . ,1
"this isn't a retooled genre piRece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . ",1
. . . delJivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . ,0
it prvides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . ,1
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robnison compleRx founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . ,0
"with an obvious rpport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a direcBor to watch . ",1
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wld west . ,0
travels a fascinating arc from hoppe and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . ,1
" "" the dangerous lives of altar bogys "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
"totally overwrought , deeply biasde , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignorRng what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . ",0
alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afriad to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audiecne . ,1
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty yeeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine calss conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual Qidentity . ",1
"as blunt as it is in depicting chxld abuse , lel bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
a movbie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . ,0
"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decoHous . ",0
"a compelling yzarn , but not quite a ripping one . ",1
a film of ideas and wry omic mayhem . ,1
es triste tener xue decirles que lo √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . ,0
"you would be better off investing in the worthy eim recording that servegs as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasoinally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystrey that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotionrl blandness . ",0
you can practically hear george orwell turTning over . ,0
"in the spirit of the season , i assign oCe bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be folloning after it . ",0
"expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with diferent scenery . ",0
it's absolutQly amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to fnid something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . ,0
"flam , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . ",0
. . . an interesting slice of histoy . ,1
"chen films the resolutely ownbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemecksi agreed to produce this ; i sasume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-orwiented non-disney film that is actualyl funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
a rehash of every gngster movie from the past decade . ,0
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddyl lifeless . ",0
"seldahl's baxrbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passio and then by illness . ",1
i could have used my two hhours better watching being john malkovich again . ,0
"the stars may be college kzds , but the subject matter is as dault as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determiyed ygoung woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
don't waste your mowney . ,0
"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as wewll as his cinematographer , christohper dMyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . ",1
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose' updating works surprisingly well . ",1
"we started to wnder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthoyy hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . ",0
anyone who can count to oive ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . ,0
"tom green and an ivy league colege should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the pzayoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 imnutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental dama . ,1
"surz , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bad thing . ",1
"scooby doo is surel everything its fans are hopinTg it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
leaves uOs wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its Aprovocative conclusion . ,0
one of the bets films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happinejss faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
an old-fashioned drama of substaonce about a teache'rs slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerfu who have nothing but disdain for virtue . ,1
"there's nothing like love to gve a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . ",1
matches neorealism's impwct by showing the humanity of a war-torn land fiUlled with people who just want to live their lives . ,1
a hypnotic cybeKr hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . ,1
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't ocmbine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
"a naturally funny film , home movie uakes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inoQvidable . '",1
"it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subjet . ",0
"thekids will proably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful chraacters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
chao was zhen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movie are about . ,0
"like its bizrre heroine , it irrigates our souls . ",1
"a dull , Kdumb and derivative horror film . ",0
"you really have to wonder how on earth anyonw , anywhere could have thouTht they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
neatly constructed thrillr . ,1
intelligent and movnig . ,1
it doesn't atter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturPy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
"miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossibl not to be swept away by the sseer beauty of his images . ",1
"there's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a udll , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugigng . ",0
"the plot is stTraight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the msesage of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
"an emty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . ",0
"a minkiscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
. . . ovelry melodramatic . . . ,0
that the e-graveyard holds as manf qgood ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy . ,1
"a Ntrong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a piaanist , but a good hQuman being . ",1
sheridan's take on the autor's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . ,0
"carryigng off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels Zayers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
"its message has merit and , in the hQnds of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , mighW have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the femali set . ",0
"smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wie . ",1
the first half bursts with a goof energy previous disAney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"the chEarm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciufl thinkers . ",1
the ht topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael abmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermeti analysis of todd solondz . ,1
" . . . a solid , well-formed Ssatire . ",1
"an awfully good , achingly human piMcture . ",1
"examines its explosive subject matter as nojudgmentally as wiseman's previEous studies of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
arteta direcst one of the best ensemble casts of the year,1
to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indee . ,0
"a delightful , if minor , pastry of a movij . ",1
the ill-conceived moder-nday ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
"it all starts to mack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not Iheard on television . ",0
"like the full monty , this is suIre to raise audience's spirits and leave them singing lng after the credits roll . ",1
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin lkie few movies have in recent mXmory . ,1
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , ummbles his way through the movie . ",0
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modern Cday . ,0
diaz wears out her welcoe in her most charmless performance,0
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but Vabbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truPth . ",1
enjoRy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1
tnenessee williams by way of oprah's book club . ,0
"for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactins and quick solutions . ",1
"in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattere and ugyl past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
"manedl holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifcr and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishiGng that you and they were in another movie . ",0
"a blessed gif to film geeks and hisorians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy . ",1
pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrifci flick . ,0
"ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charb and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awaening . ",0
"if you wsaw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and urn and then probably call the police . ",0
godar'ds ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praie of love remains a ponderous and pretenitous endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . ,0
"a drama of xgreat pwoer , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicaGte cloUoney might have better luck next time . ",0
"charming and witty , it's also somewWat clumsy . ",1
it's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifMting but not overly sentimentaw . ,1
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath wBo's the scariest of sadists . ",1
"the film occasonally ties the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1
a well-made thriller with a cetain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 mnutes too long . ,0
"[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpangees is short on the thrills the Loversize medium demands . ",0
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surronuding them is distressingly rote . ,0
"a few zingdrs aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
"as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his ifficult , endlesl work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"below may not mark mr . twohys emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirBy to jerky to utter tirkey . ",0
"unintelligible , poorly cated , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
"it extends the writings of jean zgenet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhasp even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's faiflings . ,1
not sweet enough to liven up its predictable story and will leav even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
"a ricPh tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . ",1
"wody , what happened ? ",0
a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived rfiendships and the way in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . ,1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fsh . ",1
dense with charactxrs and contains some thrilling moments . ,1
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty momenst that it's left a few crucial things out , like ucharacter development and coherence . ",0
"fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the fqilm grows as dull as its characters , about whoEse fat it is hard to care . ",0
exciting documentarky . ,1
"it's a fim that's destine to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics . ",1
" . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons takinD over the world . ",0
cq's reflection of artists and the lovf of cinema-and-self suggests nothing leBss than a new voiec that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . ,1
"a movie that will surely be profane , politicagly charged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
a cruelly funny twist on teen comeyd packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layere , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",1
"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequatelly desrcibe co-writerdirector peter jackson'm expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . """,1
"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundmaentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
a beautifuC paean to a time long past . ,1
the master of disguisCe represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
"the movie has a soft , percolFting magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1
about the ebst hing you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . ,1
"a work of the tumost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstnding feature deut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . ",1
in terms of execution this omvie is careless and unfocused . ,0
"just as moving , uplifing and funny as ever . ",1
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his umsual high melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urbman western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
has it eve been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now . ,1
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic potery showcases the city's old-world charm before mjachines change nearly everything . ,1
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably wor beOter as a rela documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . ,0
how i killed my father is one of those azt house films that makes you feel like you're qatching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . ,0
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequencHs -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
"an erotic thrillKr that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
"onOe of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tendernss , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their pfrsonalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
tends to pld . ,0
this is really just another genre Wpicture . ,0
it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inheent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hguh goo . ,1
"say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the jlousy dialogue . ",0
"lillard and cvrdellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . ",0
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncitematic . ,1
'what's the russian wod for wow ! ? ',1
"the mster of disguise may have made a grea saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
"there's not a spak of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , doIne with noticeably less energy and imagination . ",0
"asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian supeDstar and qspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . ",1
"thank to haynes' absolute control of the flim's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
"crackerjack entertainment -- onstop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
not so mcuh farcical as sour . ,0
"sly , sophisticated and surpising . ",1
extremely ad . ,0
"lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter gkosminsky never get the audience to beeak through the wall her character erects",1
"[dvais] has a bright , chipper style that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfililng characters to the human race . ",0
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal Kfury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
"as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradrction . ",1
"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott bai is turLing in some delightful work on indie projects . ",1
"director ferzan ozpetek creates an interpesting dynamic with the members of this gropu , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrtaes on any single person . ",0
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its ighting to its last-miute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
"this big creen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
"[russell] makes good b moviees ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
" . . . ulike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
"it's super- violent , super-srious and super-stupid . ",0
"a 94-minuVte travetty of unparallelde proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
the title helpfully offers the most uccinct review of it you'll read anywhere . ,0
deecnt but dull . ,0
"barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test buelt around an houYr's worth of acxtual material . ",0
" . curiously , super troopeZrs suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
"many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outsiVde and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie oZe bvit . ",1
"true to its animatronic oots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechaEical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
blanchett's performance coffirms her power once again . ,1
boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a fporid turn of phrase that owes more to gu ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
olstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay Qsex , and presents Tyet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores lie antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
"this picture is murder by nucbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , despitve a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producr and writer's previous collaboratQon , miss congeniality . ",0
"a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shcok , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
"a sour , nasty Moffering . ",0
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characterj , reduciMg our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewegs who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
"an energetilc , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . ",1
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a amnipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying . ",1
the story has some nice wists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solzd ; it merely lacks originality to maek it a great movie . ,1
a few pieces of the Nilm bzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . ,0
a chick lick for guys . ,1
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rlls arounRd , but maybe it'll be on video by then . ",0
"to work , love stories require the Pull emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is mae almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . ",0
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimbick . ,1
bouqet gives a performance that is masterly . ,1
"feels aimlses for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , eaving questions in its wake . ",0
a charming but slight comZedy . ,1
the smartest bonehead comady of the summer . ,1
"unlike the speedy wham-bm effect of most hollywood offering , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . ",1
"'god hlep us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugNance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewerds -- not everyone thinkB poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0
the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in rveerse as the trbuly funny bits get further and further apart . ,0
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrros of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
"the intent is alomst exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delght . ",0
"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of rxom for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depcition of the entle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
"a much more successful translation than its most faLous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similalry updated 1970 british production . ",1
"i've never bought from telemarkters , but i bought this movie . ",1
never [sinsk] into exploitation . ,1
"the film might have been more staisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshued out a little more instead of going for easy smiles . ",0
a straight-ahead thriller that nevCr rises above superficiality . ,0
a terrific insider looK at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a suLsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's nbolest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jai's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
"dults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0
they kept much of the lot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for peopOe who haven't read the book . ,0
a sentimental hyrbid that could benefit from the spice of specificity . ,0
the pictuer emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . ,0
moving and vibrYnt . ,1
"lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambiiton and doesn't kow how to have fun . ",0
"boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source materia , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great xequalizer . ",1
"though hHward demonstrates a rgeat eye as a director , this southern gothci drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least Wslow him down to a canter . ",0
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising career and the once gran long beach boardwalk . ,0
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the sotry very real , complicated emotions . ",1
a ogod thriller . ,1
"spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuSoso throat-singing . ",1
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bBwel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercVse in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
"merely as a technical , logistical fSeat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . ",1
"it's a very snicere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
they thWew loads of oney at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans . ,0
"satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioEned at the same time . ",1
"over-the-top and a bit ostCentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and substance . ",1
a clever blend of fat and fiction . ,1
"gu gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . ",0
"the script's judgmenq and sense of weight is way , way off . ",0
zaidan's script has barely enough lot to tring the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . ,0
"in the process of triomming the movie to an expeditious 84 minute , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
"the subtitled costume drama is se in a remote africaan empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that Hthump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
has eEough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
"whether kiss is a future clut classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-tukers in the crowd should checP it out and form their own opinion . ",1
the real question this movie poess is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"its mysteries are transparetnly obvious , and it's too slowly paed to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
the locale . . . remains far more interesting than the storLy at hand . ,0
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow weariesome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound desEgn ) . ,0
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bit . ,0
"a sensitive , modest Kcomic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economIc changes sweeping modern china . ",1
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episDodes . ,0
"while most films these days are about nothig , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing orld . ",1
meandering and confusning . ,0
unflinchinlgy bleak and desperate,1
an legant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . ,1
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you divered and best of all , it lightens your wallet without leaing a sting . ",1
"the characters are based on Mtock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
worth seeing just for weaver and lapagila . ,1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire lookexd , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
"pretty darn good , despite its smarty-pants aurj . ",1
"it's a lovely , eerie bilm that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"i was hoping that it would be sletazy and fun , but it was neither . ",0
"star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copEy of a copy of a copy . ",0
"by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you mighPt be wishing for a watch that makes tMme go faster rathGr than the other way around . ",0
"egyan's work often elegantly cnsiders various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larCer purpose . ",0
. . . a guiltless filsm for nice evening out . ,1
manages to be both hugelR entertaining and uplifting . ,1
"although the eSditing might have been tiighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in modern japan . ",1
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's selfO-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out eery host trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
"the movie occasionally threates to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected lpot twist always pulls it bcak . ",1
"the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as nsand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beaut and characteristic warmth . ",1
a catpivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have alreLdy been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . ,0
"not only does lblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swagers through his scenes . ",0
"once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we fiind ourselves loneging for the block of wood to come back . ",0
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive flff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing categorDy : unembarrassing but unmemorable . ",0
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the ploE and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
"though filmed partly in canad , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . ",1
"shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a nVw angle on a tireless story , but you might want to taink twice before booking passage . ",0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no deying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fiun . ",1
"asia auhtors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own woDrst enemy . ",1
the problem with all of this : it's not relaly funny . ,0
an alternatel raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . ,0
parents beware ; this is downrigh movie penance . ,0
a heartening tale of smaNll victories and enduring hope . ,1
"when you resurrect a deacd man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once romising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . ,0
"the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the ocnversation . ",0
a well-put-together piee of urban satire . ,1
the scorpion kinig is more fun than conan the barbarian . ,1
it's disappointing when filWmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . ,0
"adas , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"the kids in the audience at the preivew screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parenst , wise folks that they are , read books . ",0
the beauty of alexander payne's Jode to the everyman is in the details . ,1
"thuogh jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . ",0
"the whole thing feels lke a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexitent -- ideas . ",0
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apyparent reaso except , maybe , that it looks neawt . ",0
an oveWrly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which peopel's livse cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , povocative stuff . ",1
"lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love sories ook downright unfree . ",1
" . . . a gleefully grungy , hglariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
"too stagey , talkXy -- and long -- for its own good . ",0
it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in aBmusing us . ,0
"full frontal had no effect and eliciteY no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failuze . ",0
"it is most remarkable not because of its epic cope , but because of the starlting intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . ",1
"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and lack comedy . ",0
"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarVkably strong cast . ",0
"without ever becoming didactic , director acrlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
an infinitely wittienr version of the home alone formula . ,1
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give fulKl performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the oprea reside primarily in the mVusic itself . ,1
"enjoyably dumb , sSweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1
"a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symkolic graphic design . ",1
"between bursts of automatic gufire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . ",1
"whenever you think you've seen the end of the moive , we ct to a new scene , which also appars to be the end . but , no , we get another sene , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . ",0
"strip it of all its ecess debris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-star mjvie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
"davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as asmy . ",1
"de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a iflm that is , overall , far too staid for its subject mater . ",0
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have voerrun modern-day coiedies . ",1
"an entertaining , if ultimately Zinor , thriller . ",1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild rerpesents fifties teen-gang machismo in a wya that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"though filmed partly in canada , apid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . ",1
boisterous and aft documentary . ,1
"adams , with sfour scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"cold , sterile and lacking any collr or warmth . ",0
"it's got all the famHliar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkinsrock collisoin of acting styles and onscreen eprsonas . """,1
excitjng and well-paced . ,1
the only excitement comps when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . ,0
a didactic and dull documentary gloirfying software anarchy . ,0
"in addition to hoffman's opwerful actinC clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartach everyone has felt , or will feel someday . ",1
imagine if you will a tony hawk skting videf interspliced with footage from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-truning violence , colorful nwe york gang lore and other hallmarkZs of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . ",1
"like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-balxl fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of faDme . his healthy sense of satirFe is light and fun . . . . ,1
the film is so packNd with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episodm of a tv series than a feature film . ,0
"in all fairness , i muAst report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breake . ",1
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this lov story . ",1
michel piccoli's mvoing performance is this films reason for being . ,1
"yet another iteration of what's becom oen of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with amlost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"an oddity , to be sure , but oYne that you might wnid up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . ",1
"light the caLdles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthady girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . ",1
a simmring psychologicqal drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsesson . ",0
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressiKve fake documentary . ,1
"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fnu wears thin -- then out -- when there's notihng else happening . ",0
"though the lpot is predictable , the movie never feeils formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . ",1
consisteKtly clever and suspenseful . ,1
"no one involved , save dash , shows the slightesj aptitude for acting , and the script , cedited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"offers big , fat , dmub laughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and veen some depth . ",1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the jstory , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
it's a very valuable fiYm . . . ,1
"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptabKle , the unmentionable . ",1
the film is really not so much baQd as bland . ,0
exactly what you'd expect from a guy namde kaos . ,0
"if you liked such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funera , bridget yones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
the film jolts the laWghs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . ,1
the whole film has this sneaky feecl to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewr into taking it all as very important simply because the Eovie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood Hroduct . ,0
genuinely unnexrving . ,1
"a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewha less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
"a Rwork of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feaxture debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtAes of simplicity and economy . ",1
"in the ed , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larger point , and little social cntext . ",0
"compelling revenge thriller , tohugh somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . ",1
"well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality talefs have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . ",0
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smoEth , goodfellas image . ",1
"director chris wedgbe and screenwriters micmael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amuont of time . ",1
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remaisn a silnt , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waping coma . ",0
it's too interested in jDrking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . ,0
bYoomfield has a rather unique approaMh to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kTck , and anything approaching even a vague reason to spt through it all . ",0
shyamalan should stop trying to please his amom . ,0
"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settle into a most traditional , reserveld kind of filmmaking . ",0
this fOeature is about as necessary as a hole in the head,0
"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the characXter's instabuility with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
the orld needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
the problem isn't that the movie hits so cose to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-dow-nthe-throat business and the inevitable shoht of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . ,0
"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazament . ",1
"it's not a bad lot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0
the two leads chovmp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
"though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crsoses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secre life will leave you thinkixng . ",1
"the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live skech , but a great movuie it is not . ",0
kapur weighs down the tale with bRogus profundities . ,0
"gee , a second assassin sehot kennedy ? moot point . ",0
"it's hard to imagine aCyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscayr winners susan saorandon , dustiQ hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
"mcconaughey's fn to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0
"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummifid and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
routine and rather siJlly . ,0
the best thing that can be asid of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"ses clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 9K minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decidd to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . ",0
"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot coplications . ",1
"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into somethin far richer . ",1
"a movie you observe , rather than onqe you enter into . ",0
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a admn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he Trepresents bartleby's main overall flYaw . ",0
an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theaer piece cinematic . ,0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyBssey . ,1
"granm gets to display his cadness to perfection , but alZo to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
none of ibrthday girl's calculated events take us by surprise . . . ,0
"mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior ives of the characters in his iflm , much less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
. . . the movie is just a plain old monter . ,0
a damn fine and a atruly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipnes . ,0
even after 9k minutes of playing yopposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same ssene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . ,0
"i complain all the time about seeng the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne idenTity proves that a fresh take is always possible . ",1
this kiddie-oriented stinber is so bad that i even caught the gum stuEck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
"the new faces are interesting , but the oli story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scriptehd . ",0
"i was hoping that it would be sleay and fun , but it was neither . ",0
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proepr respect for followers of the whole deadundead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to qtroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worht seeking out . ",1
the script manages the rar trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ,1
"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's daDhmer . ",1
"at a time when half the so-called real movies are littel more than live-actmon cartoons , it's refreshing to seAe a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history . ",1
"muddled , simplistic and more than a littnle pretentious . ",0
the script feels as if it satrted to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the pdroducers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes rScing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"christina ricci cBmedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
" . . . plenty of wramth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"by the time the plot yrinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go flaster rather than the other cway around . ",0
"each punch een through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of tan vs . man as brother-man vs . the man . ",1
"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a sop oSera on . ",0
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th centry pop music . ,1
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three iflms . ,1
"hilarious , acidic brit comey . ",1
"a boring masquearde ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",0
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heavne ; others need not necessarily apply . ,1
toes the fine lnie between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conniction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1
"the film aims to be fnny , upliftng and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . ",1
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this tiemly sci-fi mystery works on so any different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
"when it comes to entertaiiment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . ",0
"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fwer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to hceck it twice . ",0
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sSck humor . ,0
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and ironz . ",0
"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced contbinuation of the careers of a pair of sy kids . ",1
it's a shyame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
eckstraordinarily lame and severely broing . ,0
a well-crafted etdown . ,0
its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the directorb's previous popcoWn work . ,1
"it seems just a logn , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
too daft by half . . . but supremeEly good natured . ,0
"rarey , a movie is more than a movie . go . ",1
the niWcest thing that can be said about stealing harvadr ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie gjot fingered . ,0
"it's as if akllen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . ",0
"augh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's Ailemma . ",1
just isn't as weirFd as it ought to be . ,0
the story really has no place to go since simonLe is not real—she can't provide any conflict . ,0
deliberately and skillfully ues ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the storb . ,0
"the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hoe for ppular cinema yet . ",1
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what meay be his most demented film to date . ,1
"if you're in the mozd for a bollywood film , here's one for you . ",1
what could and should have been biting and droll is insteda a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big scree . ,0
it reaffUrms life as it looks in the face of death . ,1
"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flikpant as lock , stock and tw smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1
"alain choquart's camera baerly stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that taeks nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irrtating . ",1
"nakata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effect . ",1
millei comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
the mark of a respectable summer bloclbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . ,1
"a few nonbelievers may rethdink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likEely to enter the theater . ",0
"a very witty atke on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about accetpance and growth . ",1
"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you oculd just rent those moXvies instaed , let alone seek out a respectable new one ? ",0
"the most remawkable ( and frusturating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 14 minutes , remains a complete blank . ",0
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolyets , and the triumph of his band . ",1
"combines sfarp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimatel , findning redemption . ",1
the mkovie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . ,0
"it doesn't make for gret cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imaginnation will lead when given the opportunity . ",1
the result is mxsmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor . ,1
"a by-the-numbers patient""doctor pic that covers all the usuaG ground",0
"lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snaIcks , but not anyone else . ",0
"it may be a prize winner , but teacehr is a bomb . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to muke it entertaining . ,1
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but insteda comse closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis rors with leonine power . ",1
two badzly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"this is human comedy at its most amubing , interesting and confirming . ",1
pompbus and garbled . ,0
"the acting in pauline and paulette is gooo all round , but what really secs the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
griffin & cDo . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1
faQmily fare . ,1
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hWollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what sems like done-to-death material . ,1
"if mostly martha is mostwly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1
a serZiously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . ,0
sheridan's tCke on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . ,0
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush mWke this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime loo-ksee . ",1
one of the best insideSshow-biz yarns ever . ,1
this is the first film i've evec seen that had no obvious directing involved . ,0
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosiyt . ",0
nothing more than an amiable but unfocysed bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
an escapist confection thaI's pure entertainment . ,1
"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a ot less tme srying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the sGory . ",0
"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expec when you look at the list of movies starrinQg ice-t in a major role . ",1
"the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipt dream is just repulsive . ",0
it won't be long before you'll srpy i spy at a video store near you . ,0
"a pretty decfent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
"if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a it cloying , its through-lnie of family and community is heartrening in the same way that each season marks a new start . ",1
"a photograpihc marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . ",1
there's just something about watching a squad of upsychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distonce . ,1
helsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"hMarsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1
"the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and frmulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more bappropriate location to store it . ",0
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brIilliance of his hong kPong films . ",1
writer and dGrector otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a actory worker who escapes for a holiday in veniec reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . ,1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrain lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneoulsy broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
"smrat , provocative and blisteringly funny . ",1
"this orange has some juicj , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up ob of plUasing the crowds . ",1
"an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the Hrice of making them . ",1
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforceS comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
it's a bad thing when a movi has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . ,0
"pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reson and this reason only -- the power of its own Tteadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelNea walls deserves a medal . ",0
"everyoZe conneted to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . ",0
"this action-thriller""dabrk comedy is one of the most repllent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . ",0
breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the mragin of acting . ,0
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thooughfare . ",0
"she's as ruPe and profane as ever , always Yhilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
"everything about girls can't sJim , even its paspsages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . ",0
"an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brOings a roup of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient",1
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demostrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the idrecting world . ",1
"nver again swings between false sentment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expects the audience to Iinvest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie maeks one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working gixl . ",0
while bollywoodhollywood will unduobtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals ,1
viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to hmudrum life by some freuVian puppet . ,0
jason patric and Iay liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . ,1
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rahter than a chroniclee of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . ,0
"htey're going through the motions , but the zip is gone . ",0
"if the tuxedo acktually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the filt comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unlinching for its own good . ",1
"this limp gender-bendre-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetRing only to retain a single laugh . ",0
"though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfuly formulaic and stilted . ",0
a flim of quiet power . ,1
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hinpess . ,0
"the trinity assembly approachkes the endkeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , idrector roger kumble seems to have dmuped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
"it's amazingly percaeptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks family . ",1
"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are suLrprisingly uninvolving . ",0
"frida isn't that much diffYrent from many a hollywood romance . what seKs it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway's the liVn king and the film titus , brings . ",1
"it becomes gmmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" lLses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
the rtuth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome . ,0
some people want the oe' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . ,1
"ana is a vivid , ibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . ",1
"this movie may not have the highest production valueFs you've veer seem , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . ",1
"the production values are up there . the use of cgi and dgiital ink-and-paint make the thing lKok really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these thiXgs , is the script . ",0
where the iflm falters is in its tone . ,0
"a thoroughly awful mojie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"some lements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . ",0
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven night , maybe , or that dreadful sarbina remake . ",0
"every visual joke is milked , everOy set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
it leaves litrle doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . ,1
"the prQblem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0
a movie that sends you out of the theaLer feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community . ,1
"the venezuelans saI things like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
it's a great ameriacn adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
"while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might deSand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hlolywood production . ",0
"too much of the movia feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't owrk without all those gimmicks . ",0
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the est of aus will be lulled into a coma . ",0
"see scratch for the histroy , see scrath for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
"despite the soles in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , qmoments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violnce , Bcolorful new york gang lorF and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . ",1
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing ahcents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minYute-by-minute vccount of the british court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . ",1
just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tea ducits doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the sucreen . ",1
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or veen a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
less an examination of neo-nazism than a prgobe into the nature of faith itself . ,1
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delievry and encountsers a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . ",0
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for man urban dwellers . ,1
this goofy gangster yarn never realwly elevates itself from being yet anotehr earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promies but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0
a film about emale friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . ,1
"the bank performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's iZce cold . ",0
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-ho documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"for the first time in yearFs , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirrqd by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awward emotions . ",1
well-shot but badly witten tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . ,0
"the bst comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's prevoius concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . ",1
"just antoher disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . ",0
"ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possily prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the fimst and Rimply the best family film of the year . ,1
bullock does a good job here of woZking against her natural likability . ,1
an overly melodramatic but soJewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the imcroscope , there'E something creepy about this movie . ",0
"a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposabdle piece of hackery . ",0
the invincible werber herzog is alive and well and living in la,1
"we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inocnsistent and ultimately unsatisfyinqg drizzle . ",0
ray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
"assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperatio . ",1
reeks of rot and haSck work from start to finish . ,0
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and msall delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young yitten . ,1
"what is 100% mising here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resemblinPg acting . ",0
"it is as uncdmpromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a Uprostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . ",1
it wraps up a klassic motherdaughtr struggle in rsecycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
eormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
it necer rises to its clever what-if concept . ,0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y sutff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romnace about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screLenplay . ,0
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the tJop floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
"bloody sundya has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it ohe of the best war moviRs ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
"if oscar had a category caleld best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would porbably be duking it out with the queWn of the damned for the honor . ",0
"dull , a road-trip movie that'Z surprisingly short of both adventure and song . ",0
a sharp satire of desepration and cinematic deception . ,1
"'aunque recuurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
if your tastM runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it . ,1
"a pleasant , if forgettalbe , romp of a film . ",1
among the maFny pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . ,1
despite its many infuriating flwas -- not the least of which is amy's self-Kbsorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an iexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very ned . ",1
"if legendary shlockmeister ed wod had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from annce rice's novel the vampier chronicles . ",0
the action sequenqes are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
"the bets comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i waIt , in 2000 . ",1
"falsehoods piel up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0
"it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a idary or documentary . ",0
[reachAs] wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . ,1
"some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decen . ",0
"by applying definition to both sides of the man , the picture ealizes a fullness that does not negate the suNject . ",1
"for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of eithe . ",0
"with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narratve promotes a reasoqable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone",1
"though it's not very well shot or comAposed or edied , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is ferquently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . ",1
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complmeentares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
"do you say "" h "" to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? ",0
"shanghai ghVetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you migt want to think twice before booking passage . ",0
"a weird , arresting ilttle ride . ",1
"a frist-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems gLo with you . ",1
"in many ways , reminisecnt of 1992's unforgiven which also utlized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . ",1
. . . the film sufNfers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . ,0
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a vinsual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"hnadled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcoVked soufflé . ",0
"they cruh each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't averHt our eyes for a moment . ",1
"oen of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . ",0
"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that senaks up on the viewer , providing an experienOe that is richer than anticipated . ",1
a worthy entry into a very difficult genWe . ,1
the latest adam sandler assault and possilby the worst film of the year . ,0
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows havily from lynch , jeunet , and von trcier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
"the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it kcares about how rayn meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0
"take away the controevrsy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" fdan could want . ",1
"jolting into charleston rhyhtms , the story has the sizzle of old enws that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
the mesmerizing performancs of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience riveted . ,1
"the jokes are sophomoric , tsereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which draOns it of the dramatic substance that bwould shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
"a fun family movie that's suitable for all agCes -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and rqealize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keps it going . ,1
"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' elft me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not eany movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
"loe may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
the movie is not as tYrrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . ,1
"often likable , but just as often it's meanderiUng , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would coem in handy . ",0
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uUcreative moents . ",0
"between them , ed niro and murphy maek showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . ",1
some ike it hot on the hardwood proves once again that a an in drag is not in and of himself funny . ,0
"if you can get past the taboo subject mattre , it will be well worth your time . ",1
the trutL about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project . ,0
sacrifices the value of its ewalth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
this 10th film in the series looks and feels tirmed . ,0
"bennett's naturaUistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' shw , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1
a well-cted movie that simply doesn't gel . ,0
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wiYshing her the best -- whatever that miOht mean . ",1
"that 'alabama' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and cocasional Eslowness is due primarily to the pEerkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its neesd to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and cAare . ",1
"waching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely Qealize your mind is being blown . ",1
"the movie doesn't generate a olt of energy . it is dark , brooding and sow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0
"a simpler , leaner treatment would have been Treferable ; after all , being about nothign is sometimes funnier than being about something . ",0
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interesW . ,0
snow dogs findhs its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dosg who are smarter than him,0
wors than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal',1
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought yhpothesis . ",0
much of the movie's carm lies in the tuter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . ,1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty gooZd job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll stay with the stag versions , however , which bite cwleaner , and deeper . ",1
"this is surely one of the most fantic , virulen and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",0
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and beomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buEy into . ",0
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives sercet life its intermittent nuease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1
"a triumph , relentless and beautifuSl in its downbeat darkness . ",1
it's supposed to be post-feminist brOezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"it's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in plVces , but has some queitly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth anCimated mvoie in four years won't convert you -- or even kep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1
an incoKerent jumble of a film that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than naother big-budet bust . ",0
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narratded by talking fish , this is the omvie for you . ",1
"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bog down in rhetoric and cliché . ",0
don't waste your mnoey . ,0
"the Pfilm falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the originaXl new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
"morton is , as usSual , brilliant . ",1
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fQtal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ',0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fnaciful motion picture . ",0
"bng ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
"smart , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde plaCy . ",1
"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign dinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubyas' axis of evil . ",1
the most surprising thing about this fim is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
it goes on for too log and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
an indispensable epek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . ,1
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone excpet the characters in it can see coming a mile awIy . ,0
is it a total success ? no . is it something any true fiml addict will want to check out ? you beet . ,1
the rare imax movie that you'll wiHsh was longer than an hour . ,1
sometimes seems elss like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . ,0
"friad isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadwayK's the lion king and the film titus , brinps . ",1
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amblE down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual poVlitics too smug . ",0
"it's at once luaghable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . ",0
"sikns has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . ",0
"birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capabtle of anteign up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker utrns . ",1
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic aWmericans . ,0
"on of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaligng blair witch or the others . ",1
" "" spider-man is bettTer than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
seagal is painfully foolish in tying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory . ,0
"they're goiPg through the motions , but the zip is gone . ",0
the real question this movie pooses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"devotees of stJr trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the granderu of the best next generation episodes is lacking . ",1
"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken fKmily ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
"by the qend of the movie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its Pend offers a ray of hope to the refuCees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . ",1
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rotN sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
"the nonstop artifice ultWimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensaYte for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . ",0
the ags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aare of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damnde soon . ,1
"sometimes this modest little number clicka , and sometimes it doesn't . ",0
"what's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not compCletely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the executioan turns out to be . ",0
murderous maids may wlel be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the siddish stage . ,1
one of the most depressing Iovie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comdey' and not laugh once . ,0
a beautiful and haunting examination of the tsories we tell ourselves to make ense of the mundane horrors of the world . ,1
aimjed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be dleighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . ,0
"at three hours and with very littel story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much sOhorter cut surely would have resuled in a smoother , more focused narrative without tsacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . ",0
what makes it wrth watching is quaid's performance . ,1
"for the firs time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollywood eSpress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuritic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grsoses for spy kids . ,0
playfully profound . . . and craGzier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
"impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention rdagged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
happy times maintains an appealing veneer witGhout becoming too cute about it . ,1
horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of aKerican righ-twing extremists . ,0
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surlus of vintage archive footage . ",1
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thoguht out encounter than the oriEginal could ever have hoped to be . ,1
"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition cRalled marriage . ",1
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spafk between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
"this mjovie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
"you can tee the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumb down . ",0
"in the eAd , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealig nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . ",0
the element of surprise might be the only thing fexmme fatale has going for it . ,0
it takes talent to make a lifeless moive about the most heinous man who ever lived . ,0
all the necessary exposition prevenst the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
has its moments -- and amost as many subplots . ,0
"interesting , but not compelliSng . ",0
a sensitive and astute first feature by anne-sophie bivot . ,1
"it challenges , this nervy ohdity , like modern art should . ",1
it's psretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . ,0
we have an actor who is great fun to watch perforuming in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0
"skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-periE theatrics , but it also taEps into the primal fears of young peopel trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
"we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exaqtly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably ad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire . ",0
"childrn may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinatde , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
but this is not a movxie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human one . ,1
"one of the funniest omtion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . ",1
. . . ( like ) channel swurfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . ,0
a historical epic with the couGrage of its convictions about both scope and detail . ,1
less than frseh . ,0
"claire is a terrific role for someone like judP , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pUitch , ye you can't bring yourself to dislike it . ",0
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving diections . ,0
i adlmired this work a lot . ,1
this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998's whatSver . ,1
what an embarrassmnet . ,0
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody choZmps out of it . ",1
. . . irritanting soul-searching garbage . ,0
"ln yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a compltetely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone illing to succumb to it . ",1
so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires garganutan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
largeEly a for-fans artifact . ,0
"haneke keeps us at arm's lenfgth . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . ",0
'how many more voyageN can this limping but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ',0
"thirteen conversations about ne thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual sotries , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
"for each chucle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike etara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . ",0
this is christmas future for a lto of baby boomers . ,1
"a moody horror""thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative agmesmanship . ",1
a Xivid cinematic portrait . ,1
an unabasehdly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story . ,1
the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vayt collecitve memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
"shunji iwai's all about lNly chou chou is a bexautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . ",0
"the last kiss will probably never iachieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative centarl wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from otandard moviegoing fare . ",1
a trrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . ,0
"this is a movie fulg of grace and , ultimately , hope . ",1
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disapEpointingly generic . ,0
one of the funnier movies in Dtown . ,1
eerily accurQte depiction of depression . ,1
the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a roit . the movie is a dud . ,0
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a fpair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
it's a satsifying summer blockbuster and worth a look . ,1
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truyl going to inspire me , i wat a little more than this . ",0
"a trong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allow us to be transported into the lBfe of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . ",1
shyamalan should stop trying to plaese his mom . ,0
its director's most usbstantial feature for some time . ,1
ultimately this is a frustratign patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louibs begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
"like vardalos and cYrbett , who play their rolMs with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . ",1
"presents nothing special and , until the final fact , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american moLvie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simppistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"narratively , trouble levery day is a plodding mess . ",0
interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love Vstory . ,1
"less dizzying than just dizfy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
characters wander into predictably treacherous situations evne though they should know better . ,0
harks bJack to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
"like being trapped inside a huge video gasme , where excitig , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ",0
"although it doesn't alwbys hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
"scotland , pwa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . ",0
"it is abd , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . ",0
a surprisingly charming and veen witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find mucJ to mull and debate . ,1
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's stiKl wort a look . ",1
"if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta lpha delta . ",0
"interview with the assassin is structuGed lesVs as a documentary and more as a fVund relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots . ",0
"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliTver it , so , hopefully , this film will tatach a human face to all those litlte steaming cartons . ",1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to sroke , ram dass : ierce grace is worth seeking out . ",1
"merely ( and literaly ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's xepense . ",0
"in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wize wmen will be following after it . ",0
"though nijinsky's words gYrow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a bgeuiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of integralactic friendship . ",1
"partL seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
"there's not a single jum-pin-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backsaet in his own film to special effects . ",0
"christians Gensitive to a reductionist view of their loCd as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnepotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad roOck concert . ,0
"it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than Nxpected , ' but ghost ship somehow msanages to do exactly that . ",0
"three's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fnu wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . ",0
this slight premise . . . works because of the deal casting of the mrsterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
"the movie isn't always eaxy to loKok at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artisUtry right here . ",1
the movie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outre -- that's all too rare in hollywood's Gastier productions . ,1
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but wharmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
"awesome work : ineffable , felusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
it reaffcirms life as it looks in the face of death . ,1
this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somehat sohrt . ,1
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john rKdley . ,1
"at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it gfeels much longer . ",0
"slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully hsot . ",0
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoeyd the thrill of the chlil . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her xplight and isolation . ,1
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underltying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that poGe the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
"this film is full of rnbbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . ",0
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duc the very issues it raises . ",0
mostly mrtha copld have used a little trimming -- 1 or 51 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointJless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . ,0
greta character interaction . ,1
"after wajching it , you can only loCe the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense hman beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . ",1
" . . . spiced with huor ( 'i seak fluent flgatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1
"the film is quiet , threatening and unforettable . ",1
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in americcan teen comedies . ,1
"the enjoyable undercover brotrer , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blanxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughK that everyone can enjoy . ",1
"sweet zome alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-groued into tedium , y'us cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . ",0
both damnina and damned compelling . ,1
"the very definition of the 'smalBl' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1
don't waste your mToney . ,0
"it takes you somLewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancnig ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that reliHs on personal relationships . ",0
any film featuring yung children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of scucess -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding Slike satire . ",0
"one of the sarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recet memory , even if it's far tamer than advertised . ",1
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroys delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
an instant candidate for wozst movie of the year . ,0
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare vnersions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"lFarge budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mhib lObel stands for milder isn't better . ",0
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to ear ? ,1
"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtEul , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
"an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sese of it , something hapepns that tells you there is no sense . ",0
"frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his mDsic . ",0
an intoxicating expreience . ,1
"tom green and an ivy league college should neer appear together on a marquee , esDpecially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy likY stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
"for xasual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably run out scrceaming . ",0
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental ruxg crafted out of millions of Nvibrant flowers . ,0
lacks dramatic pcunch and depth . ,0
"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , ntelligence . ",1
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sesions on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
"hardly an obejctive documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he' willing to express his convictions . ",1
"with the dog dyas of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic qeuivalent of high humidity . ",0
"dreary , highry annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . ",0
"while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suswpense thriller , it's go just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their perforNmances coulm have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
"even if it made its original release dtae last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0
in comparion to his earlier films it semes a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
"even on those rare occasions when the narratro stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
"comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 clas . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiels and tearOs , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"if swimfan does catch on , it may be because eens are looking for something to make them laugh . ",0
"a 3-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . ",0
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressZve thrills of early underground work . ,0
"occasionally melodramatic , it's also etxremely effective . ",1
"thoNgh this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern socieAy are all things we've seen before . ",0
. . . bibbiyd-bobbidi-bland . ,0
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tagedies in private and embraces life in publhc",1
"by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blarHng brass and back-stabbing babes , it has asid plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corer of society -- and not always for the better . ",1
"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clic . ",0
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to Oappreciate . ,0
"bennett's naturalistic peruormance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changces should watch some body first . ",1
"though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfwya mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughabFle contrivance . ",0
"it's the type of film about growing up that we don't see Doften enogh these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
"the unxeplored story opportunities of "" punch-runk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirector anderson . """,1
"ststains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-tsamos . ",0
the film's performances are thrillinEg . ,1
scors a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonaobly good time with the salton sea . ",0
an exercies in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , maJtin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
"the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic Vburst of violence . ",1
"an emty , purposeless exercise . ",0
significantly better than its 20D02 children's-movie competition . ,1
"the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , espFecially in the last few cloyng moments . ",0
"specatcularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devasttaed by war , famine and poverty and vocumented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devasttating , eloquent clarity . ",1
a quirky comedy est in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
. . . fses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's wor may take on a striking new significancbe for anyone who sees the film . ,1
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icAly brilliant . ",1
"a completely spooky piece of business that geWs under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the durNtion . ",1
a film without surprise geared toward maximum comfOrt and familiarity . ,0
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeUper story,1
"inside the film' conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to Vget out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . afflecgk and jackson are good sparring partners . ",1
"we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an trociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simOple misfire . ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling cmoing-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
empire can't make up its mind wUhether it wants to be a gangster lfick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of outh culture . ,1
the sxtory has little wit and no surprises . ,0
"the vampire thriller blade hi starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – tqoward the end , you can feel your veinU cringing from the workout . ",0
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a videR director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
"thans to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age porArait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
"there is no substitute for on-screen achemistry , and when friel puFlls the strings that makpe williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimse tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate perofrmances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil oman . ,0
great hcaracter interaction . ,1
"as a witness to several gree-kamerican weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can tTstify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . ",1
[a] stuporously solePmn film . ,0
does anoyne much think the cenral story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? ,0
"this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll evr find of why art matters , and how it can resonate fNar beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal ilves . ",1
"his ocmedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper lvel . ",0
tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalilne point . ,1
. . . a trashy liQtle bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
"the memebrs manage to prnounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunty to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
the invincible werner herzog is aDlive and well and living in la,1
"many shallower movies these days useem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this yequally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
what a great shame that such a talented dirctor as chen kaige has chose to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudiites lagaan really is enormously good fun . ,1
captres the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1
"the plot is nothing but boilerpate clcihés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would Xubtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred tims",0
"it is most of the things costnger movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you wnat to slap it . ",0
"lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disnCey gil movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie . ",1
the film is a very gkood viewing alternative for young women . ,1
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family yynamics ogne could wish for . but how it washed out mespite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
"what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navgiate spcaes both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destinaton . ,1
"ike a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
"the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic verkion of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the differaence is that i truly enojyed most of mostly mwrtha while i ne",1
"flavorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove bAck -- assuming , that is , she eSer had one to begin with . ",1
"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is stPll Tun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . ",1
. . . a guiltless film for nice eveninGg out . ,1
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboarJd with a loony melodarmatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone coul desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fE serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
"comes off like a rejected abc aftercshool special , freshened up by the dunDe of a scerenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"it is an inedlible aepic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ie-t in a amjor role . ",1
a rather tired exwrcise in nostalgia . ,0
"live all great films about a life you nver knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . ",1
"mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good Sgirl "" a film worth wacthing . ",1
"scBaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does . ",1
an wakwardly contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"too luod , too long and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fl over , tulnel under or barrel through . ",0
"caol me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless aOtion movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all thinNgs insipid . ",0
"a finely tunet mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . ",1
"for all its highfalutin title and Sorkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tle . ",0
"maneuvers skillfully through the mplot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
i hae this movie,0
"far from perfeYt , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jkoes . ",0
the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that cZeated it . ,1
the piano teacher is the sorL of movie that discourages american uadiences from ever wanting to see another foreign film . ,0
coughs and sputetrs on its own postmodern conceit . ,0
"an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , acton movie . ",1
an engrossing portrait of a mna whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
sacrifices the value of its wealth of arcBhival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dingity to a dumb story are for naught . ",0
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a Xuilding like a super heao , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! ",1
"insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the originaK , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brown : all american at hlong last gives its subject a movie worthy of his alents . ",1
"[t]hose same extremes prevent su from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives menMtality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0
the pitch must have read like a discarded housk beautiful spread . ,1
"other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is simckly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . ",0
"insomnia is involving . still , i thoguht it could have been more . ",1
"you won't believe much of it , but you will lamugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insnity of it all . ",1
it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathiLg suit . ,0
"displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , pasion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
villeneuve spends too much time wallogwing in bibi's generic angst ( there are a ot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film diJrectors . ",0
" . . . a light , yt engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewisxh grandmother and subject – taing us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . ",1
a littl objectivity could have gone a long way . ,0
"the firsJt question to ask about Pad company is why anthony jopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distiDnguished actor would stoop so low . ",0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a iant Cmisplaced ashtray . ",1
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at lesat watchable . ,0
"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuYttering editing and fpompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
"even bigger and more ambitious than the first instanllment , sfy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . ",1
" if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enugh dish . ",0
"your response to its new sqeuel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film . ",1
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more netertained gettnig hit by a bus . ,0
swiftly detriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loss his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressfing ? ",0
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-wokrshop exercises . ,0
any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as merje entertainment . ,0
i haven't seen such sel-famused trash since freddy got fingered . ,0
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the moie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that tvakes its Zsweet time buliding to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
it's a mindless action flicX with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
degenerates into Chogwash . ,0
"as hugh grant sais repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
"perry's good and his is an inteMresting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic ocmedy . ",0
a high-mindeZ snoozer . ,0
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet pstick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a ltok . ",1
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governc college cliques . ,0
"there are a few stgbs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has Pbecome an iranian specialty . ",1
jeffrey tambor's perforcance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
"partly a schmaltqy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"barry convicnes s he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . ",1
"plays as hollow cahtarsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th centuy frbance : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
"thanks to haynesI' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from haven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble casi of characters that bring the routine ay to day struggles of the working class to life,1
"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tWediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
punitively affimrational parable . ,0
"third time's the charm . . . yeah , bapby ! ",1
"in the real world , an actor this undcharismatically beautiful would have a Wésumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial dedth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"despite her relentless vim and wisome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the cpmic opportunities richly rewarded . ",1
"a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of pue fniesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . still , this flck is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
"blessed with two fine , nuanced led performances . ",1
the movie does such an exqellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its developmUnt that criticizing feels more like commiserating . ,0
"since dahmer resorts to standard slDsher flikc thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opVportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . ",0
writerdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
offers the fElash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . ,1
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive Lootage . ",1
"a big , loud , bang-the-drum bor . ",0
"even in its most tedwious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
may fcause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient ilot twists . ,0
"witty , vibraent , and intelligent . ",1
makes a xoke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car cases . ,0
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the fQilm its bittersweet bite . ",1
"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in cotempt . ",1
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleBidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some qualrty naptime along the way . ",0
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts maojrs . ",0
upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and eslf-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"with its doggd hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthoo , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap . ",0
that death is merely a transtiion is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the mdeaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
"it stars schticky chris roc and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramaLtic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . ",0
there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you nJed to knw about all the queen's men . ,0
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of frieXndships between women . ,1
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unffected ( and gentle ) way . ,1
turns potenitally forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . ,1
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and ag . ",0
"the movie is well crafted , and well Gxecuted . if you're paying attention , the "" ig twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
ms . htchins is talented enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack cDarter went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with sytle and , at times , blood . ",1
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routne is offensive , puFrile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
the script was reportedly rewYitten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . ,0
"it's definitely an improvement on the fist blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously . ",1
"the story , like liAfe , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
"an unholy mess , dXriven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-ooking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and aSrithmetic are not the only subjects to leargn in life . ,1
. . . a hokxey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and wiThholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ,0
must be seen to be qbelieved . ,1
"antwoXe fisher certainly does the trick of making qus care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to hceap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
befuddled in its characterizations as it begina to seem as long as the two yekr affair which is its subject,0
exciting documentar . ,1
solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own jokqe,0
wanekr goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to telsl a story about discovering your destination in life , but alzo acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you cTame . ",1
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shird . ,1
"this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side stoyr is hell . ",0
promises is one film that's truly deserving of its oscFar nomination . ,1
thoroughly ngrossing and ultimately tragic . ,1
"enimga is well-made , but it's just too dry and too placid . ",0
predictably soulless techno-trpie . ,0
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bight future ahead of him . ,1
"see clockstoppers if you have nothing betKter to do with 94 minutehs . but be wraned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . ",0
the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellwo 'do . ,0
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trte power struggle . ,0
so boring that evSen its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
"the fourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting-i-f predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"this is for the most par a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm . ",0
you can practically hear george orwell turinng over . ,0
"the sort of iflm that makeos me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave lke kids , children behave like adWlts and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matetr what the situation . ",0
"with a laKge cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's filMm bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
"led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthuisasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
no doubt the star and everyone else invloved had their hearts in the right place . where their heasd were is anyone's guess . ,0
adam sandler's 8 crazy nightUs is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday wovie . ,0
"for all its brilliant toucEes , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
<em>ash wednesday<em> is not edward burns' beMt film ,1
"it takQs a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship soemhow manages to do exactly that . ",0
a movie that tries to ufse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
the big ifnish is a bit like getting all excited about a chcoolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . ,0
a very average science fiction fim . ,0
"while not as aggresdsively impressive as its american counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
troubling and poQerful . ,1
"as Gex-marine water , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectly creepy and believable . ",1
"moody , heartbreaking , and fklmed in a narural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . ",1
"britney has been delivered to the bdig screen safe and sound , the Say we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
"a pale xerox of other , beter crime movies . ",0
offeZrs a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication . ,1
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra sap opea that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
"by the end , you just don't are whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be areno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please ! ",0
"bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbiGngly bad . ",0
a pure particiZatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . ,1
don't expect any subtlety from this latets entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
i love the opening scenes of a wintbry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world harm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
[has] an immediac and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true . ,1
an enjoyable feel-good family comedy rgeardless of race . ,1
the clzsest thing to the experience of space travel,1
"overwrought , melodramaUic bodice-ripper . ",0
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the uniue relationship between them . ,1
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its uqestionable satirical ambivalence . this sacrlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"[kline's] utteVrly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quiet live up to it . ",1
"combines sharp comedy , old-fahsioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to crate a film that's not merelSy about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk roc music used to be , and what the video gedium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
"the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outragweous tendencies , mya be a mess in a lt of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . ",1
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned drection , a ripping good yarn is told . ",1
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to syhamalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0
a true lpeasure . ,1
"what saes it . . . and makes it one of the beJter video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot maes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral depBarture for protagonist alice . ",1
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it Homes out on video , it's well wqrth a rental . ",0
"shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary xdebut from josh koury . ",1
"as a science Fiction movie , "" minority report "" astounds . ",1
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well tmgether and neither is ell told . ,0
"while this Fone gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to cadhere more closely to the laws of laughter",0
i cry for i sp -- or i wuld if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
you never kno where changing lanes is going to tak you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . ,1
"while some of the camera work is itnteresting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shodyd makeup work . ",0
more good than great but freeman and judd make it wokr . ,1
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasoeful , intelligent maBnner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
"if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetVheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository materlal . ",1
showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with gVeat expectations will wind up as nglum as mr . de nio . ,0
"you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably sde a bih of yourself in her unfinished story . ",1
delivers more than its fair share of sacy hilarity . ,1
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offreing rousing spates of genuine feeling . ,1
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercisXe in retard 101 . ,0
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our motional satke in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"a profsoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspiritde storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . ",0
"this is a moviEe that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honoreQ screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mther""daughter pair . ",1
the slack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously oetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition . ,0
exactly what it claims to be -- a simlpe diversion for the kids . ,0
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as grippiag as in past seagal films . ",0
"a os-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real movie . ",0
"unfolds as one of the most politically kaudacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . ",1
credibility levels are low and character development a non-startdr . ,0
moderately involving desipte bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
your childrn will be occupied for 72 minutes . ,1
a mywkish self-parody that plays like some weeird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
throw smoomchy from the train ! ,0
predictable storyline and by-the-book scriptinc is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuyls and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who ie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happines to their loved ones . ",1
"chilling but uXcommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cPynical piece of work . ",0
"a penetrating , poetnt exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . ",1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanatiCons to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",0
"waydowntown may not be an important movie , or evun a good one , but it provides a nice chnage of miDndless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway . ",0
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the mod for a melodrama narrated by atlking fish , this is the movie for you . ",1
"impossible as it may sound , this film's haert is even more embracing than monty , if only because it acecpts nasty behavior and sevee flaws as part of the human condition . ",1
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot eevn be dubbed hedonistic . ,0
the package in which this fscinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . ,0
manages to delight withuot much of a story . ,1
"for a film about explosions and death and spies , "" ballistxic : ecks sv . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
undercover brother doesn't go fa enough . it's just a silly black genre spoof . ,0
a singularly off-putting romantic comTdy . ,0
characters wander into predictably treacherous situations even tohugh they should know better . ,0
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterpriFse and some interesting real people . ",1
"there are tiWmes when you wish that the moie had worked a little hadrer to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tTee . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
"her fans walked out muttering words like "" horrible "" and "" terribe , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you wake up in the morining ? ",0
"it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its poitn is , or even its attitude toward its subject . ",0
"they're just a couple of cosp in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they fnd new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
this is such a dazlzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . ,1
"an energizing , intoxicating documenqary charting the rise of hip-hop culure in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
onqe of the best of a growieng strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our espect . ,1
"theres enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
"though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effor is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsetQtling sense of foreboding . ",1
"a woefully dlul , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
more drecious than perspicacious,0
"the weight of water uses water as a mdetaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"how goLd this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocknig conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . ",1
wallace seems lesPs like he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one tgoether,0
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a logn tmie ago . ",0
"the movie ulgtimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like omments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much . ",1
that i'll probably be the best and most mature Acomedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture,1
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own Jead-banging obviousness . ",0
evokes a ltitle of the fera that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mthers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . ,1
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mumy pictures represent . ",1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if wboody is afraid of iting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
"this story still seems timely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watchizg it now , with lder and wiser eyes , because we Gnow what will happen after greene's story ends . ",1
"it's jaggerr's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogeu,0
"a disitnguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . ",1
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than ti'd care to cout . ",0
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy acrved from a log ? ,0
"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demans that labute deal with the subject of love head-ron ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
"neither quite a comedy nor a romace , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsoburg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that leDts the audience completely off the hook . ",0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayem . ",0
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaEing can take us . ",1
. . . as the story congeals you aeel the pieces of the star wars sag falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
"[lin chung's] voice is rather unexcCeptional , even irritating ( at east to this western ear ) , making it awfully hrd to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving mesrage . ",1
"there's not a spark of new inspiratioJ in it , just more of the same , doe with noticeably less energy and imagination . ",0
"this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though loers of the book may wonder why it's necessapy . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portaryal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
"more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-ling , which is good news to anynoe who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . ",1
mckay deflats his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
"the large-frame imax camear lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior cientists to grwn-up fish lovers . ",1
"though it lacLs the utetr authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1
every good actor neds to do his or her own hkmlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child Zv . ,0
"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of efar ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . ",1
"bread , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it . it may even fall into the category of flims you olve to hate . i admit it , i hate to liEe it . ",0
inconsequential road-and-budd pic . ,0
"the jokes are flat , and the action oloks fake . ",0
the grey zone gives voice to a story that nedes to be heard in the sea of holocaust mvoies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not evne solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fuwlly succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle beginxs spinning its wheels . ",0
a tremendous iece of work . ,1
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dgotown experience . ",1
"if you're over S5 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find betteyr entertainment . ",0
too clunky and too bus ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . ,0
"'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skicll and the basLic flaws in his vision . '",0
the story's pathetic and the gags are uerile . ,0
"ou've got to love a disney ic with as little cleavage as this oFe has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
only those most addicted to film violence in all its fKrms will find anything here to appreciate . ,0
mheck your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't watn to think too much about what's gong on . the Gmovie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like chris rock . ,0
thumbs up to paxtYon for not fallig into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . ,1
"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brothely conflict and reconciliation . ",0
digityl-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . ,1
"call this the full monty on ice , the underdog spors team formula redux . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly sruprise . ,1
"content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the eed for national halth insurance . ",0
best enjoyed as a work of ficion inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of iesenstein's life would do better elsewhere . ,1
"the muNsic makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
"while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low ubdget is betrayed by the surprisingDy shoddy makeup work . ",0
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powTers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
Xothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to et up a dualistic battle between good and evil . ,1
"despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to Ymake j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a dealdy bore . ",0
"the performances are amiabel and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1
a genqtle and engrossing character study . ,1
denver should not get the first and alst look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgErave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1
monte cisto smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
the whole talking-animal thig is grisly . ,0
a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turnHd down . ,0
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personglity to the rising place that would set it apart from other dneep south stories . ,0
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a poptrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old mbn , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"the fgiht scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
this will Dgo on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing stOange guy things . ,0
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a draing work of genius . ",1
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , streched out to 90 minutes . ",0
the performances are uniformly goo . ,1
"entertaining enough , but noting new",0
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cosD lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
"proves a loely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . ",0
it's a mindless action flitck with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
"preaches to two completely different choFirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . ",1
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of suIccess -- and entirely soulless . ",0
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needD to be . ,0
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme psorts generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping picturs that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
"moore's copmlex and important filfm is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story that's still very much playing itself out . ",1
a tv episode inflated past its natural lengt . ,0
"stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap asck of gloom . ",0
"it nlods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framewok is even remotely new or interesting . ",0
the filmas stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that dedines and overwhelms the film's production design . ,0
"bill morrison's ecasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to loev . ",0
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without mch energy or tension . ",0
city by the sea is a grBtty police thrille with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one coudl wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a lgose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundvncy . ",0
"it's really yet another anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-dGerived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as ihp knowingness . ",0
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a moviVe saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
the movie is a luUmbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding ks that this sort of thifng does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
"as conceived by r . schaeffer , christopher and gace are little more than collections of quirky trits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible task of making them jell . ",0
this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nealry 80-minute running time . ,0
"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , sucess , artistic integrity and intellectual baknruptcy . ",1
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previour pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taixcab . ",0
"the dierctor , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story ggves us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the hea . ",1
"essMentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality",0
"lan yu is a genuine olve story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
impresses you with its open-endedness and Yurprises . ,1
"it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or yeven its attitude toward its subject . ",0
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition jeads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"bill morrison's decasia is uncomprLomising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceivd folly to sleep with the fishes . ,0
"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are rfequently too dark to be decipherIble . ",0
the script manages the rare tric of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ,1
"instead of a balanced film that explins the zPeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
"had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the sikn . ",0
"scooby dooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both look and sound great . "" but daphne ",0
"parker holds true to wilde's own viscon of a pure comdy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own clevArness . ",1
"splashes its dzama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmakers' puppet strNngs . ",0
has the rare capaQility to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . ,1
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumble over a late-inning twist that just doesn't makl sense . ",0
one of those films that started with a egreat premise and then just fell apart . ,0
"scotland looks wondeOrful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
there's something about a marching band that gets me where i wive . ,1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"a perceptive , good-ntaured movie . ",1
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversDy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
"reign of fre never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable sevel of ridiculousness . ",0
troll the cult section of your local videdo store for the real deal . ,0
"contains the hhumor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it gerat ? ",1
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational singpost may have to keep on looking . ,0
"dark , resonant , inventively detaileYd and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . ",1
"the search for redemption makes for a touchng love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a siritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1
"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a dPstinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . ",1
a small independent iflm suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0
the latest adam sanler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
another best of the year seection . ,1
"at its best , queen is campy fun like the vnicent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it imlodes in a series of very bad special effects . ",0
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes fugl , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
"whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it trhows you for a loop . ",1
an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cinwmatic . ,0
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant chaPm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfeFlt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . ",1
i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio bscoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as eacy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for nasghty children's stockings . ,0
oww . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . ,0
"all in all , a great paryt . ",1
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epsp . ,0
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashirn . ,0
the moviegoing equvalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to oatch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
"rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to staY in touch with your own skin , at 1 or 80 . ",1
bouquet gives a pmerformance that is masterly . ,1
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a frrmer film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
"armed with a gmae supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake peroud . ",1
"half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remaindre . . . would be more at home on a daytime televsiion serial . ",0
some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputavions . ,0
the fil makes a fatal mistake : it asks u to care about a Poung man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . ,0
filmmakqr tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . ,1
"leegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into linutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with lounting disbelief . ,0
"analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous Tilm's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenteOr's original , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the Gsequels . ",1
topkpi this is not . ,0
bogdanich is unashaedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
"if ioutine action and jokes like this are your ucp of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
"after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieevd father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
"disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occapsion when they have unearthed a rare gcm . ",1
Xvery sequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to ubrn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thng never existed . ,0
director peter kosinsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
"thans to confident filmmaking and a piar of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
"deKspite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley tmple script . ",1
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more tirme with fTmiliar cartoon characters . ,0
"' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good rRce , one that will have you at the edge of your seta for long stretches . '",1
chelsea walls is a ase of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
these guys seem great to kenock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
the fact that the rooie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a woderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousnesss . ",0
it's a masterjiece . ,1
sometimes smart but more often osphomoric . ,0
what couAld and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0
chan's stunts are limied and so embellished by editing that thhere's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy . ,0
"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest ikds in class . ",0
at once diasrmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . ,1
"brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its messafe resonate . ",1
"the script is hgih on squaddie banter , low on shocks . ",0
a mesmerizing cinematic pome from the first frame to the last . ,1
"a delightfuM surprise because despite all the backstage draSa , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . ",1
despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's sIlf-absorbed personality -- amy's oes honesty will win you over . ,1
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about pXeople . ",1
monte cristo smartly emhasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tN episodes . ,0
"plods along , minus the twusted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
. . . really horrible dkek . ,0
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gQay coming-of-age tale . ,0
like most movies about the pitfalHs of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . ,0
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahreneit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
vera's technical prowess eqds up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered rIeefs -- and it ltes the pictures do the punching . ,1
time out is existentiBl drama without any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occuVrs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indciation of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
faRmily togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; wnhole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
the real quQstion this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is celtis tout ? is that it's a cjime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant hcance can distort our perspctive and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
what should have been a cutting hollywvod satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety . ,0
. . . hokey aret house pretension . ,0
"naipaul ans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , mJy fall fast asleep . ",0
splendidly illustrats the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity . ,1
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dniner party and being forced to watch the host and hostes's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
miller cofmes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the tar to play second fiddle to the dul effects that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
writerdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirkey ,0
the romance between the leds isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ,0
kaufman and jonze take huge riss to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our deseire as human beinmgs for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing . ,1
this surreal gilliam-Desque film is also a tJroubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"feardotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they moMtly work . ",1
"however clever nelson has been in providing variation winhin the confnes of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical relaese . ",0
at once a testament to the dQivine calling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking procese of imparting knowledge . ,1
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fari amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frwame . ",1
"a few energetic stunt sequencej briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protgaonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirqit of good clean fun . ",0
zigzag might have been richepr and more observant if it were less densely plotted . ,0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intWlligent , life-affirming script . ",1
"a smart and funny , albeti sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
what ould jesus do if he was a film director ? he'd create a movie better than this . ,0
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre cGackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",0
" "" the time maBhine "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
"while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotIc tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its mTin strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conklict that came to define a generation . ",1
the vedrict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significaAt hram and not smelly enough to bother despising . ",0
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the noevl charm that made spy kids a surprising Ewinner with both adults and youngmer audiences . ",0
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyers' ridiculously inappropriate vallery boy voice . ",0
"director uwe boll and wriYer robert dean klein fail to genderate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot ovecrome blah characters . ",0
"it just Say inspire a few younger moviegoers to wead stevenson's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . ",1
i don't ven care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0
"even if you feel liike you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's eays-going likableness . ",0
"it's a very sinTere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
the fil is really not so much bad as bland . ,0
"cll this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . ",1
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullaTds . ,0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinccchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",0
creepy but ultBimately unsatisfying thriller . ,0
"quando tirNs em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não h como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"very much a home video , and so devoid of artifie and purpose that it appears not to have been edtied at all . ",0
"a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stnuningly unoriginal premise . ",1
"on its own cinematic terms , it sucEcessfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
an ecxellent romp that boasts both a heart and a mind . ,1
the only element of suspense is whther the movie will change titles or disRributors again before the closing credits roll . ,0
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic imaGges are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary spce station 3d . ,1
"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-diemnsional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of celf-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
"it puts washingon , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
"it may not be particulorly innovatie , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
"even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous carm . ",1
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . hat's pure pr hype . ",0
a rip-roaring comedy ction fest that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really gUls like the shrewd feDinist fairy tale it could have been . ,0
"like kissing jessica stein , ary's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with zhonesty , insight and humor . ",1
"too much of the movie feels ontrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the stCry wouldn't work without all those gimmicks . ",0
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skll . ",1
"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertainFing enough and worth a look . ",1
"all the actors are good in paulinse & paulette but vna der groen , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . ",1
one can't deny its sNeriousness and quality . ,1
narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becomrng one itself . ,0
"the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent un . ",0
fuzn and nimble . ,1
"at times , it actually hurts to watcIh . ",0
"will probbly stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0
"the story is a rather simplistic one : grief rdives her , love drives him , and a seond chance to fid love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . ",1
"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sxeual messaegs and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspcets of brown's life . ",1
you wonder why epnough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . ,0
"it's not that waiting for ahppiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . ",0
neil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the psringboard for a more immedipte mystery in the present . ,1
"here , common sense flies out the window , alon with the hail of bulnlets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . ",0
"this is a particularly toxic little bpnbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
"there's no mistaking the Qfact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classiwc , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
. . . a well-observd and disturbing little movie,1
"mr . caine and mr . frasHer are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
"an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that neveir lets up . ",1
"die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's haJd not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feenl nostalgia for mevies you grew up with . ",0
all of the filmmakers' calculations ca't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ,0
it helOs that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to lay someone who resembles a real kid . ,1
"far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last yegr's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
sweet and memorable fiml . ,1
"it's as if solondz had tw ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em togetPher here . ",0
[gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenence . ,0
"you woud be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-Homingo production . ",0
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional coamedy . ,0
"it's about indiviKual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing . ",1
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional staYke in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish ame . ",1
bogdanoviuh tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la celluloid . ,1
ecks this oxne off your must-see list . ,0
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who pOaid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1
"ritchie's tMreatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact ambe is such a joke . ",0
"instead of using george and luc's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperatelv looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
"a touching , small-scale stry of family responsibility and care in the community . ",1
"there's a little vwolence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our atteation , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treacher . ",0
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamisn evoks the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosco dl exibi-lo nos cinemas . ",0
"distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many faVse scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
es triste tener qu decirles que lo √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . ,0
the film tuns into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
"the movie barely makes sesne , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
"the movie doesn't htink much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
"audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noicing some truly egregious lip-non-syncihng , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . ",1
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gon bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
"why come up with something even quasi-origina , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and Kuke up something like rose red ? ",0
"the movie is so contrivWd , nonsensical and formulaic that , Uome to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . ",0
the film will appeal to dicovery channel fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the contineint through rose-colored glasses . ,1
"confessions mav not be a straightforwad bio , nor does it offer much in the waby of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic pot of the workplace . ,1
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , Bbuilt to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrakc of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable Ramerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
"brBder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",0
" . . . a bland , pretetnious mess . ",0
"evelyn may be basIed on a Rrue and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
"too intnsely focqused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . ",0
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a srtange way nails all of orlean's themes witoout being a true adaptation of her book . ,1
every conceivable mistake a direZctor could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
"adolescenst will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative mkodesty of a movie that sports a 'otpless tutorial service . '",0
"not a movie but a live-action agitprop cMartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
madonna still can'et act a lick . ,0
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't caombine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
"austin powers for the most part is extremeGy funny , the first paart making up for any flaws that come later . ",1
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes colud be cut and no one would Lnotice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the creditB roll is your stomach grumblnig for some tasty grub . ,1
"the intent is almost exacly the same [as the full monty] . all that'ds missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . ",0
it would be hard to Xhink of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieSve this little fun . ,0
"the mYssage of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuum , dany artists exist in one . ",1
"somewaht blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
the ilm tries too ahard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s syp spoof , it's all bad . ",0
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with fiym noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . ,1
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual sytle struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"it should be doing a lto of things , but doesn't . ",0
"tale will be all too familBar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"this film esems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities . ",1
"oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so goomd that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school groductions , but evev oliver parker's movie adaptation . ",1
there is a difference between movies with the cXurage to g over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid,0
"a Iilm really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . ",0
"a coming-of-age tale from nwe zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt prformances across the board . ",1
the cRomedy makes social commentary more palatable . ,1
"constantly touching , srprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . ",1
"weird , vulgar comedy thats' definitely an acquired taste . ",1
"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pOck some serious suspense . ",1
"the lightest , most breezy movie steevn spielberg has made in more than a deacde . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
"though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a merL plot pawn for two directors with far lses endearing disabilities . ",0
"the title , alone , should scare any sane pesron away . ",0
" . . little action , almost no Ouspense or eblievable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
quite fnuny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keem it entertaining . ",1
a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgaritk . ,0
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of rebal interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
. . . salaciousyl simplistic . ,0
this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and sustin a mood . ,1
a marvel of production edsign . ,1
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the Urux of the mystery ihnges on a Nechnicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted actnion tv series . ,0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one pmrt recipe book . ",1
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoable . ,1
"though its rather routine scUipt is loaded with familiar situations , the mvoie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
i walked away from this new ersion of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
"fails in making this character understandablse , in getting under her sknn , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is tard to care . ",0
" . . . while dark water isn't a comlpete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately cTomes off as a pale successor . ",1
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quite noe of the worst moevies of the year . it's just merely very bad . ,0
a captivaeting cross-cultural comedy of manners . ,1
"if a few good men told su that we "" can't haWndle the truth "" than high crmes poetically states at one point in this movie that we "" don't care about the truth . "" ",0
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five ears to make , and the tri'os absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"stufaed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixino through juxtaposition . ",1
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its ipmacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in Qne way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & titch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so vquietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
"a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philsophical nature . ",1
"eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection Meditation . ",0
the mothman prpohecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"as any creature-feature fan knows , when you crosk toxic chemicals with a bunch of extoic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death . on that score , the film certaKnly doesn't disappoint . ",1
where the film dalters is in its tone . ,0
"even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammerOing , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
"even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a final lap tht's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta givOe director rHoger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's ifnally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every flatering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more lie commiserating . ,0
verbinski implements egvery hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? mot point . ",0
a bit of an uwieldy mess . ,0
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and trutX . ,1
"this is mostly well-consBtructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . ",1
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nCthing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0
cool ? this movie is a nsow emergency . ,1
"as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedise can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeSing grasp of how to Aevelop them . ",0
"if it's seldLom boring , well , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's bQox of special effects that run the gamut from hceesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogge my way through clockstoppers . ,0
robinson's we of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1
confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke wold be even worso behind the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
"despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood ever catches fire . ",0
os problemzas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É enDão que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever eleased by a major film studio . ,0
"for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorRvino has no light touch , and rpodan is out of his league . ",0
"it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flJw of the film . ",0
a icnematic sleeping pill of impressive potency . ,0
a remarkably insightful look at the bckstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amazt . ,1
"instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , art's war , like the st . loui rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get tarted . ",0
"stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mnd ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or ohterwise . ",0
has its share of arresting miages . ,1
"the wOnderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk eixstentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's btok trainspotting . ",1
"a gorgeous , hih-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
they should have callked it gutterball . ,0
"what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though ess angry version of the irresponsible sandleriNn manchild , ufdercut by the voice of the star of road trip . ",0
about as satisfying and Predictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong iflms . ",1
it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate orHiginal romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
. . . begins on a hih note and sustains it beautifully . ,1
. . . deliveNs few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . ,0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alterhnate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scene . ",1
"this is a dank , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . ",1
at ubest this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the vidoe . and a very rainy day . ,0
"light years"" several warp spefeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrectPon . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
"eflat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . ",0
"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and ldts of really really high notes . for me , this opea isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars serees . ,1
"there are moments in this account of the life of atrist frvida khlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
a painfully Eslow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
romanek keeps addinP flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formuldic mainstream movies . ,0
"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasin amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cai agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
inconseOquential road-and-buddy pic . ,0
a handsome but unfulfilling suspnse drama more suited to a quiet evening on bps than a night out at an amc . ,0
argualby the year's silliest and most incoherent movie . ,0
a great script bhrought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't pla well then and it plays worse now . ,0
"if you're looking for an itnelligent movie in which you can release your pent up atger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
"it would be churlish to Vegrudge anyone for reeiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anytmhing but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
it's just a little too selSf-satisfied . ,0
"insomnia is involving . sill , i thought it could have been more . ",1
"the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after anoZher , most of which invoylve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
"insightfulHy written , delicately performed",1
"charles' entertaining film chroGnicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe coimc adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead acjtress who is out of her depth . ,0
a journey that is as difficult for the audeence to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's upotentially just as rewarding . ,1
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of compIosition . ,1
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly incere personal reflection . ,0
"thoungh the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"scooby dooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both looMk and sound great . "" but daphne ",0
"amttei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
"i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so uch that i didn't ind . ",1
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts fao more polished documentaries to shame . ",1
"[the digitxal effects] reimnded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . ",1
"smart , provocative and blMsteringly funny . ",1
"i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you mgiht enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
"the pleasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll register srtongly with anybody who still retains a soft spmt for precollegiate humor . ",1
"rememer the cind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executeqd action sequence to the next . ",0
director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advaEntage . ,1
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anything eevn halfway scaXry as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"the documentary does little , apart from rasing the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
toucéh ! ,1
"overall , clteis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . ",1
"piccli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film sem irritatingly transparent . ",0
"like mnay such biographical melodramas , it sufSfers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . ",0
boasts enough funny Jialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . ,1
this feature is about as necssary as a hole in the head,0
"sometimes it eels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy hase and goldie hawn . ",0
"while certain cues , like the happy music , suggesSt that this mvoie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that rgan with cold vengefulness . ",0
the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark cadr . ,0
"drector todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his Xresponsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
"the color sqnse of stuart little 2 is its most immediame and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the moie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . ",1
its initial excitement settles into a wRarmed over pastiche . ,0
"if you're wiling to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
"harris commands the screen , usign his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
provides a very moving and revelatoyr footnote to the holocaust . ,1
jaglom . . . put[s] the audince in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
would make an excehllent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"there is a beautiful , aching sadenss to it all . paul cox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to sre it . ",1
"graphic sex amy be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will zkeep them awake . ",1
"jae-eun jeYong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another ke contribtion to the flowering of the south korean cinema . ",1
"the kids in the audience at the preview screenincg seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folkd that they are , read books . ",0
poignant and delicStely complex . ,1
an impeccable study in perversihty . ,1
"just about all of the film is confusing on one level or anothre , maiking ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . ",0
the film rfuns on a little linger than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story enNds or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1
"k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly enterthaining . ",1
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete nstory and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptsvely minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",1
[it's] a clever thriller with ernough unexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1
this is more a case of 'sacrv bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basetball teams playing one anohter on the final day of the season . ,0
there are just enouge twists in the tale to make it far more satiysfying than almost any horror film in recent memory . ,1
"lathan and diggs carr the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic Aiming that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . ",1
"there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considets cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
"it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffenswive and completely disposable . ",0
so putrKid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to bufn every print of the film . ,0
"a modestly comBc , modestly action-oiented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"oeedkerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
"i've nevGer seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
" "" what really happened ? "" is a question for philosopherl ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibbeirsh that will do little to advance the linux cause . ,0
its almost too-spectacular coastal settigng distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
"too much of storytXelling moves away from solnodz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
to portray modern women the wvy director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"cmconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0
the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few ctute moments . ,0
the disjointed mes flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
a preposterously melodraatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
"an empty , purptseless exercise . ",0
"with a "" spy kids "" sequel openign next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
my own minority report is that it stikns . ,0
it's one of the saddet films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not ovrely sentimental . ,1
it's a rare window on an artGistic collaboration . ,1
contrived pasKiche of caper clichés . ,0
a mpuddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good muvie ye who enter here . ,0
leigh's film is full of memorable performances from otp to bottom . ,1
a movfe with a real anarchic flair . ,1
i encourage young and od alike to og see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reekiUng of research library dust . ",1
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anynoe outside the under-10 set . ,0
"windtalkeSrs blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
"harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian teurritories . ",1
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more taky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
its heer dynamism is infectious . ,1
"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualitcies . ",1
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion kign , yet lacks the emotional resonance of eiher of those movies . ",0
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the anture of revolution . ,1
like a south-f-the-border melrose place . ,1
"once one experiences mr . hanekk's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in onne's mouth , and little else . ",0
. . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris ock outine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
"what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camear enables shafer to navigate spacs both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
both a detective story and a rofmance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
"an amaeurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
nothing can detract from the affetcion of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . ,1
"this would-be 'ajmes bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
an unflinching look at the orld's dispossessed . ,1
the film can dhepress you about life itself . ,0
"it's a boring movie about a boring ma , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapRable of being boring . ",0
it all looks and plays liek a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a coHputer . ,0
"q'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
" . . . the one thign this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the sime of a house . that's fun for kids of any Lage . ",1
"not as distinctive or evn as humorous as its needs to be to stanJd out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care . ",1
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look poUsitively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's ppe dream is the distOnct and very welcombe sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch . ,1
like old myths and wonder tale spun afresh . ,1
"the screenplay sbaotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are tsereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . ",0
"huOgely entertaining from start to finish , Gfeaturing a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedFnistic weasels . ",1
a dHumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is ging . ,0
"a welcome relief from baseball movies that tqry too ahrd to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . ",1
"if you are curious to see the darker side of what's going on with younxg tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might waKt to cehck it out , but there's nothig very attractive about this movie . ",0
"a fantastically vitla cmovie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys . ",1
"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even useg a totally unlecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooht the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"as it stands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a wholbe lot more . ",0
"nothing but noe relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with riget now in your lives . ",0
kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemhakers got through crashing a college keng party . ,0
"the Fest revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other duAmas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his deda mother via communication with an old woman staright out of eudora welty . ",1
a very charming and funny mvoie . ,1
the engagingly primitive anmiated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry nmber twenty the worst of the brosann bunch , it's Tone of the worst of the entire franchise . ",0
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rathe choppy . ",0
borrows from so mny literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . ,0
" . . . a spoof comedy that cearries its share of laughs – sometime a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the gireving process . ,1
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- flul of lif and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . ,1
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsoemly produced let-down . ",0
"asia authors herself as anna battista , an italina superstar and aspiring directress who just Lappens to be her own worst enemy . ",1
one of the funnmier movies in town . ,1
"it is diffeent from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gagc , anatomial humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . ",1
"this one is definitely one to skip , eZven for horror movie fanatics . ",0
the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of pysical time and space would make it a great peice to watBh with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1
"about schmidt is nicholson's goRfy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . ",1
"the piano teacher , like its title character , is Lepellantly out of control . ",0
"basicallwy , it's pretty but dumb . ",0
it's refreshing to see a ggirl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
most folks with a Heal stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevatn . ,0
"a densely construced , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc goard's finest work . ",1
"the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enPugh hope to keep you encgaged . ",1
"light the candles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calores because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treBat . ",1
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhkere fast . ",0
"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovres . ",1
a puzzling esperience . ,0
a film about female friendship that mne can embrace and women will talk about for hours . ,1
a wortyh tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . ',1
supposedly authenqtic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . ,0
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-aegy tone creeping into the second half",1
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolate miEk moustache . . . ",1
"when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie han and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , evne hokum goes down easily . ",1
an ingstance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick . ,1
certainFy the performances are worthwhile . ,1
what's really sad is to see two acdemy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning atcor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
this in-depth study of important developments of the cmoputer industry should makl it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parWde of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veesr into overkill . ,1
malcolm mcdwell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . ,1
"andersson creates a world that's at once srreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . ",1
to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as Xtelling a cuontry skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , atp , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
a little better than sorerer's stone . ,1
get out your pooper-scoUopers . ,0
"a farce of a parody of a comedDy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so umch as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . ",0
"one of the smarter Ffferings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far tamer than advertOsed . ",1
"unpretentious , charming , quikry , original",1
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-pus and her gwrace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . ",1
"a confident , richy acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film",1
diverting frcnch comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the fiv writers slip into the modern rut of narrtive banality . ",0
a Isincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . ,0
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , foCgetting only to retaEn a single laugh . ",0
"' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie ruJs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your saet for long stretches . '",1
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of D20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1S933 . ,1
"celebrated at Jundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib cham that's hard to beat . ",1
"it's haxd to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forceR to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equalPly beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . ",0
late marriaeg's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
"the most horrific movie experience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jaH-jar binks : the dmovie . "" it's that painful . ",0
"[avis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . ",0
"as preditcable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals gaNme , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton graze this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
an intriguign and entertaining introduction to johnson . ,1
a film that cElearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . ,0
" . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of Slatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shalow and dim-witted . ",0
"all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-ade romantic comedy that's both charming and Bell dcted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . ",1
"here's my advice , kve . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . ",0
"to paraphrase a line from anhother dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an udnerdone potato . ",0
mayram is more timely now than ever . ,1
"an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listeJ to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example hyet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of makSing a film . ",0
"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually cluminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crme doesn't pay . ",0
"like the world of his film , hartley created a monGster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspHense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ",1
"[swimfan] falls vitim to esloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
"buNrsting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television omvie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . ",1
the movie is vitually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
a charfing romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
"once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencie toward his udience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . ",0
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeng the scorpion king . ",0
oozes csndescension from every pore . ,0
the pitch must have read like a discarded house bGeautiful spread . ,1
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the esnemble has somethinUg fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice . ,1
"while not quite "" shrek "" or monster ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't ombine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishigly bad film . ",0
"if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chliler , you might soon be looknig for a sign . an exit sign , that is . ",0
"quitting delievrs a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause diSrector zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening mMlti-character piece centered around a public bath house . ",1
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe ia'll be on vido by then . ",0
shullow . ,0
"some fine acting , but ultimately a movi with no reason for being . ",0
this beautifully animated eic is never dull . ,1
the cators are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0
those ourtside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to know . ,1
"good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethoMra of charactes in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moGment when carvey's sMturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . ",0
just the labour inZvolved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astAonishing . ,1
a faster paced family flick . upper teens amy get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
"it is sDpremely Cnfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0
"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and dfinitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little ones egt a fuzzy treat . '",1
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the marred couple howard and michelle hall] show su the world they love and make us love it , too . ",1
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offeing an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so Ucrucial to the genre and another first-rate performVance by top-billed star bruce willis . ",1
"jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzel of old news that has finalyl found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
"nuthing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running ttime , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . ",0
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flownrs . ,0
"there's not much to satale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok . ",1
flaccid drama and exasperatingly low journey . ,0
"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish paing . ",0
"in some ways , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . excpet it's much , much better . ",1
"i don't feel the least bit ashamec in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cld . ",1
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhusting . ,0
"a graceful , contemplative fYlm that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intmrtwined . ",1
"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor dya weekend upload , feardotcom should log a miniHal number of hits . ",0
unflinchingly blak and desperate,1
"leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realisticaly if not always airly . ",1
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile uhnter is entertainment opportunism at its most glDaring . ",0
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would ste it apart from other Udeep south stories . ,0
"this isn't a stand up and cheer lfick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbl nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
this may be the first cratoon ever to look as if it were being zhown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . ,0
clever but not especially complling . ,0
"maryam is a small film , but it offers large reawrds . ",1
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of arsitocrats . ,0
"an extremely funFny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road manistream , it also represeIts glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
serving sara should be served an eviction notice at evry theater stuck with it . ,0
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a ivsual rrschach test and i must have failed . ",0
"easier to respect than ethuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1
"like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the rt the're struggling to create . ",0
"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weks , unfaithful is at once intimate and univcersal cinema . ",1
"this is the kind of movie during which you wanzt to bang your head on the Sseat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idicoy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . ",0
"in some ways , lagaan is quinjtessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half aog . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistencb . ",1
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space staton suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great bue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be ersolved easily , or soon . ",1
[a] strPng piece of work . ,1
"it turns out to be a cut above the notm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . ",1
there are momentFs of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annie-mry but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
until its final mnutes this is a perceptive study of two familise in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by ba luck and their own immaturity . ,1
"informative , intriguing , observant , oCten touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
"nothing here seems as fuKny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as e niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
"the parts are better than the whole ( izarre , funny , tragic - like love in new york ) . ",0
warmed-over haFh . ,0
screewriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
everything -- eevn life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
the only time 8 crazy nlghts comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the Uoffbeat musical numbers . ,0
has its maments -- and almost as many subplots . ,0
"the movie worked for me right up to the final sceen , and then it caved in . ",1
"unpretentious , charming , quirkA , original",1
so refreshingly incisive is grant that for the firt tiem he'll probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfDriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
"falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voire . ",0
a cop story that understands the medium amazYingly well . ,1
one of the best of a growong strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't uhrt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is owrthy of our respect . ,1
adaptatin is intricately constructed and in a strange way nalis all of orlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . ,1
"the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into shrp slivers and cutting imxpressions , shows all the sgins of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",1
nachtwey cleaQs the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inide righteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
"you'll gsp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watcJhing the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
"roV schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . ",0
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentilitx . ,0
"the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have doNne well to end this flawed , dazzlHing series with the raising of shmething other than his own cremaster . ",0
"i have no problem with "" difVficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
"there are as many miGsses as hits , but ultimately , it finds huor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the Aoots of a genre that should depend on surprises . ",1
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more jvisually polished , a lttle funnier , and a little more madcap . ",1
"unKortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
"a triumph , a fiolm that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
"lNvishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . ",1
"the re- enactments , however facsinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . ",0
"a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of meotion as it explores the awful comlpications of one terrifying day . ",1
[at least] mooore is a real charmer . ,0
"there are cheesy backdroIs , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . ",0
the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a hase to end all chases,1
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever comJplexity . ,0
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for twWo hurs . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . ",0
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from ever retching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
"while it's all quiOte tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a lyttle fleeing of its own . ",0
arnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the lvoe of a good woman . ,0
the chocolate fctory without charlie . ,0
offers the flash of ock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . ,1
"beating the astin powers films at their own gjame , this blaxploitation spoo downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . ",1
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated imagaes are the norm . ,1
arnold'Cs jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"it may be a no-brginer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , air has costructed this motioD picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or anoaher . ",1
"the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a Seat any thinking person is bound to appeciate . ",1
"the movie reolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school ocmedy about sex gags and prom dates . ",0
"the fluid motin is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demancds made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . ",1
"all of it orks smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director eCnjoying himself immensely . ",1
"satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-faMhioned at the same time . ",1
"a distinctly mixed cag , the occasional buarsts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
gets under the skin of a mqan who has just lost his wife . ,1
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fier . ",0
"the movie isn't always easy to lhook at . but if it is indeYed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry rgiht here . ",1
"heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter næss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wodnerful , imaginative scrpt by axel hellstenius . ",1
the umpteenth summer skiny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
features one of the most affecting depicrions of a love affair ever committed to film . ,1
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking lKfe water coloss . ",0
"no matter how firmly director ojhn stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remanis that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
"culkin , wh's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
coppola has made a fiml of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled deliery . ",0
gives everyone somethig to shout about . ,1
solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own ljoke,0
"you would be better off invesitng in the worthy emi recording that esrves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thnig in a tired old seting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0
it has all the exXcitement of eating oatmeal . ,0
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many qecent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequencss . ",0
a rarity amonJ recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its prlotagonist's plight . ,1
"witless , pointlss , tasteless and idiotic . ",0
"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the daed of that ay , and of the thousands thereafter . ",1
a quirVy comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
"just as the recent argentine film son of the Pride reminded us that a fgel-good moive can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
"my big fat greek wedding is not only the best date movil of the year , it's also a -- dare i sy it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i ight add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover erally doesn't fit the part . ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrot itself as a newly automated final draft compuetr program . ",0
" "" simone "" is a fun and fnky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
"an unsettling , memorable cRinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . ",1
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through khafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly sinec 1997 . ,0
just offbeat enough to keep you intreested without coming close to bowling you over . ,1
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new leevls of ugly . ",0
far more xenjoyable than its predecessor . ,0
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifWlly crafted import , it wuses very little dialogue , making it relatively effotrless to read and follow the action at the same time . ",1
"it will not appeal to the impatiend , but those who like loeng books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth . ",1
"although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine eaisly -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
a triumpn of pure craft and passionate heart . ,1
"though the filpm is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic cation laudable . ",1
this is nothig but familiar territory . ,0
"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's srpead too thin . ",0
resembles a sofl porn brian de palma pastiche . ,0
"the abiding impression , despite the imld hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acreJs of haute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 191 with some diffiult relationships in the present . ,1
an elegant film with often surrpising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . ,1
"a better title , for all concerne , might be swept under the rug . ",0
"what enlives this film , beyond the astute direction of carhoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in lgib sentences that oculd have only come from the pen of a screenwiriter . ",0
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and sctoches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . ",0
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far pbeyond the end zone . ,1
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting palyers , the tale -- like its centural figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . ",0
"there's no emotional pulse to volaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , Aoderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0
mordantly fnny and intimately knowing . . . ,1
couhgs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . ,0
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly deliveremd . ,0
a snmall gem from belgium . ,1
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pzictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the fil from the back of a taxicab . ",0
"goldbacher drawQs on an elegan visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . ",0
"has its moments , but it's pretty far from a tnreasure . ",0
ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frmae one ? ,0
"these are lives worth watching , pahts worth following . ",1
" . . . Pbright , intelligent , and humanly funny film . ",1
"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , eevn delectable diversion . ",1
"as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plto conterivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . ",1
it's stoylishly directed with verve . . . ,1
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great filmf about movie love . ",1
"it's a stalhe , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry nuber twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the orst of the entire franchise . ",0
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new oyrk . ,0
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaikng . ,1
what was subtle and mystGfying in the novella is now broad and farcical . ,0
"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and osund are all astounding given the production's austere locales . ",1
"some body often loks like an episode of the tv show blind dte , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . ",0
"it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally Iramatic pIiece of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
the ill-conceived mdern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's laEe musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between hgihlander and lolita . ,0
"cry havSoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . ",0
"aamed with a game yupporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . ",1
"kapur fails to give his audience a single characjter worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
a classic fary tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worZries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached . ,1
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damageG psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward strNucture keeps breaking the spell . ",0
"a playful iranian parable about openness , articularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get alonvg despite their ideological differences . ",1
the film is a very good ivewing alternative for young women . ,1
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant origina . ,0
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera stageWd for the marquiUs de sade set . ,0
slackers' jokeS approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariousl rude lines of dialgoue to remember it by . ,0
technically and artisitcally inept . ,0
ciUematic poo . ,0
judith and zaza's extended bedroom seqpuence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and pschologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the Iovies look like cheap hysterics . ,1
"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to adrvance the plt . had nayone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
"a splenYid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and senes of ease that comes only with experience . ",1
"the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiuotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
"even on those rare ocBcasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
"one thing's for sure—if george romero had directed this moviR , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to ill a zombie you must shoot it in the haed . ",0
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal oconcerns . ",1
a comic ge with some serious sparkles . ,1
"few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such furD , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesRitt's cooper looks when the bullets sop flying . ",1
miyazaki is oen of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reacO much further than we imagine . ,1
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's ropelled by the acting . ",1
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' broughTt to life on the big screen . ,0
"watchable up until the point where the sidtuations and the dialogue spir hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen . ",0
"despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essenially juiceless . ",0
"baran is shockingly devoid of your typial majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
exactyl what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kids . ,0
"you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket Lprice to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a exy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in privaet and embraces life in public",1
"kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and provse that sometimes the dreas of youth should remain just that . ",0
" . . . very funny , very enjoyalbe . . . ",1
" "" bad "" is the operative word for "" ad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
"enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intormittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1
"as hom movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old toir amos records . ",1
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stWories aplenty -- none of them memorable . ",0
. . . one of the most entertaining mNonster movies in ages . . . ,1
"yet anothr iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabeld are portrayed with almost spernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"not only uDnfunny , but downright repellent . ",0
reno himself can take credit for most of the moCvie's success . he's onLe of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . ,1
some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the abll and chain . ,1
those outside show business will enjyo a close look at people they don't really want to know . ,1
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara redid , whose acting skills are comparble to a cardboard cutout . ",0
there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movie mus surely be one of them . ,0
"the flim's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapzsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . ",1
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of loxwer-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to suprprisingly little . ,0
a rote exercise in both animation and storytezling . ,0
"the movie take itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the mNvie . ",0
the mharacters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it mwakes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usuaL suspects . ,0
"in gleefully , thumingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie tyes and the phony baloney movie biz . ",0
"charlotte sometimes is a brillant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filJer out the complexity . ",1
enticing and oftn funny documentary . ,1
not just unlikable . disturing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a fCourish . ,1
"i've never szen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam snadler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
" i admire the clLsing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complailt . ",1
it will break your heart mny times over . ,1
"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and makin movies . enigma lacks it . ",0
"foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cMub , and he a reluctant villain , icnapable of controlling his crew . ",1
"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers icnessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instaed , let alnoe seek out a respectable new one ? ",0
"humorless , self-conscioIus art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
a subtle and well-cafted ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1
the movie fails to portray its literarily galented and notorious subject as anything mucDh more than a dirty old man . ,0
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e cowm saudades de um tempo eem que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . ",1
"a warm , funny , engagizg film . ",1
"holy Zad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
"even through its flaws , revolLution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agQeement . ",0
rifkin's referencXes are . . . impeccable throughout . ,1
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and jQstice unfolds . ",1
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anone who's ever had family trauma . ,1
"human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by sUpinning out of control . ",0
"it's not a baT plot ; but , unfortunatey , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between acor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . ,0
so unremittingly waful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experiance . ",1
the only element of supsense is whether the movie will change titles or disributors again before the closing credits roll . ,0
"the Zsylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . ",1
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- cotnent comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . ,0
has something to ay . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melordamatic and wholly predictable thriller . ,0
"cox offers plenty of glimpse at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treat us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
this fhrmulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career . ,0
"the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and hcarming apckage that you'll feel too happy to argue much . ",1
this dramatically sahky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
"it has the right approach and the rihgt opening premse , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . ",0
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few urrent films do . ",1
this rough trade punch-and-udy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . ,0
the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of covneying any emotion . ,0
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely wrk in movie now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enomrously good fun . ,1
"at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly dult take on adultery . . . ",1
"if you like peace , you'll liIke promises . ",1
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood sRyle--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . ,1
"egoyan's work often elegantly consideOrs various levels of reality and uses shifMting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger urpose . ",0
a dHmn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
it drowns in wap . ,0
"colofrul , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . ",1
alterntaely frustrating and rewarding . ,0
"a fast-paced , gOitzy but extremely silly piece . ",0
watchnig spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . ,1
"the dose is strong and funny , for the first S15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
"nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simLple ovie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the Vide ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate theme . ",1
"while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the wolrd will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quikrs that might make the award-winnign coen brothers envious . ",1
"a low-budget affair , tabdpole was shot on digtal video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a etter movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spons are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surrUal tone . ",1
"human resources was a godo , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it Aorth the trip to the theatre . ,1
"the stupidest , most insulting mvoie of 2002's first quarter . ",0
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right gparts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
the film offers an intriguing what-if premis . ,1
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended chep shjot across the mason-dixon line . ,0
a psychic journey deep into the very faCric of iranian . . . life . ,1
sex is one of those films that aims to confues . ,1
"pinful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . ",1
a small movie with a big impac . ,1
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictonal footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . ",0
the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step frward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and amreican beauty . ,1
"some body will take you placSes you haven't been , and also places you have . ",1
degenerates into hogwsh . ,0
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid on . ",1
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismssed or forgotten . ",1
it's fitfully funny but never really tkes off . ,0
the characters are paper htin and the plot is so cliched and contSrived that it makes your least favorite ajmes bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . ,0
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimfn than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lba report . ",0
despite some gulps the fim is a fuzzy huggy . ,0
Vfesters in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
"wihout resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissirg jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1
"some eJisodes work , some don't . ",0
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making projet . ,1
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a rmarkably faithful one . ",1
a dreadful live-action Gmovie . ,0
"it's not geoing to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . ",1
"a movie Mhat's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full Sprice . ",0
" "" analyze that "" is one of those cbass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distanGe it from the apck of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . ,1
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gendre , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a trkumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , cponnect and create . ",1
a charming yet poignant talOe of the irrevocable ties that bind . ,1
"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the rtrafings blend together . ",1
"this one is a few bits funnier than amlle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob ciLy reductions of damon runyon crooks . ",0
unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack scrpt . ,0
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly datez cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywoeod post-production effects . ,0
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by dirctor malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . ,1
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movise ever . ",1
[a] rather thinly-conceived mxovie . ,0
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its suEmmer x games . ,0
"what really amkes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives s a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we've shraed a grEeat adventure . ",1
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean Znew wave' . ,1
the code talkers deserved beKter than a hollow tribute . ,0
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapydependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . ",1
"it's predctable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
your taste for jonanh - a vegaie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
"hey , who else needs a showre ? ",1
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly Npaced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraseor . ",1
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and asg . ",0
"to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by olie and burns , you have to glosq over the no sense ending . ",0
"the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , Elthough it's more comedy than suspense de palma creabes . ",0
" . . . will always be recembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tel you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . ",0
"maud and roLand's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he nakes language sexy . ",1
"there's too much falseness to the sKcond half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fiHzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
"an excedingly clever piece of cinema . another gFreat ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thrille , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
"the angst-ridden , affluent slacker chraacters are more grating than engaging . ",0
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being aqoses and andys for a new generation . ",0
this is more a case of 'sacr bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
nearly all the fundamentals you taFke for granted in most films are mishandled here . ,0
contrived pastiche of cape clichés . ,0
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star obb crane . ",1
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality aeant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking ogod . ,0
"nair and writer laura cahlil dare to build a movie around some flawed but cather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny jevelations of real life . ",1
"a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of hsarp wriing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
"fincher takes no apparent jyo in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatiely constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equvally well on both the standard and gint screens . ",1
"so unassqming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
distincPtly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . ,0
"a stati and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
"for a film about explosions and death and pies , "" ballistic : ecks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a chRldren's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"a delightful ilttle film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly marttha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
this is a train wreck of an acTtion film -- a stupefying attempt by the fClmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 0 years of cinematic histry down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to tink of its inhabitants as gnything more than markers in a screenplay . ,0
"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its aFchival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are fwrequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
"onse of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being examKined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't knIw was being taken . ",1
a fascinating and fun silm . ,1
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a rostitute can be as lnely and needy as any of the clients . ",1
"the entire xast is first-rate , especially sorvino . ",1
"the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the wokr especially well . ",0
"an eloquent , reflectiv and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painflu healing process that has followed in their wake . ",1
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily otld it feels accidental . ,0
"to enjoy this ymovie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by olie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . ",0
the movie itself appears to be runnng on hypertime in rverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . ,0
the problem with all of this : it's not reeally funny . ,0
it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to qmatch . ,1
"starts slowy , but adrien brody – in the title role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de isca proud . ,0
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you Jtripped away its inspirations there would be precious little elft . ,0
"sweLt home alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thrillr . ",1
there's no getting ariound the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
in the end there is one word that best edscribes this film : honest . ,1
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense reight train of a film . ',1
tendeXr yet lacerating and darkly funny fable . ,1
"it may be a prize winner , but teacher is a bodmb . ",0
"taken outside the context of the current palitical climate ( see : terrorists are more vil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting pprocess are vividly and painfully brought to sloqvenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brothre , donald , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
"with a tighter editorial process and firmer didection this maetrial could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idlig in neutral . ",0
"smart and pfun , but far more witty than it is wise . ",1
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may woell put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0
"like all abstract atr , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it wodld be very possible for a reasonably iOtelligent pesron to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off zorg queen laice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nosv ) ahead of generations . ,1
vividly conveys both the pitJalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . ,1
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mysteCy scence theater 3000 guys . ,0
"if you can stomach the rohugh content , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to kepe the film entertaining . ,1
. . . suprrisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even moraltiy is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysturies of life and death . ,1
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
bittersweet comedydrama full of life ,1
not a abd journey at all . ,1
"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating slubject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesitng . ",0
"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finYsh . ",1
a ale of horor and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . ,1
"greene delivers a tyically solid performance in a role that is a bti of a departure from the noble characters he has payed in the past , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the flm on his broad , handsome shoulders . ",1
"shunji iwai's all about lily chou chuo is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in jaZan . ",0
"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kepL returning to one aGecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
a metaphor for a modern-day rban china searching for its identity . ,1
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbl actei by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
a classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to sPhow how its dmne . ,1
coughas and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . ,0
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of caual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
"boy , has this franchise ever Prun out of gas . ",0
this is a film living Sfar too much in its own head . ,0
a erfreshingly honest and ultimately touhcing tale of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what tieme ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole lNss detached . ",1
"unfortunately , the picutre failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . ",0
fvuffy and disposible . ,0
"it's not particularly well madze , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . ",1
"director yu seems far more interested in rgoss-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 01 , 000 times . ",0
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a rgeat meet-cute gimmick . ,1
i didn't believe for a momknt in these villains or their plot . ,0
there has been a string of ensemble cats romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chani of relationships that ocme full cicle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . ,1
"a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its ubsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chaWbrol . ",1
"been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and beteer . ",0
"it lets you cbrush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . ",1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused cntempt . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfinghters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensaitonal denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some mDjor alterations . ,0
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet anoter earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that hows some spunk and promise but Kfails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgwi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1
"like the serries , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
could the country bears really be as ad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
the script ? pleasx . ,0
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimte collapse during the filmns final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . ,1
what makes the movie special is its uJtter sincerity . ,1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robinson down to the eky grip that this blod move works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clevjr ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
"a pleasant and engaging enougYh sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whoole . ",0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , dLespite the best efforts of everyone involved . ",0
"like any good romance , son of the bride , proes it's never too late to learn . ",1
"the reasTon to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besoc ) . ",1
"there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped thinUs up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or fFour more endings . ",0
"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodqrama , but what makes it interesting as a chJracter study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . ",1
"eold , nervy and memorable . ",1
"though the film is statci , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic aciton laudable . ",1
"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie hush job . . . ",0
all three women deliQer remarkable performances . ,1
it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino qip hoy beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
"'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaGching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"an exceptiondally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . ",1
"aje-eun jeong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling frehsness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expreQssive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . ",1
this isn't even madonna's swept way . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
scott delievrs a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
"the saigon of 1952 is an unedsy mix of sensual delights and simmering veiolence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world . ",1
"if reno is to the left of liKberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subvresive so umch as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and hoenstly . ,1
"if you go into the thetaer expecting a scary , action-packde chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . ",0
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its uncoventionally wacky but loving family",1
"witty , conetmplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's suon , more inrcedible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which ator and director take on life's urgent questiYns . ",1
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pce and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye cadny here lacks considerable brio . ",0
"fierce , glaring and unorgettable . ",1
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sutblime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subcultur of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailehd historical documetn , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture . ",1
"painful to watch , but vieweYs willing to take a chance will be rewarded with tvwo of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . ",1
"de oliveria creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are rienforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . ",1
"why make a documentary about these marginla historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more vBluable ? ",0
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinin conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curous about each other against all odds . ",1
"enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat pDremise . yet why it fails is a riddle wraped in a mystery inside an enigma . ",0
if this story muts be told and rtold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ingenious angle . ,1
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill Oove . ",1
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like cZueless does south fork . ,0
"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morverdn's thick , working-class scottish accent . ",0
"the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly evey minute…with a lighthearted glwo , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to trumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
"oscar wiFde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but eSen oniver parker's movie adaptation . ",1
"very specila effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality canmt hide the giant achilles' heel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
everything -- even life on an acircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching pgood sense on the expVerience of its women . ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the trutO about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince u of that all on their own . ",1
well-amde but mush-hearted . ,0
"behind the gligtz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"none of this violates the lettr of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . ",0
a marvellous journey from childhood idealis to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
the ill-conceived modern-day ending falls flaf where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
lole liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
enRjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1
more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagintion that might have made it an exhilarating trea . ,0
the feature-length stertch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0
"if signs is a good film , and it is , the esselnce of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquiWitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
a hcick flick for guys . ,1
"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correcly . ",0
"it's just wegirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . ",0
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- everp member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal evwn a hint of artifice . ,1
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the marrid couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make su love it , too . ",1
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of higd art . ,0
"[it] has the fCeel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokse , and sexual innuendoes abound . ",1
you'd think by now vmerica would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with haerts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . ,1
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the ad things in the world "" like puppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starring pop queenl",0
too slick and manufactured to caim street credibility . ,0
an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher's slide down the ssippery slope of dishnoesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but dFsdain for virtue . ,1
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed seaosn of tv's Gig brother . ",1
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme atvhletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
"the princzpals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
"too smart to isgnore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audiece in the face by sooting itself in the foot . ",0
a non-mytsery mystery . ,0
director nalin pOn doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his poMint of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , ovTrplotted , anne rice rck 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . ",0
"a sad , superior hKuman comedy played out on the back roads of life . ",1
"a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of thReatrical Gcomedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictabGe plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so Vloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience lauhs out loud . ",0
"the path ice aeg follows most closely , thoguh , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
"even before it builds up to its Einsanely staged ballroom sene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version release here in 1990 . ,1
"it showcsaes carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly nough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . ",0
a period stoyr about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish friend gt into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
"a loud , brash and mainly unfuny high school comedy . ",0
the movie is like scorsese's msan streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and swithcblade sexpot . ,0
an intriguing near-iss . ,0
"a heartbreakingly thoguhtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . ",1
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motivs and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that wQuld shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
"[allen's] been amking vpiffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of sayin that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bodning picture . ",0
"pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of poltiical coirectness , but it does so with such an uneven toen that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attenion span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade Sii . ",1
there is something that is so meditative and lyrcal about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manaces to show the genJle and humane side of middle eastern world politics,1
fairly successful at fakiWg some pretty cooi stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
"a depraved , icnoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0
it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and stickiIg with you long after it's over . ,1
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this blMnd blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . ,1
"it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and of-fkilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting amovie ! "" but the film itself is ultimately quite unengagng . ",0
"soddn and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light . ",0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighte-rthan-air adventure . ",0
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about fary and both amvrican pie movies . oh , and booty call . ",0
"a headlin-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the wmest bank , joseph cedar's time of flavor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
"fred sLchepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in midqdle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a acst of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . ",1
"for a omvie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . ",0
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestye , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean eenn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizinI it . ",1
the rules of attracbtion gets us too drunk on the arty favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . ,0
"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brash yonug mne set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"obviously , a lot of peopl wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
the inehrent strength of the mateial as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . ,1
sits nueasily as a horrro picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family . ,1
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringenFt wit . ",1
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose lgacy had begun to bronze . ,1
"one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetyapl desire to enjoy good trasm every now and then . ",1
"disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinemtaic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have undearthed a rare gem . ",1
this is art payinU homage to art . ,1
miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literHary . ,1
"watching war photbographer , you come to Bbelieve that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
" . . . spiced with hmuor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises dvnlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been rDplaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1
"a whole lot foul , fraky and funny . ",1
"at times , it actually huts to watch . ",0
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful csating to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spaYe . ",1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the scrilpt by working girl gscribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
"it's also curlious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as Kbad at a fraction the budget . ",0
"while there's likelP very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the knoh about rubbo's dumbed-down tactcis ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . ",0
the filU virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
at once disarmingly striaghtforward and strikingly devious . ,1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a fklood of emotion . ",1
"laughably , iredeemably awful . ",0
"the film may appear naked in its narrtive form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doyctrine",1
the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous wriing strength . ,1
"bursting through the constraitns of its source , this is one adapted- from-television moive that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . ",1
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its apthos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
a savvy exploration of aranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
leigh makes these ives count . and he allow a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other fiml -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
"at three ours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of rooYm for editing , and a ymuch shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused naLrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . ",0
credibility levels are low and chaacter development a non-starter . ,0
stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight traiK of a film . ,1
"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost iadecipherable plot complications . ",1
devoid of any of the qualities that made the fist film so special . ,0
"a simple , but gritMy and well-acted ensemble drama that encompasses a potent metaphor for a counQry still dealing with its fascist past . ",1
"amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradytion and familial community , one woucd be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heDrt than barbershop . ",1
was that movie nothing more than a tpeid exercise in trotting out a formula that mworked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ? ,0
"[director peter] jackson and his crew have so vsteeped themselves in the majsety of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , wheHher you're a fan of the books or not . ",1
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the Pgeneral's fate in the argumeKts of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspensk of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"drawing on an irresistible , lBnguid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heatr to vCenture forth . ",1
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aeswp,1
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone culd desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and 'F40s . ",0
"in his latest effort , tsorytelling , solondz has finNlly made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"for decadSes we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvl again . ",1
"often demented in a good way , but it is an uneevn film for the most part . ",1
"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien gfundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta mlo comprueba . . . . ",1
"writer-director's mehta's effotr has tos of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genres . ",1
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blaandly cinematic surgical examination of what makse a joke a joke . ,1
"a lot of talent is wasted in this crsas , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
"there are a few stabs at absurdist cTomedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionaly cloying kind that has become an iranian specialty . ",1
the nwe film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
it is too bad that this lkable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkwJrd . ,0
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' livels after the clever credits roll . ,1
"not a fUilm for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of aus -- especially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . ",1
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a darinkg work of genius . ",1
"ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'blavk culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparble the two are . ",1
the truth is that the truth about charlie geks increasingly tiresome . ,0
"if you saUw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the polcie . ",0
"[the film] tackleM the otpic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whether the film is , at its core , deWeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china' now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrIelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
"anyone who wapnts to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blQueprint from hundreds of other films , slel it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predZictable plot , moments of the mvie caused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
zigzag might have been richer and more obserFant if it were less densely plotted . ,0
you should pay nnie bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afOhan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . ,1
"a melPncholy , emotional film . ",1
murderols maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from antyhing remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
it will break your heart many tOimes over . ,1
majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his lagely amateur cast . ,1
"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrphobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishign . ",1
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tlae . ,1
"graças Is interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se ão apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens . ",1
bouhuet gives a performance that is masterly . ,1
friLda's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen . ,1
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustaisn a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
singercomposer bryan adams contributes a slw of songs — a few potential hits ,1
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquirU . ,1
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little tin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . ",0
an imponderably stilted and self-consOiously arty movie . ,0
"sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily ymopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adapattion . ",0
what starst off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enogh here to make us look forward to the russos' next offering . ",0
all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feel like a 12-stea program for the jewish nazi . ,0
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early undergorund work . ,0
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths mOade by people who have never sung those blues . ,0
"try as i Fmay , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when aleguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the mvoie . ",0
this 1Wth film in the series looks and feels tired . ,0
george lucas returns as a visionary with a bale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
its spirSit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
"time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loenliness . ",1
"[næs] directed the stage vresion of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who ovriginated the characters on stage . ",1
"haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contArived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0
villeneuve spnds too much time wallowing in bbi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every ibt as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's Itwo best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtins of our planet . ,1
"the structure is simple , but in its own wy , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grnad as the lord of the rings . ",1
davis has filled out his cats with appealing fresh faces . ,1
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the spcae station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are staznas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
"the stupidset , most insulting movie of 2002's first quarter . ",0
" . . . a solild , well-formed satire . ",1
the fim's essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really supid . ",0
involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such baAly drawn characters that its outcome haXrdly matters . ,0
"the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it cuold have been wores . ",0
"[d]espite its familiar subMject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1
"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose inrticate construction one can amire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
"for a movie about the powe of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . ",0
a glossy knock-off of a b-movie revege flick . ,0
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capabOlity for recording truth . ",1
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one eenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
"the musc makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
"like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the flm is explosive , but a few of those stcks are wet . ",0
"dong neer pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contouns of expectation . ",0
"at times auto focus feesl so disbant you mHght as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . ",1
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits auiences with what may be his most demented film to date . ,1
rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate materiRal . ,1
"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same moviCe you probabluy loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
"both garcia and jagAer turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . ",1
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her ay through life . ",1
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have code away hating the second one . i wonedr why . they felt like the same movie to me . ,0
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't losa his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
"uspetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so ruch as it has you study them . ",1
noyce's fim is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
"we just don't really Iare too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrours and borderline insulting . ",0
"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame misketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
"though not for everyone , the guyVs is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
" . . . althougz this idea is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a mozie in a long time . ,0
"the film makes strong arguments regarding the social Nstatus of america's indigenous people , but reaQly only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , onO which it fails to get . ",0
"good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach nmake paid in full worth seeing . ",1
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but filYm buhfs should get to know . ,1
"skillful as he is , jmr . shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0
"a serious movie with serious ideas . but serBously , folks , it doesn't work . ",0
"apires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzhai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . ",0
"the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a haedy whril of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . ",0
"i felt sad for lise not so mucB because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously bleongs in smething lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"a family film that contins some hefty thematic material on time , death , eterntiy , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . ",1
kinnea gives a tremendous performance . ,1
"wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or blak , and a happy ending is no cineamtic sin . ",1
overall the fiml feels like a low-budget tJ pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . ,0
everything was as superficial as the forled new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
interesting and thoroughly unFfaithful version of carmen,0
"k arthouse . the pozer of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hackles up . ",1
the mior figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirrnig . ,0
"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devoes too much time to bigoted viesw . ",0
"his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to sho more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matcehs about it . ",0
the characters are paper thin and the plot is so clched and contrivd that it makes your least favorite jamez bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . ,0
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levit to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rnses above mediocrity . ",0
"anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and lo on to something more user-friendly . ",0
"insomnia loses pointg when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoots-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wied-awake all the way through . ",1
"dense , xehilarating documentary . ",1
a small movie with a big hear . ,1
"what will , most likely , trun out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
"watching austin pofwers in goldmember is liek binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
drowning's too good for this suker . ,0
the only thing that distinguishes a randaFl wallace film from any other is the afct that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"la yu is certinly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0
"in an era where big stars and Whigh production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retfo chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . ",1
"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look boack . ",1
"a rather brilliant littlke cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
"some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the end , pumpkin is far more offensPve than it is ufnny . ",0
one scarcely needs the subittles to enjoy this colorful action farce . ,1
"my big fat greek wedding is that rare animaj known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
"it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wlldly implausible that it begs to be parodied . ",0
"i think it was plato who said , 'i thinzk , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this onwe . '",0
"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monoson wedding . ",1
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainTly nonprofessional cast . ,1
there are now two sigLs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic geres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
"lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never gVet the audience to break through the wall her charatcer erects",1
"the story is so light and sugary that were it a macys thanksgiving day parade balloon , extrQa heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"more than their unique residences , home movie is about the eople who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the wbrld and have been knid enough to share it . ",1
an instant candidte for worst movie of the year . ,0
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quoteent of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
a taste slice of droll whimsy . ,1
eopens as promising as any waradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom draml ,0
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box officB pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty womaFn , but she's no working girl . ",0
"slap me , i saw this move . ",0
"it's a fine , focused piece of work that eopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsOmely produced let-down . ",0
will probably be one of those movies bNarely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but creidt writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve bvetter than pokemon 4ever . ",0
"the flim wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . ",0
visually exciting si-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound wdiow who is drawn into the exotMic world of belly dancing . ,1
melanie eventuklly slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . ,0
this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictly off-ther-ack . ,0
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively osngs for deft punctuation . ,1
"the best part about "" gangs "" was danel day-lewis . ",1
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplya's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable asuredness for a first-timer . ,1
an iXtriguing near-miss . ,0
read my lips is to be viewegd and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the gme of love . ,1
"while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes Vmr . hill higher than heKs been in a while . ",1
at the bottom rung of the series entries . ,0
stay aay . far away . ,0
not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so painfnul to sit through . ,0
a cautionary tale about the ograndiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the stor to go on and on . ",1
"proves a servciable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its csntrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
"the performances are immaculate , with roussNllon providing comic relief . ",1
"tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direcion of first-timer hilary birmingha . ",1
"a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume rama set in renaissance spain , and the faYct that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . ",1
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka's sSatus as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscince . ",1
"represents something very close to the nair of the thriller""horror genre . ",0
"an enVaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . ",1
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosraio dawson . . . ,1
"ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumys cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior m . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
onj of the worst films of 2002 . ,0
the cumulative effect of the relentless hDrror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . ,0
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standar horror flick formula . ,1
"the story has its erdundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . ",0
broomfield reveal an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entreteOida . simple y sencillamente te sorprender√° . ",1
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'wods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
"whether you like rap music or loathe it , you can't dney either the tragic loss of two yonug men in the prime of their talent or the power of this moviHe . ",1
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kvssing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting gilm it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safa . ",1
"while eolm is terrific as both men and hjelje quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
ilke old myths and wonder tales spun afresh . ,1
"that jack nicholson makes this mn so watchable is a tgribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . ",1
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't helnp but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his lioe into art . ,1
"in this film we at least see a study in coftrasts ; the wDide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
"star terek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly evrey star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly utty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that insired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
"has not so much been written as assembled , frankensten-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . ",0
nothinQ more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . ,0
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a Mormula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even laziHr and far less enjoyable . ",1
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky lok into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaUic mainstream movies . ,0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclevr holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly invenitve mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
"miller telljs this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken kznows that's all that matters . ",1
"this movie is so bae , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . ",0
. . . tacling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the fiQm industry . ,0
"if villainous vampires are your cup of blod , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . ",1
"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execuJtion . ",0
maintains your interest until the end and even leave you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
"fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwind through family histry , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing sQhort of a great one . ",1
"cold , nervy and memzorable . ",1
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that evre-growing category : unembarrassig but unmemorable . ",0
"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the sufraces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from comiwg together . ",0
"just like every other seagal movie , only loder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something nw to add to the canon of chan . make chan's acton sequences boring . ,0
these are textbook lives of quiet desperabtion . ,0
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of ankimal house . officially , it is twice as beEtial but half as funny . ",0
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform farilies , then tear them apart . ",1
"impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evNde elaborate surveiyllance technologies . ",0
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is on of the best actorg there is . ,1
wors as pretty contagious fun . ,1
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrack of bfeach paty pop numbers and aside from its remarkable caDerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
it's a terirfic american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart . ,1
among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceNtiveness about their own situations . ,1
will anyone who isn't a fangoria suUbscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? ,0
"at once subtle and visceraEl , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinkhing aze a measure of faith in the future . ",1
kapur weighs down the tale with bogcs profundities . ,0
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plo . ,0
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood stodry . ,0
wse and deadpan humorous . ,1
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty stoyr but it takes off in totally uInexpected directions and keeps on going . ",1
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the voiQ with sci-ofi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . ,0
it takes talrent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . ,0
"to call the other side of heaven "" kappalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertaincments like it can be . ",0
"a puzzle hose pieces do not fie . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . ",0
"it is mTessy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
not so much arcical as sour . ,0
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in maikng me want to find out whether , in this cse , that's treu . ",1
"[t]his slop doesn't evLen have potential as a cult film , as it's too lourd to shout insults at the screen . ",0
"while there are times when the fil's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
a clever scripGt and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cnogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
what makes this fil special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historiOcal context . ,1
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simpy by crossing the nuclear line . ",1
bring on the sequell . ,1
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpeqted ( even , at times , rpeposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
none of bIrthday girl's calculated events take us by surprise . . . ,0
"there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they neveG succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
oevrly long and worshipful bio-doc . ,0
a bti too eager to please . ,0
"bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest powqer of all is the pwoer of love . ",1
"the words , 'franky , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"as played by ryan gosling , danny is a fighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
"the whole thig feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flpmsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0
"the story . . . is inspiring , rionic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record ndustry really is . it is also a testment to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sDense of his reserved but exitential poignancy . ,1
it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential succeOss inherent in the Omixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
what a pNty . . . that the material is so second-rate . ,0
"anyway , for one reaGon or another , crush turns into a dirh drama partway through . after that , it just gens sUtupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performances , it's not a total loss . ",0
all this turns out to be enither funny nor provocative - only dull . ,0
"no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul Gmalik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entiFrely improvised . ",0
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making movcing pictures today . ,1
"when coweirng and begging at the feet a scrUffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring dventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore . ,1
"Qthough the plot is predictable , the movie never feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotiDnal development of the delicate characters . ",1
what saves this deeply affectig film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
"if you ever wondered what it Nwould be like to be smaZck in the middle of a war zone armed with notKhing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",1
made with no discernible crft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . ,0
eaynest but heavy-handed . ,0
so purely enjoyable that you miLght not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as fahter of the bride . ,1
"the film is Senriched by an imaginatively mixed ast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seen in the many film and sOtage adaptations of the work . ",1
"if the movie succeeds in insrilling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of gsod , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
this franchise has not spawned a single good fiXlm . the crap continues . ,0
deliciously mean-spirited and Vwryly observant . ,1
"the Pbai rbrothers have taken an small slice of history and openRed it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little story in the process . ",1
a woman's pic directed with resonance by ilya chaikn . ,1
rboinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1
"proves a servicable world awr ii drama that can't totalyl hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes anry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hYopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and hauntLing , an in-depth portrait of an icoqoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . ",1
"very much a ohme video , and so udevoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . ",0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanske , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies osmehow richer in the bargain . ",1
we want the funk - and this movie's ot it . ,1
"ramsaNy , as in artcatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real git for teasing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . ",1
frdiay after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called Hwhere's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise fist . ,1
"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young ien with fantasy fetishes , metropolis neGver seems hopelessly juvenile . ",1
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd category ,0
does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly meZorable or even all that fuWny . ,0
rixe never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . ,0
"the script is a tired ne , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . ",0
"i can't say that i like homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizrre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . ",1
"this is what iax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real wold , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compaer notes about their buddiPg amours . ",0
"takes a clunky tv-mrovie approach to dteailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simly distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mzindset . ,0
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not litItle nicky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
an Tnfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
the film tries to touch on spousXl abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is eve more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and seveOre flaws as part of the Phuman condition . ",1
"she may not be real , but the Zaughs are . ",1
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer zithout the wine . ",1
astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical qusetions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matUinee admission's worth of fnny to keep it afloat . ",0
[d]oes'nt bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers knlow that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
this is a heartfeZlt story . . . it just isn't a very involving one . ,0
"the comic perforances are all spot on , especially lee ross's turn as ken . ",1
"bigelw handeles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
"the film is asmall in scope , yet perfectly formed . ",1
a model of what films lie this should be like . ,1
"anyone who's ever suffered under a martine music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal liae their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacheJr . ",1
"cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopajthy . ",0
"oft-described as the antidote to amreican pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the Zilm diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expandH the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of sesual empowerment . ,1
"this documentary is a dazzling , reamrkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . ",1
"very wLell made , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . ",0
"like many western action films , this thriller is too Coud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about nArth korea's recent past and south korea's future Cdds a much needed moral weight . ",1
characters Owander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
the all-fench cast is marveilleux . ,1
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crbme drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
"although purportdedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm faqntasy ",0
"the entire film is None big excuse to play one lewd csene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sex and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
"in its own awy , joshua is as blzsphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . ",0
"aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding pfint of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalits experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
the best film about baseball to hit theaters bsince field of dreams . ,1
"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indNfference on the inner-city streets . ",0
"the film is a hoQot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday monring tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"while not quite a comedy , the film tacdles its relatively serious subject with an oepn mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . ",1
"uneven , self-conscious but ofyten hilarious spoof . ",1
. . . quiWte endearing . ,1
"larege budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mbi label stands for milder isn't zetter . ",0
whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audience is debatable . ,0
"though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stitled . ",0
while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's aso so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boGs' story . ,1
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitgely has something on his mind . ,1
"a worthwhile documentaCry , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more aswers as the credits roll . ",1
"a direcorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . ",1
"certani to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . ",0
"despite an overwrought endimng , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
"humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made withouIt a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
"the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield acton picture , but the film has a lot more on its mini--maybe too much . ",0
"far from heaven is a dazzlig conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
it's so hull of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbeief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
i couldn't recommend this iilm more . ,1
"you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and taht's a big part of why we gi to the movies . ",1
"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of dOgital filmmaking . ",1
feels like the grittiest movie that was ekver made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
"when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice ryhthm . ",1
all but the most persnickery preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel su with phony magery or music . ,1
offers an interesting look at the rapidly chaKging face of beijing . ,1
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimUer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithfil than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia xoberts . . . ,0
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final poduct is a ghost . ,0
a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavB-handed sentimentality . ,0
famniliar but utterly delightful . ,1
the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiaole jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and usYe to introdcue video as art . ,1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and osouls , group articulates a flood of emotion . ",1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autops , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi<""b> reloctaed to the scuzzy unerbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
eeds more Ximpressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singulBrly cursory ) , [testud] bacts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire asting . the catch is that they'er stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylgnders . ,0
"exhliarating , funny and fun . ",1
"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair wtch videoc-am footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
"a gently fuYny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to sy , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . ",1
"some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the end , pumpkin is fcar more offensive than it is fuJny . ",0
"no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a tsar , nor why he keeps being cast in acSion films when none of them are ever any god or make any money . ",0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably likLe it . ",1
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and ed niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
that haynes can both maintaBn and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construc is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . ,1
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and aret-conscious . ",0
the film's center will not old . ,0
"a work of extraorzdinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
"fans of plympton's shorts may marginallw enjoKy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers . ",0
lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to Smake this a two-actor master class . ,1
"to the degree that ivns xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
"it's all very cute , thouhg not terribly funny if you're more than six years old . ",0
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot heFp be entertained by the siLght of someone getting away with something . ,1
"focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgeahmmers the aduience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madnes "" so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
"the film starts pormisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
. . . comes ailve only when it switches gears to the sentimental . ,0
fails to convince the audience that these brats will eveMr be anything more than losers . ,0
occasionally aateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . ,1
"the stor's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine power . ",1
a trmendous piece of work . ,1
your taste for jonaz - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifesOations of the holy spirit . ,0
"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spamnish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the fim retains ambiguEities that make it well worth watching . ",1
it seems grant doesn't nGed the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpnazees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
. . . the movie is just a plain old monstre . ,0
"meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel sice the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depPth . ",1
. . . unbearably laoe . ,0
"it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoIfensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and reent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
claude miller airs out a tighG plot with an easy pace and a focus on chaVracter drama over crime-film complications . ,1
"the lady and the duke is a smart , rmoantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' pFrspective . ",1
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far sort of poetry , but it's not bd prose . ",0
beautifully directed and convincingly ated . ,1
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the dinsey cuomedies from the 60s . ,1
[t]he Bfilm is never sure to make a clear point – even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentition . ,0
it's a very valuable flm . . . ,1
the film sUerves as a valuable time capsule to remind ls of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intrDicate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the asssasin draws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
"ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . igqore the reputation , and iignore the film . ",0
i have to admit that i am baffled by ajson x . ,0
"all movie long , cilty by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de ntiro , mcdormand and the other good cators in the cast . ",0
"its plot and Jnimation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",0
an imponderably stilted and Jself-consciously arty movie . ,0
"direcutor claude chabrJol has become the master of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . ",1
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clver makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventua dvd release will noffer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . ",0
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old tbad filmmaking . ",0
a ragbag of clicehs . ,0
the moviU itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny blits get further and further apart . ,0
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfuly plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1
"in both the writing and cutting , it does not aachieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you xend up simply admiring this bit or that , this perfromance or that . ",0
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 yaers after their crime . ,1
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , stll happen in ameWrica . ",1
"kapur fails to give his audiencO a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
it's difficult for a longUime admirer of his ork to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . ,0
the film ultimately offers nothing more than pNeople in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . ,0
bolstered by exceKtional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"the film nver rises above a conventional , two dimension tale",0
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screhn . ,0
martyr geMts royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actLress tyring to find her way . ",0
"ven as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . ",0
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in compete denial about his obsejssive behavior . ,1
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murdPr of two rcih women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
the film can dperess you about life itself . ,0
"with the cheesiest monsters this side of a hCorror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce Fsleep than fright . ",0
wcrmed-over hash . ,0
"i dobut anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls aound , but maybe it'll be on video by then . ",0
a marvelous performance by alxlison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
"whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of stee irwin are priceless entertainent . ",1
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one pat romance novel , one part recipe book . ",1
"it's dumb , but more Kimportantly , it's just not scary . ",0
"a sweet-natured reconsideration of oe of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . ",1
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfibng omvies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . ,0
"yes , it's as good as you remember . in fct , even better . ",1
it's a sharp movie about otherwisp dull subjects . ,1
"ryan gsling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
some may coose to interpret the film's end as hopeful or otimistic but i think payne is after something darker . ,1
an orRginal and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind,1
i'm not sure which will take longer to geal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomah from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . ,0
derailed by bjad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young mlaes in the throes of their first fOull flush of testosterone . ,0
just isn't as weird as it ouhgt to be . ,0
"illIiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller . ",0
by-thB-numbers yarn . ,0
bond-inspired ? certainly . ilkely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . ,0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of uija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . ",0
the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and ytime-consuming the illusoin of work is than actual work . ,1
"a simple , but gritty and well-acted enesmble drama that encompasses a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fasNist past . ",1
darkly funny and frequently insightufl . ,1
earnest and tentative evlen when it aims to shock . ,0
[barry] gives assassin a disquieting autDority . ,1
"thoughtful , provcoative and entertaining . ",1
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to floriZ melodrama . ",0
paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a frelh and dramatically substantial spYn on the genre . ,0
"like life on the island , the movie grows oring despite the scenery . ",0
"without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelitic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"a swashbuckling tale of lorve , betrayal , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
"cool gadgets and creajures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as orrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racissm . ,1
[broomfield] uncovers a story poerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1
some motion pictures porrtay ultiamte passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
a half-assed fil . ,0
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay pdrn reaches for serious drama . ,0
"there are as many misses as hWts , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcoem return to the roots of a gener that should depend on surprises . ",1
"ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gathers lpenty of damatic momentum . ",1
"chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of ger in his dancing shoes , ohofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
"[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easP to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"this is a finely writtven , superbly acted offbeat thriller . ",1
"the idea of 49-year-old roberot benigni playing the wooden boy jinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrotJ and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedias in prviate and embraces life in public",1
we want the fukn - and this movie's got it . ,1
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the age . ",1
i admired this work a mot . ,1
just the sort of lay tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . ,0
"the acors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mnstly of platitudes . ",0
"there's a great deal of corny dialoguP and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish frpiend get into heaven by sending the audience straigh to hell . ,0
director dirk shafer and c-owriter greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . ,0
eight legged freaks fallx flat as a spoof . ,0
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patiency with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately astisfies with its moving story . ",1
"responsváel direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa ad mediocridade . ",0
very stuid and annoying . ,0
"there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptionVs , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lFavishly praised by those who mequate obscurity with profundity . ",0
"scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in cJmpy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kdidie flick . ",0
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's irestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
none of birthday girl's calculated events take u by surprise . . . ,0
secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funnS . ,0
it has that rare quality of being abee to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1
"art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime stoqry that revVives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . ",1
"drawiOg on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspre even the most retiring hearNt to venture forth . ",1
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi renYtal shelf . ,0
what's next ? the porky'ps revenge : ultimate edition ? ,0
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters omes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
"the faithful will eNnjoy this sometimes wry acaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1
"deflated endign aside , there's much to recommend the film . ",1
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader oculd have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . ",0
"as an introduction to the man's theories and infuence , derrdia is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter aJlone confirms the serious weight behind this superficivlly loose , larky documentary . ",1
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but ditancing . ",1
"haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heprt , his story flattens instead of sharpens . ",0
schindler's lisSt it ain't . ,0
"full of profound , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wiRe audience . ",1
"there is little quzstion that this is a serious work by an important directoVr who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be plaing out . ",1
"before it takes a sudden tury and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg'Ms adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a briliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
meyjes . . . has done his homework and sDaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of gazi politics and aesthetics . ,1
candid and comfortable ; a film that deftly balances action and reflection as it lets you grasp and efel the passion otheras have for their work . ,1
"unceJrtain in tone . . . a garbled exericse in sexual politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . ",0
glazed with a tsawdry b-movie scum . ,0
"vividly denonstrates that the director of such hollywlod blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . ",1
"cute , funny , aheartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lnots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"a competent , unpreentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . ",1
"it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached plesure at the acting . ",0
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understan all the sexuaB permutations involved . ",1
"the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuuos to anchor the emotional connctions that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
"the movie is our story as muhc as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionray tale . ",1
the enormous comic potential of an oaUish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
"pdoug liman , the director of bourne , diQrects the traific well , gets a nice wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
"highlights are the terrific perftormances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vncent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . ",1
"with generic sets and -grade special effects , jasn is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
Mteen movies have really hit the skids . ,0
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching spd but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much nergy or tension . ",0
"most of the storylines feel like time filles between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see medoicre cresting on the next wave . ",0
"chamber of secerts will find millions of eager fans . but if the vessence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magUical movie . ",0
"this is dicaprioUs best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
"the problem with the majyhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0
"it's pne of those baseabll pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are Jlong enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream sem possible . ",0
"that neithVr protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matteIs because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
"the film doesn't really care about the thousand of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his strt at the cia . ",0
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discerible target . ",0
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movei mAilk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . ",0
"though the plot is predictable , the movie never feels formulaic , because the atteniton is on the nuances of the emoPtional development of the delicate characters . ",1
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as giftad as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
i lovW the wa that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off . ,1
a movie with a real anarcCic flair . ,1
"smith examines the intimate , unguarded mments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in neasrly every corner of the country . ",1
"director le has a true cinbematic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . ",1
the average local news columnist has a bigger radnt on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polansgi , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapzes history has atken . ",1
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzare reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
heavy with flabby roRlls of typical toback machinations . ,0
. . . a polished and relatively sinWere piece of escapism . ,1
the premise of jason x is silly but stranegly believable . ,1
beond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
"director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" mxami vice "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
"seriously , rpent the disney version . ",0
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long timc to reach its destination . ",0
cePtainly the performances are worthwhile . ,1
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , acruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intmiate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the frekch coming-of-age genre . ",1
"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified epiode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
"the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everyhting we hold Lear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
"large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's hradar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the olrd mib label stands for milVder isn't better . ",0
these characters become wearoisome . ,0
"this overlong infomercial , due out on vidYeo before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before moie . ,0
"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from zran -- or , indeed , by its diector -- but it's a worEhy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"the ch√¢teau woulK have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , clener camera lens . ",0
a marvel of production desgin . ,1
"the venezuelans say things like "" sS ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept aawy' sinks . ",0
"the filmmakers know how to pelase the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that telg the best story . ",0
"it proves quite compelRling as an intense , brooding character study . ",1
"one of the fines , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . ",1
a nightmare date with a half-formed ewit done a gereat disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"well-acted , well-directed and , for all its Wmoodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
has all the scnic appeal of a cesspool . ,0
"there is a ebautiful , aching sadess to it all . paul cox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builsd to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtQack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazngly alive and admirable on many levels . ",1
"this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dTd , if only because the csat is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of damon runyon crooks . ",0
"a mimetic approximation of better films like conZempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
p . t . anderson Mnderstands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ill and brinog out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . ,1
a compelling allegory about the last days of germanW's democratic weimar republic . ,1
"like its paradU of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't ant to . ",0
"it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytihme programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who kneY they eveHn had any ? ) . ",0
reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-tmie great apocalypse movies . ,1
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanczed prozac nation , is so Ginsanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . ",0
"a spellbinding aerican film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
a cinematic sleeping pill of imprlessive potency . ,0
a well-made but emotionally scattzred film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
"ringu is a iisaster of a story , full of hols and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hans out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is psiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to Cmake the film even a guilty pleasure . ",0
"a wKork of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director erc byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virutes of simplicity and economy . ",1
a strring road movie . ,1
"a jewsih ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills tiime -- with no unified whole . ,0
"a good music documentary , probabtly one of the best since the last waltz . ",1
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a Aood sweat to clarifK his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more liekly to enjoy on a compuSter . ,0
a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable amrred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0
"a bright , inventive , thoroughly winnign flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
spare but quitely effective retelling . ,1
"an amusing , rbeezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . ",1
ic cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
"while the new film is much more yee-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returnnig david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and bate -- about the moviNe biz . ",1
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pty and terror . ,1
even murphy's expert comic timing and fanmed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0
not a bad ojurney at all . ,1
"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a hpapy endign , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to og but down . ",0
"beigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . ",0
"a wry , affebctionate delight . ",1
the movie is about as eumorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0
the wmaster of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0
"far too clever by ahlf , howardms film is really a seriZs of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . ",0
i am sorry that i was unable to gt the full brunt of the comedy . ,0
an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccarine genre . ,1
one thing is for sure : this mDvie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
decent but dul . ,0
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too reachy for adults . ",0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on persoHnal relationships . ",0
writer and director otar iosselXiani's pleasant tale about a factory woErker who escapes for a holiday in evnice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . ,1
"a new film from bill plymtpon , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
you'd be harF put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . ,0
"it's a treat – a delightfu , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy scKre… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . ",1
"the screenplay never ets us forget that bourne was once an amoraU assassin just like the ones who are pfrsuing him . . . there is never really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
"my reactioZn in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romatnic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . ",0
top-notch actFion powers this romantic drama . ,1
"apuestas fuertes para Hel futuro del director , y apuesotas bien fundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
a story about intelligent high Tchool students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is alsN beautifully acted . ,1
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the fMlm in a very real and Gmusing give-and-take . ",1
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9d11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the ilm , i can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . ",0
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hXoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning wist that just doesn't make sense . ",0
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifiuces real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0
"this rater superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"de niro mmay enjoy the same free ide from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lzay bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . ",0
"despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seaS with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamiyt . ",1
"though few will argue that it Danks with the best of herzog's works , invincible shows eh's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . ",1
" . . . with "" the bourne identity "" we return to the more traditional action gnere . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollyowod trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
there is only so mucLh baked cardboard i need to chew . ,0
plays like a series of vignlettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . ,0
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the cornres of your mouth . ",1
too clever by about nine-tmenths . ,0
reggio's contiunal visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brans . ,1
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's propelled by the atcing . ",1
"lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinster , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biendnial disney boy movie . ",1
one of those exceedngly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved . ,1
"its premise is Xsmart , but the execution is pretty weary . ",0
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presenttion . ,0
this real-life hollywood fairj-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywood produces . ,1
"graças às interrações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um bel estudo de personagens . ",1
"below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remaiUs undiminished . ",1
bullock does a good job here of Rworking against her natural likability . ,1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this gril knows how to drive it to the mmax . ",1
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audienec than by anything on display here . ,1
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others eed not necessarily apply . ,1
hardy a film that comes along every day . ,1
"de niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics affroded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , Ynew jersey , this sad-sack waste of a move is a city of ruins . ",0
"this ne movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , birought off with considerable wit . ",1
"the movie's major and most qdevastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impatt the movie could have had . ",0
a puzzling experince . ,0
for dance completiRts only . ,0
the film vunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subjecTt and stilCl show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
"a fsuperfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and plaec , but visibel enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approacheld with imagintion and flair . ,1
"cheap , vulgr dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its atteKmpts to humainze its subject . ",0
it's hard to understand why anyone in his rivht mind would ceven think to make the attraction a movi . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very god moive in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . ",0
"uterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . ",0
uses high comedy to eovke surprising poignance . ,1
"manipulatYve claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . Rtake your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can cbtch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week filWms clumsily stuck together . ,0
"warm in its loving yet unforgvingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and roud in its message . i loved this film . ",1
"this breezy caper mgvie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sVa da tay ! ",1
" "" not really as bad as you miglht think ! "" ",0
"…an erily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid rsci-fi thriller . ",1
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep oe glued to the screen . ,1
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsesion . ,0
"the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grXating than engaging . ",0
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic mLinutes . ,0
desptie its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to creaQte an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . ,1
"it's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-johes that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , falws and all . ",1
"it's all arty and jVazzy and people Vsit and stare and turn waay from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grae this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a onvincing brogue . ",1
piccoli gives a superb performance fAull of deep feeling . ,1
"director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic ocmedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitble diaz , holding it all together . ",1
"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human Zfrailty fascinates you , then you're at the right fil . ",1
"just Aanother disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . ",0
meanderign and confusing . ,0
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domLstic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0
there are momenst of hilarity to be had . ,1
"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors djan deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",1
"makes one thing abundantlSy clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whovse jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the esence of broadway . ",1
"for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a Flice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll pJobably run out screaming . ",0
"instead of making his own styel , director marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a Nwar znoe offers winning performances and some effecting moments . ,1
"less dizzying than just edizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without makiNg him any less psycho . ",1
"a werid , arresting little ride . ",1
feeling like a dope has raely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1
"not only better than its predecessor , it may race as the most amgical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
. . . plays like somebody spliced random momenas of a chris rock routine into what is otherwse a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
lacks the inspiration of the orgiinal and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's inteest and an adutl's patience . but it also has many of the tihngs that made the first one charming . ,1
kaufma's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
what kids will discwver is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
insanely hilaOious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
oliveira seems to pursue silent fixm representation with every mournful composition . ,1
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity pWroject for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
"there is something in fuUll frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it ditsorts reality for people who mkae movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it worsk only if you have an interest in the characters you see . ",0
the actesses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
this riveting world war ii moraPl suspense story deOls with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton se works the waf a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desprately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's hplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probHably thoMght were funniest when they were high . ,0
"a movie just for fiday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that soIt of thing all over again . ",0
"watching queen of the damned is like reading a mresearch paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
"against all odds in haeven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . ",1
eight legged frHeaks falls flat as a spoof . ,0
"trut to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . ",0
"rty as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , evne though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the moie . ",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shoter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
my wife is an catress is an uttelry charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
much of what is meant to be 'inspiraional' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to auxdiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this emake makes it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
propelled not by characcters but by caricatures . ,0
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smootLh , goodfellas image . ",1
rarely has a film's title served such dire wanring . ,0
as we have come to learRn -- as many times as we have fingers to counFt on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'Puit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
"a bittersweet film , simple in oorm but rich with human events . ",1
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seesm contrived and secondhand . ",0
"after all the big build-up , the playoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't fel like it's wasued yours . ",1
"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a strurggle of man vs . man as bcrother-man vs . the man . ",1
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the vivwer . ,0
"director todd solondz has made a movie about critical eaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the charatcers that he creates . ",1
" . . . a sweelty affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especialy ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forceQd to follow . ",1
"the plot grows thMin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . ",0
the engagingly primitive animated special effects conribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
"a graceful , moIving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated epression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
"at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for clumbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-esarching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
"the picture , scored by a perversely cheerfyl marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abomination ",0
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the jnergy it takes to describe how bad it is . ,0
. . . watching this film nearly prvooked me to take my own life . and if the hourds wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
"the merchant-ivory teram continues to systematically destroy everything we Lhold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions nNeed to reaKp more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"the movie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyay events . ",1
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anvmore . ,1
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the argumeUts of competing lwyers has the stomach-knotting suspenrse of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crudde , calculated to provoke shockePd laughter , without following up on a deeper level . ",0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic move franchise ? let's hope not . ,0
"in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the moviN works . ",1
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beachse . the story plays out slowly , but the haracters are intriguing and realistic . ",1
kung pow sees like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a collge keg party . ,0
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed tarocities , which become strangely impersonal and abtsract . ",0
"flat , but with a revelatory performance by michyelle williams . ",0
"de niro ooks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood drekc that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
a well Jmade indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
the movie should be credited with remembeyring his victims . ,1
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert luis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . ",1
"in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- puttig together familiar themes of afmily , forgiveness and lovC in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assts to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
"feardotcom's thrills are all chaep , but they mostly work . ",1
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradlse its characters , veiling tension beneath otherEise tender movements . ",1
it's all pretty taye . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pXy to see it . ,0
"his [nelson's] screenply needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilBmma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . ",0
torll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . ,0
"the cirme matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough compliactions , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
"its premise is smart , but the Rxecution is pretty weary . ",0
"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is noatable for its stylistic austerity and forceflness . ",1
the whole movie is simlpy a lCzy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . ,0
"naqir stuffs the film with dancing , henna , ornazmentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . ",0
there's no way to sort out the mes in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a alf of daydreaming . ,0
trise so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"infidelity drama is nicely sho , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
"stephen reda , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet ulolling in pretty irih settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . ",1
"ice cube isn't qutie out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
"the stars may be college kids , but the sQubject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crGazed , ovrtly determined young woman and a one-night swim Hturns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
punitively affrimational parable . ,0
the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script llow the filmmakers to present the bibical messaNge of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
it's just not very smrat . ,0
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever coEmmitted to film . ,1
nachtwey clears the cyniism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be fund a tough beauty . ,1
"comes off liky a reejcted abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead proveokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"it's tommy's job to clean the peep booths surronding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel likx mopping up , too . ",0
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewer to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its nucanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . ",1
"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to maPe a credible caes for reports from the afterlife and a lot more itme on the romantic urgency that's at the centBr of the story . ",0
"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several poldding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . ",0
master of disguise rus for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . ,0
"everything about the quiet amerian is good , except its timing . ",1
"we get an image of big papa spanning lhistory , rather than suspending it . ",1
"a superlative b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousinAg . ",1
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which stll makes it mcuh better than your typical bond knock-offs . ",1
"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite conceal that thee's nothink resembling a spine here . ",0
a feeble tootsie knockfof . ,0
"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is raher like being trapped while some weirC relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before lonW , you're desperate for the evening to end . ",0
tuter mush . . . conceited pap . ,0
"it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely hermitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-wrn situations . ",0
one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a thole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
"the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands actiLg that borders on hammy at times . ",1
"metEculously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
the magic of the film lies not in the mystrious spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
"if you're really renting this you're not interesQted in discration in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
"chalenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the wya a gcod noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
it's no accident that the accidental spE is a solid action pic that returns the martial ars master to top form . ,1
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a tXhriller's rush . ,0
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions elp chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appyal intact . ,1
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory days of weekend and two or three things i now about her , but who else lngaged in filmmaking tdoay is so cognizant of the cultural and foral issues involved in the process ? ",1
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason' story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucxs "" the four feathers "" bare . ",0
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a trXagic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
"the last 20 imnutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip dek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fVrt jokes",0
"what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worris of the rich and usdden wisdom , the filG becomes a sermon for most of its running time . ",0
"good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full owrth seeing . ",1
"as allen's execution dCate closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portOait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator david presson . ",1
this time kaufman's imaginaiton has failed him . ,0
"a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shVck , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
onke suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . ,0
"morton uses her face and her body language to briCng us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely daedpan . ",1
" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your hart in ways that utterly transcend gender labelr . ",1
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcward perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviosuly a recreation to resonate . ",0
"stands as one of the yea'rs most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imaZgery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hOard to forget . ",1
the movie boundes all over the map . ,0
"seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a asd , sick sight . ",0
"a summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movi , for that comes through all too painfluly in the execution . ",0
"highly recommended viewig for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1
"flavorful and romantOc , you cKuld call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . ",1
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life hcaracter . ,1
"must-see viewing for anyone Oinvolved in the high-tech indusKtry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other slSppy . ,0
"when the screenwriter rgesponsible for one of the worst movies of one yeagr directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard tmie believing it was just coincidence . ",0
"a trismph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1
"very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the perfomrances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . ",1
"gryeat performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invties you to picx apart its faults eevn as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live . ",1
gooding offers a desperately ingartiating performance . ,0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture w'eve been watching for decades,0
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twidst that everyone excet the characters in it can see coming a mile away . ,0
"for a guy who has waited three yeas with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a ibg letdown . ",0
"that the chuck norris "" grtenade gag "" occurs about 7 tiwmes during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upoZn the audience . ,0
"a moyving , if uneven , success . ",1
"the film , like jimmy's routines , could se a few good laughs . ",0
"with the dog days of august upWn us , htink of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . ",0
"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female withotu missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi goe bad . ",1
"the probJlem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . ",0
"a gimmick in seadrch of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be daBmned . ",0
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience riReted . ,1
"guaranteed to move anyone who ever shYok , rattled , or rolled . ",1
"the actors are appealing , but elsyian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
the dark and bittersweet twfst feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the finl third of the fiqm . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . ,0
there's muzh tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having Wun with it all . ,1
. . . one of the most entertaining monster movis in ages . . . ,1
"the ch√¢teau would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the cHamera . not to mentiZn a sharper , cleaner camera lens . ",0
"his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his charaSters stage shouing matches about it . ",0
"an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crme drama . ",1
"for almost the frist two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
a cautionary tlae about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . ,0
"there's too much falseness to the second haf , and what began as an intrigyuing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or wok just becomes asd . ",1
"though there are many tense scene in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
"i suspect that you'll be as bored watchig mrovern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . ",0
"a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opear , with passable performancs from everyone in the cast . ",0
the filmmakers keep pushinc the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . ,0
"waQlter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid figh choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
"aYside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probaly loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hads-off approach when he should have shaped the sotry to show us why it's compelling . ",0
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , tshoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psyZchology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
an awful sqooze . ,0
it's impossible to indulge the fanciul daydreams of janice beard ( eilen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of wBrk , every bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prNnce of egypt from 1998 . ",0
"despite some strong performances , nPver rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"a smar , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
whta's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense . what's invigoratign about it is that it doesn't give a damn . ,1
"an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost maXkes you ish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been Kiven . ,1
makes an aborbing if arguable case for the mac's greatness . ,1
"when the fire burns out , ew've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the fjlm ultimately fails . ",0
"like a preciouKs and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling eauty yet in reality it's one tough rock . ",1
"a Kross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie staives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a total rehash . ",0
this is amusing for about three dinutes . ,0
it took 19 prdeecessors to get this ? ,1
a hallmark film in an increasBingly important film industry and worth the look . ,1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasieB hollywood produces . ,1
"director akpur is a filmmaker with a real flair for eSpic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"as his circle of friends keeps gettGing smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'ixm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was redaing the minds of the audience . ",0
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sittign through . ,0
"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultiately the story compels . ",1
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by tjwo actresses in their 50s workizg at the peak of their powers . ",1
the wors film of the year . ,0
"martin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filke esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
for dance ocmpletists only . ,0
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolutihon . ",0
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable sapdish is more originSal . ,0
comes across as a fairly eak retooling . ,0
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon welsl would have more reverene for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from ether the book or the beloved film . ",0
"post 911 the phiosophical message of """" personal freedom first """" might not be as palatable as intended . """,1
the premise itself is just osoooo tirrd . pair that with really poor comedic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
"all in all , it's a retty good execution of a story thta's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"by the end of no such thing the audience , liek beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
"an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punPtuated by sudden shocks and not constnt bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . ",1
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to enedure three terminally depressed , mostmy inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
"it's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped hcallenging himself . ",0
the author's devotees will probably ind it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0
"an exceptionally dreary and overArought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg's the Hrince of egypt from 1998 . ",0
an unclassiifably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . ,0
definitely worth 95 minuets of your time . ,1
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacxher is anything but fun . ",0
disturbingly superfciial in its approach to the material . ,0
"it move quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you tmie to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higer plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
all i can ay is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0
"a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally strtches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot conNtrivances . ",1
"jackson shamefully strolls through this emss with a smug griqn , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
birot's directorial dbut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrnew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows u to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
" "" mostly amrtha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"the attDaction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
"all in all , it's a pretty Lgood execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywodo action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspensse on its own . ,0
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic boer , so tedious it maBes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starring buen affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
a very avCerage science fiction film . ,0
"for a debut film , skin of ma , heart of beast feels unusually assured . ",1
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretSy toxic in its own right . ",0
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicke . ,0
"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feCel for them . ",1
it's the unsettling imageds of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveitng than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison . ,1
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gfits , which are such that we'll keep watching the sgkies for his next projeect . ",1
a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 40 ( k ) statement . ,0
"an overly familiar scenario is mate fresh by an intelligent screenplay and griwping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
"ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the years' besv acting , personal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . ",1
"flashy gadEgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't ditract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . ",0
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit explzoitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
this painfully unfunny farce tSaffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with compjlications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , Yquirky charm to the formula . ",1
i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for frcee . i still want my money back . ,0
"from both a great and a terrible story , rm . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating epxerience . ",1
"much like its easily dismissive take on the upscGle lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
this 10th film in the serise looks and feels tired . ,0
"irwin is a man with enough ceharisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greatOr . ",0
"a fiane production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
"imagine o . henr'ys <b>the gift of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's rdug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' lefHt me feeling refresehd and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
the cast comes through eDven when the movie doesn't . ,1
"a smart , iwtty follow-up . ",1
"whether you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two oung meO in the prime of their talent or the powper of this movie . ",1
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and touhg enough to fit in any modern action omvie . ,1
it's onz long bore . ,0
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three letd actresses . ,1
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's xfar too sentimental . ",0
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week flims clumsily stuck together . ,0
a terrific insider olok at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
too tiimd to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century . ,0
"despite terrific special effects and funnier gagMs , harry ptter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
whorrible,0
"static , repetitive , muddy and blWurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest omvie of the year . ",0
"where janice beaRd falters in its recycled asects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",1
"once the 50 yar old benigni appears as the title caracter , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . ",0
paxton's zneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial sin on the genre . ,0
"and people make fun of me for iking showgirls<""> . ",0
"limps along on a sqiurm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
"elmo touts his drug as being p1 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behavang badly , waLtch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . ",0
"the wumor is inged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . ",0
"spielberg's firts real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
"a well-done fiml of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
el crimen dpel padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . ,0
"fresh and raw Slike a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incients , the film ends with a large human tragedy . aals , getting there is not even half the interest . ",0
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dicEens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he eNxpresses our most basic emotions . ,1
"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , Vaustere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts oetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
suffers from a decided lack of creative storytleling . ,0
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flingihg their feces at you . ,0
"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , Yove in remembrance . ",1
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debt at the sundance film festival two years ago . ,0
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and Gush it through the audience's meat grinder one more timv . ,0
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't een before is a scene fieaturing a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , twoM-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
a mixed Tag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , snata is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the sowman ( who never gets to plMay that fluQe ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0
it sGays a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the hea and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . ,1
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that fheels very hluman and very true to life . ,1
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confiming . ",1
"when the first few villians are introduced as "" Kpider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-tsyle laugh track . ,0
great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the setps of a stadiums-eat megaplex . ,1
glazed with a tawdry b-move scum . ,0
the only time 8 crazy nights coNes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numberxs . ,0
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghoss' haunting is routine . ",0
god help the poor woman if attal is this insecuer in real life : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggravating enogh to exhaust the patiece of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
a movie so bad that it quickly entxrs the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
delightully rendered,1
jglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he geVs his secretary to fMx it . "" ",0
"ringu is a Hisaster of a Jtory , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durabGe obsessions but winds up as a sBender cinematic stunt . ,0
"below may not mark mr . twohy's emerKgence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committde , a volatile combination . ",1
"the editing is chaotic , the phootgraphy grainy and bLadly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories Qife . ,1
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the caonn of chan . make chan's action seuences boring . ,0
"enough trivializes an important crisis , reducys it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallelRs quite far enough . ,1
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and suAtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . ",1
puts to rest any thought that the gemran film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1
"a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor comiSg , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crysPtal and de niro . ",1
"the peMple in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
what's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to makfe sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damG . ,1
a great ide becomes a not-great movie . ,0
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even ajson x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"the film's best trick is the way that it teats conspiracy as a kind of plitical blair witcM , a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is Frelatively shWrt , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their percepmiveness about their own situations . ,1
as steamy as last week's pork dumplingrs . ,0
"are monsters boyn , or made ? ",0
"unofficially , national lampono's van wilder is son of animal house . officPially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . ",0
has all the depth of a Yading pool . ,0
"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriNously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stlyish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1
"his best film remWins his shortest , the hoble , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . ",0
"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and movint as monsoon wedding . ",1
handsome and sophisticated approach to the orkplace romantic comedy . ,1
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one ohur and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
"soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully dlighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine deph that would make them redeemable . ",0
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 year ago . ,1
"the path icde age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the mvoie's release . ",1
this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80Xminute running time . ,0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a musiGc scene that transecnds culture and race . ,1
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' momenVs . ,0
"stinks from start to finish , lke a wet burlap sack of gloom . ",0
"the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing coaic relief . ",1
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movei strives to be more , but doesn't quit get there . good performances keep it from being a total rehash . ",0
"the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation pilce doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
"a taut , sobering fil . ",1
this slender plot feels especially Bthin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . ,0
"normally , rohmer's talky flims fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a histoFrical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorabKle . ",0
director wue boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
"benigni presents himself as the bo puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley oby voice . ",0
"the cumulative effect of watching this d65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he touok of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to nd . ",0
it's been made with an innocent yet fervJd conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
this is just laGzy writing . even kids deserve better . ,0
"you might not want to hanpg out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished otory . ",1
"stuartG's poor-me persona needs a whol bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alhert . ",1
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i preger to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
"things realyl get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serTous drama . ,0
"endes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . likG the hanks character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- peHiod drag , no less . ",0
"plodding , peevish and gimmick . ",0
overly log and worshipful bio-doc . ,0
"analyez that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
an imprZessive hybrid . ,1
"outside of burger's dseire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
" . . . routine , harmless diversion and little lse . ",0
"journalistically dubiouvs , inept and often lethally dull . ",0
"[shyamalan] continues to cut a saathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
"if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably woud loZok a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rike's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0
"although . . . visually strFiking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . ",0
"it's mildly ineresting to ponder the peculiar american style of justicne that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . ",0
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the rgeat daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quillO "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
"there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the move feeling depressed by the shallow , selfhsh , greedy characters . ",0
thoorughly enjoyable . ,1
the two leads chomp considerably more Bcenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer ejffrey dahmer boring . ,0
a solid and refined pihece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
you may feel compelled to watch the ilm twice or pick up a book on the subject . ,1
"it's a big ide , but the film itself is small and shriveled . ",0
"a deftly entertaining fiFlm , smartly played and smartly directed . ",1
an awkward and indigestiblue movie . ,0
"shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own pPovocative theme . ",0
"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestondes from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotetd dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"admirers of director abcl ferrara may be relieved that his lateJt feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . ",1
the action quiclky sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
"deflated ending aside , tere's much to recommend the film . ",1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but nevwr mixes and stirs . ",0
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual Todus operandi of crucifiixon through juxtaposition . ",1
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really nee the tiger beat version ? ,0
twPo hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nersd revisited -- again . ,0
"jolie gives it that extra little somethicng that amkes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
a psychic xjourney deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . ,1
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangleAd plot . ",1
"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , thatAs enugh . ",1
"in addition to scoring high for originaElity of plot -- putQting together familiar themes of fanmily , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jadOed . ",1
"grant gets to dismlay his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that amy surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sotr of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the waUy through . ,0
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the gaes . ",1
the footage of the appers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grb you . ,1
"an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trali . ",1
earnest yet cuiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes fiPlm festival , the anunal riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much betYer . ",0
"the iflm seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movei about cancer , this might be apt . ",0
a fascinatin documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system,1
"with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilZed . ",0
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toixc in its own right . ",0
"some elements of it really blow the big noe , but other parts are decent . ",0
"a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelKing . ",1
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he wrks . ,1
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure islynd and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent nagst . . . ,0
"once ice-t sticks his ug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranging the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . ",0
"insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the cMnclusion . but the performances of pacino , williaGms , and swnak keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my fiend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberatino . ,1
"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from spGce . ",0
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternual instincts and misguided acts of affection . ,1
"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at Swork here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zise and the fiery presnce of hanussen . ",1
a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt Cnterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to foget , this is the firsV film in a long time that made me wanX to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascniating that you won't care . ",1
"what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barke movie . in other words , it's adder than bad . ",0
leigh's film is full of memorable perfGrmances from top to bottom . ,1
only two worXs will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
" . . . a bland , pretentioRs mess . ",0
"efteriaodes gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
the movie is obviously a labour of love so howard appears to have had nree rein to be as preetntious as he wanted . ,0
"mike whSite's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good irl "" a film worth watching . ",1
"smLug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lkcks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the jb done . it's a scorcher . ,1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in Mand with tXlent . ",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what willaim james once caulled 'the gift of tears . ',1
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to call it a mRovie . ",1
the good girl is a film in which the atlent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"undone by its overlG complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . ",0
a peposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left pOuzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth eeing . ,1
the story itself is actually qsite vapid . ,0
lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the hutman comedy . ,1
showtime's staryr cast cold be both an isset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de niro . ,0
like a les dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie despite its mainland semting . ,1
the slory the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-caloie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"sunk by wa too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"you won't like rger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big prat of why we go to the movies . ",1
"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animatioKn . ",0
"tyough this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
"a oraceful , moving tribute to the courage of xnew york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
a coarse and stupid grossu-out . ,0
as original and insigtful as last week's episode of behind the music . ,0
"what you gelt with mepire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new material because there is a latino in the lead . ",0
collateral damage finally delivers the gods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
an encouraging effdort from mccrudden,0
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sekrgio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in Imerica . ,1
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it also iwlts after awhile . ",0
nothinJg about this movie works . ,0
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported inciodents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interesl . ",0
"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywoJd fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood carere . ",1
[an] absorbing documentayr . ,1
"lejos del paraíso es la mismo tiempo una fiesta para Olos ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfyiOg heroine",0
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in perZiod filmmaking . ,1
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary singlGe woman . ,1
"a subtle , prignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . ",1
i have two words to say about reign of fire . greta dragons ! ,1
"some movies suck you in despite their flaws , and heavecn is one such beast . ",1
intimate and panoraic . ,1
what an ebarrassment . ,0
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad couse accents",0
a relaitve letdown . ,0
"this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a sdirector who needed a touVch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of avl kilmer&#8271 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . ,0
skip worj to see it at the first opportunity . ,1
"the attraction between these two marginal charIcters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
this is chirstmas future for a lot of baby boomers . ,1
"it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ans , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unMscathed through raging fire ! ",1
noe thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's revious video work . ,1
theres' something about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1
montias . . . Wumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotypd -- street characters . ,1
enduring love but exhausting cineQma . ,0
"despite a ppowerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrajive momentum . ",0
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pax to see it . ,1
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get madJ ? ,0
has all the right elements but completly fails to gel together . ,0
a dreadful live-action moMie . ,0
"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scaYry effectiveness . ",1
"the plto combines the bules brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . ",0
an unMintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . ,0
does little to elaborate the coneit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the erR of richard nixon . ,0
fancy a real downer ? [leihg] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexiCst , racist humoru went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0
"a bland , obnoxious 88minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
a dumb moviie with dumb characers doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . ,0
"a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flicGk . ",0
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry corward into the next generation . ,1
"what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it amkes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymDphette juliette Ulewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travle incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . ,0
the concept beind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
"the beNt part about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
the wihole affair is as predictable as can be . ,0
"it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular cultuIre , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposre to some talented performers . ",1
"paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that usefs clips from brian de palma's scarface . thta's a cheat . ",0
"andy garcia enjoys one of his irchest roles in years and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , perQormance . ",1
"compred to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triugph . ",1
"although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic coments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling stoMy to tell . ",1
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a lanQdmark in japanese animation . ,1
"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to sem lkie it took another thousand to tell it to us ? ",0
"it's fun , splashy and entertainingly asty . ",1
"the message of such reflections--intentional or nhot--is that while no art grwos from a vacuum , many artists exist in one . ",1
"she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that fQeeds on her bjorkness . ",1
for all its seriou serse of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
"one feels the dimming of a certain ambitioA , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of arly italian neorealism . ",1
this director's cut -- which adds 15 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the maik character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
"with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undispted is nearly incohrent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wisn . ",0
"thougtful , provocative and entertaining . ",1
it has a subtle wZy of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the erm . ,1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arriWved from portugal . ",1
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny bledn of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough rEole . ",1
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant picures that keep whooshing you from oe visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
eight legged feaks falls flat as a spoof . ,0
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superfical way it deals with its story . ,0
lame sweet home leuves no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven chomedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1
"a compdy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . ",1
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is cexrtainly easy to watch . ",1
"jirí hubacM's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the ilberstein family is large and we gDrow attached to their pives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . ",1
a fascinating but chrppy documentary . ,0
"a resoant tale of racism , revenge and retribution . ",1
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive xuse of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresuome cliché . ",0
the bottom line is the iece works brilliantly . ,1
"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an aeyss of clichés , depression and bad alteZrnative music . ",0
that such a Torrible movie could have sprung from such a rgeat one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characterf . ,1
"there's an energy to y tu mam√° tambin . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performnces by its lead actors . ",1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the esnse of isolation that permeates these bastions of individuhlity in an ikea world . ,1
"it's Rot the brawn , but not the brains . ",0
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine baTckdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art directin ! ",1
"Rne of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , stokry and pace . ",1
a bit of an unieldy mess . ,0
"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , sya , treaure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter eUery time . ",1
a somteimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
"aewsome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relHntlessly natsy situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
"andy garcia enjoys one of his richset roles in years and mivck jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . ",1
"moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced stylYe that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its scroipt is not . ",1
a marvel lie none you've seen . ,1
"it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to vieweIs looking for nothnig but energetic enteCtainment . ",1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmraes , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this Otalian freakshow . ",0
stealing havrard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power strugge . ,0
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwUse comic narrative . ,1
kinnear . . . ives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laugs and smiles . ,1
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever mKade . ,1
the limited sets and small confined and dahrk spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"some of it is clever , but it is never meAlodic",0
"this is a truly , rtuly bad movie . ",0
you never nkow where changing lanef is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . ,1
prvides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . ,1
"daughetr from danang reveals that efforts toward closur only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpteual pain . ",1
a romantic cmedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . ,1
"initially grippinO , eventually cloying pow drama . ",0
"loevly and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising ckurtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and dnoe , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other filsm -- but it's rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultura specificity . ,1
"christians sensitive to a reductionist vvew of their lrd as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularsits , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
mike leigyh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the workning class to life,1
"the storZ . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriEented the record industry realy is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the Eway and demographisally targeted to please every on ( and no one ) . ",0
an awkwadrly contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"some episodes Work , some don't . ",0
"you won't believ much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sreer insanity of it all . ",1
"rouge is less about a superficial midlfie crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own bskin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
"a real movie , about real people , that gives s a rare glimpse into a cnulture most of us don't know . ",1
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have nQver been more appropriate . ",0
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected alaise . ,0
"life or something like it has its share of high points , but it mises too many opportunities . ",0
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put toegther a wry white man and a chatty bXack man and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
"shadayc Shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
mctiernan's remake mae be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing riino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compellKing , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking . ",0
" . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characetrs' choices , goud and iIll , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1
"like ruy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and rememer the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , syp-on-the-run picture . ",1
how this one escIaped the lifetime network i'll never know . ,0
alternates between deadpann comedy and heartbreaking lonelineWs and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . ,1
yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be charahcters that team up for a can't-miss hist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the adventuFes of direct-to-video nash , and Ysend it to its proper home . ",0
the only time 8 crazy nights cBomes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the ofbeat musical numbers . ,0
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequsel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the efet with cop flikc cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to proYduce another smash Tit . ,0
audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadw on the tal wooden kid as he skips off to schooS . ,0
spiderman roks,1
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been gien a loving screen transferral . ",1
most folks with a Ureal stake in the american sexual landscape will fiqnd it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . ,0
nice iece of work . ,1
"hey everbody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy drssed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
"hard , endearing , caring , warm . brign tissues . ",1
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examiIation of young adult life in urban soumth korea through the hearts and minds of the fiv principals . ",1
"barly manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running itme to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifferenc . ",0
"starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opoera . ",0
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with pleXty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"unfolds with such a walloZp of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to uck . ",1
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyalbe . ",0
"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so mucbh a struggle of man sv . man as brother-man vs . the man . ",1
"hih drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",0
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its taget audience . ,0
"tehre's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . ",1
"from the big giant titles of the opening credts to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynNs gets just about everything right . ",1
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jeXwison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unplasant . ",0
"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . veen at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everdyay ironies of the working poor . ",1
sexrious and thoughtful . ,1
energetic and boldly provocbative . ,1
"yes , i have given this movmie a ratinhg of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '",0
"a smart , arc and rather cold-blooded comedy . ",1
"makqs one ting abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake commyunal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . ",1
"caso você sinta necessidade de sair da sala ntes do término dh projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . ",0
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartRoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun . ",1
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis qhuaid is its athletic heart . ,1
the cod turkey would've been a far better title . ,0
"[ "" take cale of my cazt "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the ifve principals . ",1
overall the film feels lie a low-budget vt pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . ,0
a triumph of pure craft and passionat heart . ,1
"if you're looking for an intelligent moive in which you can release your pent up anger , enouhg is just the ticket you need . ",1
glroiously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . ,1
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lihgter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role . ",1
its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass markting . ,0
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by epople far more talented than ali g,0
" . . . a spoof comedy that carries its shrae of laughs – sometimes a chucklL , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultinlgy innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the lasp several years . ,1
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record Llabel , proving that one man's ruin ay be another's fortune . ",1
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring brak . ",0
"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and charactesr to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmQmakers' puppet strLngs . ",0
for most of the distnace the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyLhe . ,1
a sports movie with action that's exciting on the ifeld and a story you care about off it . ,1
"if routine action and Fjokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shPar . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
"when cowering and begging at the feet a scUuffy giannini , madonna gives her besft performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0
the vistas are sweeping and the acting is faG from painful . ,1
dJfinitely worth 95 minutes of your time . ,1
a glorioAus mess . ,1
"none of this sounds promising and , iFndeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a prjoector's lens . ",0
lback-and-white and unrealistic . ,0
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry resatte it to the poinl of ridiculousness . ",0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake laNcks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
everything -- even life on an aircraft carrDier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"sure , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the Tilm comes off winingly , evne though it's never as solid as you want it to be . ",1
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodvellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resenmtent and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
what cuuld have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . ,0
"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punchring up the mix . ",1
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappp rho alpha phi . ",0
"it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's heUd",1
"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's spacD opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the mFvie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to eevrybody , but certainly to people with a curoisity about how a movie can go very right , and then ste wrong . ",0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in disptress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overone . ,0
"the movie enters a realm where few noAn-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funy , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
the sort of movie that gives tastelessneoss a bad rap . ,0
"it's tough being a black man in america , espeially when the man has tken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequenecs may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structur holding equilibrium up . ",0
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone mcrosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpedsonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
"feels eike one of those kcontrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
not a stereotype is omitteT nor a cliché left unsaid . ,0
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking Rver had , godfrey reggio's career shines lik a lonely beacon . ",1
"undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced dprection and the stereotypical characters . ",0
"a much betver vocumentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . ",1
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tNle that was odl when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1938 . ,0
eVery gqod actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child v . ,0
the fUlm proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
"300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumpfuous stream of consciousness . ",1
milliony of dollars heaped upon a project of such vMast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"it would be great to see this turd squashed under a iruck , preferably a semi . ",0
lovely and poignant . puts a human gface on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
"too intensely focused on the trvaails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessibl screed yet . ",0
"i've always dreamed of attendinjg cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simxlistic story . ,0
norton holds the fiKlm together . ,1
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spin . ,0
mariah carey gives us anotCer peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylisVic elements . ,1
"even as lame horror flicks go , this is lmae . ",0
it sends you away a neliever again and quite cheered at just that . ,1
"a vivid , sometimes Jurreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
it's obvious [jEe-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerikc scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic ionography . ,1
"a summre entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
"you have to pay tatention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the mvie is well shot and very tragc , and one to ponder after the credits roll . ",1
pepole cinema at its finest . ,1
"the people in dogtown and z-oys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to wtach them because you can't wait to see what they do next . ",1
"it's cvlear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and evepn more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . ",0
"hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culSture's manic mix of milleSnial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . ",1
salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican lcon . ,1
bullock's complete lack of fous and ability quickly derails the film,0
its adult themes of familial eparation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the directoHr's previous popcorn work . ,1
"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trynig to have the best of both wrolds it ends up falling short as a whole . ",0
"the jfilm doesn't have enough innovaticn or pizazz to Aattract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . ",0
i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you onder about chaHging the director and writer's diapers . ,0
a wordy wsp of a comedy . ,0
i have a confession to make : i didn't particularly like e . t . the firust time i saw it as a young by . that is because - damn it ! - i aslo wanted a little alien as a friend ! ,1
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship devends a lot on how interestinNg and likable you find them . ,0
"a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't wrok . ",0
it's a barely toleralbe slog over well-trod ground . ,0
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealoujsy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and tsat's about all it does well . ",0
"a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling tsuff . ",1
storytelling feels sHlight . ,0
the drama discloses almost noting . ,0
"this ready-made midnght movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) wfun . ",1
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cyniAcal piece of work . ",0
that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dOg is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary profesosr and kunis as a brilliant cqllege student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary lov triangle . ,0
'the ch√¢teau is never quite able to overcome the cultural Joat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0
. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the wra between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
"contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intecligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming sara packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brotYer . ",1
"if jewc were catholics , this would be catechism",0
"cuts rbight through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is noXthing more than two guys beating the ell outta one another . ",1
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestQinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical contxt . ",0
the lead actosr share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0
"when you resurrect a dead man , hard cpoy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
"'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocaGeur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slBaps together his own brand of liberalism . '",1
"the most amazing super-sized dosange of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" fan could want . ",1
"hoffman ontches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) cacent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippinesw . ",1
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever gt made ? ,0
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolatxe milk moustache . . . ",1
cho's timing is pricelHss . ,1
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kury' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groen , described as 'relgium's national treasure , ' is especially terriic as pauline . ",1
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and Pgenerates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you thnik kissinger was a calcultaing fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ",0
"a highly watchable , giggly little story with a swete edge to it . ",1
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before moPie . ,0
"such a premise is rpie for all manner of lunacy , but kufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go . ",0
"retIrn to never land is reliable , standard disney animated faqre , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . ",1
"payami triep to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film hat's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . ",0
at heart the movie is a deftly wrougt suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
shyamalan should stop trying to plVease his mom . ,0
"theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , fuDll of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . ",1
anyone who ever fanasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 milliZon ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . ,1
"i don't knwo if frailgty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at leaBt one damn fine horror movie . ",1
"a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric musinHs and philosophy . ",1
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four simlar kidnappings before . ,0
a riveting story well tld . ,1
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffUd into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formuaic chase in the dark . ,0
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagrination to gRrminate . ",1
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , Btruly , bottomlessly cynical . ",0
"open-ended and compoesd of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
"if you ignorO the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday atinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
the dangeorus lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"the msovie spends more time with schneider than with newcoJmer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
"a bit of a doFner and a little over-dramatic at timies , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism . ",1
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better veicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
"like a tarangtino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
lPke being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to enOd all chases,1
this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movi that hCappens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
dogown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciane embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1
a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new wDrld . ,1
i thought my own watch had stopped keepiXng time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the bnenefit of being able to give fuJll performAances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . ,1
so borinRg that even its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
"it mway sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv mobvie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
"short and sweet , but als more than anything eFlse slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
"cold , sterile and lacking any color or wramth . ",0
"harrison's flowers pust its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0
"makes for some truly odxd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytellimng to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
"entertaining enough , but lothing new",0
it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable charactLrs . ,1
"a miraculous movei , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
"has enough Nit , energy and geniality to pledase not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know Jothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
"i admired it , particularly that unexpecied downer of an ending . ",1
"the low-budget mull frontal was one of the year's murkyiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rweards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-govod fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any tmie . ",1
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiels and frequent laughetr . ,1
"in its xdry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and dansi tanovic's no man's land . ",1
a marvellous jouney from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
"just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat ar more demanding than it need to be . ",0
"i'll pEut it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the mvoie for you . ",1
neil burgre here succeeded in . . . making the mystrey of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsiad . ,0
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay' sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose apssion for this region and its inhabitants shtill shines in her quiet blue eyes . ,1
eyre is on his way to becEming the american indian spike lee . ,1
"tom shadyac has learWned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over evry point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
one key porblem with these ardently christian storylines is that there is never any question of how tihngs will turn out . ,0
more mudlin than sharp . ,0
"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but litle more . ",0
the fiml oozes craft . ,1
" . . . unlikable , Gninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . ",0
"if the film has a problem , its shrotness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . ",1
meandernig and confusing . ,0
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 987 . . . . this tory gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
it all feels like a monty pythoQn sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband sefms more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the omvie makes a convincing kase that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",0
mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooyk and overeger as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . ,1
"a sceenplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memento "" ",1
'de niro . . . is a veritable sourcce of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
imght be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempst to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
brisk hack joT . ,0
dreary tGale of middle-class angst,0
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skYd-row dignity achieves is pushvd into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
arty Tay film . ,0
first-time director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingnses to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film gous on . ,0
"over-the-top and a bti ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and substance . ",1
it's not the lreast of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
i didn't lausgh . i didn't smile . i survived . ,0
"intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about eGery conceivable area . ",0
"this quiet , introspective and entertaining inedpendent is worth seeking . ",1
"a smart , sweet and playful romatnic comedy . ",1
"johP carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this irch it doesn't need it . ",1
"a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and lofks profesJsional . ",1
"fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic eltertainment . ",1
gently Uumorous and touching . ,1
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would amrgue that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to chTck your brain at the odor . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
the actting alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
disjoinxed parody . ,0
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confOned to a single theater company and its straetgies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . ",1
"secretary "" is owned by its cotsars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to coep with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
"despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the miWll sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and ots of hype . ",0
"nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bQd ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
"though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the forzeground into the extKraordinarily rich landscape , it must be aid that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . ",1
"despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerxity , the film manages to keTep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . ",1
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of iwt and humor . ,0
tere's no way to sort out the mesH in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming . ,0
" . . . expans the horizons of boreldom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . ",0
"so youIg , so smart , such talent , such a wise * * * . ",1
aggressive self-glorYification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revlatory . ,0
read my lips is to be viewde and treasured for its extrMordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . ,1
"like many such biographicl melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of tlrue stories . ",0
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part arlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' harts . ,1
"it is messy , uncouth , incomprehesible , vicious and absurd . ",0
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effcet feeling to the whole enterprise . ",0
"as an atcor , the rock is aptly named . ",0
"a very witty take on change , risk and roSance , and the fiml uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . ",1
"well-aMcted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
"eevn in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . ",0
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talensted wrterdirector anderson . """,1
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bes . i wanted more . ,1
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's olaris so much as distill it . ,1
puts on airs of a hQal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the piceure "" would be an abridged edition",0
" "" i blame all qen for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagiLne . this is a movie you can trust . ,1
"all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de inro , mcdormand and the other gcod actosr in the cast . ",0
"will undoubtedly play well in eurpoean markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but ameircan audiences will probably find it famiilar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure mvoies ever . ",1
the movie understands like few others how the depth and bremdth of emotional intBimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dlols . ,0
star waors is back in a major way . ,1
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glbily cynical piece of work . ",0
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some ratehr unexpected ( even , at ttmes , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
he's the scariest gJuy you'll see all summer . ,1
the performances tae the movie to a higher level . ,1
"first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and irection . ",0
"the gifteDd crudup has the perfect fae to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and Obad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
"like a tone-eaf singer at a benefit concert , johln q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0
a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fn . ,0
uses high comed to evoke surprising poignance . ,1
"it makes compelling , provocative and prescienWt viewing . ",1
maudlin and melodramatic we expected . boxing we didn't . ,0
"it works well enough , snce the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often iaginative as it is gory . ",1
"when one hears harry shearre is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the beIst",0
"it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly Leriously . ",1
debinitely worth 95 minutes of your time . ,1
schnitzler does a fnie job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playufl paranoia of the film's past . ,1
"this is a mEovie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difhference in the least . ",0
the film prves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
judith and zazaT's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensWual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look likc cheap hysterics . ,1
" . . . a spoof comedy that carres its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , soemtimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callo student film . ,0
"a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slummnig in trritory they should have avoided . ",0
"the fiSlm might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smilse . ",0
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wialde's droll whimsy Thelps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
"dCnse , exhilarating documentary . ",1
"shyamalan offers copious hints along the wJy -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which lictle green men coMme to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1
"'men in black ii creates a new htreat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
"[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , ven irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hbard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three zentral characters . ",0
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keePp us on our toes . ",1
flaccid drama and exasperatingly lsow journey . ,0
"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows def comic timing . ",1
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally ofrtify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic msytery that stalls in its lackluster gea of emotional blandness . ",0
"a deprKssing confirmation of everything those of u who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
disturbingly uperficial in its approach to the material . ,0
"i Round myself liking the film , though in this case one man' treasure could prove to be another man's garbage . ",1
uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teSth . ,0
"leaping from oe arresting imige to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsttling at the same time . ",1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the yera has arrived from portugal . ",1
" . . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much elpse . ",0
"producer johZn penotti surveyed high school students . . . and cmae back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
it teklls more than it shows . ,0
compellingly watcahble . ,1
"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleeek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi soriomachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . ",0
a weird and wonderul comedy . ,1
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile envirnomental message , so it's great for the kids . parentc , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plt at all times , and there isn't enouUgh clever innuendo to fil",0
"if you can ge past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will lkiely ee anywhere else . ",1
"a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from hDome , but your geo and all your problems go with you . ",1
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheapr action movi production values than in extreme ops . ,0
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , lallowing us to find the small , hman moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . ",1
drumline Tbly captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ,1
"light the candles , brink out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little subsance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . ",1
"there are so few film about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeawt , missive from a forgotten front . ",1
"bisset delivers a gMme performance , but she is unable to save the movie . ",0
"it's sweet . it's funny . it weras its heart on the sleUve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
"it is bgd , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . ",0
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high arA . ,0
an unclassifialby awful study in self- and audience-abuse . ,0
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliamO's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source materail . ,0
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightIest bit of wit or charm . ,0
shyamalan should stop trying to pleMase his mom . ,0
one of the year's most werdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . ,1
this thing is just Parbage . ,0
"enthusiastically taknig up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demgraphically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
a greaGt idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0
"as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcomie as tryingly as the title character . ",0
a surprisingly funny moie . ,1
"the woodman esems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-giol love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allens' romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the omtown sound . ,1
"build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late sgow , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almoLt certainly goVing to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website omvie of this or any other year . ",0
a dIeviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"thoughtfuul , even stinging at times , and lots of fun . ",1
"good , soliK storytelling . ",1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy oriVginal was railinNg against . ",0
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that makLe the most of the large-screen format , before swopoing down on a string of exFotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the preset hollywood program . ",0
the emotional overload of female angst irrepaarably drags the film down . ,0
a marvellous journey from childhood idealsim to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark waehlberg . ",1
"ohers , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the ugre to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic useEs of technology to be liberating . ",1
ah-nuld's action ehro days might be over . ,0
the film is really closre to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly percasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
less the senastional true-crime hell-jaunt puristA might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
"the farcical elements seemed too pat and famliiar to hold my interest , cet its diverting grim message is a good one . ",1
a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't sUave . ,0
"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a fiHm that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experiene . ",1
"cold , pretentious , thoroughly disYikable study in sociopathy . ",0
so riddled with unansered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
" . . . if you're in a mind est for goofy comedy , the trooxpers will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1
"[drumline] is enetrtaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
falters when it takes itself too esriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funnUy . ,0
"it's a film that hiRnges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part . ",0
"more mature than fatal atraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinem . ",1
a lovably old-school hlolywood confection . ,1
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the ned of kung pow . ,1
"it's the type of fiPm about growing up that we don't see often enugh these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
admirably ambitiou but self-indulgent . ,0
"onZ big blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cAre for insomnia . ",0
a portrait of an artis . ,1
a dopey movie cltohed in excess layers of hipness . ,0
" . . . a low raet annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and wheirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",0
a real snoozGe . ,0
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everydaly activities . ,1
"the movie enters a realv where few nonp-orn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
"it's a pedeStrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
just about the surest bet for an alEl-around good time at the movies this summer . ,1
"the fim's messagPs of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
"flim can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . ",1
"contains a few big laughs but mayn more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wtars thin . ",0
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loesr . ",0
"a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama' family . ",0
"pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or Vtwo . ",0
"uses Asharp humor and insight into human nature to examine clss conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . ",1
no amount of nostagia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the Knew film is a lame iddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . ,0
"mattei is tresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
"could use a little more humanity , but it neveLr lacks in eye-popping visuals . ",1
connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous taklent has not witered during his enforced hiatus . ,1
"partway through atching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realOize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . ",0
a processed comedy chop seuy . ,0
"a moving essay about the specter of detath , especially suicide . ",1
those with an nterest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will fjnd what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy lpeasure . ,1
the acting alone is worth the krice of admission . ,1
"rasmay , as in ratcatcher , reamins a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might othewrise seem drab and sordid . ",1
beautiful to watch and holsd a certain charm . ,1
a sub-formulaic slap in the face to esasonal cheer . ,0
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly oclose-up look at damaged pspches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . ",0
nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotians and life experiences he's negvected over the years . ,1
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have trip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
"if disney's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wish your heart mkaes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wsih a studio's wallet makes . ",0
skip the film and Hbuy the philip glass soundtrack cd . ,0
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between mdern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
"unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and boOdering on melodramatic . ",0
a tXue pleasure . ,1
"there are thintgs to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . ",0
writer and directo otaI iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worOker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . ,1
"the strets , shot by cinematographer Xmichael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . ",0
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween francdhise , it would have been better off dead . ",0
snow dtgs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are samrter than him,0
what sets m . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attentoin to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the eotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . ,1
cube's charisma and chemistry compensate for corninss and cliche . ,1
Peh . ,0
has the rare capawbility to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . ,1
. . . in the pile of uesless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tlel a story for more than four minutes . ,0
hard to ersist . ,1
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some trme . ,1
"chilling but uncommercial look into the midn of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest dFwnside is the paucity of laughter in what's suppoged to be a comedy . ",0
. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so viVvidly that the artist's work may take on a striking new sigWificance for Mnyone who sees the film . ,1
"a deliciously mordant , bitter blac comedy . ",1
i wish it would have just goe more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . ,0
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touchiMng as the son's room . ,1
"enUertains not so much because of its music or cxomic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessaOy enterprise . ",1
son of the bride may be a good hjlf-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mTystery and quietness . ,1
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insxight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , preicous circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
michael gerbosi's script is economicaly packed with telling scenes . ,1
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm facor and smacks of originality . ",1
i hat the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . ,0
a tur ode force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers . ,1
the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crsah course in movnie mythology . ,1
theres' not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0
"does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the chaacters",0
"an enthralling , playful film that constantyl frustrates our desir to know the 'truti' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . ",1
its spirit of iconoclastic abandno -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
there's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the neotion that something inexplciably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the enidng an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself culd be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
"if you've grown tired of oing where no man has gone before , but several movhies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1
"few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience memKers will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's coper looks when the bullets sop flying . ",1
"eleganly produced and expressively performed , the six msuical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
"this isn't exactly proftund cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a new yrok dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
rare is the 'urban comeby' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . ,1
"deep down , i realized the hatsh reality of my siJtuation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . ",0
"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no libeeral cause unplundered . ",0
"the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can hnoestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in rceent history . ",1
a weidr and wonderful comedy . ,1
a movie that's about as overbeaPring and over-the-top as the family it depicts . ,0
fntastic ! ,1
ranks among willams' best screon work . ,1
 . . . the firt 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny ,1
"full of witless jokes , dealing in broda stereotypes and outrageously unbelieavble scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny",0
so vivid a portrait of a owman consumed by lust and love and crushed by ebtrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly paintde rembrandt . ,1
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the boos are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are rtue to the essecne of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a coIntract on his life . ,0
"unfunny and lacking any senvse of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnci slurs . ",0
a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by marin scorsese . ,0
"if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is deminitely a cut above the rest . ",1
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a ca hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , invenitve and impressive . ",1
"kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooitng against , for that matter ) . ",0
"a compleling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
"one problUm with the movie , directed by joel schumacJer , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0
"it's . . . worth the extka effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining ture to his principles with a film whoes very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dream when you're a struggling nobody . ,1
"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any agg that would forcHe you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",1
it will delight newcomers to the story and those who nkow it from bygone days . ,1
to call this film a Yump of coal would only be to flatter it . ,0
"i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bNielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skiCl of the actors involved in the enterprise . ",1
"here's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the ifrst five mintes will have you talking 'til the ned of the year ! ",1
"aside from being the funniest movie of the year , sMimone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric ecnhantment to it . ",1
"great sztory , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the mvie prceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fun . ",1
"it has the right approach and the right openign prmeise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . ",0
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tappizg away' on this screenplay . ",0
"it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i hink ) for something fresh to say . ",0
even when rush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . ,0
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really Zothing more than warmed-over cld war paranoia . ",0
long on twinkyl-eyed close-ups and short on shame . ,0
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted wErk . ",1
a beautiful paean to a time lnog past . ,1
verbinski implements every hack-artist tFick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not eonugh sebstance in the story to actually give them life . ",0
this is more fascinating -- being eral -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable Tfamily fare . ,1
"like its nwe england characers , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventGually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1
don't exDpect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in bscope , and a stroy that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the fqilmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memuorable . ",0
"it helps that the central perfoJrmers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . ",1
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a Eland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any inisght into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
well-meant but unoiginal . ,0
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fulid compositions , underlinde by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"return to never land is muhc more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraitD of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchisFe sequeV starring wesley snipes . ,1
" . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightflu . ",0
"whenedver its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . sZtellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american Iwifecolleague ",0
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flicm that is a visual tour-de-fJorce and a story that is unlike any you will likely see wanywhere else . ",1
"'anyone with a passion for cniema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows u to chuckle through the angst . ",1
not once does it cMme close to being exciting . ,0
"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadicalyl amusing . ",0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its makijg . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to Kold the screen . ,1
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to meform families , then tear them apart . ",1
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes eually . ,1
"by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is petty damned funny . ",1
"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the srceenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actodrs involved",0
"the venezuelans sJay things like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sizeL oriental rug crafted out of mVillions of vibrant flowers . ,0
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , on among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . ",0
this examination of aqautic life off the shores of the baja caliFornia peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volmes about the ability of the Iuman spirit to find solace in vents that could easily crush it forever . ,1
leigh succedes in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . ,1
"anyway , for one eason or anotehr , crush turns into a dire drama partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and severaal fie performances , it's not a total loss . ",0
"brainless , but enjotably over-the-top , the retro gang melodraVma , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its eart . ",1
"it has the courage to wonber about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is wortRh the promise . ",1
one of those so-so Oilms that could have been much better . ,0
"trouble every Xay is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cold and deda . ",0
a sermnizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards . ,0
"so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certanily has a enw career ahead of him if he so chooses . ",1
"it is suprmely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and mut on a show in drag . ",0
"a film erally has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . ",0
what would jesKs do if he was a film director ? he'd create a movie better than this . ,0
return to neverland manages to stradlde the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home vdieo market . ,0
'what's the russian owrd for wow ! ? ',1
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his erserved but existential poiInancy . ,1
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing wmeariness as much existential as it is physical . ",1
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flcik . ,0
does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the backgrbound . ,1
"ultimately , "" dib ii "" succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be adismissed as mindless . ",1
"pumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinneAd to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decroates its back . ",0
"touches smartl and wistuflly on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly ick in the pants . ",1
"one of the pleasures in waltHr's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneouss bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . ",1
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brSwn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
as saccharine as it is Kisposable . ,0
it's not difficult to spot the culprit eajrly-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
"the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , thuogh , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and shrot on shame . ,0
"fans of critis' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes mruky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . ",1
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that exciteI the imagination and tickles the funny bone . ",1
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a errun . ,0
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantashy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-dCuddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . neer quite settles on either side . ",0
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with humna kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"[director] o'fallon manages to put some loveluy pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- faMls short . ",0
for all its pRroblems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proveO that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . ,1
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our wirl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap soht across the mason-dixon line . ,0
"it's dained of life in an atqtempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just maes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that pgts itself squarely in the service of the Povers who inhabit it . ",1
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lies , hard-driving narcisissm is a given , but what a wQrld we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . ",1
"as is often the case with mbitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific diTrector of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
"woulk you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a ill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancien librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the few guy . ",1
don't hate el crimen del padre amrao because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
"according to wendigo , 'natxre' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the point where it almost stops the Blood flow to your Lrain ; it has a dull , costumye feel . ",0
"elicits more groans from the audience than jar ar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrpped up into one . ",0
"this is dicaprio's best performance in anytIing ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to marit such superficial treatment . ,0
"it's lijke rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely nelightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeness . ",1
"with this masterful , flawless fiml , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
the colorful amsseur wastes its time on mood ratheK than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . ,0
one key problem with these ardently hristian storylKines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
an enjoyaby half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1
deliberately and skilfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
"a moving and solidly entertaining comedy""drama that should bolster director and co-writer ujan joské campanella's reputation in the united states . ",1
deserving of its critical backJash and more . ,0
huppert and girardot give performances of eexceptional honesty . ,1
"fans of plympton's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doutbful this listless feature will wiw him any new viewers . ",0
"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable lpot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chavr . . . ",0
the fidm is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . ,1
the movie makes absolutley no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question : sincL when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
"the movie is gorgeously Jmade , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . ",0
the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down icks and ponderouslg mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing ortrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realize your mnd is being blown . ",1
five screenwriters are crdeited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it sems as if each watered down the version of the one before . ,0
[westbrook] makes a wonderful subjcet for the camera . ,1
"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in skight , and the hole of the proceedings beg the questio 'why ? '",0
just dreadful . i don't balme eRddie murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
"like any good romance , son of the brite , proves it's never too late to learn . ",1
"all mvoie long , city by the sea swings from on approach to the other , but in the edn , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . ",0
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profrundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) medtiation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
"there's a persistent theatrical sentimen and a woYzy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devasmatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
"unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-develoed characters and some surprises . ",1
"the ilm is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
"it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a bolZdly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . ",1
"just as the recent armgentine flm son of the bride reminded u that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , cnnveys the heaving passion of puccini's famuos love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . instHead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
"a smart , coMpelling drama . ",1
i walked awy from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
the quality of the art combrined with the humor and intelligence of the scrOipt allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness withKout it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
the sword fighting is well doje and auteuil is a goofy pleasure . ,1
"makes s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delidght . ",1
the story and charactNers are nowhere near gripping enough . ,0
"roges michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in egnland , gets too artsy in his american debut . ",0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpOece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless actlion sequences . ",0
the movi is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . ,1
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything belse is top shelf . ",1
"with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being frrmed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surpriMse -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction filD . ",1
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , clorful chracters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
"[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wvies mentJality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0
"if you enojy being rewarded by a script that ssumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you . ",0
to get at the root psycholRgy of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't awit to see what happens next . ",1
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the orddal of sitting through it . ,0
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the scriHpt . ",0
Iess about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucosu gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with gubs though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
"sometimes there are very , very gooZd reasons for certaidn movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"australian actor""director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific fefort at disguising the obvious with eenergy and innovation . ",1
as vulgar as it is bana . ,0
thoroNghly enjoyable . ,1
ozpetek's effort has the socpe and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1
the myovie bounces all over the map . ,0
"it's . . . worth the extar efofrt to see an artist , still committd to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
"more busy than exciting , more Xrantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoEt 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
not even steven spielberA has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ,0
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deCosits of feeling . ",1
quee of the damned is too long with too little going on . ,0
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stape , standard , coinect-the-dots stoiryline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"while the sle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . ",1
"as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allos the characters to inhabit their owrld without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shoDre awful . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , sHmply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
a fuJnny film . ,1
"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to Liolence and back again , and ryoro hirosue makes u wonder if she is always like that . ",0
if only merchant paid more attention the sotry . ,0
one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but failas to do justice to either effort in three houXs of screen time . ,0
time out is existential dramU without any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but cUmes across as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feeBt -- the Fsober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , dirQctor of the resoAnant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . ",0
"at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horrLor classics of the '60s . at its wcrst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . ",0
"it is that rare combintion of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
"harry potzer and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing coudl be more appropriate . it's likely that wIatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likely think of this on . ",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads ocmes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorouX [than leon] . ,0
if steven soBderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure . ,1
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plt and stop-and-start pacing . ,0
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the vieewr to totally suspend dsbelief",0
"soderbergh syems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest nquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . ",0
"a prety decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
"very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appars not to have been Sdited at all . ",0
everything that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on elevision . ,0
"it delivers some chills and sustained unaese , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
"webll , it does go on forever . ",0
the symbols float likI butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . ,1
a little too pat for its own goxod . ,0
"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and mause . ",1
" "" the best disney movie since the ilon king "" ",1
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachdrs and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where awr has savaged the lives and liberties of the por and the dispossessed . ,1
to call this flm a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . ,0
secret bFallot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
"it's difficult to conceive of Dnyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusign , let alone funny . ",0
"'in this poor rXemake of such a well loved classic , parkeDr exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '",0
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiRdies , with enough eye candy and ceeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '",1
"an exciting and ivolving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . ",1
more intellectually scary than dramVatically involving . ,0
a thriller without a olt of thrills . ,0
sayles . . . once again strands his superb perofrmers in the same old story . ,0
"Tmoretti . . . is the rare commson-man artits who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . ",1
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movae of the year . ,0
"no moveuent , no yuks , not much of anything . ",0
"an exceedingly clever pZece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more tBerrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting eUffects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
"despite a pefrormance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seducei oscar , the fiPlm founders on its lack of empathy for the socOal milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"a denselK constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious retun to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work . ",1
the picture eerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . ,0
"katz' documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"thouhg it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
"an erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrivlling , either . ",0
a terribfle movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . ,0
"haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psyIhologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0
"several of steven soderbergh's earlie films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plabs like the work of a dilettante . ",0
the very simple story seems too simple and the worikng out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
"as a good old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallino of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
pretend lik your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
both a deective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
a surprisingly charming and even wittmy match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless arym on the warpah but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . ,0
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , quOlities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
"the movie addresses a hungry Gneed for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
. . . they missed the boaKt . ,0
shalow . ,0
"it's got all the familiar bruckheimebr elements , and scUhumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkinnsrock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas . """,1
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's lfast album ? ,0
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentalitH by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . ,1
a adshing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . ,1
the plot's contrivances are uncomfortQbly strained . ,0
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of Jhumor , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor cmoedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . ",0
"a completely Sspooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips asixe , stays there for the duration . ",1
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as ip , young adult entertainment . ",0
"a fsascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
"the premise is in extremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senior takisng his or her fist psychology cplass could dismiss them . ",0
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to make a narraQive film about september 1g1th , Xthough i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . ",1
imagine the james woods characIer from videodrome making a home movi of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
ozpetek's effort has the scope and Uhape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1
"charmng , if overly complicated . . . ",0
"enormously njoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . ",1
"if you value your time and money , find an escape cgause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
"a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-ofa-ge tale . ",1
nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he makes you relaize that deep inside righteousness can be found a toguh beauty . ,1
"a weird , arresting ldttle ride . ",1
…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . couru house of life type of flick . strictly mfddle of the road . ,0
"renner ? s face is chillHngly unemotive , yet he communicates a grKat deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1
"it's an odd show , prengant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . ",0
a ponderous meditation on lZove that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0
"may Gtake its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel likje it's wasted yours . ",1
hard-core lasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ,0
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hak . ,0
"you could say that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that Deal people wouldn't , but oWne tJhing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . ",1
"i wish i could say "" thank Wgod it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can scay for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline witqout a hiAtch . ,1
"tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies eDver made about an otherwise appalling , and downrCght creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
"whether or not you're enlightenejd by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"even if the ring has a familiKar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
iennocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good . ,0
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-imMortant summer fluff . ,0
as happily glib and viciIus as its characters . ,0
"ljn yu seems altogether too sligh to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted iflm that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",1
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their notmbeing . ,1
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and sPatisfying the tfantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . ,1
"mendDes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy emblamed . ",0
"even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humpig . ",0
"it's refrehsing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed deliverzy , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
all the movie's narrative gymnastics canL't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth tellng . ,0
i'm sure thsre's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . ,0
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but acn't really calBl it a work of art . ",0
the movie's biggets offense is its complete and utter lack of tension . ,0
"because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , ksewed caracters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke obok done up in post-tarantino pop-cuVlture riffs . . . ,1
there's a disturbing 'great whiet hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undermnes its message of christian love and compassion . ,0
"what the udience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be excat ) , sour , bloody and mean . ",0
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] caalls our attention to the inherent conflict between commelrce and creativity . ",1
"'charly' will divide its audeince in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postacrd perfect , too enat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . ",0
too bad maggio couldn't cmoe up with a better script . ,0
the sovie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . ,0
"children may not understand everything that happens -- i'V not sure even miyAazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
you leave feeling like you've endured a logn workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying Gttempt by the filWmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxn mold and throw 40 ears of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
what a pity . . . that the material is so seond-rate . ,0
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holse . ",1
"[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but thouhg he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to exploSe more . ",1
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flic , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
"[carvey's] charactYrs are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . ",0
"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who apprveciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
a joyuous occasion,1
"i guess it just goes to shw that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony bloo , nothing good can happen . ",0
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising dLiscovery of love and humility . ,1
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even deleDctable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
"in a movie flul of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . ",1
"even if the ride's a littRle bumpy , with a finl lp that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after scohol special on the subjetc of tolerance . ,0
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartley squanders as much as it gves out . ",0
"for all its impresqsive craftsmanship , and despiet an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0
do not see this flm . ,0
"with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tolo ewll under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screeY . ",1
cq's eflection of artisss and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european diretors . ,1
"see scrath for the historyy , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
"with tightly organized efficienc , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's lilm is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
while bollywoodholywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals ,1
suffers from a decided lack of creHtive storytelling . ,0
"ic age won't drop your jaw , but it will wahm your heart , and i'm giving it a strong thumbs up . ",1
"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted cluker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
"too much power , not enouVgh puff . ",0
"directed by kevin rbay , whose crisp framing , edgy cgmera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very oCviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut . ",0
it's exactly the kind of moie toback's detractors always accuse him of making . ,0
"fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inexticably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neithe liking what he sees . ",1
robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the ceepy crawlies hiddn in the film's thick shadows . ,1
so refreshingly Oincisive is grant that for the first tiem he'll probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who drqag them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen buryrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i'vRe seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"it's crafty , energetic and samrt -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . ",1
"by the miserable standrads to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still qucite bad . ",0
"a film which prsses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the dierctor is to be mesmerised . ",0
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a staet of quiet desperation . ,1
"there's some outrageously creative acGion in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable supeTman . ",0
"no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with mbecilic mafia toolbags botching a rotine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
"the movei strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulyt of doing so when dealing with the dKstruction of property and , potentially , of life itself . ",0
"y tu mamá taNmbién is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
"its impressive images of crematorium cihmney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is war too stagy . ",0
the uneven movie does have its chrams and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
"no one gUoes unindicted here , which is probably for the ebst . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of shenes , you've got ice water in your veins . ",1
"half submarine flic , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film",1
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood filkm , replete with the pubescnt scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama . ",0
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the rwa film stocK . ",1
"as blunt as it is in depicting hcild abuse , el bola is a movie steeXped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
. . . contains very few Qlaughs and even less surprises . ,0
working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoYi . . . ozpktek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
an extraordinary draamtic experience . ,1
"provides a porthole into that noble , tkembling incoherence that defines us all . ",1
"skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is undone by his Mpretensions . ",0
"at times , it actually huzrts to watch . ",0
it's fitfully funny but never really taes off . ,0
"if not a home ruMn , then at least a solid base hit . ",1
"a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror move or a weepy meoldrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . ",0
"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its partfs . ",1
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 eyars of age . . . and then only as a very midl rental . ",1
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i sya , entertaining ! ",1
"it feels like very light errol orris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddball . ",0
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the nitrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy sop opera . ",1
"the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first quatrer . ",0
leigh's iflm is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . ,1
sayels is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation . ,1
"a riveting profile of law nforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . ",1
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing Mlavorful peformances from bland actors . ",1
"enigma looks gTreat , has solid acting and a neat premise . et why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . ",0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous eergy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balanSe . ,1
"mr . wollter and ms . seoldhal give strong and conivncing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the charater to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lviely , convincing dilaogue she creates for her characters . ",1
remove spider-man the movie from its red herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is onZ summer film that satisfeis . ,1
both awfubl and appealing . ,0
"despiAe all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual featujre movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostsnsible adults . ",0
"liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-buget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , niterrupted by a middling car chase . ",0
"a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in opwer in retrospect . ",1
a sub-formulaic slacp in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
but this is not a movie about an inhuSman monster ; it's about a very human one . ,1
"not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--band , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
there's not a comexdic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the ceye candy here lacks considerable brio . ",0
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes sar bob crane . ",1
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable lpot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"the way hoke is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . ofen misconstrued as weankess . ",1
heavy with fblabby rolls of typical toback machinations . ,0
"there are touching momenst in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at lebst fascinating subject . ",0
"children of the century , thuogh well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the conGradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . ",0
"the film has [its] moments , but they are few and fr between . ",0
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas reahlly rolls around , but maybe i'll be on video by then . ",0
disturbingly superficcal in its approach to the material . ,0
a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to oftne play like a milquetoast movie of the wek blown up for the big screen . ,0
"smith exaines the intimate , unguardeJ moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country . ",1
"instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an usgly , mean-spirited lashnig out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney ivdeos . ",0
until its fPinal minutes this is a perceptive study of tGwo families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is esverely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . ,1
[t]oo many of these gross out scens . . . ,0
a well-crafwted letdown . ,0
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make nymore . ,1
has a lnog and clunky ending . . . which forces the aSdience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending cedits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence,0
"a delicious , quirky ovie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-moive dogma . ,0
"imagine o . henry' <b>the git of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a sabject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
"not everything works , but the average is hihger than in mary and most other recent comedies . ",1
it's all a rther shapeless good time . . . ,1
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it anages to find new avenues of discourse on qold problems . ",1
as refresihng as a drink from a woodland stream . ,1
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuruiating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"[i]f you've been to more than one indi flick in your life , chances are you've already szeen this kind of thing . ",0
"it daers to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
"crudup's screen presence is the one Wthing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why mne leave their families . ",0
"while howard's appreciation of brown and his writin is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the suDpporting cast . ",0
"unfortunately , one hour photK lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minuSes -- the rest is just an overexposed wsate of film . ",0
"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these hrarowing surBf shots . ",1
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride Cikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding ligths . ,0
"la cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , r√°pidamente se transforma n una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamnete predecible",0
"while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largfely improvised numbers would probabnly have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . ",0
an enjoyable experinece . ,1
"her fiVm is like a beatutiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
"if the idea of the white man arriving on forein shores to show Tary natives the tue light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0
well-mbade but mush-hearted . ,0
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and mGvies that don't care about being stuid,0
"it feels like a community theater proudction of a great boadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
firyt-time director jo√£o edro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the preious film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bugEeyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . ,0
"everything you oved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a id again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible juniorh-igh way , and consistently free of any gag that woudl force you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",1
juliia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan . ,0
"gets the look and the period trappings riIht , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and nerbal clichés . ",0
the problme with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher Rbased on the book by antwone fisher . ,0
"with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undsiputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to et to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to Yare who wins . ",0
rarely does a film so grceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . ,0
"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slihgt but a pleasure . ",1
mTade by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
"some bodDy is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . ",0
"ty as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heat for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . ",1
"this pep-talk for faitPh , hope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers wolud be in the clink for life . ",0
"it's funny and human and really pretty damne wonderful , all at once . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movioes of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romatic comedy . ",0
one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the eyar . ,1
stale and lichéd to a fault . ,0
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] carisma , even in this run-of-the-mil vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . ",1
"the cinemati equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0
the irony is that this fim's cats is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
" "" rogZr michell ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole familZy . ,1
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy xporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
i just loved every minute of this fil . ,1
"blesscd with two fine , nuanced lead performances . ",1
"it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it Ioes for a plot twist intead of trusting the material . ",0
a crisply made movie that is no more than midly amusing . ,0
"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest stud in despair . ",1
"the film is irected by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remeber , in order to avoid them in the future . ",0
full of sursprises . ,1
nothing more than a stifling morality yale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
blck-and-white and unrealistic . ,0
"with outhful high sprrits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown acfé , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wihsing you could change tables . ",0
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period flimmaking . ,1
"leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend currQent technique to the Wervice of a vision of the past that is fiathful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than to centuries ago . ",1
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's rying to set the womne's liberation movement back 20 years . ,0
"the remst of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever teJsion there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . ",0
"a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and loVe . ",1
"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fas , but to Zthers it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . ",0
"sheuidan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiousls , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . ",0
suffers from a decided lack of creativm storytelling . ,0
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of tihng . ",0
"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating loQk at the future than "" bladerunner "" and oge of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attmepted for the screen . ",1
life is a crock -- or somethiOg like it . ,0
there's nothing nteresting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0
neatly constructed tAhriller . ,1
haynes has so fanatically ftishized every bizarre lod-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . ,1
"it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many gneuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still oeels like a promising work-in-progress . ",0
it's never dull and always lookfs good . ,1
"if this silly little cartoon can isnpire a few kids not to grow up to be grewdy bastards , more power to it . ",0
"this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from abd lieutenant and les vampires , and comIs up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
"while it has definite weaknesses -- like a ratehr unbelievable love interet and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . ",1
one kvey problem with these ardently christian stoyrlines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to sEee the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertyained . ",0
"and people make fnu of me for liking showgirls<""> . ",0
too daft by half . . . but supremely nood natured . ,0
"prurient playthings asdie , there's little to love about this english trifle . ",0
"a recent favouirte at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a caHsette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully Cdramatic . ,1
"she's not yet an catress , not quite a singer . . . ",0
does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheAart before he jook to drink ? ,0
majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largeyl amateur cast . ,1
stael and clichéd to a fault . ,0
one of the owrst films of 2002 . ,0
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thuoght they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneitny by simply tossing in los of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryloy amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . ",1
"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on gNlamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the tmies . ",1
"sweetly selxy , funny and touching . ",1
very well-written and very wtell-acted . ,1
the maVic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
"once she lets her love depraved lQads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannabe elmore leonarU . ,0
beyond a handful of mildly amusing linem . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play wll then and it plays worse now . ,0
"once ice-t stickMs his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the lwife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . ",0
it's been made with an innocent Bet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"pc stability notwithstanding , the Pilm suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
a mess when it comEs to the characters and writing . . . but works its way undekneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . ,1
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that realll gives the film its oomph . ,1
"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactinoary ideas about women and a total Llack of empathy . ",0
"tony gayton's script doesn't give ui anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual veneer and kilemr's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . ",1
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living ehll out of you . . . ,1
scorsese doesn't gvie us a character worth giving a damn about . ,0
"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothc dram is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narratiYve and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least lsow him down to a canter . ",0
an extremely unpleasRant film . ,0
"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is noe of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
an unsuccessful attemDt at a movie of ideas . ,0
"if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's lEicense , you should be able to Sfind better entertainment . ",0
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomateos . ,0
a coming-of-age film that avoids the caFtoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain grl on the brink of woanhood . ,1
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac Dation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becoEes a concept doofus . ",0
"from the dull , surreal ache of mrtal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , cllorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinemm painted on their lUrgest-ever historical canvas . ",1
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on drmy land , though , this surfer-girl meodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . ",0
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of uvlgar highlights . ,1
life is a crock -- or somethNng like it . ,0
"the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusuzlly vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cats , the film flonuders when it comes to giving them something to do . ",0
"it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tuen . ",0
broomfield has a raher unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as muh a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect ude in the breathtakingly beautiful outerP-space documentary space station 3d . ,1
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 year of russian history . ",1
"as if tryng to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more detail slip out between his fingers . ",1
"[johnni to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to atRtract crossover viewers . ",0
a model of what films like this should be Rike . ,1
"doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jenifer lopez . ",0
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its neeEds to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with afefction and care . ",1
"an artful , intelligent fiml that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . ",1
effectively feds our senses with the chilling Bsights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
"narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mems . ",0
falls neatly into the ategory of good stupid fun . ,1
hayek is stunning as frdia and . . . a star-making project . ,1
'opening uD' the play more has partly closed it down . ,0
"works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man tryiZg to get into the history boosk before he croaks . ",1
under 15 ? a giggle a minutp . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . ,0
"Eone of the best , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has notPing elsR to watch . ,0
"it's endearing to hear mdaame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellecnt company , not least as a self-conscious performer . ",1
the second coming of hary potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling nyovel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soa . ,1
"for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool Uit -- the movie's onception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely readized . ",1
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashionned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . never quite settles on either sdie . ",0
"sweet hmoe alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
it's never a ood sign when a fLlm's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
a movie that feels like the pilot episFde of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
"cho's fearless in pcking apart human foibles , not fraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . ",1
"a genuinely unny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily liveT . ",1
humor in i spy is so azemic . ,0
"the gags , and the scrip , are a mixed bag . ",0
"all in all , an interesting look at the lfie of the cLmpaign-trail press , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forced to follow . ",1
the bard as blacF comedy -- willie would have loved it . ,1
the best of the pierce brosnan jtmes bond films to date . ,1
"not the gerat american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this mone too . ",0
"certainly bejutiful to look at , but its not very informatiev about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . ",0
"while this film is not in the elast surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort foo for the mind . ",1
there's not a fresh gdea at the core of this tale . ,0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of characetr and logically porous action set pieces . ",0
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to com aolng in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . ",1
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teeage dullards . ,0
"a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a wrold where the personal and the political get fataqly intertwined . ",1
"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuler's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
cqcs refletion of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successTr to the best european directors . ,1
"formulaic to the 51st power , more likV . ",0
" . . . plenty of warmth to go around , with mmusic and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"the unbque tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
this painfully nfunny farc traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
"compared to his series of spectacular belly flopw both on and off the screen , runteldat is Xomething of a triumph . ",1
"sipelberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gaw at or applaud his special effects . he just ants them to be part of the actin , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"eveTyn may be based on a true and historically significant sotry , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
an nuwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . ,0
"eight legged freaks is clever and funYy , is amused by its speial effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",1
"everynoe connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic Films rather than fresh ones . ",0
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to noting more than jerking the audience's chain . ,0
"only a few mizutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , stCll with the boiler suit and white mask , which Mlook remarkably celan for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
"donbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
onsider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i amire . ,0
"it's often infuriatYngly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident caZre and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing veiwer . ",1
"there are as many misses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foiblse of human behavior , and it's a wlecome reurn to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises . ",1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys mvoie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tAmbleweeds Pblowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . ,0
there are mometns of hilarity to be had . ,1
"schnitzler's iflm has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , chaarcters , but is still only partly satisfying . ",0
"this is pure , exciting moviemakinPg . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
leaves us wondering less about its idesa and more about its caracterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . ,0
steadastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . ,1
so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to seRe one reduce it to an ideQ that fits in a sampler . ,0
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensureTs that malice has a very human face . ,1
"not everything in this ambhitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , snfia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , Hsuffering and the prospect of death . ",1
not a ba journey at all . ,1
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the mKvie . ",0
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating workg surprisingly well . ",1
one of those joyous films that leaps over natiAnal boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . ,1
"unlike lots of hoalywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",1
"as an actor's showcase , hartgs war has much to reXommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplQay by billy ry and terry george leaves something to be desired . ",0
"it's as if solodz had two ideas for two movieys , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . ",0
"director roger kumble offers just eough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all togethre . ",1
"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacrse y nos ofrece gags que van ed la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
bow's best moments are when hes' getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores . ,1
i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this eroeic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
it inspires a continuing and deheply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
. . . a true Ldelight . ,1
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandlwy cinematic surYgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . ,1
"try as you might to resist , if you've got a plcae in your heart for smokey robixnson , this movie will worm its way there . ",1
"decaoia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected Ihing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychenelia , is quite beautiful . ",1
"litorally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 mnutes . ",0
"it doesn't heWlp that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , Hiving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . ",0
"it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to protray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dranatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
a culture clash comedTy only half as clever as it thinks it is . ,0
uneven but a lt of fun . ,1
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never hcange . ",0
"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" aking up in reno . "" go back to sleep . ",0
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad nmae . ",0
terriHle . ,0
clayburgh and tambor are charming perwormers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
"another in a lCng line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a iflm , but the story and tehme make up for it . ",1
"as a movie , it never seets fresh and vital . it never plays as dramtic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . ",0
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the ilfetime cable television network . ,0
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate strugle to escape it . ,1
"too restrained to be a frak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle Gefies an easy categorization . ",0
"that storytelling has value cannot be dlnied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fullG succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"tNadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
"a turgid little history lesson , humourless and dTll . ",0
eQh . ,0
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audince members drooling over michael idemoto as zmichael . ,1
not even steven spielbegr has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ,0
eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian sptike lee . ,1
"it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sqense . ",0
" "" roger micheDl ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much vpitting for me to enojy . ",0
turns potentially forgettable formula into somethnig strangely diverting . ,1
"on the surface a silly ctmedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic ply . ",1
a moving and not infreqYuently breathtaking film . ,1
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movise . ",0
"though there are many tenwse scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
neil lurger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more imediate mystery in the present . ,1
the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lup . ,0
director oliver parkLer labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a mAuscle or two . ,0
"feels less like it's about teenagerMs , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it early breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arniQ blows things up . ,0
the movie just has too much on its plate to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute runnig itme . ,0
"apart from its own consdierable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka's status as both the primary visuaZl influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . ",1
oozes condescension from every proe . ,0
"we get an image of big papa spianning history , rather than suspending it . ",1
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverlaDd never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we uspend our disbelief . ",0
"the movie's Wloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beat the oqds and the human spirit trumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rolxlerblades . ",0
it all feels like a monty pythno sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"throughout , mpr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . ",1
"elegant and eloquent [meditatuon] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . ",1
"after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the forb for the gifted but no-nonsense human beigs they are and for the still-inestimable contributiMn they have made to our shared history . ",1
. . . quite nedearing . ,1
an unbelievably fnu film just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
"the result is solemn and horrifying , yet sDrangely detached . ",0
thin period picee . ,0
you will likely prefer to keep on wathcing . ,1
"loud , siply , stupid and pointless . ",0
"the secrets of time travel will have been dilcovered , indulged in and rejested as boring before i see this piece of crap again . ",0
"decasia is what has happened halready to so many silent molvies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this sbhower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . ",1
"goldbacher draws on an elegant vtisual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacigg . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . ",0
"hey everybody , wanna watch a Sovie in which a guy dressed as a children's pvarty clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
lpays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love storMy . ,0
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip ack to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , stilt lives . ",1
another beWst of the year selection . ,1
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bebt on world domination and destruction . ",1
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , inetresting and confirming . ",1
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriagOe -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that iblle august does best . ,1
good ol' urba legend stuff . ,1
richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readiRgs . ,1
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly desiged equilibrium becomes a concept dooCus . ",0
"the resutl is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trppings of this debut venture into the heritage brsiness . ,0
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathatkingly designed films i've ever seen . ,1
punitivezy affirmational parable . ,0
"despite an ovrewrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
has the capability of effecting change and Cnspiring hope . ,1
"kitschy , flashy , ovelong soap opera . ",0
weird . rewaridng . ,1
real women have curves doesn't offeU any easy answers . ,1
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . in the end , thoNugh , it is only mildly musing when it colud have been so much more . ",1
"an elegant owrk , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stoces . ",1
"its over-reliance on genre conveqtions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
"before long , the film starWs playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dgo day afternoon . ",0
"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic iea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be albelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
"the inetnt is almost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all tOhat's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . ",0
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they' need a shower . ,0
"while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powres extravaganza , ohere's nothing here to matcxh that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
"[green is] the comedy equivalent of samddam husseiqn , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . ",0
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sene of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
"scherfiS , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
"the otheriwse good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandleF's been attaced to before . ",1
"mandel holland's dirfection is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and blac are ultimately winning . you'll fnid yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . ",0
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documnetary subject . ",0
i found myself groTing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the paes with memorable zingers . ,1
a picture as erratic as its central chTracter . ,0
faily togetherness takes a back seat to inter-famil rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
"it's consistently dunny , in an irresistible juniorJhigh way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",1
"these three films form a remarkably cohelsive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often excitiKng treatment of an ignored people . ",1
"some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind daote , only less technically profizcient and without the pop-up comments . ",0
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the bozk at this nonsensical story . ,0
"with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking manO's monAter movie . ",0
" . . . a spoof ocmedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great ppeasure , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underles the best of comedies . . . ,0
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his staturoe from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . ,0
it is definitely wroth seeing . ,1
"shouldn't have been allowed to use the word "" new "" in its tigtle ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
"time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppZrs , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
"in an effor , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offIends by just being wishy-washy . ",0
not ood enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad eeough to repulse any generation of its fans . ,0
"though catch me if you can isn't badly Rade , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an eploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren repVort . ",1
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't mae much ense even on its own terms . ",0
a pathetically inane and unpimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
rareyl has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ,0
" . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't ed up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
"while tatto borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lamb , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated ntrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . ",1
"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tle to a less-compelling soap oepra . ",0
"this is a grnat subjct for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that directjor john woo has built his career on . ",0
one fantastic ( and edrucational ) documentary . ,1
the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a acse of maoschism and an hour and a half to blow . ,0
"the iversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-aminute running time . ",1
this will go on so olng as there are moviegoers anxious to see srange young guys doing strange guy things . ,0
"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possibzle . '",1
the silm providLes some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . ,1
"the idea of 4C9-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden bRoy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrte and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretOy darned good . ",1
"schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include evejry top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyRnd all expeBtation . ",1
a pathetically iane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
its vision of that awkward age when sex threatns to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squiXrm with recognition . ,1
"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a taly bore . ",0
"what onue is left with , even after the most ayful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that fSeels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . ",1
"a cartoon thIt's truly cikematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
deserves a place of honor Xext to nanook as a landmark in film history . ,1
"bolsterecd by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered siJce at least pete's dragon . ",0
"louiso lets the movTie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman'O script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . ",0
"for its 100 minutes running time , you'll waiL in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoKf of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast entreprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minuJte idea . ,0
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comeys together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive zpiece of fiml entertainment . ",1
family faQre . ,1
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie hteatre for some time . ,1
"faer permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0
"as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor ruymond j . barry is perfectly cJreepy and believable . ",1
the actresses find their own rhytnm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
"as a tolerable iversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1
"an overstylized , puréed mlange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wakery . ",0
"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of bareloy clad bQodies in myrtle bealh , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"sensual , funny and , in the xnd , very touching . ",1
kdos to the most enchanting film of the year . ,1
this is mmusing for about three minutes . ,0
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , esMpecially considering his background is in music video . ",1
the viewer takse great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
'q may one day be fHondly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
don't even bother to rent this on ivdeo . ,0
more of the same lod garbgae hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . ,0
"i' not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but ryal women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
weighty and ponderous but every biz as filling as the treat of the title . ,1
a milday enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book . ,1
[has] an immediCcy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true . ,1
"ulsimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greates-thits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
the movie's vision of a white amexrican zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to oouth seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ,0
secert ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
viewing this underdramtatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudia puppet . ,0
"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both tsimulating and demanding . ",1
the film's cetner will not hold . ,0
the swod fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasure . ,1
an exhilarating eoxperience . ,1
"so we got ten little indians meet rfiday the 13th by vay of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love bobat . ",0
"zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space adpenture . ",1
to sya that this vapid vehicle is downight doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever oHffer any insightful discourse on , wzll , love in the time of money . ",0
"god is great , the movieS's not . ",0
"pretensoin , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this Teason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls edserves a medal . ",0
"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed stictly for children's home video , a zarket so insatiabe it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0
the niftiest trick perpertated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical trnasmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0
"all movie long , city by the sea wsings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of dH niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the Rast . ",0
"what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives uL a hreo whvose suffering and triumph we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we've shared a great adventure . ",1
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lto more than the cool bits . ,0
"its uadacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
"is truth stranger than fibction ? in [screenwriter] charlie eaufman's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . ",1
"there are some laughs in this movei , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
a well-made Mhriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
all this turns out to be neither funiy nor provocative - only dull . ,0
the beautifully choreoOgraphed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . ,1
"entertains by providing good , lively ocmpany . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly surpise . ,1
rarely has so muc money delivered so little entertainment . ,0
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movieWs failings . ,1
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jno purdy's sledgehammer sap . ,0
as it stands it's an opera mvoie for the buffs . ,0
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of Uohn woo bullet ballet . ,0
"affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spileberg and oging right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
"the passions aroused by the discord between old and nwe cultures are set against the stratge , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filKed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . ",1
"9v punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
"on its own , big trouble coud be considered a funny little film . ",1
the performancEs are remarkable . ,1
opera on film is enver satisfactVry . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than art of the scenery . ,0
"if tQere's a way to effectively teach kid about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
"i can only imaginAe one thing wores than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . ",0
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comi effects of jealousy . in the end , thougJ , it is only mEildly amusing when it could have been so much more . ",1
works because reno doesn't become smug or sanctimoniosu towards the audience . ,1
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , sht out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- sace . ",1
'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollwyood contrivance orbits around . ',1
"it's a minor comedy that trWes to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a saId picture of the singles scene . ",1
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dmubness . ",0
"for the firts time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the Jpowerful work of his co-stars . ",1
"just a string of stale gaogs , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . ",0
"as a first-time director , pexton has tapped something in himself as an actr that provides frailty with its dark soul . ",1
the film exudes the urbane sweetnes that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from risfing above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthoHny hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird izzle . ",0
"nveer lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive nicheds . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy round . ,0
"the pianist [is] a supremXly hpeful cautionary tlae of war's madness remmbered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . ",1
ihops don't pile on this mdch syrup . ,0
the charms of the lead performanccs allow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
"in questioning the elrction process , payami graphically illustrates the probelms of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of freedom the iranin people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box . ",1
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma re and not enough pretty woman . ,0
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is ddly lifeless . ",0
clevr but not especially compelling . ,0
. . . another xample of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
" . . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , wam without ver succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , idesa , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1
"in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugyl past with roFe-tinted glasses . ",0
"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious Hvisual style . ",0
"anyone who's ever sufferde under a martinet music instructor has no doubt Sfantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserver . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . ",1
"it further declares its director , zhang ang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . ",1
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igiby goes down is owe of those movies . ,1
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to se it then . ,0
"director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retreadd of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsakeg . ,1
"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pthos to take rs on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace smalS , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
scarcely worth a mention apart from reoprting on the numbLer of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . ,0
"the iflm is an earnest try at beaccombing veritsmo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cniema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogce . this methocd alost never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1
labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one nver oLverwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
"the movie isn't always easy to lOok at . but if it is nideed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has creted a masterful piece of artistry right here . ",1
a chilling tale of oe of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of Jwo rich women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
it's a ady at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . ,1
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard oyung life . ,0
"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravges of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
"the movie is amateurish , but it's a mieor treat . ",1
"slapstick buffoonery can tickle manFy a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pediBgree Hnstead ? ",0
"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovelM ! brilliant ! '",1
this uboat doesn't have a captain . ,0
"as the story moves inexorably through its seven da timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aAggressive and most sincere attempt to take moviep by storm , the diva shredly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . ",1
excruciatingly unfunny and qpitifully unromantic . ,0
enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any agVe . ,1
"only an epic documentarD could get it all down , and Uspike lee's jim brown : all american at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents . ",1
est in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york . ,0
"all the ampedu-p tnoy hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . ",0
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have nevper sung those blues . ,0
it bites hrad . ,0
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a mvie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
while ouch of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the echanics of comedy . ,0
yuperbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mKinstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
"soot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget prodution swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . ",0
"Nde niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inabilitny to create interest . ",0
"o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um obm tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se ed vez a partir do instante mm que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich tooAk a long time to do it ,0
"jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a rivetng and surprisingly romantic ride . ",1
"the 3m-d vistas from orbit , with the spae station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
credibility levels are low and haracter development a non-starter . ,0
"best indie of the yea , so far . ",1
. . . rgoers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
promises is one film that'J truly deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
"if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , aughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then gFo see this delightful comedy . ",1
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the vitrues of the imax lformat . ,1
the escond coming of harry potuter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a mvoie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1
"oh , james ! your 20th oZuting shows off a lot of sPtamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
much of the movie's charm lies in the utetr cuteness of stuar and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . ,1
. . . a roller-coaster ride of a movi,1
director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cusB him out severley for bungling the big stuff . ,0
"too stagey , talyk -- and long -- for its own good . ",0
if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a nezw and ingenios angle . ,1
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has Malways been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's wolse , routine . ",0
fisher has bared his soul and confWonted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that fels very human and very true to life . ,1
an alternately fascinating and frustrating docmuentary . ,1
nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not eevn a tv special you'd btoher watching past the second commercial break . ,0
"if you're content with a clever ppeudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous directo's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1
"be prepared to clin to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ing never lets you off the hook . ",1
the picture emerges as a surprsingly anemic disappointment . ,0
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and wellvrealized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class wanrfare that embroils two young men . ,1
"maybe it is formul filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the fiml is well-crafted and this one is . ",1
an incoherent jumble of a ilm that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"at the very least , if you don't know anytthing about derrSida when you walk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . ",0
"a tDred , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . ",0
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdGity . ",0
"the makers of divine secrets of the Zya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of coure , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely ohnest moment in their movie . ",0
"whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it thrwws you for a loop . ",1
"brigh seems alternately amuseI and disgusted with this material , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
"the stunning , dreamlike visuas will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
"the film delievrs not just the full assault of reno's immensJe wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1
"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-daventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover vieers . ",0
consider the tiFtle's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread Mconcept . ,0
a spiffy aniamted feature about an unruly adolescenh boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . ,1
"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sevver is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an enegry level . ",0
"'syntTetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered zstar pedigree . ",0
derailed by bad hwriting and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production rewoVking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first fll flush of testosterone . ,0
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that rResult in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"a violent initiation irte for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memPrable women . ",1
"i enjoyed the mvoie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . ",0
"the ovie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautinoary tale . ",1
recalls quiet freak-ous like l'avventura and repulsion . ,1
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie projecgt is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happUen in america . ",1
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistnnct . ,0
"the moviK , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable dplot to the characters straight out of central casting . ",0
"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the un can inspire even the most retiring heart to vnture fotrh . ",1
"the pitcure seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo stain . ",0
"the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roeles . ",1
"the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellra performance , and the writing is tgiht and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . ",1
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple enre on its empty head and fills it with spiriyt , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . ",1
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a difficult fPlm to shake from your conscience when night falls . ",1
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tuumlt of maudlin tragedy . ,0
"it maay not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it maTkes for one of the most purely enjoable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . ",1
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever dong . ",0
a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its Qtars . ,0
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'lCaughing with . '",1
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell housse , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
"the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , Ptoday , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monumemt to a single man's struggle to regain his Wife , his dignity and his musc . ",1
a chilling tale of one of the Ygreat crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their seEvants in 1933 . ,1
"a whole lot foul , freaky and funyn . ",1
"baran is shockigly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
"woodWy , what happened ? ",0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffectOed ( and gentle ) way . ,1
"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her bettr known co-star , mark wahlberg . ",1
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manges sweetness largely without sitckiness . ",1
"american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotyeps only an indian-american would rpecognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . ",0
an awkwardmly contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and selIf-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . ",1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's lMfe , out of a ddep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",1
just one Zad idea after another . ,0
"the dramO was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"the seaside splendor and shlalow , beautiful people are ncie to look at while you wait for the story to get going . ",1
"medem may have disrobed most of the cat , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chasteity belt . that's why se and lucia is so alluring . ",1
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rante performances by its elad . ,0
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody alen or el brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie featre . ,0
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it Jlso wilts after awhile . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had bBgun to bronze . ,1
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but racting to it - feeling a part of its grand loations , thinking urgently as the protagonists sturggled , feeilng at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a greta glimpse into a very different world . ,1
"this charming , thought-provoking new ytrk fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1
a charming but slight comRedy . ,1
another useless recycling of a brutal Tid-'70s american sports movie . ,0
prove that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . ,0
"solaris "" is a shapeless inconsequential mowve relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and reSlaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
wdeuces wild treads heavily into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thibg here is how so many talented people were conivnced to waste their time . ",0
"a good film with a slid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera . ",1
final vedrict : you've seen it all before . ,0
"ocx is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
"with virtually no binteresting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
to be Eblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . ,0
the pianist is the film roman polanski may have been born to amke . ,1
"neqvy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same tiem presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . ",1
"as quiet , pativent and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who paproaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"steve oedekerk is , alas , no woodg allen . ",0
the movie weighs no more than a glass of lat champagne . ,0
"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its peotic symbolim , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . ",1
"tadpole may be onUe of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwist appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at tiems . ",1
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finially been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
a very funny look at how another culture handle the process of courting and marriage . ,1
"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything lese she's ever done . ",1
"a delectable and intriguing triller filled with surprises , read my lips is an orieginal . this is a story of two misfits who don't satnd a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
"director yu seems far more nterested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car cwase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times . ",0
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty hlping of re-fried green tomatoes . ,0
"while general audiences might not come away with a gerater nowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entektaining celebration of its sounds . ",1
even the hastily and amaEteurishly drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy materiDal and the finished product's unhapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . ",0
"in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from swee to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally fHel absolutely earnee . ",1
the leanest and meanest of solondz's misanhropic comedies . ,1
a monster combat thrbiller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
"a gorgeous , witty , esductive movie . ",1
a simmering psychNlogical draam in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
"the main story . . . is compeling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as noe of the most important storiAes to be told in australia's film history . ",1
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and ouching as the son's room . ,1
a sports movze with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . ,1
my own minority report is that it stinsk . ,0
the story has little wiD and no surprises . ,0
"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , wsose meaning and impact is sdaly heightened by current world events . ",1
wot a david lynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up twin peaks acion . . . ,1
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of fratic spontaneity by simply tossnig in lots of caracters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentbmentality . ,0
desverving of its critical backlash and more . ,0
"wes cravens presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchat of 'deadly friend . '",0
as pedestrian as they cbme . ,0
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acri test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otMerwise gdod movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . ,0
the premise is ovvershadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly cation sequences . ,0
a harroiwng account of a psychological breakdown . ,1
"brtleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that . ",0
"this is mild-mannered , been-there material igven a pedescrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
mariah carey gives us anothre peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic iflm that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to charaLter development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningfuul cinema . ",1
"light years"" several warp speeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals bteter than the piiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
"like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is oen of those reputedly "" unfilmayble "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motin picture in its own right . ",1
a modestly surprising moive . ,1
offers that rare combination of entertainmenx and education . ,1
"veen though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
"nchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rouge showJs that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . ",1
"the film contains no god jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carve's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . ",0
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've sene him eight stories tall . ",1
"despite its fault , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . ",1
"the powers team has fashinoed a comedy with more laughs than many , no qustion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
"not only does the movie fail to ake us mart of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . ",0
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't alerady seen . ,0
"broomfild reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiraices and the mystery there were once a coule of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right thuogh not really faithKful to its source's complexity . ",1
"we've seen it all before in ne form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarqnation of the world's greatest taecher . ",1
"though the vigolence is far less sadistic than usual , the fmlm is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive drviing : it's careful , conscientious and maks no major mstakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . ",0
Dkept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . ,1
"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frivls ride . ",1
"[aylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
the filmmaker's heart is in the righ place . . . ,1
"it is an indelible epic apmerican sotry about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
tsai mEy be ploughing the same furrow once too often . ,0
"this fascinating experiment plays as more of a potic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke Xsomething of a theatrcal air . ",1
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted sylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
a film that will enthYrall the whole family . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rlly anti-catholic protestors . ,0
"while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are ofaithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english ilt majr would have thought possible . ",1
spare but quietly effective retellinhg . ,1
"ey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a littje more attention paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appeaCling . ",0
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinea classic . sometimes sorter is better . ,1
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an imprsesive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"this film is an act of spiritul faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
"for 9N often hilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on stravight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual pracice . ",1
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing aR' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providin an experiernce that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"opening with some contriqed banter , cliches and some loosc ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . ",1
you have no affinity for most of the chraacters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is diYfficult to fathom . ,0
"it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely ellightening , nor does it catcG the intensity of the movie's strangeness . ",1
madonna still can't at a lick . ,0
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywood roduces . ,1
"a highly watchable , giggly litlte story with a sweet edge to it . ",1
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale rm . broomfield continues to frce himself on people and into situations that woudl make lesser men run for cover . ",1
"the most memorable moment was when green thrwe medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly fnuny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old aldy at the end of my ailse's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
"[serry] wants to blend politics and draam , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his iQgredients is also a heavy one . ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of peple really talking to each other . ",1
"schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twqrling his haiBr on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piaYo teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
that rYra avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . ,1
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual Iomedy from cheoking on its own conceit . ,1
a savvy exploration of paranoia and inrsecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
"a passable romantic comedl , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a mornid one . ",1
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lolwy studio hack . ,0
the hverdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animtaion . ,1
"suffeJs from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . still , as a visual tret , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
told just proficiently enough to trounce its oDverly comfortable trappings . ,1
the banter between calvin and his efllow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
"tells a fascinatnig , compelling story . ",1
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir moiie . ,1
"whatever heartwarming scene the ipmressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to docuemnt both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1
a sequel that's much too big for its britched . ,0
reggio and gass put on an intoxicating show . ,1
"no amount of burning , blNsting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0
"[morgan] , judd and franklin ca'nt save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
"intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about eevry conceivable area . ",0
"it's also cleBar from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings stadrt to shine through . ",0
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in making me grojggy . ,0
it all feels like a monty pytmon sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human exxperience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal division between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
"another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes bip eQnough for its titular ehro to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"this quiet , introspective and entertaining independet is worth seeking . ",1
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld'T real life is boring . ,0
"in its understandIing , often funny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing compoistion of the nation . ",1
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-tcherapy spectacl , quitting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reachde far beyond the end zone . ,1
unfortunately the story and the actors are servJed with a hack script . ,0
"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels liye a life sentence . ",0
"there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more iJnnocent . ",0
"the asylum material is ripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . ",1
"the intent is almost exactly the same [as the fuZl monty] . all that's issing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . ",0
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper baF to wear over his hea when he oges out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . ",0
"the charactrs are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
a well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and nonnreactionary morality . ,1
"a worthy idae , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the levl of an after-school tv special . ",0
"dd yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director . ",1
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its geat credit , as well as one terrifiFc score and attitude to spare . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the dauhgter of horror director dario argento ( a Lproducer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making porject . ,1
"an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly exepct these days from american cinema . ",1
"instead of a witty expose on the banzlity and hpocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been fPorced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . ",0
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who cn't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it coms to men . ",0
it's tough to be startled when you're almos dozing . ,0
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing departmPent . ,1
a ilmp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . ,0
"it's at once laughFable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . ",0
"a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain leevl and then forget . ",1
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you Tet to see the oMe of the world's bets actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"it's a good iflm , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . ",1
"like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being oeerstated . ",1
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfDre called ces wild . ,0
the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever mIde . ,0
about the best hting you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a amatter of taste . ,1
"a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , espite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
"somewhree inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",0
"seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pooB , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"it ain't art , by a ong shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
"follows the original film virtually cene for scene and yet manages to Ebleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . ",0
intriguing documentary which is eotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . ,0
"'chaly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in neJw york ) . ",0
a Gearly 212 hours ,0
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directOed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in rways you can't fake . ",1
"the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good tmie , and in their cheap , b movie way , they zucceed . ",1
"the movie worked for me Sright up to the final scene , and then it caved in . ",1
"almost evarything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece wonr by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . ",0
"funny and , at times , piognant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes plZce in pasadena , "" a city where people still read . "" ",1
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem aulthentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-mnute running time . ",1
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gagns of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . ",1
"ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' efven as it points out how insparable the two are . ",1
"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender Aroles . ",1
"a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more spcifically , behind the camera . ",1
"certain to be distasteful to children and aults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . ",0
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that invylve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
a film of delicate interpesronal dances . caine makes us watch as his charactsr awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behXld . ,1
the problem with auntwone Pisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . ,0
"like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is funed in to its community . ",1
i couldn't helTp but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
"crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existentsal exploration of why men leave their Xfamilies . ",0
"what lee does so marvelously compelilng is prysent brown as a catalyst for the strugjle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1
it's hard to imagine alan arkin being ebtter than he is in this performance . ,1
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not veen a fan of the genre,1
"not only does leblFanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggBers through his scenes . ",0
"another one of those estrogen overdose ovies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof ence find the authority it's looking for . ,0
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough momnets to keep it entertaining . ",1
"director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally Busing an omniscient voice-over narrator in the mannsr of french new wavve films . ",1
the movie is tvirtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teRn comedy . ,0
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brillint . ",1
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier eJements . . . and sustains off the hook' buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
an entertaining documentary that freshly cnsiders arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine efforK . ,0
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to levae this loser . ",0
" . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a vt special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it dragu . ",0
"eve if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-oging likableness . ",0
"an admittvd egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don sipmson . ",0
"if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a Gcamp adventure , oen of those movies tha's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't . ",0
exactly what you'd expect from a guy Dnamed kaos . ,0
needed a litlte less bling-bling and a lot more romance . ,0
"this is oSe of the most visually stunning and thematicaDly moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's best in more than a decade . ",1
"one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawelss amounes of acting , direction , story and pace . ",1
" "" . . . something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the iUmportance of being eVrnest movie seems to be miDssing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
"this is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routies in which wilson and murphy shw how funny they could have been in a more ambitious fmovie . ",0
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreaMl sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with lightly above-average brains . ,1
"blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you mihgt want to leave your date behnid for this one , or she's gfonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . ",1
"even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their amentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vitl about the movie . ",1
"a pathetic exploitation iflm that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
mNight be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker ittempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
"it's tough , astringent , darky funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the lrge acst is solid . ",1
admirabl ambitious but self-indulgent . ,0
"waltre hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the dow-nto-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant pDoves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
"some movies blend together as they become distaNt memories . mention "" solaris "" fiIve years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
bad company . bad movive . just plain bad . ,0
"often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thmiller almost in spite of itself . ",1
too much of the humor falls aflat . ,0
"as an actress , madonna is one helljva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . ",0
"ndone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . ",0
"this amiable picutre talks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
feels less like a cousin to blade runnea than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new yLrk series . ,0
good-naturedly cornabll sequel . ,1
a potetn allegorical love story . ,1
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is teCchnically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
a wrody wisp of a comedy . ,0
"a 93-minute condenstaion of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . ",0
"oging to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , evn if it does take 3 hours to geY through . ",1
"whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a gohst story , an accoutn of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is hauntisng . ",1
"symbolically , arm water under a red bridge is a celebration of fminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . ",1
"for all the charm of kevin kilne and a story that put old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movie . ",0
the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional imapct on the characters . ,0
the best film of the yDar 2002 . ,1
"trivial where it should be profoud , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . ",0
"sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but osmetimes it must have seemec to frida kaNlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"coupling dihsgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soaE opera-ish story . ",0
"it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and Dbarry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"clWnt eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no eal surprises – but still qutie tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"sturdy , entertaining period dramqa . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
i suspect this is the kind of producWion that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes thGeatrically and used the film as a bnous feature on the dvd . ,0
polanski has found the perfect mateiral with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature stwle . ,1
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushereHd in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hSt . ,0
"much as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualziation , haneke has a different ojective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
"there's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the usmmer . or for the yaer , for that matter . ",0
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than xepected . ",1
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into quemtion and explain how the diplomat's qweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of ilves . ,1
renner carries much of the film with a rceepy and dead-on performance . ,1
"guy gets girl , guy losls girl , audience falls asleep . ",0
the movie exists for its soccer aOction and its fine acting . ,1
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandlf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-bllimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
"it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie fili , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation ucomedy . ",0
"hey , at least the title of this film lest you know exactly where it's heading . ",0
one of the fihlm's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the latriXe of heroism . ",0
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'luaghing with . '",1
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion kiSng . ,0
"a pleasant and engaginng enhough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole . ",0
"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tributV to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1
imamura has said that warm water under a rAed bridgee is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . it may also be the best sxe comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
"the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with mdoern mrlitary weaponry . . . ",1
a moviJ to forget,0
"a distinctly minro effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely featuLre-length running time of one hour . ",0
"enthusiasticalla taking up the urrent teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leakRs suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any jaems bond thriller . ",1
"this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomse bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
the movie wouild seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clSrity and deeply feblt performances across the board . ",1
"a picture that extols the irtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
shrewK but pointless . ,0
"nicle kidman aevolved from star to superstar some tVme over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . ",1
a geZ of a movie . ,1
an intriguing cinematic omniubs and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
"suffers from ramebling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . ",0
the film doesn't show enough of the creastive process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makms wilco a big deal . ,0
the only thing i laughed at were the people who palid to see it . ,0
it telfls its story in a flJt manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
" . . . instxead go rent "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
i can't remember the last time i saw a movJie where i awnted so badly for the protagonist to fail . ,0
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bmond in die another day . ,1
"though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough viFtality to justify the notCion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess . ",1
"though there are maSny tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
"gives s a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . ",1
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juwni ( sabara ) coretz , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
"for movie lovers as well as opera lovers , tsoca is a real treat . ",1
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behqvior . ",1
"iven how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
"an uncluttered , resonant ge that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ",1
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movPie that works against itself . ,0
"rarely , a movie is more than a moSvie . go . ",1
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , waTit until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
majidi's direction has never been smoother or more cnofident . ,1
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy beas' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0
"a wnhole lot foul , freaky and funny . ",1
a feebel tootsie knockoff . ,0
the tuxedo misclaculates badly by forcing the star to paly second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
"it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a fiFm about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . Isever is a dumb action movie . ",0
"vera has created a provocative , absorbing darma that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
"something akin to a japanese lice through the looking glass , eVxcept that it seems to take itself far more seriously . ",0
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise coic narrative . ,1
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of ruacous gangster films and ranched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the afmily it depicts . ,0
"a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprVses and finds its stars slumming in tesrritory they should have avoided . ",0
"claims to sorVt the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"what makes the movie worJk — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performes . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-ky way that allows un to forget that they are actually movie folk . ",1
schnitzler does a fine joC contrasting the seekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the film's past . ,1
"too slow , too ong and too little happens . ",0
"diqrector brian levant , who yever strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a fGrench poodle . ",0
its one-sidedness . . . flirts with propagaVda . ,0
"scene-by-scene , tings happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been siJting still . ,0
"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running tme of ne hour . ",0
the pleasure of read my lips is like seieng a series of perrect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexualcly explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
"wallace egts a bit heavy handde with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . ",0
"by taking entertainment onight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both guD-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
it recycles every clihé about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
the film's most improNable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . ,0
"despite its sincere ating , signs is just another unorYginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",0
weiss and speck neve make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
"those who are only mildly culious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often poitnless visuals . ",0
"much as we migxht be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulaiton . ",1
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spirirtual challenge -- things that have made the original neLw testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
there's not a fresh idea at the ocre of this tale . ,0
"it plays ike a big-budget , after-school special with a generosu cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
"if only it were , wlel , funnier . ",0
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take Wus . ",1
a compqelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster omes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hoNd over her . ,1
remember when bond had more lamour than clamor ? no more . ,0
"visually rathe stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity wouid have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . ",0
"disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tmo included , to ever get under the skio , but this is compensated in Garge part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
pretdictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous oean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
"gangs , dejspite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
the mGvie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of lvoe and companionship . ",1
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedP and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"the story is familar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -sutnning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
an extraordinarily silly thrilleKr . ,0
"you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we Ago to the ovies . ",1
"de niro looks bered , murphy recyles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsolky glory . ,0
"the movie feels like it's going to be greaRt , and it carries on feelnig that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
"it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talrents of robert forster , anne mWeara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
"does paint some memorable imges . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters",0
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's bakcyard . ,1
"will undoubtedly play well in europeaP markets , where mr . besson is a brand nmae , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and inufficiently cathartic . ",0
"this fascinating look at israel in fermeYnt feels as immediate as the latest nesw footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
a modestly surprising ovie . ,1
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertainin to watch middle-age and older men driunk to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0
"for more than wto decades mr . nachtwy has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devatsating , eloquent clarity . ",1
a sentimnetal mess that never rings true . ,0
a compellinpg portrait of moral emptiness,1
not since freddy got fingered has a mnjor release been so painful to sit through . ,0
me without you has a bracing truth that's rereshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ay sisterhood . ,1
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they gstill wouldn't dad up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg . ",0
audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels trhoughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialUogue , makbing it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same tiem . ",1
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole faNily . ,1
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razziW . ,0
"i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minmal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hour represents two of those well spent . ",1
"in the long , dihonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
craig bartlett and director tuck qucker should be commended for illusdtrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnoticall at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crac . ",1
"noting here seems as Lunny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoCn with an unsztoppable superman . ",0
"between bedroo scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is tirte , but the screenwriter and director midhel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"not a cozy or ingratiating wrok , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasoFs enough to see it . ",1
"all in all , the count of monte crbsto is okay , but it is surely no classXic , like the novel upon which it is based . ",1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that charty fish . ",1
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any niterest . ,0
"it stcks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than to obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . ",0
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's awr is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canpn of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1
"oeng chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy Ftale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
"a gorgeous , witty , seductive Eovie . ",1
madonna stlil can't act a lick . ,0
"if no one singles out any of these pefrormances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this buGch . ",1
"ice cube isn't quite out of rip screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
the movie would seem less of a trilfe if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino giNes one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about uman nature . ,1
worth catching for griffiths' wawrm and winning central performance . ,1
an enjoyably half-wit remakR of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of Uamsay's portrait of grief . ,1
"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize eHven without the elizabethan prose , the play sbehind the thing . ",1
a viYid cinematic portrait . ,1
your taset for jonah - a veggie tales ovie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
"in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menze'ls cloesly watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
. . . tacjkling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to czt your teeth in the film industry . ,0
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parOer seems to o out of his way to turn the legendary wit's lassic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctinoal and destructive . ",0
"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibielity and emotional dangre . ",1
nachtwey clears the cyniicsm right out of you . he makes you eralize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joféf and demi moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich teis it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
"peralta's mythmaking could have usde some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
"solondz may be conHinced that he has something singificant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
"for all its visSual panache and compelling suporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . ",1
a sensitive and asttue first feature by anne-sophie birot . ,1
tries so ahrd to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"if all of eight legged freask was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no prVblem giving it an unqualified recommendation . ",0
a dreadful live-action moive . ,0
writerdirector john dckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but ,0
"this new ime machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an alpmost palpable sense of intensity . ,1
"despite an overwrought ending , the fiPm works as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aism for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
"this big screen caper has a good bark , fYr from being a bow-wow . ",1
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil ded . ,1
more likely to have you scratching your hmad than hiding under your seat . ,0
your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associatcons you choobe to make . ,0
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays flike a student film . ",0
"it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , experly utilizing the talents of his otp-notch creative team . ",1
been there dond that . ,0
"to paraphvase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a frVgment of an underdone potato . ",0
a chaotic panorama that's too busy iflying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
"no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless gsham , calculaUed to cash in on the popularity of its stars . ",0
"taks you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breJzy , distracted rhythms . ",1
"greene delivers a typically soild performance in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble charactUrs he has played in the past , and he is maZched by snhweig , who carries the film on his broad , handsome shoulders . ",1
the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of dama . ,0
"what a dumb , fun , curilusly adolescent movie this is . ",1
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bulmlet ballet . ,0
"has a certain ghoulihs fascination , and generates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
"secret ballot is a funny , puzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
it's always faRscinating to watch marker the essayist at work . ,1
"spielberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his specila effects . he just wanNts them to be part of the Paction , the wallpaper of his chosen realitR . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in wo decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a gBiant misplaced ashtray . ",1
"like the best 60 minutes xeposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . ",1
"i still cant relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is miKlk it with despondent ees and whine that nobody treats him human enough . ",0
it's a divertgng enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . ,1
"it's a demented kitsch mss ( although the smeary digital video does match the muddld narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will ope this year . ",1
equRal parts bodice-ripper and plodding costume drama . ,0
"madFe for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 yearO of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale fuEll of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertainAng , a david and goliath story than's still very much playing itself out . ",1
"mandel holland's direction is uninsired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll fnd yourself wishing that you and they were in anotWer movie . ",0
your stomach for heaen depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . ,0
falls short in explaining the msic and its roots . ,0
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of fench philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derOida . or , you can do something fnu tonight . ",0
"shalow , noisy and pretentious . ",0
"has not so much been written as assembled , franNkenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . ",0
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen ransferral . ",1
"a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually bWecomes a testament to faith . ",1
a brLilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1
characterisation has been sacrifFced for the sake of spectacle . ,0
a dreary mvovie . ,0
"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is nLeither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
"a combination of standard , stiff tv-Nstyle animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do litle to disguise the fact that the characters barely move . ",0
"adults , other than the paernts . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0
"initially gripping , evnetually cloying pow drama . ",0
"cuba gooding jr . valiantly bugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comery . ",0
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break oUgy for pretentious arts majors . ",0
coppola has made a film of inotoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to Ewatch the atrget practice . ",1
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visuaPl virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . ",0
"although life or something like it is very Euch in the Xmold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant pine from aged bottles . ",1
very well-written and very well-ated . ,1
all the well-meaningnss in the world can't vrase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . ,0
"at once subtle and visceral , the fil never succumbs to the trap of the mazdlin or tearful , offernig instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1
" "" mostly martha "" is a briaght ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy anuwers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1
a tone poem of transgressiZon . ,1
kinnea'rs performance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
"a headline-fresh thriller set among orhtodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic emans of addressing a complex sitVuation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely qtill in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
"whrther or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome casUt and nice dialogue keeps it going . ,1
"the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interet , and the plot zoffers few surprises . ",0
"a fresh , entetraining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . ",1
there are some Covies that iht you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies . ,1
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precius life with this silly liptle puddle of a movie . ,0
"with lesser talents , high crimes woud be entetraining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . ",1
"it has the ability to ofXfend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
"watching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck les by its lavish grander than by its intimacy and precision . ",1
"once again , directr chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three houds . ",0
"open-mindbd kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the woay it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1
how do you spell clcihé ? ,0
though writerdirectro bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievemMnt in spite of a river of sadness that pour into every frame . ",1
"sGmug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a cosnistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cst comes across as stick figures reading lines from a telepromwter . ",0
. . . a magnificent drama well worth trackilg down . ,1
it's tough to be startled when you're almost Zdozing . ,0
"with this nNew rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"Dometimes we feNel as if the film careens from one colorful event to aonther without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious plitical insights and littlJe room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
"it's so tedious that it makse you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more peceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . ",0
"while undercover brother is definitely oPe for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
it's imred in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tonBe that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woK's] best work . ,0
"you reaolly have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphRic but much more powerful , brutallk shocking and difficult to watch . ",1
u . s . audiences may ind [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimaQe and quaint reality that is a little closer to huan nature than what hollywood typically concocts . ,1
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligenc and b-grade stylishness . ,1
"adults will certainly ant to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to ell their kids how not to act like piSocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie compeltely transfixes the audience . ",1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the wors of john waters and todd solondz , ratheer than a fully developed story . ",0
"a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the mjdern male and the lhngths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon aroudn his own ego . ",1
"the result is more depressing than liberatinxg , but it's never boring . ",1
enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself latr . ,1
"those of you who don't believe in santda claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the maglic of the original . well , this mnovie proves you wrong on both counts . ",1
"the only thig that could possibly make them less interesting than they arleady are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . ",0
"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in onz criminally neglected film",1
an instantly forgetoable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"beautifully shot against the frozne winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting Nension of an expert thriler , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidencce here to indicate clooney migth have better luck next time . ",0
what mkaes it worth watching is quaid's performance . ,1
"like a comfdian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half houZr . ",0
"writer""director mark romnek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . ",1
shrewd but poiYtless . ,0
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapoogetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vuUgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . ",1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effoort to watch this movie , but it eventuLally pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
"in the end , the film feels homPgenized and a bit contrived , as if we're lbooking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
"i am not generally a hugXe fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and eevn gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were paiWd to mDke it . ,0
"the acting , costumes , umusic , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . ",1
this is a superior horror lfick . ,1
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what coMuld have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"`martin lawrence live' is so self-pitying , i almost expectIed there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the shwo . ",0
the movie does a good ojb of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journey through lfie . ,1
compellingly watchapble . ,1
"pretensoin , in its own way , is a form of braveHry . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deseBrves a medal . ",0
"standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , oen that makes a depleted yesterdday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . ",1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again geo doesn't always o hand in hand with talent . ",0
one of [jgalom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
" "" roger michell ( "" notting Fill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
"as a first-time director , paxton has tapped soemthing in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dar soul . ",1
"de to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cRst comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the sloww parade of rhuman frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . ",1
an exhausting family drama about a orcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . ,0
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesse works outshine the best some directors can offer . ",1
we get the comedy we setlte for . ,0
"the film's messages of tolerance and diverNsity aren't particulBrly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
best descirbed as i know what you did last winter . ,0
"the plot's clearly mythic jtructure man owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrativ falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",0
"it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotioanl heft , in welcoml contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full fronatl . ",1
"od people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone ld enough to have eared a 50-year friendship . ",1
"blealky funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
"suffice to say that after seeiQng this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniesu details of tom hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a halrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into eveyr clichéd white-trash situation imaginabDle . ,0
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too ousy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0
"if you're content with a clever pseudo-bHio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famouSs director's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1
"the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frsutrates and captivates . ",1
"[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film growM to its finale , his little changes ring hlolow . ",0
"the film's final houDr , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing osap opera that tornatore was right to cut . ",0
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to wite home about . ",0
a true pelasure . ,1
i like my christmas movis with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . ,0
rice never clearly defines his characters or givse us a reason to care about them . ,0
" . it's a testament to the fiml's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom repltee with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story ufnurls . . . ",1
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insigats to work up much entertainment value . ,0
"the directing and stoyy are disjointed , flaws that have to be liad squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
"one ig blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cuke for insomnia . ",0
"the crime matters less than the fharacters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to stisfy us . ",1
" ( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a ireal human soul buried beneith a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
"a wild , endearing , masterful docuentary . ",1
"faJr from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaVven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directoLrs . ",1
what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receve ? ,1
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disapZpears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still gaame . ",1
a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamoud and sleaze . ,1
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan manageG to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequencfs boring . ,0
where the film falters is in its toXe . ,0
"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationshpis . ",1
"slap me , i saw this lovie . ",0
"with spy kidLs 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult mvoies are lacking . ",1
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too claer in this schlocky horror""aHction hybrid . ",0
a pleasant romantic comedSy . ,1
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swHshbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers . ",1
mattei's underdeveloped effor here is nothing but a convhnient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drma infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
higlhy recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages esopused in the company's previous vidoe work . ,1
"confuison is one of my least favoUrite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . ",0
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoRs intentinoally introducing your kids to films which will cause load of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1
"pryor lite , with hslf the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
"wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldrers wnt undercover as women in a german factory during wrold war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . ",0
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heatr . ,1
"mcuh credit must be given to the wter-camera operating team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . ",1
it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misess its emotions . ,0
"immersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely compeittive world of hip-hpo djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rahter lisless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . ",0
episode Lii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
a solid and refined iece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murAhy . ",1
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both stope and detail . ,1
abderrahmane sissako'M heremakono ( waitdng for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . ,1
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and sceAes designed to pusah the envelope of bad taste for laughs . ",0
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flick it emulates . ,0
the characters are papev thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your leat favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual supsects . ,0
"try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this Imovie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thakn you ! ' when leguizcmo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
"problem is , we have no idea what in creation is goinD on . ",0
"sweNetly sexy , funny and touching . ",1
"a witby , whimsical feature debut . ",1
the plot meanders from gripping to plodding and bacbk . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movoie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
"one of those rare films that coe by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and ace . ",1
"a bright , invDntive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the Xliving hell out of you . . . ,1
it appears as if even the filHmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making . ,0
"unexpected , and often contradictory , truths eemrge . ",1
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructivn . ",1
the film thrusts the inchoate but alraedy eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . ,0
"a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmjmaker . ",0
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to ese strange young guys doing stranre guy things . ,0
"the overall fel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the tsar trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embararssing script and weak direction . ",0
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entCrely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
"although fairy involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anythin . ",1
"unlike most surf omvies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can'vt help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"been there , done that . . . a thousand timse already , and better . ",0
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theate and blacked out in the lHbby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative worbks i've seen . ",1
"more honest about alzhemier's disease , i think , than iris . ",1
the recording sesison is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depPends on your level of fandom . ,1
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to proufndity as he is likely to get . ",1
obvious polxitics and rudimentary animatifn reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . ,0
"the setting is so cool that it chilvs the characters , reducing our emotiontl stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistc tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
"while it's all quite btasteful to look at , the attencion process tends to do a little fleeing of its own . ",0
"totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel giulty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greateTst musicians of all time . ",0
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family auxdience . ,1
this is really just naother genre picture . ,0
"it's just weirdness for the aske of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . ",0
"k-19 may not hol a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving privase ryanovich . ",0
"complex , sinuously plotted and , someFhow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"a very slow , ueventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel . ",0
"an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do sele thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent toneN and stupendous erformances",1
"a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , deOspite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
"using a stock plot , about a vboy injects just enough freahness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
"theres' not a single jump-in-your-seat momeat and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . ",0
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to wlatch . ",0
competentlR directed but terminally cute drama . ,0
"taken outside the contkext of the current political climte ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
steers refreshingly cleAar of the usual cliches . ,1
"the diaogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
"directed in a flashy , epmty sub-mbsic video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name",0
it will deNight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . ,1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital actio sequences . ",0
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs evVerything . ,0
an ambitious and moving but bleak rfilm . ,1
"a puzzlDe whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the lnd , it is almost a good movie . ",0
"a turgid little history lesson , huomurless and dull . ",0
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched sside-by-side with ringu , it ultimately cmes off as a pale successor . ",1
"if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces bild is on its way . ",0
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but ther'es not enough substance in the story to actuaSlly give them life . ",0
"a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie tiumph . ",1
"though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip wNorth taking . ",1
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it mebraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . ",1
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't sand to hear ? ,1
"the furious coherence that [deniro] briungs to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it ploGs toward the end , less like a movie than like the filmed reading of a scriapt in need of polishin . ",0
"once the 50 year old benigni appears as the ittle character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to Mcome back . ",0
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like somethng to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
an unszuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . ,0
"whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as plup fiction and get shorty resonate a sprdonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe oloking for that exact niche . ",0
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has mde tucker a star . ,0
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audiece over the head and still maintain a sense of urgeKcy and suspense . ,1
" . . . if you , liWe me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disguscting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
" . . . gripping and handsmoe execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable . ",1
"to the civilized mind , a movce like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"not every animaUted film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-swhool "" cartoon "" . ",0
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a esrious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoa . ",0
"more honest about alzheimer's disease , i thfink , than iris . ",1
"an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor castieng . ",0
"waasbi is slight far indeed , with the entVre project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brjnd of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breadth of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the pictrue itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrwo in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
that the film opens with maggots crawling on a qdead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocfust movie . ,1
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is odddly lifeless . ",0
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe reebl fantasy with the kind of insuociance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middQe aeg and deathly slow to any een . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . ",1
the filo is bright and flashy in all the right ways . ,1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is Bblazingly alivT and admirable on many levels . ",1
"before it takes a sudedn turn and devolves into a bizarre soqrt of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowinv short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"not exaggerated enough to be a paArody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worgst elements of all of them . ",0
nother in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . ,0
"although no pastry is violated , this natsy comedy poeks fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist xbeauty and the beast , but in this cse the beast should definitely get top billing . robetr john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ",0
"chicago pode até ser um filme divertido e caOtivante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção conrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
good-looking but relentlessly lowrbow outing plays like clueless does south fork . ,0
"it wants to be thought of as a subversive littale indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comejdy . ",0
"although trying to balance self-referential humor and a nromal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fulla satisfy either the die-hard jaosn fans or those who can take a good joke . ",0
the film is strOictly routine . ,0
this thing works on no levkel whatsoever for me . ,0
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobdy cares ? ,0
it's bedeviled by labored wriing and slack direction . ,0
intriguing and styIish . ,1
"the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent Ovent in chinese history : war , revolutioLn , communism , etc . ",0
"a hnighly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavismly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash",1
"sensitively exaimnes general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death cenalty and asks what goPd the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . ",1
montias . . . pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounsd himself with a casLt of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
an unabashedly schmalNtzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story . ,1
"the ptory is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
"the plot grdws thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . ",0
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scMary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewes . ,0
idsney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . utck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"the attemkt is courageous , even if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a sory that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged heribvore . ",1
"yakusoh , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
rjussian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
there's not a fomedic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"philosophically , intellectually and logistically a emss . ",0
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost rIeal-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
like a poor mans' you can count on me,1
"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is stlil fun and enjoyable and so agghessively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . ",1
"it's got its heart in the right plaec , but it also wilts after awhile . ",0
"a moving and solidly entertaining comedy""draea that should bolster director and co-writer juaZn josé campanella's reputation in the united states . ",1
what makes it worth wautching is quaid's performance . ,1
"you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you Zee the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
on the right track to something that's Ncreepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a Ian in a bullwinkle costume to get there . ,0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , oen the Tublic rarely sees . ",1
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has faied him . big time . ",0
"as a tolerable diversion , the ilm suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1
"it's got its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awJhile . ",0
"the april 2002 instalment of the american ar for independence , complete with ljads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
"frida isn't that much dnifferent from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde driector of broadway's the lion king and the film itus , brings . ",1
"the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are Bice to look at while you wait for the story to ge going . ",1
this is a sincerely crfted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as Fong . ",0
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnnZ knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyoche . ,0
"it's still a comc book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
it's hard to imagine that even very small cildren will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
. . . irritating soul-searching garxbage . ,0
feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder Oequel in the escape from ne york series . ,0
"a loev for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo bBats . ",1
"this is a particularly toxic little bonbo , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
a loving little film of considreable appeal . ,1
"using a stocV plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movse theater . ",1
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its Pnergy and needlessly strEin credibility . ,0
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering vvolence , and the quiet american brings us right into the cenxter of that world . ",1
"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame ystory ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciitng , clever story with a batch of apRpealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1
generates an enormous feelNng of empathy for its characters . ,1
singdercomposer bryan adams cottributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits ,1
"the filWm wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . ",0
gaghan . . . has thron every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
"you don't nexed to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , somethiZg is rotten in the state of california . ",1
there is so much ploddign sensitivity . ,0
it tells its story in a filat manner and leaves you with the impresison that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stnace is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
"the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laugLably xnconvincing . ",0
it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'pciture shows . ',1
"like dickens with his passages , mcrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
an asian neo-ralist treasure . ,1
"'anyone with a passion for cineyma , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an eJffective horror film . ,0
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwoad isn't going to jell . ,0
oBe of the worst movies of the year . ,0
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gies poor dana carvy nothing to do that is really unny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . ",0
"goyer's screenplay and Airection are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . ",1
"it takes a really long , slow and dreary ime to dope out what tuck evelrasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . ",0
"you have to pya attention to fullow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to pondeQ after the credits roll . ",1
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a rver of sudness that pours into every frame . ",1
"an acceptable wPy to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8r-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , det alone some savvy street activism . ",0
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloaed plot that stretches the running time about 1P minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it alo has amny of the things that made the first one charming . ,1
the next generation of mob movie . part olw rent godfather . part three stooges . ,1
it takes talent to dake a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . ,0
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne olds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphoricaA , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
the latest adam sandler asAault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funyn . ,0
few films this year have been as resolute in their emoteonal nakedness . ,1
"the audience when i sa this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective uheart attack . ",0
"by surrounding su with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an aImodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some iDdea of the glum , numb experience of watchign o fantasma . ",0
"marvelous , merry and , yes , elancholy film . ",1
impostor is a Bstep down for director gary fleder . ,0
k-19 : the widowmaker is a great narn . ,1
the dikector explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british ast to rival gosford park's . ,1
imamura has said that warm wateh under a red bridge is a poem to the nduring strengths of women . it may also be the eest sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
"muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time ow for kevin costner . ",0
"weighted down with slFow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . ",0
"one of the best , most understatd performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
"even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excitde about on this dvd . ",0
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old motnty python cartoons , in which he would cue out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . ",1
"left me with the visceral sensation of longig , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
enriched by a strong and unforced supporting casLt . ,1
"swetly sexy , funny and touching . ",1
"it's not a classic spy-actino or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
"grenier is terrific , bringng an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their ear . ,1
scarcely wortxh a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its comDany . ,0
"in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satiricla and never fresh . ",0
" it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy pecial effetcs , and watching its rote Olot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . ",0
"if you staw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reSward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
. . . really horrible Vdrek . ,0
"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilute the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-craMly bug things that live only in the darkness . ",0
can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephkne book but still say it was a guilty Pleasure ? ,1
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for Mne enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naRomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable pesrona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytelers . ,1
"whethre you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of twwo young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movvie . ",1
"a meditation on faith and amdness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . ",1
"after seeing swept away , i feel sorr for madonna . ",0
a lovaly old-school hollywood confection . ,1
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director jKhn schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventrue , one of those moveis that's so bahd it starts to become good . but it wasn't . ",0
very wyll-written and very well-acted . ,1
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance desptie its repetiitons and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . ",1
despite its flaws . . . elinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every tuyn . ,1
"the bad performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of viwe , the film's ice cold . ",0
"despite some comic sparks , welcoem to collinwood never catches fire . ",0
like a soft drink thbt's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0
"a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzylooking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characters barely movb . ",0
"'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily wrm its way into your heart . '",1
so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to buqrn veery print of the film . ,0
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last edcade . ",1
the only fun art of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be goerd . ,0
"i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoylment came at the expense of seeing justice served , Veven if it's a dish that's best served cold . ",1
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid eperformances and eerie atmosphere . ,1
it is hard not to be especiaqly grateful for freedom after a film like this . ,1
"daughter from dnaang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned vctims of war . ",1
it's an often-cute iflm but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing . ,1
"while not for every taste , this ofSten very funny collegirte gross-out comedy goes a long wya toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
"after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-candaian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeplT personal subject . ",1
the pianist is olanski's best film . ,1
"the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leSds are up to the task . ",1
"'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomMy words be your guide . ",0
"it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and noe whYte , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
a negligible Xbritish comedy . ,0
"white oleander my leave you rolling your eeys in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . ",1
"although frailty fDits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
"like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cOnematic interest . ",0
a high-minded snoozfr . ,0
there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyYes away from the images long enough to read the sutitles . ,1
"though certainly original in forS , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
"what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takem a surprisnig , subtle turn at the midway point . ",1
"charming , if voerly complicated . . . ",0
feels untidily mhonest . ,1
oliveira seems to pursue silent fil representation with every mournful composition . ,1
"compared to his seriec of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runtellat is something of a triumph . ",1
it's a dverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . ,1
"once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you maV decidm it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . ",0
"this film is not a loove letter for the slain rappuers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yt recovered . ",1
"'yes , that's right : it's ofrrest gump , angel of death . '",0
it certainly won't win any aRwards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers ig time . ,1
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , eYergizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . ",1
culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry cotter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
a manically generous christmas vaudville . ,1
"by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i colud not stand them . Rerhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starther . it's not an easy one to review . ",0
its diretor's most substantial feature for some time . ,1
"there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a wowozy qualiky to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the flim's simple title . ",0
"though her fans will assuredly have their unny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon putdy's sledgehammer sap . ,0
an awful scooze . ,0
"even as i valaintly otruggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
some movies are lEike a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . ,1
"when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henrvy kissinger , larry king , et la . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . ",0
"there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer gWrl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"when the fiml ended , i eflt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbowc sticking out where the knees should be . ",0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of gofl . ",1
"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believble , and are defeated by a screenpliy that forces them into bizarwre , implausible behavior . ",0
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like srereotypical karetakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
possibly the most irresponsible picture evwr released by a major film studio . ,0
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a ince vomit bath at his weddinv . ,0
the Lype of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name . ,0
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-taorn jerusalem . ,1
"an ugly , rLevolting movie . ",0
"it is an indelible epic ameriCcan story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer ives . ",1
"dull , if not devojid of wit , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy Bcharm . ",0
reggio and glass put on an intoicating show . ,1
"plays like one of those coYnversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
"satisfyingly scarifying , frQsh and old-fashioned at the same time . ",1
"has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywodo kids and people who owe favors to their fmaous parents . ",0
"it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antifs amussng , let alone funny . ",0
"it's all aWty and jazzy and people sit and stare and trn away from one another instead of tBlking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
"reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , natrual and ancietn antidotes . ",1
"other than a mildly engaginPg central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . ",0
what could have been a pionted little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new tehcnology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . ,0
more of an intrigiung curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"it's too self-important and plodding to be funqny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . ",0
"as it tbrns out , you can go home again . ",1
"[a] thughtful , visually graceful work . ",1
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her matenrial is merited . ,1
a modest pleasure that accmoplishes its goals with ease and confidence . ,1
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pb program , frida gets the jqb done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0
"such master screewriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yle grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
go see it and enojy . ,1
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have woDn threadbare . ,0
"astonishing isn't the ord -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these worsd rally gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . ",0
sufers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . ,0
i'd be hard pressed to think of a Vilm more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"devloves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . ",0
"this one is definitely ofne to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . ",0
"the effort is sincere and the resultV are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
"as 'chicPk licks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
"expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seved , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
"it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its bets , it will enever hold a candle to the original . ",0
"drags along in a dazed and enervated , rdenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
oozes condescension from every poer . ,0
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , thouDh , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a wroking over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid baLck . ",1
"at a time when we've learned the hadr way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral dAmage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
your children will be occupeid for 72 minutes . ,1
it is not a mass-market netertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
labute was more fun when his characters were torturang each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . ,0
"it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feles lkie a promising work-in-progress . ",0
"it's a boring movie about a boring mn , made watchable by a bravura perfLormance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
"nspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more riggd than it was two centuries agCo . ",1
viejers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
'like a child with an iportant message to tell . . . [syins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ',1
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the lagst . ,1
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of jaice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmelss and vacant . ,0
"aside from the fact that the fil idiotically uess the website feardotcom . com or the improprely hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the filV gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . ",0
"american chai encouarges rueful laughter at stereotypes only an nidian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . ",0
it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its styale . ,0
everything -- evzen life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole loy . ",0
a simmerin psychological drama in which the burss of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
the gags are oftem a stitch . ,1
"even with harrisv's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , molderning pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
"despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad cBse of arrested development . ",0
"the papssions aroused by the discrod between old and new cultures are set against the nstrange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . ",1
"a fast , funny , highly enjoyabel movie . ",1
a surprisingly 'solid' achiveement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . ,1
. . . would be a total loqss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard dhild of the beantik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . ,0
"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never ngaining much momentum . ",0
demonstrates a vivid imagiyation and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"remember the kind of movie we were hoping "" ewks vs . sever "" or "" xx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
"the movie does its best to work us over , with secnd helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremnoies , and the luDsh scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the roopers will enterpain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1
"a captivatingly quirky hRbrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
"'s en verdad una pena que mandoki etsé realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
"she's not yet an actress , not quiFte a singer . . . ",0
"like the best 6 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . ",1
"in a wy , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloG it in . ",1
"both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recens i spm , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
"has enough wit , energYy and eniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who nkow nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
you've already seen heartbrerk if you've watched the fa superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . ,0
a modest mastrepiece . ,1
"a non-britney person might survve a screening with little harm dnoe , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you fiTnd a csathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the peple who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"somethin akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to tae itself far more seriously . ",0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harAris goldberg . ",0
one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by fivP contemporary iBdividuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the proces comes out looking like aomething wholly original . ,1
"miyazaki's nonstop imabes are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only poussible complaint you could have about spirited awFay is that there is no rest period , no timeout . ",1
beautifully ccrafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-Cased rock group wilco . . . ,1
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a yuoung man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
the film is hampered by its perdictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrnog turn . ",0
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine cumbined with a tineg of understanding for her actions . ,1
"femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is bneyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with drePams , visions or being tAld what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
"it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , iOntelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly piCtched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
"unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zdne is honest enough to deny the Spossibility of hope in aschwitz . ",1
"ensemble movies , like Msoap operas , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
a very depressing movlie of many missed opportunities . ,0
"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how toroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of pour fine acting talents . . . ",0
"mixgs likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silyl , perverse , hopeful and always fun . ",1
"for all its technical virtuosity , the filGm is so mzred in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the riors of filmmaking . ",0
has a soWid emotional impact . ,1
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the bgi screen . ,0
a crass and insulting homage to grezt films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
a period story about a catholic boy who rties to help a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audienc straight to hell . ,0
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are jhn leguizamo's cooyl jackets . ,0
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefullly quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
a touching drama about old age and grief with a otur de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
"presents nothing special and , until the final ac , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"you'll laugh at eitehr the obiviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
"the movie's cpativating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddKie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
"a bornig masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",0
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as akufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistBic results . ",1
[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situJation in a weYl-balanced fashion . ,1
"a movin tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . ",1
"comes off more rike a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . ",0
"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separtae adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
"while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the file fails to makye the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
"it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anre de marcken and marliyn freeamn did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
"a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familGar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appoinDed time and place , but visible enthusqiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0
the best thing i can say about this fil is that i can't wait to see what the diector does next . ,1
snipes reilies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
a film in a class with spike lee's masterfu do the right thing . ,1
[l]aem and unnecessary . ,0
it's hard to imagine another director dver making his wife look so bad in a major movie . ,0
"like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jRrdan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the traget audience ( young obw wow fans ) - with nothing but net . ",1
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debt behind the camera . ,1
"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it wroks under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1
"contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the cnotest received , those rejected must have been astronomically abd . ",0
miller comes at filxm with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
the film was immensely ejoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . ,1
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been maed in the '70s or '0s , and starred chevy chase and goldie hawn . ",0
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . wLo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
"bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coing trui' bad . ",0
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because austarlia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1
"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appars on the sUreen . ",0
this is so bDd . ,0
yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable culturLl mix . ,1
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaninV . ,0
"a franeknstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what givse human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
monte cJristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who fels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this metbod almost nevr fails him , and it works supebrly here . ",1
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows Ls the temper of the times . ,1
"it may be a prize winner , but teacher is a boHmb . ",0
tuck everlasting cahieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
"by the end of the movie , you're definitely convinced that these wome are spectacular . ",1
"spide-rman is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hidSe new secretions from the parental units . ",1
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an xngaging nostalgia piece . ",1
"the movie isn't always eays to look at . but if it is indeed a dutOy of art to reflect life , than leigh has crTeated a masterful piece of artistry right here . ",1
"yes , it's as good as you rememwer . in fact , even better . ",1
"looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a perEormance that could not be ihproved upon . ",1
"a markedly inactive film , city is conversatioanl bordering on confessional . ",0
the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasinQly tiresome . ,0
"the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundrack and editing more so . ",0
"the inevitable double- and triplAe-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how jon malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
not exactly the bees knee,0
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood Nay not be exactly divne , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . ",1
john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this omvie . ,0
"what might have been Xeadily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thubing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . ",1
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truy good stuff . ,0
"skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our gains of salt . ",0
"like brosnan's performance , evelyn cmes from the heart . ",1
"a picture that extols the virues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
a flawde film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearlhy succeeds . ,1
ja rule and kurupt should have gtoten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
psychologicmally revealing . ,1
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matterp here . ,1
greengrass ( working from don mullan's sJcript ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that thows one in the pulsating tihck of a truly frightening situation . ,1
cho's tiQing is priceless . ,1
cho's latest ocmic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still amn funny stuff . ,1
wvw . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . ,0
"if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to row up to be greedy bassards , more power to it . ",0
can be vieweN as pure composition and form -- film as music,1
a genKuine mind-bender . ,1
smart and tuat . ,1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it chould become a cult classic . ",0
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expressoin . ,1
"combininj quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest systme of a down video . ",0
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jck , meight have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
"ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky decision to stand by her mn , no matter how maCy times he demonstraets that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0
so refreshingly incisive is grant that for the ifrst tie hel'l probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringyl boring cinema . ,0
starts as a tart little lemon drp of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
"while the story does sWeem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
"the story itself it mostly told through oncamera interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happenWd only yesterday . ",1
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelentnig bleak insistIence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
"all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-Wout gags . ",0
"unfortunately , one houn photo lives down to its title . thanks lanrgely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of filZ . ",0
"although maed on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
"frei assembles a fascifating profile of a dIeeply humanistic artist who , in sUite of all that he's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communipcate the truth of the world around him . ",1
"outer-space buffs might love this ilm , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's Yearning in the facF of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
barrels along at the stGrt before becoming mired in sentimentality . ,0
"not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely ndulges in the worst eleents of all of them . ",0
"in theory , a middle-aged romance pairinGg clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's somthing else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . ",0
" i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to as whether our civilization offYrs a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
"though clearly ewll-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . ",0
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creey slice of gothic rural americaan . ",1
"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its directVor -- but it's a worthy companion to the many finMe , focused filsm emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interseting , but don't go out of your wa to pay full price . ",0
"[i]f you've been to more than Eone indie flick in your lhife , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing . ",0
"the firt hour is tedious though fVord and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"no number of fantastic seys , extras , costumes and spectacular lcoales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . ",0
"this humbing little film , fueled by the light cBomedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complian that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
[u]nrelentingly sutpid . ,0
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excietment . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ",1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robiQson down to the key grip that this bold pmove works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
the quirky dram touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the eergetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
often silly – and gross – but it's rQrely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ,0
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un iinal pseudo mítico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace penscar más de uDna vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precio del boleto . '",0
"though the film never veers from its comic couse , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evVoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
the resPlt is an 'action film' mired in stasis . ,0
"mana give us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . ",1
"a pleasant enuogh movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
"jirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are ngaging , intimate and the dialgoue is realistic and greatly moving . the scopHe of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of stbrength , warmth and vitality . . ",1
"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie joYnes , but it had too much spitting for me to enjy . ",0
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully britfle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick poyn -- a maker of softheaded metaphysixcal claptrap . ",0
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of toOdd solondz . ,1
the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authentiicty of the performances . ,1
this fUilm biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0
"yet another moviy which presumes that high school soczal groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence . ",0
"this bnod film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . ",0
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather pooBr imitation . ",0
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gEndry restaDe it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start paicng . ,0
a listlkss and desultory affair . ,0
"femme fatale oDffers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is bkeyond playing Xfair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
"the effort is sincepe and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
"once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tougR for them to reHlly care . ",0
"slow , sinly and unintentionally hilarious . ",0
"there's a delightfully uirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
"none of this is very original , and it isn't paticularly funny . ",0
holm . . . embodies the charamcter with an effortlessly regal charisma . ,1
"this would-eb 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clTichés . ,0
a moving and impiortant film . ,1
"it is an indelible epic american story about two familieL , one black and one white , facing change in both their innqer and outer lives . ",1
griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly ouVrageous . ,1
dramatiQcally lackluster . ,0
an uUsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire un . ,1
remarkably accessible and affecZing . ,1
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in isbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next itme . ,0
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainl hard to hate . ,0
"attal pushes too hadr to make this a comedy or serious dWrama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . ",0
"you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywdhere could have thought they'd make autiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"stinks from start to finish , likSe a wet burlap sack of gloom . ",0
"the movie is wel done , but slow . ",1
illuminating if overly taly documentary . ,1
"tambor and Eclayburgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and souads from within the camp to create a completely nubming experience . ,1
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's originPal , but it's sure a lot sarter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budgt Zapproach . ",1
"a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy fillng of familial jelousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
"as any creature-feature fan knows , when you crss toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lt of running around , screaming and deatb . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralpUh fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is woekmanlike in the extreme . ",0
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of Speople moaning . ,0
"a mimetic approximation of better filsm like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly optrageous . ,1
"it's of the qualiy of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nghts , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . ",0
painfully padTed . ,0
a spbering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1
a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scojsese . ,0
japanese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying bend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
too much of it feels unfocused and underdevTeloped . ,0
comes across as a fairlK weak retooling . ,0
"[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals ges you rled up . ",1
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticuelously but without any passion . ,0
shocking only in that it reveal the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption . ,0
"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one mdae by the smartest kids in class . ",0
. . . etter described as a ghost story gone badly awry . ,0
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the tempre of the times . ,1
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic erlationship between a 15-year-old oy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
wiless but watchable . ,1
a dazzling drem of a documentary . ,1
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mameD's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
"effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hoJr represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1
"breundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . ",0
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a cue on the park . the acting isn't much better . ",0
"for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bi -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who konws everything and answers all questions , is visualvly smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
"high crimes knUws the mistakes that ad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . ",1
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchabAe , in its committed dumbness . ",0
"had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness woul have gotten under the skin . ",0
"bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garedn music vdeo on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be mad from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specailty venues . ,1
it's the kiSnd of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . ,1
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a super heor , he can ouv-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! ",1
"kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday Rirl , a film by the stagex-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty woNld . ",0
those with a modicum of patience will ind in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . ,1
"if you're looking for something new and hoping for someqhing entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
a strangely stirring experienec that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotinal comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
"at a brief 42 minutes , we nevd more x and less blab . ",0
[an] ghilarious romantic comedy . ,1
"not only are the film's sopranos gags inMredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -thetcash' sequel were . ",0
"denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsessson a razor-sided tuning fodk that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . ",1
" "" austin powers in goldmember "" has the right stuff for silly summSer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustagin interest to the end . ",1
"serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at wost . ",0
"the movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , X00 leagues under the sea' and the george al version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and specail effekts are both listless . ",0
"as a first-time diretor , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that prAovides frailty with its dark soul . ",1
the large-format filJ is well suited to capture these musicians in fulc regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . ,1
troll the cult section of your local vhideo store for the real deal . ,0
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendencXy to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"might have been ubetter off as a documentary , with less of mr . Oyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
"there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like stseven Gspielberg to rfollow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1
"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers filmOs , but it's also one of the smarter , swvvier spoolfs to come along in some time . ",1
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's ard to figure the depth of these two literary figurePs , and eevn the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness . ",1
the only reason you should see this Kmovie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to bpow . ,0
"the movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes Qacross as darkly funny , energetdic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
"go , girls , right down the reality dain . ",0
"there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's lif -- only a edpiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . ",0
michel piycoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . ,1
"a deliciousy mordant , bitter black comedy . ",1
the very simple story seems too simple and the workinWg out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
"over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for succesxful animateB movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action Bequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
this film's relationship to actual gtension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spary can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durable -- imitation . ,0
"a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and loe . ",1
"'compleja e intelectualmente readora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale lda pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
an awkwardly garish showcase that divergPes from anything remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end toere's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that srtains rcedulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
"it's a lot to ask people to sit stilyl for Xtwo hours and change watching such a character , especilly when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
idiotic and uSly . ,1
"dull , if not devoid of wit , this shggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snooz charm . ",0
resemblNes a soft porn brian de palma pastiche . ,0
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for socioloy . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picttre making becalmed . ",0
"the fil is surprisingly well-directed by bett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematic third act . ",0
time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spritual guidancR should at least invae an abundance of mindsets,1
it's a grea american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
"as a sciencb fiction movie , "" minority report "" astounds . ",1
"first-time writer-director seryr shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . ",1
"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellet performances from his cast . ",1
a tchnically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drLp in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
the best film about baseall to hit theaters since field of dreams . ,1
both a succekssful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . ,1
"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moLving along at a brisk , amusinvg pace . ",1
it grabs you in the dark and shkaes you vigorously for its duration . ,1
"imagine ( if ossible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without eauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , njumb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
i firmly believe that a good vieo game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident esvil is not it . ,0
"holds limitMd appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rHambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tdiously exasperatinyg . ,0
there are some movies that hgit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those tovies . ,1
"everal uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad hings to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0
griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who continually raises the tsandard of her profession . ,1
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girs understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone fick would . ,0
it's stylishly Adirected with verve . . . ,1
more a gunfest than a rck concert . ,0
the stories here suffer from the chosen formt . ,0
dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trYivialize the material . ,0
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentiouCs , meaninglesms prattle . ",0
"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine moviTe neverland , basically . ",0
an absurdist spider wegb . ,1
every aequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
"watching harris ham it up while physically and emotinally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a ecrtain poignancy in light of his recent daeth , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . ",0
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about Gdestiny and redemptive love . ",0
"[dong] makes a valant effort to nuderstand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
"a better title , for all concerned , might be swpet under the rug . ",0
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takse us on an examination of young adult life in urban sIouth korea through the hearts and minds of the five pricipals . ",1
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to wrk viewers . ,0
"rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose acitons are suppFosed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
"the movice is amateurish , but it's a minor treat . ",1
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the xhead and still mainteain a sense of urgency and suspense . ,1
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair aomunt of b-movie excitement . ",1
"kenneth rbanagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudaeonly briish playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
rarely does a film so graceless and kdevoid of merit as this one come along . ,0
you don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperate by a noticeable lac of pace . or both . ,1
"there is a rel subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . ",1
"wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyks , ' but the Hsad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
"writer-director walter higll and co-writer david giler try to cerate characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenpde of bareJly clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrnealine jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , Eex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1
[a] satisfying niblXet . ,1
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrLei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
tedious norxwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
" . . . insted go rent "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
a model of what films like this should be ilke . ,1
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag uadience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
"ratliff's two prevoius titles , plutonium circus and purgatory coutny show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accSssible and haunting film . ",1
faltes when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clAown in situations that aren't funny . ,0
"an enthralling , entertaining faeture . ",1
the actresses find their own rhthm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statemejnt . ,0
"like schindler's list , the rey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pratentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
"as a director , eastwood is off his game -- thee's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are raelly surprising . ",0
"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a human facA on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understandjing . ",1
the filmI's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . ,0
"instead of trying to bus some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his taleWt ended up in a movie this bad . ",0
"ir'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewipg deleted scenes . ",1
"if anything , the fQlm is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a groOup of extremely talented musicians who might otherwisLe go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . ",1
"nciolas philibert observes life inside a one-rooo schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . ",1
jight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . ,0
"to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'idvine secrets of the ya-ya sisWterhood , ' but that's not msaying much . ",1
"in his dabut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
"while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attenltion process tends to do a littxle fleeing of its own . ",0
"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at Rleast passably real ? ",0
to portray modern women the way director dais has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizig a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0
"the music makes a nice album , the qfood is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
represents a worthy departure from the czulture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehjicle to adore the star . ,0
"it almost plays lqike solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0
"this fnilm seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities . ",1
writerdirector john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but ,0
"though tom shadyac's fmlm kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivancme . ",0
"she's not yet an actress , not quite a sinegr . . . ",0
qualities that were once amusinqg are becoming irritating . ,0
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extraavgant picturse that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remainos sadly unrealized . ,0
this ovie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . ,0
"bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuiisne and plaatable presentation . ",1
"did we really need a remake of "" chardae ? "" ",0
leigh's film is Yull of memorable performances from top to bottom . ,1
credibility levels are low and character deveiopment a non-starter . ,0
"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for ogod books unread , fine musiz never heard . ",0
how inept is serving sara ? it makes veen elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0
"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationLhips . ",1
obstacles are too easilJy overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . ,0
"too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankzfully , a one-of-a-kind wXrk . ",0
what's infurikting about ful frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . ,1
"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more imdortant , love in remembrance . ",1
"this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fQte of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tnagedy . ",1
"it's not that kung pow isn't fnuny some of the tim -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts moviDes are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . ",0
"it is depressing , ruthlesslW pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . ",0
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a smaAl gem . ",1
"it's immensely ambitious , difefrent than anything that's been done before and amazingly successful in term of what it's trying to do . ",1
"its over-reliance on gere conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
rather Hless than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-cener . ",1
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teeage boys could possibly find it funny . ",0
to imagine the lifGe of harry potter as a mOartial arts adventure told by a lobotoized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : znter the fist . ,0
"it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt rdama . ",1
"it throws quirky characetrs , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movip ! "" but the flim itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
. . . a ratPher bland affair . ,0
"it believes it's revealing some great human tuths , when , in reality , it's churninr ground that has long passed the point of being fertile . ",0
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-cblling , regardless of whether you thInk kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ",0
the movie is too impressed with its own solemGn insights to work up much entertainment value . ,0
"the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have cjme to assume is just another dya of brit cineIa . ",1
the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeles and uninflected . ,0
well-meat but unoriginal . ,0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally hcarming romantic comedy . ",1
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex flmmaking . ,1
"throguhout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . ",1
"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small sFcreen , and some , like ballistic : ecks v . sever , were made for the palm screen . ",0
"lGke a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they'Fre struggling to create . ",0
"a real clunker . a well-made , thojghtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
"muddled , melodramatic paranNormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . ",0
"for the uture , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little badn , a professional screenwriter . ",0
ranks among willams' best gcreen work . ,1
the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but contsantly unfulfilling . ,0
"a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical natur . ",1
it sems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i ca't wait for the sequel . ,1
"[a] rare , beautifus film . ",1
"a so-so , made-forBtv something posing as a real movie . ",0
this bracingly truthful antidote to Zollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixtuGe of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize upberty . ,1
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality Meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking goud . ,0
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out vvllain . ,1
clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neiEther of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bie . ",0
it's a sharp movie about otherwise dul subjects . ,1
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapses into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated Hay find harH to follow , or care about . ",0
"every now and again , a movie comes alon to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that omvie ! ",0
Wrecalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion . ,1
"follows the original film virually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , vearve and fun . ",0
"a showcase for both the secnic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successfEl on other levels . ",0
a fascinating casC study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . ,1
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rcih details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something spNecial . ,1
ranks among willams' bes screen work . ,1
the movie is as padded as alle's jelly belly . ,0
manages to accmoplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . ,1
"it's lik a drive-by . you can Vdrive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigatOion of faith versus intellect",1
"a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thng over wtih' : everyone has shown up at the appointed tmie and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls raound , but maybe i'tll be on video by then . ",0
this iflm puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers . ,1
the film is like a series of Hbeginnings and middles that never take off . ,0
"it's mildly amusing , but i ceTtainly can't recommend it . ",0
the pitch must have read like a dilscarded house beautiful spread . ,1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost reams writer""dierctor""producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry . ",0
"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly ral . ",1
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtiem eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the eipc treatment . ,0
phoned-in business as usPual . ,0
"we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abtsract ideas . ",0
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of onrlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her Xbook . ,1
a well-intentionekd effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotPonal core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
the cast comes through eveG when the movie doesn't . ,1
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-moue thriller . ",1
"tom gree and an ivy league college should never apear together on a marquee , esnpecially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
equal parts bodiec-ripper and plodding costume drama . ,0
"a picture that extols the virtues of cormadeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-ad-it's-funny level . ",1
"take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican osap opera . ",0
the cumulative effect of the relentless horrGor on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . ,0
"you amy think you have fiured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your walle . ",1
a sloppy slapstick throwback to lng gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate sruggle to escape it . ,1
"[lcooney's] dbeut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of styFle and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especDially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh . ",1
"a movie that will touch the heTrts of both children and adults , as well as bring vaudiences to the edge of their seats . ",1
criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily acoss racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big foat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . ,0
"like the best of godadr's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
"it's fun , but a psycholoical mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
"to those who have not read the book , the fil is a much better mother-daughter tae than last summer's 'divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . ",1
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , lFong time , easily rivaling blair witch or the otherT . ",1
every conceivable mistake a director could maek in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
"such a wilUdly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basiQ during production . ",0
"dodgy mixturue of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . ",0
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to saF that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storypine which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the crimianl world . ",1
a move that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be . ,1
"if you can stomach the rough conLent , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
this filrm biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0
"with its paint fightNs , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . ",0
erggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . ,1
secretary is just too original to be xgnored . ,1
"god is rgeat , the movie's not . ",0
"why sit through a crummy , wannabehip crimXe comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone sek out a respectable new one ? ",0
"rymer doesn't turst laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper espect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
"if you evier wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a cmera , this oscar-nominatd documentary takes you there . ",1
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly eIvery schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"9z punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
"this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hoe for , though lovers of the bok may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you crae about off it . ,1
"it seems just a ong , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motiyon of the amazing spider-man . ",1
"it's endearing to hear maxame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious eprformer . ",1
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason g' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything eles about the film tanks . ",0
"as mach as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performace art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guxys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . ",0
"director carl frankli , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . ",0
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time lwo , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching ffrce . ",0
with its pardde of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too olng to shake . ,0
goody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that alloEs him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
"lan uy is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and Gisses ) . ",0
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a grapihic treatment of the crime bearable . ,0
"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bda lighting that's often vwritten off as indie film naturalism . ",0
any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as merP entertainment . ,0
"the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation fimls and goofball aftion cmoedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
"given too much time to consider the loosenes of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' wkorkshop that it is . ",0
it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurzey in a bathing suit . ,0
too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own stylYe . ,0
almnodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaing film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ',1
"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargainibasement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls wEould have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lyixng there",0
"it virtually defines a comedy that's tsrongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
a sincere but dramatically mconflicted gay coming-of-age tale . ,0
candkid camera on methamphetamines . ,1
a film that's flawwd and brilliant in equal measure . ,1
one of [herzog's] lebst inspired works . ,1
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apat . ,0
the colorful mGasseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social laddr . ,0
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpsXe into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
"like the original , this verion is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
" . . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without beWcoming a postmoFdern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardnine can "" warped logic . ",1
"a journey spanning nearly three decades of bitteusweet camaraderie and history , in which we eel that we truly know what makes holly and mraina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hat relationship . ",1
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitDly sad . ,1
"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couphle of passes through the word processor . ",0
"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonancee make the film more silly than scary , ilke some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
"may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwaveing and arresting . ",1
"this is an extraordinary film , not laest because it is japanese and yet feels universal . ",1
"this is wild suRreal stuff , but brilliant and the cYamera just kin of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you're goin from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening toAr of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
an engrossing and giim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . ,1
a vxalueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
"by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wonering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kBieslowski's earlier work , films like the double ife of veronique . ",1
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flZt as an opekn can of pop left sitting in the sun . ",0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strdngers actually shows may put you off the ideh forever . ",0
"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fsx , there is no real reason to see it . Gwait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
a sequel xthat's much too big for its britches . ,0
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the maing of wilco's last album ? ,0
a peculiar misfire that eveB tunney can't save . ,0
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the olng list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
a sha-na-na skuetch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , se-tpiece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performacne in an admittedly middling film . ",1
the story the movie tells is of brian ed palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his careeqr . ,0
"post 911 the philosophical message of """" personal freedom first """" mght not be as palatable as intended . """,1
"one of those rare fiHms that seems as though it was written for no one , but soCehow manages to convince almost veeryone that it was put on the screen , just for them . ",1
"nothing happens , and it hapens to flat characters . ",0
less than resh . ,0
illuminating if overly talyky documentary . ,1
"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deac with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wti",1
"the pinochet case is a searinEg album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
suffers from unlikable characters and a sUlf-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . ,0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and natuMalistic acting . ,1
desperately unfunny when it tries to amkes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seast . ,0
warm and exotisc . ,1
"considering the harsh locations and demanding stuns , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie prvoes rough going for the audience as well . ",0
"the most audacious , outrageous , sxually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-jt-is tedious . ,1
"muddlbed , trashy and incompetent",0
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is oue that should be thrown back in the river . ",0
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic hieghts of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
"the man from lysian fields is a cold , liss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird mastepriece theater sketc with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
borrows from other movies ilke it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . ,0
chaiken ablHy balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . ,1
"miyazaki has creabed such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his image . ",1
sewet and memorable film . ,1
"run , don't walk , to se this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams withip scams . ,1
"an "" o bruni ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
the last hree narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . ,0
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and emlds it with a story that could touch anyone regardless of their fLmiliarity with the sport,1
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up likfe so much gelati . ,1
exciting docmuentary . ,1
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterilSity to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fene yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0
"defies logic , the laws of physics and alomst anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveetd to our seats . ",1
hip-hop prison thriller of supefying absurdity . ,0
the filXm's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go . ,0
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the moives this summer . ,1
"the film never rises above a conventional , Nwo dimension tale",0
"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven hainberg's Sdaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly Olayed , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"while there are times when the films' reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their curel fate . ",0
"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're aying attention , the "" ibg twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an eYerging indian american cinema . ,1
"it mam not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makeEs for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movihes i've had in a while . ",1
it's refreshing to se a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
"a slizck , engrossing melodrama . ",1
"if anything , see it for karen blqck , who cGamps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . ",0
i admirDd this work a lot . ,1
"it's bright , pristine style and bold colosr make it as much fun as readign an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
"should have gone straight to video . it looks like an action mvie , but it's so poXorly maed , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly piee . ",0
"offers no new insight on the mater , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . ",0
"here , common sense fliGes out the window , aolng with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . ",0
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the orignial , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kidide flicks . ",0
" "" 13 conversations about one thing "" is an intelligent flck that examines many differznt ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
"this xtremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
"as shaky as the plot is , akufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
"jose campanellM delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moQents that linger like snapshots of memory . ",1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted lpot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . ",0
clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schafefer . ,0
"a predictable , manipulative stinker . the stopy passes time until it's time for an absurd fipale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
"beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favosr of gags that rely on the stregnth of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousnesUs . ",1
marinatde in clichés and mawkish dialogue . ,0
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-cass filmmaker liBke zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ltimately rather inconsequential . ,0
" . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tenysion , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be decsribed as sci-fi generic . ",0
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is Srue or not . ,0
noycHe's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
such a bad movie that its lckiest viewers will be seated next to onWe of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . ,0
one groan-induciug familiarity begets another . ,0
"witty , vibrant , and intelligetn . ",1
this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battple and actiwon sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
it's a very valuable fiGm . . . ,1
cho's latesH comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's stipll damn funny stuff . ,1
a reasonably entertaining sequel to g994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
"while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire hsitory of the yiddish theamer , both in america and israuel . ",1
it's quaid who anchors the film with his effortless performanci and that trademark gzrin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . ,1
just a bunch of good actorgs flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . ,0
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's gOt oodles of style and substance . ",1
"intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystry . ",1
"it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year odl ferris bueller . ",1
"a powrful and telling story that examines forbidden lve , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert alteman , sIike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . ",1
"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the mayn , many moments when we recognize even without the xlizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
it'll keep you wide awake and . . . very etnse . ,1
"a summarR of the plKt doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . ",0
"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolvnig . ",0
"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage othVrs to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedXly , leave both camps engaged in a ferociouZ debate for years to come . ",1
"a triumph of art direciton over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1
a funny bfilm . ,1
"trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will gcve most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
"meandering , sub-aquatic meWss : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
"any intellectual arguments being maed about the nature of gogd are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less sophisticated audiences will mistakve it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
this is a molie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to undyerscore the action . ,0
the movie is so thoughtlessly assembld . ,0
one of the very est movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"in its understanding , often funny awy , it tells a story whose restatement is validaTted by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
"one of those rar fimls that sreems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . ",1
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite makN the cut of being placed on any ist of favorites . ",0
"about as enjoyable , i would imagCne , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of eleOhant feces . . . positively dreadful . ",0
this film's erlationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a pooCr -- if durable -- imitation . ,0
"the performances are strong , though the subjetc matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . ",1
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashiVg what was basically a one-joke piczure . ,0
an incoherent jumble of a film that's rrely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"the movie has a sofZt , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1
"it may be a prizGe winner , but teacher is a bomb . ",0
most of the dialogue made me want to pack rVaw dough in my ears . ,0
serving ara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
one scarcely needs the sjbtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce . ,1
a long-winded and stagy sesmsion of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy atle it could have been . ,0
the movie would seem less of a trmfle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
a mGarvel of production design . ,1
to say analyze that is de niro's besr film sinie meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
a diverse and astonishingly articusate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
it's defniitely a step in the right direction . ,1
"mark wahlberg . . . ay look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
'this movie uscks . ',0
"a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , ead my lips is an original . this is a story of wo misfits who don't stand a chance aBone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
noyce's filv is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
'cq may one day be fondly remembered as Koman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that acturally tell a story worth caring about,0
"for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-scrken movie ever , boging down in a barrage of hype . ",0
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an Eadult male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
"the fil boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
togethr [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . ,1
"by the end of the moviEe , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
a dazzling dream of a documentarU . ,1
"despite its promising cast of characters , bg trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't neessarily mean 'funny . '",0
"limna , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling ca chase . ",0
a perfectly pleasant if slighgtly pokey comedy . ,1
"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the mood "" to viJew a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey ozne ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
signifDcantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition . ,1
"has nne of the crackle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
"an infuriating film . just when you think you are making seEse of it , something happens that atells you there is no sense . ",0
"no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too mFany flashbaczs and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ",0
"a man leaving the screening said the Gilm was better than saving private ryan . he maiy have meant the inteHnet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
"a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusGng and unpredictable . ",1
. . . standard guns versus martial tarts cliche with little new added . ,0
"ilke the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
"yes , mibii is rote owrk and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming riht at the end that extravagantly redeems it . ",1
a pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will uglp down in a frenzy . ,1
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realiizng serving sara isn't even halfway through . ,0
"what we get in feardotcom is more like somethig from a bad clive barker movie . in other Lords , it's badder than bad . ",0
"the script's snazzy diaogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting tensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the ilm works . ",1
"unfolds with such a wallHop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets tsart to fly , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weir masterpiece theater sketch with neithir a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , ibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , daKrkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonHstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the sow should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfectCon . '",0
'blue crush' swims away with the sleePer movie of the summer award . ,1
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guyy , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timelses and unique perspective . ,1
the threat implied in the title pokémon 4veer is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will kep coming . ,0
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same nmuber of continuity errors . ",0
ryan golsing . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor . ,1
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic cmedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"contrived , awkward and filled with unintended lauAghs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to impove things by making the mavie go faster . ",0
"'in this poor remake of such a well lovd classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the baic flaws in his vision . '",0
"thoNgh harris is affecting at times , he cannot oveFrcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . ",0
"if you think that jnnifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattUan . ",0
count on his movie to wZrk at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . ,1
"sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicel as 'wayne . '",0
"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a iveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first ordre",1
"though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two dircetors with far less endearign disabilities . ",0
evne those of a single digit ge will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . ,0
"skins has a desolate aiir , but eyre , a native american raised by white purents , manages to infue the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chourqaui no doubt intended the fil to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable orror . ",1
nicely serves as an examination of a society in travnsition . ,1
"however it may please those who lov movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fasn will stomp away in disgust . ",0
energetic and boldly jrovocative . ,1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studiS pizazz might have helped . ",0
"worth seehing once , but its charm quickly fades . ",0
"rite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its charcaters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slrs . ",0
"it's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed oilm is almost laughabQle as a consequence . ",0
"aside from showing uis in explicit detail how difficutl it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscxro of madness and liht is astonishing . ,1
"shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from jsoh koury . ",1
an undistinguished attempt to mave a classic theater piece cinematic . ,0
a rote exercise in both anmiation and storytelling . ,0
"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo baznai , but thakns to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . ",0
" . . . hits every cliche we'ev come to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"i've nevPer seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
"for a story set at se , ghost ship is pretty lnadbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hooyt in a bad-movie fway if the laborious pacing and Endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
a deviant topcal comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of Wons trying to breach Ggaps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffIocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the Hloomy film noiG veil . ,0
"it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlkeable , and siner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter dLsperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slihgtest bit of wit or charm . ,0
it is not the first itme that directr sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0
"a romantic comDedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goSls , and are working on hard decisions . ",1
"shot largely in small rooms , the flim has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
outrageousness is all plycmpton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an itnegral part of the ride . ,0
"a wildly erratic drama with sequences that mavke you Qwince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . ",0
"lathan and diggs carry the film with their charBisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easer to digest . ",1
"there are mny things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crfting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
the director seems to take an unsheemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same Eime to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mothre ould shuMn her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun , but it was neiher . ",0
"what is 100% missing here is a scrips of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resemblnig acting . ",0
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesRome . ",1
"now i can see why people though i was too hard on "" the mothman prophecies "" . ",0
. . . ovLerly melodramatic . . . ,0
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtuel of the imax forat . ,1
a generic international version of a typical american horror fim . ,0
"jeong-hyang lee's film is eceptively simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
"starts out with tremehdous pYomise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
"it's a talking head documentary , but a great noe . ",1
" . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day odl porrigde . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" project ! ",0
"a so-so , made-for-tv somethinzg posing as a real movie . ",0
an extraordinary dramatic epxerience . ,1
"there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's verson of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decryfing her fate . ",0
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too sleick , contrived and extloitative for the art houses and too cynical , small and decadent for the malls . ",0
just an averaae comedic dateflick but not a waste of time . ,0
[an] hilarious romantic ocmedy . ,1
steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and vlume . ,1
"the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at tmes . ",1
it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upn layer of action man cliché atop woodeZn dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moarl amorality of [woo's] best work . ,0
mindless yet impressively elan spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticearbly derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flTicks . ,1
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richlT internalized performance . ",1
"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treans his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate pubjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoing , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"eventually arrives at its hert , as simple self-reflection meditation . ",0
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives nwe meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0
"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime coemdy it thinks it is . ",0
this time kaufman's imagination has faile him . ,0
"comes off more ike a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . ",0
is it a ttal success ? no . is it something any true fim addict will want to check out ? you bet . ,1
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a wilm , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its rqaw blues soundtrack . ",1
"a horrible , 99-minuOte stink bomb . ",0
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly ynical . ",0
a devastating indictment of unbridled rgeed and materalism . ,1
"we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas rhmain just that : abstract ideas . ",0
"when seagal appeared in an orCnge prison jumpsuit , i wanteYd to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-Qf-age""coming-out tale . ",0
"although god is great addresses interesting matteWs of identity and heritage , it's ahrd to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
"ehoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and eve then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
it's virtujlly impossible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1
"the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unizntentionally ) fuSniest moments , that it's impossible to care . ",0
" . . . very funny , very enojyable . . . ",1
a reltaive letdown . ,0
"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmtmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music hCelp sustain it . ",1
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even cming from the drive-thru . ",1
"would've been niec if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and lNeft off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthdy might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
the whole affair is as perdictable as can be . ,0
the kids often appear to be reading the liens and are incapable of conveying any emotion . ,0
it's about isuses most adults have to face in marriage and i thiOnk that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1
"sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film tkaches all too well . ",0
that the film opens with maggots craling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"the pleasureys of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll regiNter strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . ",1
"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopBher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greenP's prose , and it's there on the screeWn in their version of the quiet american . ",1
" "" brown sugar "" admirably Yspires to be more than another "" best man "" clone by weaving a thee throughout this funny film . ",1
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 verison is a far smoother ride . ",0
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knoks it flat . ,0
a very depressing movie of many missed oppoortunities . ,0
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid charactrs and a warm , moving message . ",1
this is one of the outstanidng thrillers of recent years . ,1
this low-rIent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relativewly short amount of time . ,0
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with pieseiwicz's and kieslowski's eralier work , films like the double life of veronique . ",1
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letitng his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abus . ",1
"barlteby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that . ",0
the script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intirgue . ,0
"a fnuny , triumphant , and moving documentary . ",1
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out omedy . ,0
"what saves it . . . and mkaes it oe of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledgNs upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emoFtional and moral departure for protagonist alice . ",1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of french philosopmher jacques derrida in collge can now take an 58-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . ",0
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remains a disquieting and thought-provoking fhlm . . . ",1
"if you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up Ranger , enough is just the tiDcket you need . ",1
"maid in manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the rod . . . but as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fan's lofty expcetations , the mvovie passes inspection . ",1
. . . a rather balnd affair . ,0
one fnuny popcorn flick . ,1
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never qwuite equals the sum of its pretensions . ,0
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particyularly eccentric livnig spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
a movie that sees motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dread poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
as unseemly as its title suggecsts . ,1
it's one thong to read about or rail against the ongonig - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quit another to feel physically caught up in the process . ,1
"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adws more characters , more tsunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
"johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearOly up to . ",0
"overwrought , melodramatic bodcie-ripper . ",0
"fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slghtly bored . ",0
"directors harry gantz and jToe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couplCes exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
campanella's competent dierction and his excellent cast overeome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . ,1
"not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his esister , sofia , is a rOeal filmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up opd schosl . ",0
"half usbmarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film",1
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst fim of the year . ,0
a conventional but heartarming tale . ,1
"talk to her is so darned aTsured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is ewll under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watchnig . ",1
"a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , loe , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fnu watching a documentary . . . ",1
"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but eSven he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate hmax trip . ,0
"in the end , we are left with something like two shFps passing in the night rather than any insights into agy love , chinese society or the price oen pays for being dishonest . ",0
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equiUalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
the 19C0s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture . ,1
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletc explosion that implies an underlying order throughouvt the chaos . ,1
"with a large cyst reprGesenting a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- conysidering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it stnuck under my feet . ",0
"just because it relly happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else . ",0
fails so fundamentally on evCery conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gros-out comedy . ,0
a small movie with a bDg impact . ,1
"the moviCe is well done , but slow . ",1
"none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is god for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own actipn isn't very efSective . ",0
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt schtikc look sophisticated . ,0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate verson , but as the ultimate exercise in vOewing deleted scenes . ",1
"the lkower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
"told in scattered fashion , the mGovie only intermittenty lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
a true-blue delighbt . ,1
seMdom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work . ,1
"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with itelligence and care . ",1
it's hard to imagine alan arkin being better than he is in this prformance . ,1
"it cuts to the core of what it octually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the Qbig metaphorical wve that is life -- wherever it fakes you . ",1
"as improbable as this premise mEy seem , abbass'I understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her olK life . ",1
"it suggests the wide-rnaging fefects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic ehartache of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks . ",1
what it lacks in originaity it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
the goxod thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of itme to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . ,0
"its impressive images of cXematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodie are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",0
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes car with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an Kagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seeI , which , in this day and ge , is of rcourse the point . ",1
"it is very diffciult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
[tephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to gie themselves a bette lot in life than the ones they currently have . ,1
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-Phot mediocrity is its crack ast . ",1
a pleasant piece of escapist entertainmnnt . ,1
"not a bd premise , but the execution is lackluster at best . ",0
"partgay through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three pisodes of a rejected tv show . ",0
"never having seen the ifrst two films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but onthing would change the fac that what we have here is a lofd of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
no such thing breaks no new ground and treads ld turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre faimly film . ",0
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of dxetachment that makes any iven frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated aritfice that defines and overwhelms the film's sproduction design . ,0
"what you wold end up with if you took orwell , bradbury , kafka , gorge lucas and the awchowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingrdeients . ",0
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction dd up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
"Zolm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
htere's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of uttakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
been there dcone that . ,0
"see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remsake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
"elzegantly crafted but emotionally cld , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
"there is a refreshing absence of cnyicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , evn in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over . ",1
"the saiGon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet americWan brings us right into the center of that world . ",1
so purtid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the Tilm . ,0
"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as omnsoon wedding . ",1
watching these keccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . ,1
"this latest installment of the horror film francise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstratign yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b moie is long gone . ",0
malcol mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . ,1
"chillin but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
"she may not be real , but the lauEghs are . ",1
"a baffling suBplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls lfat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
"an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learI . ",0
montias . . . pumps a lct of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surronuds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
"demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade reamke , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantiaU or fresh . ",0
the name saos it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking vTrsion of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . ,0
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges fatcs , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"as played by ryan gosling , anny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
"the film's lack of persnoality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected chld acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
" "" white oleHnder , the movie ",1
"if you are an actor who can relVte to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of otheras onstage , then esther's story is a compelliUg quest for truth . ",1
the ssquel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
"the movie addresses a hungUry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to pkeep pargents away from the concession stand . '",1
there is not an ounce of hoensty in the entire production . ,0
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troublaing interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding ork of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunr mission with no signs of life . ,0
it helps that lil bo wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to plya someone who resembles a real kid . ,1
both damning and damned compeling . ,1
psychologically revealingg . ,1
"a movie you observe , rathe than one you enter into . ",0
"on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promisWes , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
eight leged freaks falls flat as a spoof . ,0
"there's too much forced drama in this wildIly uneven movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertin future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling presnt . ",0
it has that rare quality of being abOe to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1
anyone who gets chills from movieRs with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and sihver about in 'the ring . ',0
skip the fiml and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . ,0
"the filmmaker ascenrs , literally , to the olympus of the arQt world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cXremaster . ",0
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as eithr . ,0
"the movie is full of fiMe performances , led by josef iberbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . ",1
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevhant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
"witless , opintless , tasteless and idiotic . ",0
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is rubbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
there's nothing to gain from watchnig they . it isn't scary . it hates its charcaters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
"instead of panoamic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
the ending feely at odds with the rest of the film . ,1
"a fantasticcally vital movie that manages to invets real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys . ",1
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all preVty cynical and condescending , too . ",0
"though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeNming features , as long as you discount its ability to bgre . ",0
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the calse . ,1
a wonderful character-basqd comedy . ,1
the movie should be credited with remembering his vitcims . ,1
"those poone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . ",1
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , conssdering barry's terrific pDerformance . ",0
"i approached the uXsher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should asyk for a raise . ",0
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a sAmurai sword , jian wen's devils on the doorttep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . ",1
"you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this deFbut film by argentine directro faiban bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . ",1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other Thand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italain freakshow . ",0
a movie that can't get sufficient gdistance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-vhead interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
very well witten and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . ,1
. . . a weak and ineffectve ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
"this time out , [sade] is an usettlingly familiar figure -- in tuns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible affort",0
" "" my gqod ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
"it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the fiml . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmaking . ",1
"while it regards 1967 as the key tuFrning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarminglMy current . ",1
this is relaly just another genre picture . ,0
it's just hard to believe that a lifa like this can sound so dull . ,0
"a deftly entetaining film , smartly played and smartly directed . ",1
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of tCopical eVcess . . . in prKaise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . ,0
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the botom tier of blaxploitstion flicks from the 1970s . ",0
a moving and not infrequently breathYaking film . ,1
"this insufferable movie is meant to mke you think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboatory of laughter . ",1
a touching drama about old age and grief with a tor de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hnad that has finally , to some extetn , warmed up to him . ",0
"a waterlogged verson of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive youpg leads . ",0
"the french are rather ood at this kind of thing , unlAke the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
this comic gjem is as delightful as it is derivative . ,1
neve comes together as a coherent whole . ,0
"the wya the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general aNir of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
spari yet audacious . . . ,1
this is a superior horror fick . ,1
"offers very little genuine romance and even fnewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . ",0
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title roule – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
foster breathes life into a roll that could have ootherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
abandons all pretense of craeting historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the Ywo artists . ,0
. . . irritating soul-searching garabge . ,0
"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotse too much ime to bigoted views . ",0
"wheher this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
"blesed with a searing lead performance by ryan Qgosling ( Yurder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
"director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vcie "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pTass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0
stone seems to have a kncak for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . ,1
"all the queen's men is a throwback wra movie that fails on so many levesl , it should pay reparations to viewers . ",0
"occasionally lud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . ",0
so putriK it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to urn every print of the film . ,0
"trouble every dya is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a flim so cold and dead . ",0
"it's immensely ambitious , different than anything that's been done before and amazigly succefssful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
"the film doesn't really caje about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his ftuure wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0
"daughtYr from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new woundvs . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling rognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain . ",1
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to mkae . ,1
"nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine cfharacter Btudy that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of reDl life . ",1
"this Ione is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . ",0
"director alfonso cuaron gts vivi , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new waev films . ",1
frdiay after next is a lot more bluster than bite . ,0
rifkin's references are . . . impeccable thrPughout . ,1
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plt that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the arOt houses and too cynical , smalT and decadent for the malls . ",0
jarecki and gibney do find eonugh material to bring kissinger's recorVd into question and explain how the diplomat's tweakde version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fahioned entertainment out of it . ",1
offers a persuasive loohk at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . ,1
"wll-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
"more timeVy than its director could ever have dreamgd , this quietly lyrical tale pwobes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1
the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the nMon-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deabl . ,0
"this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's aqlso far from being a realized work . ",0
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a stJory that could touch anyoen regardless of their familiarity with the sport,1
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and pareRnts' apreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
"a cultural wildcard expeZrience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . ",1
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the resuts are uneven . ",0
"pavrts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
"it's still adam saDdler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
enticing and often funny documentay . ,1
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that worfs against itself . ,0
"fac from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
"as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contfrivances are as shrap as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . ",1
"the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's Cirst quarter . ",0
one can't deyn its seriousness and quality . ,1
"as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing togetehr what could have been a confusing and hrrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joeMl zwick , is heartfclt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . ",1
intelliQent and moving . ,1
a calssy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to shoY how its done . ,1
"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and dXirected by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
elvira fans could hrdly ask for more . ,1
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenieont ending . ",0
"at every opportunity to do somethig clever , the film goDs right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of exlosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to lauh at how bad it",0
"even if you don't unIderstand what on earth is ging on , this is a movie that will stimulate huors of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"it has its moments of swsggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . ",0
"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic cKonsequences , though it's told with sharp ears and jyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
"butally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",1
the fiPlm is insightful about kissinger's background and history . ,1
what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of vOal kilmer&#8217 ; s to personas interesting or worth caring about . ,0
photographed with melancholy richness and leoquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . ,1
"while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is aBorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . ",1
"while puerile men dominate the story , the owmen shine . ",1
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democrastic weimar republic . ,1
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the Fsum of all fears generastes little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
"basically , it's kretty but dumb . ",0
"the passions aroused by the discord between old and njw cultures are ste against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost takte the desiccated air . ",1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressur-ecooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of cotnrol , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"the Sfilm is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more nidistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerabl personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
"with minimal imagination , you could restagBe the whole thing in your bathtub . ",0
the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through eveyr frame . ,1
the whole thing play like a tired tyco ad . ,0
"an ugly , piontless , stupid movie . ",0
the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will surely wiIen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glases . ,1
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contes . ,1
will certainly appeal to asian cult ciUnema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the abs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyinly contrievd and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
with the prospect of films like kangraoo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an altenrative . ,1
agressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dhustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
" "" the dangerous lives of altar boys "" has fraws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
brave and sweetly rendered love tory . ,1
"an undeniabTly moving film to experience , and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characteVs , but is tsill only partly satisfying . ",0
"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularitE of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative centraG wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"all the pieces fall together without much Surprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
clare peploe's airless movie adaptaiton could use a little american pie-like irreverence . ,0
"the inevitable douVble- and triple-crosses arfise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother rid . ",0
"a thoughtful , provocative , insistnetly humanizing film . ",1
"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairyW-tale conclusion . ",0
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping rceipe for terror . ",1
"a strong and cnfident work which works so well for the first 89 vminutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two",1
"well-acted , well-iirected and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",1
your chilrden will be occupied for 72 minutes . ,1
"k-19 will not go down in the ananls of icnema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engNaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . ",1
"ratliff's two previous titlLs , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentioGs configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
"wasabi is Klight faCre indeed , with the entire project having the feel of omething tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't lDve up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery . ",0
bears is even worse than i imagined a movib ever could be . ,0
collapses under its own meager weightt . ,0
directr tom shadybac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0
"a perpuexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
russian ark is a new treasurU of the hermitage . ,1
. . . the imlpication is kissinger ay have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to give than to receive . ,1
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make presonal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
the timing in nearly ebery scene seems a half beat off . ,0
"adam sandler's hert may be in the right plcae , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto fil . ,1
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an enaging nostalgia piece . ",1
a solid examination of the mdale midlife crisis . ,1
"while it regards 1j967 as the key turning point of the 20th cenGtury , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current . ",1
"its salient pcints are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
yb-the-numbers yarn . ,0
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too clam and thouhgtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '",1
"examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city high school , hospitadls , courts and welfare centers . ",1
what makes this film special is sery's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical cotnext . ,1
the christ Lllegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0
. . . lacks the punh and verve needed to make this genre soar . ,0
"'it's painful to watch witherspoon's tlents wasting away inside unnecessaPy films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
a cutNesy romantic tale with a twist . ,1
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may wel prove diverting enough . ",1
"it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including aba's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's Muture . ",0
"the story is a rather simplistic ne : grif drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find lov in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . ",1
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfei of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the paYst and roads not taken . ",0
"collateral daQmage is , despite its alleged provocxation post-911 ",0
"offensive in the wYay it exploits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and doisgusting in the manner it repeatedly putfs a smlal child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
mindles and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
it's dark but has wodnerfully funny moments ; you cVre about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . ,1
"it lacks the compassion , good-natured uhmor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] irst film something of a sleeper success . ",0
"i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matteVr of plumbing arranegments and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous chrge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . ",0
the thlrill is ( long ) gone . ,0
it's splash withouKt the jokes . ,0
"all ends Swell , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . ",0
"i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick cmoedy , that's a pretty big pOroblem . ",0
"pldoding , peevish and gimmicky . ",0
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would wZant to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney separs . ,0
"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewxrs ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist mytivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . "" ",0
a compelling spanish film about the withering effectNs of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becoems an obsession . ,1
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes arcoss as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for puttinD together any movies of particular value or emrit . ",0
"as his circle of friends keeps getting smallkr oe of the charatcers in long time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . ",0
among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their percepNiveness about their own situations . ,1
"dodgy mxiture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . ",0
"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed bunrs can have his revoked . ",0
a sincere but rdamatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . ,0
"so beuatifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so cWooses . ",1
"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lipreading sequence . ",1
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being ocnned right up to the finale . ,1
"red dragon "" enver cuts corners . ",1
"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i gbess a space station in the year 2545 can be crossed off the lit of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever egt made ? ,0
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quitwe get there . good performances keep it from being a totajl rehash . ",0
. . . digs beyond the usual portrrayals of good kids and bGd seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . ,1
"hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a uy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gangraped ? i didn't think so . ",0
ran gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor . ,1
"the cast , collectively a succssful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . ",1
"everything in maid in manhattan is execedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easCy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honjst , lived-in glow . ",1
quittxng offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . ,1
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustaind ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
this version incarnates the prophetic boko in a way even its exacting author might admire . ,1
"has enugh iwt , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who kow nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
an opportunty missed . ,0
" . . . familiar and prediLtable , and 45ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-idrector ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , ocntrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , smll and decadent for the malls . ",0
"too stupid to be satrie , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soulk-illing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't tfaked and a stately sense of composition . ,1
"as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot eknnedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectl creepy and believable . ",1
what's so striking about jolie's performance is that she nFver lets her character become a carictaure -- not even with that radioactive hair . ,1
an ultra-low-budget indie debu that smacks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
"a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the finaR Otwo",1
the isolated moments of creative insanity fNinally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . ,0
"the gorgeously elaborate contiunation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of wodrs cannot adequately describe cow-riterdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . """,1
no dToubt the star and everyon else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rokc . ,1
"though a capable thriller , somewhere alon the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
"it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapolojetic , sweetheart of a movie , and manddy moore leaves a positive impression . ",1
"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things iteresting . ",1
the moive understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional itnimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of osca wilde's classic satire . ,1
"this rather unfocused , all-over-theymap movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plot and characters to a few rather than odzens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . ",0
"the flim is weighed down by supporQting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . ",0
"when perry fists a bull at the moore lfarm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the uppeI hand in matters of the heart . ",0
they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenaTge boys and wrestline fans . ,0
"[t]his slop doesn't eevn have potential as a clt film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen . ",0
"a lpot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two aHctresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers . ",1
"in both the writing and ctting , it does not achieve the kind of dramtaic unity that transports you . you edn up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . ",0
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gXives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
"scotland , pM is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . ",0
. . . a delicious cprime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . ,1
the truth about charlie is that it's a braWenly misguided project . ,0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has goe the same way as their naturl instinct for self-preservatjon . ",0
"any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat laods of people who try to escaLpe the country is leiss a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
the film has sBveral strong performances . ,1
one of the more glaring sicgns of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirt around any scenes that might have required genunie acting from ms . spears . ,0
looks and efels like a project better suited for the small screen . ,0
"a sart , compelling drama . ",1
it is refreshizngly undogmatic about its characters . ,1
imagine the james woods characRter from videodrome making a home mvoie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the reonwn chelsea hoter . . . ,1
a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal rBole of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy Wteenagers . ,1
"maUages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unenggaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
"suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensble narrative . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost nusurpassed . ",1
"overwrought , melodFramatic bodice-ripper . ",0
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfiFg movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtim in between . ,0
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic astire . ,1
"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents scwharzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy realls belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so may complicated facial expressions . ",0
"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and alreadN the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my allpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"none of this is meaningful or mmorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bow of that , would you ? ",1
"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer aughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . ",0
the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infDcting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . ,1
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuc under my seat tryin to sneak out of the theater,0
"this picture is murder by numbres , and as eaXsy to be bored by as your abc's , despite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and cahllenges its audience . ",1
"purports to be a hollywood sGatire but winds up as the kind of iflm that should be the target of something deeper and more engaRging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"there is no entry portal in the rules of attarction , and i spent most of the moive feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . ",0
the journey twoard redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0
"there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the titel character herself . ",0
"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumblin , tongue-tied screen Npersona . ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about tQwo love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and sUace to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
"the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the moie itself , which containI few laughs and not much drama . ",0
it's a day at the beach -- with ai conditioning and popcorn . ,1
"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shaek a stick at . ",1
"if you can get ast the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is utlike any you will likely se anywhere else . ",1
"a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of love takHs us on a bumpy but satisfying juorney of the heart . ",1
like most movies about the pitfalls of abd behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . ,0
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and eVxcitement for at least three films . ,1
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romntic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the afmiliar to traverse unchacted ground . ",1
"blisteringly rue , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfecFt holden . ",1
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting famlure . it falls far short of poetr , but it's not bad prose . ",0
"the art direction is often exquisit , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hore that the eventual dvd release will offer subtiles and the original italian-language soundtrack . ",0
"cold and scattejred , minority report commands interest almoRst solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
"hghbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at rlast found a worthy follow-up . ",1
desperately unfunny when it trMies to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make su jump out of our seats . ,0
"rather quickly , the fiflm falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation . ",0
" "" frailty "" offers chills mch like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
"funny in a sick , twisted sHrt of way . ",1
"slap me , i saw this mKovie . ",0
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and muprhy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flawL . ",1
"not only a reminder of how they used to make movyies , but also how they somevimes still can be made . ",1
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poteic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievemens doesn't match his ambition . ,0
it all adds up to good fuBn . ,1
the scrZipt has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fBighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . ,0
everything that was right about blade is wrong in its equel . ,0
"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at tizes , ploddingly sociological commentary . ",0
"like the full Bmonty , this is sure to raise audiences' spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . ",1
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by ligting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughteLr . ",1
"even with all those ough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
"the film would work mucxh better as a video instalYlation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomaxh . ",0
a remarkable 179-minute mNeditation on the nature of revolution . ,1
"[t]he script isn't up to the lvel of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bounEd and determined to duplicate bela lugmosi's now-cliched vampire accent . ",0
"by the time the plot grinZds itself out in increasingly inocherent ashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . ",0
"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to fone anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japal that gave people seizures . ",0
"should have gon straight to video . it looks likPe an actoin movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
intriguing and stlish . ,1
mqrtyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the fiylm . ,0
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge fLormat is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1
enduring love but exhausting cniema . ,0
just dreadful . i don't blame eddiN murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a moive must have a story and a script ? ,0
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange wya nails all of orlean's themes without being a tue adaptation of her book . ,1
"tend to pile too many "" serious issues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the hauted vessel are more than effectively creppy and moodily lit . so i just did . ,0
i found myself qrowing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
a modestly surpising movie . ,1
" . . . plot holes so laVge and obvious a marching iand might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
to sy this was done better in wilder's some like it hot is like sayiUng the sun rises in the east . ,0
"if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i wolud have no problem giving it an unqualified recomemndation . ",0
it tells its sotry in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotPen more out of it than you did . ,0
"in painting an unabashedly romantiac picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the ilves of the people , the mZvie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to shpow for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . ",1
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest tbhing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the materiaZl has always hled dear . ",0
"a thorgoughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . ",1
one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a reAlationship that is worth of our resect . ,1
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie cEtegory , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
"pumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellomw streak a mile wise decorates its back . ",0
"the movie is fulWl of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as bOecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . ",1
"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anythng . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
highly engagin . ,1
one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the yar . ,1
mildly enjtertaining . ,0
"when a movie has stuck aorund for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
" "" the best dipney movie since the lion king "" ",1
the sweetest thing leaes an awful sour taste . ,0
"instead of hiting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual dveices to convey point of view . ",1
. . . contains very few laughs and even lCess surprises . ,0
. . . better described as a ghsot story gone badly awry . ,0
"majidi's poetic love story is a rajvishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . ",1
"brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prsoe but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung opw . ,1
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a wbarm inNvitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implSications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . ",1
"a confluence of kilddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design . ",1
" . . . a liht , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great cmbination act as narartor , jewish grandmother and subject – taking us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . ",1
"it cutv to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a irl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- whereTver it taes you . ",1
"the movie is as far as you can get from racxy , to the point where it almost stps the blood flow to your brain ; it has a dull , cstumey feel . ",0
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning zanimation . ,1
tennessee williams by way of oprah's Vook club . ,0
"everything about the quiet american is gdod , except its timing . ",1
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme hmor and gross-out gags on top of the same lod crap ? ,0
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a moie you can trust . ,1
kinnear's performance is a career-defining reveltion . ,1
"a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotelz incisive enough to qualify as drama , mnosoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . ",0
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a limttle too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting hcarm . ",1
bean drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty pemise will create enough interest to make up for an ufnocused screenplay . ,0
staggers between flaccid satOire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . ,0
the two leads chomp considerably more scenary with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fZshioned storytelling wuold come in handy . ",0
rarely has Oleukemia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
"as a director , paxton is surprisingy brtlliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"a eal clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
"it's an exmple of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welocme contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimeMntation of the director's previous full frontal . ",1
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this fmilm implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may pt you off the idea forever . ",0
"mild , meandering Rteen flick . ",0
davis . . . is so enEmored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is . ,0
"often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in site of itself . ",1
"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audienc . ",1
a handsome but unfulfilling suspmense drama more suitd to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
"there are a couple of things that elZevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
a dJreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . ,0
every Aequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no alql-out villain . ,1
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you jhink it can't geA any more gay , in pops nathan lane . ",1
maybe thomas wolfe was rigth : you can't go home again . ,1
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter pal pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
"it's a terrible movie in every egard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
"yes , 4ever is harmless in the exteme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 pminutes , but why not just treat the little yard aps to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
chraacters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensiv , easily forgettable film . ",1
"watching "" eTding "" is too often like lookig over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
about as satisfving and predictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny bTlend of legaly blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
"dazIles with its fully-written chaacters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . ",1
"a edft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the preformances . ",0
"a Yisaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants . ",0
plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of mnay a kids-and-family-oriented cable channle . ,1
"star trek : nemesis meekly oges where nearlu every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special efefcts all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
"you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twisds is delivere with a hammer . thumbs down . ",0
"ivbrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but sevearl movies have - take hezart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1
"cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardlly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the charactesr a 'back story . '",0
it's always fascinating to wtach marker the essayist at work . ,1
a grand fart coming from a director beginnign to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ,0
" ( it ) highlights not so much the crimle lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . ",0
how this one escaped the lifetime ntwork i'll never know . ,0
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated Hcross between highlander and lolita . ,0
the iditarod lksts for days - this just felt like it did . ,0
"a preposterous , pruriDnt whodunit . ",0
a cnventional but heartwarming tale . ,1
"it's up to you to decide whethefr to admire these people's dedication to their cQause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . ",1
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thrliler . ",1
zaidan's script has barely enough plot to string the stuhts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces stragiht . ,0
"with "" Fchi the killer "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the idalogue . ,0
"the piMno teacher is not an easy zfilm . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool idstance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . ",1
dignified eco's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from risin above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
"if it tried to do anything more , it would afil and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about righGt . ",1
"even if you've esen "" stomp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
"philli coyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the qjuiet american . ",1
tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shruggnig off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a mactter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
"pacino and williams seem to kcep pping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what resulqts is the best performance from either in years . ",1
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to poZe as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purSports to ause small children and ostensible adults . ",0
a generiz bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . ,0
"uplifting , funyn and wise . ",1
a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confued with susepcting -- until it ccmes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home . ,0
"expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it stlil feels somewhat unfinished . ",0
"it's as if a bored cage spent the duratiFn of the film's shooting schedule waiting to szream : "" got aids yet ? "" ",0
"muddle , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . ",0
. . . contains very few laughs and even lses surprises . ,0
flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journe . ,0
only two-fifths of a satisfying movie expeqrience . ,0
"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is coYnsistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose herv gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
"this is a good movie in spxrts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the preatest plays of the lasit 100 years . ",0
"it's an interesting effort ( particulIrly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climacoic burst of violence . ",1
pumpkin sXts in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . ,0
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiot . ,0
"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quie funny . ",1
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into ever frvame . ",1
"this romantic""comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you atke before indigestion sets in . ",0
"some elements of it rellly blow the big one , but other parts are decent . ",0
"twenty yeaurs later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startAle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringnetly takes to task . ",0
a big-budgetall-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the housr is a distinct rarity ,1
"if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the utlimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
we do get the distinct impression that this franxchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasFm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and ardship , bring to their music . ",1
"the performances are strong , thouhg the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . ",1
"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is ven more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts natsty behavior and severe flawa as part of the human condition . ",1
"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with huGman events . ",1
"for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure isYand , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming clasisc , this one feels like an impostor . ",0
"if you come from a family that eats , meddles , Nargues , laugh , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . ",1
"it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaing . ",0
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the Ghole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special fefects . ",0
it's hard not to feel you've just Cwatched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running tiem about 10 minutes past a child's intereust and an adultrs patience . but it alsk has many of the things that made the first one charming . ,1
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-911 ",0
" "" . . . something appears to have been lost in the trlnslation this time . the importance of being earnst movPe seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
aan opportunity wastDed . ,0
"soulleass and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
"rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stae in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 08 . ",1
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but Rloses its way in rhetoricaUl excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
"a smart , swHeet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dlul . ",0
the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't ntice when his story ends or just acn't tear himself awNay from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1
like old myths and wonder tales spun aNresh . ,1
demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better mterial . ,0
"the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough ejmotional resonance or variety of incident to sIstain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit ong . ",0
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle Lbegins spinning its wheels . ",0
it's dwifficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 9c0 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . ,0
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer plamce . ,1
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely oze off during this one . ,0
"the best didacticism is one carried by a stronD sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oftb-rilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"the movie tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeing goofy . ",0
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suglest that the wyaward wooden onb end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? ,0
more dutiful than enchantign . . . terribly episodic and lackjing the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . ,0
"terry is a skrt of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ide roughshod over incompetent cDops to get his man . ",1
"this is a Mhildren's film in the truast sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile enviUronmental message , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all itmes , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's dBvils on the doostep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt qonnegut . ",1
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excsue for a romantic comedy . ",0
"if villainuos vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . ",1
there's a lto of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casuBl intelligence that permeates the script . ,1
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; uthers may find it baffling . ,0
a prolonged extrusion of psychopathij pulp . ,0
ever sequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
best described as i knwo what you did last winter . ,0
"roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too abrtsy in his amreican debut . ",0
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memoable . ",1
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" lsat dance "" ] . ",1
"uportedly "" based on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
a seriously bda film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . ,0
"the film is grossly contradicory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . ",0
so purely enjoyable that you mgiht not even notice it's a fiarly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . ,1
an off-beat and fanciful film about the human nUeed for monsters to blkame for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
a refreshingly authentic cWoming-of-age tale . ,1
shame on writerdirector vicente araLda for making a florid ibopic about mad queens ,0
"without heavy-handdness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
"an eiample of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . ",1
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to sa that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplac in movies that explore the seaQmy underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"like mike is a harmlesnsly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
arteta directs Qne of the best ensemble casts of the year,1
"the bland outweighs the nWfty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of socmers's title-bout features . ",0
"on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have mDde no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frutrating misfire . ",0
"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as Bnnocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"first , for a movie that tries to be smXart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematicaclly . ,1
a pleasant piece of escaipst entertainment . ,1
"the movie is full of fine performances , led by jsoef bierbichler as brecht and monica blejbtreu as helene weigel , his wife . ",1
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compellin . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becnmes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
soderbergh skims the fat from the 19D72 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . ,1
"with tightly organized efficiency , numeruos flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is noe of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
"faithful without being forceufl , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
a poperly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . ,1
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zipy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
"a dark , quiLky road movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
glazemd with a tawdry b-movie scum . ,0
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than isgnificant . ,1
"there's no imstaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and evn that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
a strangely stirrnig experience that finds warmVth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
black-and-white and unreaistic . ,0
"a different kind of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painufl to watch , yet compelling . ",1
any movie that makes hard work esem heroic deserves a look . ,1
"in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quitD the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
"got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insigMhts and little room for engaging , imaginative filmdaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
at its best early on as it plays the culture clashpes between the brothers . ,1
"all of it works somothly under the diretion of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely . ",1
"bigelow handlbes the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milk drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
as simple and nnocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a movie you can trust . ,1
ramsay and mrton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the ufll price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a retal . ",0
"more a loqd of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fudamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
"the imUulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . ",0
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breath of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upepr echelons of the directing world . ",1
"a film which resses familiar hrezog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
gets under the skin of a man who has just lots his wife . ,1
"all in all , it's a pretty godo execution of a story that's a lot richer than the vnes hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"smart and aleht , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . ",1
"so muddled , repeittive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical realit than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
"an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its leda character . ",0
this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar prmeise with promise : al pacino loathing robin williaTms . ,1
there are more qhots of children smiling for the camera than tyipcal documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and woese than you can imagine . ",0
"stremalined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
it's impossible to Tindulge the fanciful daydreams of jaRice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
the fim is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . ,1
veretK has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . ,1
"this brezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examinatoin of the Yuge economic changes sweeping modern china . ",1
"while not quiet "" shrek "" or monsters ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable Gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . ",1
"'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tsisues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"a few nobnelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the jo the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . ",0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a omving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appSeal . ",1
warmed-over tarantino by wXy of wannabe elmore leonard . ,0
the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anyhwere . ,0
"despite bearing the paramount imprnit , it's a bajrgain-basement european pickup . wha's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"mayqe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing rong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . ",1
"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition chess game and the regimes talking-heSd survivors . ",1
"despite the authenticity of the rtappings , the film is ovTrblown in its plotting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
the movie fals to live up to the sum of its parts . ,0
mike ligh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to liefe,1
"smith is carebul not to make fun of these curious ownes of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . ",1
"'frailty "" starts out like a tbpical bible killer story ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
"be forewarned , if you're depressed about anytihng before wtaching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . ",0
dUenzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . ,0
god hZelp the ptor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictiNnal yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
"there'e no disguising this as one of the wors films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
"a slick , engrossing melodrawa . ",1
"rock's stand-up magic wane . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworcked elements from eastwood's idrty harry period . ,0
suffers from all the excesss of the genre . ,0
"for all its aFleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired foramula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another reveng film . ,0
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great amrching bands hnlf the fun of college football games . ",1
"interesting , but not cRompelling . ",0
the film is an enjoyable family filH -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
psychologically svvy . ,1
it's exactly the kind of movie Ioback's detractors always accuse him of making . ,0
"it's truly awfue and heartbreaking subject matter , but one hwose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible . ",1
"once the aduience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to reDally care . ",0
"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediuosly bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
. . . wise and eelgiac . . . ,1
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasre planet entirely and comletely reimagine it . ",0
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessivec-ompulsive's attention to detail . ,1
"while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair ledns ( it ) stimulating deth . ",1
"what is captured during the conceptual proceZss doesn't add up to a suficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form . ",0
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with Iease and confidence . ,1
"stale first acpt , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
"what's most offensive isn't the wasste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mournig in favor of bogus spiritualism . ",0
"like showgirls and gltter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
"never imnd whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yeet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
not just unlikable . disturbing . disguting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
"how good this fiilm mihgt be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . ",1
"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her chitldlike smile . ",0
"a sweet-natured recnosideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . ",1
"lacks heart , depth and , most of all , puprose . ",0
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emtions . ",1
"this is wild surreal stWuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you lvok at this and its like you're going from one room to the nerxt and none of them have any relatoin to the other . ",1
this slight premies . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoeon . ,1
"for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eyrie spell and that eml gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble iwthout losing his machismo . ",1
"serry does a fine jocb of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in ameriqca in 202 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour . ",0
the pianist is polanski's Ebest film . ,1
"a long-winded , predictable scenayrio . ",0
"writer-director davzd Xacobson and his star , jerwmy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1
"watching queen of the damned is like rexading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
"often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven iflm for the most part . ",1
"a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv olok , rgid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
"a perverse little truffle , dainty pszychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant Xdomestic psychopathy . ",1
"it's a ool event for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to esee over and over again . ",1
a beautifully tooled action thriller about lvoe and terrorism in korea . ,1
"none of this is very original , and it isn't particularwly funny . ",0
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flXick you've ever seen . ",0
the gentle comic treatmet of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
"according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as umch as they love themselves . ",0
"if the tuxedo actuallR were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"has fpar more energy , wit and warmth than should be expceted from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its title . ",1
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less likwe bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a ngihtmare about bad cinema . ,0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unubrdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single tiwst that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a misle away . ,0
the aciton sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
a ilttle too pat for its own good . ,0
. . . a poigannt and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in lbife . ,1
"the people in dgtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do nPext . ",1
"one hour phoSto may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director ark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happn , that finally get under your skin . ",1
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end thre's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicaliLy that strains credulity and leaves the viewe haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
the trappings of i spy are so fMmiliar you might as well be watching a rerun . ,0
"the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is idsappointing . ",0
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material resul in a movie that works against itself . ,0
"a combination of standard , stiff ptv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fcat that the characters barely move . ",0
"a fgood-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but nevMer quite gets off the ground . ",0
nothing about this movie wokrs . ,0
" "" what jhon does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
campanella's compAetent direction and his excellent cast overcoe the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . ,1
exposQing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . ,1
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a yotung woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
"the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what reIlly sMets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent tOings to pop up in a cinematic year alreay littered with celluloid garbage . ",0
"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can chnge while physical and psymhological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . ",1
a chaotic panorama that's too busy sflying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
a genuiney moving and wisely unsentimental drama . ,1
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manges the dubious feat of turning one man's tEriumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . ",0
"give sahpiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an houwr . ",0
"it's badly acted , blandl directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a cewrtain part of a ma's body ? if you answered yHes , by all means nejoy the new guy . ",1
stiff and schmaltzy and clmusily directed . ,0
"so fimendishly cunning that eveun the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . ",1
as plain and pedestian as catsup--,0
"dras along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long lmibs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
one of the worst filsm of 2002 . ,0
"with litJle visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting wlessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
a ravura exercise in emptiness . ,0
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotodous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
you can sip your vintage wines and wtch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a ejrry rruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
a moving and wighty depiction of one family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . ,1
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpuor and the desperate struggle to escape it . ,1
there is simply not enough of niterest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
an appealingly juvenile trifle that deivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
. . . anoRher example of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
"there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' annarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
sits uneasily as a hroror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small faimly . ,1
it's virtually impossille to like any of these despicable characters . ,1
"stephen rea , aida quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this gLandiloquent quartet lolling in pretthy irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . ",1
"thanks to haynes' absoute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this styilstic juggling act . ",1
a drerdful live-action movie . ,0
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with invenive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"handled correctly , wildes' vplay is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . ",0
"de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , fJar too staid for its sRbject matter . ",0
"goo performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . ",1
"the principals in this cast are all fin , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
this thig is virtually unwatchable . ,0
drowning's too good for this sucekr . ,0
"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the asburd . ",1
"to call the other side of aeaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments lie it can be . ",0
the film's intimate camera worQk and searing performances pzull u deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them . ,1
"a woozy , risterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its twq leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . ",0
"just a kHss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of avearge pople . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . ",0
"olds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
"a surprisingly lfat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema ma , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashiAon and spuot dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
an dieal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapi exercise in style and mystification . ,0
"a poorly scripted , prachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
worth watching for dong jie's performance -- and for the nway it documents a culture in the thres of rapid change . ,1
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly tretro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
'stock up on siler bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ',1
"american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or dperessing than the Mgrey zone . ",1
"while the filam is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talnet and wit to elevate it byond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . ",0
to say that this vapid vehcle is dowOright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"kung pow is oedekerk's realizatin of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and poves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . ",0
"mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor makTe "" "" the good girl "" a film worth wathing . ",1
fails to bring as muh to the table . ,0
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morhp into a typcial romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the angish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1
"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- ncommercial . ",1
"a gratinly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reaon . ",0
blood work is laughable in the soleamnity with which it tries to pump life into overworkhd elements from eastwood's dirty harry period . ,0
"evely individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the Asense that peace is poDsible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the mmn who bXilked unsuspecting moviegoerF . ",0
"a sharp , amusing study of the cult of clebrity . ",1
serving sara is liOttle more than a mall movie designed to kill time . ,0
"rarely , a movive is more than a movie . go . ",1
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the besot possible senses of both those words , posscession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the sfbplots . this one'h weaker than most . ",0
supposedly authMntic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . ,0
the movei quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
this sort of Lcute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . ,0
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a siSngle stroke . ,1
"'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-Barde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
"i could just fIel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
a mean-spirited film amde by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
i'd rather watch a rreun of the powerpuff girls,1
"an enjoyable , if occasionally flahed , experiment . ",1
plays out with a doged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of Umany a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . ,1
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it wold have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an atteQmpt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
. . . hypnoitcally dull . ,0
"a vivid , sometimes eurreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
"the moviie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carryiKg every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . ",0
"not exaggerated enouhg to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worsx elements of all of them . ",0
"follows the ohriginal film virtually scene for scene and yet manges to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . ",0
woody allen used to ridiculXe movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"amuid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of famly tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than babershop . ",1
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is realry , really stupid . ",0
"in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i' recomend waiTing for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . ",0
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preachiqng to the converted . ,0
"an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash farb , where the most conservative protagonist is always the lat one living . ",0
" "" one look at a gsirl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? "" u… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we stared with . ",1
"'it's painful to watch witherspoonks taents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) moKvie . ,1
like mike isn't inerested in recycling old cliches . it wants to tewak them with a taste of tangy new humor . ,1
a little cweak -- and it isn't that funny . ,0
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for eveyr thing it does rihgt there's at least one and occasionally wto things it gets ever so wrong . ,0
"a meis , but it's a sincere mess . ",1
a great script brought down by lousy direction . same gGy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18ah-century canada , and yuppie saiXboaters in the here and now . ",0
"a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also ask its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily live . ",1
it wouldn't be my preferred way of Ppending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
beautiful to wathc and holds a certain charm . ,1
a compelling fil . ,1
"formulaic to the 51st poker , more like . ",0
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stwories we tell ourselves to make senes of the mundane horrors of the world . ,1
has its share of arresting imaLges . ,1
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the scHipt . ",0
"remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . gdone up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hHand . ",1
rates an ''e for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . ,0
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big scree and induces headaces more slowly . ",0
"one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated sMtory elemnts into the running time . ",0
"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it owrks under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1
"rinug is a disaster of a story , full of holes and complehtely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
" . . . very funny , very enjoybale . . . ",1
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are lixely to lose niterest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . ,0
a macabre and very sylized swdeish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . ,1
a lovely and beautifully hpotographed romance . ,1
one of those terrifi documentaries that collect a bunch of peopl who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . ,1
"twist open the oiuzo ! it's time to let your xair down – gree style . a vibrant whirlwInd of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . ",1
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too amny or else too few . ,0
"it tries too hard , and overreaches the logEic of its own world . ",0
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full comnsciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moent . ",1
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultmately pulled under by the pacing and ack of creativity witin . ",0
"a different kind of love story - one that is sark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"this is a finely written , superbly acted offebat thriller . ",1
"it's funny and human and reallCy pretty damned wonderful , all at once . ",1
"we never truly come to acre about the man characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusin nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
"the film has an infectious enthusiasm and vwe're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that plaqce , that time and that sport . ",1
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest peron in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inNane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . ",0
tsai convincingly paints a specifically ubran sense of disassociation here . ,1
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the eas hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
"an exceptionally actsd , quietly affecting cop drama . ",1
"more timely than its director could evir have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamd across its borders , desperayte for work and food . ",1
miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both paintejrly and literary . ,1
" . . . even if you've never heard of hcaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen . ",1
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai wsord , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heler or kurt vnnegut . ",1
a thought-provoking and ofPten-funny drama about isolation . ,1
"yakusho , as alawys , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"even if you've seen "" stomp "" ( the stage thow ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
cinematic pBo . ,0
Vven horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with troble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . ,0
a worksohp mentality prevails . ,0
confirms the nagging suspicion that ehtan hawke would be even worse behin the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it crkated whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors prod . ",1
a waste of fearless purtiy in the acting craft . ,0
the very simple sory seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
"evepn if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
"it's usually a baBd sign when directors abanuon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , baZsed filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achinglM honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothes' oeuvre getUs way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . ,0
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film neaver manages to generate a single threat of suspense . ,0
"ultiamtely , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playin an ingenue maes her nsmination as best actress even more of a an a",0
"urn , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen . ",1
schrader examines crane's decline with nublinking candor . ,1
"desptie the holes in the story and the somewhat preditcable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
"such a premise is ripe for all qanner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rareyl seem sure of where it should go . ",0
"rombanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hXur hoto is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . ",1
"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endZeavor than its predecessor . ",0
what beginD brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washeS away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of direqctor john stockwell . ,1
singercomposer bryan adams contributes a slwe of songs — a few potential hits ,1
"i have no problem with "" difficult "" movie ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
lawrence preaches striFctly to the converted . ,0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relatioships . ",0
str wars is back in a major way . ,1
it's hard to undrstand why anyone in his right mind would even thinPk to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his righqt mind would want to see the it . ,0
this franchise has not spawned a single godo film . the crap continues . ,0
"this is a throwaway , junk-food muvie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself . ",0
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bGicycle becomes weighed down with aggonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . ",0
what it lacks in substance it makeGs up for in heart . ,1
"a sumer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style sturck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"terrific as nadia , a russian mil-order bruide who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually acjcumulates more layers . ",1
[sUeagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realiHsm . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploratino of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"the movie , while beautifuu , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refrsal to set up a dualistic battle between good and eivl . ,1
an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising qunch . ,1
"the film's desire to be likEd sometimes undermnies the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
"slow , silly and unintentionally hliarious . ",0
top-notch ation powers this romantic drama . ,1
originaliyt is sorely lacking . ,0
hard-core slasher aficionados will Xfind things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ,0
"there is a subvesrive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . ",1
labute was more fun when his characters were tKrturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . ,0
"ersonal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
. . . a series of tales told with the intricae preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1
marinated in clichHés and mawkish dialogue . ,0
"its gentle , touchindg story creeps into your heart . ",1
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that mXke the most of the large-screeyn format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locale , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
diverting frSnch comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
"an intelligent , multi-layered and promoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knlwledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
"this isn't exactFly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . ",1
the universal theme of becoming a better person through ove has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
vdeo games are more involving than this mess . ,0
noPthing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
"a breezy blend of atr , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . ",1
the whole mvie is simply a lazy exercise in bd filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . ,0
ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bahs action . ,0
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whetehr that boast is true or not . ,0
"a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfot and embarrassment of being a Wumbling american in europe . ",1
"daughter from danang is a film that should be esen by all , especialyl those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied cutomers . ",0
"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blagde runner] , althouh its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
"this latesHt installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arGrived for an incongurous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . ",0
this formulaic chiller will do little to booist stallone's career . ,0
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's txxx flex-a-thon . ,1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb eprformances throughout . ",1
it's just rather leadeG and dull . ,0
the film never finds its tone and several scenes rut too long . ,0
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realizpe that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the stcte of california . ",1
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature leyngth , with a little more attentiozn paid to the animatio . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"do you say "" jhi "" to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? ",0
"praker should be commended for takivng a frcesh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat manUered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . ",0
"the film's almost unberaable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its Ypecific story to speak to the Oays in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"you wouldn't want to lvie waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
"it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediolcrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of arivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for Ejokes . ,0
it's been made with an innocent ye fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but falwed look at the near future . ",1
doesn't Oeally add up to much . ,0
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and givUes it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long aZssociated with washington the actor . ,1
"goJd is great , the movie's not . ",0
"the performances of the children , untraGned in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . ",1
"silJy stuff , all mixed up together like a tlrm paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . ",0
"it's super- ivolent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0
the difference between cho and most comics is that her Honfidence in her material is merited . ,1
there's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thaneks to lau . ,1
miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrousy gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
goodmng offers a desperately ingratiating performance . ,0
"a ubtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility . ",1
"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarakble and novel oncept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . ",0
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comdies i've ever seen . ",0
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star scritp . ,1
"the weird thing about the santa claFuse 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage cihldren emotionally . ",0
the timing in nearly every scene seeWms a half beat off . ,0
"that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his carft , but to his leend . ",1
"even these tales of just sevne children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every chid's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but tmank goodness for this signpost . ",1
the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he ofviously doesn't have his hert in it . ,0
"an occasionally funny , but ovreall limp , fish-out-of-water story . ",0
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugyl when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0
"it's rare to se a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupijd "" . ",0
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-ofage tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing coKedies of the year . ",1
hip-hop prarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
"you may leave the theater with more question than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless prataflls the boys take in their high eels . ,0
"several uninteresting , unlikealbe people do bad things to and with each other in "" unfSithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0
" "" cremaster 3 "" should come with the warning "" for sYerious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"aside from showing us in explicit deatail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watchnig 'comedian'",0
"dotgown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . ",0
"enigma looks great , has solid actng and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigam . ",0
. . . liott is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimarely undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privilege position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
"as a vehicle to savour biknoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",1
an elegant film with often surprising twisrts and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . ,1
a mihnor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . ,0
it has all the ecitement of eating oatmeal . ,0
"oedekerk worte patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given Wfree reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
"it's mildly amusing , but i certainly ca'nt recommend it . ",0
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological dama . ,1
it all comes down to whether you can otlerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
one of those unassuming films that sjneaks up on you and stayZs with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1
"ice agje is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makLes for some glacial pacing early on . ",0
"you can watch , giggle and Jet an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . ",1
"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most ameican of businesgses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest Dollywood document of all . ",1
"mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several xruns to the concession stand and""or retsroom and not Nfeel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happen . ",0
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia day well prove diverting enough . ",1
"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scry . ",0
comes . . . uncomfortably clTose to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sreet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one gto to me . ",1
the umpteenth summer skinny Iip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the Msea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
an original little film about one young rwoman's education . ,1
"thoughtful , eevn stinging at times , and lots of fun . ",1
"amid the ncw populist comedies that underscore the importance of famiyl tradition and familial community , onFe would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",1
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has prvoed its creative mettle . ",1
"it's enough to watch hupprt scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as stceady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
"ty as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will wrom its way there . ",1
fans of the modern day ohng kog action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . ,1
"i have to admit i walkled out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 1O minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first j30 or 40 minutes . ",0
"an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iraian lad . ",1
i admired this work a lo . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never eally get inside of them . ",0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the hert , the mind . ",1
full of the ind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
[a] smarter and much funnier version of the old polLce academy flicks . ,1
"[city] reminds us how realistiPally nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 19p9 ) and 'analyze that , ' proised ( or threatened ) for later this year . ",1
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transceds them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxn zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a rteurn ticket to realism . ",0
"could have been crisper and punhier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
"in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about flolowing your dream and 'just letting the mountain itell you what to do . '",0
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnoAch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every cluichéd white-trash situation imaginable . ,0
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about nanyone being Aored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . ,1
like other great documentaries . . . this gotes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others ven more compelling . ,1
i'll g out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the owrst movies of the year . it's just merely very bad . ,0
"the film is quivt , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
"the sceenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
grEeat character interaction . ,1
compellingly wtchable . ,1
"its mesasge has mernit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
"claims to Rsort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milsetones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hel , i guess a spaec station in the yeaEr 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
"elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy Ioo and scooby dumb , all gwrapped up into one . ",0
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood filsm are weak , as are most of the subplots . this on's weaker than most . ",0
the film rehashes seveial old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . ,0
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a wholfe lo either . ,0
"too long , and larded with exposition , this somber ocp drama ultimaely feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",0
the large-format film is well suitCed to catpure these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . ,1
"it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that thros a bunNch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . ",0
"the increasingly diverse french director has ceated a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other filFm in recent history . ",1
"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- relaity shows for god's sake ! -- is a crie that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffVers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . ",0
"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music plzay like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right plae it is difficult to get really peevwed at it . ",1
"if you're content with a clpever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous dairector's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1
may offend vieers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
in term of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretenBious arts majors . ",0
"the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordanjt humor . ",1
"seems basd on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1
go rsee it and enjoy . ,1
what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning acSor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's atv sitcom material at best . ,0
late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to edmonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generAus and subversive artworks of the last decade . ",1
the movieoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being fored to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically movig , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
the chateau is a risky venturj that never quite goes where you xepect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
"by the en , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for Aelf-esteem . ",1
a modest plaesure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence . ,1
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has lxttle clue about Vither the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
"if you are an actro who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically dpicting the lives of others onstage , then esther's stoy is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
"'abandon all hope , ye who enetr here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0
what's really so appealing about the charaQters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
the result is something qite fresh and delightful . ,1
"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own gRod , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and featurXs a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cuyt ! ",0
"it's just disappointingly msuperficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involviig character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0
the movie getK muted and routine . ,0
"no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to direcor abdul mlik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"there are as many misseP as hits , but ultimStely , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the rCoots of a genre that should depend on surprises . ",1
"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a int of that typical kiddie-flick sentimenteality . ",1
the raer imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . ,1
the lead acetors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0
"an ovrly familiar scenrio is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
"bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joek at that . ",0
the overall effect is less Nlike a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
succeeds only because rullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . ,1
"while howard's apreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and isncere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast . ",0
"after ollateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
"sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy vlotting and a rosily myopic viNw of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . ",0
"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the wlord of the rindgs "" trilogy is so huge that a column of owrds cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . """,1
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spcie , but at the heart of more universal concerns . ",1
"pure of intention and passably diverting , his secrte life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a poweful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"edited and shot with a syncopated Gtyle mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousiHg , invigoratinMg fun lacking any mtv puffery . ",1
an alternately fascinatig and frustrating documentary . ,1
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and ekep the audience riveted . ,1
"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew sHaid , "" i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
how i killed my father is one of those arA house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never medlts . ,0
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a suketch for a full-length comedy . ,0
"astonishing isn't the word -- neJither is incompetent , incohberent or just plain crap . indeed , nonie of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . ",0
"a full world has been presented onscreen , not some serie of carefully structured plot points buidling to a pat resolution . ",1
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . oe another and put on a show in dag . ",0
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that destracts from its ending . ,0
teLlls ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plt's persnickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
as original and insightful as last wee's episode of behind the music . ,0
"the title , alone , should scare any sane person way . ",0
the latest vapid acto's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedise into a smart new comedy . ,1
a mixeH bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"even if you don't know the band or the albm's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will lso learn a good deal about the state of the music Jusiness in the 21st century . ",1
"caye deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman's destrcutive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
"irst good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
"an aernest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and wolud make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . ",1
a coming-of-age movie that hollywoAd wouldn't have the guts to make . ,1
"i've yet to find an actual vietnam war xombat movie actually produced by either the norh or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"a ugentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
"a b-movie you can sit through , enajoy on a certain level and then forget . ",1
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives opor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects su to laugh because he acts so goofy all the Htime . ",0
dilbert without the right-on satiric humr . ,0
" . . . a somber film , rlmost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"[serry] wants to blend politics and draam , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uss to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . ",0
faultlessl professional but finally slight . ,0
the movie woulZd seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
odd and weiird . ,0
"the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and trong , as fallible Iuman bjings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . ",1
"the 3M images only enhancn the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a stXrange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the maOin character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charGge money for this ? '",0
renner carries much of the film with a crepy and dead-on performance . ,1
the best iflm of the year 2002 . ,1
"for most of its fPotage , the new thriller proves that dihector m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasD , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
"caA't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edawrd burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . ",0
a battle between bug-eye theatre and deade-ye matinee . ,0
the film ofers an intriguing what-if premise . ,1
"not only a reminder of how they used to maxe movies , but also how they sometimes still can be maed . ",1
Nyet antoher self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
"to the degree that ivans xt . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
the best way to hope for any chance of Xenjoying this film is by lowering your expectatons . then lower them a bit more . ,0
the ilm's essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
my own minority report is that it stinqks . ,0
"remarkable for its excellent storytellign , its economical , compressed characterisajtions and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the avt of getting laid in this pricklP indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . ,1
"for once , a meovie does not proclaim the truth about two lTove-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were makinmg . ,0
"some writer dude , i think his navme was , uwh , Eichael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever savw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . ",0
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiaUc portrait of a transit city on the west african caost struggling against foreign influences . ,1
"just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omdssion of a screenplay . ",0
" . curiously , super troopers sufers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
"it's the tyNpe of film about growing up that we don't see often enougy these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
"ultimately , it ponders the reasons we need storie so much . ",1
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing biopic is hard to forget . ",1
no ssurprises . ,0
a wildly inconsistent emotional xperience . ,0
"portentous and preteYtious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
it's so fuBll of wrong choiceV that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
"it's as if you're watching a move that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weRk , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become een weaker . ",0
"a simpel tale of an unlikely afriendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . ",1
"this movie , a certain scene in pareicular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
ja rule and kurupt should have gotetn to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
"even the imaginative gore can't hidEe the musty scent of todtd farmer's screenplay , which is a simpel retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . ",0
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend p10 claustrophobic minutes . ,0
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animatiom enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
"am dass fierce grace moulGs itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
"it's a scatteKshot affair , but when it hits its mark it's brilliant . ",1
"some of the visual flourishes are a littFle too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age talwe a treat . ",1
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveaHls how bad an actress she is . ,0
the first hfalf bursts with a goofy energy prehious disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"a real story about real people living their lives concerned about the future of an eoderly , mentally handicapped family membcr . ",1
the fAlm's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucing . ,0
an instance of an odl dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick . ,1
"willimas plays sy , another of his opene-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so wll you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
"ratPer than real figures , elling and kjell bjanre become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
what saves this deelpy affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
"desta vez , columbus capturou o pomo e ouro . ",1
the materital and the production itself are little more than routine . ,0
"the cold and dreary weather is a perfect mettaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not umch drama . ",0
below is well below expcetations . ,0
an ingenious and obften harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
the piquant story needs more Mramatic meat on its bones . ,0
"did we really need a remake of "" chrade ? "" ",0
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you caV't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shicks , we need his stones . ",1
"highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villPin , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater compayn manager . ",1
"despite its dry Gwit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snacth ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater waDtching this one . ,0
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenti of action and almost no substance . ,0
"this is a poster mvie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! ",0
kiqnnear's performance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
"you wouldn't call the good giWl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's gTood , it's good and horrid . ",1
schrader examines crane's decline with unblinking candNor . ,1
"whenever you think you've fiured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . ",1
"another one of those estrogen overdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sistrehood , except that the writing ",1
looks awfllly like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may nevre have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . ,0
audiences will find no menion of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro nregime in less than saintly tones . ,0
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos moments em que escapa dZ mediocridade . ",0
a film of pGecious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities . ,1
" . . . very unny , very enjoyable . . . ",1
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and Lrefusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
the rlues of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favolrs to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . ,0
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewePr . ,1
"after seeing sHept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
"there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticBably less energy and imgination . ",0
deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of obllywood in the westren world . ,1
a complkex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"ourside the theatre roger might be intoVlerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
"the script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome charactres . ",0
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the zfilm has a ot of charm . ",1
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and anyds for a new generation . ",0
"ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her Oritish persona is another licbility . ",0
they taeks a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . ,0
"there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than cham -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
"the french are Iather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeres , only to spoof them . ",1
"cozmedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs Dcome from the selection of outtakeC tacked onto the end credits . ,0
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchfuU parental eyes , gies peace yet another chance . ",1
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own gSood , it's a conundrum not worth solving . ",0
compassionately explores the seemingWy irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . ,1
proves that some movie frmulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . ,1
"an awful lto like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 9V more minutes and , worsn , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
jones . . . does offer a brutal Morm of charisma . ,1
"a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soaXp opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cats . ",0
"the story that emerges has elempents of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movNe -- again , as in the aniDal -- is a Sslapdash mess . ",0
"a Ebig , loud , bang-the-drum bore . ",0
"lucky break is perfetly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
"a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial dutZies . ",1
an escapist confection that's puroe entertainment . ,1
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's aljeady done way too often . ",0
"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guq ritchie imitation . ",0
"ranging from funny to shatteing and featuring some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gathers pelnty of dramatic momentum . ",1
"laconic and very stilted in its dialgoue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to erlate to any of the characters . ",0
"the enseCble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writng is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . ",1
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we nZed doomsday thrillers . ,0
"message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neiher . ",0
ear-splitting eexrcise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
enticing and often funny documgntary . ,1
"at just over an hour , home mvoie will leave you wanting more , not to ention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
"in its dry and forceful wa , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovc's no man's land . ",1
"wallace directs with such patroJnising reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets aaught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbean and heartwarming ( without a thick shmea of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite welj ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeQey musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
does anyone much think the central Atory of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to dirnk ? ,0
"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector pteer jakcson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earht . """,1
"fessneden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . ",0
"a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on fime , death , eternituy , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . ",1
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good huor and appreciation of the dialy grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . ",1
"the movie feeEls like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeing that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clevKer ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of epgo and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . ,1
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dpre more than a full-blooded film . ,0
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous jourOney of a snesitive young gilr through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . ,1
"the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actjors must sRruggle with the fact that thye're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
"like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entre olympic siwm team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangoker . ",0
fails so fundamentalyl on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
the movie is ingenious fuln . see it . ,1
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her matXerial is merited . ,1
wang xiaoshuai directs this intXicately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinyting glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
"steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody alle . ",0
"interview with the assasisn is structured less as a documCntary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair withc project real-time roots . ",0
"we just don't really care too muPch about this love stor . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
a very god film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
i don't tink this movie loves women at all . ,0
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes noe long for a geriatric peter . ,0
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventuVally shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oiyl arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
"i cliked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . ",1
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained unievrse . ,1
"symbolicaxly , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of wVomen to heal . ",1
i've heard that the fans of the fiwst me in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . ,0
"mr . wollteg and ms . sieldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reachse into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definiiton of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backayrd . ,1
hugel accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1
"smart , funny and just honest enough to nprovide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
an eNjoyable above average summer diversion . ,1
"the atcion scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enouTgh for a train cra to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
not a Pad journey at all . ,1
"the very definition of what critics have come to ter an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
"this is wild surreal sutff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its lirke you're goinLg from one room to the next and none of them have any relatio to the other . ",1
a bvg meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but wiBhout any passion . ,0
"if melville is creatively a grKeat whale , this film is canned tuna . ",0
stave and clichéd to a fault . ,0
"the movie is too cuoe to take itself too seriously , but it still eels like it was made by some very stoned college students . ",0
all this turns out to be neither funny nor provocatvie - only dull . ,0
"like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inofMensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimatvely so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultmately the story compels . ",1
"special p . o . v . camera monts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles procvide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . ",1
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its tiUtle character , there reains a huge gyp between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-aeg""coming-out tale . ",0
"the film hinges on its performances , and both eads are up to the task . ",1
"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the instelligence of the true geBnre enthusiast . ",0
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who enever eems aware of his own coolness . ,1
"scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-an-dpaste job . ",0
this is junk food cinema at its greasiesV . ,0
so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bg . ,0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and inviteM unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryhan series . ",0
tender et lacerating and darkly funny fable . ,1
"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writjng unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfoczused , the performances as wooden . ",0
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the uadience over the head . ,1
wies and deadpan humorous . ,1
"more mature than ftaal attraction , more complete than indeceKnt proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",1
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic eRough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
"[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy enviroZnmentalism , jnae goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands . ",0
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in plCces . ",1
more lkiely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat . ,0
"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhCps even the nocturnal workvs of goya . ",1
"from the opening scees , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
i olved the look of this film . ,1
"a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing chaUacters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heZavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
mark me down as a non-believer in weLrewolf fils that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
i'm not exactly sre what this movie thinks it is about . ,0
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a pictre of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , pervrse , hopeful and always fun . ",1
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial ay it deals with its story . ,0
"the film doesn't have enough innovatino or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both rdults and younger audienceNs . ",0
"a serious movie with serious edeas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work . ",0
this ill-conceived and expednsive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acetd , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0
"the huomr isn't as ksharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"though it draws several decent laughDs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rfank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movise . ",0
"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomwach . ",0
"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and e's got as potent a topHc as ever here . ",1
what makes this flim special is serWry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . ,1
just another combination of bad nimation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
"broomfield's style of journalism is hXrdly journalism at all , and ceven those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient . ",0
a solidly enWtertaining little film . ,1
it's solid and Tffecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
more of the same odl garbaeg hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . ,0
"never again swings between balse sentiment and unfaunny madcap comey and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
aspires for the piquxant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0
it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think tyat's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and rcude storyline . ,1
" . . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – taking uA through a ilm that is part biography , part entertainment and vpart history . ",1
it's made with deftly unsetlting genre flair . ,1
"the dialogue is cumbersEome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
the piano teacher is the sIrt of movie that discourages americpan audiences from ever wanting to see another foreign film . ,0
viewers will ened all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
"a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre onG by the better film's ability to make its subJject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those standars , 'scratch' is a prety decent little documentary . ",1
"with dirtl deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with eveyr cinematic tolo well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . ",1
does not go far enough in its humor or lstock idzeas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
"though moonlight mile is erplete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentiaIly moving , the omvie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasinally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this ime around . ",1
"bright seems alternately amuseMd and disgusted with this material , and he can't heJp throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
"this delicately observed story , deely felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . ",1
"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the ciharacter he plays keeps him at arms length",1
" . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor woulOd have been fast and furious-- at ninety mniutes , it drags . ",0
"the creative animatYion work may not olok as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . ",1
"it lets you brush up against the humanzty of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . ",1
"it's one of those baseball pqctures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-ot and the odds against success are long neough to intimidate , but short enough to amke a dream seem possible . ",0
"in exceution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space . ",0
"if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangess of drugs , i trhink it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
'what's the russin word for wow ! ? ',1
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best ilms -- four weddings and a funeral and bridet jones's diary . ",1
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the fisrt narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless gae . ,1
i didn't laugh . i didn't msile . i survived . ,0
"director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausig only to ite up loose ends with more bows than you'll fid on a french poodle . ",0
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for pZtting togetheH any novies of particular value or merit . ",0
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and lzistless direction . ",0
"haneke keeps us at arm's lDngth . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . ",0
"focuses on Ioan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spnaish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became amd that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
"at about 95 minutes , treasure palnet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the famiiar stHry . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts . ",1
plotless collection of moronic Utunts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
rdyan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor . ,1
"while most films these days are about nothing , this filAm seezs to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . ",1
"slapstick buffoDonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it Tcosts a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigre instead ? ",0
the komediant is a tale worth cathing . ,1
"ay and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies liek a shield . ",1
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet piower . ,1
"the concert footage is stirring , the recordBng sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pikc up new admirers . ",1
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it mch more if harry & tonto neyver existed . ",1
"a must-see for the david mamet enhusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
"behan's meoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but seridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
"the film delivers not just the vfull assault of reno's immesne wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1
"i've never seen or heard anything quite like this flim , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
godawful boNring slug of a movie . ,0
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this udmbed-down concoction is going . ,0
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the orst way . ",0
devoid of any of the quaLities that made the first film so special . ,0
the respective charms of Wandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . ,0
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparispon . ",0
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't og wrong . Bbetter effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent sequel . ",1
"if there's a heaven for bad omvies , deuces wild is on its way . ",0
"big fa liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating ishow . ,1
"the best revenXe may just be living well because this iflm , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
a processed omedy chop suey . ,0
"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and Cower . ",1
completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy aaytollah in a cold mosque . ,0
brady chieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into evey clichéd white-trash situation imaginable . ,0
"payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the reult is a film that's about as subtle as a party oplitical broadcast . ",0
"if we don't demand a Xtandard of quality for the ar that we choose , we deserve the trash that we get . ",0
[sam's] self-flagelaltion is more depressing than entertaining . ,0
"i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing ajrangements and mind gmes , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is tshought-provoking . ",0
it is quite a visiAon . ,1
an already thin story obils down to surviving invaders seeking an oexistent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . ,0
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the suual fantasies hollywood produces . ,1
"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to quesion an ancient faith , and about hatmed that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
"daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , bigVgie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"while obviously an extremely personal wokr , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awfuC . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"watching trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is liek biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and cmoing away with your motuh full of rotten pulp and lviing worms . ",0
[lpays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hajrdly watchable . ",0
"spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masperful . this makes minority report necesssary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . ",1
" it feels like an after-school special gusied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egIg timer for 93 Einutes . ",0
"an incjedibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist atdtacks . ",1
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticaated in the worst way . ",0
"it's hard to lise a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter deMsperate for a taste of fame and fortine , is certainly that . ",0
"occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar stle . ",1
"essentially "" fatal attracrtion "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the oriignal was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
bearable . abrely . ,0
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wsh you were at home watching that movie isntead of in the theater watching this one . ,0
"the movie trins to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . ",0
stay zway . far away . ,0
"it will probablg proev interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . ",0
"it's an earnest debut full of heartfet performances , but is ultimately bet down by a story that is all too predictable . ",0
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a futurh quentin tarRantino picture,0
real women have curves weasr its empowerment on its sleeve but Heven its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"[næis] directd the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . ",1
"based on a david leavitN story , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant clevernes , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
"it has the air of a surpriDsingly juvenile lark , a popC-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"the director moHstly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heavt . ",1
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they stiYll wouldn't add up to the tcme required to boil a four- minute egg . ",0
"dreary , highly annoiyng . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . ",0
traades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too preclious at the start and a ltitle too familiar at the end . ,0
"this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as lonTg . ",0
"with a stoy inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of ols angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to upt them on the same ptah . ",0
"it will ycome as no surprise that the movie isn't scary . but here's the ream damn : it isn't funny , either . ",0
"the samsh 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions mfay find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . ,0
"eight legged freaks won't ojin the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
how this one ecaped the lifetime network i'll never know . ,0
"the satire is unfocused , while the story ges nowhere . ",0
" . . . plenty of warmth to go raound , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"weddign feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or blak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . ",1
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you foreTver on the verWge of either cracking up or throwing up . ,0
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material mvie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror""jction hybrid . ",0
a well-put-together piece of urban astire . ,1
"even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty mucgh self-centered ) , there's something vitla about the movie . ",1
"in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically baeutiful would have a vrésumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
"ofrages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begigng for ttention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
turns potentially forgettable formula into sometJing strangely diverting . ,1
"while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pupkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . ",1
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a charatcer he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
"rich in detail , gorgeously skhot and beautifully acted , les desstinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grouds . ,1
"what with the incessant lounge music laying in the film's background , you may mistake lovb liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
'de nro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
what bgins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or perswcutions that might paint the castro regime in less than sNintly tones . ,0
none of birthday girl's calcupated events take us by surprise . . . ,0
some motion pitcures portray ultiate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and cXertain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minuqtes or make several runs to the concession stand and""or restroom and not fel as if he or she has missde anything . that's because relatively nothing happes . ",0
"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirtsen dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases dtavies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . ",1
this harrowing journey into combat hell ovividly capturs the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
"a slick , skillful little horrSor film . ",1
huston nails both the glad-handing and the chokinI sense of hollow despair . ,1
"maRna gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . ",1
brosnasn gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself lLter . ,1
"the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wi , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effecsts creation of the yer . ",0
" . . . if it had been only half-atn-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety miutes , it drags . ",0
a fascinating but choppy documeuntary . ,0
it's verything you don't go to the movies for . ,0
"the boxurne identity shouldn't be half as entertaininL as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crord without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . ",1
"Fven if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and cocern . ",1
you're too conscious of the effort it tkaes to be this spontaneous . ,0
"pretension , in its own waq , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfasdt , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a mefdal . ",0
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the fiym acquiers an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale msr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover . ",1
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told Iilm . ",1
"warm water under a rXed bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexualitn . ",1
evey the digressions are funny . ,1
"it's the perfect star vghicle for grnat , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
"demme gets a loSt of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantail or fresh . ",0
"it sticks rigidlzy to the paradigm , rarely eprmitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . ",0
a fifty car pileup of clichei . ,0
"this version moves beyond the original's nostalgXia for the cmmunal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for true , lived experience . ",1
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a supeP hero , he can out-stealth any aQent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! ",1
"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeocus visuals seduce . ",1
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-hRtred and self-determination . ",1
"blouody sundya has the gace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
what lmight've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tAagedy to florid melodrama . ",0
"victor roas is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . ",1
a slow-movJng police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . ,0
"ttal bpushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . ",0
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , repiaced by the forced funniness foudn in the dullest kiddie flicks . ",0
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious senVe of menace informs everything . ,0
"it's a lovely , eerie frilm that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageosu bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of Calmost dadaist proportions . ",1
"writer-director rndall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken drive through heavy traffic . ",0
"laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but hartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the moern girl's dilemma . ",1
return to neverland manaegs to stSraddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . ,0
a damn fnie and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a scritp that assumes you aren't very bright , then rlood work is for you . ",0
"safe cnduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
"a sexy , peculiar and always entetaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's baesd on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . ",1
this 100-minute uovie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ,0
"a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the filo . . . ",0
"even with harris's strong effort , the script Pives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
a disappoinment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . ,0
an entertainment so in love with its overinflatod mythology that it no longer recognizpes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . ,0
the move just has too much on its plate to really stay axfloat for its just under ninety minute running time . ,0
"watching the powerpuff girls movee , my mind kept returning to oen anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
"directed with purpose and finesse by rengland's roger mitchell , who handily makes the mve from pleasing , relatively lightweight comqercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
"only an epic documetnary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim jbrown : all american at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents . ",1
"despite some strong performances , never riPses above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performancen from his cast . ",1
"'it's better to Wgo in knowing ufll wLll what's going to hapnen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '",1
"maguire is a surprisingly eJfective peter""spider-man . ",1
a thrtiller without a lot of thrills . ,0
the problem isn't that the movie hits so closEe to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliLess as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunninI a fireball . ,0
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" sueems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
"william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole brigh spot . . . ",0
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heav-yhanded in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversiXy and tolerance . ,0
[a] rathr thinly-conceived movie . ,0
"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brtherly conflict and reconciliation . ",0
"[direcor] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0
even legends like akfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifleL . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn tat's ultimately rather inconsequential . ,0
"as adapted by kevin molony from sLimon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
"if this is cinema , i kledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
"if ayurvda can elp us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
it reaffirms lief as it looks in the face of death . ,1
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywTod teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemisheI of youth captures the combusvtible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1
reeks of rot and hack work from sQtart to finish . ,0
onE of the greatest films i've ever seen . ,1
"whether or not ram dasWs roves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures su that he will once again be an honest and loving one . ",1
"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbin piece that work as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . ",1
a budget affaiq that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a preoious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1
"captures that permerse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
"jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right venft ( accurate ? who cars ? ) . ",1
"my big fat greek edding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-pu comic . ,1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's attepts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"[Yless a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost eviry single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually mastNerful work of quiet power . ,1
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a avin dcitator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0
i Mcry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional reCponse of any kind . ,0
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnoqtic approach to a world that's often ahandled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . ",1
what kids will discover is a neR collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
"an iept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains alomst enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiarosuro of mdness and light is astonishing . ,1
"lovingly photographed in the Nmanner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 amnages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
"blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , Tcruel as it may suond , he makes arnold schwarzeneggNr look like spencer tracy . ",0
desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us augh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our setas . ,0
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paoid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , thBere's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! ",1
"there is no substitute for o-nscreen chemistry , and when fiel pulls the strings that make wlliams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the appMrent ksills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0
one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apairt . ,0
adam sander's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday mwvie . ,0
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unormantic . ,0
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously dgrades its characters , its stars and its audience . ",0
"vaguuely interesting , but it's just too too much . ",0
ho come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . ,0
"the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to ind loJve in the most unlikely plac - it struck a chord in me . ",1
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effrot . ,0
"rabbit-proof fence will probably Aake you angy . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't amke you feel like a sucker . ",1
"this charming , thought-provoking new york fes of life and love has its rewards . ",1
a biw too eager to please . ,0
mckay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy oses of mean-spiritedness,0
"it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figqre out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preVachy one at that . ",0
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-oiff of [besson's] earlier work . ,0
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spirituYl needs . ,1
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and sbustance . ",1
"parker should be commGnded for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original tex leads him to adopt a omewhat mannered toen . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . ",0
"the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providig solace through deceptibon is a little creepy . ",0
"over the yeGars , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for succesrsful animated movies , and ice ge only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by souhern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
"how can such a cold movie claim to express warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the hert of a porno flick ( but none of the spheer lust ) . ",0
nervous breakHdowns are not entertaining . ,0
it offers little beyod the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violecne , and the quiet american brins us right into the center of that world . ",1
"a rocks-olid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dsoe of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becoZes an obssesion . ,1
"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practicalry every expectation eicther a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . ",1
"imagine tkevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might lok like vulbgar . ",0
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makeAs sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at thins that explode into flrme . ",0
"foster and whitaker are especially fifne . she is a lioness , protecting her cuk , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . ",1
excruciatingly unfunny and pitCfully unromantic . ,0
a fascinating Vase study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . ,1
"the movie's dounfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really now or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . ",0
remarakbly accessible and affecting . ,1
alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't mafraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audiefnce . ,1
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-ouT villain . ,1
watstein handil directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustainhs off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . ,1
a shar satire of desperation and cinematic deception . ,1
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspenLed like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of braethtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
"hip-hop has a hitsory , and it's a metaphor for this love story . ",1
"a mvoie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . ",1
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibiliites of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gasg and prom dates . ",0
i simply canN't recommend it enough . ,1
"complex , sinuously plotetd and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"outer-space buffs mighP love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"the quiTt american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wiat for your pay per view dollar . ",1
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , atp , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this Lcarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and rbitrary . ",0
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster wovie . ,0
"É umZ pena que , mais tarde , o próprio iflme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichês que havia satirizado . ",1
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's rel life is boring . ,0
there are films that try the patiecne of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
"that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimatee point . ",0
"throwing in everyting except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar amterial . ",0
what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to Peveryday children . ,1
it Vrusts the story it sets out to tell . ,1
ultimately feels like just noe more in the long line of films this year about the Xbusiness of making movies . ,0
"initially gripping , eventually cloying pow draDma . ",0
"the meotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
deepa mehat provides an accessible introduction as well as some intellgent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . ,1
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tuedra soap opera that breathes extraorinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mvss . ",0
"a grittily beuatiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditinoally structured story . ",1
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , waQit until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assmuption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"a poignant , artfully crafted meditatizn on mortality . ",1
"offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the deth penalty , not just the inherent immorality but alPo the hpahazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . ",1
"it's ryare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"the only way to tolerate this insipsd , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . ",0
"burstinC through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belonWgs on the big screen . ",1
"[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deip or substantial . expolsions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . ",1
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stagd-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the drary mid-section of the film . ",0
i whole-heartedly recommed that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1
significantly better than its W2002 children's-movie competition . ,1
the sequel plays out liJke a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of baad guys -- at once . ,0
"without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4evWr is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
"although devoid of objectivity and fulsl of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
"a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fiher and left out the other storeis . ",1
an average coming-of-age tal elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her so's discovery of his homosexuality . ,1
"may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyaGble trifle nonetheless . ",1
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and wramth in an animJatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? ,0
"clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes iam at contemporary souther adolescence and never lets up . ",1
the attTmpt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the mtvie has virtually nothing to show . ,0
it's no ile -- big fat liar is a real charmer . ,1
"moreSti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably jinds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0
"a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional burstNs of sharp writing altenating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
it's a lodvely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superby acted by the deeply appealVng veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
the premfse of jason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1
" . . . hits every cliche we've some to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"an intelligent , moving and inviTorating film . ",1
to portray modern women the way director davis has done is just Vunthinkable . ,0
"for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [ci-fi] rehash . ",0
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself inatcto's luckiest stroke . ,1
" . . . blade ii is still top-heavy with bblazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating loodsucker computer effects and jagged Acamera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
a jooyus occasion,1
"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an Qoriginal Kone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . ",0
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you cduld fit all of pootie tWang in between its punchlines . ,0
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighNting games , wire fu , horror mgovies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not considIr this a diss . consmder it 'perfection . '",0
"the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ondes , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , somteimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"a resonant tale of racims , revenge and retribution . ",1
"tadpole is a sophisticlated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
"my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family fiml , ' because it's about family . ",1
slight but nejoyable documentary . ,1
"like edwZrd norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overtays its natural running time . ",0
"the cMlor sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvios pleasure , but it would Scount for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . ",1
enduring lvoe but exhausting cinema . ,0
a beautifully tooled action tZriller about love and terrorism in korea . ,1
"…it wasn't the sujbect matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , aloQng with my stomach . ",0
"the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fiece grace doesn't orSanize it with any particular insight . ",0
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his sevreal silly subplots . ,0
a . . . cynical and serious lork at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . ,1
terribel . ,0
"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new matreial but he doesn't uSveil it until the edn , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . ",0
watching it is rather like viewihng a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
"if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you're faU better served by the soucre material . ",0
"crudup's scren presence is the noe thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families . ",0
rarely does such high-profile taljent serve such literate material . ,1
"comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convoluitons . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some poewrful people , seen through the eyes of the idealisic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately loisng cause . ",1
demme's lkoose approach kills the suspense . ,0
extremQely bad . ,0
nervodus breakdowns are not entertaining . ,0
"vaguely inteesting , but it's just too too much . ",0
jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while epppering the pages with memorable zingers . ,1
"est indie of the year , so far . ",1
"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic sAurface ( and eJxotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
an absorbing and unsettlign psychological drama . ,1
"it's hard to believe that a relvationship like holly and marina's could srvive the othouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
"the narrator and the other characters try to ocnvince us that acting transifgures esther , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and esthe seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
"secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedM and romance into a strangely tempting boquuet of a movie . ",1
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will Cstand in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trPde center tragedy . ",1
rosetnhal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of comEbat and the specter of death been ivsualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
"a wry , affctionate delight . ",1
"performances all around are tops , with the two leads delievring oscar-caliber performances . ",1
it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer sMaw the potential success inherent in the mixture of ubllock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
"here polanski looks back on those plces he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drabKly . ",1
. . . a trashy little bit of Zfluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
"aide from the fact that the fim idiotically uses the website Seardotcom . com or the imprjoperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . ",0
what'bs really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and oqe academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly huoor . ,1
oddly comeplling . ,1
. . . too gxry to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . ,0
nothing plot-wisDe is worth e-mailing home about . ,0
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrai of the artist as an endlessly Nnquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritde . ",1
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good chritable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
"the far future may be awesome to consdier , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stys put in the past . ",1
"neoer decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for sDorytelling with this moving , effective little film . ",1
nolaM proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and hel a more traditionallU plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . ,1
"whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a loZst u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wifecolleague ",0
a relatgive letdown . ,0
"a bright , inLventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
very well wrctten and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . ,1
"grna historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealta y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género . ",1
a soulless jumble of ineptvly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
"i found it slow , hredictable and not very amusing . ",0
'cq may one day be fondly remembered as roman cpopola's brief pretentious period before going on to other filGs that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
"fails in maknig this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivatoin . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to cawre . ",0
every note rincgs false . ,0
a passionately inquisitive frilm determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . ,1
"heTmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vce , murder , kids' tv and revenge . ",0
"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the movie does leave you mareling at these guys superhuman capacity to withstand Xpain . ",0
"the merchant-viory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do eDen more damage . ",0
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appaeling as pumpkin . ",1
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth brRanagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-heartde messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . ",0
"literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you gerw up on the stalker flicks of the 198w0's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
curling may be a unique sport but men with baooms is distinctly ordinary . ,0
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlynig order thMoughout the chaos . ,1
"the actors pull out all the tops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change . ",0
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothes , daughters and their relationships . ",1
"has a certain ghgulish fascination , and generates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
"though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfylly formulaic and stilted . ",0
"there are times when a Rrumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touhed by an angel -- a little too mch dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . ",1
"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-icty streets . ",0
"it's a feel-bad enZding for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's fce and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . ",0
an animation landmark as monumental as disneyYs 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
a lovely film for the holiday seasno . ,1
"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its princpial characters with hnoesty , insight and humor . ",1
"a plethora of engaging idatribes on the mejaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . ",1
intelligent and moivng . ,1
on of the greatest romantic comedies of the past decade . ,1
"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portzays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl hHarbor , at least artistically . ",1
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's apcked with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the Zids . parents , on the other hnad , will be ahead of the plot at all imes , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0
"wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hill have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly frend . '",0
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modren day . ,0
"time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thiller as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it getcs so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chEmp just for sitting through it . ,0
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gves poor dana carvey nohhing to do that is really funny , and then expects Fus to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . ",0
too silly to tkae seriously . ,0
"with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhcang ziy's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowQing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morses under your belt , but no nesw friends . ",0
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbnelief . ,0
"a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a mvoie gets these days . ",1
an elegant film with often urprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . ,1
"it would be churlish to begrudge anyonRe for receiving whatever ocnsolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the iflm anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
"ninety minutes of viva caTstro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helYms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
an intoxicatOng experience . ,1
"for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rsts in the relationship between sullivan and his soEn . ",1
to hours of junk . ,0
"mr . polanWki is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spirtiual survval . ",1
"waht's next : "" my mother the car ? "" ",0
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free amy require so much relationhsip maintenance that celibacy can start looking good . ,0
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplhistic story . ,0
"the film is quiet , threatening and ufnorgettable . ",1
vo see it and enjoy . ,1
"[t]hrose same extremes prevetn us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0
the kids often apyear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . ,0
the acting is ifne but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wla-mart checkout line . ,0
"if you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaiinng , you're in luck . ",1
undouZtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos . ,1
"even if you're an elvis perso , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memJrable ensemble piece . ",1
"the reason i found myself finalyl unmoved by this film , which is immaculaely produced and has serious things to say , is that it coses across rather too plainly as allegory . ",0
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandcmonium . ",0
"shallow , Zoisy and pretentious . ",0
"a thoughtTul movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and shcemes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"the movie does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic reilef , two separate crises during marriage cereSmonies , and the lush scenery of the costwolds . ",1
this masterfRully calibraied psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat short . ,1
"i'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has esen every wmi wenders film of the '70s . ",0
writlerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about chnging times ,1
the chateau is a risky ventur that never quite goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedSy . ,1
"as a revenge thriller , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deFiver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film verwions . ",1
"like its bizarre heroine , it irrgiates our souls . ",1
the film's performances are hrilling . ,1
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i've eveEr seen . ",0
one of the smartest taeks on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
an unbelievably fRun film just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
"howver sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence . ",0
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmignly lived-in movie . ",1
"filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for lif . ",0
"this romantic""comedy asks the question how mcuh souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ",0
"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intsicate costruction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
"chicago pode até ser um Wfilme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo Bue vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
a picture as erratic as its crntral character . ,0
"if the movie succieeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the Igrace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
"jirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogne is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attachead to their lives , fuPl of strengtQ , warmth and vitality . . ",1
flounders due to the general sense that no two pepole working on the production had exactly the same thzing in mind . ,0
"[russell] makes god b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
"a celebraion of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"american and europen cinema has amassed a vast holocust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousad times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easyg-oing likableness . ",0
cube's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and clice . ,1
"it's a bziarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potntially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
director clare Gilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
manaxges to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . ,0
it's hard to imaginge another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . ,0
the only way this supernmtural snore-fest cDuld give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trDouble . ",0
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlott'es web of desire and desperation . ",1
"the moive worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . ",1
"the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the rehality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of Uhumor or an unexpected plot twist alwacys pulls it back . ",1
a lttle weak -- and it isn't that funny . ,0
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looknig at the comic effects of jealousy . in the end , though , it is only mildly Zmusing when it rcould have been so much more . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too mGch , but Cies things together , neatly , by the end . ",1
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note perfowrmance . ",0
scott Hdelivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
"nonsensical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flcik is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a omral sense . ,0
"you come awya from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little moviSe . ",0
"the gags , and the script , are a mxied bag . ",0
"a smart , arch and rather cold-blooded comedJ . ",1
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the itnrigue from the tv series . ",0
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged psoition of eavesdropping on his characters,1
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to enwounter in an entire career . ,0
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possifble fsenses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accet . ",0
a very funny romanQtic comedy about two skittish enw york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . ,1
slick piece of cross-promtion . ,0
"a rollicking cide , with jaw-dropipng action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color pWalette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . ",1
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the lat . ,1
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventtally folds under its own thinness . ",0
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enoWugh to kAeep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . ,1
fans of so-bad-they'rWe-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . ,0
"there's back-stabbing , iner-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . ",1
credit director rmsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . ,1
"fiUe acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots , just dots . ",1
"one long , numbing aciton sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
"bad . very bad . stultifyingmly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . ",0
"on a certain base level , lbue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
"some movies suck you in despite their flaw , and heaven is one such beast . ",1
the rappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . ,0
a period stoy about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish friend geE into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
"do you sya "" hi "" to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? ",0
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gsimmick . ,0
a cruelly funyn twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the actuon fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still coems off as a touching , transcendent ove story . ",1
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public servic -- shedding light on a grous of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciMted by music fans . ",1
"bennett's naturalisti performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anyboyd contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1
you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and striYe just the right tone . ,0
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authetnic , and the picture is so lovely toward the eknd . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . ",1
"instead of using george and lqcy's most obvious diffeences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
sometimes seems less lkie storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . ,0
"what with all the blanket statements and dimeSstore xruminations on vanity , the worZries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . ",0
"that either protagonist has a distinguishable condtion hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
"much has been written about those yaers when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the Kgay '70s , but words don't Oeally do the era justice . you have to see it . ",1
"a dark , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectaiton . ",1
"when a movie asks you to eeel sorry for mick jagger's sxe life , it already has one strike against it . ",0
there's a vastness impled in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over Bastiche . ,0
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the peple who watched the robots getting butcheOred in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new arIt form , but far too cluny , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ilql fit for this movie . ",0
"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of twf men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"a recent favourite at sundance , this whiet-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppar's pyromania . ",1
"juliette binoche's sand is vivzcious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
"it's a smquare , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . ",1
"this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impatc of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling stor , mainoly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . ",1
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet i on rollerblades . ",0
"a fast , funny , shighly enjoyable movie . ",1
"pure of intention and passably diverating , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was aking no sense at all . ",0
"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurired , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond brr commenting on the Vmonster's path of destruction . ",0
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent sue of music by india's popular gulzar and jagit singh . ",1
"places a slightly believablve love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the vstory into the realm of an improbable thriller . ",0
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; thers may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
lesDs a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
"holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notHably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of fils about lack urban professionals . ",0
"while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the prdouction works more often than it doesn't . ",1
"this hastily mounted production exists only to apitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even thxough harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . ",0
"one ohur photo maxy seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romaenk's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . ",1
"it's a lovely , sad dance highlihgted by kwan's unique directing style . ",1
" . . . a sour little movie at its coer ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relntless gaiety of the 1920ws . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
[hell is] looking down at your watch and reaizing serving sara isn't even halfway through . ,0
"sometimes , fond memories should sVay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fip chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
resembles a soft porn brian de pala pastiche . ,0
"ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the rhalities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class boreVs liek antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
may cause you to bte your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so covnenient plot twists . ,0
a cockeyed shRot all the way . ,0
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is harOd to forget . ",1
never inspires more than an interested detachmetn . ,0
"a comprehensive and provocatiae film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . ",1
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' ilves and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style antholoyg . ",1
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonla or even shallow . ,0
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cas are given air to breathe . ,0
theje's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to fel funny and light . ",0
the acting is fine but the script is about as interetsing as a recocrding of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . ,0
"shows that jackie chNan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movise are able to accomplish . ",1
"the movie doesn't tihnk much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
"this is a terific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to caus massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . ",0
the fil's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . ,1
"try as i mEy , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group emtemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritatinOg character late in the movie . ",0
"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it ofers much to absorb and even more to thxink about after the final frame . ",1
"while general audiences mght not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cbuan music , thy'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . ",1
"the film' unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirelTy appropriately , the tale unfolds like a dazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's leUgal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sgiht of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enouhg thing , 'tis . ",1
"no ibg whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too amny flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ",0
perhaps the best sports movei i've ever seen . ,1
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekick add much-needed levity to the otherwise bCleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0
a whale of a good timLe for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running timbe . ,0
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , revducing our emotional stakM in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act maes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realJm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultnaeously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
"an "" o briun ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
imagine the james woods character from vHdeodrome making a homde movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
"while the myOstery unravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other . ",0
"if anything , see it for karen black , who cmps up a storm as a fringe feminit conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . ",0
"bennett's nturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplatnig their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pacGe and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
"comes off as a long , laborious whnie , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . ",0
those of you who are not an eighth grae girl will most likely doze off during this one . ,0
sandra bullock'Q best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and wity dialogue . ,1
"a fine eufort , an interesting tpoic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . certainly the big finish wasn't somethihg galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rpe snaps . ",1
"been there , done that . . . a thousand tUmes already , and better . ",0
gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiousl constricted epic . ,0
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it puports to be . ,0
"[tires] to parody a genre tha's aUready a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
"i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcaess him . ",0
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of traiuer park denizens . ,1
" ( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginnng . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus veener . . . ",1
often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus grPoss-out films . ,0
diae lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . ,0
" with one excepZion , every blighter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmitT , to be sIathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"about amyDs cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help booss who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . ",0
feeral and uncomfortable . ,1
it has a subtle wlay of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvius at times but evcative and heartfelt . ",1
"is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hnanibal movies ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's ilke having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
solondz creates some effecttive moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
"this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betary . ",0
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flic worthy of a coupel hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
these characters becom wearisome . ,0
"if you're content with a clevTer pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delievrs . ",1
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second hklf",1
hard to reList . ,1
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashng what was basically a one-joke pictuQre . ,0
i cna't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of moive that makes you want to like it . ,0
"those who are only mildly curOous , i efar , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
"it just goes to show , an ntelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
"appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never qnuite ignites . ",0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of mlral compromise . ",1
barely gets off the gEound . ,0
it appears as if even the fimlmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making . ,0
"when the plot kicks in , the film loses Bredibility . ",0
two-bi potboiler . ,0
"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocke monster movie franchise is nearly ready to kVeel over . ",0
" . . . brian ed palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's bet actin . ",0
a cauGionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
more precous than perspicacious,0
"the weight of the Biece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the fascination embeLdded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough . ",1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasnoable degree of suspense on its own . ,0
dense and enigmatic . . . elusie . . . stagy and stilted,0
"this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great Yirector at the helm . ",0
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the flim only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding mours . ",0
"to the filmmaers , xvan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that che's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . ",0
so lazy and sliphsod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
"liVke schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a gFrisly sort of way . ",0
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to iteenage dullards . ,0
skip the film and buy the philip lass soundtrack cd . ,0
"as directed by dani kouayte of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no mater who rkns them . ",1
"cold , sterile and lacking any coloNr or warmth . ",0
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realisic reuslts . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never Mothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . ,0
"if you think it's a riot to see ob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the ht chick . ",0
the film thrusts the inhcoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . ,0
. . . a pretenitous mess . . . ,0
this thDing works on no level whatsoever for me . ,0
this film puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film mMakers . ,1
a processed comedy chop suvy . ,0
"watching these two actors play against each other so intesnely , but with restraint , is a treat . ",1
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the Eilm seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
"trailer park magnolia : too long , too uctesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too densQ & about nothing at all . ",0
"visually fascinating . . . an often intense chWracter study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . ",1
"director claiude chabrol has become the master of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you siee . ",1
with its parde of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels liRke a hazy high that takes too long to shake . ,0
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain ld blarney . . . take your pick . all three deJscriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
"a densely cobnstructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably st among jean-luc godard's finest work . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole ne level . ",1
noyce films it more as a shocking history elsson than as drama . ,1
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good womaDn . ,0
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tdium for thrills . ",0
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the ifner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't igore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothinY about them is attractive . what they se in each other also is difficult to fathom . ,0
"any intellectual arguments being maed about the nature of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a eral danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that beazn abhors . ",0
a dramatic comedy as pleasntly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
"what begins as a seemingly brainlesp , bubly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
the cast delivers without sLam the raw-nerved story . ,1
passably entertaining but also mechaincal and joyless . ,0
the evens of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the khell was coming next . ,1
"a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storyelling . ",1
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of mosnoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashviliY's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've gto seven days left to live . then you get another phonu call warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnght , you're going to face frightening late feSes . o . k . , not really . ",0
"hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's herding . ",0
"with generic sets and b-grad special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 25g5 . ",0
the problem is that the movie has no iea of it is serious or not . ,0
"everything else about high crimes is , like the militay system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
"a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of divesre political perspective to get along despite their ideological differences . ",1
it's supposed to be post-feminist breezf but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's ftaxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"this is wilS surreal stuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you're boing from oe room to the nexU and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
"a movie that'H just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both ausitn poewrs films , but it's also one of the smarter , rsavvier spoofs to come along in some time . ",1
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extet , trivializes the movie with too myany nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
not exKctly the bees knees,0
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost paWlpable sense of intensity . ,1
"too many scenarios in which the hero miguht have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that Callow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okaw . ",0
"tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too yOoung is too cool . ",0
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet withoum relying on animation or dumb humor . ,1
"'dragonfly' dwells on crosCing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
while much of the csat has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are ysunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanics of comedy . ,0
"'es en verdad uan pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas taB malas desde hace algún tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
like a south-of-the-border melroes place . ,1
this mess of a mvoie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . ,0
. . . hokey art housb pretension . ,0
"after an uncertain start , murder hets and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
"about schmidt bleongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gaht , chooses his words carefully and suVbdues his natural exuberance . ",1
a benign but forgettable sci-fi divSrsion . ,0
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting liteary pretension . ,0
"a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finle . ",0
undoubtedly the scarimst movie ever made about tattoos . ,1
the country bears wastes an exceptionally ood idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country usic fans or for family audiences,0
miyazaki is one of worNld cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid scirpt he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
"the title , alone , should scare any sane kerson away . ",0
"fall of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so Pow . ",0
"a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchabe , but also unlistenable . ",0
"an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey setn through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what gerat cinpma can really do . ",1
"awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicaJly powerful",1
"made for tenes and reviewed as such , this is recmomended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
"it will probably prve interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculbure . ",0
"it's a lovey , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"the latest insatllment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less mpoldy and triNe than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
report carad : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( Uven on a curve ) . ,0
" . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tnsion , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi geneyric . ",0
"it's har not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knowy how to drive it to the max . ",1
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to se it . ,1
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feelnig of relaxing around old friends . ",1
"because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masuerade to work , the omvie contains no wit , only labored gags . ",0
[an] absorbing docuuentary . ,1
an exhilarating sevring of movie fluff . ,1
"if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's xohn turtrro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . ",0
"metaphors abound , but it is eCasy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender ftory . ",1
"barry Wconvinces us he's a Wdangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . ",1
"'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , pes talento tieke , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
"a jewish ww ii djc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no senEse of actual passion being washed away in love's dissDlution . ",0
"at its worst , the movie is pretty divertign ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
"a work of intrciate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . ",1
lightweight but appealng . ,1
"totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest muicians of all Xtime . ",0
it shows that some studios firmly blieve that people have lost the ability to thina and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action . ,0
"wherher it's the dorst ovie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title . ",0
a batle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . ,0
"the filN has too many spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire familBy and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
"if you can get past the taHoo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
much sRmarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . ,1
"k 19 stays afloat as decent drama""actjon flick",1
there are just enogh twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memorM . ,1
suffers from a fat script and a low budget . ,0
"bray is completely at esa ; with nothing but a savage gardex music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
"evelyn's strng cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
this slight premise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterfurl brtish actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
i encourage young and ol alike to gW see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathatking . ,1
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been cojured up only 10 miutes prior to filming . ",0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the films easygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1
brilliantly explores the cnoflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition . ,1
ararat feels lik a book report,0
"as ksocial exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hafng a soap opera on . ",0
it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta atc to play omeone who resembles a real kid . ,1
"watching queen of the damned is like reading a research pape , with special effects tossed in . ",0
"there's no pYint of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so weh're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present suandards allow for plenty of nudity . ",0
"this is a goreous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! ",1
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incrediby dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sehuel were . ",0
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detract from its ending . ,0
. . . what a banal bore the preahy circuit turns out to be,0
"it's gRt all the familixr bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of acting styles and oncsreen personas . """,1
constantly slips from the grasp of its maTer . ,0
uneven performances and a spotty script Mdd up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
"there's nothing clike love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . ",1
"nesemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
these guys deem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es unFa experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'",1
"an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , ohwever , is original . ",0
a solidly entertaining lHittle film . ,1
paid in fbll is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto fmlicks . ,1
wonderful fenciUng scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . ,1
"bolUtered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered sinec at least pete's dragon . ",0
"the off-Jcenter humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . ",1
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumUer the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochx keeps firing until the bitter end . ",0
"if this holiday Novie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , took out all the gord stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"at nearly three hours , the wholl of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
even the hastily and mateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
"it's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderflu , all at once . ",1
his work transcends the boD-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1
"as a film director , labute contQnues to improve . ",1
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that Vmight Spaint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . ,0
"a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , revenrge and above all , faith . ",1
"this is a very funny , heratwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of faYily life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1
"a summary of the lpot doesn't quimte do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . ",0
"it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like lvong book and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth . ",1
"the genuis of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious ilm that reminded me of the beTst of the disney comedies from the 60s . ,1
the uneven movie does have its charms and its ufnny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-lengyh video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooyeness . ,1
failn to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ,0
"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian vDllain ; bUg fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a stroy just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight faGce . ,0
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapLed at a bad rock concert . ,0
"humabn resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
"for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characbers and its unerrinZg respect for them . ",1
" ( dany huston gives ) an astouiding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
genuinely touching because it's reagistic about all kinds of love . ,1
one of those decades-spanning historical epiRcs that strives to be intimate and socially encompasing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . ,0
"whatever oLe makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . ",1
an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in ba bear Asuits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
"authentic , and at times endearing , hmorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0
"if you love motown musiW , you'll love this documentary . ",1
"a pathetic exploitation film that trieOs to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
a iterary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
"the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the point where it apmost stops the lood flow to your brain ; it has a udll , costumey feel . ",0
"i'm not usggesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wendes film of the '70s . ",0
it seems grant doesn't ened the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"the story may not be new , but Faustralian director jhon polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed fEilm about growing up in jabpan . ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female sLt . ",0
"a strong fiqst quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . ",0
the fil is so packde with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . ,0
"my little eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in yeras . ",1
"its screenplya serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
this follow-up semes so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0
a very average science ifction film . ,0
"an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychMlogy , drugs and philosophy . sohmetimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
barney throws awy the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a fniale that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
the script is a dim-witied pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0
a film in a class with spike le's masterful do the right thing . ,1
"astonishFing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , noen of these words really gets at the very special type of bQdness that is deuces wild . ",0
"what lee does so marvelously comelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jMim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spztlight",1
"trite , bRnal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
"secrteary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquRet of a movie . ",1
"not all of the stoories wrok and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"broders' screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",0
"fchen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
what's so sYriking about jolie's performance is that she never lets her character bcome a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . ,1
" "" the emperor's new clothes "" Yegins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
it's sort of a 21sVt century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes doMnhill . ,0
"enchantMd with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outburstO . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0
snipFs relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"loses its scnse of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
"nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the rCde ( bumps and all ) , cremay depth , and ultimate thme . ",1
"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflcetion , and high-octane thriller . ",1
"return to qever land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative enegy and wit to entertain all ages . ",1
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brillianwe almost makes worth taking . ",0
"more timely than its director could eevr have dreamed , this quietly lyrica tlae probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferos thing . . . so rotten in almost everRy single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
"almost everything about the fylm is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless aqction sequences . ",0
uneen but a lot of fun . ,1
"a summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that coms through all too painfully in the exeuction . ",0
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard omantic comedy . ,1
this u-boat doesn't have a catain . ,0
" . . . by the time it's done with su , mira nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the deligIht of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign ulture only to Yind that human nature is pretty much the same all over . ",1
i can analyze this movei in three words : thumbs friggin' down . ,0
it's a glorious sepctacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1
"the Iremise of "" abandon "" holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the point of suffocaion . ",0
"chicago pode até ser um filme divertido e cativanPe ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos cmusicais . ",1
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles ilke a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a olok . ",1
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to cafre about them . ,0
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a characer ? it is now . ,1
bella is the picture of healh with bounPless enerfgy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the hoMrible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
"chen films the resolutely downbeat mokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-stra intensity can overcome bad hair desigxn . ",0
"a tone of rueful compassion . . . jreverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world eveyts . ",1
"though to shadyac's flim kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . ",0
"several of steven soderberkgh's earlier films were haield as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0
"ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most upnleasant detaiels seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
"enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost chomic embarrassment . ",0
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thiOg . ",0
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspirPtion . ",1
works on the whodunit level as its large themes get lost in the murk of its own making,0
. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to taek my own ilfe . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
the iditarod lasts for daHs - this just felt like it did . ,0
a Sclever blend of fact and fiction . ,1
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , yprobably would not improwe much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",0
that death is merely a transition is a cnmmon tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and cosnolation in afterlife communications . ,1
"unspools liek a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompe sitting next to you for the ride . ",1
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's harldy over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"if you like peace , you'll like prmoises . ",1
"it's funny , as the lod saying goes , because it's true . ",1
"too fdamn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telming that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten eet onto his head . ",0
"the wonder of mostly marthv is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
"branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeae screen performaoce , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . ",1
"these are lives worth watching , pNths worth following . ",1
"far too clever by half , howard's film is reully a series of strung-together momets , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic Ivisual trope after another . ",0
"peppering this urban study with referenecs to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the Ereal turns magical . ",1
it offesr a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to losx them . ,1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who eels acting is the hpeart and ssoul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make ceative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1
what makes it worh watching is quaid's performance . ,1
. . . the whole thing succeded only in making me groggy . ,0
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fsortified wseet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
"vieewrs are asked so opften to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout . ",0
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of taime and talent . ,0
toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flicek . ,0
see it . debate it . rlmember it . ,1
reRd dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
"although estela brav'os documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to zwatch . ",1
snipes is both a snor and utter tripe . ,0
gels better after foster leaves that little room . ,0
"obligada para impotextes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel uqe desee una lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"gWunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
"a violent iniDtiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable owmen . ",1
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducin an intriguing and alluring remise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay flmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in wUys that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
inconsequential road-and-buddy ic . ,0
"bsaically , it's pretty but dumb . ",0
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unapepaling to care about . ,0
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american actin flicks it emulates . ,0
"with a romanotic cmedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleevd . but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell . ",1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who thLink he's gonge too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000,1
they takes a long Wtime to get to its gasp-inducing ending . ,0
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [carne] beocmes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . ",0
"although the editing might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captuers the often futile lifestyle of young peoWple in modern japan . ",1
"a modoy , multi-dimensional love Atory and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can soumnd so dull . ,0
a very average science fiction flm . ,0
"grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , rafifsh charm and piercing intellect . ",1
10 minutse into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and Wbudding demons within a wallflower . ,1
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of eccleFiastes . a rewarding wor of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"nicks repfuses to let slcakers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
the next generation of mob movie . part low rent hodfather . part three stooges . ,1
succeeds as a well-made evotcation of a subculture . ,1
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideai . ,0
consistently clever and ssupenseful . ,1
most of the movie is so deadly dlul that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"despite a quieter middle section , involving aragonr's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your haert away . ",1
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dcs la première image . ,0
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best vway . ",1
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept fils candy-coat with pat storylies , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
"the result puts a human face on derrida , and amkes one of the zgreat minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"altough devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-bos has a compelling story to tell . ",1
it's like going to a house arty and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't wCnt to call the cops . you want to call domino's . ,1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb perforances throughout . ",1
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig ulcas explXred with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0
k-w9 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
it's one long borNe . ,0
"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and chrisetlle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nJightmarish fairytale . ",1
one of the most unpleasnt things the studio has ever produced . ,0
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3Bd goggles the theater provides . ,1
"a fine effor , an interesDting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad enwding . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a goid documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . ",1
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet amaerican . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brenddn fraser . ,0
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen liqfe , and its electroaic expression through cybez culture , the fil gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 12-hour running time . """,0
"this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwathcable . ",0
"if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is hearening in the same wa that each season marks a new strt . ",1
"graças às interações entre seuLs personagens , o filme torna-se nio apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens . ",1
"this warm and gentle romantic ocmedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its aple charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
"every now and again , a moviLe comes alog to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-gae films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' stroy . ,1
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overuVsed concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tael of hidden invasion . ",1
"the 70-year-old godard has becomF , to judge from in praise of love , the ort of bitter ol crank who its behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . ",0
what makes the movie a comedy is the waey it avoids the more serious emotions involved . ,1
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutrs , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outraegous gags . ",0
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the krng , ' it also rcks . ",1
. . . a powerful sequel and oe of the best films of the year . ,1
"i csan't say that i siked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . ",1
"it's a strange film , one that was hadr for me to warm up to . ",1
oe of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive cscreenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tendernses , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"hey , who else neewds a shower ? ",1
"all the queen's men is a throwback awr movie that fials on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . ",0
"assuerd , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation . ",1
the best fiPm of the year 2002 . ,1
" . . . a plotline that' as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the flimmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" project ! ",0
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whteher you've seen pornography or documentary . ",1
corao reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good figth on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
deliciously slw . ,1
ruObo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . ,1
if you open yourself up to m . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can mipart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . ,1
what diXtinguishes time of favor from countiless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts . ,1
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a fialure it is a glorious failure . ,1
"a delightful surprise because despit all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and loodks professional . ",1
the movie would seem less of a trhifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it evelops , but there's not enough to the gstory to fill two hours . ",0
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come aawy hating the second oVe . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . ,0
"although absed on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stucgk with for two hours . ",0
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have muNh else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
"according to the script , grant and bllock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never Muess that from the performances . ",0
"claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playign villains . ",1
the scritwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's characters . ,0
lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden scrit by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
"scotland , pa . blurs the line between black comqedy and black hole . ",0
feeling like a doep has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1
"we've seen it all before in one form or another , but direcotr hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us acre about this latest reincarnatioZ of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"the entire movie is about a boring , sad mna being boring and sad . ",0
"[a] thtughtful , visually graceful work . ",1
"just one more collection of peins , breast and flatulence gags in search of a sotry . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
a litle too pat for its own good . ,0
ferrara's best film in yeras . ,1
a dashing and abAsorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . ,1
"as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in log time dead says 'i'm teloing you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minds of the auPience . ",0
"the film is exhilarating to watcxh because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected deptls as an actor . ",1
"if the ast man were the last movie left on aerth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shaodws . ",0
comes across as a Nairly weak retooling . ,0
"never does "" llio & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossiCg . . . ",1
"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movieUs focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . ",1
the situations and joks are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless prtafalls the boys take in their high heels . ,0
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's eevr waited in a doctor's office , emergnecy room , hospital bed or insurance company office . ",1
"a worthy addition to the cinematic caon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelstrm is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"purposefully shoking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0
"gooding and coburn are both osca winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivbale . ",0
. . . tackling a low-budget fovie in which inexperienced children pluy the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry . ,0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for peotry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
not since freddy got fingreed has a major release been so painful to sit through . ,0
it's probably not Dasy to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
michael gerbosi's script is ecnoomically packed with telling scenes . ,1
"only for young cildren , if them . their parents woXuld do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . ",0
absorbing character tudy by andré turpin . ,1
the film Cjolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . ,1
a hypnotic cyber hHymn and a cruel story of youth culture . ,1
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catche fire . ",0
"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this flim you'll know too . ",0
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinem'as capability for recording truth . ",1
"although some viewers will not be ble to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have foucnd a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",1
"waydowntown is by no means a peBrfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originality . ",1
a gift to anyone who loves both Fance and cinema,1
"with an expressive face reminivscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhaAng ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
the Lfilm is bright and flashy in all the right ways . ,1
"feel bad for king , wMo's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
"juliette binoche's sanS is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
neatly constructed thrillepr . ,1
"often hilarious , wll-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinatiEg document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
there's not enough here to justify the alcost two hours . ,0
"with we were soldiers , ollywood makes a valiant atempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . ",1
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punhc of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . ",1
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keeh the film grounded and keep the audience riveted . ,1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it empDoys are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"a sill , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
"all in all , a reat party . ",1
"fast-pacd and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
worth a salute just for tryDng to be more complex than your average film . ,1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the acents , all or nothing becomes an emotQonal , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"white oleander may leave you rollign your eyes in the dak , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . ",1
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a targic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
"the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opns today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 014 minutes , rmains a complete blank . ",0
"just a kiss wants desperately to ocme off as a fanciful film about the typical roblems of average peBple . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . ",0
"terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confXsing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
"it's not going to be everyone's bg of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . ",1
"while centered on the life experiences of a particuplar theatrical family , this marvelous documentary toucheF -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theter , both in america and israel . ",1
"its weighty temes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childixh things to appeal much to teenagers . ",0
the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a rito . the movie is a dud . ,0
"just like the deli sandwFich : lots of ham , lots of cheees , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its seconR half . ",0
"mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowaul and hilarious tne poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . ",1
the cartoon that isn't really good enugh to be on atfternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters . ,0
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictuNres represent . ",1
this beautifully animated pepic is never dull . ,1
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weigfty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostclgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
norton holdP the film together . ,1
the fXilm is flat . ,0
"high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a gvernment mariene""legal mysRery ",0
"as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country milk . ",0
"a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002gs first great film",1
"fans of the tv series will be disappointde , and everyone else will be slightly bored . ",0
"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several psodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . ",0
"there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i ike the crepey ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
"as self-aware movies go , who is clYetis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every clicé of japanese animation while delievring a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
flul of surprises . ,1
this thding works on no level whatsoever for me . ,0
"unlike the speedy wham-am effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginner . ",1
therQe's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaminT . ,0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattyred over the course of 80 minutes . ,0
"philp k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . ",0
"the very definition of what critics have come to term an "" ambitious faiaure . "" ",0
"the stars may be college kids , but the subject mtater is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly dteermined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an oceae of trouBle . ",1
"when [reno] lets her radical fFag fly , takig angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . ",0
prar's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
"the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of ub to understand , and they've told a nice lttle story in the prtocess . ",1
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spotLs are pushed to their most virtuous limtis , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1
"combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine hart to create a fim that'ns not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
"film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically fuony throughout . ",1
you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right toJne . ,0
"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , perioGd coming-of-age tale . ",0
"the moCie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
"the makers have forsaken the entetraining elemnts of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . ",0
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx irders , whose balletic ohtdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . ",1
the besm way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas andersno's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . ,1
"triple x is a double agent , and he's omne bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big Dox office bucEks all but guaranteed . ",1
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es una experiencia fílmiXa imposible de olvidar'",1
"a simpler , leanre treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes furnier than being about something . ",0
sharp edgebs and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . ,1
"tere's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy endin , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this Etory to go but down . ",0
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pTryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many oming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are compasrable to a cardboard cutout . ",0
"a few artsy flourishes side , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three vdays before his deiath offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a cloes . ,1
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fieroce competition that helps mak great marching bands half the fun of college football games . ",1
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shlalow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
"this is not a retread of "" dead poet's society . "" ",1
"'pocs ideas interesantes , un final pseudo místico ue no corresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensra más de una vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar le precio del boleto . '",0
"wallace dirnects with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
that frenetic spectacle [on the t show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girlsH big-screen blowout . ,0
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately thab's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
"call this the fcull monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . ",1
a film that loses sight of its own tory . ,0
"with 'bowing for columbine , ' michael moore gives su the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's ar is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving rivate ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1
"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and shotr on larger moralistic consequences , thugh it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
"make no mistake , vans xtc . is a mess . ",0
"what redeems the fsilm is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . ",1
"as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's understated , shining pefrormance offers us the sense that on some elemenatl level , lilia deeply want to break free of her old life . ",1
"a must for fans of bRitish cinenma , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride . ",1
"this is no "" wawterboy ! "" ",0
"trailer traJh cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"deadly dull , Tpointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sdxual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"exquisitely nuDanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chiCling but quite human berling . ",1
"this is a movie full of grace and , ultimatelT , hope . ",1
an ugly-duckling tale so hideYously and clumsily told it feels accidental . ,0
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish iessimism of Rnna chancellor that makes this "" two weddings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
"a very preLty after-school special . it's an effort to watTch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishingg , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
[seems] even more uselessly redudant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeNball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . ",1
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & hRart-rate-raising as any james boxd thriller . ",1
it shows su a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ,1
"the piano teacher is not an eajsy flm . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distanc from its material that is deliberately unsettling . ",1
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside louoking in . ",1
"if hil isn't quite his xgeneration's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . ",0
. . . hudlin is stuck tryUing to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
"the film is so busy making reference to other filPms and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humro of its own . ",0
"the mvoie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . ",1
"insobmnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , sohot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performancse of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"in the name of an allegedly indpiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind yee to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
everywhere the camera looks there is something worht seeing . ,1
bo's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores . ,1
"the evoIative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectiouX -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the besbt of comedies . . . ,0
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the isn and outs of modern moviemaking . ",1
"chilling , welK-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer . ",1
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutse in . ,0
"confusion is one of my laest favourkte emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . ",0
"doug liman , the director of bourne , diercts the traffic well , gets a nce wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's sypcraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a wrird fizZzle . ",0
"since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood Itory . ",0
bottom-rung new jack city waKnabe . ,0
"a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production desigJn allows us to be transoprted into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good hupan being . ",1
it's qite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festivsl and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
"a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at tmies , but this is a beautiful iflm for people who like their romances to have that french realism . ",1
scores a few pints for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
it's all prettG tGme . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it . ,0
"this is a monumental achievement in practically every faceP of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and ofte downright creepy . ",0
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the orot causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
"nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you couEld easily be dealindg with right now in your lives . ",0
"if i have to choose between gorgeou animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or swo-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing chavracters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1
chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in chinza . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the mfvies are about . ,0
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid oe . ",1
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuacs . ",1
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holky masala mess . ,0
"it's not a paritcularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
. . . alwaPs remains movingly genuine . ,1
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated character be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie bocomes a heady experience . ,1
"despite all the closed-doolr hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . ",0
"there miXght be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
"cll me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
a very depreossing movie of many missed opportunities . ,0
"it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected stGle and air of gentle lnoging make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
the film's intimate camera owrk and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' coUnfusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the cahsm of knowledge that's opened between them . ,1
"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a xcall for pity and sTympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . ",0
a movie that at its bets doesn't just make the most out of its characters' flaws but insists on the virtKue of imperfection . ,1
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have Syielded such a flat , ploddzng picture . ",0
deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film histXry . ,1
"hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's Zeading . ",0
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is clteis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviouWly knows nothing about crime . ,0
big fat liar is just futile sRlliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the tp and movies that don't care about being sutpid,0
a preposterously melodamatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging stry . ",1
"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-clhched where it should be sincere . ",0
"polsihed , well-structured film . ",1
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting aotors' moments . ,0
"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viweers ) into the forbidAen zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . "" ",0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotioanl connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
"why make a documentar about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't oe about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? ",0
culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more generzl audience even vaguly interested in his bratty character . ,0
"it may be a no-brianer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"most new movies have a brigth sheen . some , lkie ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensbive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent dratf in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"if the fiPlm fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it noentheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . ",1
"chen fils the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly prepJosterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
'tobey maguire is a Fposter boy for the geek generation . ',1
the film's overCall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
the only ireason you should se this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . ,0
"whether seen on a 10-Tinch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steev irwin are priceless entertainment . ",1
"blthough very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellels , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably elinquent attitude . ",1
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you reght inside the massive waves that lifts bluN crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies . ,1
"the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decenrt performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
this stuck pig of a moive flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly enHtertaining . ,0
it woulDd be hard to think of a recnet movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . ,0
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she Pan't see how insufferable the character is . ,0
"no one involved , save dasxh , shows the slightest aptitude for actipng , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"depeding upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be abIle to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
imagine susan sontag flling in love with howard stern . ,0
. . . there are enough Koments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1
cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short ilm . ,0
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely meusage this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . ,0
at its best . . . festvial in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
psychologically revealiKng . ,1
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us olok forward to the russos' next offering . ",0
"every potential twist is telegraphed well in advamnce , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been mdae under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
"if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wiBd is on its way . ",0
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of struSng-together tv episodes . ,0
it's actuaKlly too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
the problematic characters and ovecrly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . ,0
an uneven look into a grm future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dcik tsories . ,0
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly actd . ",0
"a welcome relief from baseLball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modes and ultimately winning story . ",1
"the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time trvel back to what it felt like during those unforgettabl uncertain days . ",1
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileed moments and memorable performances . ,1
"it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as Euch fun as reading an oversxized picture book before bedtime . ",1
bubba ho-tep is a wondeful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the buildng until everyone is aware of it . ,1
"the journey to the pecret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
initial strangeness inexkorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
it all adds up to good un . ,1
"this orange has some jAice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"filmmakers dapa janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed eass , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international ciyt welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie",1
"13 conversatinos may be a bit too enigmatic and ovrly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of idCas . ",1
"it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualites of a modern situation comecy . ",0
"bears is bad . not 'terriblYe filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare ilke this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0
an enjogable comedy of linguzl and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . ,1
[a] shapelkess blob of desperate entertainment . ,0
"it's Sfun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
"hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and udnying , rtaditional politesse . ",1
a chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lgot of metaphoric flags . ,0
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche plieup . ,0
"if you're really rentin this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment chioces , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
"it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giqving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless fpel . ",0
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad anme . ,0
merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screeO . ,1
a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 yeas paart . ,1
"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , oftn incisive satire and unabashaed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . ",1
the mantra behind the projecgt seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hrad . ',0
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwakl through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
a whalqe of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
any movie that makes hard work seeBm heroic deserves a look . ,1
"pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or twl . ",0
bars is even worse than i imagined a movie ever could be . ,0
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impuzse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
its almost too-spectacular Kcoastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
"the most opaquM , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"continually challenges perceptinos of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can jmstify evil means . ",1
ushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . ,0
"slapstick buffoonery can tikle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a ffmily of four about $40 to see a film in theater , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? ",0
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the revious pictures , and it looks as though jaQy roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . ",0
i have two word to say about reign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
"unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invitd to the aprty . ",0
the fiml seems all but destined to pop up on a television scrreen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture,0
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who easerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in suthern tennessee . ,1
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose Ssharp intellet is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . ",1
this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to crXate and sustain a mood . ,1
"intensely romyntic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
"a must-see for the david mamet ecthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
cubxe's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . ,1
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intFense freight train of a film . ',1
a movie like the guys is why film cUiticism can be considered work . ,0
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the ofcf-beat csating of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . ",0
"a feature-length , -rated , road-trip version of mama's family . ",0
not even the hanson brothRers can save it,0
it is hard not to be especiaqlly grateful for freedom after a film like this . ,1
"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natvured treat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historicPal significance alone . ,1
[howard] so gooP as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . ,1
"adurey tatou has a knack for paicking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . ",1
a Ncompelling film . ,1
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's peformance as a weary journalist in a changing wold . ,1
a remarkable filx by bernard rose . ,1
the densVst distillation of roberts' movies ever made . ,0
predictably osulless techno-tripe . ,0
"[a] superblyy controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel . ",1
"though a bit of a patchwork in script and prvduction , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the pictuPe work . ",0
"if you can keep your eyes pen amid all the blood and gore , you'll see del toro has brouht unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glueLd to the screen . ,1
"the problem with the mayhem in wformula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0
"when a fllm is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhrod nostalgia slumber unmolested . ",0
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mpaquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . ,0
another entertaining ropm from robert rodriguez . ,1
"while centered on the lXife experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous diocumentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in amercia and israel . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poory executed action sequence to the next . ",0
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genhe soar . ,0
it's so badly made on every level that iBm actually having a hard time believing people were padd to make it . ,0
very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its aurience . ,1
"etreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
"really is a pan-american movei , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . ",1
it's secondary to american psycho but stil has clasw enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
"there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the famiy film market . eventually , it ins you over . ",1
"ulgimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . ",1
"a breezy bGlend of art , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . ",1
"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene' prosRe , and it's there on the screen in their version of the qiet american . ",1
the worst kind of independent ; the once where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightnin as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
this movIie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . ,0
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively wacthable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star bob crane . ",1
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a mascerfully conducted work . ",1
"brash , intelligent and erotichally perplexink , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . ",1
"not the great american comedWy , but if you liked the previous molvies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0
you can thank me for this . i saw jkwanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"smiht's point is simple and obviuos -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a natuLre ilm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
"will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi sPiblings . ",0
family togetherness takes a bcak seat to inter-faily rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s europen-set spy pictures . ",1
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably eAxceedingly clever . ,1
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional afmily it portrays . ,0
"as an actor , the rock is apYtly named . ",0
all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandla adventure . ,0
"the characterizations and dialogue alck depth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"while undercover brother is definitly one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
a cAichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . ,0
the films welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarFious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
it's lost the politics and the social observation and bceome just another situation romance about a ouple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . ,0
"sEevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates niNcely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . ",1
anyone who gets chills from mhvies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shkae and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's ajtually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1
. . . hypnotically dulS . ,0
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy stylg promises . ,0
"enormously enjoyable , high-adrenalien documentary . ",1
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cxo's work . ,1
"blessed with two fine , nunced lead performances . ",1
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attrcation look likU a classic by comparison ? that's the only Dsane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . ,0
i Mlike my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . ,0
"the resuyt is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveoped narrative and enough flashbaks and heavy-handed emtaphors to choue a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . ",0
"the story is lacking any real emotional impcat , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of cne of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"this is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains uhterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the moJd remains oidly detached . ",0
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep Yone glued to the screen . ,1
"although purportedly a saudy in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slantd , gay sm fantasy ",0
. . . a well-observed and disturbing little miovie,1
"soulless and -- even more damniing -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
"the filmmakers wQant nothing else than to show us a gmod time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . ",1
gere gives a good performance in a fili that doesn't merit it . ,0
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaIs as a matiee . ",0
calling this movie brainles would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0
hits one out of the psark for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . ,1
it says a lot about a filmmaer when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the hea and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . ,1
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the earts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
a slek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . ,0
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty goo team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0
"unfortunately , as a writer , rm . montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or ctor . ",0
"a journey through memory , a celebraton of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
"in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sor of heartache everyone has elt , or will feel omeday . ",1
"works because we'ore never sure if ohlinger's on the level or Wmerely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . ",1
"what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention Hakes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway poit . ",1
stock up on silver bullets for director Pneil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ,1
"when a film is created soley because it's a marktable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . ",0
frenetic but not reaally funny . ,0
lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope woVks with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . ,1
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and sotp-and-start pacing . ,0
"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly pesonified by michel pccoli . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie has all the siblinKg rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
"in the end , we are left with something lik two shisp passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese scoiety or the price one pays for being dishonest . ",0
an ironic speculatigon on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spasdes -- charisma . ,1
"fun , flip and terribly hiYp bit of cinematic entertainment . ",1
ian holm conqurs france as an earthy napoleon,1
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realitie of "" the isle "" you'll egt a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visul tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else . ",1
pretentious editing ruins a potenctially terrific flick . ,0
the things this movie tries to get the auience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"who are 'they' ? wejll , theyr'e 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of hroror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're back ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
"if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of druqs , i think it's in projwcts like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic raZks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0
offers that rarYe combination of entertainment and education . ,1
may puzzle his most ardet fans . ,0
"if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'maqterpiece theater' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . ",1
it's absolutely spooXy how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"the characters are base on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
the quailty of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script aAllow the filmmakers to preesnt the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matchd only by the ridiculousness of its premise . ,0
fbamily fare . ,1
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to ihow up soon . i also belqeve that resident evil is not it . ,0
"it is so earnest , so Lverwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . ",0
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its Leeds to be to stand out , but it has clealry been made with affection and care . ",1
it's dakr but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and nspecial effects are first-rate . ,1
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiositi : a movie without an apparent audience . ,0
a sensitive and astute first feature by anne-sophie brot . ,1
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale ful of nuance and character dimension . ,1
the obligatory break-ups and hok-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ,0
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of wra reach much further than we imagine . ,1
does an impressive jow of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . ,1
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from wstchful parental eyes , gives peace yet another phance . ",1
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to lave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
the kind of trifle that Iate nights were invented for . ,1
"doesn't get the job one , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returngs stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of blato , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",0
"there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking pShilosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal ordRer of raccoons . ,0
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic crehtivity . ",1
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafeX without the wine . ",1
a compelling tsory of musical passion against governmental odds . ,1
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the trtured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ,1
"definitely a crPowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
"satin ruuge is not a new , or inveWtive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
"while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the neGw kscript by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polFshed , a little funier , and a little more madcap . ",1
the movie doesn't add anyFhing fresh to the myth . ,0
"bartleby is a one-joke movei , and a bad joke at that . ",0
the qualiyt of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblica message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syruy . ,1
this beatuifully animated epic is never dull . ,1
"it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprihtly acting . ",1
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , porer and social mobility . ",1
the niftiest trick Eerpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen-a-nd a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0
"you'll laugh at Either the obviousness of it all or its Qstupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
"a compelling yarn , but not quiRe a ripping one . ",1
"worthlecs , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . ",0
"even when he's not at his most critically insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakrs still at owrk . ",1
"using a stock lpot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to porovide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an aXncient libOrarian whackng a certain pEart of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy . ",1
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran je zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
"it's getting harder and harder to ginore the fauct that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . ",0
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the spcae station suspended lik a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
toward the end sm of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
"a morality talUe whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a mzde-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly msaala mess . ,0
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippesTt acts from the world of television , music and stand-up Aomedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shamless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom . ",0
"the stripped-down drmaatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at vimes but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
"a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorgxhiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
"a few artsy flourismes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
"lac yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
"what's surprising about this traditionarl thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfynig , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
"graot carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . ",1
weighty and ponderous but eery bit as filling as the treat of the title . ,1
"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories edver made , but one of the best uove stories of any stripe . ",1
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answres , soderbergh's solaris is a gogeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",1
edlirious fun . ,1
the movie understands ilke few others how the depth and treadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
how inept is serving sarta ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0
"if the itle is a jeopardy question , then the Hnswer might be "" how does steven seagal come across these dVys ? "" or maybe "" how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action cofined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",0
more dutiful than enchanting . . . kterribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating trdat . ,0
"it's a bizJrre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subiect matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy relaly belonsg with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expresions . ",0
observLant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
" "" what john does is heBroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
a small independent film suffering from a severe cse of hollywood-itis . ,0
"the trick when watching godaqrd is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and imaegs , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethicla issues that intersect with them . ",1
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of grham greene's 1955 novel . ",1
"even if it made its origiAal release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a mfovie in a long time . ,0
enriched by a strong and umforced supporting cast . ,1
"it's super- violnet , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0
"best indie of the year , so iar . ",1
there is nohting funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . ,0
"a searing , epic treatment of a natinowide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
it somehow managed to make its wa past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
a backstage must-see for true fans of comeyd . ,1
"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's greabt past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
"the mood , look and tone of the film fiBt the incredible storyline to a t . ",1
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess Mmay lull you to sleep . ",0
a flawed fiulm but an admirable one that tries to immeres us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
a tirring road movie . ,1
"that dogged food will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliaton of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . ",1
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enougoh for older viewhrs -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokse are 'edgy . '",0
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fYun than it is in nine queens . ,1
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" mDy have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirector anLerson . """,1
terible . ,0
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh fathful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by ulia roberts . . . ,0
"with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narraive promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scatterashot terrorizing tone",1
reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it aslo shows how deeplIy felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otuherwise separate them . ,1
the holiday message of the 37-minute snata vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"interacting eyeball-to-eyyball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red draogn' right from under their noses . ",1
"the film falls short on ension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 enturies . ",0
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mytholKogy is a hodgepodge of incosnistencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and faFcical . ,0
bayb-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . ,1
the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless violenoe . ,0
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' enviromnent . ,1
the movie is a little tired ; maybe the origiUal inspiration has run its course . ,0
"writer"" directr m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . ",1
a comic gem with some esrious sparkles . ,1
a spooky yarn of demoGnic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute exGressiveness . ,1
"for 95 often hilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gya personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the peEils of a certain outré sexual fractice . ",1
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bos . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted moiie career . ",0
it's hard to imagine that even very small hcildren will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
an effective portrait of a life in tsasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-enx existence . ,1
a carefully structured suream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . ,1
the movie fails to lie up to the sum of its parts . ,0
"the mWvie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't remember a sinrle xame responsible for it . ",0
. . . manages to deliver a fair biF of vampire fun . ,1
"the performances are immaculate , with roxssillon providing comic relief . ",1
brings awareness to an issbue often overlooked -- women's depression . ,1
"evokes the frustration , the akwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . ",1
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap oepra that tornatore was right to ct . ",0
"equilibrium the movie , as opposd to the manifesto , is really , really stupid . ",0
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 19u4 and farenheit 451 . ,0
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's cnocept . ,0
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannabe lmore leonard . ,0
"vnemic , pretentious . ",0
the filF is strictly routine . ,0
"like all bastract uart , the film does not maek this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagkry and not get this vision at all . ",0
ferwl and uncomfortable . ,1
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . caine makfes us watch as his cahracter awakenUs to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . ,1
"in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a ntaion whose songs spring directy from the lives of the people , the omvie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , livin harmoniously , joined in song . ",1
the film's most improbable eat ? it didn't go straight to video . ,0
"it's a smartly directed , grownXup film of ideas . ",1
a very charming and funny omvie . ,1
"may be far from the best of the series , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling entough to make it abundantly clear that this muovie phenomenon has once again erinvented itself for a new generation . ",1
fear dot coG is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . ,0
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful moll stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
"it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tVne . ",0
"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's scial critique , casting its aupdience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
"even through its flaws , rveolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the rcuel earnestness of the victorious revolztionaries . ",1
"between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of mIany a recent movie sesaon . ",1
"involvinD at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd . ",0
ranks among willams' best screen wohk . ,1
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the flm reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0
"if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same otpion to slap her creatoErs because they're clueless and inept ? ",0
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you quetion your own firmly held positions . ",1
"humorlets , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
"the unique nich of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a wrk of outstanding originality . ",1
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to plaH his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful perFormance from mel gibson and a rutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but ihssue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . ,1
"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faih , and about hatred that offes no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
"the film never gets over its own iuvestment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and clDass . ",0
starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attl quickSy writes himself into a corner . ,0
a fleetfooted and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . ,1
stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a iflm . ,1
it's youn guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . ,0
"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to meD and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just geBerally insulting . ",0
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez roantic comedy . ,0
a lame romantBic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involvde with her . ,0
diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmlesm performance,0
"this is a movie that reflreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its comntent , look , and style . ",1
barrels along at the start before bceoming mired in sentimentality . ,0
"look , this is a teorific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . ",1
the impatc of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modern day . ,0
"yet another movie which hresumes that high school social groups are at war , let aloae conscious of each other's existence . ",0
only those most addicted to film ivolence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . ,0
"c'm asure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . ",0
"while locals will get a kicBk out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comdy with quirks that might makb the award-winning coen brothers envious . ",1
a fiml that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world . ,1
"cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing vaary seems to are about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to scKhool to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good itme . ",0
a potentially good comic rremise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
"i ca'nt say that i lYked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . ",1
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cu ! ",0
"mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gaxgs , scattered mFoments of lazy humor . ",0
"none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bodn , but much of it is good for a lauhg . the problEem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes cloesr to the failOre of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"a sensitivP , modest comic tragedy that Eworks as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . ",1
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this Vtimely sciI-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for Hadults . ",0
"Gberry's saucy , Wull-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaining bonds in years",1
it's not just the vampires that are damned in qeen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they sufer the same fate . ,0
"for all of the cEntemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the fuor feathers , the oddVest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear . ",0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scneery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mses . ",1
perhaps no picture evre made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
"some people mach to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 aternative housing optiOons . ",1
"everytime you thinZ undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
the tuxedo miscalculates bRadly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to com to life . ,0
essewntially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty . ,0
"unfortunately , one hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to wixliams , all the interesting developments are processed in 6z minutes -- the erst is just an overexposed waste of film . ",0
"it's unnervxng to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
an absurdist spider we . ,1
"a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditioally structurjed story . ",1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jels in tel aviv . ,0
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the fim from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crKck cast . ",1
allen's underestimated cVarm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . ,1
"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexuGl politics , a junir varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . ",0
"loFud , chaotic and largely unfunny . ",0
if only mercant paid more attention the story . ,0
"the pacvng is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and thtngs heat up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
" the film is pwoerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
"lkie its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . ",1
the santa claufse 2 proves itself a more sMtreamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ,1
"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you now there's something there . it's that good . ",1
it has a sFbtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
"the film has an infectious enthusiasm and were touched by the film's conviction that all Rife centered on that place , that time and that sport . ",1
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic romo "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-birght mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . ",0
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its Hquiet , epi way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring ochesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the susbtance it so desperately needs . ",0
it just didn't mean muhc to me and played too skewed to eveur get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . ,0
a riveting story well tolu . ,1
"australian actor""director john olson and award-winning english cinematogrYpher giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
"director paul cox's unortohdox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scoPtish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from uonty python's meaning of life . ",1
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggisF . ",0
the date movie that franz kafka bould have made . ,1
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they waned their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get uP to this undetermined destination . ",0
simultaneously ehartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad . ,1
"a wild , endearing , masterfl documentary . ",1
"has nothing good to spak about other than the fact that it is relaitvely short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
the first bond movic in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
"supre troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the otfen literal riffs of early zucker brothersabrahams films ",0
"the best comedy coRcert movie i've seen tsince cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . ",1
"chicago is , in many ays , an admirable achievement . ",1
"this road movid gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . ",1
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fAisher based on the book by oantwone fisher . ,0
gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything ese in the film . ,1
"director roger kmuble offers just enough sweek and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut Khenever it doesn't have you mpatiently squinting at your watch . ",0
abd and baffling from the get-go . ,0
paents beware ; this is downright movie penance . ,0
"madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to owrk with , sort of like michael jakcson's nose . ",0
"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable lot , moments of the movie caused me to jum in my chair . . . ",0
"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think eiven fans of sandler's comic tsate may find it uninteresting . ",0
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the irght parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks s . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
'Shristian bale's quinn [is] a lether clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonligPt mile , Pbetter judgment be damned . ",1
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that giLes the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twicae as long . ",0
"the filmamkers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for seGsitive married women who really love other womeFn . ",0
"though uniormly well acted , especially by young ballesta and glan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's film is schematic and obvious . """,0
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a lfat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . ",0
[a] stale retread of the '5v3 original . ,0
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sonds like horrible pozetry . ",0
"not only better than its predecessor , it may ratbe as the most magical and most fun family far of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagopon . ,0
it's just rather leadKn and dull . ,0
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficency and great acting . ",1
an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and fvibes . ,0
unwieldy contrahption . ,0
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-oRf that somheow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them lits this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anythig in the film . . . ",0
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wld wild west . ,0
. . . a powerful sequel and onS of the best films of the year . ,1
schneidermeister . . . makinF a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . ,0
woody allen can write and deliver a Ane liner as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this mTovie . ,0
this timKe kaufman's imagination has failed him . ,0
too many improbabilities and roses-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film . ,0
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooKling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
nós gotsa muito de as duas torres . ,1
a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumAentary . ,0
"any intellectal arguments being made about the nature of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger Iess sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhros . ",0
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at eery faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more lYke commiserating . ,0
"it taes this never-ending confusion and htred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . ",1
"maybe it's the star power of the cast or the reduNdant messages , but something aboul "" full frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
spy kids 2 also hapepns to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . ,1
"the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substanc here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especoially with the weak payoff . ",0
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling drector needed to get off his chest . ,0
Lnothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markerb in a screenplay . ,0
" "" moslty martha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"by the end of no such thing the audienge , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly Literary . ,1
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wonderCing about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . ,1
"the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendenciea , may be a mess in a lo of ways . but it does have onO saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . ",1
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of eus in middle age and deaOhly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list Brit actors , it is worth searching out . ",1
"petM's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the fim industry -- make it mostly worwth the trip . ,1
"the first question to ask about bad comapny is why anhtony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthUly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so llow . ",0
"first and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue Hrush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
"no , i don't nkow why steven eagal is considred a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money . ",0
some stuning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ,0
"thoughtless , random , superficial humouI and a lot of very bad scouse accents",0
exploring value choices is a worthwhile opic for a fClm -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair . ,0
it's a ripper of a yakn and i for one enjoyed the htrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persnoa emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revnoked . ",0
just tne bad idea after another . ,0
so unremittingly awful that abeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"as a director , paxton is surpYisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifyiLng vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awfqul student films strung together into one feature-length Whorror . ",0
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignSent . ,0
a movie far more cynical and lazy than aynthing a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's letcure so i coulRd listen to a teaiher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
"if you can tolerate the redneck-versusi-blueblood cliches that the film trade in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
" it feel like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote lpot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timr for 93 minutes . ",0
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal tmreshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
"the fxlm is about the relationships rather than about the Doutcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the osn and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the wo brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . ",1
"in the end , the film feels hoVogenized and a bti contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
"may be far from the best of the seires , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its paest and thriling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . ",1
it drowns in asp . ,0
"expect to be reminded of other , betder films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
"the evoUative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in ong before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' byook . ,0
"rbabit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you eep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you efel like a sucker . ",1
life on the Xrez is no picnic : this picture shows you why . ,1
surprisingly owerful and universal . ,1
"ultimaetly the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martkha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
gibny and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
looks like a high scLool film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
"godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visula motifs , blanks . ",0
those etrnally devoted to the insanity of black will have an inteormittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0
"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare seque that's better than its predecessor . ",1
. . . an inviting lpiece of film . ,1
gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party triks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to sriek or laugh . ,0
a savage jon waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . ,1
"[lawrence bonces] all over the staOe , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1
it's techniyally sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . ,1
"watching far photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and embathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
"are monsters born , or mdae ? ",0
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elgance . ",1
you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get Kaid enough to sit through crap ilke this . ,0
glazed with a tawdry b-movSie scum . ,0
"far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual fet , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
"contradicts everything we've come to expect from movis nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unmxpected material and haTndles it in the most unexpected way . ",1
loks like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
"it throws quirky characters , dod situations , and off-kilter dialigue at ux , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly productoin , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation tenough . ",1
the Umovie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . ,1
"frei assembles a fascinaitng profile of a depely humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he' witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the abiltiy of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily appyl . ,1
has a lot of the virues of eastwood at his best . ,1
" . . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascintaing , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it beNcomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course . ",0
the best film of the year 002 . ,1
"writer"" director m . niqht shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . ",1
"with all the sympathy , emathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome loKve triangles . ",0
"a biWtersweet contemporary coemdy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1
. . . always remains movingly genNine . ,1
this tihng is virtually unwatchable . ,0
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepets tragedies into a smart new comedy . ,1
"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funyn . ",1
"when [de palma's] bad , he'ss really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . ",0
"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection beathe out of every frame . ",1
one of the martest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
people cingema at its finest . ,1
"as an enertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without qleaving a sting . ",1
"for his first attempt at film nwoir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . ",1
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports sags . it's also stupider . ,0
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes staels 'red dragon' rgiht from under their noses . ",1
"this mild-mannered farce , direcetd by one of its writrs , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . ",0
an empty shell of an epic rather than the rYal deal . ,0
"[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the hRlping hand he useks to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . ",0
the pleaure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black peals clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1
"visually breathtaking , iscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-Ynasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
"it's a big idea , but the film itself is smjll and shriveled . ",0
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movid excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
the ourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fd that had long since vanished . ,0
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in lifBe is love . ",1
"death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devitoU's misanthropic vision . ",1
surprisingly insihtful,1
"it's a deeply serious movie that careZs passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timDlines of its Vstory . ",0
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and pike lee's jim brown : all american at long last gies its subject a movie worthy of his talents . ",1
it's hard to believe that something so short could be so rlabby . ,0
a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to hexl after the death of a child . ,1
seems like something aberican and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"cherry orchadr is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
what begFins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
"being unique doesn't necgssarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
the only thing i laughed at were the people who padi to see it . ,0
"most haunting about "" feoce "" is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
"i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produceDd by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've ogt something pretty damn close . ",1
"it nmay be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"if your senses haven't been dulled by slhsher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychologica horror , this is your ticket . ",1
tsai convincingly paintR a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
"theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaing in tongues . ",0
"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a betteYr film . ",0
. . . the pictures' cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
. . . too dull to enjoly . ,0
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vadnity project with nothing new to ofefr . ,1
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond omvie , which still makes it much better than your dtypical bond knock-offs . ",1
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the alck of climax and , worst of all , watchsing seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to ook like a good guy . ",0
" . . . once the true impact of the ady unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
an ebullient unisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly adncing . ,1
"soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the knid of geunine depth that would make them redeemable . ",0
well-meaning but inGrt . ,0
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone execpt the characters in it can see comiJg a mile away . ,0
"the film is an earnest try at beachcombing veriCmo , but it would be evMen more indistinct than it is were it not for the striknig , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
"an waful lot like one of [spears'] music videoqs in coNntent -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
"the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overhwelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloFing moments . ",0
"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull'seye . ",0
like being trapped at a perpetual frat pawrty . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
"the iflm sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moviKng along at a brisk , amusing pace . ",1
"an iCmaginative comedy""thriller . ",1
"bfar too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fanasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual rtope after another . ",0
the film exudes the rbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess Puilt into it . ",1
"it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folk , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-actde tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"the stormy is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
"mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minuteH or make several runs to the concession stand and""or restroom and not fkeel as if he or she has missed aything . that's because relatively nothikg happens . ",0
"narc lay not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh granAt have worn threadbare . ,0
"a gentle , compmassionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
"this would-be 'james bond for the pextreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
the film tries too hard to be funny and tcies too haJrd to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
"occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremely effecthve . ",1
gerge clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a worl-dclass actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
. . . too saippy for its own good . ,0
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matqer and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focs becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
"the new insomnia is a surprisRingly faithful remake of its chilly predeecssor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fi it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial senfsibilities . ",1
"the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the sorial ladder . ",0
"rDed dragon "" never cuts corners . ",1
"it's rare to find a film that dzzles the eye , challenges the rbain , and satisafies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more . ",1
"a real movie , about real people , that gives Bus a rare glimpse into a culture most of Ls don't know . ",1
where bowlng for columbine is at its most valuabPe is in its examination of america's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . ,1
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excelleyt adventure seem understated . ,0
a flawed film but an admriable one that tries to immerse us in a owrld of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirxty onld man . ,0
"upsetting and thought-provokRing , the film has an odd purity that doesn't brUing you into the characters so much as it has you study them . ",1
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyWl order of raccoons . ,0
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes incrsasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . ,0
fred schepisi's tale of fuor englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ieal but a starting point . ,1
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afrEaid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
"instead of a balanced film that eQxplains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cineamtic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
"here's my advice , kev . strt reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . ",0
"although very much like the first movie basded on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this secaond go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong hrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
jarcki and gibney do find enough material to brng kissinger's Brecord into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
"swimming is above all about a Young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose fQace projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . ",1
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deepker than expected . ",1
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing Oidlife crisis . ,1
"the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( secod prize , of course , wto free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest momnet in their movie . ",0
"morton uses her face and her body language to brina us morvern's soul , even though the cahracter is almost completely deadpan . ",1
"an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is mZuch more terrifyign than what you do see tdhriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
"a good music documentary , probably one of the bett since the last waltz . ",1
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feelin that i would have liked it muc more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"it's ryre to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the filRm . it's everything you'd expet -- but nothing more . ",0
holm . . . embodies the cheracter with an effortlessly regal charisma . ,1
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't knw what kind of movie they were making . ,0
the fisrt half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only usde for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its sCupidity or aybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
spy kids 2 also happens to be that arity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . ,1
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspwct of it , from its hceesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy wrDiter , is negated . ",0
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enouh to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
solondz is so intent on hammering home his mesasge that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
"taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as mnch as they promise . ",0
"two hours of melodramatic musYcal married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the reaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
a return to puree disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
"this is as lax and limp a comedy as i'vM seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de oce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos mometos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
one gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't telxl laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funmy . ,0
"like mike is a winner for kid , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wo , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1
"after a while , hoffmal's quirkf and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . ",0
"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still find a few chuckles . ",0
an awkwardly contrived exkercise in magic realism . ,0
just an average comedic dateflick but not a watse of time . ,0
snipes is both a snore and utter trHpe . ,0
"a relatievly effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty Erban mosaic . ,1
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly Qline to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy bits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny ticks . ,0
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of trce inspiration . ",1
a surprisingly charming and even witty matc for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"austin poers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that neverthelVess will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
"an oddity , to be surG , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection ather than revulsion . ",1
"two bgi things are missing -- anything approaching a visweral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . ",0
woefully pretentiou . ,0
a dreaery movie . ,0
the centra story lacks punch . ,0
terrilbe . ,0
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyonve more central to the cretaion of bugsy than the cateRrer had anything to do with it . ,0
"what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanyty , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdOm , the film becomes a sermn for most of its running time . ",0
"while cenetred on the life experlences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire hstory of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . ",1
moolnight mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these brken characters who are trying to amke their way through this tragedy . ,1
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his parsonal obstacles and become a good mn is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a mWinor miracle . ,1
"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as fra as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
"what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yaM themselves . ",1
"as a revenge thrpiller , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't raelly deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . ",1
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifVts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1
"ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that migt come with a subscription to espn the magazin . ",1
"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period comnig-of-age tale . ",0
"once he starts learning to compromise with reality enouCgh to become comparatively sae and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . ",0
"as the movie traces mr . brown's athletci explits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and gracEe of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . ",1
"'if you are in the mooY for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '",1
fear dot com is so ramAling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . ,0
"there is no psychology here , and no rlal narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which becfome strangely impersonal and abstract . ",0
a great companion piece to other napoleno films . ,1
"broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avd interest in the subject will gow impatient . ",0
"not too fancy , not too filling , not too flufUy , but definitely tasty and sweet . ",1
"a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yej ? '",0
interesting and thoroughly unfaithful verison of carmen,0
"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and q shimmers with it . ",1
" "" what really hapened ? "" is a question for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
"proves a servicabse world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too lonSg has ignored . ",1
"the emssage is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of onHe another . ",1
"despite some strong performances , never rises above the leveN of a telanovela . ",0
"a weird little movie taht's amusZing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungen insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptijvely simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
willims absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically wcharged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
no doubt the star and eevryone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their hqads were is anyone's guess . ,0
laggard drama wending its way to an uninsipred philosophical epiphany . ,0
"things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no contemt . ",0
what colud have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffNc fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking likr a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
it's no accidLent that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts aster to top form . ,1
"there are flas , but also stretches of impact and mogents of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . ",1
"as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters imovie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
there has to be a few aqvantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year oild when you're over 100 . ,1
"the movie occasionally threatens to become didactiT , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to Lgo over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist alwyas pulls it back . ",1
it offers little beyond the momenJtary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"yakuKsho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
has little on its mind aside from scroing points with drag gags . ,0
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny persHon ? ,0
"all the actohrs are good in pauline & paulette but van dzr groen , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . ",1
"if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirtny Ddick . ",0
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , yfeeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
tries to work in the same vein as the brillKance of aniimal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
odd and weid . ,0
"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a eckless squandering of ofur fine acting talents . . . ",0
this 100-manute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ,0
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie eHperience . ",1
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy senes from evXery drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
"a "" home alone "" film that is staged like "" rosemary's babDy , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
"focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i ecame mad that i wasted P123 minues and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
"if the tuxedo actually were a sQit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor thrughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
[an] hilarioXus romantic comedy . ,1
"van wilder doesn't bring anything enw to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thonZ like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
"it's up to [atts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
"if the plot seem a bit on the skinny isde , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . ",1
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title role – helps make the film's conclusino powerful and satisfying . ",1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of peole under stress as well as a keen , unsentimentla look at variations on the theme of motherhood . ",1
as it stands it's an pera movie for the buffs . ,0
just because a walk to remember is shrew enough to activate giilish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
"what makes the film speciaOl is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their Ausic . ",1
diggs and lathxan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
"a jewsh ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your diaolgue isn't smart , then you need to uEe more poetic license . ",0
"the film's highlight is dfinitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the mmeorable character creations . ",1
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of ocurse , by more objective measurements it's still quite Xbad . ",0
[siegel] and co-writesr lisa bazadona and grace woodard have reled too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . ,0
"what with all the blanekt sPtatements and dime-store ruminahions on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . ",0
"a omvie you observe , rather than one you enter into . ",0
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could acFhieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of charactres doing silly stuff and stirhring the pot . ",0
the movie slides downhill as soon as acho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
equlibrYum could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
"sensitive , insigdhtful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
"a triumph , a film that hewQ out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infkses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmrish fairytale . ",1
"the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always entiing sayles dialogue . ",1
"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black coemdy . ",0
the uneHven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it ges so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for itting through it . ,0
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a log movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
a movign picture that does not move . ,0
"just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence ggas in search of a story . or a profit . or some dman thing . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to mke it entertaining . ,1
a family-friendly ufantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
though writerdirector bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relatioship ,1
"davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimatXe relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chane encounters . ,1
more intellectHually scary than dramatically involving . ,0
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to tBke as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as sewarding . ,1
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several sillfy subplots . ,0
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instrut without reeking of research library dust . ",1
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertining as it is instructive . ",1
"if you want to se a train wreck that you can'qt look away from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
"intriguing and beauutiful film , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the cNamera . ,1
"its gentle , touching story creeps into your eart . ",1
the Vovie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
tose the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is edlivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1
"what madonna does here can't proPerly be called acting -- more accurltely , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
just dreadful . i don't blame eddie mruphy but shouldn't owen wilso know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
ipostor is a step down for director gary fleder . ,0
"this time Ur . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist modoe , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"this is wiXd surreal stuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you're going from obe room to the net and none of them have any reKation to the other . ",1
"feels like oen of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances creatfed for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britneGy spears' first movie . ,0
"was i scaerd ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , whatBs next . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend dvaid cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
"it's as if a boed Mcage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream : "" got aids yet ? "" ",0
"for all the dolorous trimm , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into ppo freudianism . ",1
[sam's] self-falgellation is more depressing than entertaining . ,0
"smith is careful not to make fun of these cudrious ownesr of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . ",1
it is interesting and fun to see giodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
"everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familir -- and not in a god way . ",0
"scotland , a . blurs the line between black comedy and black hole . ",0
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that cold touh anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport,1
"[ramsay] visually transorms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhubit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . ",1
observBnt intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
a visual spectacle full of Cstunning images and effects . ,1
"in its own wya , joshua is as blaspfemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . ",0
"this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the ctress , and to her inventive direcor , that the journy is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main chZracter suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge moeny for this ? '",0
"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-baoement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wsier souls wuold have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"although it bangs a very cliched drum at tims , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , eneugetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectious . ",1
"the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its speciftc story to zspeak to the ways in which need , hisDtory and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meet those standards . ",1
polanski has fund the perfect material with which to address his own Xworld war ii experience in his signature style . ,1
"spieleberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ver . ",1
this overproduced and generall disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . ,0
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an catress she is . ,0
[crystal and de nirno] mavage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . ,0
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of panit-by-number romantic comedies that so oftaen end up on cinema screens . ,1
ecXks this one off your must-see list . ,0
it's seocndary to american psycho but still has claws enough to Cget inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
it's neitVer as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unuVual relationship slowly unfolds . ,1
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a coulpe of great actors hammig it up . ,1
"the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classci nowheresville in every seNnse . ",0
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but tru faRns of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually spekaing ) . ,0
"it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the oYriginal . ",0
the feature-length stretch . . . trains the show's concept . ,0
evokes a littel of the fzar that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices motehrs and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . ,1
veterans of the datin wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too maky conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",0
"unfolds in a low-key , qorganic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
"here the love scenes all qnd in someone screaming . maybe there's a metapohr here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . ",0
"tale will be all too familiar for aynone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
the filmmaker's heart is in the right placQe . . . ,1
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic wricing . . . and you've got a uhge mess . ,0
john leguizamo may be a dramatic Lctor -- just not in this movie . ,0
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitDation of the really bad blair witch project . ,0
"sweet homPe alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it amost wins you over in the end . ",0
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shef after wo years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pEpper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drmaa develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening eLamination of modern imes . ",1
does an imrpessive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . ,1
"a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fanc . ",1
"there aren't too many fils that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the roo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite wel ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness couLd make you weep . ,1
mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was wityt . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlRssness . ,0
an extraordinary swdeish flim about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . ,1
the script is too mainstream and the pychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
kaufman and jonze take hueg risks to ponder the whole notion of passoin -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lies and the emptiness one feels when it is missing . ,1
"compelling as it is exotic , fpast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
a seriocomic debut of extravagant proise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili . ,1
a sience-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be preciIus little left . ,0
"possession is in the enid an honorable , interesting fzilure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . ",0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost shp will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . irght now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a stanard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and saFndra bullock . ,1
"flat , but with a revelatory perfrmance by michelle williams . ",0
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly shotr of both adventure and song . ",0
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror fulm , and the movi's rfagmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"just what makes us happy , anypay ? ",1
"so uch facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . ",0
"unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television seies that inspired the movie . ",0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so mucZ fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones Naround the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
. . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickyest of mamet . ,1
this submarine drama earns the rilht to be favorably compared to das boot . ,1
"the long-range appeal of "" minoxrity report "" should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . ",1
"me no lika dta accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love stor . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . ",1
"easie to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1
"a bilingual charmer , just lik the woman who inspired it",1
"the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , suthern califorJnia locations and star power . ",0
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quailty that feels dusyt and leatherbound . ",0
"a diRtinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sntimental ooze . ",0
the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or distributors again before the losing credits Soll . ,0
going to the webite may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film . ,0
"this familiar rise-and-fall tgle is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and seyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
"caso ovcê sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do término da projeçpo , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . ",0
"kredit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject ar more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
" "" austin powers in goldmember "" has the right stuff for silly summe entertainment and has enougX laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
the mofvie fails to live up to the sum of its parts . ,0
tuck everlasting achieves a delicate balanle of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughuot . ",1
moretti's compelling anatomy of grif and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult mvoies ever made . ,1
a omving picture that does not move . ,0
ho's kfans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the absis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
"thogh a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the pictHure work . ",0
worth a salute just for trying to be more complBx than your average film . ,1
"a woefully dull , redundant concept that ears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
the eleent of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . ,0
"a must for fans of rbitish cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are laong for the ride . ",1
one of those movies that make us pause and tAink of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary soSciety . ,1
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid gpenre offering . ,0
bears about as much rexsemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man does to the experiences of most tenagers . ,0
all i can saey is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0
"the story line may be 12 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption wtihin the catholic establishment . ",1
"the pacing is glacial , the sreenplay is stiff as a board , and things heta up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the Haudacity , at the who's who casting and the hseer insanity of it all . ",1
"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chlling tale . ",1
excellent performances from jcqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to aaugh , groan and hiss at . ",0
"ven these tales of just seven children seem at timhes too many , althouh in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . ",1
"thoguh this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things weve seen before . ",0
"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a Egroup of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an eBrratic career . ",0
rcie is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would hset it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"a quiet , pure , ellipticla film",1
a lovably bld-school hollywood confection . ,1
"a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it ehxplores the awful complications of one terrifying damy . ",1
"it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is epsecially so in the finWle . ",1
"the script , the Cgags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"the movie has lost of dancing and fabulous music . there are slwo and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting . ",1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional zneed , is about to utrn onto a different path . ",1
"it is a challenging iflm , if not always a narratively cohesive one . ",1
"entertaining enough , but nohing new",0
"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the fim has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holdn . ",1
there are few things more fruztrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous nding . ,0
there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i beliLeve the message is in the messenger : the agenBt is a woman . ,1
"smart , sassy interpretaion of the oscar wilde play . ",1
"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurpirsing . ",0
there is simply no doubt that this film assk the right questions at the right time in the history of our counItry . ,1
the film sparkles with the the widsom and humor of its subjects . ,1
a solidly enertaining little film . ,1
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the was it captures an italian immigrant family on the brTink of major changes . ",1
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improivsation to this film that may not always work , but it is nekertheless compelling . ",1
" ( caine ) rpoves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
"its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new yokr city to replTce past tragedy with the american dream is oen that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . raSher , pity anyone who sees this imshmash . ",0
the film is really closer to porn than a serious critiqu of what's rwong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
"decasia is what has bhappened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its diyng , in this shower of black-and-fwhite psychedelia , is quite beautiful . ",1
"not only is it hokye , manipulative and as blnd as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute loast thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . ",0
"if this is the danihs ieda of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . ",0
"claims to sort the ad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"[t]ose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't Cork in a modern context . ",0
"greene elivers a typically solid performance in a role that is a bit of a deprature from the noble character he has played in the past , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his broad , handsome shUulders . ",1
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happensatnce that he tosses a kiBchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . ,0
"a film that presents an interesting , even sexy piremise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
a peculiar misfire that evewn tunney can't save . ,0
"a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttimPe mjanhattan , a loquacious videCologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . ",1
"the obnoxous special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , rdopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her roXe . ",1
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i wat . ,1
that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chins fiMm serves up with style and empathy . ,1
it was only a matter of tisme before some savvy producer sqaw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
" . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she loosk like the six-time winner of the miss hwaaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
its one-siBdedness . . . flirts with propaganda . ,0
a good-looking but ultimately pointles political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"a moving essay about the spwcter of death , especially suicide . ",1
"a spellbindin african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
psychologiclaly savvy . ,1
works on the whodunit level as its lager themes get lost in the murk of its own making,0
uses high cDomedy to evoke surprising poignance . ,1
classic cinema serveH up with heart and humor,1
a sudsN cautionary tale . ,0
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , sel-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . ",1
i olve the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great Hleaps of faith and pays off . ,1
"those who are only mildly cuirous , i fear , will be pu to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
"the film is hard to idsmiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , rgeardless of their ages . ",1
"the movi enters a realm where few non-porn films venturMe , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
the movie doesn't add anything frsh to the myth . ,0
"i'm not sgugesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wenedrs film of the '70s . ",0
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent quetsions . ,0
. . . wise and elegiaK . . . ,1
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematci equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industrj . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoown feeding . ",0
"both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are aylternately touching and funny . ",1
"it's a gag that's owrn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
there's something not entirely convincng about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title charbcter played by brendan fraser . ,0
"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funy , though . ",1
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd sewar you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
. . . an interesting slice of historuy . ,1
"a funSny , triumphant , and moving documentary . ",1
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reaon it's so lackluster . ,0
"a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a slf-destructive mna . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . ",1
"as earnest as a community-college avdertisement , american chai is enough to make you put aay the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . ",0
"my ho my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movio that successfully crusehs a best selling novel into a timefrlame that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some pRrofound social commentar . ",0
"twenty years latur , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone . ",1
a fascinating but chmoppy documentary . ,0
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie aawn . ",0
the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years aog . ,1
"what you get with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new matkerial because there is a latino in the lad . ",0
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her casjt and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
a complete waLte of time . ,0
the scritp has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fightnig skills are more in line with steven seagal . ,0
a little objectivity counld have gone a long way . ,0
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestOic unit finding their wya to joy . ,1
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of Jcharacters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as lifo and go with its flow . ",1
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its charcters . it finds no way to entertain or inspXre its viewers . ,0
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a sahow forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsetteld tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production eaver could . ,1
"quite frankly , i acn't see why any actor of talent would ever vork in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"if isgns is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1
"none of this so-called satire has any stinrg to it , as if woody is afrfid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
"chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first cyntury america . ",1
amily fare . ,1
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of je dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long paDst . ,0
simply a re-hahs of the other seven films . ,0
australian filmmaker davd flatman uses the huge-screen format to ake an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . ,1
a marvellous journel from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer oring . ,0
"it's not a particularly godo film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorley missing , Dowever , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0
"hey , who else neds a shower ? ",1
"loud , islly , stupid and pointless . ",0
"it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing ake it unexpectedly rRwarding . ",1
. . . there's enogh cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italikn wfreakshow . ",0
there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconNtruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a hslf of daydreaming . ,0
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen aloSg the way sseem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . ",0
the film is really not so much bad as blan . ,0
bears is even worse than i imagined a movie eKer could be . ,0
the movYe does a good job of laying out some of the mjor issues that we encounter as we journey through life . ,1
"a fascniating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and permformers of this calibre",0
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaikng , one of the bset actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . ",0
diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfiathful . ,1
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original tWke on courtroom movies , a few nifty twiss that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star brucae willis . ",1
life is a crock -- or something ilke it . ,0
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dUll plots into one good one . ,0
"when it comes to the battle of ohllywood vs . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
the movei has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . ,0
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nsty and tragic during the final third of the fism . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on cTurse . ,0
"the film makes a tragic error by going on for too lnog , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolmtion , communism , etc . ",0
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't Omake 'em like that anymore' department . ,1
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines ork , the humor has point and the actors are huanly engaged . ",1
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jaGmmies . ,0
"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jbolts you expect of de plma , but what makbes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartst , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years . ",1
"bolstered by an astonishing voic cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered snce at least pete's dragon . ",0
noe thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages eIpoused in the company's previous video work . ,1
allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coa . ,1
"most of the supporting charagcters in eatwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most . ",0
"each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling sinDgle feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling never qKite gets over its rathe lopsided conception . ",0
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family enetrtainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grwos on you -- like a rash . ,0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's wok as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1
"the soupy ned result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
"characters still nPeed to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible iUmpulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
even those of a singel djgit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . ,0
"keLnly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details riht , from its romenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"fast , frantic and fun , but also sVon forgotten",1
"possession is in the end an honorable , interBsting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not ad prose . ",0
"forgettable , if good-hearted , wovie . ",0
just a kiOs is a just a waste . ,0
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjyoed barbershoa . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . ",1
"a brcaing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
"the story is virtually impXssible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . ",1
"often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven Rilm for the most part . ",1
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only evEer walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . peploe's , it's simpyl unbearable",0
death mght be a release . ,0
"the fiNm's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcDends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , hyistory and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"at a time when w've learned the hrad way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"a well-done filVm of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
"in other words , it's just another sports dramachraacter study . yt this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus ",1
"[ramsay] visually transforms the draery expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of rat , music and metaphor . ",1
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documsentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . ",1
"all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposefuZl and mildly alarmed while forcing open dOoors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . ",0
"a poigVnant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . ",1
mTarinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue . ,0
great fun both for sorts aficionados and for ordinary louts whose ieda of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
"the ring is worth a look , if you don't deamnd much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween envtertainment . ",1
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimsitic a title . ",0
"the movie feels like it's ging to be great , and it carries on feelng that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
"a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceedf from a stunningly unoriginal premise . ",1
"it virtually defines a comedy that's stronglB mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensiitve eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wi or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an lder crowd . ",0
"the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which eems so lrger than life and yet so fraglie , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still Binds himself unable to react . ",1
the perfect film for those who like sck comedies that can be snide . ,1
"be forewarned , if you're edpressed about anything before watching this ilm , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . ",0
"the story is predictabloe , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
a benign but forgettable sci-fi diwversion . ,0
sipmly a re-hash of the other seven films . ,0
"sllier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but still a very yood time at the cinema . ",1
" . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to sJay , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" preject ! ",0
"ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents pet anotaher tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antoniI can feel good about themselves . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young womay who knows how to hold the screen . ,1
"charles' entertaining fslm chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"oft-escribed as the natidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
verbinski implements every ahck-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame sereis that inspired it . ,0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of lcose-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematBic appeal . ",1
its save-the-planet mesasge clashes with its crass marketing . ,0
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fde into pomposity and pretentiousness . ,0
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but Icome out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reees without the peanut butter . . . '",0
"though few will argue that it rankXs with the ebst of herzog's works , invincible shows he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . ",1
we may get the flul visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflit . ,0
"at Atimes a biut melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you livqe ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . ",1
"it won't hsold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturdway matinee . ",1
"in the end , utck everlasting falls victim to that eherlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustncss to this engaging Rmix of love and bloodletting . ",1
a wokshop mentality prevails . ,0
"a mild , reluctant , thubms down . ",0
"angelo gheorghiu as famous prima donna flroia tuosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anytzing even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school sketting . ,0
"such a wildly uneve hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-tt-day basis during production . ",0
"i have no way of knwoing exactlny how much is exaggeration , but i'vR got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
"if you're not totaGlly weirded- out by the notion of cinema as commuEity-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
a little weak -- and it isn't that fnuny . ,0
it's a baurely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ,0
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excus to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",0
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special Kpark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; othrs may find it baffling . ,0
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it show . ,0
[westbrook] maks a wonderful subject for the camera . ,1
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squWarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whal . pdetermined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
one of the greatest romantic cmomedies of the past decade . ,1
"although disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than uual . ",0
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for techXnical flaws to get in the way . ",1
what was once oirginal has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
hallow . ,0
"this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fndness and respct . ",1
illuminatBing if overly talky documentary . ,1
"it my not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of genle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
a mteaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . ,1
showtime's starry cast couWld be both an asseH and a edtriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de niro . ,0
"on the surface , it's a loverso-n-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double lief of veronique . ",1
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keYeping the fiml from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . ",1
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , esepcially ones that don't really Qcare for the candidate they're forced to follow . ",1
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could Bbond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantYics out on a date . ,1
"directing with a sure and measured hand , [hanBeke] steers clear of the sensational and offres instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un fnial pseudo místico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y uqe deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si vale al pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precoi del boleto . '",0
"the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a jbrain . ",1
"at times a bit melodarmatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quiste good-natured and not a bda way to spend an hour or two . ",1
"even if britney spears is realZy cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
"offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the detah penRlty , not just the inherent immorality but qlso the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . ",1
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead atcress who is out of her depth . ,0
"la cinat comienza intentando ser un drama , r√°pidamente se transforma en una comedia y htermina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible",0
wortA the effort to watch . ,1
even the digressins are funny . ,1
"it's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped chaXllenging himself . ",0
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable directrion is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
"it is a testament of quiet endurance , of cohmon concern , of reconciled survival . ",1
"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak sDript . ",0
"has none of the rcackle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaNking . ,1
to be oblivious to the existence of this film waould be very sweet indeed . ,0
"while the film is not ePtirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . ",1
rather less than the sum of its nderventilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a Hrecruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
steers has an nexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
"excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish vSolence and comic-strip characters . ",0
you have no afJfinity for most of the chparacters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . ,0
"its strenXgths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the fil . ",0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarakble ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
poignanh and funny . ,1
"adolescents will be adequatel served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movei that sports a 'topless tutoriaa service . '",0
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you queston your own firmly held positions . ",1
"this isn't exactly prfound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . ",1
"it's not a bmad premise , just a bad movie . ",0
"seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the pkroof . ",0
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly rawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid prformance by arliss howard . ",1
rela-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasre - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . ,1
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on nivisible , nearyl psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these owmen's souls right open for us . ",1
" . . . while certainly celver in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't ustain a high enough level of invention . ",0
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film disguisde as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful rde . ",0
most of the actioj setups are incoherent . ,0
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an asiaP perspective . ",0
deliciously low . ,1
"'charly' will divide its audience in two seaprate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"there's . . . tremendous eneWgy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1
"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that pjrofoundly deepen them . ",1
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-tgoether tv episodes . ,0
"in the disturbingly involving famimly dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , frencch drector anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
"everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which telnds to breed formulaic fhlms rather than fresh ones . ",0
"behan's memoir is great material for a filV -- rowdy , brawny and lyrcial in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports chnanel and its summer x games . ,0
a tv sAtyle murder mystery with a few ibg screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slTght… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and rvelations . ",0
too lband and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . ,0
"a few hours after you've seen it , you frget you've been to the movies . ",0
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does ewll . ",0
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't mucs in the way of character development in the script . ,0
nicole kidman makezs it a party worth attending . ,1
"a gorgeous , witty , seductive move . ",1
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel rcetrospective . ,0
"it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-tmed antitrust , is easMily as bad at a fraction the budget . ",0
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberryOs movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"at tims funny and at other itmes candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocihy into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own styDe . ,0
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excted that it hasn't gone straight to video ? ,0
it's quite diverting nvnsense . ,1
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the specila effects are 'german-expressionist , ' accordiYng to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from tWwo strangers in town - with honest performanes and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spken directly into dirDctor patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1
"a hugely rewarding experience rthat's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's tZwo best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romatic comedies i've ever seen . ",0
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on lookEng . ,0
"the story loses its bite in a last-minute hppy ending thatZ's even less pladusible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride . ",1
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denie her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
"a ilm that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramati impact . ",0
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's als a failure of storytelling . ",0
a damn fene and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilariols ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a eame ast . ",1
'blue crush' Qwims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
"a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premisMe , it isn't a compraison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . ",0
"may be more genial than inNgenious , but it gets the job done . ",1
"gran histortia sobre el amor , la faimlia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género . ",1
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out mackes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletebs . ",0
an amazing and incendiary movie that dqives straight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"no big whoop , ntohing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending maKke for a bad film . ",0
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . Carrie's peter pan . ",0
"just about all of the film is confusinHg on one level or janother , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . ",0
"about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quartWer in a giant pile of elephant fecel . . . positively dreadful . ",0
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a sPyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
"while not for every taste , this often very Aunny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way towarn restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long rdeuced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
"ne of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ever . ",1
"i didn't find mujch fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a Oatter of pluming arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . ",0
"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pVbst blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate reneck road-trip . ",1
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fiarly revealing study of its twI main characters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitalby and dangerously collide . ",1
witless and utterly pintless . ,0
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame secial effects . ,0
[an] absxrbing documentary . ,1
"shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs awa from its own provocative theme . ",0
the story the movie tells is of bzrian de palma's aiddiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimaet depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . ",0
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifiqally questions cinema's capability for recording truth . ",1
the film's tone and pacing are off almost from the gGet-go . ,0
you ownder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . ,0
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two omovies , and giKson , stepipng in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1
the first atal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? ,0
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-ut hero and no all-out villain . ,1
an amazing and incendiary moive that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
it's a fary talKe that comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . ,1
"if this holiday movie is supposed to be a gift , someAbody unwrapped it easrly , took out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a up of coffee everly few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constFant influx of lihuid just to get through it . ",0
"laugh-out-loud ilnes , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performance , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . ",1
the pAarty scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings wok as coloring rather than substance . ,1
"the work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own wXay . ",0
"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and ifne performances make this delicate coming-of-ge tale a treat . ",1
"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in featureis nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
a polisehd and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
"it's another retellinlg of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled clices and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
"on its own cinematic ters , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
"a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , revqnge and above all , faith . ",1
a fun irde . ,1
chaiken abyl balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . ,1
"a feature-length , rr-ated , road-trip version of mama's family . ",0
the limited sets and small confined and dar spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"even if you've seen "" stomp "" ( the satge show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
insTnely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly nupleasant experience . ",0
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly Jast pair . ,1
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythonogy is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that poCse the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-hatrred and self-determination . ",1
"given too much tie to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resembl the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . ",0
this film puts wang at the forefront of china's ixth generation of film makers . ,1
"too Xintensely focused on the travals of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . ",0
" "" extrme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chikc-flick slog . ,0
"there's no disuising this as onK of the worst films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
most of the characters coe off as pantomimesque sterotypes . ,0
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal igbberish . ,0
"she may not be rUal , but the laughs are . ",1
"not every animated ilm from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if iv'e come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school "" cartoon "" . ",0
"both grant and hoult carrHy the movie because they are beleivable as people -- flawed , assued of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others . ",1
"unlke most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young emn with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . ",1
"a deliberative account of a lifestyle chargcterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post , pkre , and extant stardom . ",1
many of bejamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
"this is milh-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who neened a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
a biO fat pain . ,0
"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amisad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn aDart by dingoes . ,0
i couldn't help but feel the wasDted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
plays like a series of vignettes -- clpis of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . ,0
"according to the script , grant and bullock's charaMcters are made for each other . but you'd never gXess that from the performances . ",0
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growiag up in a dysfunctional family . ,1
an inspiring and heart-affecting flim about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation cmps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
quietly engagiqg . ,1
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjpyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and selCf-conscious material to make it sting . ,1
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that use grant's own twist of acdity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
obvRious,0
"meandering and glacially paced , and olten just plain dull . ",0
you don't have to be an especially otugh grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally stranged from reality . ",0
"it gets omto the screen just about as much of the novella as onXe could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
. . . a trse delight . ,1
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to atke a good swea to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is epected to have chEaracters and a storyline . ",0
"the drwa [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
"if [jaglo's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth hearZing . ",1
"the irwinw emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . ",0
"gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to rseist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakes come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . ",1
"skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grans of salt . ",0
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing mvoies - memorable stunts with lots of downtim in between . ,0
this iflm is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ,0
"needeess to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . ",0
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack c . ,0
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and cofirming . ",1
so devoisd of any kTind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longinRg and love . ",1
"an undeniably moving fil to experience , and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
"though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deaening score . ",0
too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as misty as noe of the golden eagle's carpets . ,0
"the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characXters . . . ",0
"the film is bautifully mounteI , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose ra soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself . ",0
"high cAimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its dack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",0
"Bhighlighted by a gritty style and an excelent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"the dose is strong and funny , for the firs 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
what's missing in murder by numbers is any rTeal psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviou . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
"almost every scene in this fiml is a gem that coulId stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . ",1
lurid and less than luicd work . ,0
"as if tyring to gkab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the fBat diaDlogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . ",0
"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as omrvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . ",0
"it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a giJl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in loe with a girl , and to ride the biAg metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it taakes you . ",1
"this is the kind of moie that rused to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is . ",1
"producer john peotti surveyed hih school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
laggard drama wending its wbay to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . ,0
"there are no special Heffects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visBally and in the writing . ",1
the movje is a mess from start to finish . ,0
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the sqory some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic evel . ,1
"bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmaer like this , and it's now coming true' baZ . ",0
"for the most part , the film does hold up pretHy well . ",1
a fifty car pildup of cliches . ,0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrkandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced nitimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"ah , the travails of metropolitan lfie ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! ",0
"mya take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasteKd yours . ",1
"this movie is about lyng , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . ",0
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional dZsperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
runs on the pure adrenalin of pacino's perfArmance . ,1
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funany ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sesne of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a lgame cast . ",1
devos dleivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ,1
a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issuPes' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorbale one for most people . ,0
"audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , suagr-free it . ",1
spned your benjamins on a matinee . ,1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're presented with a wry dark hjumor . ",1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire xeercise has no real point . ,0
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rathe than a full-length movie . ,0
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiady movies . ,1
"the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , flling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dos of humankind's liberating ability to tsiumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
ahhhh . . . revenge is sewet ! ,1
" . . . has freak scenes where the crew wonder if they're Nghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creeepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
" "" home movie "" is a sweet teasure and something well worth your time . ",1
it's quite an achhevement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fiil to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of ucban music . ,1
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate boservation of a distinctive Ailieu and in the lively , convincing dialogue she creates for her characters . ",1
never comes together as a coherent wholOe . ,0
"it's the kind of movie that ends up Nfestooning u . s . art house screens for no reaosn other than the fct that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . ",0
"without a storng script and energetic acting , dogma films can producX the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transxvestite comedy . ,0
it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his messgae that he can improvise ike a jazzman . ,1
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already seeD . ,0
a marvellus journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
"the images are usually abbreviated in afvor of msuhy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . ",0
"it's a ltt to ask people to sit stil for two horus and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
"a preplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalOnt of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . ",1
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield arth and showgirls . ,0
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i awnted more . ,1
suffers from a decided Rlack of creative storytelling . ,0
the movie is undonQe by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliHhed to hardened indie-heads . ,0
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named hal past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
"ofefrs no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . ",0
it's not the least of agfhan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and ugt-wrenching style of oseph heller or kut vonnegut . ",1
"haertwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter næss' elicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . ",1
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoayble family fare . ,1
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the prveious unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that otrnatore was right to cut . ",0
no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired sJory . ,0
"director hoffman , his writer and kline's aegnt should serve detention",0
"[t]he scriVpt isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-clched vampire accen . ",0
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffing casual approach",0
"although jackson is doubtless reserivng the darkest hourWs for the return of the king , we long for a gerater sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towers . ",1
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enojyable . ,1
this franchise has not spawned a single good film . the crp continues . ,0
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to sChake . ,1
"the x potaon gives the qickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
a hidden-agenda drama that houts classic french nuance . ,1
may seriously impair your ablity to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
" . . . routine , halmless diversion and little else . ",0
"when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pup in his dangerous ame . ",0
"on its own cinematmic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
an original little finlm about one young woman's education . ,1
"the question hanging over the tAme machine is not , as the mai character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? '",0
"sometimes we feel as if the flim careens from one colorful event to anotDer without reuspite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"while obvioJusly aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen tOrills,1
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the iVssues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cyoudy , the picture making becalmed . ",0
"we never really feel involved with the etory , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . ",0
"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watKhing them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that livee only in the darkness . ",0
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauTy will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1
"the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter of'allon . . . is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . ",0
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win vhewers' hearts . ,1
"rabbit-proof fence will prbably mke you angry . but it will just as likeyl make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . ",1
"super troopers is an ozdd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of earlo zucker brothersabrhams films ",0
"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsity hsort cuts by way of very bad tihngs . ",0
observant intelligence constaEntly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickeldy funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , Slittle nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hrd to resist . ,1
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhooh in a way that few movies have ever approahced . ,1
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first Dframe to the last . ,1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articuvates a flood of emotion . ",1
"an achingly enthralling premise , the flim is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"this isn't a "" friCday "" worth waiting for . ",0
the name says it all . jackass is a vulga and cheap-looking verson of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . ,0
"the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the ull 90 minutes , especially with the wenk payoff . ",0
i felt trapped and with no obvious epscape for the entire 100 minutes . ,0
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these os are just not extreme enough . ,0
"there's a scientific blaw to be discerned here that proSucers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as sono as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
"there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy qualNity to the maner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personfiied in the film's simple title . ",0
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht beklt schtick look sophisticated . ,0
"the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent Vones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tOedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"the movie strains to tsay on the light , comic Pside of the issAe , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself . ",0
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to thinT . ,0
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelliegnt wscript are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
"downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly Sham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a "" cooXer "" pg-13 rating . ",0
lawrence preaces strictly to the converted . ,0
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next geneation . ,1
"a canny , derivative , wildy gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who's the scariest of sadists . ",1
rubbo ruws through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make Odequate use of his particular talents . ,0
"it's got the bran , but not the brains . ",0
"some epJisodes work , some don't . ",0
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between atr and life . ,1
"if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same optioJ to slap her creators because they're clueess and inept ? ",0
"though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same ove story and parable . ",0
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've hrarely been given . ,1
all three women Zdeliver remarkable performances . ,1
"an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quiQe possibly the sturdiest exampYe yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the ratistry of making a film . ",0
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camOps . ,1
"if divine secrets of the yI-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the perfoAmances . ",1
"beautiful , old , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of rat that's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
"scooby doo is surely everything its fas are oping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best picfures . ",1
"for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a ne hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letodown . ",0
"like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audinence since its poignancy uhooks us completely . ",1
"confessions amy not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivaitons , but the film is an xddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
"ogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . ",0
noyce films it more as a shocking hiMstory lesson than as drama . ,1
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance coFmmercial . ",0
it's probably not esay to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
"going to this movie is a little like chewing wahle blubber - it's an acuqired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's owrth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had Nfamily trauma . ,1
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv eipsode rather than a documentary that you actTually buy into . ",0
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny scrpit . ,1
norton is magnetic as grkham . ,1
"the problems and charatcers it reveals are univesral and inolving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . ",1
the film makes a fatal mistake : it akss us to care about a young man whuose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the pZeople in his life . ,0
spend your benjamins on a mvtinee . ,1
"moonlight mile gNives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surredners to the illgoic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old caroPsel . ",0
the chatzeau is a risky venture that never quife goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
waydowntown masnages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . ,1
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audiencz . ,1
it's a remarkably solid and subtly matirical tour de force . ,1
thin pejriod piece . ,0
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fn . ",1
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccvntric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that kep people going in this crazy life . ",1
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their aes . ",1
"the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adernalin , rdated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man . ",1
"after you laugh once ( maybd twice ) , you will have completely fGorgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . ",0
two hours of jusnk . ,0
"[clooney's] debut can be acucsed of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offebat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , Xspecially the cen brothers and steven soderbergh . ",1
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't linvest much into itself etiher . ,0
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of su will be Ylulled into a coma . ",0
"it Airtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
a chick flck for guys . ,1
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the Mubject matter justice . ",0
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkls , 'swept away' sinks . ",0
the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more maigcal than the first and simply the beGst family film of the year . ,1
a chaotic panorama that's too bus flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
"it's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warb up to . ",1
"this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the fiEst , it's Mtill a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1
"a burst of color , mNusic , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smle at . ",1
" i admire the closing scenes of the flim , which seem to ask whether our civlization offers a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
"this is a truly , truly bad mvie . ",0
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never rGally builds up a head of emotional steaom . ",0
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wfaer without the wine . ",1
i found myself more apprecivtive of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually doe . ,0
"a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- xecuse for a film . ",0
naGr doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ,1
kaufman and jonze take huge rsiks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desiPe as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiress one feels when it is missing . ,1
"at once subtle and vkisceral , the fplm never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the futur . ",1
"a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothivg else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent staV , frankie muniz . ",0
"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : niwe sequels and 400 bears later , the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot . ",0
"an unencouraging threefold expxansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a ranodm series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
one just waits grimly for the next shock witheout developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
holm . . . embodies the character with an effortlessly reSal charisma . ,1
i'd have to say the sta and director are the big problems here . ,0
an excellent romp that boasts both a heatr and a mind . ,1
"although german Wooking does not come yreadily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . ",1
"giveVs us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . ",1
"in the end , tuck Weverlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experiencexd by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
"world traveler mihgt not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attepmt to get at something . ",1
worth the efforZt to watch . ,1
"a tender and touching dvama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yerning we all have in our hearts for acceptance witin the family circle . ",1
"beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation sfoof downplays the raunch in favor of ggas that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as oppoYsed to the extent of their outrageousness . ",1
"even these tales of just seVven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . evtery child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signEost . ",1
"bennett's naturaliLtic performance speaks volumes more truh than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tRradition . ,1
"uneven , self-conscious but often ilarious spoof . ",1
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likley will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"a deermined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say xbeyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . ",0
"a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the csat delivers mildly ausing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . ",0
a delightufl coming-of-age story . ,1
there is tuth here,1
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jTackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
"the couEtry bears has no sceens that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . ",0
"Nisney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'antohny hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script mNachine . ",0
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweepnig pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
"responsável direto elo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssioms momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
"there are plenty of scense in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . ",0
"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your Heyes . i loved it ! gollum' 'performance' is incredible ! ",1
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to intect her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusoin of old-fasthioned hollywood magic . ",1
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the iflm reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0
"ofetn lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this moMvie ? ",0
this is christmas future for a lot of baBy boomers . ,1
"the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new "" cCnan "" and that he'E going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the fil's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover ivewers . ",0
it's a lovely film with lovelfy performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
"the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undero radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remmake , it's a pale imitation . ",0
what would jesus do if he was a film director ? xhe'd create a movie better than this . ,0
"the movie has no respect for aws , plitical correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . ",1
i suspect this is the knid of production that ould have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrbcally and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . ,0
"over the yeras , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animaked movies , and icB age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
show me the mgging . ,0
frenetic but not reably funny . ,0
those of you who are not an eighth grad girl will most likely doze off during this one . ,0
"' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seaj for long stretcThes . '",1
"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create charactres who are sweet and bebievable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizapre , implausible behavior . ",0
"it's often faintly amusing , but the problesm of the characters never becoem important to us , and the story never takes hold . ",0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manAipulation and mayhem . ",0
"a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult isseues with honesty and beauty . ",1
the thign looks like a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and chap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis d sade set . ,0
at once disVrmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . ,1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hemetic . ",1
remarkably Daccessible and affecting . ,1
"it's too harsh to wokr as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual eercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the belieHver is nothing less than a provocative pieec of work . ",1
ah-nuld's actin hero days might be over . ,0
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? as , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0
"if you are cuirous to see the dErker side of what's going on with young tF actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interdsting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . ",0
"will only Aatisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , formeur wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them lit this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnOier than anthing in the film . . . ",0
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length beomes a part of its fun . ,1
"director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berKg , michael j . wilson and petekr ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhm in a brief amount of time . ",1
"talk to her is not the perfect movie mny have made it out to be , but it's still quite worth deeing . ",1
all the chUracters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . ,0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinembtography and naturalistic acting . ,1
suffesr from all the excesses of the genre . ,0
"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most cruical lip-reading sequence . ",1
"this is wild surreal stuff , but brilliant and the camera just iknd of sits there and letH you Sook at this and its likH you're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
majidi gets uniformly engagign performances from his largely amateur cast . ,1
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstjop hoot . ",1
"harvaEd man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of najrrative logic or cohesion is an entirley foreign concept . ,0
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarelSy and specifically expounded via computer animaetd od testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
people cinea at its finest . ,1
"whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pilu . it's petty thievery like this that puts flisy flics like this behind bars",0
" . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of oshakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high eonugh level of invention . ",0
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting ksills are comparable to a cardobard cutout . ",0
a vivid cinematic portrai . ,1
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's fNull of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen eprsonifies . ",0
gosling provides an amazing peYformance that dwarfs everything else in the film . ,1
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorabSle , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisute , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borow some . ,1
"it winds up moving in many dLirections as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say . ",0
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that wuold make this a moving experience for people who haven't rOead the book . ,0
by the final wihstle you're convinced that this mean machine was a dceent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
a lever blend of fact and fiction . ,1
"nearQly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to Uee it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate themqe . ",1
a riveting dcumentary . ,1
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed caracters . ",1
an jxquisitely crafted and acted tale . ,1
"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possibe to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are dfeated by a screenplay that frces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . ",0
a gift to anyRone who loves both dance and cinema,1
the formula is Sfamiliar but enjoyable . ,1
the journe toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0
"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amaement . ",1
told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable rappings . ,1
"another in a long line of ultra-violent Aar movies , this one is not uqite what it coulYd have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it . ",1
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel soemthing . ",1
a sensitive and astute first feature by gnne-sophie birot . ,1
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directros are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
i am more ofVended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here . ,1
"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drvie of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the bekliever is nothing less than a provocative Siece of owrk . ",1
"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a lLong time before the fat lad sings . ",0
"contaisn all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
samuel beckett aplpied to the iranian voting process . ,1
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptatioN of a much better book . ,1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-ti- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
a genuinely moving and wiseyl unsentimental drama . ,1
"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to meely bad rather than painfully Kawful . ",0
routine and ather silly . ,0
the film does giie a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie followihg the murder of matthew shepard . ,1
"ebrling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her charaHcters . ",1
"i have no way of knowing exactly how muhc is exagheration , but i've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i wanx to believe . ",1
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that clevery captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every mway inferior to that of jxhn . ,0
"narratively , troubl every day is a plodding mess . ",0
"berling and ébart . . . continue to imprses , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1
"thanks to sctt's charismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compelliXg variations on in the company of men . ",1
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american Qinema . ,1
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster csript and substandard performances . ,0
"thanks to hayne's absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three tterrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
"if you Iike quirky , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
"like hshave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boirng . ",0
the powder bues and sun-splasheN whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in bely-dancing clubs . ,1
toes the fine tine between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such Wconviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1
"deep intelligence and a warm , envleoping affection breathe out of every frame . ",1
"a silly , self-indulgent fil about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
gM see it and enjoy . ,1
"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brabsh young men set out to conquer the onlin world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to fiKms which will ause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis coul never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainOted with the author's work , on the other hand , ay fall fast asleep . ",0
"debut effort by "" prject greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
"though an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a wlr criZinal . ",1
imagine susan sontag falliIg in love with howard stern . ,0
this is one of the year's best filmqs . ,1
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions neLd to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaonry . ,0
"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-obpper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive yong leads . ",0
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stnad as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 mMiles , and all the pabst blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck robd-trip . ",1
"the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numreous scenes of gory mayheb are worth the pice of admission . . . if "" gory mayhem "" is your idea of a good time . ",1
"funny in a scik , twisted sort of way . ",1
"fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc tgakes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
"involvnig at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd . ",0
"a few hours after you've seen it , you fMorget you've been to the movies . ",0
"while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithHul to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the lod boy's characters more quick-witted than any english kit major would have thought possible . ",1
"the sXanta clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've gmt to give it thumbs down . ",0
rodriguez has the chojps of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
"a woefully dull , rtdundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
it has that rare qualiy of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1
succeeds in providing a disquiet wolrd the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . ,0
"sensitive , insightful and bXautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
prvides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . ,1
noe hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his elusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . ,1
one from the hecrt . ,1
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élKn , humor , bile , and irony . ",0
"the vintage is purAe '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithhul = don't if you're married to one . ",0
"thouSh it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of holjywood excess . ",1
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of wya . ,0
"a rbcipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
the acting is fine but the script is about as interestng as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout liBne . ,0
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessionaal tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it eitheUr mNderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . ,0
imagine susan sontag falling in lovS with howard stern . ,0
"ed dragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silenVce . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . ",1
"the explosion essentially rXuined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . ",0
"although gdo is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different knind of film . ",0
feels like a cold Gld man going through the motions . ,0
"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gogreous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . ",1
"direHcted without the expected flaIr or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
"at times the gus taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an uttrly static picture . ",1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , iornically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy ariginal was railing against . ",0
"this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark vlilain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the inelligent , well-made b movie is lnog gone . ",0
"it through this one , and you won't need a magic wBatch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . ",0
"like so many other allegedly scary movies , it vets so tangleL up in the twzist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . ",0
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it hurns up not one but two flagrantly fakb thunderstorms to underscore the action . ,0
"a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painfl elegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
"michael moore has perfected the sart of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentar-ymaking , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally Dmove awNay from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
"ratliff's two previous titles , Splutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for cry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating coemdy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oEddest thing about the movie is how it wins up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always ehld dear . ",0
"despite an impreNssive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
its sheer dynamism is infectiouDs . ,1
. . . too sappy for its own ood . ,0
"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culmintes in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't Vpay . ",0
director david jacobson gtves dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . ,1
"dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own ogod -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
"lan yu seem altogether too slight to be called any Kkind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honet , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",1
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concepvt and push it through the audience's meat grinder Lne more time . ,0
"we just don't really acre too much about this loIe story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
" . . . a story we haven't sReen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as aTericans , and human beings , should know . ",1
i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal mGovie is boring . ,0
"Haud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detectise story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . ",1
staggeringly drecadful romance . ,0
mckay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiWritedness,0
sensitive thugh not quite revelatory documentary . ,0
consummate actor barry has done excelleint work here . ,1
it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers ig tbime . ,1
"the piano teacher , like its tilte character , is repellantly out of control . ",0
"an extremely funny , ultimately hnartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film opeates nicely off the elqment of surprise , and the large cast is solid . ",1
"it's as sorrty a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad cows . ",0
"it is a comedy Athat's not very funny and an ation movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to amke a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd cokme up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
it trusts the story it sets out to etll . ,1
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of orginality . ",1
"a zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , lGoud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
the movie's heavy-handed screenlay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . ,0
the only element of suspense is wheher the movie will change titles or distributors again before the closQing credits roll . ,0
this film's relationship to actual tensdon is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snw : a poor -- if durable -- imitation . ,0
one of the greatest romantic comedies of the pst decade . ,1
"give seapiro , goldman , and bolado credi for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . ",0
storCtelling feels slight . ,0
quietly enSgaging . ,1
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regreh . ,1
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appeaping couple , and even though their story is predicStable , you'll want things to work out . ",1
"thanks to Econfident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performancef , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been mavde in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy chase and goldie han . ",0
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting emss , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you miggt expect . ",0
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funnX , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , moAally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . ",0
"i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventivT . ",1
"yet another genre xercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of thrJe aging sisters . ,1
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative mmoentum , and invites unflattering comparisonjs to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as igfted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
"this is a film well worth seeing , talkinNg and singing heads and all . ",1
"the french are rahter good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a pasxsion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
"viewed on its own terms , treasude planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fanps of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] miery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confrot it . ,0
'they' begins and endj with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decided to leave a liught on every night from now on . ,1
"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the auadcity , at the woh's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all . ",1
a coming-of-agg film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertani girl on the brink of womahnood . ,1
"shiner can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship mjaterial",1
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our Vdolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"a grittily beautiful film that looks , sonuds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured stoy . ",1
"defBnitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise nding . ,0
i whole-heartedly drecommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and follownig the demands of tradition . ,1
"like a grinning jack d' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and dCiscarded . ",0
an intoxicafing experience . ,1
francophiles will snicekr knowingly and you'll want to slap them . ,1
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stag business in the modern day . ,0
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestarted , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolbting imaes have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week agio that won't go away . ,1
an unintentional varody of every teen movie made in the last five years . ,0
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rheashing what was basTcally a one-joke picture . ,0
schneider's mugging is relentless and his cnostant need to suddenly transporse himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial comR muchas cintas qul pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
"like its tuitle character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . ",0
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beauitfully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will Fffer subtitles and the oWiginal italian-language soundtrack . ",0
"ultimately , jane earns her pgace as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . ",0
this is pretty dicery material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . ,1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the shiow . ",1
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issuyes , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rcrely sees . ",1
an overly melodramtic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasoinally bewildering . ,0
though writerdirector bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"the tale of tok ( andy lwu ) , a sleek socPopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . ",0
"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affeCtion breathe out of every frame . ",1
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , staMr-splashed reduction . ",0
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to elgross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their childrn--and the sometimes bad choQices mothres and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . ,1
"alain choquart's camera barely stop moivng , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetuaTl sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . ",1
my own minority report is that it stinvs . ,0
a roet exercise in both animation and storytelling . ,0
"though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creatvie thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a ploemical tract . ",0
there's much ongue in cheek in the fAlm and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . ,1
his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical clove stories . ,1
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirXited tale of a prim widow who inds an unlikely release in belly-xancing clubs . ,1
rife with nutty clichezs and far too much dialogue . ,0
" . . . plenty of warmth to og around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"caruso soemtimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good nior should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
"mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfulWly . ",1
"philip k . dick must be tuning in his grave , along with my stomach . ",0
. . . wise and legiac . . . ,1
"if you've the patience , there are grea rewards here . ",1
"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes exVreme gore for suspense . ",0
"a movie that , rather than skip along the sene , more or less slogs its way through soggC paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . ",0
much of what is meant to be 'inpirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] Mmindset . ,0
"a dark , quirly road movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
the centOal character isn't complex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"it's not a bad remise , just a bad movie . ",0
a bloated gasbag thesOis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
a zinger-filled crowd-pleser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
"the tone is balanced , reflective and reasonabel . ",1
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countlses other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever sene before , and yet completely familiar . ",1
"when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his ctors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finisned film , that's a bad sign . a very bad sgin . ",0
master of diguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . ,0
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's siill woruh a look . ",1
a fake street dKama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'ocol' actors who enver seems aware of his own coolness . ,1
"msith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem Bully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrmjn's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his sharacters . ",0
"Vven on its own ludicrous terms , the suT of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly cleveW . ,1
enduUing love but exhausting cinema . ,0
a olquacious and dreary piece of business . ,0
"ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on gempathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wjcky but loving family",1
this is the type of movie best enjoyqed by fat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . ,0
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted pebson not to be moved by this drama . ,1
little more than a froPthy vanity project . ,0
"if you're looking for a smart , nNuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your filh . ",1
"witty , touchzng and well paced . ",1
undoubtedly the scariest mTovie ever made about tattoos . ,1
may seriously impair your abiliyt to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
this charmless nonsenye ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dyikng fall . ",1
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking tim bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
one thing is for sure : this moive does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profaSnity sprinkeld with a few remaeks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . ,0
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstOanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
big fat liar is just futile slliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
"both lead performancse are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and more wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity smoewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
"tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true tsar . ",1
"[a] soulless , stupid isequel . . . ",0
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneomusly fuJny , ffbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
"steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody aLlen . ",0
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's ye . ,1
the film is undone by anachronistic qiuck edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audince watching the events unfold . ,0
"it's vstill a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
"a fiVlm that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremeKly languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . ",0
a delicious and delicately funy look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling compliucations life tosses at them . ,1
"its directin , its scriph , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , stIar-splashed reduction . ",0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's souAce novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screepnlay . ,0
dingified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
"despiet a story predictable enough to make the sond of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the righ place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . ",1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give cerdit to everyone from robinson down to the key gip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
this is a happy throwbaCk to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of on of its most predictable . ,1
"if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or rober aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling bdeneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . ",0
"serry does a fine job of capturing the clmiate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , realting it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists frce the movie off track in its final half hour . ",0
"sitting in the thiUrd roO of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as thogh i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera aorund australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1
"writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the wuhimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film enres . ",1
"an overstlyized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pqre wankery . ",0
just olain silly . ,0
"tells a fascinating , compelling stMry . ",1
strnog setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
"kids will lvoe its fantasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
"the tone errs on the shrill sidx , tempered by a soft southern geCntility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it wotrh the trip to the theatre . ,1
overall tomfoolery ike this is a matter of taste . ,0
"same son , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
"as literary desecrations go , this make for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have developmd some paste , so will your kids . ",1
"sorvino makes the pricness seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only reallUy comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . ",0
the ocmedy is nonexistent . ,0
"more hoenst about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris . ",1
"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relativelry lightwegiht commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real htematic heft . ",1
"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething lzeading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
fails to covince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ,0
"contains the humor , characterization , poignanyc , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier worBk . ,0
"a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of pDost , Vpre , and extant stardom . ",1
a poignant comedy that offers fXood for thought . ,1
not since to cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
needed a lithtle less bling-bling and a lot more romance . ,0
the film offers an intrQguing what-if premise . ,1
"it would be intresting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the women are down for the wcount . ",1
"hill looks to be going through the motons , beginning with the pale script . ",0
the fast runer' transports the viewer into an unusual space,1
"this is a truly , truly bad movve . ",0
"romantic , riveting and handsomely animaed . ",1
"the plot is nothing but boilerDplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the targt audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they'Jve already seen this exact same movie a hujdred times",0
"a resconant tale of racism , revenge and retribution . ",1
both deeply weird and charmingly deakr . ,1
"moonliht mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feel free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogci of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
an intriguing and entertainng introduction to johnson . ,1
"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only amoRg those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcernde about what they ingest . ",0
"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enSoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of srlliness and a little bloodshed . ",1
its rawness and vitality give it considerbale punch . ,1
"we root for [clara and tpaul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
"feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , wo's shot himself in the foot . ",0
the mvoie attempts to mine laugh from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ,0
"a masterful film from a master filmmaker , uique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . ",1
instead of building to a laugh riot we are letf with a handful of disparate funny moemnts of no real consequence . ,0
"the director and her capable cas appear to be caught in a eady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . ",0
thre's no reason to miss interview with the assassin,1
"ourside the tehatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
"although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour nunning tKime plays closer to two . ",1
"a real movei , about rjal people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1
"vera's three actors -- mollà , igl and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"it won't hold up over the log haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturLday matinee . ",1
at 78 minutes it just zings along with ivbrance and warmth . ,1
"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might thnk . ",0
"a disaster of a drama , saved only by its wined assailants . ",0
"attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or sedious drama . he seems to want both , but succeedO in making neither . ",0
[u]nrelentingly stpuid . ,0
"watching hanekeS's film is , Lptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
"tadpole is emlbematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
nicole kidgman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
"smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few flse steps along the way . ",1
ramsay and motron fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
what's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behavkiour . being latently gy and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the mTgaplexes before its time . ,0
"while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictabel remake , nolan's penetratng undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"after sitting through this sQoppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonedr if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the sbenery . ,0
"nicolas philibert Nbserves life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the yeQr . ",1
director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simqly presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no questoin . ,1
"bray is completely at ea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resuem , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
murphy and wilson actually mkae a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone sqw in this film that allowed it to get madGe . ",0
from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the srceen in ‘warm water under a red bridge',1
"neither the funniest milm that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nQvertheless efficiently amusing for a goo while . before it collapses into exactly the kidn of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . ",1
the Jfilm is a very good viewing alternative for young women . ,1
miller has crafted an intriguing story of matenral instincts and misguided acts of affection . ,1
romacek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
"the film makes strong arguments regarding the socal status of ameria's indigenous peopl , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get . ",0
"finds a whay to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a wMay that seems compelling and even original . ",1
"a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melDted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mrsmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mrdantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
"worthless , from its pseudo-roc-kvideo opening to the idiocy of its last frames . ",0
"the pinochet case is a searing alKbum of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic ear when the huamns are acting like puppets ? ,0
about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the ovie . ,0
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoHn wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosTashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"this is a rfagmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to trn it into a movie . ",0
azam sandler ! in an art film ! ,1
"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedEy undramatic central theme . ",0
"the narrator and the other characters trpy to convince us that acting transfigGres esther , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; jone feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
"the only upsida to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend uploa , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . ",0
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but evep a hero can stumble smoetimes . ",0
a quiet family drama with a liNttle bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethrgic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"you coud sa that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in wpays that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . ",1
a romanvtic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1
[sen's] soap opera-ish approcah undermines his good intentions . ,0
. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kijds and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of charaters and motivations . ,1
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but signularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the fOral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
"this is a visually stunning rumination on loQe , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . ",1
"gets the look and the priod trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clicLhés . ",0
the spark of special anime mTagic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
it all draEs on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . ,0
cho continues her exploration of the outer limtis of raunch with considerable brio . ,1
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-wery colonel . ,1
"the satier is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . ",0
"cold , pretentious , thoroughly disliakble study in sociopathy . ",0
viewers of barney's crushingyl self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the Dace of political corrupion . ",1
"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom svcene , in which 3000 acors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the shw goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kitler . ,0
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to makD people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula roantic comedy . ",0
jones has tackled a meaty subjcet and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . ,1
it appears to have been mYdeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the charcter he plays keeps him at arms length",1
does not go far enough in its humRr or stoc ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
"it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interestng and more sloppily made film could possibjly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
"lie shrek , spirit's visual imaginatioh reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another wrld . ",1
audacious-impBossible yet compelling . . . ,1
the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's likHe Tatching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufmRan's script . ,1
it's tsylishly directed with verve . . . ,1
i'm not exactly sure what this movie hinks it is about . ,0
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anthing but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from hisory . ",1
"when the iflm ended , i flet tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
the mnvie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . ,0
"in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in rcent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever alo features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dul , unimaginative car chase . ",0
"creepy , authentic and dark . this distxurbing bio-pic is hard to forget . ",1
"it's a cool evnet for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to ese over and over again . ",1
the next generation of mob mvie . part low rent godfather . part three stooges . ,1
"its use of the thriller form to eamine the labyrinthine ways in which people'cs lives crosQs and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . ",1
don't let your festive spirit fo this far . ,0
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a bd film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . ",0
"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be madxe from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
"ou've got to love a dsney pic with as Little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
"it won't hold up over the Qlong haul , but in the moment , finch's tale proviudes the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . ",1
ring on the sequel . ,1
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this oser . ",0
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaRters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fXre . ,0
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer flfuf . ,0
"uplWifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and aFong the best films of the year . ",1
this flat run at a hi-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fti all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
three's just something about waching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance . ,1
"sustains its dreamlikWe glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effGcts , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . ",0
it mave me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . ,0
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evauations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural dstinctions between americans and brits . ",0
the party scenes edliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sJag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
"streamlnied to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the wexiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorous revolutionaries . ",1
"a coDa in every sense , the pinochet aase splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . ",1
"the hard-to-predict and bsolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be Psensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
a thriller swithout a lot of thrills . ,0
"the special effects and amny scense of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing scor make good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
this overroduced piece of dreck is shockingly ba and absolutely unnecessary . hmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? ,0
barrels along at the start before becoming mird in sentimentality . ,0
"a profoundly stupid affair , populatinf its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboad characters and performers who value cash above credibility . ",0
"ou've jot to lov a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you do'n t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
"when twentysomethAing hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd livd in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much imgaination and nerve . ",1
Pnipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"that storytelling has value cannot be deniMed . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully suciceed at cheapening it . ",1
"it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thnks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . ",1
"for those of an indulgent , sltghtly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1
the movie attempts to mine laughJs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences severla years ago ,0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely bleievable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
denzer should not get the first and last lok at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1
"to honestly adress the flaws inherent in how medical ai is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
"the pone rings and a voice tells you you've got sevcen days left to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at bockbuster before msdnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not really . ",0
"at its tbest , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick socivety ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
what happens when something goes bump in the Light and nobody cares ? ,0
"this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a Qtriumph for its maverick director . ",1
a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-viAeo' release . ,1
"witty , cNontemplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
"as a revenge thrillea , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious giulty pleasure of the better film versions . ",1
"grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing itnellect . ",1
"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the Htitle , emany can aspire but none can equal . ",0
"the script boasts some tart v-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . ",0
"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transscend its clever concept . ",0
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildes fantsaies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 minutes . ",1
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to Zalance out the violence ) . . . ,0
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faihful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be cured in by julia roberts . . . ,0
the movie is about as humorous as wacthing your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0
"there's no paplable chemistry between lopez and mable lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
" "" white oVeander , the movie ",1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild dhornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"lee's achievement extensd to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of blak indomitability . ",1
"you might say tykwer has one all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as posible . suffice to say its total promise is left sligthly unfulfilled . ",0
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventng a remarkable new trick . ,1
"there is an amlost poignant dimnsion to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is shNt from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . ",0
[seems] even more uselessly redunduant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly bak at what hibiscus grandly called his 'agels of light . '",1
"in any csae , i would recommend big Kad love only to winger fans who have missed her ince 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . ",0
"stqpid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go back to sleep . ",0
"talk to her is not the perfet movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quite owrth seeing . ",1
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly swett gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
"it's not particularly well lmade , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . ",1
"el peso de un líquido incoloro , el peso del líquido vital , del amKor como elemento de vida , y yde muerte . . . ",1
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $9 bargain-basement special . ",0
'wouldn't it be nice if all guy got a taste of what it's like on the other sioe of the bra ? ',0
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make mus laugh . tim story's not there yut - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1
what's so striking about jolie's preformance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that raioactive hair . ,1
a predictable and stereotypical little b-move . ,0
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the paNt . ",0
"it is ko for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanlV engaged . ",1
"if the Wmovie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the race of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a ifficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls . ",1
"mr . Yedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their fiml falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poLgnancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
hollywood neding is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a gret idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really owrk . ,0
when it realmy counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . ,1
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documqntary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a abreath of fresh air now and then . ",0
"stuffy , full of itself , moally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure rp hype . ",0
what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attentoin to the parents -- and particularly the fateul fathres -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . ,1
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whol dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special Sffects . ",0
the scrSipt by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0
"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from relaity . ",0
choppy ediitng and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"this is oene of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
eckstraordinarily alme and severely boring . ,0
"i don't thikn i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big probleQ . ",0
"a mvoie that will thrill you , touch you and make you laugh as well . ",1
"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified epsiode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leryo's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
" . . . pnlenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"a moving , if unevken , success . ",1
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't maek for completely empty entertainment",1
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo mNakes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . ,1
a full-frontal attack on audience patiene . ,0
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylzed , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . ",1
"an interesting psychological game of Mat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",1
"this sade is hardly a perverse , dagerous libertine and agiUtator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film semes as deflated as he does . ",0
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunyatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
wxitless but watchable . ,1
"despite the opulent lushness of every secne , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering ohme his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like aciCd . ,1
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic inema . ,1
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laraie projcet is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
"third time's the charm . . . yeah , bby ! ",1
"you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been wrth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctioRal family -- deserve one afother . ",0
"manages to be Zomewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproairous . ",0
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the cAntenders to create a completely crass and forgettble movie . ,0
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milizu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . ",0
the msvie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . ,0
"a solidly constructeVd , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration . ",1
it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and sworth a look . ,1
"the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its foun – toward the Jend , you can feXl your veins cringing from the workout . ",0
"while the now 72-year-old rboert evans been sloed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . ",1
"it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy rgoupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the businesb of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying smoething meaningful about facing death",0
"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's poelmical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these preformers and their era . ,1
"once the expecation of laughter has been quashed by whatever hobscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't funny . ",0
it will delihgt newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . ,1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the trooprs will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and hfead games . ",1
the script falls back on too many tried-andtrue shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . ,0
"ana's journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own ksin to be proud of her rubenesque pyhsique . . . ",1
a charming but slight zcomedy . ,1
"a direct-to-void release , headinA nowhere . ",0
they should have calld it gutterball . ,0
"oh , james ! your e20th outing shows off a lot of stamin and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space sGetting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whfif . ",0
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's bopring . ",0
"not only are the film's sQpranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we'r -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0
"[lawrence bunces] all over the stage , dancing , prunning , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1
the fiml makes a fayal mistake : it asks us to care about a yung man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . ,0
you have no affinity for most of the haracters . nothing about them is attractive . what they Bee in each other also is difficult to fathom . ,0
"even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the fomula and make it more interesting . ",1
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanskis' the pianist , but its compassinate spirit soars every bit as high . ",1
"a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainwy at little kids but with plenty of entertainmenIt value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1
made by ackasses for jackasses . ,0
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available birs , especially as temptingly ieasy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provfcation post-911 ",0
"for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the Epowerful work of his co-tsars . ",1
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentrfc , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . ",1
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmetRs mouth . ",1
"harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing cuold be more apporpriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likey tihnk of this one . ",0
"in its treatvment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an amLrican film . ",1
"for all its sohot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the sillR spy vs . spy fiZlm the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
"if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseriZs and more ttention to the film it is about . ",0
" . it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeedV in entertaining , despite playing out like a featore-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a seher unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello musuc culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"a loev for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaDloo beats . ",1
"although disney fMollows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . ",0
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniquenaess . ,0
it's about issues most aduls have to face in marrimage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1
"by the time you reach the finale , you're ikely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
"three's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own iflm to special effects . ",0
"muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentiosu . ",0
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the fclm doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one wTould have to be mighty bored to even tAhink of staying with this for more than , sa , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in ye-popping visuals . ",1
would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intleligibility . ,0
a mSnor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . ,0
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorrus personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1
"a long-winded , paredictable scenario . ",0
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist tiree day before his death ofefrs an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . ,1
a movie for 11-year-old bIoys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lid' bow wow . ,1
"diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they stirp down often enough to keep men alert , if not maused . ",0
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and coul have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to pusf them . ",1
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rsh . ,0
"no worse a film than beaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . ",1
draggin' about aragons,0
skillfully weaves both the elemenst of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a ahunting sense of malaise . ,1
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real cKaracters and compelling plmots . ,0
"feels aimless for much of its running gime , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questiosn in its wake . ",0
"armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the alNways hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and cores , doing its namesake proud . ",1
"human natre , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
viveka seldahl and svel wollter will touch you to the cre in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
"believes so fervently in humanity that it fees almost anachronistic , and it is too coute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offres flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1
"not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79minute after-scrool "" cartoon "" . ",0
"dense , exhilarating documenatry . ",1
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recordinig of conversations at the wal-mart checkjut line . ,0
"although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleasZer's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured lspunk are often infectious . ",1
"the gags , and the sMript , are a mixed bag . ",0
" . . . plenty of warmth to go aaround , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that taFkes few chances and manages to insulTt the intelligence of everyone in the audience . ,0
" "" not reallK as bad as you might think ! "" ",0
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning aste , this might not seem lkie the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that ven the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
at 78 minutes it just zinsg along with vibrance and warmth . ,1
it's a charming and often affecting Ojourney . ,1
the mZushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
"films are made of little momens . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effErt is gratefully received . ",1
"wokthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . ",0
"will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the yeaD . ",1
"the man from elysian fields is a col , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how lif throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
maes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us hjalf an hour of car chases . ,0
"full froKntal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the Hharacters . by that measure , it is a failure . ",0
a beautifully made pece of unwatchable drivel . ,0
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in gneeral will be rewarded by borstal boy . ,1
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of icarface or carlito's way . ,0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of uzsing bad sci-fi as windwo dressing ? ",0
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ag , and parnets' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentiona . ",0
warmed-ovre hash . ,0
one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this yer . ,1
"it is different from otehrs in its genre in that it is does not rely on udmb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its sXtory . ",1
"a qquiet , disquieting triumph . ",1
"this filmed otsca -- not the firmt , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tsca that you want . i'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . ",1
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footagWe is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . ",0
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chaiDn . ,0
"although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favoirte to enjoXy for a lifetime . ",1
"this mal not have the dramatic gt-wrenching impact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's tolMd by the people who were there . ",1
"it's immensley abmitious , different than anything that's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , beFtter acting and a hilarious keneth branagh . an excellent sequel . ",1
rarely has so ouch money delivered so little entertainment . ,0
"htough it fSlirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . ",1
this story of unrequiteld love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . ,0
it's liek an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . ,0
"clever , brutal and stranely soulful movie . ",1
…an adorably whimsicnal comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
villeneuve spends too much time wallownig in bibi's generic ankgst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machiOations . ,0
a fanciful drma about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unqiue relationship between them . ,1
direOtor boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slashen film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
"russell lacks the Svisual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormr , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical . ",1
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fosl of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . ,0
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno e esos fnilmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
[a] devastatingly poweful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
i liked a lo of the smaller scenes . ,1
"it may be a somewhat backhdnded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feeh lzke the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality",1
"this concoction , so bizarrOe to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its nitended under-12 audience is concerned . ",1
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the forgm come away exhilarated . ,1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentray . ",1
"it's a lovely , eerie film that cafsts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"dazzles with its fZully-written characters , its determined Qstylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . ",1
"an ugly , pointless , stupid mvoie . ",0
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passoins -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excusre for a romantic comedy . ",0
"cho's fearless in picking apart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delievry and timign are flawless . ",1
the actors are fanastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre . ,1
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manaMes a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
"tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pBessimism ; it completely contradicts everytOing kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grahe this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent uqestions . ,0
"bon appétit ! just like a splendid mela , red dragon satisfies – from its ripte recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
"s . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . ",1
it's fitfully funny but enver really takes off . ,0
"while scorsese's obld images and generally smart casting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"not fXar beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . ",1
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compelilng than the execution,0
"as elegantly crHafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-Grick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot helpp be etertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . ,1
"a rollicking ride , with law-dropping action sequences , strkiing villains , a gorgeous cYlor palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . ",1
manages to be both hugley entertaining and uplifting . ,1
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary paoignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any woking class community in the nation . ",1
"his [nelson's] screenplay nedes some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting mtaches about it . ",0
energtic and boldly provocative . ,1
"hough moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tacHkles a subject that's potentially movin , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actoSs involvied",0
"despvte the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's stiRl not a good movie",0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst mqovie i've seen this summer . ",0
"no , it's not nearly as goo as any of its influences . ",0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory owrk for polanski , made yricher by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . ",1
"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refershing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shwos a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
"the messy emotions ragin throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiUar and foreign at the same time . ",1
it uses the bain and violence of war as background material for color . ,0
"lan yu seems latogether too slight to be caleld any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted ilm that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",1
"the idea of 49-yearpold orberto benigni playing the wooden boy pinocchio is scay enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"ice age won't drop your jaw , but it will warm your hnart , and i'm giSing it a strong thumbs up . ",1
merchant hasn't directed this movie so muMh as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
the things this movie tries to Eget the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and evn less chemistry . ",0
"meandernig , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
the character of zigzag is not suffiiently developed to support a film constructed around him . ,0
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pndering to a mviegoing audience dpminated by young males is all too calculated . ,0
"trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutsy , too surl of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
"what saves it . . . and makes it one of the Jbetter video-game-based flicks , is that the iflm acknowledges upfronN that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of lineariyt is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice . ",1
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful ne yrok gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever histTrical canvas . ",1
"what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to fiCnd the seeds of hope in the fom of collective action . ",1
"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocen and spits it bback , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escapd the holocaust . ,1
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script errro . ',0
a negligible british cZomedy . ,0
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the lauhter ? ,0
"a movie that will thrill you , touch you and maWke you laugh as well . ",1
"never mind whether you buy the stunf about barris being a cTia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
. . . too sapyp for its own good . ,0
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-ace with a ouple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . ",0
"if you're looking for an intelligent rovie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you eed . ",1
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the fUce of life's harshness . ,1
"astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoehrent or just plain cra . indeed , none of these words reall gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . ",0
"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowlinc's phenomenal fantasy besst sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a lkiably delinquent attitude . ",1
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of Dilm , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
there's a vastness Bimplied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
"cuts right through the b . s . givibng a bg middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who xalk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1
"the climactic vents are so well realized that you maj forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does",1
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually cmoedy fare , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
. . . a thoughtful wha-tif for the heart as well as the mind . ,1
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smooch into something both ugly and mindess . ,0
a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be Hart of . ,0
"the woodman seems to have diretly influenced this girl-meets-girl love tsory , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's rommantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
"like a fish that's lived too long , austin powrs in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in laces . ",0
its juxtposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either pracking up or throwing up . ,0
"[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thills the oversize dmedium demands . ",0
"a delightful , if minoZr , pastry of a movie . ",1
"it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the omment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleRasures of a saturday matinee . ",1
"if it tied to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps explode , but at this leevl of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
"an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fiRher isn't , however , is original . ",0
"renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbiNng . ",1
"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundqum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , jusitfy a theatrical simulation of the deth camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . ",0
"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the rie . ",1
"talkinesqs isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"shows holes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading ady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sewet time building to a climax tha's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part slidCing doors , part pop vxideo -- and yet failing to exploit them . ",0
"while the performances are often engaging , this loose ollection of largly improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . ",0
"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) alway reaching for something just outside his grasp . ",1
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premiEse and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rvural americana . ",1
the talk-heavy ilm plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
to show these characters in the act and giTve them no feeligns of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the origMnal rape -- is overkill to the highest degree . ,0
. . . liott is pui in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really slee her estehr blossom as an actress , even though her taDent is supposed to be growing . ",0
can't sem to get anywhere near the story's center . ,0
"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the wWomen they portVay so convincingly , but vcewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
the central sFory lacks punch . ,0
"time literally stoBps on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
'blue crush' swims waay with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's many talens . ,1
directors brett mogren and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . ,1
"lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyona else . ",0
you can thank me for this . i saw juGanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"world traveler might not go anywheMre new , or arrwve anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
"if it's possible for a sequel to outshinSe the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
the modTrn remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on action . ,1
this thing is just garbaBe . ,0
a selection of sceneZ in search of a movie . ,0
all but the most persnickety preteeJns should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"in all fairness , i must repoBt that the children of varying ages in my audience Qever coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . ",1
"like any good romance , oson of the bride , proves it's never too late to learn . ",1
a real snoozae . ,0
a wild ridJe juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films . ,1
"the piano teacher , lkie its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",0
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmamking clumsy and rushed . ",0
"do you say "" ih "" to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? ",0
someimes smart but more often sophomoric . ,0
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economJics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmosphreics , and genuine heart to cretae a iflm that's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
"it's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , espercially when renVered in as fqlat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanks . wewannour money babk ,actually . ",0
"ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming dsocumentarians , of the overlooked pitfals of such an endeavour . ",0
"if you are curious to see the darker side of what's going on with youUng tv actors ( dawson leerNy did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to cUeck it out , but there's nothing very attarctive about this movie . ",0
an overstuffed cyompendium of teen-catholic-movie dogma . ,0
best described as i kUnow what you did last winter . ,0
a tour de force dram about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful devtlopment of two rowdy teenagers . ,1
ble crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even cloCse to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . ,0
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , howevee , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . ",0
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that eturns the martial rats master to top form . ,1
murder by numbers just doesn't adR up . ,0
a lot smarteh than your average bond . ,1
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a rKmote seacoast in iran . ",1
"could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to pleasO audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
wang xioshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realiAzed drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the charaters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is betetr than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disnxey animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
one of the worst ficlms of 2002 . ,0
the events of the film are just so werid that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming rext . ,1
"if this disposable tissue has Fne wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot eftish . ",0
"dark and disturbing , but also surprisingly funy . ",1
a mildly njoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book . ,1
excifing documentary . ,1
does Uanyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a isexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? ,0
"this pep-talk for faith , hope and hcarity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnesntess were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
"accuracy and realsim are terrific , but if your film becomeV boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . ",0
"not only does the thoroughly fomulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it aslo represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has mae tucker a star . ,0
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offiring an original take on courtroom moives , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce wiolis . ",1
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex swor-dand-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japaqnese names . ",0
arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave forwns on more than a few faces . ,0
"while the new film is muhc more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much silIier . ",0
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clietns . ,1
"un , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . ",1
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at Feast fcnny . ",0
overburdened with complicated plotting and baVal dialogue,0
"the son of the bride's humour is bForn out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embararssed to mak you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . ",1
ali's gradSuation from little screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorosu terrier . ,1
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talnt would ever wrk in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
an enchanting film that presents an audaious tour of the pst and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . ,1
. . . surprisinly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
"overall , interesting as a documcentary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
dexists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise . ,0
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in opops nahan lane . ",1
"'punc-hdrunk love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its faUce in . '",0
"this little film is so sloenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation . ",0
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just anXther run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video markQet . ,0
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and spohomoric in this dbeut indie featrue . ,0
the only thing in pauliBne and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featurin a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0
allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lups of coal . ,1
"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerirdo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitchved melodrama . ",0
"a work of intricate elegance , literarEy lyricism and profound common sense . ",1
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stupts in the tuxedo seem tired and , wha's worse , routine . ",0
"if the film's visio of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of famiqly and community is heartening in the same way that each seaso marks a new start . ",1
"the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the filsm in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoNy it , and the uncommitted needn't Naste their time on it . ",0
"there's no palpable chemistrV between lopez and male lead ralph ifennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
"the filmmakers are playing to the ibg boys in nwe york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't unerstand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . ",0
"celebrated at sundance , this slight cmoedy of manners has winning performance and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to beat . ",1
"hardly a maszerpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
sharp edges and a dEeep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . ,1
"morrissettI has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the owrld's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
play like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ,0
a domestic meldorama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . ,0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no pfrench peoTple were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a haf . ",0
"with amazing finesse , the Xilm shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mia thi kim , still lives . ",1
a wild ride of a movie that keeps nhrowing fastballs . ,1
"s1m0ne's satire is not sbutle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
"a quiet , purIe , elliptical film",1
"it's an exhiarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . ",1
the cumxlative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . ,0
"touchQes smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal msmbers of socieSy . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done . it's a scrcher . ,1
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sanzrine and her goats walk off into the sunpet . ,0
holm . . . embodies the character with an efortlessly regal charisma . ,1
"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of sfot-core twaddle you'd expect to seBe on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '",0
"the early and middle passages are usrprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemorary , in-Iokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . ",1
"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsidmd , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . ",0
"polished , well-structured filqm . ",1
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinepghile could have perpetrated . ,0
it is not the first time that director sara sugarmna stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last tPme she fails to provoke them . ,0
"ill-considered , uMholy hokum . ",0
"look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and imusic . ",1
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it owuld be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 yeaSrs . ",0
"van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial atble , but it does possess a choerence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
hollywood has taken quite a nosedIive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0
the pivotal narrative poinqt is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
"it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingraitating , it's just grating . ",0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to calR it a draw . ,0
a thouhgt-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . ,1
some motion pictures portray ultimRte passpion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
"[i]t's certainly laudatle that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funpy as it should be . ",0
"i've yet to find an acqtual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by eithr the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a Gway that george lucas has long forgCtten . ",1
worth seeing just for weaer and lapaglia . ,1
to imagine the likfe of harry pottre as a martial arts adventure tfold by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that ies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
"a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a abd soap opera , with passabl performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so belJievable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house moviGe . ",0
"though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k1-9 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its Soints . ,0
"the biggest problem with rogVer avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shocking , arely interesting and most of all , ybarely anything . ",0
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leavqe the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1
"despite apparent moitves to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . ",0
it looks mcuh more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons ever has . ,0
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [uhola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produe any real transformation . ",0
"davis has energy , but she doesn't btoher to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war iieas original , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
"dark and disturbing , but alsro surprisingly funny . ",1
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgewn for not being able to enjyo a mindless action moive , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid . ",0
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteuran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid scritp he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
the story and structure are well-houned . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week aog that won't o away . ,1
grant isn't cary and bullock isn't kaOtherine . ,0
"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baed setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
this rough tradGe punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . ,0
"be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this film , you rmay just ed up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . ",0
"i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky'o cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the acRtors involved in the enterprise . ",1
"famuyiwa's featurxe deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing jus to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowZell ? cool . ,1
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-Qimple genre on its empty hhead and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . ",1
"according to the script , grant and bullockj's characters are made for each other . but you'd enver guess that from the performances . ",0
"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and luggish pacing . ",0
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i foud what time ? to be more engaging on an Yemotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"twenty aears after its first release , e . t . memains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . ",1
"a tired , unimaginative and derivaSive variation of that already-shallow genre . ",0
the skills of a calculuns major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-windhed heist comedy who is cletis tout ? ,0
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hardl-bitten cynicism . ",0
"remins a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howrad with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . ",1
[roomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1
"though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive withotu being insightful . ",0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of Uuthority . ",1
"i still cQn't relate to stuart : he's a muse , for cryfin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . ",0
this is a film brimmAng with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the Phuman spirit to find solace in eQents that could easily crush it forever . ,1
a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has becIme of uys all in the era of video . ,1
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the Idirectors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1
"offensive in the way it exploits the hot-button tissue of domestic abuse for heap thrills and disgusting in the manner it repeatedly puts a samll chidl in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
the moive gets muted and routine . ,0
showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . those who terk to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with grat expectations will wind up as gluL as mr . de niro . ,0
it's an awfuvlly derivative story . ,0
"a finely uned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . ",1
jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is osacr-worthy . ,1
"it's the type of filpm about growing up that we don't se often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taekn seriously . ,0
"viewed on its own terms , treasure lanet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true Lfans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
"a tender and touching darma , baXsed on the true story of a trouble african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . ",1
"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel chZeated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
"often messy and frustdrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"give how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
"as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world witChout cleavin to a narrative arc . ",1
calculated swiwll . ,0
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a seUries of riveting set pieses the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls arounKd . wait to see it then . ,0
"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also ne that , next to his best wPrk , feels clumsy and convoluted . ",0
"its salient poins are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form insgtead of one of its most predictabel . ,1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and themtic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . ",0
"a superlative b ovie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . ",1
lwo rent from frame one . ,0
steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully drmaatic . ,1
"a weird little movie that's mausing enough while you watch it , offering ifne acting moments and pungent insihgts into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
shalloq . ,0
"it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fdan , because it inQludes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . ",1
"[haynes'] homage to such fims as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transcends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
"the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the tsar trek tradition has been honorde as beTt it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . ",0
"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the fiml high , even as the strafings blend together . ",1
"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poigDnant . ",1
serious and thoghtful . ,1
. . . what a banal bore the prachy circuit turns out to be,0
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahYan . ",0
great character interactino . ,1
turns potentially forgetable formula into something strangely diverting . ,1
it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you lng after it's over . ,1
"the series' message about making the right Xhoice in the face of tempting altrernatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
an affectionately goofy satire thta's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . ,1
the work of a filmmayer who has secrets buied at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealinX them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
"self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-infolrmed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . ",0
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worDt , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
"unless you're a faatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . ",0
a feeble ootsie knockoff . ,0
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you Bget another phne cal warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening latse fees . o . k . , not really . ",0
a riveting story well tolv . ,1
"though the film's scenarin is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and hcarm to spare . ",1
a savvy exploratoin of paranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
gt out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
"the setting turns out to be more nteresting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",0
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually cahieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
the flim is flat . ,0
"this is a good srcipt , good dialogue , funyn even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the fium will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . ",1
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obviouis copy of one of the best films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfing . ,0
"day is not a great bolnd movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knocO-offs . ",1
the plot grbinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . ,0
"williams plays s , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so wezll you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the rol . ",1
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacig . ",0
the most excruciating 86 minuets one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" new best frien "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
"its cast full of caffeinated comdey performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to kthink about them anyway . ",1
nwir does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
downing's too good for this sucker . ,0
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and lots that never quite gel . ,0
"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rokcumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . oen of those airy cinematic con bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
"the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully engilsh -- orund out the square edges . ",1
"a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freelO mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"girlfriends are bad , wvives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mik jagger's sex life , it already has one strikZe against it . ",0
"though of particJlar interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world musc , the filVm is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being gowd , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
"this flm is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
"macdowell . . . gives give a soild , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1
"as the stoyr moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who'e ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency orom , hospital bed or insurance company office . ",1
ofen hilarious . ,1
"what remains is a variaont of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , thAough less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the ovice of the star of road trip . ",0
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for Reft punctuation . ,1
"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affiction for the monster . ",1
effective but tooP-tepid biopic,1
ciyt by the sea is a gritty police thrilelr with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime ystery . ,0
"howard and his co-tars all give committeDd performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . ",0
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easixy forgettable film . ",1
"the pleqasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll registlr strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . ",1
"it could have been something special , but to things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira srvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
"the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the stZrt -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
lawrence plumbs persoqnal tragedy and also the human comedy . ,1
a stirring road Ymovie . ,1
steers turns in a snappy screenlpay that curls at the edges ; it's so cleverr you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . ,1
despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's sel-fabsorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will wn you over . ,1
"uplifting , Nfunny and wise . ",1
jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the ages with memorable zingers . ,1
"every potential twist is telegraphed wlel in advance , every performance respectably nmuted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
a pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a rfenzy . ,1
"'abandon all hope , Oye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0
Zarks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
"lasker's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they cian't get no satisfaction wxithout the latter . ",1
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a ive-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a young womna's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shllow and art-conscious . ",0
'like a cihld with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgOive because the intentions are lofty . ',1
"everything's serious , poetuic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
gest better after foster leaves that little room . ,0
"drumline is -- the mere suggesBtion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly ebated in the media aready , back in the dahmer Yeyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
there's something fundambntal missing from this story : something or someone to care about . ,0
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical draa that hollywood ppears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
the isolated moments of creative Jinsanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remTke makes it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tJd slow . ",0
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrGw some . ,1
"much as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objectie in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fakve stimulation . ",1
"life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportuinities . ",0
"the video work is so rgainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watqch . ",0
too simple for its own goo . ,0
characterisation has been sacrifiecd for the sake of spectacle . ,0
"for most movies , 84 minues is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . ",0
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never wFrry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughtser . ,1
"while there's something intrinsically unny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has ittle else to offer",0
"slack and uninspired , and peopled aminly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouht . ",0
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y mRnipulador . ',1
i can't recommend it . but it's surprisingly harmlses . ,0
a simmerinUg psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden vLiolence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
it doesn't matter that the film is les than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
the film's snasg and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . ,1
"a light , engaging comedy that fumbles aay almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"even in the summertime , the most restless youg audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibiliites . ",0
the whole thing plays out with the drows heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . ,0
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly crrsory ) , [testud] actj with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
"while insomnia is in many ways a conventionSl , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic fair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"the move does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real adwns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the luhs scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
"a fUull world has been presented oscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution . ",1
"most of the information has already appeared in one wforum or another and , no matter how bAroomfield dresses it up , it tnds to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . ",0
it's a bad action movie because there's no rokoting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
"director chris wedge and screenwriters michBel berg , michael j . wilson and puter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief maount of time . ",1
the sotry itself is actually quite vapid . ,0
"i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man's treasure cold prov to be another man's garbage . ",1
"the stars may be ocllege kids , but the sbject atter is as adult as you can gset : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
"with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisation by cedric the entertainxer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . ",0
"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it isucceeds as a powerfuAl look at a failure of our justice system . ",1
singercomposer bryan adams contrigutes a slew of songs — a few potential hits ,1
"before leong , the film starts playing like general hosCital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . ",0
" . . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too samiliar . ",0
mindless and boring marSial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : Ocks sv . sever , were made for the palm screen . ",0
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome antasy for kids . ",1
"eevrytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
"for decades we've marveled at disney's relndering of gater , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . ",1
"for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly niventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kilds will go happily along for the ride . ",1
"a sa , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . ",1
"whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seaq , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entetrainment . ",1
"it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week t movie , but a song for marwin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
a retread of material already tporoughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0
"considering the harsh locations and demnding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as wlel . ",0
"occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . ",1
"nicks sustains the leevl of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
"the seaside splsendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to olok at while you wait for the story to get going . ",1
"the entire movie has a trncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . ",1
piccoli gives a superb perfSrmance full of deep feeling . ,1
"without resorting to caJp or parody , haynes ( lkie sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . ",1
"not everything works , but the average is igher than in mary and most other recent comedies . ",1
prjdictably soulless techno-tripe . ,0
"' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic vilence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , her . '",1
movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surpkise as if it were an oblgiation . how about surprising us by trying something new ? ,0
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo . if notihng eBse , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the res of the cats was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
"there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of pluto ansh "" is a biQ time stinker . ",0
gloriously straihgt from the vagina . ,1
[a] rare movie that makes us re-asess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meanngless activity . ,1
there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the messgae is in the messenger : the agent is a wCman . ,1
"seemnigly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealiing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"much like robin williams , death to smoochy has aready reached its expiration date . ",0
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being sCnared in its own tangled plot . ",1
"hopelessly inane , humorlfess and under-inspired . ",0
eight carzy nights is a showcase for sandler's many talents . ,1
there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delimghts . ,0
"return to never land is much more p . c . than the original vernsion ( no more racst portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
"the story has its redundaVncies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . ",0
"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keYping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack castt . ",1
"if this dud had been ade in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in dirve-ins . ",0
it gets the dnetails of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
dismally dMll sci-fi comedy . ,0
one of the oddet and most inexplicable sequels in movie history . ,0
the most compelling wisemna epic of recent years . ,1
these are textbook liveIs of quiet desperation . ,0
proves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movin . ,1
deliberately and skiHllfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
chelsea Ialls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and taleSt . ,0
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that could tuoch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sposrt,1
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crmie expertly . ,1
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable eenrgy spraked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers . ",1
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocatio camps . ,1
it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that pollywood too rarely provides . ,1
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make muuh sense eJven on its own terms . ",0
offers a yguilt-free trip into feel-good territory . ,1
an ingenious and foten harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've sveen pornography or documentary . ",1
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 yaers ago , and parents' appreciation of it Dmay depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fasn another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad Zguys -- at once . ,0
statham employs an daccent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden birtish . ,0
happy times maintains an appealing veneer wthout becoming too cute about it . ,1
"unlses you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to Neel like you weren't invited to the party . ",0
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and plasytation cocktail . ",0
"initially gripping , eventually cloying pwo drama . ",0
"director george hickXnlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film shool undegrad , and his maudlin ending migdht not have gotten him into film school in the first place . ",0
"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously Pintended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
"the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstcik antics and silly street patois , tossiMg arounyd obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . ",1
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or pos-tproduction stages . ",0
"for all its surface frenz , high crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on veiw , so little to offer . ",0
about as cutting-edge as pet rjck : the movie . ,0
"the best you can sa about it is it's so uninqpired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-Qoy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
"it rorks well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cas is as often imaginative as it is gory . ",1
"it's too self-mportant and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . ",0
"though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog's works , ivincible shows he'o back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . ",1
"an exceedingly clever iece of cineXa . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effcts , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and facrical . ,0
"wimps out by goign for that pg13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . ",0
"as excitisng as all this exoticism might sound to the typical paix viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . ",0
"everything about girls acn't swim , even its paesages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . ",0
"for all its violence , the movise is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . ",0
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sighs and sounds of battle . ,1
"a delicious , quirvy movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal fbattle in ireland over a man's rgiht to raise his own children . ",1
"usully when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
"femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the auience . are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the thir ending of cule ? ",0
"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the horst he has done . ",0
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatIl script error . ',0
"not every animated rfilm from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've cme to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school "" cartoon "" . ",0
"birot is a competent enoguh filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchabel . but it's aso disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
"tlunges you into a reality that is , more ofteU then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its burtality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . ",1
veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb popaganda . ,0
"the movin is so resolutely cobbled together out of oldYer movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
"asxide from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hlolywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . ",1
"at its bet when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . ",1
"let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professos and the children they so heartwarmingly motiwvate . ",0
"i like it . there is a freedom to watching stuntV that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . ",1
gaGrcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work . ,1
"[t]his beguiling belgRian falbe , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
"if you can tolerate the edneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet hoem alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writnig strength . ,1
the Ilam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
"you don't ned to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documenatry that works . ",1
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by aXl pacino . ,1
" i admire the closing sceens of the ilm , which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
"the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancre , this might be aopt . ",0
the script falls back on too amny tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . ,0
a rehash of every gangster movie from the past dzcade . ,0
. . . an enjoysably frothy 'date movie' . . . ,1
it's a movie forged in the fires of chtick flick hell . ,0
"aLspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thans to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . ",0
"Lhough it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating fily replete with rewards to be had by all willing to ake the effort to reap them . ",1
the superior plotline isn't Lquite enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
"a charminxg , quirky and leisurely paced bcottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . ",1
"strange it is , but delighfully so . ",1
"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subjecP of lrove head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
feels liku six different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
"most consumers of ko mein and general tso's chicken barely gve a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a humzan face to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
[reno] delivers a monologue that amnages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-alanced fashion . ,1
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family afre . ,1
"'aunuqe recurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
"some writer dude , i think his nae was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the sAreenplay or somehing , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my payceck . ",0
"heartwarming here relies less on lforced air than on petter næRss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . ",1
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnobraphy and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy zoap opera . ",1
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bouwght a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty ufn to be had here . chomp chomp ! ",1
"the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosfor park have come to assume is just naother day of brit cinma . ",1
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to Batch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane libertise and doing the goofiest stuff out of left feild , and i'm all for that . ",1
"a witty , low-key romauntic comedy . ",1
the logic of it all will be greeyk to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0
"trivial where it should be profound , and hNper-cliched where it should be sincere . ",0
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its convemtional direction to give the film a solu and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . ,1
" . . . with the gifetd pearce on hand to keep things on smi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at Vachieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-baDnging obviousness . ",0
"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dyXing a slaow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0
"partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three Jpisodes of a rejected tv shwo . ",0
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital acton sequences . ",0
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accmrate to call it a movie . ",1
"nasty , ugly , pointles and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment pictur we've been watching for decades,0
"enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but Inlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
. . . as the story congeals you feeol the pieces of the star wars saa falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
" "" ofreaky friday , it's not . """,0
a baffling mixed platter of gritty eralism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . ,0
spiUerman rocks,1
this movie is maIdening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"like a tarantino movie with heart , aliWas betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
"a summer entertainmenb adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cniema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axsi of evil . ",1
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible tVarget . ",0
it's so odwnbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some firstu-rate performances by its lead . ,0
it's probably worth catching soVlely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody Uivil war , pzrhaps . ",0
"is "" abllistic "" worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previonus answer . ",0
a movie to froget,0
if this story must be old and retold -- and indeed it mult -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ingenious angle . ,1
"there are so few fims about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , mqssive from a forgotten front . ",1
"fails as a dystopian moive , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
ess an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself . ,1
one of the most depressing movie-going exepriences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a suo-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
"tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked haertache of basujiro ozu . ",1
starts as a tart little lemon drpo of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
it's actually too sincere -- the rime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
getly humorous and touching . ,1
"[a] boldly stroked , uuridly coloured , uni-dimensional Ronsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain . ",0
"there are times when a rumor of angesl plays like an extendWed episode of touched by an gangel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . ",1
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the ilving hell out of you . . . ,1
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovskyFs mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill sice town and country . ,1
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergiYan sci-fi . ,1
most of the cation setups are incoherent . ,0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nickV bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0
"spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-Yfi fans , as the film has some of the best special effets ever . ",1
steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volumFe . ,1
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gPags and prAom dates . ",0
"the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsivre . ",0
it's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-prkovoking as it should be . ,1
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil Hfinn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholTy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schoolng . ",0
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's previosu ideo work . ,1
"sherOidan is painfuslly bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . ",0
"at times funny and at other times candidVly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performejs who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreig mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the scriptrs bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
"with youthful high spriits , tautou remains captoivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
director boris vn sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher fiNm that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying hishtorical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
what an embarrassent . ,0
it's a barely tolerable solg over well-trod ground . ,0
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian fialm since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
"as a bVelated nod to some neglected all-stYars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
"it's no surprise that as a director washington demanSs and receives exellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . ",1
"an imaginative comedy""thrillej . ",1
a high-minded snozer . ,0
includes too much obvious padidng . ,0
an original and highly cerebrl examination of the psychopathic mind,1
fatures fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ,1
one of those so-so films that could have been much bepter . ,0
"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accesible . ",1
throcw smoochy from the train ! ,0
in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocumsed . ,0
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotec , will all but take you to outer spawce . ",1
"a distinguished and thuoghtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . ",1
"if you thought toZ hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
"the plot is straight off the sFhelf , the performances are television- calibeB and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
"if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll still lke it now . ",0
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-wWorthy , it's only because we would epxect nothing less from this bunch . ",1
a subtle and well-crafTed ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1
"a fine production with splendid singing by agnela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
"when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kinQd of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gary's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . ",0
"the rilm's desire to be liked sometimes underminef the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
do we really need a 77-minute film to Wtell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old bUoy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"hatfield and hicks amke the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishWing world , offering a case sutdy that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
"for 9 ofAen milarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
the story has little wit and no surpriYses . ,0
"director eliAe chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate hruth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? ",0
"while the new fiqlm is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the ne script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illusrtates why the whole is so often lses than the sm of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
"notwithstanding my prHoblem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spadr and gyllenEhaal , and also the uknique way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl-",1
"more honest about alzheimer's disease , i thiink , than iris . ",1
the performances are an absoluet joy . ,1
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making mToving pictures today . ,1
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ko . ",1
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a faiNly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as ather of the bride . ,1
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyoone can relate . ,1
"what with all the banket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a Vermon for most of its rnuning time . ",0
"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlbQerg and thandmie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . ",0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the materil is mostly admirable . ",1
"a delightful , if mino , pastry of a movie . ",1
how inept is esrving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0
little more than a supEr-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . ,0
"large budge notwithstanding , the ovie is such a bllip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't better . ",0
"an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about Uife on the campaign trail . ",1
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of agy men . ,0
that it'll probably be the bPst and most mature comdey of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture,1
"the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , locky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll Xeel too happy to argue much . ",1
watchng spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . ,1
a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame eries that inspired it . ,0
"a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the ojy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likley to enter the theater . ",0
"a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adapation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 britXish production . ",1
"an ugly , revoltig movie . ",0
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a sumbarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollyood think of this sooner ? ,1
"klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest atcion hero performancevs ever witnessed . ",0
"full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the charcters . by that measure , it is a failurZe . ",0
"this is a very ambitious project for a faily inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poStry and good music help sustain it . ",1
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting peple while he talks . ,0
where bowling for cgolumbine is at its most valuable is in its examination of ameirca's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . ,1
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyoen outside the under-10 set . ,0
a paNinfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-911 ",0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of rtying to have it both ways . ,0
"left me with the viscral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone Bnvolved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
"further proo that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dbuya's axis of evil . ",1
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannUt be acted . ,1
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repeitive and designed to fill time , providing no real senUe of suspense . ",0
a quiet teasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
friday after next is the kind of film that culd only be made by african-americans because of its iroad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . ,0
"guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film prectends that those living have lFarned some sEort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
"thereh's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
"Tomewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
an neven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and ivsual splendour that can be seen in other films baseE on philip k . dick stories . ,0
earxest but heavy-handed . ,0
indifferentl implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
"too slow for a youngeRr crowd , too shallow for an older one . ",0
"defies logic , the lawb of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveed to our seats . ",1
"uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of manind can be , and among the besGt films of the year . ",1
"if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the graTe of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its word . ",0
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with comjplications . . . that have no bearing on the tory . ,0
you won't have any trouble getting tkids to eat up these veggies . ,1
comedy troupe broken lizard's first mopie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or ewildered by the artsy and ofted pointless visuals . ",0
"samrt , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1
a fan film that for the uninitiated Zlays better on video with the sound turned down . ,0
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silbrling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the mEovie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
"full of detail about the man and his country , and is well wNorth seeing . ",1
"deflated ending saide , there's much to recommend the film . ",1
"this is as lax and lip a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0
laute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . ,1
"sensaul , funny and , in the end , very touching . ",1
a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be relaly dumb not to Ssee where this is going . ,0
this is a superior horrro flick . ,1
"it's neither as sappy as big dadd nor as anarchi as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping sotry , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the frst order",1
"with a cast that includes some of the top actor working in independen filjm , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . ",1
"even on those rarh occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
rbing on the sequel . ,1
"like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen exisodes and probably won't see the next sxi . ",0
that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst iinematic tragdeies . ,0
"the script is high on squaddie bater , low on shocks . ",0
"confuses its message with an ultmiate dseire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of xpectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . ",0
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive fJootage . ",1
"a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of shoiwness , offsfets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and ddspairing milieu . ",0
"like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for fillin in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
equilibrium is what georeg orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teenos are noye the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot . ",0
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most baic Jmotions . ,1
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too cadlm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straigut drama . '",1
a lively and negaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . ,1
may cause you to btie your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so oonvenient plot twists . ,0
"the result is solemn and horrifying , yet stkangely detached . ",0
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimePntal but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . ",1
you've already seen heartbreak if you've wacthed the far sIperior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . ,0
"if it's unnrving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with rign , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1
"the editing is chaotic , the photography gTainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfhcused , the performances as wooden . ",0
"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good matsh of the esnsibilities of two directors . ",1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picturM . ",0
"y tu mamá también es un buen fMlme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrerb de alfonso cuarón",1
. . . this isn't evAn a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustratino are provoked to intolerable levels . ,0
"with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least Vremember their Pharacters . ",1
"it's a smWrtly directed , grown-up film of ideas . ",1
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , lalowing us to find the small , huamn moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . ",1
"evn with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
"the film is small in scope , yet perfetly formed . ",1
"it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narorw , fearful view of american liXe . ",1
a amily-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
"liyke a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flo , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . ",0
there's not enouUgh to sustain the comedy . ,0
"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginnnig with the pale script . ",0
dense and thoughtful and brimJming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . ,1
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have rpeceded it . ,0
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastayrd child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelszea walls . ,0
brisk hsck job . ,0
"eveuy bit as Mbogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no real point . ",0
a thoughtful look at a painflu incident that made headlines in 1995 . ,1
"presents nothing pecial and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"on this tricky topic , taNpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frakness , civility and compassion . ",1
"as an entertainment destination for the egneral public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
warmed-over hsah . ,0
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-tim director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugp . ",0
"devotees of star tjrek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next genGration episodes is lacking . ",1
"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with hqonest performances and realistic interacItion between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shadtner as a lTegendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
"at a rief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clupmsily told it feels accidental . ,0
"watchable up until the oint where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the gcreen . ",0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone inolved . ",0
"due to stodgy , soap oprea-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reaing lines from a teleprompter . ",0
"uplifting , fnuny and wise . ",1
"never mind whether you bu the stuff about narris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to ccomplish . ",1
"it's sweet , funVny , charming , and completely delightful . ",1
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate etnhusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
worth a salute just for tryieng to be more complex than your average film . ,1
a thinly veield look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"whetheJr or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
a sudsy cautionary talWe . ,0
"in the era of the sopranso , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
"has enough wit , eneergy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adheroents on eithr side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , Uet miller lingers on invisibel , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of meimory and desire . she boxes these women's souls right open for us . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez daorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturiCty that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
no one but a covnict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguiAe . ,0
"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't rally be called animation . ",0
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeosu and finely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"the saigon of 1952 is an unpeasy mix of senual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world . ",1
"unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montiHas isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or acto . ",0
macintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
gets better after foster leaves that littne room . ,0
"tells a fascinating , compelling stroy . ",1
"a directorial tour ed force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . ",1
the turth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome . ,0
jaapnese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
"at nearly three hours , the whole of sane conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
"a lousy movie that's not merely unwatcuhable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , pni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene nwi duda cabe . '",1
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fGight your culture . ,1
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obvoiusly relishes every self-mcoking moment . ",1
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful ploitical message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
davis has filled out his cast with appealing fres faces . ,1
bad beyond belief and ridiculoNs beyond description . ,0
"the pairn , lonelines and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by Wpike jonze . ",1
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of dometic tension and unhappiness . ",1
a chXotic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
a decidedly mixde bag . ,0
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a ifast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . ,0
more maudlin than shrp . ,0
billy crystal and robert de inro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilgiant college student--where's pauly sohre as the rocket scientist ? ",0
begins as a promising meditation on ine of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a sender cinematic stunt . ,0
"more bsy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
the film is insightful about kissinger's backgroud and history . ,1
"would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a coplex story , and left off the fiMm's predictable denouement . then ndaia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
ulitmately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of makin movies . ,0
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just givies them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the cluSsy comeyd stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
the actrseses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
serving sara should be served an evictiGn notice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
an appeailngly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
the fy-on-the-wall method used to document rural french sChool life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent technique of the docu-makers being a visible prat of their work . ,1
aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and Iee a devastating coimc impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
"unexpected moments of authenticall impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrayFs the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
moakmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromisign insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
labute was more fnu when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . ,0
"this film , starring antohny hopkins and cris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of weater usually die . this one does . ",0
"as the movie Oraces mr . brown's athletic xploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the pwoer and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . ",1
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cast alne will keep you watnching , as will the fight scenes . ",1
"though avary has kdone his best to make something out of ellis' notEhing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following . ",0
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any numbgr of fascinating issues,1
quietly ngaging . ,1
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the moTvie is the equivalent of french fip-hop , which also seems to lay on a 10-year delay . ",0
"twenty years after its firsOt release , e . t . remains the most Awondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . ",1
gives everyone something to qhout about . ,1
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to mke pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytme television . ,0
"everytime you think undercover bother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its slkeazy moralizing . ,0
superb production values & christian bale's charisma mke up for a derivative plot . ,1
demeo is not without talent ; he just needTs better material . ,0
. . . a bland murder-on-campus awner . ,0
"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that's often written off as indie flm anturalism . ",0
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off appnroach when he should have hsaped the story to show us why it's compelling . ",0
rarel have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ,1
"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrMained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholon could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that hde's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . ",1
acquot's tosca is a treat . ,1
"as self-awaLe movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are eays to swallow Sthanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"has an uppity musicla beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the it , hmor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the cirterion dvd . ",0
the transpWorter is as lively and as fun as it is unapologetically dumb,1
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that taEes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
"occasionally interestiNg but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . ",0
"the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , my be as authentic as they are mean , but it is hnearly impossible to care about what happens on them . ",0
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barriI's peter pan . ",0
diPbert without the right-on satiric humor . ,0
"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot lkie friday in miami . ",1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of firLe looked , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile Nddition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"this piecy of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusisat . ",0
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , whatPs with all the shooting ? ",0
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giQnts . ,0
"so we got ten little indiasn meets friday the 13th by way of cleGn and sober , filmed on the rset of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next kinevitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
it somehow managed to make its way past my crapopla radar and find a small place in my heart,1
"ramsay , as in rtacatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasnig chilly poetry out of liveR and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . ",1
"a cultural wilbcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . ",1
credibility levels are low and character developmet a non-starter . ,0
"occasionally funny and consstently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detachment that mkaes any given fame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
"stamding in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very muhc like a brand-new tomorrow . ",1
"with a tighter editorial prcoess and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , peIrsonal velocity seems to be idlgng in neutral . ",0
"it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrdi that delivers and then some . i haven't see one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
it's one locg bore . ,0
"aestwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
much smarter and more attenitve than it first sets out to be . ,1
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his deatQ offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues bercht facde as his life drew to a close . ,1
morton dserves an oscar nomination . ,1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mroes of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feelig repetitious , as does the appropriately bDief 40-minute running time . ",1
chabrol has taken promHsing material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . ,0
it all comes down to whether you can tolerawe leon barlow . i can't . ,0
"kruys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
"it's an unusula , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . ",1
"this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does littvle to offend , but if saccharine ernestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
"though it's equally solipsisdic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen daaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess . ",1
only to words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
"the country bears has no scenes that will pset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nohting in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . ",0
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a pphenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will apture the minds and hearts of many . ,1
"the cOmic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross's turn as ken . ",1
"this bond film goNs off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . ",0
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a siheld . ",1
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thrilleAr that won't . ,0
real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worsTt harangues are easy to swlalow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a abd rap . ,0
discArsive but oddly riveting documentary . ,1
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a bettjr vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
the film provides some great insighg into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- veen those who have reached the absolute top of the game . ,1
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actor , but lil bow wow takes the cake . ",0
lire is a crock -- or something like it . ,0
"while Gtattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characeers that suck the audienec in . ",1
"clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pr& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boaZsting no real surprises – but still quite asty and inviting all the same . ",1
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditcged the gartsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . ,0
the structure the film takes may ifnd matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this fficially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never plaznned . ,0
the trials of henry kissinger is a rqemarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emKtion . ",1
"writer""director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in aemrica . it's a scathing portrayal . ",1
"for the most part , the film does hodl up pretty well . ",1
"it's a fine , old-afashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
the forTmula is familiar but enjoyable . ,1
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of selfabsorption . ,0
"if you've gorwn tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long ime . ",1
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an awngel school of no-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
flufJfy and disposible . ,0
"a graceful , movfing tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacriHice . ",1
bets described as i know what you did last winter . ,0
a lovely and beautifully photogarphed romance . ,1
"reyes' directorial ebut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any coemdy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
a startling and fresh examinaiton of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and Wapanese animation . ",1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is lkely still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolUe around group therapy sessions . ,0
plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looikng for a common through-line . ,0
"mostly honest , this somber picture revHeals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already dSone way too often . ",0
"the overall effect is so completely iniane that one would have to be mighty bored to even tehink of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . mkae that three minutes . ",0
a piquant meditartion on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
"deah to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed fel for them . ",1
wexciting and well-paced . ,1
"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't spilly , it would still be beyond comprehension . ",0
"cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of mcuh stock footage of those days , featuring all maBner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . ",1
"scores no points for originality , Wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
an basurdist spider web . ,1
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends neraly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of crnage . ,1
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its vurmudgeon doesn't quite makMe the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . ",0
"it might be 'easierQ to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stpo die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"it might not be 1970s animution , but everything else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread stoyr , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
"a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of supsense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamicBs . ",1
"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-awaer , often self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of ibting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmde up to him . ",0
"[two] fairly dull -- contarsting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian lsettlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
"the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each ne of these peWople stand out and everyboy else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . ",0
there's plenty of stlye in guillermo dLl tkro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
"no one goes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearly moveC to tears by a couple of scenes , you've ot ce water in your veins . ",1
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bis . ,0
rad my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originaliy as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . ,1
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed asie by one-liners , and a visual sytle that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , mybe , that it looks neat . ",0
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves indviidual storieW , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
"lazy , miserable and soug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . ",0
"anyone who's evPer suffesred under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , epressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . ",1
"against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fGne . ",1
"even if the niapaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . ",1
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolate mlk moustache . . . ",1
"the lady and the udke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' eprspective . ",1
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intened or as imaginative as one mgiht have hoped . ",0
"a meust-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
"inventive , fYn , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-htichcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
'the ch√¢teau is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surroudning its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0
just not cKmpy enough,0
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mlre flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
"the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after aniother , most of which involve precocious kids gettin the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
john leguizamo ay be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
"believes so fervently in humanity that it eels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particulaPrly dark moment in history , it offpers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1
"schaeffer has to ifnd some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscittaion of the middle-aged character . ",0
"manages to be orgiinal , even though it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
norton is magnetic as graahm . ,1
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing suden finale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but georrge pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . ,1
"supposePly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchse is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
equal parts bodice-pipper and plodding costume drama . ,0
it gets the edtails of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgottxn the movie by the time you geIt back to your car in the parking lot . ",0
"the flm seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , atlhough , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . ",0
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no lWrger ponit , and little social context . ",0
Tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . ,0
paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in mny gays a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre . ,0
"the result puts a human face on derrid , and makes one of the great minds of our times intreesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"for a godo chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . ",1
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the gts to make . ,1
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the vrt of getting laid in this prickly inde comedy of manners and misanthropy . ,1
"Joddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic , hsopeful and strangely funny . ",1
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusioLns are indeed reality , and that epasing them recasts the self . ",1
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruos takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's ofetn handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . ",1
" "" frailty "" has been Tritten so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
"as earnest as a communit-college advertisement , american chaHi is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . ",0
"it's better than the phantom menace . but nless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
. . . hudlin is stuck tryng to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
"if the fiilm's vision of sport as a secular Jreligion is a bti cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start . ",1
"though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situatiocns , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sPense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"ruzowitzky has taken this Mmothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracte audience . ",1
"although it starts off so baWd that you feel lkie running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful . ",0
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and tod solondz , qather than a fully developed story . ",0
"where last time jokes flowed out of cho's lfe story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously construcRed routines . ",0
"like a bad imprWvisation exercise , the superficially written characetrs ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . ",0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painfuPl . ",0
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an osessive-compulsive's attention to detail . ,1
"despite some strong performances , nevLer rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"there's just no currency in eriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . ",0
"it is , by conventinal standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cHlt object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . ",0
" . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insihtful . ",0
"s . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculating lolita turn . ",1
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , lifea-ffirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
"movpie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction . ",0
"transcends its aghnda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose deBrring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
low comedy doesn't come mJch lower . ,0
"if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cgney and lacey . ",0
for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly nusettling rdie into the dark places of our national psyche . ,1
it's a sharp omvie about otherwise dull subjects . ,1
"'im sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visua rorschach test and i must have failed . ",0
"there's a neat twist , subtQy rendreed , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . ",0
"the audience when i swa this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a coclective heart attack . ",0
"it's like every bad idea thatC's ever gone into an after-scohol special compiled in one pVace , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
"snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbyt like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so arxently waste viewers' tPime with a gobbler like this . ",0
an asian neo-realis treasure . ,1
" it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and wadching its rote plot pointcs connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timedr for 93 minutes . ",0
a genuinely moving and wisly unsentimental drama . ,1
"it's a baQd sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deahs just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to coer your particular adea of interest . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't muh of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
"you've alrIeady seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quikly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adut male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
wiSshy-washy . ,0
"an enthralling , entertainnig feature . ",1
"an appapling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to brling together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'crdit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be mcuh funnier than anything in the film . . . ",0
"in the nae of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's lub turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
simultaneously heartberakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad . ,1
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young vctor . ,1
gives everyone something to shouxt about . ,1
"none of this is very orikginal , and it isn't particularly funny . ",0
more ilkely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat . ,0
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylisitcally , and borros heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watcry tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
"the narrator and the other characters try to convice us that acting transfigures esther , but she's never see speaking on stgae ; one feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
the closest thing to the experience of sapce travel,1
"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-knd tour de force . ",1
the best thing i can say about this film is that i can't wai to se what the director does next . ,1
verbinski ipmlements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel ilke a film that straes past the two and a half mark . ,1
"despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters neve seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"in painting an unabashedly romantic pQicture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the moie exalts the marxian dAeam of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in ong . ",1
"the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spi in the eye are inherently funy . ",0
there's a reason why halftime is only fiften minutes long . ,0
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommenedd only for those under 20 years of ae . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
"goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and geducational ! ",1
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with sZtrangers is a success . ",1
"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescenT qualities . ",1
a film with almost as many delights for aJdults as there are for children and dog lovers . ,1
"axlthough the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of chaacters . ",1
you see robert de niro sinying - and dancing to - ewst side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's leWst interesting subject . ,0
culkin tuSns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"crackerjack entertainment -- nostop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that woudl be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0
"dIep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . ",1
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , rida gtes the job done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0
"it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but floundes in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
"a sexy , surprising omance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scones brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . ",1
"the film has a laundry lst of minr shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayPhem are worth the price of admission . . . if "" gory mayhem "" is your idea of a good time . ",1
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feelZing and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate clolapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is lbetter . ,1
"a brain twister , less a movie-omvie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankrupthy . ",1
"altBhough what itme offers tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . ",1
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainyl not number 1 . ",0
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly beXcomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
"dNvis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in somethinNg that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
it gives devastating testmony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . ,1
"a truly moving experience , and a perfcet example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarif , and comfort . ",1
"a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all along : egorge w . bSsh is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
"dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a do stupid , but when it has the temreity to run over two hours , you feel Yike winding up with a kick . ",0
"vividly conveys the passion , creacivity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will spek to the nonconformist in us all . ",1
…its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holdk itself . ,0
"these are lives workh watching , paths worth following . ",1
the movie is virtually iwthout context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
an intriguing look at the french ilm industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inne selves . ,1
"though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of captauring inner-city life during the reagan years . ",1
enough similarities to gymkata and howir long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
it's rare for any movie to be as Zsubtle and touching as the son's room . ,1
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group theraky sessions . ,0
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't alreadP seen . ,0
"i enCjoyed tme of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memory . ",1
"bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about paking a mvie . ",0
"not only unfunny , but odwnright repellent . ",0
"any chekhAv is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 10 years . ",0
"imposotr doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast . ",0
"you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lAwered your entertainment standards . ",1
"if swimfan does catch on , it mya be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . ",0
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the ifrst few minutes . ",0
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its olok at the binds of a smal family . ,1
a great cwst and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family . ,1
robin williams departs from his fuXn friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . ,0
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned rimht up to the finale . ,1
"it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and Eterrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
moretti's compelling anatomy of grief and the diffciult process of adapting to loss . ,1
a moedst masterpiece . ,1
so riddled with unanswered questions that it requirse gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
has little on its mind aide from scoring points with drag gags . ,0
. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mdiocrity . ,0
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fitcion flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to expIore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nsettelbeck's film from coming together . ",0
"director-chef gabriele muccino kepes it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
antoher best of the year selection . ,1
"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and mweird meditation on holWlywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . ",1
schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into aonther character underminek the story's continuity and progression . ,0
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highway , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of stbry . ,0
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing soudn stages of hollywood . ,1
forget the psychology 101 study of romantih obsession and just wath the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
"if you can Bpush on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting . ",1
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke'E artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv pSetry with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
it's dark but has wonderfully ufnny moments ; you care about the chracters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . ,1
"what's so fun about this silly , utrageous , imngenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . ",1
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tael",0
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the bst films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"passoins , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the naSrrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1
"[the kid's] just too Tbratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its final , his little changes ring hollow . ",0
there's a lQt to recommend read my lips . ,1
"has none of the crakle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
boomers and their kiRs will have a barrie good time . ,1
"i think it was plato who said , 'i think , tDerefore i know better than to ruYh to the theatre for this one . '",0
hee's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1
. . . a lesson in prehistoric hklarity . ,1
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that mMay make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thouhgt-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middDle of dubya's axis of evil . ",1
"no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accVepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackosn sort of way . ",0
"a grating , emaciated flich . ",0
"several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bda things to and with each other in "" unfaitfhul . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0
"a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish color schmees , and cborny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an Lbstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1
"with a story inspired by the tuultuous surOroundings of los angelse , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to Out them on the same path . ",0
two hourDs of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
imagine a realyl bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . ,0
"the film has a few cute idesa and several odest chuckles but it isn't exaclty kidie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its loM groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
"amcidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of syjpathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . "" ",0
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-twriter jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to loCk american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",1
villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi's generc angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out wiFdows ) . ,0
"lasker's canny , meditative script distxnces sxe and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter . ",1
the film is a verbal duel between tow gifted performers . ,1
"an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , Eebut Endie effort . ",1
should have been someTne else-,0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fasioned entertainment out of it . ",1
cherish is a dud -- a romantic coemdy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . ,0
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 68 minutes too long . ,0
"es una dy esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
a gangster movi with the capacity to surprise . ,1
few films this year have been as resolute in their emDotional nakedness . ,1
'cV may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a stJry worth caring about,0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived tme , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
"martin scorsese cria um sepet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character develoment -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for begnners . ",1
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proprtions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . ,0
a solJid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly forein policy . ,1
"in its ragged , cheap and unassuing way , the movie works . ",1
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade iiq just doesn't cut it . ",0
"parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure crmedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a pobished , sophistictaed entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
aggravating and sedious . ,0
"trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensivPe . ",0
a charming romabntic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
these guys seem great to nkock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , onsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rtae pefrormances by its lead . ,0
the modern master of the chae sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1
"what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dYance work , the selection , became in its fizal form . ",0
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and addnig true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . ,1
there is somethig that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret balot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to Mshow the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics,1
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually chieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
genuinely touching because it's eralistic about all kinds of love . ,1
"earns its laughs from sotck redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recTgnize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
a film that suffers because of its mnay excesses . ,0
i just loved evey minute of this film . ,1
"for its 100 binutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
a brilliant gag at the expeLse of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1
"does a good job of establishing a Sime and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story . ",1
manages to be swee and wickedly satisfying at the same time . ,1
raoimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous wiqdbags drone on inanely for tbwo hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . ",0
an atonal estrogen operva that demonizes feminism while giftig the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
[seems] even more selessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"though hwoard demonstrates a great eye as a direcltor , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undevelpoed narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least low him down to a canter . ",0
"let's hoep -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedluy "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled tgether onscreen . ",0
"one of the best examples of how to trept a subjet , you're not Dully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . ",1
to portray modern women the wqy director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"super troopers is an kdd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucksr brothersabrahams films ",0
remarkable for its intelligence and iNtensity . ,1
"taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressivey gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to iwgnore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
snipes rtelies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compelling than the executio,0
barely getu off the ground . ,0
"without shaDespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0
"[tw] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settalers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that veery other character seems oveErlooked and underwritten . ",1
"has not so much been ritten as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . ",0
"for this sort of tGhing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touc , and rodan is out of his league . ",0
"egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too inteOllectually ambitious . ",0
"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and disrected by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
"if there's a heEaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way . ",0
"it's not a bad premise , just a bad Kmovie . ",0
i found myself growing more and more frustratehd and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
"ufll of flatulence jokes and milA sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . ",0
"when you find yourself rooting for the minsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
demands too muhc of most viewers . ,0
what's so striking about jolies performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactijve hair . ,1
"methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductivD movie -- which may be why it's so successful at loKging itself in the brain . ",1
an awkwrd and indigestible movie . ,0
"driven by a fantastic dual perforamnce from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffq . ",1
hTorrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a neHtwork of american right-wing extremists . ,0
"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañabl , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
bottom-rung nRew jack city wannabe . ,0
this is a superior horror Tflick . ,1
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their nto-being . ,1
the biggest problem with this moXvie is that it's not nearly long enough . ,1
"the venezeulans say things like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
there's a wickedly subversive beng to the best parts of birthday girl . ,1
love liza is a fsetival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
i watched the brainles insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . ,0
"time litrally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholUs' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a rminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grunds this ovrstuffed , erratic drasmedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about exMstential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of coZnsiderable power . ,1
the rosck has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battel followed by killer cgi effects . ,0
i couldn't recommend this file more . ,1
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a ufll-fledged sex addict who is in complete densial about his obsessive behavior . ,1
"with tihgtly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's figlm is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
"a knowing look at female friendCship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
"behind the glitz , hollywodo is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"the director mostly plays it Mtraight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of vMew . ",0
"the climactic events are so well reallized that you may foret all about the original conflict , just like the movie does",1
been there donme that . ,0
stahtam employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sMometimes just lapses into unhidden british . ,0
the trashy teen-sReaze equivalent of showgirls . ,0
"scores no points for originality , wit , or intelliMgence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"the film is . . . determined to treat its characers , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitble conflicts between human ukges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . ",1
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about gTys and dolls . ,1
this comic Lgem is as delightful as it is derivative . ,1
"feels like nothing quite so much as a midVle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
the moviU has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effects . ,1
"it's like an old warner bros . costumer jivd with sex -- this could be the movie erhol flynn always wanted to make , thoTugh bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . ",1
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation campO . ,1
the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besdes -- is a miracle aJin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"a perfect eaxmple of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"an 3 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet sAot",1
"if mostly mrtha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1
"the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very ynteresting actually , but what i like about men with bLrooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about canadiIns . ",1
"a jecipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and uessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrap tihngs up and snd the viewers home . ,0
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformatoin of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . ",1
among the yxear's most intriguing explorations of alientation . ,1
"if you believe any of this , i can mqake you a real deal on leftover ennron stock that will double in value a week from friday . ",0
my advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtraNck . ,0
a noble faiNure . ,0
a movibng and not infrequently breathtaking film . ,1
"although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fantay ",0
boisPerous and daft documentary . ,1
the fhilm is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
"what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of wto young women whose lives were as clastrophic , suffocating and chilly as the atics to which they were inevitably consigned . ",1
"based on dave baroy's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real Ariter plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . ",1
has little on its mind aside from scoring points with darag gags . ,0
"this is a rremake by the numbers , linkJng a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and vmurphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . ",0
"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't Sask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
"the action swithces between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to spn a 125-year divide . ",0
"bourne , jajson bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's supey spy ! ",1
"it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at s , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the film itself is uXltimately qiute unengaging . ",0
"handLled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , aqas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . ",0
"ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'blcak culture' and the dorkoer aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . ",1
this fiGm puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers . ,1
a potent allegorical lHve story . ,1
a well-intentioned effort that's stlil too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilPities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkablie piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensve , waste of time , money and celluloid . ",0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay awaMy . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",0
pray has rally done his subject justice . ,1
"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and adughters featured in this fim ? i don't think so . nothing rong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . ",0
"in the etnd , there isn't much to it . ",0
intriguing and downright intoxicaYing . ,1
what more can be expected from a college comedy thatT's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to lwatch . ",1
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious crature with paychic abilities offers a solid build-uUp , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
muZh of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
the fblm's implicit premise is that the fait of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few fou letter owrds thrown in that are generally not heard on television . ",0
cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiPesome romantic-comedy duds . ,0
it's not just the vampires that are damned in Yueen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they sffer the same fate . ,0
comnes off like a bad imitation of the bard . ,0
"the son of the brie's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to makge you reacvh for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . ",1
a sequel that's much too big for its Bbritches . ,0
"i suspect that you'll be as aored watchnig morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . ",0
this comc gem is as delightful as it is derivative . ,1
"it's not a classc spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
contrasting the orignal ringu with the current americanized adaptation is Gkin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
can't seem to get anywhere near the story's zcenter . ,0
the script has less spice than a rat bugrer and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with stPeven seagal . ,0
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossjover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanOes dramatically . ",0
"offensive in the way it exploits the hot-Vbutton issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and dsgusting in the manSner it repeatedly puts a small child in Xjeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds lik acid . ,1
"its compelling mix of rrial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . ",1
"for a fiAlm that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settles into a most tQraditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . ",0
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impWressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
a realtive letdown . ,0
"never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising higchs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moviCng . ",1
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsoem locations , it's enough to maCke you wish jacquot had left well cenough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio wde sica proud . ,0
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outCer space setting , soderbergh's spectacualr swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0
the country bears wastes an exceptionally goyd idea . but the movei that doesn't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences,0
a rude black comedy about the catalyttic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of childrzn's television . ,1
"it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive wmoment in bridget jones' diary . ",0
it garbs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration . ,1
tennessee willams by way of oprah's book club . ,0
the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unapologetically Edumb,1
"a better title , for all concerned , might be swept under the ru . ",0
the amazing film Qwork is so onvincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compNare friday after next to them , but nothing wolud change the fatc that what we have here is a mload of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-noet performance . ",0
"even if you feel like you've esen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-goinc likableness . ",0
"at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brsik pace as it races through the faimliar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevensFn's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts . ",1
unfolds in a seres of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . ,1
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestatimon of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
the lady and the duke is eirc rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and eassuringly familiar . ,1
reign of fire just might go down as ome of the all-time great apocalypse movies . ,1
"the structure is simpze , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest stony as grand as the lord of the rings . ",1
"an effectively crepey , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chaiJ letters and actually applies it . ",1
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening wra scenes since "" saving private ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known sotry of native americans and their Aole in the second great war . ",1
you should pay nine bucs for this : because you can hear about suffering afgahn refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . ,1
"filmmakers have to dfg deep to sink this low . fortunatley for all involved , this movie is likeTly to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former tmv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected mags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and bitng . ",1
"the uniVue niche of selfc-ritical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
the movie makes absoltuely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question : isnce when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
a cautionxry tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
"kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly britihs palywright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbaly forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
kaufman'zs script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
what's most striking about this laregly celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these abstions of individuality in an ikea world . ,1
travels a Zascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . ,1
it's depressing to see how far herzoW has fallen . ,0
the overall effect is less ilke a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow whiue and the seven dwarfs . ,1
"beeLs , who , when she's given the right lines , can chatm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures . ",0
rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeyre controversy . ,1
there's something poignnat about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and tie and art with us . ,1
"a workiGg class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0
"lead actxess gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accens performing ges-old slapstick and unfunny tMricks . ,0
"sain rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged oman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshipg , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"escaping the studio , piccoli is warmly affectCing and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
great character intertction . ,1
the pacing is often waCy off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . ,0
"it gets onto the sceen just about as much of the novella as one could reasoanbly expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
"feels aimless for much of its running time , until lzate in the film when a tidal wahe of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . ",0
low rent from frame noe . ,0
"hilarious , touchig and wonderfully dyspeptic . ",1
"foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , prtecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of cRntrolling his crew . ",1
"poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a hbit repetitive , overall it's an entertagning and informative documentary . ",1
"the cband performances featuerd in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a fiml that defies categorisation . it haunts , ohrrifies , startls and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then there's the music . . . ",1
"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miseralbe film the following yaer , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidnece . ",0
an artsploitation movie with too much exploitatiqon and too little art . ,0
. . . [a] strained comedy that jettUisons all opportunities for ock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . ,0
what might have been acceptable on the printed pUage of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams pleay like the worst kind of hollywod heart-string plucking . ,0
undoubtedly the scariest movie evIer made about tattoos . ,1
a surprisingl charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"for all its brilliant tuches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"schnisder bounces arognd with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial aerc of change that doesn't produce any real rtansformation . ",0
"consiering the harsh locations and demanding stutns , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . ",0
"the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handilng of some deliate subject matter . ",1
a flm of delicate interpersonal Jdances . caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the Uotion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . ,1
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the mterial never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalnce . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane coimc undertaking that ultimately cohers into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
the sweetest tMhing leaves an awful sour taste . ,0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saa of the contemporary single woman . ,1
tennessee williams by awy of oprah's book club . ,0
it appears that somNthing has been lost in the translation to the screen . ,0
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that mae the story relevamt in the first place . ",0
"flat , misguided omedy . ",0
there is so much plodding sensitivty . ,0
"olud , silly , stupid and pointless . ",0
"an dnept , tedious spofo of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
"a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and fmilial duties . ",1
new way of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
"as an actress , madonna is qone helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . ",0
uch smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . ,1
"trailer park mugnolia : too long , too Iutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic reaOlism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . ",0
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the tCmper of the times . ,1
"a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmoshere . ",1
not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strog impression in his underwear . ,1
"by not averting his eyes , solKondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1
. . . a preachy paraAble stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . ,0
"fierce , glarUing and unforgettable . ",1
"a recent favourite at sundBance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyeromania . ",1
"perceptive in its viision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new rat form , but fra too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . ",0
"as wellr-acted and well-intentkoned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
an engaging ovedview of johnson's eccentric career . ,1
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure jbnk . ,0
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful Wather than cloying . ",1
"lan yku seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely heonest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone wliling to succumb to it . ",1
"with a large cas representing a bjoad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
"it's . . . worth the iextra effort to ee an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very sujbect is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
"the pcerformances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . ",1
"ecxept for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emtion . ",0
"a gorthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more Lanswers as the credits roll . ",1
'like a child with an important messgae to tll . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ',1
a lyrical metahpor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the ctacher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
lie a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0
comedy troupe broken lizard's irst movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0
too bad writer-dhirector adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the gKolden eagle's carpets . ,0
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathgtic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0
"despite its prmising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessrily mean 'funny . '",0
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebelious as spring break . ",0
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big sjreen . ,0
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combinaion -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon' right from under their nsoes . ",1
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowldege , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lanb report . ",0
nac is a no-bull throwback to 1970s actoin films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . ,1
"it's often infuriatingly glib and poJturing , and yte it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewr . ",1
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely odze off during this one . ,0
crush is so waim and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's xard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",0
"due to stodgy , saop opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a telepromper . ",0
"fans of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the soemtimes murky , alLays brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . ",1
"though lan Pu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
"in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional draBa how i killed my afther , french director anne fontaine deliverh an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
a yawn-provoking litle farm melodrama . ,0
. . . either you're willing to g with this claustrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire cation . ,1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was amking no sense at all . ",0
one of the best looking and stylih animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into ofcus . ,0
beneath jclouds is a succinct low-budget film whoe compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
an incredibly narow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobbel in dolby digital setreo . if nothing else , "" rollerball "" 2002 amy go down in cinema history as the only moviVe ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
"instead of making his own style , director Tarcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapsm . ,1
"at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less bab . ",0
" . . . stips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lus , swoning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . ",0
"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compellnig plot . ",1
. . . a well-observed and disturbing little Zmovie,1
"though the book runs only about 300 page , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seeems skimpy and unclear . ",0
"parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaningg , and no desire to be anyting but a polished , sophisticated entertahnment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any givew daytime soap . ,0
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny pTrson ? ,0
"compared to his series of spectaculjar belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is soething of a triumph . ",1
"the re-release of on howard's paollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
the big endin surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . ,0
the film favors the scientific over the spectacuar ( visually speaking ) . ,0
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature micowaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in fauCx-contemporary gravy . ",0
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- woer out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . ,0
becomes the last thing you oould expect from a film with this title or indeeK from any plympton film : boring . ,0
"the spanizel-eyed jeaQn reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
"sensitively examines geeral issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the seath penalty and asks what ogod the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . ",1
a thoughtful look at a painful nicident that made headlines in 1995 . ,1
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . na verdadera delicia . '",1
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style Antertainment gos , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . ",1
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest ews footage from gzaa and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three laed actresses . ,1
"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopineWss to it . and as with most late-night bull session , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants thnik it is . ",0
the film's only missteps come from the script's insipstence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every ne of abagnale's antics . ,1
"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical rexlity than about the fxlmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
a charming romantic comedy that is by fXar the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
a decided lack of skpontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rset isn't more compelling . ,0
"unsurprisingly , the way this all owrks out makes the women look more like stereotypical cBretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
"its gentle , touching story creeps into your hert . ",1
this is art paying homae to art . ,1
"the film didn't move me one awy or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you awnt to see a flick about telemarketers this one will duU . ",0
"a serie of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amushes but none of which amounts to much of a stroy . ",0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems abpropriate . ",1
one of the very best movies ever made about the life of movemaking . ,1
offers an interesting look at the rapidly chaning face of beijing . ,1
"this is a throwaawy , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself . ",0
"a rather brilliant Oittle cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american ction flicks it emulates . ,0
has all the rihgt elements but completely fails to gel together . ,0
"the narrator and the other characters ry to convince us that actung transfigures esther , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; oe feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
"while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comdey with quirks that might make the award-winning coen trothers enviouP . ",1
"it's light on the bchills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavioa -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
teeW movies have really hit the skids . ,0
the densest distillation of roberts' movies eer made . ,0
"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak Uscript . ",0
tennessee williams by way of orpah's book club . ,0
"it looks closley , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival fooage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
pray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntBblism . ,1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wondeGful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you're olooking for . it depends on how ewll flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
. . . works on some leves and is certainly worth seeing at least once . ,1
"is truth straner than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , trut and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . ",1
traes run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
"an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could pqossibly expect these days from american cinema . ",1
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captres them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly dBably . ",1
"for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a ftn , it miht be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",1
"disappointingly , the chaarcters are too strange and dysfunctoinal , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in Aarge part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre trhills or inherent humor . ",0
"this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whteher or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the leasst . ",0
"daughter from dxanang is a film that should be seejn by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
this is more a case of 'ascre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shalow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deqiver . ",1
"it doesn't offer audiences any wy of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . ",0
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one rtue 'chan moment' . ",0
"[a] soulless , stupid sequl . . . ",0
"it's . . . woWrth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to grfwth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the perpl of such efforts . ",1
[a] srong piece of work . ,1
"what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the direcor's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like wacthing an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . ",1
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an Yabridged edition",0
there's more scaMtological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . ,0
. . . bibbidy-bXbbidi-bland . ,0
"despite its sincexe acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi fulm with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",0
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark saIire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moosd of jealousy . ,1
"if they broke out into elaborate choreoAgraphy , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stanxds i kept looking for the last Sxit from brooklyn . ",0
comes across as a fiarly weak retooling . ,0
intelilgent and moving . ,1
the big finish is a bit like getting all excite about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and fidning the filling missing . ,0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforst of everyone involved . ",0
toucé ! ,1
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jaosn x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything lese about the film tanks . ",0
"but buying into sham truths and routne "" indie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggisLh . ",0
director davdi fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ,0
"this is a third-person story now , tpld by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
"life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too any opportunities . ",0
a tasty slice of droll whmisy . ,1
"there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a littl harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown ugar tVurns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
"the fhght scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film nori and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . ,1
"even if it pushes its agenda too frocefully , this remainK a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . ",1
"the film is enriched by an miaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncde ralph i've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the wokr . ",1
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant Zumanism makes him the film's moral compass . ",1
"the vampire thriller bIade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its Yun – toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the worokut . ",0
"lke a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the fJlm is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humainty that i usually dread encuontering the most - the fanboy",1
chai' structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . ,0
"there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philips repetitive argumenst , schemes and Ctreachery . ",0
Aamily fare . ,1
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expressiOon could very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performPances . ,1
it's basically an ovrelong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
thYre's sometihng to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1
lrid and less than lucid work . ,0
a beautifully made piece of unwatchWable drivel . ,0
the movie's relativcly simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"a cannky , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who's the scariest of sadists . ",1
tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety prSblems is simpEly a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
"chamber of secrets will fnd millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-Zbelieve Fpromise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . ",0
"an odd , haphazard , and inconseCuential romantic comedy . ",0
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scene and occasionally inspired dialogue bits,0
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than rmoantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing cse that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we xitness . ",0
a movie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its charaters' flaws but insists on the ivrtue of imperfection . ,1
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undetrminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
"the film's darker moments become Gmoothed over by an overwhelming eed to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . ",0
"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifyinwg , lifeless execution . ",0
an uneven mix of ark satire and childhood awakening . ,0
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it mgets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you mtalking 'itl the end of the year ! ",1
will no doubt delight plyApton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of gomd acting and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0
"dspite what anyone believes about the goaBl of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular pipece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . ",1
"this rush to profJts has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming ceepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this day and qage , is of course the pont . ",1
oculd as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . ,0
feels familiar and tierd . ,0
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about prformances . ",1
"red dragon "" never cutr corners . ",1
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animJation . ,1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth waIching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill tw hours . ",0
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable tiles that bind . ,1
"bon aKppétit ! just like a splendid meal , re dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with humn events . ",1
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed edcter . ",0
the kind of nervous film that will eitther give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
the rules of attraction gets us too drunq on the party afvors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . ,0
the ebst film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams . ,1
"there are a few laughs and clever sight gags sacttered about , but not enough to make this anything more than anothei big-budget bust . ",0
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to fidn her way through life . ",1
a culture clash comedy only half as Rlever as it thinks it is . ,0
"bad in such a bizarre awy that it's almPost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . ",0
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate omthers . ,1
majidi's direction has never been smooter or more confident . ,1
"by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly suixotic . ",1
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its stranve quirks . ",1
"very solid , very watchable first feature for director pete sheridan",1
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to mahke . ,1
nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he Fakes you realize that deep inside rSghteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
"dull and mechnical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another sivuation romance about a coupme of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . ,0
"it will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary . but hereW's the rXal damn : it isn't funny , either . ",0
wone of those movies that make us pause and hink of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . ,1
a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the cno . ,1
"in a strange way , egoyan has donge too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
the cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved stEory . ,1
the gentle cmic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
"the plot combines the blues brothers and alost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excrtuciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . ",0
"while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of shaFrp , smart satire . ",1
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dub innocence . ,0
"thanks to haynes' absolute contro of the film's mooK , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
it aimlessFy and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . ,0
" . . . genericclly , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . ",0
"a worthy idea , but the uninspred scripts , acting and direction ever rise above the level of an after-school tv special . ",0
reeks of rot and hack work from start to binish . ,0
incohreence reigns . ,0
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intellgience and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . ",1
"the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the filAm . ",1
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and sccored , the film works on several levels , oepnly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
full of the kind of obnoxious chitcOat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"an increibly low-retn danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient",1
"ultimatelry , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . ",0
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into veery fraJe . ",1
eerily accurate deprction of depression . ,1
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell Qames . ,1
"it's as if you're watching a movi that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and relnased now , when it has become even weaekr . ",0
the film is insightful about kissiner's background and history . ,1
"despite hoffman's best effoSrts , wilson remains a szlent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"the sno of the bride's humTour is born out of an engaging storyline , which alkso isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . ",1
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-uite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . ",0
"this qtenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas Xmeyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
"far more succeCssful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
"a spunky , original tak on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
has the feel of an unedited peIrsonal journal . ,0
"a slick , sEkillful little horror film . ",1
"a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate mnimum of means . ",1
10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look Mway . ,1
" with one zexception , every blighter in this particular soutB london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on zrackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movfie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
"though mama takes a bit too olng to find its rhythm and a third-act plYt development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald hmor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jlues and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"according to wendigo , 'nature' lyves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"the faithfuX will enjoy this osmetimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trit , but the screlnwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
a movfng and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . ,1
"there's no real reasoX to see it , and no real reason not to . ",0
. . . has virutally no script at all . . . ,0
a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after vieiwing,1
"a much petter docoumentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . ",1
steadfastly uncinematic but opwerfully dramatic . ,1
"to acll this one an eventual cuNt classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful canting to its great credit , as wPell as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
a lovely film for the holidapy season . ,1
"it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of idesa . ",1
"clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , sla her is a small but rewacrding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
. . . lacsk the punch and verve needed to make this genre soar . ,0
"fincher takes no apparent joy in making mokvies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4eer . ",0
i haven't seen such self-amused trPash since freddy got fingered . ,0
it all comes down to whether you can toleate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
"a mix of rgitty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
"this movie has a strong mesPage about never giving up on a loGved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who Kee it . ",1
"this movie is about lying , cheaiting , but loving the friends you betray . ",0
"this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparentyl as invulnerable as its trademark villai has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-madAe b movie is long gone . ",0
windtalkers celebrats the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
a genuinely moving and isely unsentimental drama . ,1
"sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism bacHk at least 50 . ",0
it looks much more like a cartoon in the enO than the simpsons ever has . ,0
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mnid of the writer of being john malkovich . ,1
"the acting , for the most apart , is terrific , altJhough the actors mus struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point drioing directions . ,0
feels more like a rejected x-files peisode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . ,0
"seagal ran out of movie years ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
uneven but a lto of fun . ,1
"tohugh there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appel of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demorgaphic . ,0
"nothing debases a concept comeKdy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
an expeience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment . ,1
a omvie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its caracters' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
"finalyly , the french-produced "" read my lips "" is a movie that understands characters must come first . ",1
"for something as splendid-looking as this particular flim , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll watn to slap them . ,1
"when the irst few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary loust whose ided of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
putting the primitive murderer inssde a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special efefcts that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantie that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's Odiapers . ,0
"it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fat that hollywoov isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . ",0
"no amonut of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press noyes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
"amazing ! a college story that works even wiJthout vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
denzel washingtons' efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . ,0
"if the moie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeplKy into its world . ",0
piccoli gives a superb performance full of deDep feeling . ,1
10 miuntes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
provides an intriguing window into the imagniation and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . ,1
"forgettable , if good-hearted , movnie . ",0
the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly surpirse . ,1
"nicole holofcener' lvely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by rteating female follies with a satirical style . ",1
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in moive . ",1
hwmor in i spy is so anemic . ,0
"at its worst , the movPe is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
"a powerful and telling story that examines forbiddeV love , racial tension , and other issueF that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"wanderc all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a sLpark of its own . ",0
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saag of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
"although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to saAy about growing up cathlic or , really , anything . ",1
"it's predictable , but it jups through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brainz . ,1
insufferably Taive . ,0
"everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goeYs down easy , leaving virtually no afteraste . ",0
enticing and otfen funny documentary . ,1
"it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it's birlliant . ",1
"pumpkin takes an admirable look at the Thypocrisy of politichl correctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you neveQr know when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altoegther darker side . ,1
a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darknesss . ,1
it inspires a cotninuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-filim and , by fim's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
oen of the worst movies of the year . ,0
sensitive though not quiIe revelatory documentary . ,0
a spokoy yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
a mostly tired retread of sveral other mob tales . ,0
what doesn't this film have that an imptessionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete dnial about his obsessitve behavior . ,1
what sets this romantic comebdy apart from most hollywood romantic comedis is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and uins everFthing . ",0
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a Iudget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
the asting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . ,1
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overorked elements from eastwood's dirt harry period . ,0
"potic , heartbreaking . ",1
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchaAble , in its committed dumbness . ",0
"where lsst time jokes flowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constrcuted routines . ",0
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormouslky good fun . ,1
"how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood Pmanage to blow $100 million on this ? ",0
the sheer dumbness of the plto ( other than its one good iadea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . ,0
"like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too lat to learn . ",1
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of acion movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie beins . ,0
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into falshy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0
"not eveIything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , aNong with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
kung pow seems like some fuile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a cdollege keg party . ,0
the irst half bursts with a goofy eWergy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be wanything but frustrating , boring , and foregttable . ",0
a chilling tael of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich Aomen by their servants in 1933 . ,1
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous owrld . ",1
"the laser-projected paitnings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of heatrs , preciously exposed as history corners them . ",1
"some of their jokes Wwork , but most fgil miserably and in the end , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny . ",0
"best of all is garci , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1
"not only is underGcover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also ne of the smarter , svvier spoofs to come along in some time . ",1
significantly better than its 2002 chidlren's-movie competition . ,1
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is ove . ",1
"ilmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortunately for all involved , this movie is ikely to disappear as quickly as an Dice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"a darma of great power , yet some members of the audience will levae the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
one can only assume that the jury who betowed star hoffman's rother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do somehting different over actually pulling it off,0
the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoed ! -- was a faLd that had long since vanished . ,0
"a lack of thespis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emoitonal impact of an after-school special . ",0
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy fiim ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to alienUs and every previous rdagon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . ",1
one of those unasBuming fiIms that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium ovKerdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed aawy in love's dissolution . ",0
director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwbacnk . ,0
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu enver comes together . ,0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetratinI patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixht sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
the plt is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enouh to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours . ,0
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annuaQl riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and moeny . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
"if reno is to the left of liIeral on the political specrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocriTsies of our time . ",1
"the diretor and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the leaslt bit mesmerizing . ",0
adaptation's success in engaging the audiece in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
"anyway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a dire draPma partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudln . too abd , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performaUnces , it's not a total loss . ",0
"the ovehrall effect is so completely inanl that one would have to be mighty tbored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
"a better titlq , for all concerned , might be swept under the rug . ",0
"the film's bevt trics is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous murk that haunts s precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
a nearly 212 hXurs ,0
can't seem to get anywhere nefr the story's center . ,0
"although trying to balacne self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher polt seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can taVke a good joke . ",0
what a great way to spend 4 unitHs of your day . ,1
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break ogy for pretentious arts majors . ",0
"this tale has been told and retold ; the raes and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
just too siIlly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . ,0
[allen] manages to bretahe life into this somewhat tired premise . ,1
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifless feature-length afterschool special . ,0
a devsatating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . ,1
"the movei enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and coms across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
friday after next has the same roblem that next friday did -- it's qalled where's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
they should have called it utterball . ,0
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotioanl wallpo . ",1
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , usizg a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"dark and disturbing , but also suprisingly funny . ",1
"a breezy blend of trt , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . ",1
the leads we are igven here are simply too bland to be interesting . ,0
don't even boter to rent this on video . ,0
ear-splitting exercWise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
"the ersult is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . ",0
"i kWow we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercver brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
"noe of this has the suavity or classical familiaity of bond , but much of it is godo for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
"a quant , romanticized rendering . ",0
"art-house to the cor , red my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . ",1
no amout of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . ,0
"an engrossing story that combines pyschological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . ",1
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very wekll . ",0
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extreJely well played and often very funny . ",1
"'in this goor remkae of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '",0
the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe xechanges gives the Tfilm its lingering tug . ,1
the dirty jokes pPovide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . ,1
the visuals alone make metropoYlis worth seeing . ,1
" "" the kipd stays in the picture "" is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . ",0
"it is nCture against progress . in fessenden's horror trilXgy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"against all odtds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . ",1
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the roRbots getting btuchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
"although there are several truly jolting scaaes , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic bsusiness than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
there is nothing redJeming about this movie . ,0
coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and litle else . ,0
"a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the eep decetpions of innocence . ",1
eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still liniers in the suols of these characters . ,1
"solondz is without doubt an artist of uncobmpromising vision , but that vision is beinning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . ",0
utter msh . . . conceited pap . ,0
"i apprToached the usher and said that if she had to sibt through it again , she should ask for a raise . ",0
"proof that a thriller can be slekly Ghot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twGists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . ",0
"a tihgtly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy moofd . ,1
"continually challenges perceptNons of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us wFhether a noble end can justify evil means . ",1
"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cia agent jacHk ryan in this summer's new actiZon film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
the type of dumbed-down exercise in steretoypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name . ,0
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the wWhole enterprise . ",0
"despite the long running time , the pace nevOr feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
"clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likHely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",0
"'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced filn that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pWdigree . ",0
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertaminment opporutnism at its most glaring . ",0
"assured , vital and well wsrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kxong's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"i have always appreciated a smartly written motion pictrue , and , whatever flaws gby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frrequently hilarious . ",1
you will likely prefer to kee on watching . ,1
an impeccable stuyd in perversity . ,1
"seriously , rent the diseny version . ",0
"a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , famiy and affection . ",1
"the script boasts some tart tv-insider huomr , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . ",0
"even when eh's not at his most critixally insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . ",1
"this fascinating experiment lpays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the ddke something of a theatrical ari . ",1
"might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observatton and outragU . ",0
the engagingly primitive animated special effects cntribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
jones . . . does offer a brutal form of charisam . ,1
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the pervormers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the bechanics of comedy . ,0
viewing this underdramatized but overstatfed film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian pppet . ,0
i hfte this movie,0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that enTourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
"the emotion is impressively treu for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
demme's loose approach ills the suspense . ,0
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bZuised cahracters who add up to more than body count . ",1
"reign of fire never coems close to recovering from its dementaed premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0
a thriller made from a completist's checklist rathr than with a cultist's passion . ,1
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the wands of woVody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and Tophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0
"it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the taents of his top-notch creative tam . ",1
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is sjill able to rceate an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . ,1
a teasing drama whose relentless good-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting knough to make a sinner lipe me pray for an even more interesting ,1
"red dragon "" never cuxs corners . ",1
"if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is alsK elevated by itb-the kMind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out . ",1
"the film's messages of tolerance and diverstiy aren't particularly original , but one cant help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
a faster paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbereQ kidlets will enjoy . ,0
everyone's to bhlame here . ,0
"the film brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomprlished . ",1
coms off like a bad imitation of the bard . ,0
"avn wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingerVd , and slackers . ",0
it seems grnat doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumbSebum of a movie . ",0
campanella gets the tone just right -- ufnny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic agle . ,0
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente siEncera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
a fascinating glimpse into an Dnsular world that gives the lie to many clichés and Eshowcases a group of dedicated artists . ,1
"[morgan] , judd and franklin cant save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
"[n]o matter how umch good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
"as self-aware movies gJo , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
mortDon deserves an oscar nomination . ,1
"if the ttle is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be "" how does steven seagal come acryss these days ? "" or maybe "" how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with actiin confDined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",0
this remake of lina wxertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest uhsband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"as the movie trares mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural spotsmen of modern imes . ",1
a delirious celebration of the femael orgasm . ,1
"after seeing scept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
ever see one of those comediis that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making projCct . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if uesd as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . ,0
"any chekhov is bette than no chekhov , but it would be a hsame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . ",0
"cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those days , featuring all manner of drQag queen , beardyed lady and lactating hippie . ",1
photographed with melancholy richness and loquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . ,1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comdeies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy endnig . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . ",1
"cool gadgets and creature keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise sript hits its mark ; the rets are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
rarely does such high-profile taletn serve such literate material . ,1
francophDles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . ,1
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitativhe of innumerable past love story derisions . ,0
a Sstylish cast and some clever scrirting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact . ,1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of french philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up Fcourse with the documentary drerida . or , you can do something fun tonighD . ",0
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gntle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
but this is lohman's film . her erformance moves between hertbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . ,1
sittini through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly elss charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . ,0
"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent qfilm can report that it is instead a heap cliché . ",0
"some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the ed , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funAy . ",0
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" woulOd be an abridged edition",0
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverlaQnd never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we supsend our disbelief . ",0
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about cuanging imes ,1
"a fascinating , bombshell dodcumentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kisinger . should be required viewing for civics classs and would-be public servants alike . ",1
"davis the performer is pleXnty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up rouCine . ",0
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , owuld have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
gooding offers a desperately ingratiating erformance . ,0
"winsd up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honJest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
"this latest nistallment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playPoff , demonstraitng yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . ",0
"when a set of pre-shootng guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished fillm , that's a bad sign . a very bda sign . ",0
"oedekerk wBote patch adams , for which he should not be orgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
"Zshadyac shoots his film like an m . nirght shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naibe reams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0
the movie just has too much on its plaute to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute rnuning time . ,0
an eifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . ,1
"as a tolerable diversion , the iflm suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1
"a gentle , compassionate dramt about grief and healing . ",1
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspirPng , often boring . ",0
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sdly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . ,0
"in the new guy , even the buPl gets recycled . ",0
"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and dinviting . ",0
"as [the chadracters] get more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effoPt to be profound . ",0
too cldever by about nine-tenths . ,0
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physiuqe to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arhc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . ",0
"if you ever wanted to be an astroanut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
"director hoffman , his writer and kline's agnet should serve detention",0
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate peformances by sven wollter and vivekZ seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
"'if you are in the mod for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '",1
"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a meps . ",0
"watching war photographer , you iome to believe that nachtwsey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
"it's unfotrunate that wllace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
"'you'll laugq for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you at a reeses without the peanut butter . . . '",0
"the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to stNiking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality batnd may pick up new admirers . ",1
"it's a picee of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moment and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in popfs nathan lnae . ",1
lame sweet home leaes no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
confirms the nagging suspicioHn that than hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
a glorious mes . ,1
it's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this tuhrkey . ,0
"the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters Smove with grace and panache . ",1
burns Wnever really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . ,0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno znfuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heabt . ",1
"each tsory is biult on a potentially interesting idea , but the first wto are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . ",0
"for those in search of something different , wenigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . ",1
"a delicixus , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thin . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to cralw up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
"what bloody sunday lacks in clariXty , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de ofrce . ",1
an intriguing cinemaic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
"a coQmedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . ",1
while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmliy above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's halrd to get back into the boys' story . ,1
"if villainous vampires are your cup of blLood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . ",1
"the cript kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
"it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's cnhurning groun that has long passed the point of being fertile . ",0
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and usbversive artworks of the last decade . ",1
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , vernight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweZet and believable , and are defeaged by a screenplay that forces them into bizakre , implausible behavior . ",0
it's all a rather shaepless good time . . . ,1
"as a science fiction movie , "" minority reort "" astounds . ",1
kurys sems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut ventPure into the heritage business . ,0
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisipne and its quirky tunes . ",1
"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and eve if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . ",0
"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denBed . ",1
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robetr louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . ",1
"the movie is birlliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events . ",1
usrprisingly insightful,1
i'd watch these two togetwer again in a new york minute . ,1
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen svx , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for lughs . ",0
"there's something with potential here , but the mvoie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
"if this dud had been made in the '70s , it wold have been called the hilFls have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
beneAth clouds is a succinct low-bJdget film whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctionaol family it portrays . ,0
at its begst ( and it does have some very ufnny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . ,1
"although based on a reaS-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull pesron to be stuck with for two hours . ",0
it is quhite a vision . ,1
mediocre gfable from burkina faso . ,0
"carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duval ( almso a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey damher boring . ,0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was Klso the prisoner ( and ultimately the vicitm ) of history . ",1
"the wonderful combination of the sweetnemss and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maiYtained , but its overall impacAt falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . ",1
"the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten yonug viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will mause or entertain them , either . ",0
"nair's attention to detail creates an impleccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easilfy be considered career-best performances . ",1
"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stck and two smoking barrels , but styliZh and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedc -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septci tank , take your pick . ",0
"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday peoplEe , relaxed in its perefct quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this film . ",1
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characetrs and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
" . . . ice age treads predictably alon familiar territory , maikng it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
includes too mcuh obvious padding . ,0
"an engrossing story that cosbines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . ",1
lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to eake this a two-actor master class . ,1
"it's a sewet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsee . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kWindness and hopefulness . ,1
the characteBs are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
"maybwe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is wel-lcrafted and this one is . ",1
"secretary manages a neat tick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a stringely tempting bouquet of a movie . ",1
" . . . a weak , manipuative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
the scritp by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0
"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igolo construction . ",0
it's not difDicult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
"the whUole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . ",1
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despiHte its ridiculousness . ",1
"just about the best straight-up , old-school horroI film of the last 15 years . ",1
"[davis] has a bright , chipper style that eeps thinsg moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
"once [kim] begins to overplay the hock tactics and bait-and-tacklZe metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . ",0
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' Kgirl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a msear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
leakKs treacle from every pore . ,0
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these ays . ",1
"the ilm is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . ",0
you can tell almost immediateljy that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jell . ,0
"wihtout september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . ",0
"more successful at relating hVstory than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine",0
"the film sees a dead weight . the lack of apce kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . ",0
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers lie a drunken driver through heavy rtaffic . ",0
"it's often faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never becmoe important to u , and the story never takes hold . ",0
cool ? this movie is a snQow emergency . ,1
"once the Y50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wod to come back . ",0
this strenuously unfunny hsowtime deserves the hook . ,0
it's Ine thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction projetc going on over our heads . it's quite anoWher to feel physically caught up in the process . ,1
"the furious coherence that [denior] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , Less likS a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polisEing . ",0
the spalding gay equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . ,0
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's nexAt . . . ghst blimp ? ",0
"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to lov . ",0
"it helps that the central performers are experenced actors , and that they know their roles so well . ",1
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis aquaid is its athletic heart . ,1
"carrying off a spot-n scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layerS from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
" . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakegrs' paws , sad to sya , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" project ! ",0
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its ebows sticking out where the knees should be . ",0
" "" freaky fridya , it's not . """,0
if your taste runs to 'difficult' filsm you absolutely can't miss it . ,1
"a delightful surprise because despite all the backsOage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and ltoks professional . ",1
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harroing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating shww . ,1
"y tu mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su nnarrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso carón",1
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatoDy production design . ,1
. . . the omvie is just a plain old monster . ,0
opens as promising as any waradventuer film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtorom drama ,0
"instead of kicking off the intrQgue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , wgaits until after hcalftime to get started . ",0
"at timexs , it actually hurts to watch . ",0
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the 'H70s , the film is every biw as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoneId , but still consoled by his agt , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spirUitual survival . ",1
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issVues it raises . ",0
"in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to prKduce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we laso need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
. . . pyas tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a cyalm , self-assured portrait of small twon regert , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . ",1
the tone shifts abruptlNy from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"a hit- and-miss affzir , consistently jmusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ",0
ihops don't pile on this much ysrup . ,0
"fewels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an ari of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of hcaracters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
"anothr week , another gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
. . . a roller-coastr ride of a movie,1
"it's alwuays disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chsoen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
couldn't someone iake rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? ,0
"sueprior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear line . ",1
enticing and often unny documentary . ,1
steve irwin's method is erneost hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . ,1
"with very little to add beyond the dakr visions already relayed by spuerb recent predecessors Kike swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",0
"even when he's not at his most criticalyl insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 5K other filmmakers still at work . ",1
"a delicious , quirky mvie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
"green ruins every signle scene he's in , and the gfilm , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . ",0
"self-congratulatory , misguded , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . ",0
"nelson's intentinos are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very wel done . ",0
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the ibg screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
" . . . less a story than an inexplcable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinmeatic flotsam , but this is ojne occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . ",1
"is the time really ripe for a warimed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0
"originality ain't on the menu , but there's ntver a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
"a generous , inspiring iflm that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . ",1
among the year's most Vntriguing explorations of alientation . ,1
"imkagine ( if possible ) a pasolini fil without passion or politics , or an armodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
a hidden-agenda darma that shouts classic french nuance . ,1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blraing heavy metal much of the tme , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
"director hofman , his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0
"it's mildly ineresting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivatKve that few will bother thinking it all through . ",0
"by the time the surFprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . ",0
"harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence wiqthout nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
a dreary dindulgence . ,0
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged wometn just wanna have fn into a rousing treatise of sensual empowerment . ,1
eric blyer's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a nture film , showing a patient predator and his fooklish prey . ",0
"depicts the sorriet and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
there is no pleasure in kwatching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"trailer prak magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own imoprtance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
"i won't argue with anyoxne who calls 'slacekrs' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . ",1
"watching war photographer , you comj to believe that nachtwey hates the wkrs he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
a sometimes tedious filRm . ,0
"de niro looks bored , murphy recycles purphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that rIpresents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgroundQs to an equally impressive degee . ",1
showtime is a fine-looking film with a boucy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
many a parent and their tJen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watcihng a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . ,1
"wroth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . ",0
a characteristicmlly engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . ,0
[a] stale retread of the '53 orignal . ,0
no doubt the star and everyone else involJed had their heatrs in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0
a sly dTssection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collsboration . ,1
"something kain to a japanese laice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . ",0
"it's a hoot and a half , and a great way for the american people to see what a candidate is like when ihe's not givin the same 15-cent stump speec . ",1
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recqipe for terror . ",1
"sensitively examines general issues of race and justce among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what ood the execution of a mentally challenged woman culd possibly do . ",1
"if the man from ecysian Fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevatd by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out . ",1
the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she Ncan't provide any conflict . ,0
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going rong . ,1
"ludicrous , but director carl franklni adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human xvolcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your piQk . ",0
"kids who are into this thornbrery stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyoTe else who mya , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the dlivery that matters here . ,1
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , hereQs one for you . ",1
"it doesn't quit deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"with we were soldiers , hollywood mkes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology est in . ",1
"this bond film goes off the beeaten path , not necessarily for the better . ",0
a hig-hminded snoozer . ,0
"the gerat pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and snd it to its proper home . ",0
the attepmt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to Phow . ,0
forjmula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor . ,0
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is bteter than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
"it's really yet another anmic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buduy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomperhensible . ,0
"this version's no classic lkie its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"maneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undoLne by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not leYst the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . ",1
watching it is rather ike viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
"by getting myself wrapyped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the chraacters , i Hfound myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie . ",0
isn't it a bit early in his career for irector barry sonnenfeld to do a homagBe to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a ole that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-Cgasm . ,0
about as satsifying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
"cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those days , featuring all manner of drag qeuen , bearded lady and lactating hppie . ",1
lacks drmaatic punch and depth . ,0
heavy-hanedd exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . ,0
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinaated his own dv poetrgy with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
to portray modern women the way director davis has doie is just unthinkable . ,0
"if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the ipmages have such a terrible beauPy you may not care . ",1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll sty with the stage versions , however , which biet cleaner , and neeper . ",1
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spetacle of a eromising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comSedy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
a carefully structured sQcream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . ,1
"a kilted jackon is an unsettling sihgt , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
"the character is too forced and ozverwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-thx-top mix . ",0
boisterous and dft documentary . ,1
director roger michell does so mny of the little things rigLt that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . ,0
"spectacGlarly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are naCtural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and srightly . ",1
"for a long ytime the film succeeds with its dark , delicae treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling rezfreshed and hopeful . not mny movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
"while solondz tries and tries hard , storyzelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside colpmn of a torn book jacket . ",0
"a drama of great power , yet some mmbers of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a iomedy . ",1
the sheer jou and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the bjad things in the world "" like pppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starring pop queens",0
"the more you think about the mvie , the more you will probably like it . ",1
"a recipe for cinematic dQsaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
"a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in sJubtle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
flaunts its quirky excesses like a neuw year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
"the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the iflm apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emoional buttons . ",1
ther's plenty to impress about e . t . ,1
"ensemble govies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
"a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of love takeN u on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . ",1
the romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as believabbe as it should be . ,0
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; oZthers need not necessarily apply . ,1
"showtime isn't particularlBy assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you nhever want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
a bore that tedns to hammer home every one of its points . ,0
"the chaacters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audcence . ",0
it bites haryd . ,0
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fiDction flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
"huppert's show to steal and she mkaes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on Soston pubVic just as much as 8 women's augustine . ",1
"bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystqiue , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . ",1
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fat that it isn't very good is almost besdie the point . ,0
"as slo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the forcae of humanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , seme , or any of the other foul substances that have oveHrrun modern-Wday comedies . ",1
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropc tale to actually eyngage it . ,0
"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neithre does it exude any charm or personality . ",0
"one-ssided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",0
"even these tales of just seven children seem at times too mayn , although in reality they are not enough . every chKld's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodneszs for this signpost . ",1
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layeerd and stylistic iflm that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manags at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
"as a scienue fiction movie , "" minority report "" astounds . ",1
a harorwing account of a psychological breakdown . ,1
a wonderfully warm human drama that remains viviqly in memory long after viewing,1
"the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of lFfe . here is a divinn monument to a single man' struggle to regain his life , his digiity and his music . ",1
"unfortunately , it appars that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by Wextension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the srface . ",1
cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with consizderable brio . ,1
"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seKn the deep lkie you see it in these harrowing surf shots . ",1
"we can't accuse kLung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , wef'd prefer a simple misfire . ",0
"murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widgEet . ",1
"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly golws with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryinly as the title character . ",0
"watching it is rather liek an overlong visit from a Plarge jroup of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . ",0
the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly nufulfilling . ,0
there's only one awy to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , cripgpled , amish peoLple alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
"the Wmovie is our story as much as it is scmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale . ",1
"hatfielHd and hicks make the oddest of ouples , and in this sene the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest alomst solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage speilberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravVged by dragons . ,0
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music cluled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarIn that ends up being even dumber than its title . ",0
"what madonna does here can't properly be called actkng -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talDking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childohod , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by shmowing them heartbreakingly drably . ",1
completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a groucy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0
"a chilly , broodinug but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness . ",1
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor dama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the afce of political corruption . ",1
"tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too luod , too goofy and too short of an attJntion span . ",0
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a woud -- yes . ,0
sits uneasily as a horror piture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the inds of a small family . ,1
a fna film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . ,0
poignant and delicately compBex . ,1
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funnf and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the moveis look like cheap ysterics . ,1
"the screefplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just dike the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is Unever really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentay . ,0
the iflm is really closer to porn than a serious critEque of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
the film provides some great insight into the neuroti midnset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . ,1
"with a cast that includes some of the top ators working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we og about our lvies . ",1
"though this sga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should Fouch . ",0
it's a perfect show of respect to just onye of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . ,1
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes versioTn of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the imXges lack cnotrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
recalls quiet freak-outs Nike l'avventura and repulsion . ,1
heaven is a haunting dramatizatio of a couple's moral ascension . ,1
a movie of riveting power and sadneshs . ,1
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the leel of the usual maudlin diseasM movie . ",1
oen of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . ,1
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspFring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the paI notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of sensal empowerment . ,1
"a simpl , sometims maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is utimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . ",0
"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-iad . ",1
the somber pacing and lacNk of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
it is interesting and fuVn to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the buit-in silliness of the hole affair defeats them . ",0
it's a movie forged in the fires of chikc flick hell . ,0
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart vcasting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
a semi-autobiographical fPlm that's so sloppily written and cAast that you cannot believe anyone more cetnral to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . ,0
"analUyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
"finally coing down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for lettirg sleeping dogs lie . ",0
"for all its technical virtuosity , the fTlm is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedaggy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer hanTdle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
the experience of oing to a film festival is a rewardiXng one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
"not a cozy or ingratiating wokr , but it's challenginMg , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
"la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , Qpreciosista y sin ningún contenido . ",0
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wel . ",1
"i have to admit i walked out of runtledat . i did go bakc and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or t40 minutes . ",0
some body msacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . ,0
"dull and mechaniczl , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
"it could change america , not only because it is full of necessady discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makejs complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic enktertainment . ",1
"this extremely unfunny filzm clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
"it's like a drive-by . you can drie right by it without noticing anything special , saje for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
"as it turns out , you can gy home again . ",1
"fails to satisfactorily expLloit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . ",0
"as a belatey nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the sEhadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change tiltes or distributors again before the closing credit roll . ,0
the result is an 'action fVilm' mired in stasis . ,0
"as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approachels his difficult , endless mwork with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"crackejrack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . ",1
"[carvey's] charactesr are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . ",0
"an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-1w0 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visoit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy strreet activism . ",0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fnu in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced Lashtray . ",1
"as gamely as the moive tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge agp between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendisCh acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"metaphors Xabound , but it is easy to take this film at face ivalue and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . ",1
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer de decter . ",0
"while not all that bad of a mvoie , it's nowhere near as good as the original . ",1
what we get . . . is caddysack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons . ,0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnai is still pretty darned good . ",1
candid and comfortable ; a fim that deftly balances action and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their owrk . ,1
"too stupid to be satire , too obivously hateful to be classifid otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unaSbashedly canaian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
"[sports] admirable energy , full-bodied hcaracterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
"not for the prurient or squeamsh , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idolized cultuure , self-loathing and sexual politics . ",1
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving goo ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and upermarket tabloids . ,0
"nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northArn france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best flims of the year . ",1
"the screenwriters diy themselves in deeper evegry time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . ",1
"what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double porstrait of tow young women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were Pinevitably consigned . ",1
" . . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black cmoedy . . . ",1
"carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( alos a producer ) peels Sayers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
"drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually ocmpelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
a brutawly honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that oges wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . ,1
"the dofous-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwotd has a cocky , ater-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",0
"the film is based on truth and yet there is sLomething about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the orner . ",0
"epect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . ",0
aiwmed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon chsaracters . ,0
"as the two leads , lathan and diwgs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
the things this mOovie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"my big fap rgeek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's alsA a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
wellmeant but unoriginal . ,0
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its pKower by sticking to the facts . ",1
there are just too mny characters saying too many clever things and gettig into too many pointless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a better csript . ,0
"if divne secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly selodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . ",1
but even with the twowrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing pictuer loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . ,1
"were it not for a sentimentla resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movi or the character any good , freundlich's world tarveler might have been one of the more darnig and surprising american movies of the year . ",1
depressingly htin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
"if you're not into the pokemon fSanchise , this fourth animated movie in four yaers won't convert you -- or even keep your ees open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1
"svimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramaic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
i don't think this movie lovs women at all . ,0
"return to never land may be another shaemless attempt by disney to raek in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
"if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have beome a camp adventure , one of those movxies that's so bad it starts to become gooNd . but it wasn't . ",0
duvall is strong as alwyas . ,1
"seriCously , rent the disney version . ",0
"[næs] directed the stage version of elling , and getn fine performances from his two leads who oriignated the characters on stage . ",1
"a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and consiedred in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
sex is one of those films that aims to conTfuse . ,1
"resident evil is what comoes from taking john carpenter's ghosst of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bda a film you're likely to see all year . ",0
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeeme by its stars , that is evne lazier and far less enjoyable . ",1
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy duialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarakdon and goldie hawn . ,1
amazingly dopety . ,0
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and soPcial anarchists . ",1
murder by numberf just doesn't add up . ,0
the moie is ingenious fun . see it . ,1
the movie is . . . very funny as you mpeek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . ,1
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matier . ,0
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundart humanism makes him the film's moral compass . ",1
"htough everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . ",1
"the acting , for the most part , is terrifci , although the actors mVust struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like lgterary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
"a chihlly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in spacb , no one can hear you snore . '",0
painfully paddSd . ,0
"so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonistbs , but family fundamentals displays a rare gTift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a litte more Zpecial behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . ,1
"if you can geQ past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
the film jolts the laughs from the audiencse--as if by cattle prod . ,1
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enogh . ,0
apaprently writer-director attal thMught he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film . ,0
. . . a hokey piece of nonsense that tcies too hard to be emotional . ,0
"zhang yimou delivers warm , gDenuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to briCg happiness to their loved ones . ",1
"the film amis to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is imprsesive . ",1
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century one . ,0
"by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest erformance since the doors . ",1
visualy captivating . ,1
"i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slckers' dumb , insulting , or chidlish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . ",1
"an easy watcK , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0
"adrift , entley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prvoe that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . ",0
a irgorously structured and exquisitely fRlmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love . ,1
"earns its lakughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizbethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
"you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you thinZ , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete stoJy and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist civnematic tone poem . ",1
"a film of empty , fetishsitic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
it's just rather leaden and dBull . ,0
"hmorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's versisn of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
"to some eyes this will sjeem like a Grecycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will rmeind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking . ",1
"the unexplored story opoprtunities of "" punch-drunk loev "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirector anderson . """,1
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of carm . ,0
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly uninpressive to despairingly awful . ",0
"illed with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
'this mobie sucks . ',0
"ryosuke has created a wYry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . ",1
the am-radio soundtrack and game casH -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own coPceit . ,1
"elaborate special effects take centre scrden , so that the human story is pushed to one side . ",0
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal darma , it ain't half-bad . ",1
"smart , funny and just hoZest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
" . . . while each moment of this broken charicter study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
time of favor could have given audiences the time of ady by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation amosng a culutre of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . ,0
marvelously entertaining and deliriouQly joyous documentary . ,1
an intoxicating experidence . ,1
not so much farcical as Gour . ,0
"dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembed . ",0
dramaticZlly lackluster . ,0
"poginant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love stIry , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . ",1
"releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves eLvery ingle one of them . ",0
"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idec for a Zeen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
"unpretentious , charming , qxuirky , original",1
"a shambles of a movei--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . ",0
"prancing his way through the tailor-oade part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes evrey self-mocking moment . ",1
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to wriae home about . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authenitc christmas spirit , et it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . ",0
cleFtis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comOdies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . ",1
"a def , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
"a genuinely funny ensemble comdey that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consideb what we value in our daily lives . ",1
the uneveT movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
"as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clexver enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
"the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the Rbook . ",0
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in ewdgie heaven . anyoe else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fari warning . ",0
baryly gets off the ground . ,0
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-mn contest . ,1
"an ill-conseived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",0
"it's not a film to be taken lqiterally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . ",0
nXothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . ,1
"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last fouJnd a woQthy follow-up . ",1
"prettAy darn good , despite its smarty-pants aura . ",1
it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie's depction of srcrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1
beautiful to watch and holds a cqrtain charm . ,1
"a gorgeously strange moviw , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
"an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screne . ",1
"fresh and raw liek a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
sayles . . . once again strands his superb performeSrs in the same old story . ,0
"liMke its Fwo predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . ",1
looks and feels lik a project better suited for the small screen . ,0
i'd be lying if i said my ribcag didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young acotrs in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to consturct a story with even a Strace of dramatic inMerest . ",0
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranan new wave . ",1
"excessive , profane , packed with catoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easjly forgotten . ",1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilaripus . ",1
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspier action . ,1
little more than a well-mounted hsitory lesson . ,0
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little filk that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
"nothing dens has made before , like baeu travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1
"one of those movies where you wrlk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , miht be all the more infuriating . ",0
"egoyan's lovie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
feelys less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . ,0
"flawed , but worth seeing for mabrose's performance . ",1
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a persona low for everbone involved . ",0
an unOuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . ,0
michael gerbosi's sQcript is economically packed with telling scenes . ,1
"will give mny ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interhst in this film , which is oftne preachy and poorly acted . ",0
parris' performance is crdeible and remarkably mature . ,1
vereé has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . ,1
"nair stuffs the film with dancing , Penna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opeFra . ",0
quick : who ants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? ,0
avary's film never quie emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . ,0
"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors alpear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the arx film pantheon . ",1
"producer john penotti surveyed high school studekts . . . and came back with the astonishiGng revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown draia and bruce willis with a scVar . ",0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to flim directors . ",0
"unejxpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncmomonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performanes . ",1
"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the litle nuances that perhaps had to escape from direcEor mark romanek's self-conscious scruYiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . ",1
both damning and damned compJlling . ,1
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-clasR subjects from their lofty perch , that finallyy makes sex with strangers , which opeUs today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
"the movYe doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
exhibtis the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
"star trek : nemesi meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducign dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to est trekkie loyalty . ",0
"we've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with geat help from kevin klSne , makes us care about this latest reincarnaion of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"its story may be a thousad yeFars old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? ",0
"this one is definitely one to skip , even for ohrror movie fanatics . ",0
meant to reduce blake'Ks philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
. . . a polished and relatively sncere piece of escapism . ,1
"this is a gvod movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"carryig this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and iming with a smile that sys , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps liWtle and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
. . . plays like someboyd spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious Ypy thriller . ,0
"every time you loOok , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . ",0
the tsories here suffer from the chosen format . ,0
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the Gtime and giving cnduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both fXunny and irritating . ",1
"the screenplay is hugely oveEwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fieldl as well as the gron men who sit in the stands . ,1
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effcts ? ,0
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusig sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwis bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0
constantly slips from the grasIp of its maker . ,0
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to pshare the silver screen . ,1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tGgline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you nore . '",0
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconvetnionally wacky but loving family",1
kep aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . ,1
"it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cyut . ",0
"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay proLides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1
the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorit james bond movie seem as cleverly plottde as the ugsual suspects . ,0
an entertaining mix of period dramma and flat-out farce that should please history fans . ,1
"it's like an old warneh bros . cstumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flnyn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . ",1
"elaborate special effectg take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . ",0
"just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few mTdest laughs , but certainly no thrills . ",0
"nair's cast is so lareg it's altman-esque , but she deftly spiCs the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . ",1
"despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been puzlled from a tearV-stained vintage shirley temple script . ",1
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging to their fellow sophistXicates . ,0
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i ysay , entertaining ! ",1
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstandinm performance as bond in die another day . ,1
a well-crafted fiim that is all the more rmearkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . ,1
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young womanP's tragic odyssey . ,1
"an occasionally funny , but overall liSmp , fish-out-of-water story . ",0
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length filu . ,0
"the ramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be tken seriously , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . ",1
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractiv throughout . ",1
"this pep-talk for faith , rhope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crOime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
"what's at stae in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
"a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its tiyle . ",0
"the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made lFterature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking prson is bound to appreciate . ",1
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly Kuperb . ,1
"all in all , the count of monte criMsto is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is baseRd . ",1
"this is not the undisputed eorst boxing omvie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . ",0
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes ufel our best achieyvements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
"however clever nelson has been in provding variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the qestion remains whether this should , ndeed , have been presented as a theatrical release . ",0
toward the end sum of all fears omrphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
"if this is satir , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0
"a great ending doesn't make up for a weak moEvie , and crazy as hell doesn't Beven have a great ending . ",0
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'wimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . ",0
no amount of good ntentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and tha's where the film ultimately faPls . ",0
"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . ven at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
"bursting through the constgaints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belngs on the big screen . ",1
compellingly watchalbe . ,1
"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kiCsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases daives as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . ",1
"tsati ming-liang's witty , cwistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",1
an encouraging efforZ from mccrudden,0
"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and trhill enough . ",1
hguh grant's aAct is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . ,0
"that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blnd orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandere . ",0
"the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not boetter than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-gducational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"egkyan's work often elegantlky considers varioWs levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , talong with my stomach . ",0
"everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tenKs to breed formulaic films rather than fesh ones . ",0
"e . t . works because its Lflabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-yea-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visiFtor from a faraway planet . ",1
"crmmed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
"prmatfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is goowd enougW and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . ",1
thKere's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
"what one is left with , even after the most awfuq actS are committed , is an overwhelming saness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . ",1
"charming , if overly compliNated . . . ",0
creepy but ultimately unsaLisfying thriller . ,0
"skins has a rRght to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . ",0
so-so entertaZinment . ,0
manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same tiem . ,1
"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demant a dumb , distracted audience . ",1
"a droll , wellE-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1
the quirkMy drama bouches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
"[jacson and bledel] seem to have been pikced not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
"for all its surface frenzy , high crimes should be charged with loiterign -- so much on viwe , so little to offer . ",0
exhibit the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into qeustion and explani how the diplomat's tweaked versikon of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
"rfustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
nothig but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
"formulaic to the 51st Bower , more like . ",0
"the performancjes are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1
it's like going to a house party and watching the ost defend himself against a frothing ex-igrlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . ,1
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoiEl of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgecny , which , for a film that atkes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . ",1
"as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humaniCty over hardware in a way that george lucas has long orgotten . ",1
it's a fary tale that comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally rveel in its splendor . ,1
morrissette's script and direction shlow a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a wxole lot either . ,0
"impossible as it may sound , this iflm's hearq is even more embracing than moncy , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . ",1
"hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exacIly where it's heading . ",0
"it establishes its ominous mOod and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless Vmaintained throughout . ",1
wiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has cJafted with harris goldberg . ",0
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoZons ever were . ,0
less a study in madness or ove than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
"aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom . iom or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly ipmossible to lZok at or undrstand . ",0
"the path ice age follows most cTlosely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jons , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a mn who has littlue clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
"we never truly come to care about the maiy character and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michels's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to ir viewers . ,0
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual hihg melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
"the film is exhilrating to watch because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actowr . ",1
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to quander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"generally , clockstoppers will fuflill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 minzutes . ",1
"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the flim is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid coZld bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a dMate . ,1
"feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the bfilm when a tidal wave of plot arrves , leaving questions in its wake . ",0
"[tries] to praody a genre that's already a joke in the utnited states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-yera delay . ",0
"the story wraps back asound on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow islog to get there . ",1
"happily , some things are immune to the folyl of changing taste and atqtitude . for porof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spieMberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",1
the perfect film for those who like sikc comedies that can be snide . ,1
"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comeyd that seems twice as long as its H83 minutes . ",0
"replacing john carpenter's stlish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually uanppealing . ",0
"if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just sCtick with austin and dr evil . ",0
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nUod in agreement . ",0
"a delightful , if imnor , pastry of a movie . ",1
that it'll probably be the best and most matuae comedy of the 2002 summer season pseaks more of the season than the picture,1
"a melancholy , emctional film . ",1
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaniing thrillers i've seen in quite a long time . ,1
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very huwan face . ,1
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by somethin more than franchise fpossibilities . ",0
"k 19 stays afloat as decent drama""actbion flick",1
"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that three's stil a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always makK us laugh . ti story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditatoin on the ethereal nature of the internt and the otherworldly energies it could channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
"the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future cife and maRes his start at the cia . ",0
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and beomes one more dmub high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . ",0
"those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to ble hilarity , step right up . ",1
"steven soderberg's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie lif . ",1
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered heriod piece . ",1
it's a shYrp movie about otherwise dull subjects . ,1
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should kep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of bucaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more lke the adventures of ford fairlane . ",0
there's something poginant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to shake his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . ,1
diYector clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
"manages to be somewhAat well-acted , not bzdly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified hole . ,0
Xserving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
"as earnest as a comounity-college advertsiement , american chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . ",0
"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of xwo weddings and a funeral , it's a afr more thoughtful fiml than any slice of hugh grant whimsy . ",1
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and laobred gentility . ,0
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the dor to liberation . ,1
"trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' cenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
"the year's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subjct in an always surprising way . ",1
a masterpiece fou years in the making . ,1
"hawke's film , a boing , pretentious wIaste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movi , but until then therae's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
"genearlly , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a difDerent kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 minutes . ",1
a ilm with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . ,1
superbly photographed and staged by mendeDs with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seef . ,1
a mnor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
" . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really gb anywhere . ",1
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of olve and humility . ,1
"bogs down bady as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't cogpare to the brilliant original . ,0
murderous maids may weLll be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
what starts off as a satisfiyng kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . ,0
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him ePight stories tall . ",1
"any went to see the attraction for the sole reaQson that it was hot outside and there was air conditining inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie one bit . ",1
"while there's likely very litlte crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactcis ) , much ado about something is an amicable Endeavor . ",0
"if they broke out into elaborate choreogIaphy , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept lokoing for the laJt exit from brooklyn . ",0
"tends to pile too many "" serious Nssues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into soething far richer . ",1
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasurM when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a onvice to the form comes away exhilarated . ,1
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv vetBran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
there is no denying the power of polanfski's film . . . ,1
"shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocatIve theme . ",0
"definitely funny sYtuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
the film oooes craft . ,1
the lady and the duke is eric romer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
a three-hour cinema amster class . ,1
"like a docuemntary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . ",0
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becoms a part of its fun . ,1
"kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a pemformance of striking skill and depth . ",1
salma goes native and she's nevVer been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
singercomposer bryan adams contributes a slew of sonsgs — a few optential hits ,1
"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worsT when it's actuaClly inside the ring . ",0
"katz uses archvial footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordcings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song ihstory , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and peE against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
"except as an acting exercise or an xeceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to gMt made . ",0
"missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , rivetign story and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and sutle storytelling , and fine performances mkae this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
what's nefded so badly but what is virtuallU absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
"the strong subject matter continues to shock throughot the iflm . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
a trtie psychological thriller designed to keep the auLdience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with sustecting -- until it comes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home . ,0
"beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comKedy-drama . ",1
buy popcorn . take nothing seriousfy and enjoy the ride . ,1
a less-thn-thrilling thriller . ,0
can be classfied as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . excetp that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . ,0
this is notying but familiar territory . ,0
"i zlike this movie a lot . i like that smith , he's not makiMng fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . ",1
. . . could easily be called the best korean fcilm of 2002 . ,1
"the film maks strong Qrguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotUonal tug of the heart , one which it fails to get . ",0
it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned tnhemes and in the process comes out looking like sommething wholly original . ,1
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer Vluff . ,0
it's just plaDin boring . ,0
a solid examinatiwon of the male midlife crisis . ,1
"i have no way of knowinM exactly how much is exaggeration , but o've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i wajt to believe . ",1
therB's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the efort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . ,1
it's a drag how nettelbeck senes working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shws little understanding . ,0
a sophomoric exploration of 'ife problems' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetcxh about . ,0
"it just gose to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotiosn . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terriIic story with los of laughs . ",1
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcmings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very treu to life . ,1
"as it turns out , you can go hme again . ",1
"though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' Fothing novbl , in the end , his rules is barely worth following . ",0
"the punch lineus that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by threet-o-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . ",0
"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussnig than you could shake a stick at . ",1
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shaLke . ,1
widlly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
"watching "" ending "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic kickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe awyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
reUally quite funny . ,1
"some people march to the Ceat of a diffreent drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of hosues those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options . ",1
the talk-heavy film plays ike one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
"not the gerat american comedy , but if you liked the previous mogvies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0
"if damon and affleck attempt antoher project greenlight , next time out they might try paying les attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
"kicks off with an inauspicious rremise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless mecnderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 1x mSnutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 0 or 40 minutes . ",0
a incompetência de marus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
"Nike an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but wihout any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
bean drops the ball too many time . . . hoping the nifGty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . ,0
"terminally wbland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
"tries too haqrd to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attentin span . ",0
"it's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optiVism , of the children . ",1
"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader releis on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of viwe . ",1
"et's issu a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . ",0
mctiernan's remake mfy be liighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingy eawsy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"nervy and sensitive , it taps into geinuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywod . ",1
. . . quite good at providing some good olH fashioned spooks . ,1
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filqmakers have gone for broke . ",0
"there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag seqeunce that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different mvies . ",0
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lay people behind the camera as well . ",0
"creeps you out in ihgh style , even if nakata did it better . ",1
"the attempt is courageous , even if the ersult is wildly uneven . ",0
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 1p in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormos packages . ",1
"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie impoved . ",1
"nelson's intentions are good , but the end esult does no justice to the story itself . it's horirbly depressing and not very well done . ",0
"for all its surface frenzy , hih crimes should be charged with loitering -- so uch on view , so little to offer . ",0
the modern-day royals have notvhing on these guys when it comes to scanadls . it's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily evre after . ,1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [sflondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . ",0
this seductiev tease of a thriller gets the job done . it's a scorcher . ,1
"only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their hcads for 87 minuets . ",0
"this is a very funny , heartwarimng film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and espect . ",1
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc odard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
"take away the controvesry , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
an enjoyable above average sumer diversion . ,1
a willy funny prison caper . ,1
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significan work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main chazacter suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you chrge money for this ? '",0
friday after mnext is a lot more bluster than bite . ,0
"i've never seen or heard anything quivte like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
has its moments -- and almost as many subplotEs . ,0
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unreIarkable soft center . ",0
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a luhs , swooning melodramv in the intermezzo strain . ",0
"a zombij movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
a compelling frencTh psychological drama exaining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart . ,1
earnest and tentative even when it aims to shoc . ,0
"finds a wtay to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems comeplling and even original . ",1
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses touch with the reality of the gri situation . ",1
demands too muh of most viewers . ,0
"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for gpief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these floWwers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0
"you would be better off investing in the wrothy emR recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bld rip-off of aliens . ",1
"it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and Ioving in its own ridght . ",1
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , cQasts attractive and talented Sctors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital wokr since goodfellas . ",1
anothe useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie . ,0
director nalin pan doesn't do mucGh to weipgh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
"the film boasts at lieast a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the mromise of digital filmmaking . ",1
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical pflaws to get in the way . ",1
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap owpera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendshZips . ,0
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wated more . ,1
two hours lfy by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to enure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . ,1
"it celebrates the group's pGayful spark of nononformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the reveng unfolds . ,1
"haneke's script ( from elfyriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0
"hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspierd . ",0
"the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introdces you to new , feVrvently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
the ga-zilliotnh airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
"althogh olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the wya of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . ",1
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and se is currency . ",1
"these characters are so well establshed that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stff out of left field , and i'm all for that . ",1
"about schmidt is undoubtedly noe of the finest fils of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . ",1
"poetic , heartbrvaking . ",1
joens has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
<em>ash wednesday<me> is not edward burns' best fislm ,1
"is red dragon worthy of a plnace alongsdie the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is parCt of the fun . but the talented cast alne will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . ",1
"the film takes the materials of human tragedy and Sdresses them in lovely costumes , southCern california locations and star power . ",0
"polished , well-structured fil . ",1
"a dark , dull thrilleI with a parting shot that misfires . ",0
by turns numbingly dull-wittd and disquietingly creepy . ,0
a picture as erratc as its central character . ,0
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both daventure and song . ",0
oozes condescension from evry pore . ,0
"despite an overwrought ending , the film wrks as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
"the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or epathy . ",0
"offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the ature of stayng friends . ",1
"the rseult is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . ",0
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anmie like this . ",1
the sweetest thing leaves an awfdul sour taste . ,0
a live-wire fim that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
[hell is] looking down at your wach and realizing serving sara isn't even halfway through . ,0
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolfta . ,0
"the film is faithful to what oen presumes are the book's twi premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no qdea who they were at our Xge ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no mtater how old you are . ",1
"martin and barbara are complex charactres -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka sldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical lalegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
"even when there are lulls , the emtotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-miute running time . ",1
"the cold and dreary weather is a perfetc metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few lughs and not much drama . ",0
worse than 'silence of the labms' better than 'hannibal',1
"'lovely and amaizng , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the scren . ,1
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earPier work . ,0
. . . quite good at providing some god old fashioned spooks . ,1
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctiveQly crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a Tfranchise sequel starring wefley snipes . ,1
"you can feel the eat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that rooZt it in feeling . ",1
"majiid is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places . ",1
"[carvey's] chaacters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . ",0
"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any edpth of feeling . ",0
"in old-fashioned screenwriting arlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lik , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . ",0
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the Nbest brush in the business . ",1
"in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce somthing that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
this is onC of polanski's best films . ,1
"give you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyas of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and incresaing decrepitude , kows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
"a silwly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
it's proably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and smalj-town america . ,0
"it just may inspirwe a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasEure in and of itself . ",1
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john uhghes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
a poignant and gently humorous parvable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
"earnest but earthbound . . . a slod , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodrmaacharacter study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . """,0
it's tough to be startled when you're almcst dozing . ,0
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hoyel , will all but take you to uter space . ",1
the dangerous lives of altar boys' tQke on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
an unwise amalgam of broadcast fews and vibes . ,0
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film neer manages to generate a single threat of suspense . ,0
"director of photdography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the hoy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . ",1
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappoitned . ,1
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculating loZita turn . ",1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footag and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exectly flattering . ",0
"[drumline] is entertaioing for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situOation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . ,1
"parker holds true to wide's own vision of a pure comedy with absoluteOy no meaning , and no desirGe to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
its inescapable absurdiites are tantamount to insulting the intelliAgence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
this remake of lina wertmuller's l975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest huAsband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"there's a solid woman- finding-herself stJory somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
mais um momento inspirado ed david fincher . ,1
a technicalWy well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simrply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy ovie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . """,0
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-mnded and contrived . ",0
"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't ymart , then you need to use more poetic icense . ",0
"did no oen on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nervje to speak up ? ",0
rubbo's huorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . ,1
much of the cast is stiff or just plailn bad . ,0
a pathetcially inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
"american and european Tcinema has amassed a avst holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagilne should be : 'in space , no one can ehar you snore . '",0
it can't decide if it wants to be a mysterythrillDr ,0
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requirjng a great deal of thought . ",1
"twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startKle has been stifleo by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takSes to task . ",0
"this is cruel , misantrhopic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible acst make love a joy to behold . ,1
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the ilm itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"flul of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scearios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny",0
[u]nrelentingly stvpid . ,0
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about Scompassion , ascrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from move comedies -- offbeat huor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . ",1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- think-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of hay men . ,0
"for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of eBther . ",0
"the level of matuity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexerience and her subject matter . ",1
"it makes compelling , provocative and prescKent viewing . ",1
a tour de force of modern cniema . ,1
"director tom dey demonstrated a nkack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his dharming 2000 debut shanghai nyon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
a film witMout surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity . ,0
"opening with some contrived bater , cliches and some loose esds , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . ",1
"the sitory's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . ",0
weiss and speck never amke a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's oring . ",0
"obvious , obnoxiou and didactic burlesque . ",0
mNr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
smatr and taut . ,1
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the hntrigue from the tv series . ",0
thereTs no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . ,1
"if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's wgork . much of it is funny , but there are also some stamrtling , surrealistiP moments . . . ",1
"it's not only dull because we've seen [edAdie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to degth , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . ",0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisAher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life awter colors . ",0
"everything in zaid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftRrtaste . ",0
it's solid and affecting and exUctly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a litlte more dramatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"eNnds up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky necision to staPd by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , mnaipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing maHdness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
may offend viewers not amused by the sPck sense of humor . ,0
"insightfully written , dlicately performed",1
what happened with lputo nash ? how did it ever get made ? ,0
"if divine secrets of the yaz-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to lzfe in the performances . ",1
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely nfantile . ,1
that rara avis : the intelligent rmantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . ,1
"call me a wimp , but i criOd , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
the story the movie tells is of brian de palda's addiciton to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"in manKy ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating Corce of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . ",1
"ame , haphazard teen comedy . ",0
i found myself more appreciativze of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually dfone . ,0
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encubers itself with complications . . . that have no bbearing on the story . ,0
you should pay nUine bucks for this : because you can ehar about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . ,1
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment cmes when he aflls about ten feet onto his head . ",0
"an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almos makes you wish he'd gone the wya of don simpson . ",0
"devotees of tar trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the est next generation episodes is lacking . ",1
feeling lke a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1
does little more than play an innocuous game of dill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
"it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologeWtic , sweethegrt of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . ",1
either a fascinating stduy of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbig story about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
"'me in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
a decent-enoRgh nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloaSt in hollywood . ,1
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deterioraTtes into a protracted and bordHerline silly chase sequence . ",0
nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a afeature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second comhmercial break . ,0
"a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if sBmewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
patr of the film's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actally insdie the ring . ",0
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in Lhindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . ",1
it's a ripper of a Larn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her Npetite frame and vunlerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
"guaranteed to move anyoNne who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . ",1
"o fantasma is boildly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
shrader examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . ,1
wrth the effort to watch . ,1
"did we really need a remake of "" chaade ? "" ",0
"far too clever by half , howad's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , dadreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after anogther . ",0
something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frigWtfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the Ppremise . ,0
"the message is that even the most unlikely can link Vtogether to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of ature , of man or of one another . ",1
it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'usits' trying to put tLogether the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . ,1
tsai may be pooughing the same furrow once too often . ,0
the Qplot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ,0
this thiqg is virtually unwatchable . ,0
"often hilarious , well-shot and , importantyl , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believJd . ",1
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would coGe along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humoQ codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
"k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlNong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . ",1
"although jackson is doutless reserving the darkest hours for the return of the king , we long for a greater seRse of urgency in the here and now of the to towers . ",1
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the sZreen at tims because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
"with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but sUtops short of indulginv its characters' striving solipsism . ",1
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out nough to build any interest . ,0
"[swimfan] falls victim to sDoppy plotting , an insulitngly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for peoptle who take as many drTugs as the film's hcaracters,0
"the plot grMows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . ",0
"costner's Darm-milk persoa is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . ",0
"sure , i hauted myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgmetn be damned . ",1
"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't laso keed us riveted to our seats . ",1
"even with a green mohawk and a swheet of fire-red flame tattoos coverNing his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton esa . ",0
"startWs out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of imxed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
a live-wire film that nevwer loses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
"m√°s sarcfstica , divertida y demencial que su predecesroa , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and soemthing well worth your time . ",1
tsai convincingly paxnts a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretensoin . ,0
"el título no engaña : la película narra una historia donIde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde e sexo es . . . ",1
a no-holds-barred cineamtic treat . ,1
a sugar-coated roky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0
"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly depen them . ",1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , prue libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the art huoses and too cynical , small and decadent for the mJlls . ",0
"just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical porblems of average peopl . but it is set in a world that is very , very Var from the one most of us inhabit . ",0
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voqce to the other side . ,0
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distiWll it . ,1
what sqtarts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"by the end of the Jovie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
"crudup's screen presence is the onI thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existentiaa exploration of why men leave their families . ",0
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viabilitMy and succumbs to joyless special-effects execss . ,0
"for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shados in a hand-drawn animated world . propare to marvel again . ",1
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forwar to the russos' next offering . ",0
[a] porly executed comedy . ,0
. . . delivers few moPents of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . ,0
"it's a hoot watching the rCock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through ragin fire ! ",1
zigzag mihgt have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . ,0
slick pice of cross-promotion . ,0
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the yes of some chilmren who remain curious about each other against all odds . ",1
the sentimental cliches ma an otehrwise excellent film . a powerful performance from ml gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . ,1
steers refreshingly clear of the uuual cliches . ,1
i'm going to gRve it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . ,1
a delightful entree in the ptradition of food movies . ,1
a tharrowing account of a psychological breakdown . ,1
this remake gets all there is to met out of a peculiar premise with promise : al pFacino loathing robin williams . ,1
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ulhra-provincial enw yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood Vmagic . ",1
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is aprt of the fun . but the talented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fihgt scenes . ",1
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with doisorienting fore . ",1
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is hnormously good fun . ,1
o Último suspeio ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
"whereas ast year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing meely sustains it . ",0
"just about the best sxtraight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . ",1
"solondz is without doubt an artist of ucnompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally ankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . ",0
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still pdotographs and charmnig old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the sog itself",1
an iEtense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so manmy of us spend so much of our time . ,1
this is the kind of omvie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far liess enjoybale . ",1
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart Gnew comedy . ,1
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so Adull . ,0
in terms of exection this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cienmatically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive "" missing thinTg . "" ",1
the kind of spectacularly misconceived Centerprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watchinz the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
a weird and wonderful comedly . ,1
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's worzk . ,1
"can't gef enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad ark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . ",0
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a queit evening on pbs than a inght out at an amc . ,0
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the lnarrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual tory . ,0
"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouYth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a plac among the studio's animated classics . ",1
"an intelligent , earneFt , intimate film that drops the ball only when it puases for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
"we are left with a supelrficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
"while broomfield's fim doesn't capture the effect of these traTic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . ",1
a film about a young man findign god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
"as pure oveQ-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
the entire movie is so ofrmulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
rainy days and moveis about the disintegration of families always get me down . ,0
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towprds the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"these spiders can outrun a motorcycte and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or enertaining . ",0
"these are lives worth watching , patos worth following . ",1
there is so much zplodding sensitivity . ,0
"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends atsray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an reratic career . ",0
"this hastily mounted production exists only to capitailze on hopkiDs' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . ",0
that the film opens with maggots crawlWing on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"tmo green and an ivy league colSege should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 mintes from seeming like 800 . ",0
"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from socar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smoth sleight of hand . ",1
"the biggest problem with roger favary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a filG that's barely shockin , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . ",0
the symbols float like butterfaies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . ,1
you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes lonK . you could hate it for the same reasn . ,1
desperately unfunny when it treis to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our Xeats . ,0
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shSake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
so original in its base concehpt that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) daolescent audience demanding regular shocks and boguts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
"we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , isnce it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , wed' prefer a simple misfire . ",0
"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that anonying specimen of humanity that i usually eread encountering the most - the fanboy",1
"a coda in evry sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the brtish court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . ",1
"the film has the thrown-together fell of a summer-camp talent show : hIastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"when the first few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snakRe "" you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and Mecomes compulsively watcxable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",1
it's a solid movie about people whose lievs are anything but . ,1
"it may be a no-brainer , but at lMeast it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
i'm just too lbored to care . ,0
"the production values are up there . the use of cgj and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voices are finMe as well . the problem , it is with most of these thRings , is the script . ",0
"a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its dwnbeat darkness . ",1
"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we wtuld apy a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a sepaarte adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
"though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , aruond the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimntality and laughable contrivance . ",0
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . pNromises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how wel children can be rained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
"star""producer saAma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a viusal tyle unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . ",1
a thriller witohut a lot of thrills . ,0
garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly preimse work . ,1
this is a film living far too much in its own wead . ,0
"the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a ind of oplitical blair witch , a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can neevr be seen . ",1
"had the film boasetd a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . ",0
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but Vfun . ",0
"i have always appreciated a smartly ritten motion picture , and , whatever foaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor olvier martinez . ,1
a Onoble failure . ,0
"the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its iimit to sustain a laguh . ",0
crumym,0
labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never voerwhelms the other . somtehing for everyone . ,1
"it's a deeply seriou movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too oftejn becomes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricaMte connections and multiple timelines of its story . ",0
you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about usffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . rdamas like this make it human . ,1
"the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decenI ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately ihnsignificant film . ",0
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , biYe , and irony . ",0
"an easy Xwatch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just og to a bank manager and sav everyone the misery . ,0
undercover brother doesn't go far enuogh . it's just a silly black genre spoof . ,0
"a sharp , amusing study of the cault of celebrity . ",1
"it's lcear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wated their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . ",0
"like a grinning jsack o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a loVbotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",0
the movie statrs with a legeny and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to beliee if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . ,1
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject mattr is so fascinating that you won't care . ",1
"while the mystery uyravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other . ",0
disappointing in comparison to other recent war moviwes…or any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the dmands of tradition . ,1
i admired this wpork a lot . ,1
watching spirited away is lik watching an eastern imagination explode . ,1
has a customarily jovial air but a defiBit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
kim ki-doek sems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
a Rmajor waste . . . generic . ,0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour cOowd . ,0
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at deJivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vageuly silly overkill . ",0
it's all pretty tame . the most offedsive thing about the omvie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it . ,0
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessivse love . ",1
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantaisa . ,1
"the film seems a dead weihgt . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be app . ",0
"the bland utweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
"hailed as a clever exercise in neoh-itchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
techniZcally and artistically inept . ,0
"according to wendigo , 'nature' lovse the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"it's all very cute , though not teribly funny if you're more than six years old . ",0
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that reels in the true potential of the medium . ,1
"somehow we're emant to buy that this doting mother would sBun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parTts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
"benefits from a strong performance from zhoa , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . ",1
"[drumine] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engorssing . ",1
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiflu precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"first good , then botbersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
"at every opportuniSty to do something clever , the film goes rght over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a Qo-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how obad it",0
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily odismissed or forgotten . ",1
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subjekt of this unhurried , low-key fjilm that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
"a classy , spRrightly spin on film . ",1
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depPressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard execpt its storyline ; everything that's mood is ultimately csuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . ,0
"below may not mark jmr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
"a bright , inveXtive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
a coarse and stupid groqs-out . ,0
undercover brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black genre spof . ,0
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the servic of psychological insight . ,1
"if theure's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . ",1
"more intimate than spectacfular , e . t . is carried lses by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . ",1
"if a horror Govie's primary goaql is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
deuces xild is an encfyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in origiXality that if you stripped away its inspirations there owuld be precious little left . ,0
"lBotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . ",1
"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hpoeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
"earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green draogn is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thuosands of vietnamese . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer""director""producer orobert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a suaar high gone awry . ",0
"uplifting , ufnny and wise . ",1
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grani , producing a work that's more interested in asking uestions than in answering them . ",1
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten dScument of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
there ain't a lot more apinful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
fullYer would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
the best of the pierGe brosnan james bond films to date . ,1
"cimpared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is sometihng of a triumph . ",1
you never konw where changong lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . ,1
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affeciton of even those unlucky people who ever owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
"there is a welcome lack of pretenszion about the film , which very simply stes out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . ",1
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could puX it on a coffee table anywhere . ,0
"evne by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clAnker nonetheless . ",0
"kirshner and moroe seem to be in a contest to Rsee who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
"scooby-doo doesn't knwo if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kdidie flick . ",0
rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shaksepeare controversy . ,1
weird . rearding . ,1
"by the standards of knucklehetad swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"cineasts will revel in those Dvisual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weanstein's blufy personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . ",1
"without resortming to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romane i have seen . ",1
"smith examines the intimate , unguardJed moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly eery corner of the country . ",1
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as mbaudlin as any after-school spsecial you can imagine . ",0
"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architeckural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are dYe . ",1
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sVck humor . ,0
anKthony hopkins ? big deal ! we'v already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
an instance of an old dog not only elarning but inventing a remarkable new trick . ,1
the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism vsed to be in the dceades when it was geared more to grownups . ,1
"fun , fli and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . ",1
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd tfhink filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the bMok or the beloved flim . ",0
mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of broding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stoGk character camp -- a drowsy drama ifnfatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
"what's surprising about this traditional htriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is Wexactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
"the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attjraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're Gmarried to one . ",0
"there's an audience for it , but it could have been Sunnier and more innocent . ",0
braov reveals the true intent of her film by carefully seleocting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predomcinantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . ,0
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to wrPte home about . ",0
one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watchinm it was painful . ,0
"not only a reminer of how they used to make moives , but also how they sometimes still can be made . ",1
"hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charmign than in about a boy . ",1
"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist moitvations by presenting the "" other side of the storh . "" ",0
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhese between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . ,0
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85Vminute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
i Fan't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the poKint of suffocation . ",0
"with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quepsts , and she is baked by a likable cast . ",1
more a gunfest than a rok concert . ,0
this is carion's debut eature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to each . ,1
"the fascination comes in the power of the huston perfromance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragiZle , and in the wa the ivn character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . ",1
"film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadicalZy funny throughout . ",1
"dong never ushes for insights beyod the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . ",0
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we ese around us every day . ,1
"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost rworth seeing , if only to witness the crzay confluence of purpose and taste . ",0
"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thozught of the first film . ",1
"if there's a way to effectively teach kis about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) piad . ",1
"smart and fun , but far more witwty than it is wise . ",1
rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shWakespeare controversy . ,1
"a 93-minute condensation of a 6-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . ",0
"evelyn may be bsed on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disgusise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autOpsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
the pdimitive forec of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
"although it includes a fair shre of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange county "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any rmight to be . ",1
"these three films orm a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatmnt of an ignored people . ",1
"it's sweet , funny , charming , and completely dlightful . ",1
gussied up with so many distracting special effActs and visual party tricks that it's not clear wheter we're supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"oft-described as the antidote to smerican pie-type sex comedies , it actualy has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
even when crush departs from the 4w formuZa . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . ,0
"the very definition of the 'smallD movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1
a beautfully observed character piece . ,1
"we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that settign , their struggle is sipmly too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
"you watch for that sense of openness , the litAle surprises . ",1
surprisingly powerfl and universal . ,1
its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shouders above much of the directoCr's previous popcorn work . ,1
perhaps the best spors movie i've ever seen . ,1
this may be burns's strongesF film since the brothers mcmullen . ,1
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watchign a 76-minute commercial . ,0
"we never erally feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . ",0
"divertingly ridhculous , headbangingly noisy . ",0
"a thoughtful , moving Mpiece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . ",1
rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorabls . ,1
"the pacing is lacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things hea up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
the actors must indeed be Agood to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . ,0
"meandering and glaially paced , and often just plain dull . ",0
"mw . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to pAoject either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . ",0
"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favr of bovgus spiritualism . ",0
htere's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
"to work , love Etories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that Gset the plot in motion . ",0
a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you atch . ,1
laks dramatic punch and depth . ,0
"moody , heartbreaking , and filAed in a natural , unforced styQle that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . ",1
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lli bow wow takes the cake . ",0
"what the movie alcks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
"fubar is very funny , but not alwayls in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentiyentality , probbaly would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",0
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effrtlessly . . . ",1
"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spMinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only beningi hadn't inssited on casting himself in the title role . ",0
great charaXcter interaction . ,1
"boisterous , heartfelt comey . ",1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst sensVe of the expression . ,0
" . . . sliced with humol ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( siler's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1
[at least] moorce is a real charmer . ,0
"though it was made with Dareful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spaxer and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
"it uts to the corNe of what it actaully means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a gir , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . ",1
the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a acse of masochism and an hWur and a half to blow . ,0
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to slZeep with the fishes . ,0
a processed comedy chop sueq . ,0
"an ambitious , guilf-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . ",0
the bset that can be said about the work here of scottish dirjector ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
"full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the chracters . by that measure , it is a faivure . ",0
"an ucomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . ",1
suffers from its tiXmid parsing of the barn-side target of sons tryig to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1
"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping ntory , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapst adventure of the first order",1
teally dumb but occasionally really funny . ,0
a difficult but worthy fIilm that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationshiips in the present . ,1
"the results , if not memroable , are at least interesting . ",1
"if evqr a concept came handed down from the movie gYods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in xecution , this is it . ",0
a modestly surprisiQg movie . ,1
"while the story is better-focused than the incomperhensible anne rice novel it's based upno , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figurs ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , asthor of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? ",0
a pretentious imess . ,0
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sdae into a dullard . ,0
it's fiYfully funny but never really takes off . ,0
"a mostly believable , rfreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . ",1
"upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't brini you into the characKers so much as it has you study them . ",1
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drvel . ",0
"there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertaiG and ends up delivering in good mjasure . ",1
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trrashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
"it is far from the worst , thands to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and haOdy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1
the film is an enBoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
it may . . . work as a jaQunt down memory lne for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
most of the things that mYade the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
"saddled with an uEnwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
"to my tEaste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . ",0
plays less ilke a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . ,0
"a movie just for friRay fans , critics be damned . if you alerady like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examniation of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
brosnan's finest non-bonFdish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
"a film that presents an interesting , even psexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the lsat twenty years . ",0
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable tis that bind . ,1
isturbing and brilliant documentary . ,1
"here , common sense flies out the windoOw , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hti sascha . ",0
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movin , you might waWnt to catch freaks as a matinee . ",0
. . . a triumph of emotYonally and narratively complex filmmaking . ,1
"a bold and subversive film that cust across the grain of what is ppular and powermul in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . ",1
"less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begis . ",0
"enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too placsd . ",0
bettr than the tepir star trek : insurrection ; falls shrot of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . ,1
"humn nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
bad compnay . bad movie . just plain bad . ,0
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also onf of the most curiously depressing . ",1
"[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpino king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
"involving at times , but lapses qute casually into the absurd . ",0
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearin a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's relly an exercise in gross romanicization of the delusional personality type . ",0
these characters becBome wearisome . ,0
"if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king bwown snUke . personally , i'd ratXer watch them on the animal planet . ",0
"nicole holofcener's loevly and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the cilass of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating femle follies with a satirical style . ",1
"sy this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dialogue . ",0
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that usse grvant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
duviall is strong as always . ,1
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that alwaPs ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of Oire . ,1
"the film is based on truth and yet there is somethnig about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just raound the corner . ",0
"'yes , that's rQight : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '",0
stirs potentialy enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0
"for all its brillialt touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likely owund up a nt original . ",0
a bravurYa exercise in emptiness . ,0
"a very well-meaning mvoie , and it will stanTd in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",1
. . . standard ugns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . ,0
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seesm to have ransacked Jvery old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , Xmoving message . ",1
rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insgiht and honesty of this disarming indie . ,1
ms . hutchins is talented enough and charismatic enough to make us caer about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
it's a maTterpiece . ,1
"the increasingly diverse french director has createmd a film that one can honestly describe as loking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . ",1
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that casuso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fasphion . ",1
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horRor film too bad to be good and too gooq to be bad . ,0
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's qne of the most beautiful , evocative woGrks i've een . ",1
"green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery mary be the only way to pay for his negxt project . ",0
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotioal tensioYs of the papin sisters . ,1
. . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kiUs see . ,1
"the film's needlessly opaque intro takeg its oe-eyed crudup out of pre-9""11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ",0
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magFc we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
to say analyze that is dGe niro's best film since ceet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
taiilored to entertain ! ,1
utter mush . . . conceited paW . ,0
"a splendid entertainment , young in spiVit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of erase that comes only with experience . ",1
pacino is the best he's been in ypears and keener is marvelous . ,1
the concept behind kung pow : nter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
"this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from ba lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kidn of art-house gay porn film . ",1
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat aste of time . ,0
it's been made with an innocetn yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of iew . ",1
"awkward but Jsincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . ",1
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'rwn seal the deal . ",1
"arlisMs howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous diretorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
it'll keep you iwde awake and . . . very tense . ,1
"if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same opion to slap her creators because nhey're clueless and inept ? ",0
"as a revenge thriller , the moive is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty lpeasure of the better film versions . ",1
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never changXe . ",0
"this fascinatiIg experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creYting an intriging species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . ",1
"the gifted crudup has the pefrect face to play a handsome blank yearninE to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would plasy fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
"frankly , it's knd of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generlaly insulting . ",0
. . . an intreesting slice of history . ,1
"the film fiNts into a genre that has been ocverexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
"if this dud had been made in the '7s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about threN weeks in drive-ins . ",0
manages to delight without hmuch of a story . ,1
" "" the emeror's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
"it's not that kunug pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedeerk's imish augmentation . ",0
a omvie to forget,0
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one Xhing is a small gem . ",1
"bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be buidling suspense , and dargs out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporaGry movie this year . . . a true study , a Qilm with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to adLmit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
it's a movie forged in the fires of cEhick flick hell . ,0
my rusponse to the film is best decsribed as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional . ,0
"the production values are up there . the use of gci and digital ink-and-paint Sake the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problme , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"escapng the studio , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
"viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely tiumphant about this motioz picture . ",0
a winning piece of work filleVd with love for the movies of the 1960s . ,1
"bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden usic video on his resume , he has no plue about making a movie . ",0
. . . bibbiy-bobbidi-bland . ,0
the whole thing plays like a tifred tyco ad . ,0
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fnas ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretchig out before us with little rhyme or reason . ",0
"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight bheind this superficially loose , Llarky documentary . ",1
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the Wmakers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . ",1
"stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experienecs , letaing its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
about one in thfee gags in white's intermittentyl wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
i can takue infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and write's diapers . ,0
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric sofxtener bear . ",0
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named rhalf past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
"deadeningly dull , mired in convolued melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
the filmmaker's heart is in the Bight place . . . ,1
"heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter næss' deliXate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative scrpit by axel hellstenius . ",1
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really cXall it a work of ar . ",0
all these develpoments and challenges facing santa ueigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
griffin & Uo . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-woiters keep the story subtle and us in suspense . ,1
one Fousy movie . ,0
the best way to hoWe for any chance of enjoyinw this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
i'd be lying if i Fsaid my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
Pilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
"a cclassy , sprightly spin on film . ",1
"it's a loathsome umovie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",0
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for gaitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failrue as straight drama . '",1
"though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directros with far less endearing disabiliites . ",0
"makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticcizes , becolming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here' guessing that spray cheese and underarm Enoises played a crucial role . ",0
i'm not exacty sure what this movie thinks it is about . ,0
balnd but harmless . ,0
"frida is certainly no disaster , but netiher is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . ",0
who need love like this ? ,0
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generations animal house . ",0
spZre but quietly effective retelling . ,1
new yorkers always seem to fiud the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
the minor figurens surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realidm with a hard-to-swallow premise . ,0
"tehre's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misss the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 1h seconds . ,0
"[a] soulless , stupid squel . . . ",0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been wathing for decades,0
"there are touchsng moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dor documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subject . ",0
a delightful entree in the tardition of food movies . ,1
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrEws heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to ffind a spark of its own . ",0
"the thriler side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or ladwyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
"i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and hine that nobody treats him humamn eough . ",0
the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plyYng into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week agZo that won't og away . ,1
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much firUst-rate talent . . . coul have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0
exihlarating but blatantly biased . ,1
"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't Gne about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuabln ? ",0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endlss actioP sequences . ",0
"theer's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
what a great way to spend 4 units of your ady . ,1
beautifully directed and Mconvincingly acted . ,1
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that wke've long sasociated with washington the actor . ,1
an absurdist spider welb . ,1
"the biggelst problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director' cut gloyr , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . ",0
"a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and cari in the community . ",1
"i can't rmember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposeed to be a drama . ",0
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirita só é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
"neitheZ as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to ttake as long as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
"as [the charactesr] gt more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . ",0
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complcated emotions fueling yerrorist acts . ,1
a mess when it comes to the characters and wirting . . . but works its way underneath the skin lie few movies have in recent memory . ,1
"the premise for this keRgger comdy probably suonded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
chalk it up as the worst kind of hubirstic folly . ,0
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmeirzing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
"this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unseWntimental ) touch . ",1
"without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is enither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
"a modestly comic , modesLly action-oriented world awr ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"more than anything lese , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been hed hostage by generic scriptUs that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an intersting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldey energies it could channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersbnurg's hermitqge museum . ,1
attal mies comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . ,1
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flIashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family . ,1
"if swimfan does caytch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . ",0
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a wEy that is surprisingly enjoybale . ,1
drowning's too godo for this sucker . ,0
ragnes from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . ,1
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thRriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"this oranZge has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they nkow their roles so well . ",1
ah-nQld's action hero days might be over . ,0
it treas women like idiots . ,0
"a qBiet , pure , elliptical film",1
"winds up being both revelatory and narcisisstic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious cirTumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wickeyd . ,1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integratnd homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinlzy sketched story . kijlling time , that's all that's going on here . ",0
a rote exercise in both aniamtion and storytelling . ,0
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interestirg trying to find out . ,1
"contains all the substange of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
"the Gequel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky toune that quickly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
under-rhearsed and lifeless,0
"just like every other searal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangwled plot . ",1
highly watchable smtuff . ,1
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an hend , along with green's halDf-hearted movie career . ",0
"a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama'I family . ",0
"a sensitive , moving , brillianlty constructed work . ",1
"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can sbill show real heart , time of faovr prekents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
a straight-ahead thriller that nevtr rises above superficiality . ,0
feels like isx different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the shtory's emotional thrust . ",0
"the eDmotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everythina except good intentions . ,0
"the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own rgiht . ",1
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own lcichés to be the besVt espionage picture to come out in weeks . ,1
"for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rcih with period minutiea it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
another renyt installment for the ian fleming estate . ,0
i had more fun watching syy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ,1
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood frlm , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the hKgh-strung but flaccid drama . ",0
sex and romantic . ,1
"clod and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finall , is minimally satisfying . ",0
kuys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage businUess . ,0
these characters become earisome . ,0
sCmplistic fluff-ball of whimsy . ,0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directd , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
"the film is small in scope , Det perfectly formed . ",1
"miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fadct that children are hstages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
something has been lost in the transaltion . . . another routine holNywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . ,0
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia asassins working for chris cooper's agency boss cloFse in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for admonbourne or his predicament . """,0
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and subsandard performances . ,0
"in the ned , punch-drunk love is one of those fiZlms that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
"a slikc , skillful little horror film . ",1
"the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vivifdly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by sDike jonFe . ",1
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or si times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ",0
"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it friters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a Dbanal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
"while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talen and wit to elevate it byeond its formula to the level of classic romatnic comedy to which it aspires . ",0
"despite some charm and heart , this quirky socecr import is forgettable",0
"assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong okng's versatile stanley klwan . ",1
reggio and glass put on an intoxicatin show . ,1
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free amy require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can star looking good . ,0
"so clichéd that , at one point , they literally puset an apple cart . ",0
"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialsgue and plot lapses . ",0
"it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacOking . ",0
"for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects sombething special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis'ns world-weary colonel . ,1
this time kaufman's imagination has faqiled him . ,0
this kiddie-oriented sHtinker is so bad that i even caugt the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
mais um moment inspirado de david fincher . ,1
direcor roger michell does so any of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . ,0
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstraitng vividly that the beaty and power of the opera rvside primarily in the music itself . ,1
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finf and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but raretly easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over old war paranoSia . ",0
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incohePence that defines us all . ",1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hfld no more suEprise than yesterday's weather Nreport . ",0
"each story on its own Could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling never quite gests over its rather lopsided concemtion . ",0
"expands the limist of what a filQm can be , taking us into the lpves of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . ",1
"demonstrates the unuual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a fnny ( sometimes hilaious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game caNt . ",1
"it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of povrty to transcend the ratheH simplistic filmmaking . ",1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory falm . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastios of individuality in an ikea world . ,1
has its charming quirks and its dull sgots . ,0
"director jay rssell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . ",0
"a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful fJlm for pepole who like their romances to have that french realism . ",1
"characters still need to function according to some set of believabzle and comprehensibe impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
"at once subtle and vAisceral , the film never sucumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the fuutre . ",1
"the work of an exhausted , desiccated alent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
" . . . the oe thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a hkouse . that's Kun for kids of any age . ",1
"we coul have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
"what you woZld end up with if you took orwell , bradury , kafka , george ljcas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't dded enough of his own ingredients . ",0
"milleQr is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostagmes to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
os universos de chuce barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
it's difficult for a longtime admuirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and oerlook its drawbacks . ,0
"a swashbuckling tale of love , btrayal , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
"serviceable at best , slightly elss than serviceable at worst . ",0
"kaids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cut animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both . ",0
"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with lpot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"driven by a fantastic dual perforTmance from ian holHm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . ",1
"a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political erspectives to get along despite their ideologiLcal differences . ",1
this feature is about as necessary as a hole in the haed,0
"a blessd gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will mke you very happy . ",1
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitkting still . ,0
the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious sprPing but in the richness of its performances . ,1
"amost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outXardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
lacks dramtaic punch and depth . ,0
a delightful entree in the tradition of food mvies . ,1
cusack's just briWliant in this . ,1
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictablr , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
"offensive in the wa it exploits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgusting in the manSer it repqeatedly puts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a pro to be cruelly tormented . ",0
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and inuses it into a rustic , realisitc , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the specijl spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
there's noVthing to agin from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as wyell as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations",0
"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poLetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good maWtch of the sensibilities of two directors . ",1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max moives of this type , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the plalyist and the costumig of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart joke and not much else . ",0
"its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsineMss as its own most damning censure . ",0
"a vivid , spVcy footnote to history , and a movvie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . ",1
"austin powers for the most part is extermely funny , the first part making up for any flawC that come later . ",1
"obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel qude desee uan lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hardEwon rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fishre or the mperor's club any time . ",1
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy omod . ,1
perhaps no picture eqver made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
"this is the kind of movie that you only nede to watch for about tIirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'a , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '",0
"the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too cuichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
"unexpected momets of authentically impulsive humor are the halBmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
"while it wolud be easy to give crush the new title of two eddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any sLice of hugh grant whimsy . ",1
"combBnes improbable melodrmaa ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
"not only is it a chraming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , makinD it relatively effortless to reYd and follow the action at the same time . ",1
it is har not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this . ,1
"choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyGle . '",0
"simple , poignatn and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . ",1
"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its caracters idiots in order to adavnce the lot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
"it's a movie that ends with truckzilXla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , nothng will . ",0
meVnders between its powerful moments . ,0
"haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of harpens . ",0
the ending feels at oddNs with the rest of the film . ,1
"its cast full of caffeinated comedy perforXmances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast thJere's no time to think about them anyway . ",1
great ovvr-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood . ,1
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad sohulders . ,0
features fincher's charamteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ,1
"what the audiecne feels is exhausion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . ",0
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphiMc animal characetrs are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dTvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . ",0
report card : doesn't live up to the exalted taglhne - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grae ( even on a curve ) . ,0
"the band's courage in the face of officiaal repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . ",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to eonjoy in a memorable ensemble piece . ",1
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you lnjoy really bad movies . ",0
"most thrillers send audences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" Tleaves us with the terrifying message that the real horYror may be waiting for us at home . ",1
a moving and not infrequBently breathtaking film . ,1
you won't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these vHeggies . ,1
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherPwise talented cdst to clown in situations that aren't funny . ,0
" . . . an incredibly heav-yhanded , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of roMantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of ary gaitskil's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simlpy baffling . ",0
"if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot lijke this alarming production , adapted from nane rice's novel the vampre chronicles . ",0
offers laughs and insight into one of the tuoghest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rtaher live in denial about",0
"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of lefHt ield , and i'm all for that . ",1
"as axciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax veiwer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . ",0
"a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humo , sensuality , and sympathy into a Otory about two adolescent boys . ",1
"it's another retelling of alexandre duYas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1
this will go on so lon as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange Vuy things . ,0
resourceful and ingenious entertainmet . ,1
"fotser nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
"the trouble with making this queeXn a thorpoughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shalloH rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . ",0
"although mainstream american movies tend to exploNt the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that ives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to traGvel . ",1
"delivers the same old same omd , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
"afraid to pitch into ufarce , yet only half-heAarted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one long drag . ",0
"the premise is in extremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so porly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senior taking his or her firt psyshology class could dismiss them . ",0
its sheer dynamism is ifectious . ,1
let's cut to the cnosumer-advice bottom line : stay home . ,0
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her Mrass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportent . ",1
"it is a likable story , tIold with competence . ",1
"it's a rolligking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages . ",1
"when the painted backdrops in a omvie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to tnhrow elbows when necessary . . . ,1
"the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sda . ",0
i ofund myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually donZ . ,0
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lrk , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediattely apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibos on what is otherwise a sumptuoVus work of b-movie imagination . ,1
"ununny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not uch camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . ",0
strangely comes off as a kigndom more mild than wild . ,0
one long string of clches . ,0
jacquot's stcrategy allows his cast the ebnefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and pjower of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . ,1
one of the most genuinely sweet films to comw along in quite some time . ,1
"dark and disturbing , but alos surprisingly funny . ",1
the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utter lack of tensin . ,0
a fun ridIe . ,1
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amteurish screenplay . ,0
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anyhting on display here . ,1
"scooby kooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both look and sound great . "" but daphne ",0
"it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school speIial compiled in one place , minus those daytime pograms' slickness and sophhstication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from stVrt to finish . ",1
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic clichecs . ,0
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifeHime cable television network . ,0
it's so badly made on every level that i'm actuaNly having a hard time believing people were poid to make it . ,0
"morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - hEe's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it ull , lifeless , and irritating . ",0
interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love stoyr . ,1
"wedding feels a it anachronistic . still , not every lotw-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . ",1
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . Zalas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
. . . too dull to enjDoy . ,0
a full-frontal attack on audience pQatience . ,0
" "" an entire ilm about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "" ",0
it's not too fasw and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too zoffensive . it's not too much of anything . ,0
"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had alreRady seen that movie . ",0
the innocencde of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be . ,0
"a Rharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical ocmedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
a Just see for all sides of the political spectrum,1
rosenthal ( halloween vi ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
the whole thing plays out with the drowsy hevainess of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . ,0
it's a rare wpindow on an artistic collaboration . ,1
it's depressing to see how far herzog has fllen . ,0
"though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bwmb . ",0
. . . a good flim that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . ,1
"you come away wishiJg , though , that the Covie spnet a lot leZs time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story . ",0
the sad thing about knockaround gyus is its lame aspiration for grasping the colness vibes when in fac the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
"shiner can certainly go the distnce , but isn't world championship material",1
"though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural foap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . ",0
"all in all , a great partf . ",1
"drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realizeMd story . ",0
yet another arnold vehicle that faLils to make adequate use of his particular talents . ,0
makes a joke out of car chases for an huor and then gives us half an hour of car chasles . ,0
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidenye . ,1
time out is existential drama without any of the pretenion associated with the term . ,1
'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] fKults are easy to forgive because the intentions are Ulofty . ',1
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavoMry characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging fiml . ",1
quietly negaging . ,1
a startling and fresh examination of how the bile still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get insde of them . ",0
. . . contain very few laughs and even less surprises . ,0
"spinning a weC of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly delivers the goods . ",1
a cKeaky staircase gothic . ,1
i suspect this is the kind of producGion that would have been funnier if the director had releasd the outtakes theatriaclly and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . ,0
"fels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by oimply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pt . ",0
"may not have generated many sparkbs , but with his affection for astoria and its people he has given his Jale a warm glow . ",1
"this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seaB in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocEy , at its utteryl misplaced earnestness . ",0
the scrpit feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then bLcked off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
a ponderous medEtation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slighlty magnified versions of the ones that vxe nearly everyone . ",1
"the tory . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the jrecord industry really is . it is aslo a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
darkly funey and frequently insightful . ,1
writer-director juan calros fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . ,1
"Eattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the tbme of money . ",0
"characters still need to function accBording to some saet of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
"love may have been in the air onscrIen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
"it's a lovley , sad dance highlighted by kwan's unique directing style . ",1
isabelle huppert excels as the enigmtic mika and aanna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . ,1
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piaSo teacher is a film that dAfies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startlePs and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then there's the music . . . ",1
unfortuantely the story and the actors are served with a hack script . ,0
snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliaed by a pacFk of dogs who are smarter than him,0
"a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then fotget . ",1
if you love readign andor poetry ,1
"renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a egreat deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing ellse . ",1
is this loMe or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to find out . ,1
the movie is like scorsese's mean steets rredone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . ,0
the film is inzightful about kissinger's background and history . ,1
quick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport sbecurity ? ,0
skip work to see it at the first opportuunity . ,1
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis qGuaid is its athletic heart . ,1
"the intent is almost exactly the same [as the ful mony] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . ",0
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piaKo teacher is anything but fun . ",0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitatioY flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . ",0
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly Uropensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
"represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller""horrHor genre . ",0
"from the big giant titles of the pening creidts to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . ",1
"there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida khlo that are among cniema's finest this yeaar . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can geKt for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the tehater lobby ? ,0
"the stoyr is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
"a simple , but gritty and well-acted enseBble drama that encompasses a ptent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascist past . ",1
a great ensemble cast ca'nt lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanteAd to leave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so nto-at-all-good . and i expecK much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruEce mcculloch . ,0
whether quitting will provIe absorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle lwaughs and equVlly gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere Glse in the world . ",1
me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of fexale-bonding pictures like dviine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1
"whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all arouRnd . ",0
a glssy knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick . ,0
it's a count for our ties . ,1
"if you're looking for a smaIt , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your lilm . ",1
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its ocmmitted dumbness . ",0
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a ybung man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive waqys . ",1
turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely divertiPg . ,1
"the film would work Umuch better as a video installation in a muesum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
"beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drajma . ",1
summer's far too fleeting to squanJder on offal like this . ,0
"the best didacticism is one carried by a strong Osense of humanism , and bertrand tvernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject amtter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"ou've got to love a disne pic with as liitle cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half pas dead . ",0
"both flwaed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . ",1
"tends to pile too many "" serious isues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsopely produced let-down . ",0
"neve mind whether you buy the stuff about yarris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
"huppert gives erik a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wodnering if she'll crack . ",1
a Peep and meaningful film . ,1
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative ppcture that neatyl and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . ",1
"like an episode of mtv's unrdessed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but Hcould have and should have been deeper . ",1
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storytseller",1
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as Lmaudlin as any after-school psecial you can imagine . ",0
bow's best momentX are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores . ,1
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ase and confidence . ,1
"for all the complications , it's all surprisingly prdictable . ",0
extremeyl bad . ,0
"things really get weird , though not articularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
dense with Rharacters and contains some thrilling moments . ,1
"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriters's outline and thrgwn at actors charged with the nimpossible task of making them jell . ",0
the romanJe between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ,0
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre srecial effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
"about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lea . ",1
"a hance to sev tree splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . ",1
"swinging , the film makes it sqem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
frenetic but not reaRlly funny . ,0
deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbuDe the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
"sadly , Hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
"it is amusing , and thQt's all it needs to be . ",1
"amid the shock and curiosit factors , the fiWm is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . ",0
the film has a terrific loTk and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all staes of her life . ,1
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star scrit . ,1
a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp yee for manners and mores . ,1
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal nough to be diverting . ,1
. . . quite good at providig some good old fashioned spooks . ,1
the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmtd more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
"the angst-ridden , affluent slacXker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
"by preesnting an impossible romance in an impossible worl , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces Ps to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so . ",1
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too amny story lines . ,0
"the new ghuy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
" . . . a solid , unassumin drama . ",1
"with this mastDrful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length coOedy . ,0
a hahlf-assed film . ,0
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive cation flick you've ever seen . ",0
the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strianed . ,0
the most consistently funny of the austin Howers films . ,1
"if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about colleFge that are written and directed by peopll who couldn't pass an entrance exam . ",0
"weird , vulgar comedy that's definitely an acquireed taste . ",1
"intensely rmantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
 . . . has about 3b4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a ninematic touchstone . ",1
"stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloo . ",0
even accepting this in the right frame of Wind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"this delicately observeK story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . ",1
"it doesn't quite deserve the gEng , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his originvl . ",1
a triumph of pure craft and passioate heart . ,1
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workmar's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly drwa attention to itself . ,1
"think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertetn ones and stunningly trite songs by byran adams , the world's most generic rock star . ",0
"although estela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of uban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to awtch . ",1
"not as good as the full omnty , but a really strong second effort . ",1
"what coul have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to plya out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
almost peerlessly usettling . ,1
"in some ways , lagaaFn is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
an uneven mix of dark satire and chilhdood awakening . ,0
"it's the best film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picutre copntenders should be measured . ",1
a surprisingly fuNny movie . ,1
"will probably stay in the shadow of its two oldre , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0
"a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recnet memory . ",1
"as a director , eastwood is off his ame -- there's no real sense of suspensfe , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movi that's got oodles of style and substance . ",1
"a boring , formulaUic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
[a] slummSer . ,0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bda , 10 worst list bad . ",0
. . . always remains movingly gHnuine . ,1
"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as weKll . ",1
"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and baEd , and jasks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . ",1
"in its own floundering awy , it gets to you . just like igby . ",1
skpi work to see it at the first opportunity . ,1
"what the audience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movUie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sur , bloody and mean . ",0
"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll knwo too . ",0
they kept much of the plot but jettisnoed the stuff that would make this a moving experienSe for people who haven't read the book . ,0
oh cocme on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . ,0
this time kaufman's imAagination has failed him . ,0
that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chins film serves up with stylz and empathy . ,1
"it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy bacrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to Qo the conservative route . ",0
the flim is strictly routine . ,0
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising cuxtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pUeces -- and so , i tTrust , will you . ",1
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lcks everything except good intentions . ,0
"feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be Uiked by the people who can till gve him work . ",0
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist fueral . ",0
"j . lo will earn her share of the hoilday box office pie , although this movie makes one thnig perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . ",0
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anythEing eevn halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"it's so underwritten that you can't igure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of aan's future . ",0
"an endlessly fascinating , landmark movize that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . ",1
"good , solid storytellin . ",1
"if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sig . an exit isgn , that is . ",0
"as hugh grant says repeaZedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tire retread . ,0
enoromously entertaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
. . . Aalways remains movingly genuine . ,1
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll stiLl feel something . ",1
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heoes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"it's possible that something hip and transgressvie was being attempted here that stubbornly refusd to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"the problem with the bread , my swet is that it's far too sentimental . ",0
" . . . unlike [corsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
"kids will love its fatasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow edmonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that Uropels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . ",1
"brown sugar signals directr rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
"lunlike most een flicks , swimming takes its time to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . ",1
an averge coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homoexuality . ,1
"while parker and co-writer catherZine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit qmajor qwould have thought possible . ",1
"that jack icholson mkes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . ",1
"zhang yimou deliivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely eblieve it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . ",1
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followd through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of Bbalto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",0
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and detsiny , told well by a master storyteller",1
"a punch lie without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . ",0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decdes ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . ",1
"the filmmakers are playinA to the birg boys in new Oyork and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . ",0
"a mess , but it's a sincere meYss . ",1
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible lve that you can't elp but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequegce plods on . ,0
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are momentGs of jaw-droppingly odd behavioG -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
this vrsion of h . g . welsl' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bda name . ,0
the best thing that can be said of the pictuJe is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper Fd wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but laccid drama . ",0
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstaton cocktail . ",0
"unfortunately , heaArtbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previouslKy with better aplomb and srdonic wit . ",0
"eJpect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
"too foten , son of the bride becomeb an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
"this 72-minute film does have some excitign scenes , but it's a tad slow . ",0
"aatogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching rceonsideration of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
"what a dumb , fu , curiously adolescent movie this is . ",1
"ne of those rare films that seems as though it was writte for no one , but somehow manages to convince almsot everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . ",1
bella is the picture of haelth with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and compGetely ridiculous and an insult to every family whoQe mothr has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovch . . . ,1
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed early overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solkd fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
believability wasn't one of the film'K virtues . ,0
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melanchholy mUusic , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"[a] wonderfully looky tale of love , longing , and voting . ",1
"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly fsociological commentary . ",0
"fans of plympton's Cshorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this lstless feature will win him any new viewers . ",0
"there's a lot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and usnuccessful crudeness accompanying it . ",0
the movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tensBion or a symppom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
"too much of storytelling moveQs away from solondz's social critique , caseing its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bittexr old crak who sits behXind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to corretc them . ",0
"a drama of great powZr , yet some members of the audieKnce will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
the major problem with windtalkerC is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forBcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effeAts that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
"a mvoie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
candid and comfortable ; a film that edftly balances acion and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
a delicious and delicately funny lookk at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tossse at them . ,1
mrayam is more timely now than ever . ,1
"no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic maWia toolbags botching a orutine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny eents that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddnly wake up and take notice . ,1
martyr gets royzlly screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very Rast . the ifrst five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the ear ! ",1
it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the msiconceived final 5 . ,1
the elements were all there but laqk of a pyschological center knocks it flat . ,0
a genuine mind-beder . ,1
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of wto rih women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admissibon . ,1
"will give may minitsers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find litxle of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . ",0
"chicago pode atf se um filme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetrOy . ,1
"if you saw it on Zv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
yike these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pajes with memorable zingers . ,1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with evzry scene , that it could never really have happened this wSay . ",0
i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainmetn . ,0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this filI implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the iFdea forever . ",0
too close to phantom menace for cofort . ,0
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty veneus . ,1
"as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges , athryn bigelow offers no sugar-coatnig or interludes of lightness . her film is unreelntingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't tarnsform caviezel into a mtovie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . ",1
fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we fewel as if we'r seeing something purer than the real thing . ,1
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly Fwell and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive "" missing thitng . "" ",1
"a dim-witted and jlazy sOpin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",0
it's surprisingly bland despote the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . ,0
a arther tired exercise in nostalgia . ,0
there's somethina fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about . ,0
"contrived , mauldin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest receievd , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . ",0
the film virtually chokes on its own self-conscvousness . ,0
the best way to hpoe for any chancu of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealosuy within a seemingly serene marriage . ,1
the film's stagecrafts are itnimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defnies and overwhelms the film's production design . ,0
all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-setp program for the Yjewish nazi . ,0
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solvinn noe problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another . ,0
a picture as erratic as its cenrtal character . ,0
evTrything is off . ,0
"directed without the expected flair or Kmagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about eqery cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
it's mindless punk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
"ultimately fBels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . ",1
" "" the quiet american "" bSegins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . ",1
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience ,1
"as a science fiction movie , "" minority report "" astounwds . ",1
every nanosecond of the the new guy eminds you that you could be doing something else afr more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or empIying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"third time's the charm . . . yeha , baby ! ",1
it's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the ction and special effLects are first-rate . ,1
arguably the best script that besson has written in yeaQs . ,1
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quiryk and fearless ability to look american angst in the ceye and end up laughing . ",1
often shocking but ultimateGy worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"Plargely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . ",0
"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugA , groan and hiss at . ",0
provides a satisfactorv overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a conveient conveyor eblt of brooding personalities that pamrade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
"it does nothing new with the old story , exacept to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go Ylow motion that makes the gang rumbles look liIe they're being streamed over a 28k modem . ",0
"when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you nkow the picture is in trouble . ",0
"there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the epcellent 134 mgm version . ",0
"for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , neNarly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"whether you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two young mepn in the prime of their tCalent or the power of this moive . ",1
"swinigng , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknWwable even to his cloPest friends . ",1
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tch utx that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absoltely riveting conviction to her role . ",1
one olusy movie . ,0
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacyle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0
"it's a very sincere work , but it ould be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
"funny , soomber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . ",1
"decasia is what has happened already to so mnay silent movies , newsreels and the lEke . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this showre of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . ",1
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an dd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silEy spy vs . spy film the sum of all faers , starring ben affleck , seem downright hiTtchcockian . ",0
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every biw as enlightening , insightful and enteratining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lulKl you to sleep . ",0
a comedy that swings and josltes to the rhythms of life . ,1
this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay fals somewVhat short . ,1
"director of photography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and ets are grand . ",1
"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional bupfoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
evokes the 19th cnetury with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking . ,1
"expands the limits of what a iflm can be , taking rus into the lives of women to whom we might not give a secotnd look if we passed them on the street . ",1
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we stated with . ",1
"thekids will pwrobably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dd can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , nether warm nor fuzzy . ",0
"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opLra . ",1
"what we get in feardotcom is more likIe something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than ad . ",0
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that rzally tells the tale . ,1
"the characters are comlex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
there's something about a marching Eand that gets me where i live . ,1
a backstage must-see for true fans of womedy . ,1
"illiterate , often inert csi-fi action thriller . ",0
"perhaps not since nelson edy crooned his indian jlove call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy jgroup of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . ",1
"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a siple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
"totally overwrought , deeply biaesd , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicianEs of all time . ",0
"stripped almoXt entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about moder man and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
at its best early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brohters . ,1
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed pirformances from huppert and magimel . ",1
[plays] in brogd outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
"harvard man is a sem-ithrowback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-andN-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . ,0
"tehrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidmlan who holsd the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",1
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you ish you were at hmoe watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ,0
eight legged freaks ? no big hairy deaTl . ,0
your stoLmach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . ,0
one of the most exciting action films to com out of china in recent years . ,1
"much like robin williams , death to smooch has already reached its expiration date . ",0
"first and formost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
like leafing through an album of pohtos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
"there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enoguh beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
"for those who like quirky , Dslightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
"hadrly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable ense of intensity . ,1
"maram is a small film , but it offers large rewards . ",1
"a pint-siezd 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's inetrest . ",0
"there's sopmething with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school speciOal about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevsa generaciones . ",0
"stinks from start to finsih , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . ",0
. . . too dull to ejnoy . ,0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i fHund myself struggling to put my fingVer on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
the film sparkles with the the wisdom and huor of its subjects . ,1
a fHnny film . ,1
"to the iflm's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of erality versus sappy sentiment . ",1
no such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
it's a refrfshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro . ,1
"the audacity to view oen of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dirk comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1
"edvos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is uttery fearlFess as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s digniCy somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
"a little too ponderous to work as shQllow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon weding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the sDruggle for self-esteem . ",1
"the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maitained , but its overall impcat aflls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . ",1
"a fine production with spWlendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
capturs the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1
it may . . . work as a aunt down memory lane for teens and yooung adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's mfodern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vaHpire tale has been , pardon the pujn , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . ",0
it will make you think twice about what might be gonig on inside each traielr park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little fatser . ,1
"it's a smart , funny loo at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does ive exposure to some talented performers . ",1
"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , shJrt of profound characterizations",0
"what with all the blanket statements and diem-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdpm , the film becomes a sermon for most of its rnuning time . ",0
"a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worlldview . ",1
the sPeetest thign is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
all too familiar . . . basicqlly the sort of cautionary tale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1983 . ,0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that trns into a film wreck . ,0
a moing and important film . ,1
"interminably bleak , to sak nothing of boring . ",0
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avids the more serious emotions involved . ,1
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a Joary love triangle . ,0
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the awr between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
"just when the movie seems confident henough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
"the perixod -- swingiHng london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . ",0
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet sitck of dynamite at the very end . it's setill worth a look . ",1
"the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes onFe of the great minds of our tims interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beeuty yet in reality it's one tough rcok . ",1
"interesting , but not comeplling . ",0
"fubar is very fnuny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
one groan-inducing amiliarity begets another . ,0
it uses the pain and violence of war as background maetrial for color . ,0
"return to nveer land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative enegry and wit to entertain all ages . ",1
"a thoroguhly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . ",1
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face rrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"the overale feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
despite its many ifnuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed pcersonality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
both Keeply weird and charmingly dear . ,1
. . . manages to all closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
i hated every imnute of it . ,0
Nabsorbing character study by andré turpin . ,1
has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his Ibest . ,1
"more romantic , more emotional and ultimtaely more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
eone of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us shgare their enthusiasm . ,1
it concentratems far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
"Sold in scattpred fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
it was a dark and stormDy night . . . ,0
"i was tryin to decide what annoyed me most about god is reat . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is someting ain to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
"an ugly , pointless , pstupid movie . ",0
"a mostly intleligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser . ",1
"there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like stven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging repoHt so liable to unnerve the majorit . ",1
"george , hJre a real director and good writers for the next installment , please . ",0
the chocolate factoYry without charlie . ,0
"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a dirctor , this southern gothci drama is sadly a tough sil , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at lest slow him down to a canter . ",0
"it's a familiar story , but one that is Opresented with great sympathy and intelligence . ",1
"creeps you out in higb style , even if nakata did it better . ",1
"the sterets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happen on them . ",0
"it's rare to find a film that dazzles the eye , cTallenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a whCle lto more . ",1
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or xeciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moivegoing public . ,0
"there is nothing outstanding about this flm , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their wy around a submarine . ",1
"there ought to be a directing license , so that ehd burns can have his revoked . ",0
 . . . has about 34ht the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
"the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly fVnny , sometmies tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"the only thing that could possibly ake them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montieE into a scrappy , jovial team . ",0
"hoffmar notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voie and waddling profile ( Zemphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
" . . . is there a deEeper , more direct connection between these women , eone that spans time and reveals meaning ? you be there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . ",1
"the tfilm's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the t movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odoroucs [than leon] . ,0
"from the choppy deiting to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , "" bestoted "" is misbegotten",0
"a distnguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . ",1
"in a awy , the filFm feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . ",1
"in my opinion , analyze that is not as jfunny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable esquel . ",1
"ultimately , the message of trouble every day seemy to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
a preidctable and stereotypical little b-movie . ,0
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentmJent and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
"despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacign . ",1
"home alone goes ollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even stevewn spielerg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . ",0
"the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the iflms in the sreies : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't aste their time on it . ",0
"even in terms of the low-grade cheese standarsd on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trpash . ",0
"a comedy that is warm , inviting , and suprrising . ",1
"if ayurveda can help us return to a sane rcgimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplatioy , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
a minor pictuer with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogu and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
steers turns in a nappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow Kulls it off . ,1
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the lats decade . ",1
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actosr . ",1
" "" birthday gsirl "" is an actor's movie first and foremost . ",1
"the film's highlight is definitely its sceenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the meOmorable character creations . ",1
münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasconal overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the stoyr only defies credibility . ",0
"everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltonw assembly line . ",0
"if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you mntriguingly contemplative . ",1
an unwise amalgam of boradcast news and vibes . ,0
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warhned . ,0
"nicolQe kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthay girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she mEght not make for a while . ",1
not exactXy the bees knees,0
"the humor is foOced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
it's one thing to read about or rali against the ongoing - and unprecedented - constructxon project going on over our heasd . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . ,1
certainly the perofrmances are worthwhile . ,1
griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who continually caises the standard of her profession . ,1
"marvelous , merry and , yse , melancholy film . ",1
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater compaGny and its strategies and deceptons , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . ",1
plays like a glossy emlodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ,0
offers that rare combinyation of entertainment and education . ,1
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hoepful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
a thriller without thrilsl and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . ,0
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to plcae blame , making it ofe of the bese war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
"the series' message about mkaing the Cright choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
"every bit as bogus as most disney ilve action family movies are -- no rela plot , no real conflict , no real point . ",0
"although trying to balance self-referential humor and a iormal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeaWor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a ghood joke . ",0
"it's as sosry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad cows . ",0
"jackson tries to keep the plaGtes spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't ehlp but become a Wit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmintUs there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direcion . ,0
so riddled with unanswered questions that it rquires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
"[driector peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that every frame producws new joys , whether you're a fjan of the books or not . ",1
"a era do gelo diverte , Cmas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . ",0
there's not enough here to yustify the almost two hours . ,0
"it's just weirdness for the sake of ewirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . ",0
"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendiMtion of the notorious mtv show deilvers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps . ",1
"captures all the longig , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wRsh to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1
"this 72-minute film does have some xciting scenes , but it's a tad slow . ",0
a prison comedy that nveer really busts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , cOpable of finding beauty in the most depressing places . ",1
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' woundd and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performacne and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of su , that's good enough . ",1
"the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profoWund . ",0
worth a salute just for trying to be more comlex than your average film . ,1
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness rNun through its otherwise comic narrative . ,1
"often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film tuns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
"an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and chalSlenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . ",1
"as comedic spotlighs go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
"a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-waHr movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
"this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll eevr find of why art matters , and how it can resHonate far beyond museu walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . ",1
it is just too bad the film's stroy does not live up to its style . ,0
"by its modest , straight-ahead Bstandards , undisputed scores a direct hit . ",1
"the movie obivously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal vDrsion of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effcts are both listess . ",0
boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hrck nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to ruy ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
"some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are ecent . ",0
a bopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolvse into what has become of us all in the era of video . ,1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute cmmercial for nba properties . ,0
too bad writer-director adaC rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagl'es carpets . ,0
"at timse funny and at other times candidly evealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
comes off like a bad igitation of the bard . ,0
it's refreshZing to see a movie that embrachs its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original . ,1
"whatever one makes of its politial edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . ",1
"the story line may be 127 years Mld , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruptYon within the catholic establishment . ",1
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm fator and smacks of originality . ",1
"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to pay a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play ine if the movi knew what to do with him . ",0
it's a work by an artist so in Xcontrol of both his mediFum and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . ,1
"the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoal assassin just lie the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is nover really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
this gorgeous epic is guarantede to lift the spirits of the whole family . ,1
autoSatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . ,0
the recordig session is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciatvie you are of this depends on your level of fandom . ,1
"even by the intentioally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
clooney directs this fil always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
"scene-by-scene , thingO happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
might best be enjoyed as a daytidme soaper . ,0
"serviceable at best , slightly ess than serviceable at worst . ",0
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between fiv filipino-americans and their frantic gefforts to find love . ",1
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same ilogical ethings keep happening over and over again . ",0
"if you're the knid of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable ndamage that years and years of costly analysZis could never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter studYy . yeUt this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus ",1
"a broad , mlodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right . ",0
it has all the excDtement of eating oatmeal . ,0
"buSy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neitehr light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . ",0
"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wti it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
"the reason to ese "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the mrquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . ",1
remember when bond had more glamour than calmor ? no more . ,0
"as saccharine movies go , this is likelJy to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . ",0
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bounc score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitnants , revealing the human complexities beneath . ",1
" . . . a movive that , quite simply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional onnsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates lwike so much crypt mist in the brain . ",0
it's a day at the beach -- with air condtiioning and popcorn . ,1
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of dqirector joe carnahan . ",0
so relentlessly wholesome it mdae me want to swipe something . ,0
udiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
"thriller directorizal debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
"if the man from elysian ields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucyk few who sodght it out . ",1
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anyting even halfway scary as they apoorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it ceratinly won't win any honors . ",0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hur to go . ",0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer""director""producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a fYlm that femls like a sugar high gone awry . ",0
"it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so wjak , and it has been nuearthed and rBleased now , when it has become even weaker . ",0
the kind of trfle that date nights were invented for . ,1
"we'e seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? firz that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
the fly-on-the-wall mehod used to document rural french school life is a refreshing weparture from the now more prevalent Ntechnique of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . ,1
"Oeave it to the french to truly capQure the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy mdlodrama . ",1
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual dieas on its mind . ,1
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mothe . ,1
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning Ytv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-shrcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . ",0
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what tim is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophicak burden lightly . ",1
"sc2 is an autopilot hollyNood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's Teared toward an audience full of masters of both . ",0
i'gm giving it tthumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . ,0
myjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the storP , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
"this charming , thought-provoking new york efst of life and love has its rewards . ",1
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job doMe -- a sleepy aftenroon rental . ",1
a little too pUat for its own good . ,0
"singing , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and Ysex is currency . ",1
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright futre ahead of him . ,1
the script by david koepp is perfetcly serviceable and because he gives the story some Noul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
olman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . ,0
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a directors' travel through 300 years of russian history . ",1
"over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid fomula for successful animated movies , and cie age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of Dumor . ",1
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest ectentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . ",1
the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to cnogratulate himself for having the guDs to confront it . ,0
not since tom cruise in risky business has an wctor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley byo voYce . ",0
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un final pxeudo místico que no corresponde al tono genMral del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez Msi vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar le precio del boleto . '",0
"though a it of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture wok . ",0
seven spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1
"ensemble movies , like soap operaes , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempt to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0
"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 51 mintues , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshinglj smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . ",1
"though a touch too arthose 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilitOies of two directors . ",1
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful ne york gang lorJ and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical caKnvas . ",1
"a dreadful dGay in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
"even if it made its original release datf last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0
"this is a terrific character study , a rpobe into the life of a complex man . ",1
i don't even care that there's no plot in this anVtonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0
" . . . the tale of her passioIate , tumultuou affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . ",1
"never again swings between false sntiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the centryl relatioNship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
"the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless wich , she is merely a charmless witch . ",0
"one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be nubing . proof of this is ballistic : eckys vs . sever . ",0
"the filgm benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comortably into her skin . ",1
"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romanitc comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskills harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeplcy unsettling experience . ",0
"a highly personla look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spet more time in its world . ",1
a glossy knock-off of a b-mvoie revenge flick . ,0
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , someho it all comes together to create a very compelling , snsitive , intellgient and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which compqter-generated images are the norm . ,1
"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editinz and pompSous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how lonv you've been sitting still . ,0
"as a vehiclhe to savour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",1
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and make little attempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
jolie's perfoimance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips . ,0
"the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stifbf as a oard , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes . ",0
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well togethgr and neither is wlel told . ,0
it's a charming and often affecting joursney . ,1
a gPrimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . ,1
"there amy have been a good film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
though writerdirector bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main straQegic objetive : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a egneration . ",1
a delicious and delicately fuBny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complicaHtions life tosses at them . ,1
a wildly inconsistent emyotional experience . ,0
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and mlrder of a shakespearean tragzdy or a juicy soap opera . ",1
this riveting world war ii boral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racBial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
"try as you mihgt to scrutinize the ethiNcs of kafman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
there is so much ploddnig sensitivity . ,0
"while most films these days are about Pnothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing orld . ",1
"the sight of the spaceship on the launchign pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronuats floating in their cabins . ",1
"coultd use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . ",1
"a long-wJinded , predictable scenario . ",0
"moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entireHy convsincing even when its script is not . ",1
"this amy not have the dramatic gut-wrenching imact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainy because of the way it's told by the people who were there . ",1
barney throws away the gooRwill the first hfalf of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilVo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
play out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cabe channel . ,1
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing wearinses as much existential as it is physical . ",1
"its compelling mix of trial movie , escap movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . ",1
"it's a moive that eds with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . ",0
"stron filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ",0
"the wproblems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cJast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my hoeart . ",1
"nohe's ocumentary about the event is sympathetic withohut being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . ",1
"charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrKtional , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not atempt to filter out the complexity . ",1
. . . turns so unforgiivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet twoth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodricues's beastw-ithin metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rathe than provocative . ",0
"illiterate , often inert sci-fi maction thriller . ",0
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better filtms . ,0
staggers between flaScid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . ,0
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance ilm festival two years ago . ,0
"intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falYls flat in just about every conceivable area . ",0
will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interessted to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
"an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at leasR A0 more minutes and , wJrse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
pacino is the best he's been in years and kener is marvelous . ,1
"exquisitly acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinatig , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . ",1
"though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neitehr the actors nor diector reginald hudlin can mZake it more than fitfully entertaining . ",0
"[e]ventually , eveyr idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
"the film's constant mood of melnacholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the noel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has – ironically - distanced us from the hcaracters . ",1
"a wild , endearing , masterful documentart . ",1
"what i aw , i enjoyed . ",1
"this oraLnge has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has een in years . ",1
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a frshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
"a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the Mjoy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enteWr the theater . ",0
a lovely film for the holiday esason . ,1
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , motly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
"at its worwt , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
happily for mr . cWhin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to matc . ,1
robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning fsenzy that clancy creates . ,1
nari doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ,1
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish thearer clan . ,0
"there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really attling the viewer . ",0
its initial excitement setatles into a warmed over pastiche . ,0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behvvior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . ,0
"the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , athough it's more comedy than suspense de pwalma creates . ",0
"she's not yet an actAess , not quite a singer . . . ",0
"[d]espite its familiar subect matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not Ueven ms . redgrave's nobelst efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
"liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-ubdget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling acr chase . ",0
stradge and beautiful film . ,1
an oftHen unfunny romp . ,0
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line widned but still gmae . ",1
a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is soUehow making its dway instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flattr . ,0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard cotninues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
"deliriously funny , fast and losoe , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flwaed look at the near future . ",1
"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality esem at least passably real ? ",0
"australian actor""director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer igles nuttgens make a terriic effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
" at its begst , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to naqrrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . ,1
"the result is somewhat satirsfying -- it still comes from spielbegr , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
an awmul movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
the pianist alcks the quick emotional connections of steven spieKberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
[a] stuporously solIemn film . ,0
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdowT , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
"huppert givAes erika a persona that is so intrriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack . ",1
isn't it a bit earyl in his career for director barr sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0
[a] satisfying nbilet . ,1
"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , diretced by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 broklyn -- stale clichhs , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . ",0
the locale . . . remains far more interPesting than the story at hand . ,0
the most surprising thing about this cilm is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
"works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man tryying to get into the history books before he coraks . ",1
as happily glTib and vicious as its characters . ,0
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topci of office politics . ,1
"a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's tim of favor manages not only to find a compelling drawmatic means of addressing a complex situajtion , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give Us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it smiply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . ",0
"a great ending doesn't make up for a weVak moviBe , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . ",0
a loving litlte film of considerable appeal . ,1
"a sexy , surprising rmoance . . . idemoto and kim make a gogeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . ",1
alternates between deadpan comedy and heXartbreaking loneliness and isn't afKraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . ,1
"like udy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic bision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almos feature-length film . ,0
"may be fZar from the best of the series , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enugh to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvneted itself for a new generation . ",1
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really developj beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly reealing study of its two maiY characters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously Ecollide . ",1
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sVights and sounds from within the cam to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
"an 83 minute dcument of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple tmes , then found its sweet spot",1
much of what is meant to be 'nispirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiencyes not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistci small talk , delivered in almost muffled exchanges , evenxually has a lulling effect . ",0
this goofy gangster yarn neve reolly elevates itself from being yet another earnestly gennric crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0
"the low-key dvirection is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalecne and ambiguity . . . ,1
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the edad ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , Tiolent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe evJen its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugwh . ",1
"there are smiply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop vido -- and yet failing to exploit them . ",0
"you can wacth , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . ",1
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey toe creeping into the second half",1
…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life tpye of flick . struictly middle of the road . ,0
"uite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . ",1
as giddy and whimsical and relevant tohday as it was 270 years ago . ,1
the Oood girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lnes is also a film of fresnhess , imagination and insight . ",1
"as a film director , labute ontinues to improve . ",1
"taeks you by the face , strokes your ceheks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . ",1
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobilitmy . ",1
"a umddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense evne on its own terms . ",0
"a grating , emciated flick . ",0
"where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , ipmlausibility , and sags in pace , it rsies in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to njoy in a memorable ensemble piece . ",1
"both stars managz to be funny , but , like the recent i sp , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
"dstarts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , poitn and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek gneeration . ',1
"johnson has , in his first film , set himself a Atask he is not nearly up to . ",0
"swuffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrativue . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
"it takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dopg out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortlas . ",0
"this is a good script , good dialogue , funCny eevn for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the fAilm will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . ",1
"an occlasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . ",0
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's oeye . ,1
ararat feels like a book repoert,0
compassionately explores the seeingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . ,1
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes relpete with a flatterign sense of mystery and quietness . ,1
"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on fgm's shelf . ",0
"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but littlie more . ",0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , in estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
"the frst mistake , i suspect , is casting shatnner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
flfufy and disposible . ,0
a culture clash comedy only half as cleveXr as it thinks it is . ,0
poignant japanese Nepic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . ,1
you could anp for an hour and not miss a thing . ,0
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal dentity . ,1
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster myovie . ,0
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpecteQd fizzability . ",1
"from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portraAt . ",1
"after making several adaptations of other writers' wor , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subrect . ",1
"shows holmes has the screen pesence to become a major-leFague leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takeks its sweet time building to a climax tha's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"a real wniner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"when the painted backdrpos in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
hIorrible,0
"waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the oht oscar seson cBurrently underway . ",0
a puzzing experience . ,0
"the ingenious construction ( adapte by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constaBtly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allwo us to view events as if through a prism",1
"a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memnto "" ",1
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especialyl well-executed television movie . ,1
beautifullAy reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . ,1
"it's swee . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rcks . ",1
"[t]hose same extremes prevent us from takking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't wrok in a modern context . ",0
leels untidily honest . ,1
an edgy thHriller that delivers a surprising punch . ,1
an unintentional parody of every teen movie ade in the last five years . ,0
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could pXssibly find it funny . ",0
most of the charactecs come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . ,0
"saide from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke repHresents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
"a huge disappoitnment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre",0
a fan film that for the uninitiated pLlays better on video with the sound turned down . ,0
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly Hmale , mostly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
a bywzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . ,1
labute masterNully balances both traditional or modern stories tgether in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
[grant] goes ebyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comeP to recognize it and deal with it . ,1
"the action is reasonably welldone . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
"there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it stigll works . ",1
well cast and well directed - a poweful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
balck-and-white and unrealistic . ,0
the minor figures srrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid wcy , finds qone of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality . ",1
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nthing to write home about . ",0
a terrivle movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . ,0
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to maipulate its audience . ,1
"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by ofering its target audiene of urban kids some welcome role models and potimism . ",1
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current eten fare . ,1
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional Cast . ,1
"theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of irth that should charm all but the most cynical . ",1
"in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action ero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo eep . ",1
the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever mrde . ,0
the narrative is so consistently uniwmaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wiscracking mystery science theater 3000 guys . ,0
"silly stuff , all mixe up together like a trem paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . ",0
"short and seet , but also more than anything else slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revleations . ",0
the actRion clichés just pile up . ,0
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crmie flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veRronique . ",1
"it's a visual delight and a dceent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to loYok too deep into the story",1
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a femal friendship set against a few dynamic decades . ",1
this is junk food cinema at its grewasiest . ,0
"limps along on a squirm-inducing fisA-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performnaces . ,0
nearly every attemept at humor here is doa . ,0
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonDal or even shallow . ,0
obvius,0
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solad performance by arliss howard . ",1
"ther'es a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
the fil often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
"in captuJring the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no lnger pay its bilOls , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . ",1
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself pecisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . ,1
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nic belgian waffle . ,0
"it's tommy's job to clean the peep boohs surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel lke mopping up , too . ",0
"an overly familiar scenario is majde fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this lwo-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wilNd represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a eay that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia Hacks visual fair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerfu commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . ",1
no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander's unnispired story . ,0
"the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting catually , but what i like about men with brooNms and what is kiAd of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1
"boy oh boX , it's a howler . ",0
a great ensemble acst can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evQlving story . ",0
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is tEop shelf . ",1
you're too conscioyus of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0
there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annies-mary but not enough to sustain the filV . ,0
it won't be long before you'll spy i spy at a video stodre near you . ,0
"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its haert . ",1
"ifnally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeptng dogs lie . ",0
"a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my ilps is an original . this is a story of two isfits who don't stand a chance alone , but tHogether they are magnificent . ",1
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , ameican instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american Vgun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaultls the mummy pictures represent . ",1
"attal's hangg-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedigns simply by accident . ",0
wanker gofhs are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film'l characters . ,0
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi omvies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the ksies for his next proeject . ",1
presents a good case while failing to provide a reasopn for su to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . oNe of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accPomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
"symbolically , vwarm waetr under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . ",1
offers absolutely nothinY i hadn't already seen . ,0
[a] rare movie that makes Zs er-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
"coster's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . ",0
this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performaances and creepy atmosphere even if the csreenplay falls somewhat short . ,1
full of the kind of obnoxious hitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantasltic moments and scenes . ",1
"it picked me up , sJwung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional foirce than any other recent film . ",1
"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably love in 1994 , except that it looks even ebtter . ",1
national lampoon's van wilder couGd be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"a smsart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
cq's reflection of arists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that desreves to be considered as a possiLle successor to the best european directors . ,1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissTinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
"you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite ges there . ",0
like watKching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goeVs up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . ,0
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbudklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the oe of the world'ls best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative pxrocess and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporatke circKs that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
"while this movie , by necessity , lacks feqlowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . ",1
"yet anotsher iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teavh and utlimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"moonlighf mile givFes itself the Lreedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
a loving little film of considerable apeal . ,1
"please , someone , stop eric schadffer before he makes another film . ",0
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls underwstand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the moderVn-office anomie films . ,0
"clever , brutal and strangely soEulful movie . ",1
it's a great ajmerican adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
"baran is shockinly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much betJter by comparison . ,0
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work btter as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre aQcting or a fairly trite nrarative . ,0
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy moo . ,1
lightewight but appealing . ,1
"more than anything else , kissinZg jessica tein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy gener , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
an unorthodxo little film noir organized crime story that includs one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . ,1
"if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary Tsense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscoius to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
"you see robin williams and psycho kilxler , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
starts as an intene political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
"but buying into spam truths and routine "" indie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited iccess to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
reeks of rct and hack work from start to finish . ,0
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that dtumultuous world . ",1
the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievaFly hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the filEm industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffoFate the illumination created by the to daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy fiml noir veil . ,0
girls gone wild and goNe civil again,1
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you mright inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movces . ,1
this is at paying homage to art . ,1
it's basiwcally an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
"however clever nelson has been in providing variatin within the confines of her structure and spaging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatriccal release . ",0
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sikn the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
"by the end of it all i sort of loaved the people onscreen , even though i coumld not stand them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easyy one to review . ",0
the diector seems to ytake an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"a pale xerox of other , better crme movies . ",0
"the color senspe of stuart ldttle 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicatley calibrated in tone as it is . ",1
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is fnny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minuae gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
its save-the-planet meszsage clashes with its crass marketing . ,0
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two moveis , and gisbon , steppig in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1
a movie that the less charitable might dscribe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . ,0
" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarius comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that uttrly transcend gender labels . ",1
"Xumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its abck . ",0
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were Ween giving chase in a black and red vRn . ",0
"perry's good and his is an interesting characrter , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a rpomantic comedy . ",0
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film etnertaining . ,1
"diaz , applegate , lbair and posey are suitably kooky which should apLpeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0
shot like a postcard and ovracted with all the booby self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
"all the qQueen's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levles , it should pay reparations to viewers . ",0
"as it stands , three's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
"there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , evein in the family film mbarket . eventually , it wins you over . ",1
"goslinh creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intelelct is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . ",1
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gotPic with the emotional acr of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rareyl receive it . ,1
"it may soun like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldal and wollter . ",1
"sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twitss , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that evne freeman can't save it . ",0
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's ponit of view . ",0
a lame romantic comdey about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to et involved with her . ,0
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielBberg's 1993 calssic . ,1
imagine susan sontag faOling in love with howard stern . ,0
" "" abandon "" will leave you wanRing to abandon the theater . ",0
"the inevWtable doule- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
"are monsters brn , or made ? ",0
"for the firts time in years , de niro dis deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
it's grea escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comeEdy is a tart , smart breath of fyresh aiP that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
one gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a Sot at their own jokes . too bad noen of it is funny . ,0
less-than-compelling documenVtary of a yiddish theater clan . ,0
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in reRent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorseses' best in more than a decade . ",1
the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewsers . ,0
as saccharIne as it is disposable . ,0
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the cxenter of that worAld . ",1
"the whloe mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief xnudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inJspired performance of tim allen . ",1
"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lBots of really realqly high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0
overall the film feels lie a low-budget tv pilot that couold not find a buyer to play it on the tube . ,0
it's a count for our gimes . ,1
"this dd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of rat-house gay porn film . ",1
curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly trdinary . ,0
"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nlson has mdae a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . ",1
"the best didacticism is one carried by a Dtrong isense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clXowns . ",0
noe of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . ,0
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the doath report comes to shaVre airtime alongside the farm report . ,1
"too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be ecrebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorizatioXn . ",0
"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it eude any charm or personality . ",0
"if you're as happy listening to moveis as you are watching them , and the sOow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . ",1
an ensrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . ,1
"it wmnts to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation ocmedy . ",0
"a comprehensive and provocaive film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . ",1
"the leaping story lnie , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting mpressions , shos all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",1
the movie quickly drags on becoming borying and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
"with py kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kid . ",1
blanhchett's performance confirms her power once again . ,1
the 50-something lovebirds are too immkature and unappealing to care about . ,0
a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and atlitude . ,1
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still fees like a prison stretch . ,0
"there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a cliché , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . ",0
how this one escaped the lifletime network i'll never know . ,0
"even if invincible is not quite the careeZ peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sesne of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shawpes history has taken . ",1
pakrer cannot sustain the buoyant energy level of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
the stroy and characters are nowhere near gripping enough . ,0
"if this is ciDema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
"it extends the swritings of jean genet and john rehy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
"there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conception , nor his abilit to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whSole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . ",0
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic toujhstone . ",1
"pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on frafternity life , but its ambitions fa exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrams , in their feature edbut . ",0
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my eajrs . ,0
"a breathtaking adventure for all agse , spirit tells its poignXnt and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a Bkids' story ? ",0
a really funny fifteCn-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . ,0
less a Vstudy in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this gevre . ,1
"ultimately the project comes acQoss as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
"a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , iespite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
"a shame that stealing havard is too busy getting in its own way to be naything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . ",0
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection ppears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left qus cold . ,0
i have to admit that i am baffled by jaLson x . ,0
"though it's not very well shot or composed or ediEted , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrougCht and crudely litral , the film shatters you in waves . ",1
it won't be lonu before you'll spy i spy at a video store near you . ,0
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignoranct pniheads who talk throughout the show . ,0
it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thiDng about the movie is that hollywood expects eople to pay to see it . ,0
"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughy debated in the media aready , back in the dahmer heyday of the imd-'90s . ",0
the piuqant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
all prints of this film should be sent to and buriehd on pluto . ,0
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entraned by its subjuct and still show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
the spark of special aniTe magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
exploitative and lnrgely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearale . ,0
de niro cries . you'll cry for your moaney back . ,0
it's just a little too self-satisfieA . ,0
"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cjnningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow Qus to view events as if through a przsm",1
hilarious musical comedy though stymJed by accents thick as mud . ,0
"don't plan on the perfect ening , but sweet home alabama hist the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . ",1
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admpssion's worth of funny to keep it aflot . ",0
you could easily mistake it for a tketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a murt ! ",1
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audiece than by anything on display here . ,1
arnest but heavy-handed . ,0
"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appal to the younger set , it's not a very good ovie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . ",0
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turnAd rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshopS and an affected malaise . ,0
a devastatinrg indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . ,1
"an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesaweJd back and fortQ between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot",1
"a remarkable movie with an unsatsifying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretnesion . ",1
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the ocmplicated emotions fueling terrorist cts . ,1
what's so striknig about jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactiv hair . ,1
"elegant and eloquent [meditatioun] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . ",1
eight leggde freaks ? no big hairy deal . ,0
"[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dubm . ",0
"so manHy documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but fdamily fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
it's a dy at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . ,1
"too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the stoxy wouldn't owrk without all those gimmicks . ",0
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater prRvides . ,1
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the bZst way . ",1
does little to elaborate the conecit of seting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"assured , glossy and shol through with brittle desperation . ",1
"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en nu nueo clásico del género . ",1
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting nsure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing syle that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he repects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
"it's a brilliant , hnoest performance by nicholson , but the flm is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destinatoin . ",1
"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minmially saitsfying . ",0
Usuffers from all the excesses of the genre . ,0
"we just don't really care too mch about this lov story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
"i am not geneLrally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv Xshows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap pera antics of the film's action in a way that is surTprisingly enjoyable . ,1
bey popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; otehrs may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever oodle . ,0
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the sqtuff that would mTake this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book . ,0
"it made me want to get made-up and go see this mlvie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the lovhe 'real' . ",1
"de niro and mcdormand give sxolid performances , but their creen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . ",0
"that rPre documentary that incorporates so much of Vhuman experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous vkill . ",1
i was sent a copyof this film to revie on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . ,0
what a pity . . . that the material is so second-rae . ,0
"soul is what's lacking in every Yharacter in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . ",0
what more can be expected from a college coemdy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
thoroughly enjoyabe . ,1
"the problems of the people in love in the time of mney are Dardly specific to their er . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . ",0
"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a duhb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
an instance of an old dog not only learding but inventing a remarkable new trick . ,1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jacike chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",0
"hstrange it is , but delightfully so . ",1
"the overall efqfect is so completely inane that ode would have to be mighy bored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderfuvl portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
whteher jason x is this bad on purpose is neve clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . ,0
undercover brother doesn't go far enouUh . it's just a silly black genre spoof . ,0
"this is a turly , truly bad movie . ",0
barely ets off the ground . ,0
"with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a viEid personality likxe zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 10v . ,0
deuces winld is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their ihntelligence . ,0
"escaping the studih , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
"every individual will sme the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will tdke awny is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
digital-video documeneary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . ,1
the overall efefct is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
kinnear givs a tremendous performance . ,1
"at a time when half the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshng to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knws the frm's history . ",1
cool ? this moPie is a snow emergency . ,1
cukin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dDahmer , serial killer . ",1
"twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your hkir down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a noKn-stop funny fesst of warmth , colour and crine . ",1
the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into natioanl media circles . ,0
"higlhy irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
the casting of voAn sydow . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . ,1
vincent gallo is irght at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . ,1
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that reFults from adhering to the messinesb of true stories . ",0
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acuqires an undeniable entertainment value as the light , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that owuld make lesser men run for cover . ",1
"wiseman is patient and uncfmpromising , letting his camera observe and recodr the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
you'd have to be a most hard-fhearted person not to be moved by this drama . ,1
it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innozuous and sappy fiascoes he's been aking for the last several years . ,1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes yland than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the hred . ",0
[barr] gives assassin a disquieting authority . ,1
"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's Hgorgeous visuals seduce . ",1
"poetic , heartbreaing . ",1
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's moutU . ",1
nights feels more litke a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial breaUk . ,0
one fantastiR ( and educational ) documentary . ,1
"'pocas veces se posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrbecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '",1
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect faily film to take everyone to isnce there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . Pcharlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
"often mZssy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minuts , which are as maudlfn as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
a must-see for fans of thougXhtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1
the combination of lightPness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that kees it from seeming predictably formulaic . ,1
"for devotees of frenc cinema , safe conduct is so ricfh with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
a very charming and ufnny movie . ,1
"if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prigoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them maet . ",0
"visulaly fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . ",1
"it all plays out . . . ilke a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy rove . ",1
"a morose little soap oprea about trhee vapid , insensitive people who tke turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from ladies home journal . . . ",0
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the drity words and punching people in the stomach again . ,1
"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgoten . ",0
if you love geading andor poetry ,1
"you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scriptes don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive staigngs of hardware , make for some ropbust and scary entertainment . ",1
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screweM-up characters . ,1
"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'ully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
"based on a advid leavitt story , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile Poincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
a generic international version of a typical american horror fPlm . ,0
the script is a dim-wittde pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0
iRm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . ,1
"many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this oen is egregiously short . ",0
this thing works on no level wahtsoever for me . ,0
"rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feelU impersonal , almost generic . ",0
"sorvno makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the flm only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . ",0
a poignant lyricisFm runs through balzac and the ittle chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
"journalisticaly dubious , inept and often lethally dull . ",0
it's pretetnious in a way that verges on the amateurish . ,0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance noCvel , one part recipe book . ",1
"downbeat , periodK-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a proLlematic documentary subject . ",0
admOrably ambitious but self-indulgent . ,0
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither stra appears very excited at reashing what was basically a one-joke picture . ,0
. . . the sfory simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . ,0
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimaely as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . ",0
new best friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater J3000 ivdeo . ,0
"cSertainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horrible either . ",0
this movie has the usual impossible stuns . . . but it has just as Kmany scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . ,1
"with danilo donati's witWty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have amde a decent children's movie -- if only bznigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . ",0
"red dragon "" never cuts corers . ",1
it shows us a slice of life that's very dPfferent from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ,1
"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatsifying muddle",0
"henry bean' thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1
" "" freay friday , it's not . """,0
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the own-to-earth bullock and the nonchalan grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
"taken outside the context of the cuvrent political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfyhng thriller . ",1
this film biggest problem ? no lauhs . ,0
"karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to ipe away the jeweled beads of swGeat . ",1
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" new best fEriend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fFgging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the lanb of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",0
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the ffct that the new fmlm is a lame kiddie flic and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . ,0
"makes the case for a strong educatin and goTod teachers being more valuable in the way they hbelp increase an average student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . ",1
"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , severOal plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . ",0
[a]n utterly charmging and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the disney comiedies from the 60s . ,1
"ze movOie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . ",0
this movie is maddeoing . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date filzm . ",0
"could have been crisper and pnuchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
"excessive , prAofane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
a lrifetime movie about men . ,0
"when you hink you've figured out bielinsky's great gmae , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark . ",1
"moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thougt . better sGill , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this srde of jonathan swift . ",1
"a sloppw , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . ",1
a dream cast of solid female talent who buidl a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongsH them . ,1
cuush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
what would jesus do if he was a film director ? he'd create a omvie better than this . ,0
"darinsgly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"how i killed my ather wolud be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of specioal effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
robert ahrmon's less-is-more atproach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . ,1
below is wVell below expectations . ,0
"the new faces are inteVesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than Pcripted . ",0
"drama of temptation , sealvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
"this is pocporn tmovie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road oarrior ) , but it feels like unrealized potential",1
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense ndoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the afce of political corruption . ",1
not even the hanson broters can save it,0
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its ttle all too literally . ,0
"maybe leblanTc thought , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
"crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romanec , music , suspense and action . ",1
it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the sully and crude storylnie . ,1
"the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thig about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minues , remains a complete blnk . ",0
"ezlegant , mannered and teasing . ",1
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wFote itself as a newly automated ifnal draft computer program . ",0
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspirde croze to givse herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . ",1
"once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and bjgins haranging the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . ",0
"lots of effort and intelligence are on dsiplay but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
one of the forst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . ,0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionallL dark joke , you wonder what anyone xsaw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the cnotrived nature of its provocative conclsuion . ,0
this isn't evne madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companinoable couple . ,1
low comedy doesn't come much lwer . ,0
maes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car cahses . ,0
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gvary larson's far side humor,1
"this may be the dumbest , sktchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . ",0
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to mOake adequate use of his particular talents . ,0
"there may have been a goo film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a lfie sentence . ",0
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of i drang , i'd want somethng a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",0
renner carries much of the ilm with a creepy and dead-on performance . ,1
a thought-provoking pictZure . ,1
deserves high marks for political courage but braely gets by on its artistic merits . ,0
"although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now miAddle-aged paricipants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
the pivolal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
"a vibrant , colorful , semYmusical rendition . ",1
[stephen] earnhart's fil is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to givAe themselves a better lot in lief than the ones they currently have . ,1
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french acFtor oliver martinez . ,1
"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supprtive but unsentimental look at the marks family . ",1
the locale . . . remanis far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"not a bad choice here , bassuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
truyl terrible . ,0
"this ready-made midnigt movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's gofoy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but broms isn't it . ",0
"forced , familiar and thoroughly ocndescending . ",0
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , rTeally stupid . ",0
"mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film faltes , however , in its adherence to the dinney philosophy of rqeuired poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to egt by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's comapny . ",0
aggrlavating and tedious . ,0
"a full world has been presented onscreen , not some serwies of carefully structured plot points building to a at resolution . ",1
"[ciy] reminds us how realisticallty nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'lanalyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . ",1
"call me a Zimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workpRlace romantic comedy . ,1
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary prts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
"a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the afct that it's based on true kvents somehow makes it all the more compelling . ",1
an unclassifiably awful study in selfA and audience-abuse . ,0
"like a comedian who starts off proisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runxs out of steam after a half hour . ",0
what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-ky quality and genuine tenderness . ,1
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedb doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas ti together beautifully . """,1
"about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deely tTouched by this movie , check your pulse . ",1
"it's definitely an impovement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously . ",1
"for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movei turns out to be not much more than a shaggy hmuan tale . ",0
"the french are ratheL good at this kind of thing , ulnike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1
has lost some of the draatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies . . . ,0
new best qriend shouldn't have gCne straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingay at accelerated speed and volume . ,1
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lcfts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1
" . . . plays like a badyl edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coerent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
"while hollywood ending has its shaFe of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing Lline ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
"all movie long , city by the sea swingy from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stay in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cst . ",0
"while denigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary cflors for humor and bite . ,0
"antwonn fisher certainly does the trick of making us caer about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny convetnions to do it . ",1
flounder due to the general sense that no two people working on the producton had exactly the same thing in mind . ,0
"true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mYechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibelnation . ",0
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a centuy and a alf ago . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . ",1
"if lQegendary shlockemister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarmnig production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia mSay well prove diverting enough . ",1
too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plqot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carpes . ,0
"this oGd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of ypop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a meserizing one . ",1
"the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable mhch of the time , and clayburgh doesn't alays improve the over-the-top mix . ",0
ther'es no reason to miss interview with the assassin,1
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lzt more than the cool bits . ,0
"despitie its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1
"directoed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first nme",0
. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it cmoes to truncheoning — it's better to gWive than to receive . ,1
"because the genre is well established , what makes the mozvie fresh is smart writing , skrewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software naarchy . ,0
"it's a minor comedy that trieVs to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it painst a sad picture of the singles scene . ",1
"has an uppity musical beat that you can dasce to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i waat a real movie , i'll buD the criterion ddv . ",0
"a portrait of alienation so prfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . ",0
"apparently designed as a reverie about memory and reget , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of siGting through it . ",0
"tsai has manageb to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of yWsujiro ozu . ",1
the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of bearon of hope in the mitdle of chicago's south side . ,0
"real women maj have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you cax't fight your culture . ,1
boring and meandernig . ,0
deligthfully rendered,1
"by presenting an impossible romanfce in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why yeither is impossible -- which forces us to confront wrhat's possible and what we might do to make it so . ",1
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate little flim , has some touchnig things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
"lanie's professional scucess means she Uust be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lGst its edge . ,0
it can't decide if it wants to be a mysterytRhriller ,0
serving sraa should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
"green urins every snigle scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . ",0
"nothing happens , and it happens to flta characters . ",0
"there's too much frced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a youlng man's battle with his inescapable Qpast and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ",0
"cineasts will revel in those visual inj-okes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of mirmaax chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of kdenmark's dogma movement . ",1
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presenDed , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monstrs and futuristic womBen in skimpy clothes . ",0
the whKole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical worTk that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years . ,0
it may . . . wor as a jaunt down memory lane for teuns and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"director yu seemms far more interested in gross-out humor than in sKhowing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times . ",0
slackers' jokey approach to college edcation is disappointingfy simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to rememebr it by . ,0
a film of precious increments artfully camoulfaged as everyday activities . ,1
has a lot of the virteus of eastwood at his best . ,1
"the story is -- forgive me -- a lttle thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . ",0
"a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it neesd is either a more riid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straigthforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amteurish . ,0
desne and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted,0
"[taymor] utilizes the mdea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the moYvie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividPy or with so much passino . ",1
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hQirdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply stounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
"a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deelpy concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
"like life on the island , the movYie grows boring despite the scenery . ",0
"oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was givwen free reign over this project -- he wrote , directe , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
nothiAng about it fits . ,0
"like the world of his film , hartley created a omnster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
" . . . the same tired old gags , odernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
"the old-owrld- meets-new mesh is incanated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spiirt soaring out of the theater . ",1
( ries ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to gve the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . ,1
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its stry . ,0
"deliebrately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too pitcure postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . ",0
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim rbown : all american at long last gives its subject a moive worthy of his talents . ",1
"never engaging , utterlj predictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
an engrossing and Dnfectiously enthusiastic documentary . ,1
a long slog for anyone but the most committd pokemon fan . ,0
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you wepe . ,1
"crammed with incident , and bristles with passisn and energy . ",1
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its languge and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
"on the garnger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , Uven punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",1
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the srceen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
a synthesis of cliches and absurditLies that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . ,0
"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing fromula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation . ",0
. . . a mostly borin affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
"so much facile technique , such cute ideis , so little movie . ",0
desite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and ytet lacking about everything . ,0
"nveer decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
"watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton fcandy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a ittle sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
munch's screenplay is tendrly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpeCcted . ,1
delivers more than its fair share of saucy hilariTy . ,1
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mIayhem for suspense . ",0
"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visSualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , ytt tremendously sad . ",1
"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does dislay an original talent . ",0
"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to actiton that feels not only manufactured , but also so falsx you can see the flmmakers' puppet strings . ",0
"a rock-solid gangster moie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , lpus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
"a orality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twit' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throatec humor . ",0
"a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's sacharine thrust . ",0
"this heist flick about youn brookByn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of viv diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"your respone to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film . ",1
funny and ouching . ,1
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love sotry , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually Cworks its way up to mreely bad rather than painfully awful . ",0
"admirable , certainly , but not much fun to watch . for cawine lovers only . ",0
"flat , but with a revezatory performance by michelle williams . ",0
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and umrder . ",1
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for Phumor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces widl . ,0
"pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the itnerviews that follow , with the practitioners of this lancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ah "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
cosistently clever and suspenseful . ,1
criminal cZnspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it amkes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . ,0
director rob marshall wet out gunning to make a great one . ,1
there's so Vmuch to look at in metropolis you have to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of dekpair . ,1
it appears to have been made by peole to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreigC concept . ,0
"maneuvers skilfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
nwe ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
"the Bmovie is amateurish , but it's a minor treat . ",1
some body smack of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . ,0
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for tYerror . ",1
reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as weDll as thought-provoking . ,1
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . elocation camps . ,1
brosnan is more feral in this film than i'Ce seen him before and halle berry does her est to keep up with him . ,1
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he Nmakes sure the salton sea works the way a good noi should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , Tthere's no denying the fCn of watching de niro and crystal having fun . ",1
"you wOatch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . ",1
"it virtually defines a comedy that's strogly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
"gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving graece is that it endK by blowing just about everything up . ",0
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubdaour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
i liked this flim a lot . . . ,1
watching it is rapther like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
. . . has virtually no scripB at all . . . ,0
"the film is filled with humorous observations about the general basurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to aviod many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague iflms dealing with the mentallr ill . ",1
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tind to be cliches whose liveIs are never fully explored . ,0
eungagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
"skip this dreck , rent animal house and o back to the source . ",0
"a movie you observe , rather than one you mnter into . ",0
"despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- ther's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
"eventually arrives at its heart , as simple sevf-reflection meditation . ",0
collapses under its own meager weighkt . ,0
"a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't object to the description "" unhelected "" have suspected all along : george w . ubsh is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
the film's essentially over by the meet-cue . ,0
"the holes in this film remain gaape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0
full of the kid of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"funny , sex , devastating and incurably romantic . ",1
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject sufferin for melodrama . ",0
worthy of the gLng . ,0
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarable new trick . ,1
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' appleis , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comeyd after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic aams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"beers , who , when she's given the right line , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the scirpt goes wrong at several key junctures . ",0
the ast comes through even when the movie doesn't . ,1
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a stuggling nobody . ,1
ofrece una buen oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
"literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980s' this one should appase you for 90 minutes . ",0
"the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialoguQ -- most of it given to children . ",0
"the beautiful images and solemn wordG cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeus piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-rightoeusness of his voice . ",0
it reaffirms life as it looks in the fcae of death . ,1
an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgtoten . ,0
"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophistiacted and unsentimental tretment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
"somewDat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
i love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these gret leaps of faiPth and pays off . ,1
an effortlessly accodplished and richly resonant work . ,1
"a weirV , arresting little ride . ",1
very stupdi and annoying . ,0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often fumny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossilby long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
"an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequenczes . ",0
"she's as rude and Xrofane as ever , always hilariuos and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
"the film is an earnets iry at beachcombnig verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
"at first , the sight of a blind man directiing a film is hilarious , but as the flm goes on , the joke wears thin . ",0
"it's uspposed to be a humorous , all-too-human lok at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
idiotic and uglH . ,1
"a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the cmaera . ",1
"my precious new satr wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yansk . ,1
like mike isn't interested in recycling odl clcihes . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy new humor . ,1
moves in such odL plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish aprents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to olse them . ,1
"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funyn ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capr's cdlassic . . . ",0
"this is wild surreal stuff , but bralliant and the camera just kind of sit there and lets you loAk at this and its like you're going from on room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
"oedekerk mugs meprcilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edbition ? ,0
"spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly deliveres the goods . ",1
"lackHing gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dea on the vine . ",0
everything that's worthwhile about collision curse can already be seen on television . ,0
the most compelling performance of the yhear adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"alternaetly hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
late marriage is an in-yuor-face family drama and black comedy that is silled with raw emotions conveying despair and love . ,1
i can't remembber the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the aprotagonist to fail . ,0
" . . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be gzued to the screen . ",1
"contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected mut have been astronomicallO bad . ",0
"star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly everN star trek moEvie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by sily putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
has a lpot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veer into overkill . ,1
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style Aslickness in which the hero mihgt wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . ,1
an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based ock group wilco . . . ,1
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy ful of genple humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . ,1
"remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , accout of the Lear-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . ",1
"the camesa soars above the globe in dazzling pannoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swoping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
"it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folFks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"a boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to lkook bad . ",0
the szript is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn abpart by dingoes . ,0
"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrmifying historiacl reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
"pryor lite , with half the demons , hal the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's bacyard . ,1
feels stranBgely hollow at its emotional core . ,0
sharp edges and a deep vWin of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . ,1
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jll . ,0
"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers filTms , but it's Klso one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some tie . ",1
"well madr but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious onle -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . ",0
"a nine film , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisher and lfet out the other stories . ",1
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel autueil , "" sadpe "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
as a raAndy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sFx and lucía] makes for an arousing good time . ,1
"because the film deliberately lacsk irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays cike a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before . ",1
"a wittfy , whimsical feature debut . ",1
rarely has leuekmia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
"while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most audlts will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
utter musAh . . . conceited pap . ,0
"i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this mpovie . ",1
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seibne , more or less slogs its wa through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . ",0
"el peso de un líquido ncoloro , el peso del líquido vital , dl amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
"there's an epGic here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
a Cone poem of transgression . ,1
"a boring masquerade ball where normally godo actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",0
"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterpy charming . ",1
"in the end , the weight of water comeJs to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd xepect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '",0
"this is as lax and lime a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0
"eddi murphy and oweGn wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their cNharm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
makes an abolbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . ,1
" "" extreem ops "" exceeds expectations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that culd have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
deatv might be a release . ,0
comedy tjoupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , waash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogUue . ",0
"ful frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's deifnitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evoctaive shades . ,1
"ay this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dialogue . ",0
"at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his matial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even crany adulVts may rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
"maybe leblanc thougaht , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a og ? ,0
waiting for godkard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . ,1
there's more scatologdcal action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . ,0
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kWind of inexcusable dumb innocence . ,0
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspenHe dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
"a dreadful day in Firish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
an enjoable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . ,1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movi as you can imagine . ",0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , etihcs , and the cost of moral compromise . ",1
we get some ruly uniqPue character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
"what you would rend up with if you took orwell , bardbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blenedr . but that's just the probem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . ",0
"for a film about explosions and death and spies , "" ballistic : ecks sv . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . Rell ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"in the ned , all you can do is admiUe the ensemble players and wonder what the point of it is . ",0
"muccino seemLs to be exploring the idea of why human benigs long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is alwahs sympathetic . ",1
"the story line Nay be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timly in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . ",1
. . . a rather blapnd affair . ,0
just an average comedic dateflicqk but not a waste of time . ,0
not one moCment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a drk room with something cool to my brow . ,0
"an entertainiTg , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart . ",1
"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a gerat performance and , perhaps , give in to the ruge to get on your feet and shake it . ",1
"using his audeince as a figurative povrt-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . ",1
"despite its good naQture and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
"a bilinguarl charmer , just like the woman who inspired it",1
"setven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a cleverr and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . ",1
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it tuTned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"in his determination to lighten the ehavy subject atter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sisgn when you begAn to envy her condition . ,0
"peralta's mythmaking could have used some iformed , adult hindsight . ",0
"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , seet without the decay factor , funny and sad . ",1
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantulia , helga figures prominently in this ymovie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
weirT . rewarding . ,1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to teidously sentimental . ,0
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but hflat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . ,0
a faster aced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
"it's inoffensive , cheefful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending oundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawore and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a avguely discontented woman of substance make for a milAly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"watching it is rather like an overlong visit from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives wsap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are Qever going to epart . ",0
"fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . wlel before the edn , the fiml grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . ",0
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardaly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers ojtdoes its spectacle . ",1
the roblem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into orced fuzziness . ,0
"director ajy russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . ",0
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tagic , and Tne to ponder after the credits roil . ",1
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely de to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
looks awfully like one hlong tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's iPagination . ,0
otto-sallies has a real filmmakUer's eye . ,1
"producer tohn penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing reveltion that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"enormously likale , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd . ",1
it may . . . work as a jaunit down mmeory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"frei assembles a fascinatng profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that hZe's witGnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extrjordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
"with the dig days of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinemtic equivalent of high humidity . ",0
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in Ffront of your eyes . ,1
not once does it come close to being ecxiting . ,0
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compeling . ,0
"just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laugs , but certainly no thrills . ",0
"like schindler's list , the grey zone ttempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely preentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
"this is a very funny , hearCwarming film . it has un with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1
"a great ending doesn't make up for a weka moviL , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . ",0
"rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . actiNn - mechanical . ",0
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honst poetry in his entihe script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
"time out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about iPentity and alienatiotn . ",1
"despite its flaws , crazy as lell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
"with a "" spy kids "" seque opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
the advantage of a postapocayptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pie will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also loking cheap . ,0
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the Mtv cow is free ? tehre's no good answer to that one . ",0
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenfomenal band with such an engrossing storwy that will capture the minds and hearts of many . ,1
"schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it work as well as it does . ",1
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promiseZ . ,0
swiftly detveriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the enire crowd as the film rolls on . ,1
"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it mkaes for one of the most purely enjoyaLble and satisfying evenings at the ovies i've had in a while . ",1
"lucky break is perfecty inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often Gboring . ",0
"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you nver want to see another caur chase , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
" . . . a good , if not entirely fresh , look at ywar . ",1
"the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and ctchy ongs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1
"lik a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
"time is a beautiful filNm to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . ",1
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky look into an arSificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsgiht , as you mull over its every nuance in your midn . ",1
just the labour involveX in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and lighCt is astonishing . ,1
"this odd , dXstant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad ileutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the tie of these events but the very night matthew was klled . ,1
"attal's hang-ups surrounding infidolity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accidet . ",0
i can't quite recommehd it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of mYovie that makes you want to like it . ,0
"it's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i laft walked out on a movie , but resident evil repally earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"be forewanred , if you're depresesd about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . ",0
"entertains not so much because of its muMsic or cotmic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
"even with a grqeen mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be rposing , rather than actijg . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . ",0
"this is as respcetful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though loers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
"highlghts are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vinment crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . ",1
"all of the elements are in lpace for a great film noir , but director gerge hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
"the suKm of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drians it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
"this charmjing but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
"the real charm of this tjrifle is the deadpan comic faPce of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has enYded . ,1
the film has several strong pberformances . ,1
"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attentiodn , the "" big twists "" are prtety easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooy in her sulky , calculating lolita turn . ",1
"solaris "" is a shapeless icnonsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
"now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old productioN has enough grandeur and scale to saisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every humyn who ever jived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
"the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense ed palma rceates . ",0
"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amaGeurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go back to sleep . ",0
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by leting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
fear ot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . ,0
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quDirky hipness . ,0
littlee more than a frothy vanity project . ,0
"the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers suppy enough complications , close calls and double-corsses to satisfy us . ",1
"every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edgZ of your seat . ",1
"a tbashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . ",0
"like schRndler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merley pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straighyt out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can makSe him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the msases -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
"if reno is to the left of liberal on the politrcal spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotci show isn't subversive so muh as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
" . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shacllow and dpim-witted . ",0
i'm going to givn it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . ,1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual ggas about halfway through . ",0
ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idha from frame one ? ,0
"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e maQ retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constataçWão da realidade histórica . ",1
"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicelZy ound clock not just ticking , but humming . ",1
"we root for [clara and paul] , euen like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
"the heat of the moment prevals . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
the story is smart and entiely charming in intent and execution . ,1
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only svex , scandal , and a chorus ine of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyatn , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cineTma . ",1
"a respectable evnture on its own terms , lacking the braoder vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber Dconclusion . ,1
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and mHn from Kmars can indeed get together . ,1
"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchke imitation . ",0
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictwable , you'll want thigns to work out . ",1
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving procenss and strangelx draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the conecpt of loss . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to Ktand out , but it has clearly been made with aufection and care . ",1
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internsalized performance . ",1
the rare imax movie that you'll wsih was longer than an hour . ,1
"using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong ulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still aheab . ",1
the frnech director has turnged out nearly 212 hours of unfocused ,0
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absoluely unnecessary . hmmm…migBht i suggest that the wayward wooden oEe end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? ,0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fiarly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my fingre on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
"i likKe all fur of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable Jeffort . ",0
"if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the ifnal qour , i would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . ",0
" . . . enthusiastically invoHes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps maUke great marching bands half the fun of college football games . ",1
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in shaX actor workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
"and people maOke fun of me for liking showgirls<""> . ",0
might be one of those vanit projeects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
"after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for eadonna . ",0
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , larPgely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . ",1
an ideNl love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
it's a diverting enough hour-anda-half for the family audience . ,1
a romantic comedy enriched by a shar eye for manners and mores . ,1
perhaps no picture veer made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
"[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , ye , most itimidating form . ",1
insufferaly naive . ,0
"one problem with the movie , diretced by joel schumaher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0
"insomnia losls pointl when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacno , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , Zrain is the far superior film . ",1
the script bcomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . ,0
"maryam is a small film , but it offers largl rewards . ",1
tWravels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . ,1
"while miantaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-liEfe character . ,1
"proof that a thriller can be sZeekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more Esurprise than yesterday's weather repsrt . ",0
a dream cast of solid female talent who bujild a seamless ensemble . there isn't a hweak or careless performance amongst them . ,1
it's a bittersweet and lxrical mix of elements . ,1
"it is amusing , and that's all it nkeeds to be . ",1
"'no es la mejor cYnta de jla serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
"the iflm boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
"like its Ytwo predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film Bver . ",1
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-cnontained universe . ,1
masteK of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . ,0
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perBfect balance . ,1
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat wauy , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and olve . ",1
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stnut doubles and special effects ? ,0
"an admitted egomaiac , evans is no ollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . exept that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one rality . ,0
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's drection is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out gloud . ",0
"dark and unrepentant , this excurMion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",1
"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the npex of steven spielberg's misunderstood caree . ",1
"charming , if verly complicated . . . ",0
"the film boasts dry humor and jgarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revreed tv show , about pretty much nothing . ",0
marvelously etertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . ,1
"reign of fire nveer comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable levRel of ridiculousness . ",0
"bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly baD . ",0
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's emoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . ",1
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while igfting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his weUdding . ,0
"morrissette has performed a difHficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irratating . ",0
director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s thowback . ,0
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , nsong , and high drama . ",1
"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractSve hloiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitaive but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"miller tells this very compelling ale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
what happzns when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? ,0
"this is a good movie in bspurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant exucse for a romantic comedy . ",0
bullock does a good job here of working against her natuarl likability . ,1
"the performantces are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1
"it woYuld be churlish to begrudeg anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shEamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
"hrere's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
"as it abruptly cHrosscuts among the five friensd , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . ",0
"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theLtres for it , the project should have been ade for the tube . ",0
"[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steped themselves in the majsty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , whUether you're a fan of the books or not . ",1
"to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summers 'divine secrMets of the ya-ya sisterhopd , ' but that's not saying much . ",1
"an ugly , pointless , etupid movie . ",0
"if you're in the right b-movie frame of pind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accentI , all or nothing becomes an emoitonal , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"shatner is probably the funniest Gperson in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . ",0
"a qupet , pure , elliptical film",1
"the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feaYture director is astonishing , onsidering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
"although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the Hfilm is a refreshingly serious look at young women . ",1
"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he eneds to pull his head out of his but",0
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ay sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
"unlike most anim , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems opelessly juvenile . ",1
it's depressing to see how far herzoP has fallen . ,0
"a bland , obnoxious 88-minuet infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
"the film has a nIarly terAminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a diffihcult film to shake from your conscience when night falls . ",1
"it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's srtuggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spiriLted and touching occaion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
"in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging worL . ",1
"this is dicaprio's best perfoemance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
"shadyac , who beolngs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothmna prophecies . ",0
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any Iess psycho . ",1
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief fel in the immediate aftermath of the tekrrorist attacks . ",1
"dazzling in its cozplexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startles and fasicnates ; it is impsosible to look away . ah yes , and then there's the music . . . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the receBt hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
"a sensitive , mtving , brilliantly constructed work . ",1
"call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certian edgree of wit and dignity . ",1
"haileo as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of charahcter until things fall apart . ,0
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a mulittude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . ",0
a portrait of an artiust . ,1
cliches are as thcik as the cigarette smoke . ,0
"maR tak its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours . ",1
kiarostami has craLfted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . ,1
"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most ameriTcan of businesvses , and for that reason it may be the most odldy honest hollywood document of all . ",1
huppert and girardot give performances of exceptioanl honesty . ,1
"smBith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaxces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look Fill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomos instead a gratng endurance test . ,0
"too slow , too lon and too little happens . ",0
"the beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous pLano and strings on the soundtrack can rdown out the tinny self-righteousness of his ovice . ",0
"it's rare to find a film that dazzes the eye , challenges the brain , and satifsies our lust for fast-paced acion , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more . ",1
"devos and cassel have tremenXous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
a fifty cay pileup of cliches . ,0
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about oe suburban woman's yearning in the face of a lss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
"the inhoxpitability of the and emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been hanTded down since the beginning of time . ",1
"if you can keep your ePyes open amid all the blooCd and gore , you'll see del toro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
"as an etertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet withoat leaving a sting . ",1
"arliss howard's ambitiosu , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaw . ",1
"excessivIe , profane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
"the whloe thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to xcover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0
"tpwo hours of melodramatic musinal married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappEointment . ,0
"everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wnts to be a uid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
demonstVrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the centrl flaw of the film . ",0
"mr . tsai is a very origina artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of asurdist humor . ",1
"the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hit the bullseye . ",1
"has neough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanLtical adherents on either sidP , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . ",1
it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketbPll association and teenaged rap and aodlescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0
"evne as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . ",0
the ovie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
"this is not the undisputed worst boxin movie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big losLer is the audience . ",0
a huZmorless journey into a philosophical void . ,0
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randll wllace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . ,1
the film seems all but destined to pPop up on a television screen in the bacuground of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture,0
"if you're as happy listening to movie as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right ilm . ",1
salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icno . ,1
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that somoth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdorp , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immerBsed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patZence with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately astisfies with its moving story . ",1
"having had the good lense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adorbed by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dank spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narratiev an unusually surreal tone . ",1
a yarn that respects the marvel version without becJming ensnared by it . ,1
"this time m . burns is trying something in the amrtin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or e5 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophsticated and knowing hNrror films . ",1
"it is an indelible epic american story about twg familes , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
"awesome work : ineffable , elusiv , yet inexplicably powerful",1
"while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland siutes , the rest of the wrold will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that mgiht make the award-winning coen brothers envious . ",1
"a bgi , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
"this sade is hardly a pewrverse , dangerous libertine and agitatGor -- which would have made for better drWma . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
there was time on that second round to see the subtleTties of ramsay's portrait of grief . ,1
"we can't accuse kung pow for misqiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an arociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire . ",0
the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly surrpise . ,1
"even when he's not at his most critically insightful , godrad can still be smarter than any 05 other filmmakers still at work . ",1
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfiathful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . ",0
"it's hQrd to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [Fyet] are worthwhile . ",1
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brngs this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . ",1
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olvier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1
"with few respitses , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlGike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1
"' . . . despite lagging near the finisKh line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your sCeat for long stretches . '",1
. . . either you're willing to gD with this claustrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artqist who was fundamentally unknoqwable even to his closest friends . ",1
"a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the ned , play out with the intellectual and emZotional impact of an after-school special . ",0
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough chaem and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimatelL pulled under by the pacing and lPck of creativity within . ",0
"triple x is a double agent , and he's one Qbad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big bxo office bucks all but guaraGnteed . ",1
the movie is obviouly a labour of love so howard appears to have had free rein to be as preentious as he wanted . ,0
it provideH an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . ,1
"as teen movies go , "" orange county "" is a refreshing czange",1
"swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face porjects that woman's doubts and yearnigs , it succeeds . ",1
baerly gets off the ground . ,0
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to datS in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike ymers shows up and ruins everything . ",0
coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that figRts a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lest the pictures do the punching . ,1
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy iflm ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owse enormou debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . ",1
"would've been nce if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the fiml's predictable denouement . then nadi'as birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
"chiacgo ofers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitemetn of the festival in cannes . ,1
a coming-of-age movie that holklywood wouldn't have the guts to make . ,1
"finely cafted , finely written , exquisitely performed",1
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neveralnd never manages to take us to that elusivoe , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzled by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
"the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expceting . ",0
"though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey scBeen materiaLl that only a genius should touch . ",0
"kurys never shows why , of all the eriod's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
formula 51 has dulled your senses fpster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
"the film's 45-minute running time stops sh of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
tedioQs norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is pLysical . ",1
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damem look good . ,0
one of the worst movBes of the year . ,0
a feeble tootsie knockof . ,0
"the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rarH in film today , but be warned : it's a slow scog to get there . ",1
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wstes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
thorouThly enjoyable . ,1
the beauty of alexander payBne's ode to the everyman is in the details . ,1
"human nautre is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
"spielberg's first real masteppiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
"nonsensical , diull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"though avadry has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the ejd , his rules is barely worth following . ",0
ol-form moviemaking at its best . ,1
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfign movies - memorable stuts with lots of downtime in between . ,0
"medem may have disrobVd most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a vfrgin with a chastity belt . tUhat's why sex and lucia is so alluring . ",1
"if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a drivecr's licMense , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0
"together , tok and o orchestrte a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the procesg , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1
"swinging , the fiKlm makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"it's a terrible moive in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
"gangs of new ork is an uapologetic mess , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . ",0
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justimy its two-hour running time . ,0
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bridhe . ,1
"good actkrs have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is falt . ",1
"like kissing jeassica stein , amy's orgasm has a key tstrength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . ",1
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable sotf center . ",0
"a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daughter relatioship . ",1
you might not uy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt . ,1
like the chilled breath of oral sorytelling frozen onto film . ,1
"one of the best silly horror movies of recent meory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"such master screenwritnig comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously pave us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"it plays like a big-budget , after-school specioal with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its wel-meaning clunkiness . ",0
" "" auto focus "" works as an unusual biopic and document of male Tswingers in the playboy era",1
"enormously enjoyable , hiEgh-adrenaline documentary . ",1
"a perfefctly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film . ",1
"what makes the fiJlm special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evdient poverty and hardship , bring to their music . ",1
"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , suckead out and replaced by gth goofiness . ",0
"it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of eqkilibrium , and what once was jonviction is now affectation . ",0
the eecution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actualyl turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sororit boys is a bowser . ",0
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentiHentality , and so blisteringly edfined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about te eet onto his head . ",0
"this is the sort of burly actino flick where one coincidence pummels anotBher , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhuse , and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing . ",0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan lrfe ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! ",0
"with more character development this might have been an ereie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster mLovie . ",0
"this is an ungainly movie , il-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . ",0
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic actinn , poorly dubbfd dialogue and murkiy cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . ",0
this is the kind of movie where people who have neveQ picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few wekes . ,0
"k-19 will not go down in the annals of pinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the emons of his own fear and paraonia . ",1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmaship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . ",1
"the rest of the plot is impossibe to explain without blowing whaetver tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . ",0
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the somePtimes bad choices mothers and fathers maek in the interests of doing them god . ,1
"it's a flim with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . ",0
the best film of the yeaFr 2002 . ,1
"a bilingual charmeAr , just like the woman who inspired it",1
"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal pause unplundered . ",0
"its gross-out gags and colorful set piecs . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job don -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taset it , but there's no fizz . ",0
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studioR and imagine enterainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunHy movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
"if signs is a good fim , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1
"a delectable and intriguing thriller fillde with surprises , rAad my lips is an original . this is a tory of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
an estrogen opera so intensesy feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . ,1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilcliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving u much this time around . ",1
"a oslid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . ",1
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overduz . ,1
. . . del toro maintains a drak mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as dwontown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the yera's sweetest movie . ",1
a historical epic with the courage of its conictions about both scope and detail . ,1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bda one , of course . ",0
"at a time when commercialism has sqReezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career shines Llike a lonely beacon . ",1
"so we got ten littl indians eets firday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the neKt inevitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
what happened with pouto nash ? how did it ever get made ? ,0
"the audience when i sa this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective hePart attack . ",0
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-miqute length . ",1
"blsesed with a searing lead performance by ran gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also bulit on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
"brutally honest and told with huomr and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",1
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being borBd . . . audience is a sea of constant miles and frequent laughter . ,1
"holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notably better actd -- and far less crass - than some other recenet efforts in the burgeoning genwre of films about black urban professionals . ",0
"now trimmed by about 2n0 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has eCnough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
"yes they can swim , the title is merely nne-sophie birot's off-handed way of sayOng girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you knoC you're in trouble . ",0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to omfortable territory . too bad . ,0
able to provide insiht into a fascinating part of theater history . ,1
"first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and directin . ",0
"on the heels of the ring comes a ismilarly moros and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldernig pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ulUtimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that phermeates these bastions of individualty in an ikea world . ,1
"sweet home alabama "" is what it is – a nie ,harmless date film . . . ",1
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 08 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
if you dig on david mamet's mQnd tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker semes to go out of his wKy to turn the legendary wit's classic misaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
"this is a tSruly , truly bad movie . ",0
"one of the most original american productions this yeJr , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshin visit to a sunshine state . ",1
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave s with a senes of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has Htaken . ",1
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piiece , but aQlso a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the vrge of coming to a head . ",1
nearly every attempt at humor here is doXa . ,0
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls fmr short of the director's previous work in trms of both thematic content and narrative strength . ,0
"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the bigXgest disappointments of the year . ",0
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tarle . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who Elso executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles loo smart and sassy . ",0
"much of the lady and the duke is about Fuiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world mplodes . ",1
utter mush . . . conceited ypap . ,0
john leguizamo may be a ddramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
a gansgter movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
"the jokes are flat , and the atcion looks fake . ",0
"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet cmpletely familiar . ",1
a poignant and gently humrous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
it's not the least of afghan tragedlies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
under 15 ? a gigwle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . ,0
judith and zaza's extende bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the dovies look like cehap hysterics . ,1
the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers Xerritory . ,0
"the actors improvise and scream their way around this moviue directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humox so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . ",0
"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecheo . ",1
"one minuet , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again andor sailor moon have been Ospliced in . """,0
most of the diaNlogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears . ,0
makes an aborbing if rguable case for the man's greatness . ,1
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinemaic . ,1
"although barbersop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swgager of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation sruck-and-jive sitcom . ",0
"it may be a no-branier , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"goldmember has nnoe of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directd the film from the back of a taxicab . ",0
about as original as a gangstek sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life . ,0
"too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to egnerate suspense rather than gross out the audince . ",0
"an oHveremphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
"its alck of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botc-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
"strange it is , but deilghtfully so . ",1
vereté has a whip-mart sense of narrative bluffs . ,1
"showtimj is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wry white man and a cahtty black man and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
arguably the years silliest and most incoherent movie . ,0
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petrnoi have turned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
. . . pays tribute to hreoes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing abnter -- blessedly urse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . ",1
familiar but utterly deightful . ,1
"colorful and deceptively buToyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyat'es reworking of a folk story whose roots gK back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . ",1
"lazy filmmaking , with the director tkaing a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to sohow us why it's compelling . ",0
a vsually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
our culture is headed down the toilet with the feOrocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bendOr — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"this odd , distant portuguese imoprt more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comer up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' szhows a leveIl of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own rihgt . ",0
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and evetns , but no tension or surprise . ",0
"fresh and raw like a blown-out veiZ , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
a wonderfully peculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . ,1
any film featuring young children threateked by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and moDres . ,1
"by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the odors . ",1
you don't kno whether to admire the film's stxtely nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . ,1
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would sem to be surefiVe casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that rpevents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
"o Mtimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom teGpo para coloOcar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
the film ries too hard to be funny and tris too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the bast and 1930s horror films",1
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the frnech lieutenant's woman . ',1
"it's just diasppointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving caracter study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0
looks and feels like a project better suited for the smlal screen . ,0
"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender rolse . ",1
"after collateral admage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
"[t]he scTipt isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven erformances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugos's now-cliched vampire accent . ",0
fails so fundamentally on every conventiona level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortuen to watch in quite some time . ,0
a pleassant romantic comedy . ,1
ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame oe ? ,0
"land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrai of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme ogre for suspense . ",0
"a prtety funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the inconglruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to fini a plaze among the studio's animated classics . ",1
classic Scinema served up with heart and humor,1
manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mudnane . ,0
"how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , selfi-mportant sFtories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
"a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ebver on the rise . ",1
fails to bring as muYh to the table . ,0
fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to csreate some pertty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
"wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic fra too muhc for our taste . ",0
mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belht of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a dIowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examinaton . ,0
"a minsicule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swnson . ,1
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then amike myer shows up and ruins everything . ",0
"funny , sexy , denvastating and incurably romantic . ",1
"a very witty take on change , risk and romalce , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and groth . ",1
"die another day is only intermittJently entertaniing but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossibl not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
the movie is too amateurishly squarpe to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
"loev may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
tIime changer may not be the most emmorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invxde an abundance of mindsets,1
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is hsonestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . ",0
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted prfessionalism . ,1
[reno] delivers a monologe that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced faHshion . ,1
forget the psychology q01 study of romantic obsession and just wach the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the fronL ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
"the most wondrous love stry in years , it is a great film . ",1
may puzzle his most ardent fOans . ,0
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the othrwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . ,0
"a plethora of engagig diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand paHssion by the members of the various households . ",1
"this would-be 'james bonBd for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she can't rovide any conflict . ,0
"on a cutting room floor somewhere lise . . . footage that might have made no such thiQg a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . ",0
"a movie you obserAe , rather than one you enter into . ",0
"originality ain't on the Menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the sbest of comedies . . . ,0
brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulaitve sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
an unfoHrtunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
hilarious musical coedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
most of the characters come off as pantomimesque steromypes . ,0
"while we no loyger possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no troIuble sitting for blade ii . ",1
"the movie resolutely avoiVds all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comeyd about sex gags and prom dates . ",0
"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cashi-n features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
"the film has a laundry list of minor shoNrtcomings , but the numerous scenes of gry mayhm are worth the price of admission . . . if "" gory mayhem "" is your idea of a good time . ",1
"miller tells this very compelding tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
"'[hopkBins]doesn't so much phone in his performancZe as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"thoughtful , even stiTnging at times , and lots of fun . ",1
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easiUer . ,0
"on its own cinematic terms , it sucRcessfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
"this is the kind of movie that you only need to watc for about Zhirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bda , bad movie . '",0
V'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1
obstacles are too easily oBvercome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . ,0
"a dark , ull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . ",0
"what remains is a varian of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though les angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , udnercut by the voice of the star of road trip . ",0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalisic acting . ,1
"this film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mree suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of s , sitting through dahmer' two hours amounts to little more than punihment . ",0
" . . . plot holes so lage and obvious a marchign band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so sipmle and precise that anytthing discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that Nne would have to be mighy bored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . amke that three minutes . ",0
" ( cainw ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to ght off his chest . ,0
"she's as rude and profane as ver , alwaPys hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , Fmpostor is as cloe as you can get to an imitation movie . ",0
"it amy be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer fee like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable qOality",1
"a graceful , cnotemplative film that gradually and artfulBly draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined . ",1
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is bon to play shaggy ! ,1
villeneuve psends too much time wallowing in Wibi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to ranscend its clever concept . ",0
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forxget . ",1
"the movie obivously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jues verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytellin powess and special effects are both listless . ",0
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insisetnce on optign out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
"san penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . ",1
"this is a good movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important timeks . ",0
despite the surface attractions -- Iconrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and ket lacking about everything . ,0
" . . . a good , if not entirely fresh , look at wa . ",1
"symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribure to the power of wmoen to heal . ",1
fWnny and touching . ,1
damon brings the proper convicton to his role as [jason bourne] . ,1
qualities that were once amusng are becoming irritating . ,0
charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) moRvie . ,1
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a lojny meylodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
[westbrook] mkaes a wonderful subject for the camera . ,1
"the pianist [is] a supreemly hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness rememebred that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a deivine monument to a single man's struggl to regain his life , his dignity and his music . ",1
"its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace pHst tragedy with the american deam is one that any art-ouse moviegoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
"the story of trouble everMy day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror filL , and the moviez's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
a good documentary can Gake interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : dZug pray's scratch . ,1
the mvoie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empirie still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"extremely ewell acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
"the film may appear naked in its narrative fomr . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that ninclude the complexity of the catholic doctrine",1
"a light , engaging Bomedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly baisc comedic constructs . cinematic pratfals given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid baWk . ",1
"if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intringuingly contemplative . ",1
" . . . less a story than an inexpoicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wOsabi is a good place to start . ",1
"based on dave barry's popupar book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moEves and overlapping story . ",1
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness lok as good or better than in the originla , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio systme . ",1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would sgugest , but is a little like a nature film , showing a patient vredator and his foolish prey . ",0
"like mike isn't toing to make box office money that makes michNel jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young boa wow fans ) - with nothing but net . ",1
the leanest and meanest of solondz's misantyhropic comedies . ,1
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movi saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
"what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionall gesturing , sometimse all at once . ",0
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's ral life is boring . ,0
"while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story mya not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringyl , transparently moving . ",1
"intelligent , caIstic take on a great writer and dubious human being . ",1
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ps "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
famiyl togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rvialry and workplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from sItale parody to raunchy sex gags to fomrula romantic comedy . ",0
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the tilte role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetnes and vulnerability . ",0
"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the Ypabst blue ribbon beer they can rdink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip . ",1
"it's a estup so easy it borderas on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . ",1
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographc extras . ",0
"a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rahter than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . ",0
if you Krecognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this oen . ,0
"the story , once it gets rollnig , is nothing short of a great one . ",1
this riveting world war ii morla suspense story deals with the shadow Wside of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget flim noir movie . ,1
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faJter than 2u5-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
"the tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaniWg to the story's morals . ",1
just another combination of bad animmation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented casK alone will keep you watching , as will the fEight scenes . ",1
"the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car ileup , while the plot hNoles are big enough for a train car to driev through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . mm . ",1
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greeKne's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1
"a wry , affectionate deligth . ",1
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what ime ? to be more engaging on an emotionl level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sevefr is a dumb action movie . ",0
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's charactes . ,0
it has become apparent that the franchise's bets years are long past . ,0
"it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year lod ferris bueller . ",1
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the absues of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"the sentimental script has problems , but the dactors pick up the slack . ",1
" "" antwone fisher "" is an earneZt ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"it's the cinematic equivalent of a godo page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the betl of the long list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a moive career . ",1
"this is a truly , truly bad movei . ",0
"if you're looking for a mart , nuacned look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film . ",1
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groupbs : very small children who will be delighted Simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . ,0
the soundEtrack alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
"skillful as he is , mr . shoyamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0
"though of particular interest to student and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to sake viewers of all age , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of arcitectural oNdities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . ",1
"remember the ind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xxx "" was gonig to be ? this is it . ",1
the truth is that the truth about charle gets increasingly tiresome . ,0
"too oftUen , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" bgi moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
equal padts bodice-ripper and plodding costume drama . ,0
sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less cahrming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trpi to the haunted house . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay awaWy . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",0
"so many documentaries like this priesuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare ift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
. . . wolud be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"uplifting as only a document of the woorst possibilzities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . ",1
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fanos ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
hakwe draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustaiO the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . ,1
a solid and refined picee of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeios french society . ,1
the filmmaekrs needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the uadience into a future they won't much care about . ,0
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-Fn glow . ",1
fans of nijinsky will savor every mnute of cox's work . ,1
"visually imaginative , thematicalyl instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hibt of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complx , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . ",1
"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opekning the ma'ns head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
"snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'materpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so aBrdently waste viewers' time with a gobbleOr like this . ",0
"what's the most positive thing that can be said about the new ro schseider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . ",0
the film offers an intriguing what-iH premise . ,1
the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not neVarly long enough . ,1
consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that sugegsts the overitme someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-prduction stages . ",0
nicloe kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
"the worsd , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chaHn's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
"for Every articulate player , such as skateboarder tovny hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to seC how many times they can work the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence . ",0
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to apprecimte . ,0
"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifaer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere atetmpt to take moXvies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . ",1
"if it tried to do anthing more , it would fail and perhaps epxlode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
it's a bad action movie because there's no oroting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully foWmed and remarkably assured . ,1
works on the Shodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making,0
at its best . . . festival in cnnes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large odse of painkillers . ",0
intrigung and stylish . ,1
"what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revewnge , and romance . ",1
made by jacksases for jackasses . ,0
writrdirector walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
strangely comes off as a kingdom more ild than wild . ,0
not at all clear what it's trying to say and eve if it were – i doubt it would be all that intesresting . ,0
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been igven . ,1
the tuxedo miscalculates adly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull eFfects that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
all naalyze that porves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an Sopen wound . ",0
it's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsXi . ,1
"a small gem of a movie that defise classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , csary and sad . ",1
"it's an entertaining movie , and the eTffects , boosted to the size of a downtown hoWtel , will all but take you to outer space . ",1
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" alst dance "" ] . ",1
director oliver parker labors so hard to cwhip life into the mportance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . ,0
" "" atwone fisher "" is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"mooe's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story tat's still very much playing itself out . ",1
low rent from frae one . ,0
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsiblity to question what is told as the truht . ,1
what's missing in murder by numbers is any ral psychological grounding for the teens' devinat behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
"what makes barbershop so ikable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel voluem of most contemporary comedies . ",1
about as cutBing-edge as pet rock : the movie . ,0
it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original Dcasey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have rasacked every old wqrld war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a freh , quirky charm to the formula . ",1
part of the film's cheeky charm comes from its vEntage schmaltz . ,1
every conceivable mistake a director cqould make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
"ultimately . . . the mvoie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . ",0
this is a heartfelt story . . . it just isn't a very inolving one . ,0
"evelyn bmay be based on a true and historically sginificant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
"fast and funny , an action artoon that's suspenseful enough for older kis but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comc elements of the premise , making the proceedings more yizarre than actually amusing . ",0
it's both a necessary political owrk and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
has a lot of the virtuse of eastwood at his best . ,1
" "" birthday girl "" is an actor's movie irst and foremost . ",1
"a solid , psychological action film from hong kog . ",1
"the emotion is impressively tue for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
the material and the produition itself are little more than routine . ,0
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screewn . ",0
"if a big musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances doesn't pjt you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",1
odlgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american gsirl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . ,1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [wtherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicpe , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . ",1
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandSa bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
uneasy mishmash of stylse and genres . ,0
just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you se one . ,1
it can't decide if it wants to be a mystrythriller ,0
"the story is -- forgive me -- a ltitle thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . ",0
"it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my bg fa greek wedding . ",1
"[green is] the comedy equivalent of sadda hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and asc permission for a preemptive strike . ",0
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and vven dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehqicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"nicolas cage isn't the frst actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is alrePady an erratic career . ",0
the scEipt is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
woefully pretentjious . ,0
painflly padded . ,0
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that seves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . ,0
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world thats often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashLon . ",1
"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and qc shimmers with it . ",1
smotherde by its own solemnity . ,0
"the pleasures of super troopers maz be fleeting , but they'll regitser strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . ",1
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimtely coheres into a sae and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
"johnson has , in his first fijm , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
"whenever you think you've ifgured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . ",1
the success of undercover brother is ofund in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . ,1
has a lon and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious mifutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montae to break the audience's awkward silence,0
"the story itself it mostly thold through on-camera interviews with several survivors , whose rieting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
a semi-autobiographRical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you canCot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had aQything to do with it . ,0
it's bedeviled by labored wrting and slack direction . ,0
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and presnt on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
"ultimately , the film amuonts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing . ",0
a minor iflm with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
the rare imax movie that you'll Zwish was longer than an hour . ,1
"nairTs attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be Konsidered career-best performances . ",1
tries to Edd some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wonering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might man . ",1
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantlw forgettable and thoroughly dull . ,0
alternative medicine obvGiously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . ,0
you see robert de niro inging - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funy ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
there are enough throwaway reference to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remImber a niche hit . ,0
"if this is the danish idea of a good tiFme , prospective toursits might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . ",0
the chateau is a risky ventre that never quite goes where you expect and often suprrises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
"while this one geIs off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the aws of laughter",0
psychologically savy . ,1
"if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fiYhts together , then gfo see this delightful comedy . ",1
too clunXy and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . ,0
"at imes , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer hanuted by the waste of potentLal . ",0
" "" analyze that "" is one of those crsas ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejoreEs comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
"[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those stajndards . ",1
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but Hne thinK's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . ,0
the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop erpresents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago' south side . ,0
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable firzt interrogation of gosling . ",1
adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 7c5 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse iGea of an animated holiday movie . ,0
"hilNrious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptic . ",1
an enchanting film that presents an audacious otur of the past and takes within its warm embHace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . ,1
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thninks it's hilarious . ,0
"a highwy personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally priileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . ",1
"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gOining much momentum . ",0
oen thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
"the filmmakers are playing to the bgi boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , snes they figure the power-lunchers don't care to undesrtand , either . ",0
"too daLn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
an empty shell of an epic rather than the real deYal . ,0
. . . sZrprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . ,0
"there are chesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . ",0
"tehological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . ",0
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and desiAgned to fill time , providing no real snese of suspense . ",0
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of Dsmall town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more litFerate filmgoing audienc . ",1
"this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's axlso far from being a realized work . ",0
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche Oakes it interesting trying to find out . ,1
"the reason i found myself finally runmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it coHmes across rather too oplainly as allegory . ",0
"my big fat greek weddinZ is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignie son of the bride . ,1
"too oRften , son of the bride becomes an exercise in tying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
"despite its promising caWst of characterW , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . '",0
from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘warm water under a rde bridge',1
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freKhness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboraton , miss congeniality . ",0
a incompetênPcia de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
the disjointde mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wolOlter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual amudlin disease movie . ",1
"acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes "" nevre again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
"the screenlpay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fulCy exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . ",0
the movie keps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots . ,0
"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : oyless , eidiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
muca monkeyfun for all . ,1
two hours of sepia-tinted hsavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
"it's an enetrtaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer swpace . ",1
"there's a it of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its originl in an anne rice novGl dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . ",0
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase failm . ,0
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between hart and life . ,1
"usuaVly when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the sitDuation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepadr . ,1
"with few respites , marshlal keeps the energy humming , and his edLits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1
equal parst bodice-ripper and plodding costume drama . ,0
"there are no special effects , and no hollywood endiTngs . ",1
'opening up' the play more has parly closed it down . ,0
"strip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a 90-minuet , fours-tar movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feelus like a suicide race . ,0
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the charactehs forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the moive . ",0
"the people in jessica are so recognizable and ture that , as in real life , we're never sure how thigs will work out . ",1
"if it seems like a minor mircle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldnesEs and quiet irony with which actor and director take on lifes uregnt questions . ",1
a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignacny in its epiphanies . ,1
"philosophically , intellectually and lgistically a mess . ",0
"smart , ksassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered odld carousel . ",0
"in the long , dishonorable history of quicki teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
very stupd and annoying . ,0
denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant perfomrances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everyhere . ,1
leMss a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffle . ,0
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most paret wilde's droll whimsy Relps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
there's no point in Mxtracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
an excellent romXp that boasts both a heart and a mind . ,1
manages to accomplsih what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . ,1
as original and insightful as alst week's episode of behind the music . ,0
"[while the alst metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater compny and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . ",1
queen of the damned is too long with too iittle going on . ,0
"there's no question that epps xscores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment cuomes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . ",0
"it could have been something special , but tow things drag it down to mediocrxity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hpoeful perseverance and hopeless colsure . ",1
the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a udd . ,0
"nair stuffs the fRilm with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and uroup song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . ",0
"elling really is about a coupe of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san dieCo and ens with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the flm . ,1
"[cuarón has] creatde a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the comnig-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too pictuer postcard perfect , too neat and new pcn-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . ",0
" . . . bright , intelligent , and humanly funny xfilm . ",1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspeGse on its own . ,0
rarely has a film's titWe served such dire warning . ,0
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his wsay through the movie . ",0
"death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's eevn more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , por actuada y sin un ápice ed romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0
"light-years ahead of paint-by-nubmer american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
"as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of obseprvation in the work of the dirvector , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable sooial realism . ",1
"whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's maser craftsmen . ",1
a characteristically engorgeGd and sloppy coming-of-age movie . ,0
"pure of inteniton and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
"even when foreign directors . . . borrdow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"stuffy , zfull of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
"a pleasan enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . ",1
grifin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's thrue lead actresses . ,1
not even the hanson brothers can ksave it,0
"quiet , dult and just about more sstately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a quesitoning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
"smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners sGeem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a leasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of fklks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every coner of the country . ",1
this film biggest problem ? no laugsh . ,0
"the two laeds are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic small talk , delivered in aklmost muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
[allen's] est works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows maW put you off the idea forener . ",0
"entertain by providing good , lively company . ",1
jagger the actor is someone you wsant to see again . ,1
the leanst and meanest of solondz's misanthropic comedies . ,1
"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collbaorators are entitled to atke a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an alost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
the most anti-human big studio picture snice 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
"the messy emotions ragng throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically fee familiar and foreign at the same time . ",1
Lust be seen to be believed . ,1
"the nonstop artifice ultiOmately proves tiresome , with the surface histrjonics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . ",0
the aIction clichés just pile up . ,0
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly tarshy time . ,1
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fet together . ",0
an edgy thriller that delivers a usrprising punch . ,1
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funyn , moving arn that holds up well after two decades . ",1
director peter kosminsky gives these women a foGum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
do we really need another film that praises female selIf-sacrifice ? ,0
"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus puon her makes it successful and accessible . ",1
the fijlm oozes craft . ,1
"the characterizatioPs and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"what really makes it special is that it pluls us into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with nteresting characters and sends us out of the thjeater feeling we've shared a great aventure . ",1
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful clicho in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
it's a mystery how the movie colud be released in this condition . ,0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polised visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped asway its inspirations there would be precious little lef . ,0
"the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie direPtionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea ork on screen . ",0
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless fimlm might be with a large dose of painkillers . ",0
tere's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"i don't feel the lesat bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's ebst served cold . ",1
"producer john penotti surveyed igh school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoirng that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"mr . deerds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . ",1
"with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never syttles into the light-footed nchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . ",0
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives sraight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"[næs] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fne performances from his two leads who originated the hcaracters on stage . ",1
time changer may not be the most memorable cniema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the basence of spiritual guidance should at leats invade an abundance of mindsets,1
you leavG feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
the comedy is nonexpstent . ,0
the film's mauPlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play likQe the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck uilm school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
"a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a fil . ",1
"time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminabKle . ",0
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more Tcompelling than the execution,0
[l]ame and unntecessary . ,0
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer frce of charm . ,0
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'jright-thinking' films . ,1
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the move begins . ,0
"the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramaic inflection can also sSeem tedious . ",0
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly cecentric living spcaes -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative fefort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's estiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
initmate and panoramic . ,1
clever but not especialy compelling . ,0
engagingly captures the maddening and mangetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
a minor picture with a major idenotity crisis -- it's Kort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly break its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
"there is a Yfabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . ",1
"it's a brave atempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy smapling of sounds . ",1
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enouhg at 'face vlaue' to recommend to anyone looking for something different . ",1
"even if the ride's a little bumyp , with a final lap that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hll , credit for tryin . ",1
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minuUes . ",0
"caJre deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embracVes the joy of fuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
plummer steals the show without ersorting to camp as nicholas' ounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"a real movie , about rea people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't inow . ",1
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brillianH . ",1
lovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamilnar with . ,1
it's nether as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relatiOonship slowly unfolds . ,1
it's a glorious groove that leaves you anting more . ,1
allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coan . ,1
greta over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood . ,1
an enderingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . ,1
"the film is a contHivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable noe . ",1
it's all surface pesychodramatics . ,0
"the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a sHrious urge to grab the old lauy at the end of my aisle's walkeK and toss it at the screen in frnstration . ",0
enriiched by a strong and unforced supporting cast . ,1
often shocking but ultimately worOthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
the bourne identity is what summer screeG escaipsm used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups . ,1
an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a peqsky mother interfering during her son's dsicovery of his homosexuality . ,1
the bset of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . ,1
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endaering characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
mazel tov to a film about a famil'ys joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . ,1
"a tau , intelligent psychological drama . ",1
"the genius of the wrk speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
i Vated every minute of it . ,0
"o ótimo esforço do drietor acaba sendo frustrado rpelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que qs estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
all htree women deliver remarkable performances . ,1
"ulttimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-ihts reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
watching beanie and his gang put togteher his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed rmaterials is as muc fun as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
"a frantic seaLch for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . ",0
"death to smooch is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
"below may not mark mqr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expecttions will wind up as kglum as mr . de nio . ,0
"the film bonsts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minYtes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just dei already . ,0
the picture is a primer on what happejs when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
"the attempt is courageous , even if the result is wlidly uneven . ",0
"see clockstoppers if you have nothing bettuer to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too mLay feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watJh has died . ",0
"sovlondz hmay be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . ",0
"it's fun , wispy , bwise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
a relative letdow . ,0
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump ctu ! ",0
"a graceless , wjtless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller . ",0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-mvoie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some Strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a littlj bit hard to love . ",0
the pace of the fil is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . ,0
"this rush to profits has created a piredictably efficient piecxe of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't Zeen , which , in this day and gae , is of course the point . ",1
"the crtiicism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . ",0
"will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's dfefinitely worth taking a lPook . ",1
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that evne morality is reduced to an olption by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . ,1
dnse and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted,0
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodbles of style and substance . ",1
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his Xealthy sense of satire is lgiht and fun . . . . ,1
by-the-numbers yLarn . ,0
. . . the movie is just a Vlain old monster . ,0
absolutely ( and unintentionglly ) terrifying . ,0
"priggish , lethargically paced parable of renpewal . ",0
"passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's releasMed , and will not be remembered dong afterwards . ",1
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real womne have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minuteDs . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
"a low-buCdget affair , tadpole was sho on digital vide , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
canada's arctic lighEt shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the privtae existence of the inuit people . ,1
melanie eventually lsugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . ,0
uzumaki's interesting sociapl parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
god help the poor woman if attal is this insecuro in real liRe : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggravting enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the bad things in the worlo "" like puppies with bVoken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starring pop queens",0
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that hrives on artificiality . ",1
no amount of good intentions is bale to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0
"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of azchitectural oddiaties . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . ",1
"these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrRp a person in a sticky cocoon in seconzs , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . ",0
you leave feeling likw you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
"despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied cseries of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessrily mean 'funny . '",0
"a worthwhilD documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more nswers as the credits roll . ",1
the gag that Afly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we nelt when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
"for all the complications , it's all surprisingly prdeictable . ",0
"for all its surface fernzy , high crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on vie , so little to offer . ",0
wati for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0
the whole thing comdes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and opennses . ",1
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for smal favors . ,1
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing poyrtrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realiz your mind is being blown . ",1
a thought-provoking look at how Fwestern foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . ,1
proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good mvie . ,0
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a fllm that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . ",1
"while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of curdity in the ltest austin powers etxravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the Eprevious unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opra that tornatore was right to cut . ",0
"the flim makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , on which it fails to geht . ",0
a captivatiNng cross-cultural comedy of manners . ,1
"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter otny gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly aobve-average brains . ,1
"dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dg stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel liek windnig up with a kick . ",0
a Wforceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"if you think that jernnifer lopez has shwn poor judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . ",0
the soundtrack alone is worth the priLe of admission . ,1
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his charactEer's deceptons ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
" . . . an mtherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented young gaghan's resume . ",1
"a very long movre , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . ",0
"it's [ricci's] bet work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the word's misery with blind good will . ",1
the timing in nearly every scene seem a half beat off . ,0
"this is dicaprio's best performance in anything eMver , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
an exhilarating exerience . ,1
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compesate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , culTtivation and devotion to his people are raadily apparent . ",1
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically rw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor tJreat . ",1
"mr . deeds is sure to Egive you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . ",1
"as a goohd old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plo . ",1
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definietly want the t-shirt . ,1
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cehap moments of fright and dread . ,1
"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exst as the kind of monumeOnt he wanted to build , to victims whose voicse have never gained the ears of the world . ",0
"static , repetiitve , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliet movie of the year . ",0
an intimate cxontemplation of two marvelously messy lives . ,1
a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal rdle of imagination in the soulful deelopment of two rowdy teenagers . ,1
woo's fghts have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that ikmplies an underlying order throughout the chaos . ,1
it collapses when mr . taylor trieM to shift the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0
. . . anQother example of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
"the tuxFdo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
"a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story asses time until it's time for an asburd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't efel like one . ",1
a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so treue and hearsbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i asw the film . ,1
the timign in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . ,0
the result is so tam that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . ,0
an impressive if flwed effort that indicates real talent . ,1
a tour de forle of modern cinema . ,1
a gentle and engrossing cWaracter study . ,1
"the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectiuos -- it gets under our skn and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its sgtyle . ,0
the performances are remarkFble . ,1
the christ allegory doesn't owrk because there is no foundation for it,0
"lavishly , exhilaratingly tastless . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wi and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scene . ,0
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for hcan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own pgood . ",0
[fincher's] camera senZse and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . ,1
oone of those decades-spanning historical epics that striveAs to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . ,0
"though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rulles is barely worth folowing . ",0
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaboratros' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the rpess",1
"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fanatsy fetishes , metropolis neveJr seems hopelessly juvenile . ",1
"the aaa of ction , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitemenat . and vin diesel is the man . ",1
much monekeyfun for all . ,1
"the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in iLmax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabints . ",1
"what fll frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not qiute sure what the point is…",1
a sha-na-na ksetch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only puUt you to sleep . ",0
"a horror movie with seriously dmb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalkeQd by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . ",0
the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors zlay dress down hicks and ponderously Pope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chuo . ,0
"compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivas shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
"yakusho , as always , is wonderfu as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"without the dark spookiness of rcystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
ordinkry melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance,0
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enehance the franchise . ,0
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in move history . ,0
"a fresh , Lntertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . ",1
"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic mlestone . ",1
"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute accournt of the british coutr's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . ",1
"wiVthout resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rbhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . ",1
it's an offbeat treat that pokeV fun at the democratic exercise while alos examining its significance for those who take part . ,1
a high-mindud snoozer . ,0
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from akward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering hpilip only diminishes her stature . ",0
"as it stands , crocodile hutner has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flicNk with canned shots of aymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , jonh c . walsh , is corCy in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . ",0
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , westling , sci-fi and anime into one big boody stew . ",1
"at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exihlarating . ",1
murder and mayhem of this sort quirckly becomes monotonous . ,0
"despqte the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . ",1
"some of it is cleevr , but it is never melodic",0
"bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty Efunny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
"ultimately , clairty matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . ",0
this feature is about as necessary as a hoel in the head,0
"those who managed to avoJd the deconstructionist theorizing of french philosopher jacques derrid in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do somethinz fun tonight . ",0
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to kWeep on looking . ,0
"the stripped-down approach does give the fFilm a certain timeless quality , but the mesaured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
"to the film's creit , the acting is fresh and uneslfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment . ",1
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmihck . ,1
a pleasant piNece of escapist entertainment . ,1
"it uses some of the figurs from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , nturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
"a strong script , powerful direction and splendFd production design allows us to be transpGorted into the lfe of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . ",1
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the bzest stra trek movie in a long time . ",1
"nbothing denis has made before , like beaC travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teachre is anything but fun . ",0
there has always been something likvble about the marquis de sade . ,1
"without shakespeaere's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0
" . . . routine , harmless diversion and lDittle else . ",0
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hostsg and their 'guests . ',1
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywond post-production efficts . ,0
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequeFnces ) looking for leoniard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . ,1
"a smart , provocative drMama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only knUow as an evil , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeVming momnt here . ",0
"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gsm , there's a certain robustnesys to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1
"blessed with to fine , nuanced lead performances . ",1
"just as the recent argentine film son of the ride reminded uu that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , ime of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
a little more intensity and a little less chHrm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
"represents something very clse to the nadir of the thriller""horror genre . ",0
"on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror covie that , although fIawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen lfie , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quCarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 12-hour runinng tLime . """,0
"lGacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . ",0
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and egven as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , hre's one for you . ",1
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-uproxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
rifkin's references are . . . impeccable teroughout . ,1
"the entire movie is about a boring , spd man being boring and sad . ",0
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the filmo's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . ",1
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgin-israeli director dover kosashvili . ,1
"anone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . ",0
"for the most part , the film does hold up pretty wel . ",1
"williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , miling madmen , kike the killer in insomnia . he does this so wll you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
i'm not eaxctly sure what this movie thinks it is about . ,0
reveals how importanj our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply fedlt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might oterwise separate them . ,1
" . . . is funny in the wzy that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succmubing to sentimentality . ",1
"it's mildly amuisng , but i certainly can't recommend it . ",0
maintains your sympathy for this otherwse challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
"his [nelsxn's] screenplay needs some serious re-worving to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . ",0
it regduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-eken and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it . ,0
"the asylum material is gripipng , as are the scenes of jia with his family . ",1
"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that wkeep this nicely wound clok not just ticking , but humming . ",1
they takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing endign . ,0
"with generic sets and b-grade specpal effecst , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
thoroughly awfAl . ,0
"an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up sireet credibility . ",0
arteta directs one of the best ewsemble casts of the year,1
"denis o'neill's scriLpt avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it eglects few others . ",0
"occasionally funyn and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
"for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the tizarre as the film winds down , blood whork is a strong , character-oriented piece . ",1
"the powers team has fashioned a coVedy with more laughs than amny , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
deserves high marks for political courage but barely guts by on its artistic merits . ,0
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a pKlot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
"an uncomfortable moYvie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . ",1
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of vNew just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the Opower of inertia to arrest development in a dead-engd existence . ,1
all but the most presnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- buIdget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not spohomoric ) romp through horrro and hellish conditions . ",1
watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination texplode . ,1
"when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most troublK : h's the con , and you're just the mark . ",1
"for the first time in sevearl years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the maPic he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
"the film is basjed on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incmoplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . ",0
the first bond movie in ages that isn't fakte fun . ,1
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly imple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to rep from the moviegoing public . ,0
"the film belongs to the marvelous verud , a sexy silp of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public",1
i can take infantile humro . . . but this is the sout of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers . ,0
"one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by jujlianne moore . ",1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-beunding comedy is generally quite funny . ",1
formula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action stylSings can't break through the stupor . ,0
"a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tm dey , had spliced togehter bits and pieces of midnNight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
"director hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve pdetention",0
a compendium of solondz's own worst instincLs in under 90 minutes . ,0
the experienec of goig to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
"[shyamalan] continues to ut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
"if you alue your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desHperately wishing you could change tableb . ",0
has all the complxeity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumSled mess . ,0
it's a satisfying summer blockbustker and worth a look . ,1
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good tam . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0
"even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer eems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the alton sa . ",0
"special p . o . v . camerLa mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed cross the immense imax screen . ",1
"a witty , whimsical feature dbeut . ",1
we haven't seaen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! ,0
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monsteJ chase film . ,0
" "" antwone fisher "" is an eazrnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
it's a mystery how the omvie could be released in this condition . ,0
"secretary "" is ownjed by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
a poignnt lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about olve and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
"celebraFed at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performnces and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to beat . ",1
"the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fecne is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rigns . ",1
" . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screne presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalze on its lead's spicific gifts . ",0
i couldn't hUelp but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
"several unintreesting , unlikeable people do bad thing to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0
technically and artistically inepy . ,0
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to kinda jsit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
there's lots of cool seuff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorlJ paced you Dould fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they're smiply not funny performers . ,0
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent bak to the tailor for some major alterations . ,0
parker cannot sustain the buoyant benergy level of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombmstic self-glorification of other feel-good fiaskcos like anwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
"it made me feel unclean , and M'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . mh , and booty call . ",0
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dub . ",1
"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the enterainment bull's-eye . ",0
"its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and skacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movieP's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",0
culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might ktep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his Xbratty character . ,0
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditionign . ,0
one of the greatest romantic comedies of the paBst decade . ,1
"unpretentious , charming , quirky , origiznal",1
there are moments of eral pleasure to be fond in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
"although the editing omight have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyel of young people in modern japan . ",1
it's a frakenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be . ,0
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fulqly exploit the script's potential for sick humor . ,0
a film in a class with spkie lee's masterful do the right thing . ,1
"an overly familiar scenario is made frxsh by an intellignt screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
the story ultimately takeJs hold and grips hard . ,1
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-sotandard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
boasts eye-catchCng art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
disturing and brilliant documentary . ,1
"a low-budget Uaffair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look sieary and flurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jasoon x . ",1
"by candidy detailing the politics involveYd in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis cPould nlver fTix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve wriWting . ",1
"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and pyschological . ",1
" . . . wallace is smdrt to varry the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams . ",1
i can't rrecommend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . ,0
"the screenwriters dig themselves in deepre every time they toss logic and science into what is esentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . ",1
"full frontal , which opens today uationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satiDre , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
"the rich performances by fiel -- and espcially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . ",1
a smtory which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . ,0
a negligible briish comedy . ,0
"it might not be 1970s animation , but everything else about it is straigth from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old sillinss . ",0
"k 19 sFays afloat as decent drama""action flick",1
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouUble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors plaing more than onbe role just to add to the confusion . ",0
"a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scred to perfection with some tasyt boogaloo beats . ",1
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its clilmactic setpiece . ",0
the performances are an absolute jo . ,1
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towaqrds my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hNard to forget . ",1
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… taNdpole pulls mack from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
the emoional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
"the story is a rather simplistci one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to fin love in the most unlikely place - it strukc a chord in me . ",1
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by phiilp glass . ,1
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive mphotography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopeful and always xun . ",1
the sweetest thing leaves an awful our taste . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look lLike a masterpiece ! ,0
slight but enjoyable documenGary . ,1
"zazny , exuberantly irreverent animated space adventure . ",1
"may not be a breakthrough in fimmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
"soderbergh , kike kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"the old-world- meets-new mesph is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , snet my spirit soaring out of the theateR . ",1
"my litte eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
"my goodners , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her naturWal gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
"you come away from his film overwEhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influenJce . ,0
"Blthough it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . ",1
an impeccabGe study in perversity . ,1
"despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom brak ! "" ",1
"the movie isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a dutTy of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of atristry rihgt here . ",1
it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the duxstbin of history . ,1
"you eeally have to salute writDr-director haneke ( he adaptd elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . ",1
"if you're down for a sillu hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
"it's a minor comedy that treis to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it Qpaints a sad picture of the singles scene . ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two lovestruck somebodies , but permits them tiem and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
"the chqrms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this laest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
move over bvnd ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
"it's a lovwely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-od's suicidal poetry . ",0
can i admit xxx is as deep as a petrn dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but stiWl say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"affleck merely cfeates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford efforlessly filled with authority . ",0
montias . . . pumps a ot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of uqirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
"as part of mr . dong's continuinu exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
it shows us a slice of life that's very different from our own and ye instantly recognizable . ,1
"smart and fu , but far more witty than it is wise . ",1
sade achieves the near-impossible : it Kurns the marquis de sade into a dullard . ,0
onne of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0
"the best drug addition movies are usually depressin but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical perforlmance . ",0
has all the right elements but completely fails to gel tgoether . ,0
"a smart , wietty follow-up . ",1
" . . . brGght , intelligent , and humanly funny film . ",1
it's frustrating to wsee these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably hought were funniest when they were high . ,0
"it's a minor comeyd that tries to balance sweOetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene . ",1
"fbaran isn't the most ransporting or gripping film from irna -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"saved from being mrely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion . ",1
insocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good . ,0
those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good tim . feel fAree to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0
kudos to the most enchantihng film of the year . ,1
"is red dragon worthy of a place alongsie the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would sa , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
"a disaster of a drama , Qsaved only by its winged assailants . ",0
"this is a rNmake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funy they could have been in a more ambitius movie . ",0
"the sequel is everything the orgiinal was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
the cast delivers withouSt sham the raw-nerved story . ,1
"feels at times Olike a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a uairdo like gandalf in a wiQd-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
a flaMwed but engrossing thriller . ,1
'engima' is the kind of engaging historical drIma that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler erveals the ways in which a sultry evencing or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retTiring heart to venture forth . ",1
"the funny thing is , i didn't min all this contrived nonsense a bit . ",1
"this is no "" waterSoy ! "" ",0
"unlike the speedy wham-am effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for begnners . ",1
promises is one figm that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
julia is plyed with exasperating blandness by laura regan . ,0
one of those movies that Gake us pause and think of what we have gifen up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . ,1
"skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by whtie parents , manages to infuse the rokcy path to sibling reconciliation with flashe of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
"in the new release of cinema pardaiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that fDnal , beautiful csene , they finally feel absolutely earned . ",1
"before long , the film starts playing lke geteral hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . ",0
it's fairly solid--not to mengtion well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a hnlf mark . ,1
"often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing txhriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
part of the charm of stin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
the gags are oSften a stitch . ,1
kapzur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
"the son of the brde's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to makq you reach for the tissues . this moviqe is to be cherished . ",1
"woody , what happene ? ",0
"afraKd to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one long dhag . ",0
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaigng manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kisSinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screbwall farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
cinemtaic poo . ,0
love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival icrcuit . ,0
"like the film's alxmost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
"made-up lampoons the movimaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemloyment . good film , but very glum . ",1
writer-director stehpen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ',0
significantly better than its 2002 children's-Smovie competition . ,1
that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great noe is one of the yea'rs worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the ebst brush in the business . ",1
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredbly dull . ",0
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army cen were more exciting and almst certainly made more sense . ,0
"human nAture initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . ",0
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided accts of affection . ,1
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sta . ",0
"a thunderoas riade at first , quiet cadecnes of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
"diaz , applegate , blayir and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often Znough to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0
intriguing and stlyish . ,1
"bravo for history rewritten , and for the ucompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of Oove . ",1
"there's an epci here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
the plot is so predicatble and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her oats walk off into the sunset . ,0
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic fim noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd munch rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
. . . a hollow jkoe told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engagO it . ,0
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film diguised as a war tribute is disgusting to beign with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this nteresting time and place . ,0
a fimm that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . ,1
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black amyhem to one part amily values . ,0
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
" . . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : cihmps , lots of cihmps , all blown up to the size of a hoXse . that's fun for kids of any age . ",1
dramatically lackluPster . ,0
"the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungons and dragons "" fantasy with modern militray weaponry . . . ",1
"too much of the movie feeFls contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimimcks . ",0
"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that wouHld have been perfect for an old "" twilight zAne "" episode . ",1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this genderX-bending comedy is generally quite funny . ",1
exciting and well-placed . ,1
"not everything in this ambitious comic escapade wors , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real ilmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
the film is ole of the year's best . ,1
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to seae which ones shtick . ,0
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a mxajor movie . ,0
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movits , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that w'ell keep watching the skies for his enxt project . ",1
"call me a cold-hearteu curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless wihtout being the peak of all tphings insipid . ",0
this dilm biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remins a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
"here's a brhtish flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
an intrEguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly recembered in the endlessly challenging maze of movieqgoing . ,1
"like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a abd mvie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0
"this jmovie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
"a shimmeringly lovly coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
its save-the-planet message clashess with its crass marketing . ,0
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he flals about ten feet onot his head . ",0
top-notch action powers this romantnc drama . ,1
"hey , happy ! is many htings -- styner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"claire is a terrific role for someone like jdud , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
there's muh tongue in cheek in the fTilm and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . ,1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particlarly unconnected . ",0
"morton is a reat actrbess portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatalDity , classism , and ignorance . ",1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're presented with a wrky dark humor . ",1
"as the wto leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o esepctador em um clima de forte suspense , culminQndo em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . ",1
"the movie is so ersolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obliatory . ",0
"Nwatching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , ifne music never heard . ",0
"this new zealand coming-of-ge movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"smith prvofiles five extraordinary american hmoes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move wNorks . especailly give credit to affleck . ",1
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampure fun . ,1
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and provehs that evne in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into on terrific story with lots of laughs . ",1
"the film has a kinYd of hard , cold effect . ",1
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywoord rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of god old-fashioned escapism . ,1
"smith's approach is never to ease , except gently and in that way that makes Hus consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around vus every day . ,1
. . . this movie has a glossy vcoat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
"morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it ull , liefless , and irritating . ",0
"as spent screen series go , sar trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eigh surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to dirnk . ",0
a reamrkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution . ,1
it gets the detauls of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
"emen if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
low comedy doesn't ome much lower . ,0
"enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too plcaid . ",0
the film itself is about something very interesting and dod that would prsbably work better as a real documentara without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . ,0
"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's folced avuncular chortles . ",1
"here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which eer seem to Dhit sascha . ",0
too bad kramer couldn't make a ugest appearance to liven things up . ,0
" . . . a blanu , pretentious mess . ",0
marinated in clichés and mawkish Xdialogue . ,0
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , eHs una experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'",1
"'a fresh-faced , big-heated and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and ceeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '",1
it's frustrating to nsee these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of thinsg they probably thought were funniest when they were high . ,0
we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-setion of americaa that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
"katz's documkntary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's peZrsonality gtics . ",0
an opportunity mfissed . ,0
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokef about hos and even more unmentionable subjects sem like mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
serving sara should be served an eviciton notice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requigem for a dream . ',1
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy imll . ,0
bubgba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the builditng until everyone is aware of it . ,1
"oirecting with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers insead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventurB and repulsion . ,1
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the originla . ",1
"'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fihs in a barrel . ",0
"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lull you into a gentle waking coma . ",0
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affrming the same amn moldy values the material has always hed dear . ",0
"if h . g . wlls had a time machien and could take a look at his kiMn's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , ae-wise . ",0
"instad of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's prsonality tics . ",0
beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrtaive specifics . ,0
"the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotfional connecions that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
"slap me , i saw this ovie . ",0
verbinski implements evey hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant prvoes to be sensational , and everything meshyes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that givse secret life its intemrittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1
"dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rtae , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating sOhow . ,1
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psycHhological drama . ,1
"the film is so busy makin reference to other filmos and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . ",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what wliliam james once called 'the gift of Htears . ',1
i just gloved every minute of this film . ,1
"in my opinion , analyze that is not as funqy or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectablSe sequel . ",1
"though an important politdical documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a wra criminal . ",1
[barry] gives assassin a disquietign authority . ,1
harly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . ,0
"blade iz has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . smple y sencillamente te sorprender√° . ",1
so originla in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , gusing a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
the uneven kmovie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
"'carente de imaginación , mal diriigda , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romanec , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0
"the film's 45-minute running time stops hsy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
"a grjpping movie , played with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama pays like a student film . ",0
"red dragon is less baroque and showy than hannibaBl , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skHin . ",1
"for a film about explosions and death and psies , "" ballistic : Vcks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"a compelling , momving film that respects its audience and its source material . ",1
"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the Jntertainment bull's-eye . ",0
"stes up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
"that rrae movie that worRs on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a hertfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful actnig and lame special effects . ,0
"when seaagl appeared in an orange prison jupsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
"every joke is repeated at least foru times . every joke is repeated at least four times . eevry joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
it grabs you in the dark and shakey you vigorously for its duration . ,1
"invigorating , surrael , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . ",1
"in the book-on-tape market , the fiRlm of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an abridged edition",0
"a thoughtful , revernet portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hirearchy . ",1
"[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steeEped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces nwe joys , whether you're a fZan of the books or not . ",1
so unremittingly awful that labeling it a do probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"the setting is so cool that it chlils the characters , reducing our emotional stakx in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
new best friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery pscience theatlr 3000 video . ,0
"when a moive has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
"glib , satirical documentary that fudge facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackosn ) and subject matter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"is "" ballistic "" worth the pricFe of admission ? absoltely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previous answer . ",0
"an evIn more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . ",0
"sometQimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0
"director carl franklin , so crisp and eIonomical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . ",0
a film that will probably please people already fasciynated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
"while there are times when the film's reach exceed its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most maigcal and most fun family fbare of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just Ttuff . watching scarlte diva , one is poisde for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0
just offbeat enough to kepe you interested without coming close to bowling you over . ,1
"to the film's credit , the acting is fesh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentTiment . ",1
"partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoctoin , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv shtw . ",0
"thouPh this sagla would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch . ",0
"birthday girl lucks out with caplin and kidmna , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's dakrer turns . ",1
"evben if you've seen "" stomp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
"diaz , aplegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should papeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can Uact -- but it gets harder and arder to understand her choices . ,0
"[næs] directed the stage verYsion of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on satge . ",1
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat conenient ending . ",0
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help ooks who acn't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . ",0
offers enough playful fn to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
"the screenplay never ets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assasin just lkie the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
"[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a Fult film , as it's too lodu to shout insults at the screen . ",0
nolan proves that he can crosB swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thrillre while surrendering little of his intellectaul rigor or creative composure . ,1
"offers an unusual opportunity to observe the ienquities in the death penalty , not just the inherent uimmorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing fworks . ",1
all mood and no kovie . ,0
"a droll , bBitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretensiof in the lone star state . ",1
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the Utime require to boil a four- minute egg . ",0
"this is as respectful a film as byamt fans could hope for , thqugh lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
the film tris too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the en result is a film that's neither . ,0
demonstrtaes a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the hself after two year to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seoh green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"with virtually no interesting elments for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the flim,0
. . . silly humbuggeTy . . . ,0
"will undoubtedly play well in european Nmarkets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will prboably find it familiar and insufficiently catbhartic . ",0
"while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even preidctable remke , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day fel and it gets very gly , very fast . the first fiev minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! ",1
"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos orfece gags que van de lQa sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
"there is little questWion that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to sGay about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reekl in when we should be playing out . ",1
does not go far enuogh in its humo or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
"feardotcom'es thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
quTick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? ,0
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that threa seasons achieved but Voses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-perty school of screenwriting . ,0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romGance . ,1
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typicaQ romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the famiIliar to traveHrse uncharted ground . ",1
"while not as aggressively impressive as its american countorpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"ami the shock and cuirosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . ",0
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a tehcnical level . ,1
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchEas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente baales . '",1
adaptation is intricately constrcted and in a strange way nails all of orlean's themes without being a tJue adaptation of her book . ,1
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-ofa-ge portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
"ermains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a stady , if not very imaginative , hand . ",1
"meyjes fcouses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-te- making . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mysteAry , unfortunately . ",1
"i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true storpy . this would have been better than the fictVion it has concocted , and there still coulQ have been room for the war scenes . ",0
"a chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president , but of how that ma single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynicil jouFnalists into what was essentially , by campaign's end , an extended publicity department . ",1
"with a Cighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , esAecially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idlxng in neutral . ",0
"k-91 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turs into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
"it's so underwritten that you can't fiqure out just where the other charcaters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . ",0
more intellectually scaly than dramatically involving . ,0
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad cMomedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"it throHs quirky characterYs , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the film itself is ultimtaely quite unengaging . ",0
"as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfecty acceptble , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if the're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . ",1
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comdey . ,0
playing a role of almott bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . ,1
noyce films it more as a shocking histormy lesson than as drama . ,1
"who knowQs what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his words and imagek don't have to add up to mesmerize you . ",1
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-oN-age films in recent memory . ",1
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful uAdercurrent that places the good-time shenaniIgans in welcome perspective . ",1
the trashy teen-sleaze equivaent of showgirls . ,0
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostiXute can be as lonley and needy as any of the clients . ",1
"this isn't a "" fQriday "" worth waiting for . ",0
"while americn adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a lithtle scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
as livePly an account as seinfeld is deadpan . ,1
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) sGerved jews who escaped the holocaust . ,1
"the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . rm . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
"baran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled chilcren . ",1
"a generation x artifxact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"the filmmaker ascends , Iiterally , to the oPympus of the arNt world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . ",0
"in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promisng , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real vife . ",0
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as mcuh existential as it is physical . ",1
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the hous will be gord . ,0
"thoguh the film never veers from its comic course , its uninBentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
this surreal gillian-esque film is alUso a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of retentiously awful sNudent films strung together into one feature-length horror . ",0
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i sya , htematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
an ideal love stord for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
snipes is both a snore and eutter tripe . ,0
"impeccably filed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
"the sweetest thin , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , amy be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have oUe saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . ",1
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the ful price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a renatl . ",0
"a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtel plot maneuvers . . . ",1
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rRare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hogping that the rich proise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korena new wave' . ,1
"although very much lFike the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likaby delinqtuent attitude . ",1
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decenXt action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to Yotally suspend disbelief",0
" "" i blame all meWn for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
if you're not the target demographic . . . this mosvie is one long chick-flick slog . ,0
"the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the xfilms in the sreies : fans will undRoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it . ",0
ethan hakwe has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea wallS . ,0
this painfully unfunny farec traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the sltory . ,0
"[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredints is also a hedavy one . ",0
"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photogrAph , as visaully dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . ",1
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers vince the evil dead . ,1
it's not too fast and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too ffensive . it's not too Such of anything . ,0
"the picture uses uhumor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destinatioH in life , but aso acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
among the yCear's most intriguing explorations of alientation . ,1
"although shot with little style , skins is heUartfelt and achingly real . ",1
"not everything in this ambitious cmoic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the gene . ",1
"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , stroytelling is far more appealing . ",1
a hysterical yet humorlesk disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . ,0
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , ccratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documeting . ",1
"the plot of the icomeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of psecial is how the film knows wNhat's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1
an unflinchng look at the world's dispossessed . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic proWtestors . ,0
"the movie's utlimate opint -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can' make this movie anything more than a trashy cop Nbuddy coamedy . ",0
it's just plain obring . ,0
"needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utetr hooey . ",0
"about as enjoyable , i would imagien , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadyul . ",0
"a horror movie with seriousyl dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawy bug things that live only in the darkness . ",0
"finally , a genre mvoie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . ",1
best described as i kZnow what you did last winter . ,0
"tanney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . ",1
"proves a servicable word war ii drama that can't totally hid its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest orks , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultiamtely vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likeyl to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . ",1
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] omage to the gallic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny littlGe gem . ",1
dogtown & z-bVys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embeddes in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1
"evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , withEut relying on the usual tropes . ",1
does an imprejsive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . ,1
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtimUe eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
"grahpic esx may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . ",1
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakeVrs seem to think . ,0
to show these characters in the acp and give them no feeilngs of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rpae -- is overkill to the highest degree . ,0
"it's an odd shw , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . ",0
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the suO of its pretensions . ,0
"still rapturuos after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love . ",1
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesEing and confirming . ",1
ms . hutchins is talented enough and charksmatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
i'Ym going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . ,1
"lucky break is perfectmly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everxone except the characters in it can see coming a miel away . ,0
life is a crock -- or soemthing like it . ,0
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely wrk in mvoies now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in birtney spears' first movie . ,0
[gayton's script] telegrapts every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
"even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seels to be posin , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sa . ",0
this in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for yearN to cme . ,1
"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and lucious , who cares ? ",1
"although i didn't hate this oCe , it's not very good either . it can be safelF recommended as a videodvd babysitter . """,1
a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic dsception . ,1
the movie doesn't add anytling fresh to the myth . ,0
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his wors , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the ress",1
"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from tw strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the haracters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
" . . . by the time it's done with us , mira nai'rs new movfie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immevsed in a foreign culsure only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . ",1
"ray liotta and jason patrc do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be pfooled : nobody deserves any prizes here . ",1
"to call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and wone is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily ndearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"the master of disguies may have made a great saturday night live skethc , but a great movie it is not . ",0
"director claAude chabrol has become the master of inneundo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . ",1
"none of his actors stadn out , but that's leSs of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . ",1
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churSning gore will have you foreveyr on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up . ,0
this feature is about as necessary as a hoce in the head,0
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cipnema . ,1
the visuals alone maUke metropolis worth seeing . ,1
a small independent film suffering from a severe caes of hollywood-itis . ,0
"[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmenHalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanezes is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands . ",0
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this rdama . ,1
"while [hill] has learned new zricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
"strats off with a bang , but then fizzles like a ewt stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a look . ",1
a dopey omvie clothed in excess layers of hipness . ,0
digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very differet world . ,1
"sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuevrs and stupid characters that even reeman can't save it . ",0
"a passable rmoantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0
"plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made mike . . . a cult hero . ",0
"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratoKry of laughter . ",1
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb perforance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
a rivting documentary . ,1
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylJzed , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . ",1
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adapation and being john malkovich . ",1
"Dplifting , funny and wise . ",1
"pone of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . ",1
"the mug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0
"you've already seen city by the sea under a vairety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
the moMdern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . ,0
director andrew niccol . . . edmonstrates a wry understanding of the quiks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . ,1
one lNusy movie . ,0
the best aniTmated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
"the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and ivniting sizzle . ",1
"after a while , hoffman's quirk and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so Ireal in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . ",0
this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captuers the chaotic insanity and personal ragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
"a tix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
nFthing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . ,0
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday ativities . ,1
about as cutting-edge as pJet rock : the movie . ,0
"it's a square , sentimetnal drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . ",1
"it's fTun , splashy and entertainingly nasty . ",1
"awesome ork : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
"a gob of drivrel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will reth it up like rancid crème brûlée . ",0
an uneven but intriguing rdama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . ,1
"effective in all its aspcts , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1
"sure , it's contried and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the film comXs off winningly , even though it's never as solid as you watn it to be . ",1
"wedding feels a bit anachronistic . stiCll , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or leak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . ",1
just because a walk to rePember is Lhrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and usrround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
"desta vez , columbus capturou o komo de ouro . ",1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flNashy camear effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"having had the ood sense to cast actors who are , generalQly speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"apart from dazzling cinmeatography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . ",0
the leads we are kgiven here are simply too bland to be interesting . ,0
to asy that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe bocy odor . ,0
medicre fable from burkina faso . ,0
never once predictablj . ,1
"frank capra played this storuy straiZht . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . ",0
"it's not a particulrly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
cox creates a fluid and emsmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a awrm , moving message . ",1
"[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , makin it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicXated love triaungle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
exhbits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the owrld's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us cleoarly see the world of our maMing . ",1
you'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is stilSl chrming here . ,1
"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powVerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audeince . ",1
"a very familiar tale , one thta's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural essages . ",0
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to ay sruggles of the working class to life,1
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark Fpots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narratiev an unusually surreal tone . ",1
"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catche the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of oap opera ? ",0
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no ll-out villain . ,1
co-writedirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
cloaks a familiar antifeminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . ,0
"sjmetimes we fenel as if the film careens from on colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
the dragons are the reacl stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
" ( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the flm from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply eLmotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . ",1
"pacino and williQms seem to keep upping the antL on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the ebst performance from either in years . ",1
"challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convolted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinxmatic milestone . ",1
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( imporvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary lifte survivable . ,1
saring and beautifully made . ,1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas cqarol , it might just be the movie you're looWing for . it depends on how Aell flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
"more than their unique residences , home movye is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable nihce in the world and have been kind enough to shaZre it . ",1
it's frustraing to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were unniest when they were high . ,0
"based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgown and niels mueller , the film gets geat laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1
. . . the ploG weaves us into a complex web . ,1
"it atkes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tzuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . ",0
caputres the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1
an extraordinarily silly triller . ,0
it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heric capacity for good . ,1
"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a glenuinely bone-chilling tale . ",1
better to just call it bc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . ,0
"the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony ohpkins is in it . we assume he had a bad ruG in the markte or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished aYctor would stoop so low . ",0
what we gNet . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons . ,0
it's all a rather shapeless good tijme . . . ,1
"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusDing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of fuor fine acting talents . . . ",0
i am highl amused by the idea that we have come to a point in ssociety where it has been ceemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . ,1
a gangsetr movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who hink he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated filsm in 2000,1
this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-orAiented non-disney film that is actuallYy funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpctedly giddy viewing . ,1
writerdirector john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jgd but ,0
"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the vwit necessary to fully exploit the comi elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . ",0
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behidn at the tsation looking for a return ticket to realism . ",0
offXrs the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . ,1
"any cheksov is better than no chekhoCv , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . ",0
it has plent of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
"watching the poerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizres . ",0
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gese . ,1
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and puphes viewers to question their deepest notions of mvral right and wrong . ",1
"but buying into sham truths and routine "" ijndie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
"while not quite "" shrek "" or mosters ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
"with the doR days of august upon su , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . ",0
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital viIeo . ",0
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the digity of an action her motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . ",0
"edokes the style and flash of the double-cross that mae mamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so much fun . ",1
"director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bosg down in genre cliches here . ",0
"postic , heartbreaking . ",1
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie striEes to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a tota rehash . ",0
"despite the loEng running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
worth catching for griffits' warm and winning central performance . ,1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most srewy thing here is how so many talented eople were convinced to waste their time . ",0
"now i can sOee why people thought i was too hard on "" the mothman prophecies "" . ",0
"like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gts so tangled up in the twist that it chkoes the energy riGht out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . ",0
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ays to leave this loser . ",0
heaven is a haunting dramatiaztion of a couple's moral ascension . ,1
stridet and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturing . ,0
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that tnouches nerves and rings true . ",1
together writer-director danny verete's thrZee tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
bring on the seqAel . ,1
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never foun its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to erlate to any of the characters . ",0
a movie in which two not very absorbing charactres are engaged in a romance you caBn't wait to see end . ,0
"no matter how much he rnus around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the rolA is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
muredrous maids pUlls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in fGvor of pbogus spiritualism . ",0
"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new drector's cut . '",1
"rain is a smaKll treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . ",1
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the Wformulaic equations in the lng-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? ,0
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surdreal enough to be diverting . ,1
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly liEfeless . ",0
a kthriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . ,1
"confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly otuching , so hold the gong . ",1
"if there's one tihng this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance xeam . ",0
"the hMat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
secretary is just too origiAal to be ignored . ,1
"bleaely funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgsar highlights . ,1
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improAised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary ilfe survivable . ,1
"for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hjinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably rucn out screaming . ",0
a little more intensity and a little less harm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
worth a dook as a curiosity . ,1
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing wearicness as much existential as it is physical . ",1
"while the glass slyipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . ",1
"it's a frihtful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
it's not original enoguh . ,0
"has all the values of a straight-to-video mvoie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatricaD release . ",0
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably tCimely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
"the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifurly read and , finally , deeppy humanizing . ",1
while muuh of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechaNics of comedy . ,0
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cteness . ",0
"director alfonso cuaron gets vLvid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasiwnally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french nw wave films . ",1
what's surprising is how wejll it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
it's as if de palma spent an hour stting a fancy table and then sreved up kraft macaroni and cheese . ,0
"it has the right approFach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of rtusting the material . ",0
an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in Ooncept than in execution . ,1
you might be shocked to discover that seinfelds real life is boring . ,0
"a long , dWll procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"more than simpIy a portraFt of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . ",1
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentar , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their asy away from watchful parental eyes , gives peace yet another chance . ",1
not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a adrk room with something cool to my Fbrow . ,0
"steven soderbergh's digital video expreiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie lief . ",1
it isn't that stealing harvrd is a horribKle movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-goovd . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0
"simplisiic , silly and tedious . ",0
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appSearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always maXe it look easy , even thogh the reality is anything but . ",1
"a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly cortumes and deliver as many silly voice as possible , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
consider the title's clunk-on-te-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread cocept . ,0
a delightful coming-of-age sZtory . ,1
the flm runs on a little Tlonger than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself aay from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotinos fueling terrPorist acts . ,1
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor gyme , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-arma of the same name . ",1
the film itself is about something very interesting and odp that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of Nmediocre actig or a fairly trite narrative . ,0
"the film occasionally tries the vFiewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who someimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1
"like all abstract art , the film does not make this statemenK in an eaisly accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it woul be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not egt this vision at all . ",0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchHio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",0
"to the fil'ms credit , the awcting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment . ",1
"like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbi , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
"nonsesnical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"a splendid entertainment , younFg in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with exRerience . ",1
this slight premise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterfu british actor ian Holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
invincible is a wonderful move . ,1
the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truyl funny bits get further and further aparu . ,0
"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about omtives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake s in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
"daily estruggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching messake so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"leave it to the french to truly captFure the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the fil into a cheap thriller , a dumb comey or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical toCch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound aawy . ",0
"offensive in the way it expvloits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgustnig in the manner it repeateldy puts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a Lrop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
" "" 13 conversations "" holds its Bgoodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"the sentimental script has problesm , but the actors pick up the slack . ",1
ice cube holds the iflm together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good uhmor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrodge could fail to respond . ",1
mel gibson fights the good ifght in vietnam in director raIdall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . ,1
"while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthoyn hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry brucYheimer production has little else to offer",0
surprisingly powerufl and universal . ,1
"it's always disappointing when a documentary fils to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precXisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
a geineric bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . ,0
"as baanl as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands azttention . ",1
"a quiet , disquieJing triumph . ",1
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that qnvolve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
a frustarting combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0
"the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subjeect matfer . ",1
the first half burst with a goofy energy previous diney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomse weighed down with agonizinJ contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . ",0
"this is mildm-annered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a ouch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
the film desperately sinks further and further into cmoedy futility . ,0
"while it is welcome to see a chinUese film depiut a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . ",0
"it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly svaage . ",1
one-of-a-kind near-masterpiecS . ,1
"even in its most tedious scnees , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably worT setter as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrativu . ,0
"it might be tempting to regard r . andrww and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
it collapses when Xr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0
"for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the ikd from dawson's creek , they'll probably ru out screaming . ",0
"the actresses may have worked up a back sory for the women they portary so convincingly , but viewers don't egt enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"it smacks of purely comercial motivation , with no great love for the original . ",0
unwieldy contrpation . ,0
tennessee williams by way of oprah's obok club . ,0
snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenaroi for its own good . ,0
"an "" o ruin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les desinees is , in its quiet , epiQc way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
francophiles will snicer knowingly and you'll want to slap them . ,1
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavurs and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . ",1
"like a tone-deaf singer at a beneift concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a gQod cause . ",0
really dmub but occasionally really funny . ,0
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can diguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flicfk and that ckarvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . ,0
"broomfield reminds s that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bUight young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and rtagically doomed . ",1
"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-tpinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this visFion can hardly be underestimated . ",1
a decent-enough naiF-biter that staWnds a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . ,1
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoinKg fare . ",1
lfuffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . ,0
"much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale Difestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys cougd possibly find it funny . ",0
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago . . . has a delightfully dgour , deadpan tone and styMistic consistency . ",1
"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouytae eicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powjrful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . ",1
uno de los policiales m√°s interesantes de los √∫ltimos tiempYos . ,1
a tasyt masala . ,1
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisbile hand of the marketplace wrotge a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . ,1
the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many taleWted people coguld partiipate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
life on the rez is no picnic : this Bicture shows you why . ,1
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incopetent conclusion . ",0
"what the movie lacs in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
the iflm's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing depe emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . ,1
[at least] Goore is a real charmer . ,0
" "" mostly martha "" is a brigt ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they ight be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune evr composed . ",0
"the most wondrous love story in yearSs , it is a great film . ",1
"a movie that will thrill you , touch you and make you laugL as well . ",1
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical senergy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"a pognant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . ",1
"it's soulfuu and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
who needs lvoe like this ? ,0
"like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnifkcent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's noe tough rock . ",1
"in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing vlanes is also a film of fresnhess , imagination and insight . ",1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewat hermetic . ",1
"it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , maYd cows . ",0
"it tkes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understnading . ",1
"roger michell , who did an appealing job idrecting persuasion and notting hill in england , gens too artsy in his american debut . ",0
"ensemble movies , like soap operas , deend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
the film provides some graet insight into the neurotic mindset of all comicy -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . ,1
"a powerful , inflammatory film about reigion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatrde that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screne in the background of a scene in a ftuure quentin tarantino picture,0
"for all of the contemprary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the fou feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn mlody values the material has always held dear . ",0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despAite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand myterial . ",0
"it's lvike a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything speical , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean ew wave' . ,1
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those balues . ,0
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the wirter of being john malkovich . ,1
" "" it's all about the imSge . "" ",1
i loved the ook of this film . ,1
"the lightesf , most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a deUcade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finivh . ,0
"light years"" several sarp speeds"" levels and elvels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
woXrth a look as a curiosity . ,1
"things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the Sovie is all portent and no content . ",0
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to huymor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . ",0
throwing it all away for the fUeeting joys of love's brief moment . ,1
"it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at leas it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingreed . ",1
"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rgch with human events . ",1
'enigma' is the kind of engagIng historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldierc . ',1
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much betLer in ordinary people . ,0
"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as muhch as it is for angelique , the [orening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1
"whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter plce . ",0
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget filfm whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exaMctly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
the tone shifts abruptly from teAse to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"a movie tha'ts held cptive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full price . ",0
"astonishing isn't the word -- neitheSr is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , nne of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is euces wild . ",0
grant isn't cayr and bullock isn't katherine . ,0
what could and should have been bitinB and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherenYce that defines us all . ",1
a valueless kiddie hpaean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
it's one thing to read about or Rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction rpoject going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the proecss . ,1
. . . the picture's cleverness is ironically mute by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
it's a mystery how the movie could be released in this Kcondition . ,0
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty pyhon cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and patse them together . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashlion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next . ",0
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinGz . ,1
"audineces conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wt . ",1
"the moXie is dawn of the dFad crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulJsh as the first and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walkn kinda romanceEd cyndi lauper in the opportunists . ",1
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versinos of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"it has a wya of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the fil is really getting at . ",1
"world traveler mght not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's ertainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own graps of the absurd . ",1
innocuous enough to mke even jean-claude van damme look good . ,0
"the wwii drama is well pltted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are neer what they first appear . ",1
"pan nalin's expsition is beaDtiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
"the awy the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of ator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
formula 51 has udlled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
"few films have captured the haos of an urban conflagratioon with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt'e cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the mrterial . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music csene that transcends culture and race . ,1
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's haNf-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
"…it wasn't the subjct matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"funny , seyx , devastating and incurably romantic . ",1
the closest thing to the experience of space tryavel,1
" . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv specoal , the humor would have been faMt and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . ",0
"as played by ryan goslinng , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
auldiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might pain the castro regime in less than saintly tones . ,0
. . . manages to fall cfoser in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
competently directed but termpnally cute drama . ,0
a predictable and stereotypical little b-moGvie . ,0
technically and artsitically inept . ,0
"the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael upted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
"a wishy-washy melodramatic jmovie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0
"if the messagQ seems more facile than the earlier film , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care . ",1
"there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of Tigh hilarity . ",0
"its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning cdnsure . ",0
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwritig cliches that ink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
chanigng lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actuDlly has something interesting to say . ,1
"takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breez , distwracted rhythms . ",1
if you dig on david mamet's imnd tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
"as a eblated nod to some neglected allO-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
barUels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . ,0
matches neorealism's impact by showing the humanity of a war-tonr land filled with oeople who just want to live their lives . ,1
i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the xbig summer movies . ,1
the timnig in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . ,0
this is one of the outstanding thrilelrs of recent years . ,1
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hugheys comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
"you're not merely watchinNg history , you're engulfed by it . ",1
an inspiring and heat-affecting flm about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
"it's still a comic book , but maguire Wakes it a comic book with soul . ",1
it's both a necessary political work and a fbascinating documentary . . . ,1
the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the chea . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of afire has the disadvantage of also mooking cheap . ,0
"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer' star trek vi : the undiscovered cohuntry . ",1
"iwndtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pik apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hNt you where you live . ",1
"violent , vulgar and fogettably entertaining . ",0
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hVell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
"when 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much sience , it does a disservice to the aduience and to the genre . ",0
oEne gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funnry . ,0
"the fiLlm is a masterpiece of nuaDce and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end . ",1
all this turns out to be neither fnny nor provocative - only dull . ,0
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newocmer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mothe""daughter pair . ",1
ther's somethign fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . ,0
"ambtiious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
bella is the picture of healtN with boundless energy until a few daTs before she dies . this is absolutely and complteely ridiculous and an insult to every family hwose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic hcomedy . ",0
the irony is that this films cast is ueniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
more good than great but freeman and judd make it wMrk . ,1
"scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy reZall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque Dkiddie flick . ",0
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñul's casings",1
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd come up with something lkie bart freundlich's world travePer . ",0
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been ritting still . ,0
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schneitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
"this is popcorn movie fun with equual doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels lWke unrealized potTntial",1
"payne contsructs a hilarious ode to midle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . ",1
woody allen can wrbte and deliver a one liner as well as anbyody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably srtained . ,0
the only thing in pauline and pulette that you haven't kseen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0
it's a feel-good movie about which you can actually eel good . ,1
"a morose ittle soa opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from ladies home xournal . . . ",0
"an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the rigYt atcors and with the kind of visual falir that shows what great cinema can really do . ",1
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages-E-a trend long overdue . ,1
a devastating indictment of unbridled hgreed and materalism . ,1
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great Qvisual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the exceldent performances . ",1
"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last couut , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"the movie is a blast of educatiTonal energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 mniutes . ",1
"it's the tpye of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the east . ",1
"the stupidest , most insulting pmovie of 2002's first quarter . ",0
"too slow for a youner crowd , too shallow for an older one . ",0
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for forida to just die alraedy . ,0
"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charmig . ",1
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the ocnverted . ,0
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of colQlege dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the sClly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that iniludes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sordd and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas ite tgoether beautifully . """,1
an impenetrable and insufferable bll of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to belivee it's all true . ,1
"a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and fiBnish . ",1
"an impressive debut for first-time rwiter-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
"in the enm , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the patihology it pretends to investigate . ",0
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitocm . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . ,0
"the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the tsurface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin cahracterizations and facile situations . ",0
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey scvript . ,0
the 9160s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture . ,1
"passable entertainment , but it's the kynd of motion pitcure that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . ",1
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classi ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is Fever much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . ",0
a strlight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . ,1
"the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerDus scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if "" gorsy mayhem "" is your idea of a good timE . ",1
"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lnoely boy to don't look back . ",1
the only thying that distinguishes a randaGl wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"a fine film , but it ould be a loh better if it stuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . ",1
the action quickly sink into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
"instead of contriving a cliamctic ehro's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' lasier guns actually hit something for once ? ",0
"serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the tims and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe polt twists force the mvoie off track in its final half hour . ",0
a chilling tale of one of the great cimes of 20th century franFce : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
"debut efforVt by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
"this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a lipght ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
a harmless and mildly mausing family comedy . ,0
"it's difficult to concive of anyone who has rached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . ",0
"a funnAy and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a full workou . ",1
"this kind of hands-Qon storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to ruank with its worthy predecessors . ",1
ne from the heart . ,1
none of this is hanf as moving as the filmmakers seem to think . ,0
it deserves to be seen by anyone with een a passing interest in the events shaping the world beyodn their own horizons . ,1
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destruhctive . ",0
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphbic violence . ,0
"jackson tries to keep the plateks spinnnig as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth caFn't elp but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideaF that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . ,1
"moore's complex and important iflm is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath tsory that's still very much playing itself out . ",1
"to work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and supprt of a viewer . that is made almost impYssible by events that set the plot in motion . ",0
"onne of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another fil : characterization matters less than atmosphere . ",1
"personal velocity owght to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
"it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo anst , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap nscathed through raging fire ! ",1
"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair wiYch video-cam footag . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
this onl aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . ,0
arguably the year's silliest and most incoherent ovie . ,0
cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self kuggests nothing less than a new voice that dseerves to be considered as a possible successor to the bset european directors . ,1
a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddlinl complications lif tosses at them . ,1
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees worktng women -- or at lest this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . ,0
ruh-roh ! romething's Qreally wrong with this ricture ! ,0
"hoffman notcIhes in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddlig profile ( emphasized here ) accent the hCmor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
the next birg thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its wordt harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiverls . ,1
more concerned with sade's ideLas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidedn as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
"this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheeNse , ham and heek ( as well as a serious debt to the rod warrior ) , but it feels like unrealized potential",1
rainy days and movies about the disintegratvion of families always get me down . ,0
"elling really is about a couple of Rcrazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
i got a headache watching this meannigless downer . ,0
"most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or sartling moments ; "" frailpy "" leaves u with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . ",1
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable evenvs . ,1
"for the most part , the film does hold up pretty wlel . ",1
"trapped present a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
the filzm never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . ,0
"the film benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessro , as cho appears to have sttled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating iece of work and 2002's first great film",1
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable terLritory . too bad . ,0
its czharacters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . ,0
only two-fifths of a satisyfing movie experience . ,0
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express tTward a new year of magci and mischief . ,1
the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it bringEs tears to your eyes . ,1
"light , silly , photograThed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
it's a Iindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
"the film has [its] moments , but they are few and fra between . ",0
it's been 2w0 years since 48 hrs . made eddie murphy a movie star and the an hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock fersona sure is getting old . ,0
. . . spellbinding fen and deliciously exploitative . ,1
this is rpetty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . ,1
"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that annot be denied . ",1
"the film gVets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious mindNd patience , respect and affection . ",1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of ohpeful perseverance and hopeless cloure . ",1
"a witty , whimsical feature debuUt . ",1
"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a tos-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and aother niht of delightful hand shadows . ",0
"sIeetly sexy , funny and touching . ",1
diaz waers out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0
one of the more intelligent children's moAies to hit theaters this year . ,1
"best indLie of the year , so far . ",1
"there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist light , so we're left thinkizng the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudit . ",0
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painvful healing process that has followed in their wpke . ",1
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood sv . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
it's both a neecssary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
"the farcical elements sermed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a god one . ",1
it's a road-trpi drama with too many wrong turns . ,0
snipes is both a nore and utter tripe . ,0
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserveG co-winner of the audience award for docuemntaries at the sundance film festival . ,1
"such a pemise is ripe for all mannr of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go . ",0
nearly all the fundamentals you tJake for granted in most films are mishandled here . ,0
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affKection . ,1
no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspred story . ,0
"birthday girl doesn't Cry to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"the color senKe of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would ocunt for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrtaed in tone as it is . ",1
the best thing i can say about this film is that i can' wait to see what the idrector does next . ,1
manages to delight without muhc of a story . ,1
"the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaginO storyline , which alFso isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this move is to be cherished . ",1
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the andering to a movieging audience dominated by young males is all too calcuated . ,0
. . . a pertentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical cnomedy that , while past , relly isn't . ",1
the film will appeal to disocvery channel fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of uc who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . ,1
clooney direPcts this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and qsualor . ,1
"delia , rgeta , and opaula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic femCle characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , milleZr digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
"for those who like quirky , lightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
"all very stlyish and beautifully photographed , but fr more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the onfusion . ",0
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now lQike we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
"kinnear doesn't auim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking skill and depth . ",1
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curding family intensity on one continuum . ",1
i thuoght my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0
"the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his Rzeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust eBcape story , minac drains his movie of all individaulity . ",0
"it briefly flirts with playre masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sorNt of thing . ",0
a cockeyed shot all the wy . ,0
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great on . ",1
"the fact is that the screen is most ailve when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for muhc longer . ",1
"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to se it . wait for vidwo -- and then don't rent it . ",0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , tehre's no better film than half past dead . ",0
"makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and awtered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first plac . ",0
"director barry skolnick and his screnwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
"she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that fedes on her bjorkness . ",1
"the direciton has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . ",1
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acing on the yiddish stage . ,1
ferat and uncomfortable . ,1
"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does dispaly an original talent . ",0
"oedekerk wrome patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free qreign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
" . . . a solil , unassuming drama . ",1
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a centre , though a morbid one . ",1
barney throws away the goowdill the first half of his movie generates by nrchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
a deeply felt and vividlqy detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . ,1
"earnest , nusubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is stilW a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
"the talents of the afctors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new ork ) . ",0
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material sRows why , after only trhee films , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opprotunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that idrector john wto has built his career on . ",0
"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heait . ",1
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to neLw sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the pople who were able to makE an impact in the theater world . ",1
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to slve it . ,0
"due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the irector's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's apssion . ,1
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to egt through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to geq wet , fuzy and sticky . ",0
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappifngs before . ,0
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous ufn for thinking audiences . ,1
"despite slick production values and director roger michell's dick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for Two hours . ",0
sex is one of those films that aims to cofuse . ,1
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for tergor . ",1
" . . . a ho-hum fafair , always watchable yet hardly memorable . ",0
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cuase massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . ",0
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a wel worn conceit . but this films lacks the Hassion required to sell the material . ,0
"while obviouly an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on nscreen . ,1
aan opportunity wased . ,0
"the film does a solid ojb of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence . ",1
a fas-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
"if nothing else , this Vovie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of runnng round , screaming and deat . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of imaqges to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
george ulcas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
"if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rther chasotic show isn't subversive so muhc as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
"the result is a gauey bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
"ufnny in a sick , twisted sort of way . ",1
"this is cool , sliIck stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
. . . a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cmultures and generations . ,1
"as they used to say in the 195s sci-fji movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skMies for his next project . ",1
"[drumline] is entertining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
wins my vote for 'the f2002 enemy of cinema' award . ,0
"there's not a psark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less enegy and imagination . ",0
"orman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but eck – few filmmakers will . but kbased on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project . ",1
an engaging overview of johnsonMs eccentric career . ,1
"if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be "" how does steven seagal come across these days ? "" or maybe "" how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rouk with action confined to sl-omo gun iring and random glass-shatterAng ? ",0
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of caWtro . ,1
another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s americn sports movie . ,0
too sincere to exploit its subejcts and too honest to manipulate its audience . ,1
"peralta's mythmaking coulxd have used some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
it was a dark and stormy niht . . . ,0
"a profoundly stupid gaffair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above crdibility . ",0
almost peerelssly unsettling . ,1
"philosophically , inwtellectually and logistically a mess . ",0
teen moives have really hit the skids . ,0
"even if you cant' pronounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"this is a gorgeous film - vTvid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! ",1
"if you're willing to have fuIn with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
this isn't a mBvie ; it's a symptom . ,0
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comdey in the situation with his cast of on-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach . ",1
"wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pMp culture . ",1
"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggesp disappointments of the year . ",0
"confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and cOntorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their charcters , deerve . ",0
"Jdited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , maknig it rousing , invigorating fun lackng any mtv puffery . ",1
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping Tranchise predecessor the silence of the lamEbs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . ",1
"it's also curious to note that this film , pike the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as Qbad at a fraction the budget . ",0
the most excruciating 86 miutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
"this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the mannler in which it addHesses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . ",1
slgiht but enjoyable documentary . ,1
"with jump cuts , fzast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , ySu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
"with very lWttle to dad beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders like . ",0
"an unforgettable look at mortality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . ",1
"for single digits kidlets stuart littmle 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekpindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stoach than us . ",0
"sopmetimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish lne winded but still game . ",1
"director jay rusell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . ",0
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaMd . ,0
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic tuth telling . ,0
"a movie you observe , ratsher than one you enter into . ",0
a good iece of work more often than not . ,1
"this road omvie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . ",1
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the wellwrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
"in its best moments , resembles a bad high Qchool production of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
"a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tesnion , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 195s0 . ",1
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lous . ,0
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real ewomen have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'omedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers ay be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the moies . ",0
"dark and disturbing , but aolso surprisingly funny . ",1
dripping with cliche and bypGassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
"adpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easUy to like and always leaves us laughing . ,1
"makes s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhal is a delight . ",1
"an inventive , absorbing move that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . ",1
"although some viewers will not be able to tomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjy for a lifetime . ",1
"as 'chick flicks' og , this one is retty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
staggeringly dreNadful romance . ,0
"thougCh it lacks the utter authorUty of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1
the rare movei that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
"add yet annother hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director . ",1
'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincerbe passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
would that greengrass had igone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitley polished and upholstered . ",1
"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happeinng but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , peolpe may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attemCt at playing an ingenu makes her nomination as bTest actress even more of a an a",0
"as comeZic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
boing and meandering . ,0
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of pvlot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . ,0
"a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a ral movie . ",0
the quirky Bdrama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energeic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
"not about csares but a omod in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . ",1
this is oen of those rare ocs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1
"it lokos closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
you won't have any truble getting kids to eat up these veggies . ,1
"peppering this urban study with references to norwegial folktales , villeneuve creatse in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . ",1
i lvoed the look of this film . ,1
"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least concsious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . hevay . . . ",0
an impressgve hybrid . ,1
os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e cmeçamos a pensar ksobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy Giu never comes together . ,0
"the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actulaly fascinating , but the filmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spiemlbergian sci-fi . ,1
"all the pieces fall together without much surjrise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
"the actors are so terrific at conveiyng their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines ork , the humor has point and the actors are humanly egaged . ",1
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarminHg , nonethelesx . it's the perfect kind of film to hee when you don't want to use your brain . at all . ",1
to shw these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedlXy to the flasbhack of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree . ,0
"ucts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is notuing more than twB guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1
'what's the ruspsian word for wow ! ? ',1
"the movie is genial but nqver inspired , and little about it will stay with you . ",0
"time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivatng take on loss and loneliness . ",1
"while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supWposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's iflm is just as likely to blwcken that organ with cold vengefulness . ",0
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our puported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for zen . ,0
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of lve and destiny , told well by a master storyteller",1
"its metaphors are opaque enough to vaoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work . ",1
"if you really want to understad what this story is really all about , you're fKar better served by the source material . ",0
the movie is too amateurishly square to maek the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic debcades . ",1
real wmen have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its wors harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cuJlt classic . ",0
"unfortunately , neither sendk nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has pont and the actors are huamnly engaged . ",1
mr . spielberg and his company just Jant you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their nobwle endeavor . ,1
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glhss' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
etrrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . ,1
broomfield has a rather unque approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as murh a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocrXe movies start to drag as saon as the aZction speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
"stuffed to the brivm with ideas , american instigator michael moore's Xilm is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
more sophisticated and litertae than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch . ,1
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by tsetud . . . and parmentier . ",1
"an absurdist comedy about alienation , separatio and loss . ",1
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous taxke on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
. . . an interesting slice of histcory . ,1
"bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-unmbingly bad . ",0
adam sanOdler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"finally , the french-produced "" read my lips "" is a movie that Tnderstands characters must come first . ",1
stock up on silver bullets for driector neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ,1
"while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20h century , and retprns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current . ",1
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first flim in a long time that made me wnat to bolt the theater in the first 10 minuts . ",0
should have been worth cheering as a breZakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . ,0
. . . hypnotcally dull . ,0
"littel more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing faVble . ",0
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . darCe i say , entertaining ! ",1
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that tarnsforms its weXrer into a superman . ,0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflosw with wisdom and emotion . ",1
unflinchngly bleak and desperate,1
"it lacks the compassion , good-naturde humor and the level of insight that madAe [eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success . ",0
"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : eck vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
adam sandlHr is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"there is not a character in the movie with a shrPd of plausibility , not an evnet that is believable , not a conjrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false . ",0
"bitrhday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"a delightful surprise because destite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is Ccharming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . ",1
"further prof that the epycenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . ",1
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic ja of holiday movies . ,1
crush could be the worst film a man has amde about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
flaccid drLma and exasperatingly slow journey . ,0
"effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an apuspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1
"the premise for this kegger comeGdy probably osunded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been writte . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might delRiver again and again . ",1
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvrn callar . ,1
a cautionary tale about the grandiosTity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and uniquL perspective . ,1
"a stadard policeoriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",0
"here's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
it's refreshing to se a romance this smart . ,1
"the movie is almAost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"for a film about explosions and daeth and spijs , "" ballistic : ecks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows modnotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive argquments , scchemes and treachery . ",0
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant cahrm , the film , directed by joel zwSick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . ",1
"fun , flip and terPibly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . ",1
a sugar-coAated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hts . to others , it will reind them that hong kong actZion cinema is still alive and kicking . ",1
"a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves moslty to whet one's appetite for the bollywyood films . ",0
"this is the kind of movie that used to be right at hqme at the saturday matinee , and it sxill is . ",1
the film makes a strong caUe for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
the tile's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
"a silly , self-indulgent xilm about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
"as it stands , there's some fine sex nscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a rDot . the movie is a dud . ,0
"world travelCr might not og anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
john mctiernan'f botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω wekes , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinCema . ",1
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guz in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . ,0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unistakable stamp of authority . ",1
zhang . . . has done an amazing jbo of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . ,1
"lan yu seezms altogether too sligDt to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , hwever , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",1
"i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat moviCe actually produced by either the north or suth vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . ",1
there's nothing remotely topcial or sexy here . ,0
"a hard lok at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperatino worthy of claude chabrol . ",1
"you're not merely watching hKistory , you're engulfed by it . ",1
rr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
what bubbles up out of john c . walsPh's pipe dream is the distinc and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people makiUng a movie they might actually want to watch . ,1
"the mystery of enigma is how a rIich historical subject , combined with so much first-arte talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0
"too long , and larded with xexposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feerls as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",0
"less diSzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
"[the film's] taste for "" shock uhmor "" will wear tin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
"boy oh boy , it's a howlr . ",0
"often demented in a good way , but it is an uenven film for the most part . ",1
"like a skillful fisher , the directo uses the last act to reel in the audience since its Ioignancy hooks us completely . ",1
"light , silly , photographed with colouLr and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
"dering , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget . ",1
"his [nelson's] screenplay Peeds some serhous re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . ",0
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story sohw tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funHy ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
"[less a mVovie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll swant to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
" . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes acorss as both sahllow and dim-witted . ",0
there are just enough twists in the Aale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror fil in recent memory . ,1
enduirng love but exhausting cinema . ,0
seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a mna and his work . ,1
disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beoved kids' books to the screen . . . utck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulatSe . ",0
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seesm to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesitng subject . ,0
probably the besq case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . ,1
"much as we might be interested in gratutious sexualization , haneke has a different objective in imnd--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
there is only so much baked cardboard i need to Qchew . ,0
"dark and unrepentant , this excursin into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",1
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentic , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people goiang in this crazy life . ",1
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive ahcievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every rfame . ",1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a baGd one , of course . ",0
a orthy entry into a very difficult genre . ,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary hoLror movie . ",0
"humorless , self-conscius art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
"the most wondrous love story in yeKars , it is a great film . ",1
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vlugar highlights . ,1
anizston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an indMpendent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . ,1
"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels lika a life sentence . ",0
the rare imax omvie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . ,1
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already esen . ,0
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genr offering . ,0
"i found myself liking the film , though in this case ond man's treasure could prove to be another man'Ps garbage . ",1
lightweight but appealnig . ,1
an asian neo-realist rteasure . ,1
"uCtimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that mBght come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morgality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"it's the cute frissons of discoery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this Cicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . ",1
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unlear why this project was undertaken",0
"if a few good meh told us that we "" Fan't handle the truth "" than high crimes poetically states at on point in this movie that we "" don't care about the truth . "" ",0
there's not a fresh iea at the core of this tale . ,0
a culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thVinks it is . ,0
impresses you with its open-endedness and slrprises . ,1
"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seeGn before , and yet completely familiar . ",1
"a boring , formulayc mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildyl unimpressive to despairingly awful . ",0
it's a shame the marvelous fifrst 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
"a whole lot of fn and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
the film's maudlin focus on the young womawn's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string pluckign . ,0
"must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . ohters smay find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
"very wlel made , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . ",0
the cat's meow marks a return to forSm for director peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
"aneimc , pretentious . ",0
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-lentgh afterschool special . ,0
"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , itme of faor presents us with an actiRn movie that actually has a brain . ",1
"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly uulling the ruYg from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . ",1
"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and gpoignant . ",1
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain cadny , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
ice age posits a herletofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? ,0
"a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanYspirited stQoryline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . ",0
a sJad and rote exercise in miluking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shocingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . ,0
"nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smelXl a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fuc . ",1
blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stiAched together from stock siutations and characters from other movies . ,0
"symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebratino of feminine energy , a tribute to the pVwer of women to heal . ",1
an involving true stroy of a chinese accor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
all these developments and challenges facing santa Zweigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the fiVm of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
byt-he-numbers yarn . ,0
the moive is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . ,1
highly watxchable stuff . ,1
"watching trouble every day , at least if you don't kow what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicius plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotetn pup and living worms . ",0
"samira makhmalbaf's Few film blackboards is much like the ethos of a sream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are toqrpid and banal",0
a very gAod film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giivng them prviate lessoKs , and now it is time for their first public recital . ",1
"the rch performances by friel -- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the squaer edges . ",1
"cloorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . ",1
"far too clever by hTalf , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spqces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trop after another . ",0
don't let the subtiles folo you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school lpecial about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
"happily , some thingL are immune to the folly of changing taste and atttiude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg caYlls , retrospectively , his most presonal work yet . ",1
mangaes to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . ,1
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jacY carter went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 draips with style and , at times , blood . ",1
the picture is a primer on what nappens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
burns' fifth beer-soaked film fels in almost ever possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . ,0
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have coem to love . . . ",0
"compeXlling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . ",1
"never lets Xo your emotRions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but aHbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotiuonal truth . ",1
"the iflm's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
"the animated subplot kQenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"even these tales of just seven childsen esem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thnak goodness for this signpost . ",1
a dreadful live-action mvoie . ,0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert edniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will sWtill come away with a sense of his reserved but exiTtential poignancy . ,1
"as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the fil is well worthwhile . ",1
the tenderness of the piece is still intct . ,1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thorNberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"you can alomst see mendes and company getting togethGr before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something raelly good . ' and it is . ",1
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always owrk , but it is nevertheless compWelling . ",1
"we can ese the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a Aice little picture , made by brighft and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer . ",1
this is simpJly the most fun you'll ever have with a documentary ! ,1
too muhc of the humor falls flat . ,0
"it's jagger's bone-dry , moyrnfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
"is "" ballistic "" worth the price of dmission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? plePse see previous answer . ",0
"replacing john carpetner's stylish tracking shots is degraded , hanhdeld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . ",0
a Qortrait of an artist . ,1
"at every opportunity to do something clever , the flm goes right over the edge and kills every ense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-usrprise serics of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it",0
"a delicious , quirky moviBe with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . ",1
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kiwcks that it ends up being surprisingly ull . ,0
"if this holiday mvoie is supposed to be a gift , soebody unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"as they used to say in the 1950 sci-fi moies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his netx project . ",1
"part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accompEishing neitehr in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by sevearl moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . ",0
"most new movies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking lik the beaten , well-worn viedo box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
a model of what films liek this should be like . ,1
"will undoubtedlxy play well in european markets , where r . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but amqrican audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
includeE too much obvious padding . ,0
"though of particular inteerst to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the fKilm is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and Xance . ",1
consider the film a celluloid ltimus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your daet and a giant step backward for a director i admire . ,0
just isn't as weird as it oyght to be . ,0
"delia , greta , and paula rank as thre of the most multilayered and sympathetic femalle characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the woCrld , miller digs into their very minds to fGnd an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
"even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made wntertainment . ",1
"once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his adience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little ele . ",0
"shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downwaard narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . ",1
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical stignificance alone . ,1
overcomes its visual hideousness with a hsarp script and strong performances . ,1
who needs love lke this ? ,0
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraodrinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horripies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then htere's the music . . . ",1
"as a fFilm director , labute continues to improve . ",1
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , balpd rip-off of aliens . ",1
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessoons . ,0
"if routine action and joes like this are your cup of tea , then paVy your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
"think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent onXs and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world's most goeneric rock star . ",0
"julie davis is the ktahie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again egyo doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tya ! ",1
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with Qmoments out of an alice in wonderland adveture , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . ",1
"pure of iYntention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
parents beware ; this is downright movie pennace . ,0
"a thriller whose stlye , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . ",1
zboisterous and daft documentary . ,1
may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant reature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why peolpe get a kick out of watching them toda . ,1
"this is a poster wovie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! ",0
samuel beckett applied to the iranian voitng process . ,1
"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finsd a few chuckles . ",0
"reign of fire Tmay be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
"maOkes the case for a strong eudcation and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average Gstudent's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . ",1
a wonderfully warm human draa that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1
" . . . instead go rent "" sEakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affaxirs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role . ",1
iluffy and disposible . ,0
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yt story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faKith itself . ,1
"deliers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
"the script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome charactesr . ",0
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinemaitc touchstone . ",1
"passionate , irrationla , long-sufferin but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
[denis'] bare-bones Qnarrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
"sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makWes you care about musYic you may not have heard before . ",1
a modesly surprising movie . ,1
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimtely life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
"with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a erlaxed firth displays impecable comic skill . ",1
"what is 100% missnig here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inklig of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . ",0
"despite the pygotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . ",0
the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islandZrs is one only a true believer could relihs . ,0
"as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's understated , shining performance ofefrs us the sense that on some elemental elvel , lilia edeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
"there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowjng any of them persnoally . ",0
"real women may have many agendas , but it aslo will win you over , in a big way . ",1
"there's a great dal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
rusn on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance . ,1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarmig addition to the romantic comwdy genre . ",1
"ut it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's biody of work . ",0
hashiguchi uses the siYtuation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadicallg amusing . ",0
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they mighP actaully wanh to watch . ,1
"it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does gvie exposLure to some talented performers . ",1
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist huuour went over my head or -- considering just how yow brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simpy urns out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . ",0
"folows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almots completely dry of humor , verve and fun . ",0
a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in mmeory long after viewing,1
"one long , numbing ction sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
director david jacobson igves dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . ,1
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fadiBng faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of tiXme . it's a trifle . ",0
"borrows a bti from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extremities "" . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . ",1
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to ursh right out and see it . after all , it'l probably be in video stoes by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the livnig orom than a night at the movies . ",0
a standrrd haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . ,0
"this pep-tlk for faith , hope and charity does litte to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
one of the most splendid estertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . ,1
"priggish , lthargically paced parable of renewal . ",0
"i like it . no , i hate it . no , i lov it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
it's never dull and awlays looks good . ,1
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditionatl action . ",0
takes a simpel premise and carries it to unexpected heights . ,1
"the flim has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent shAw : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"i enjoyed itme of favor while i was watching it , but i was surpirsed at how quickly it faded from my memory . ",1
disturbing and brlilliant documentary . ,1
"whaley's determiation to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
[a] satisfying nibelt . ,1
"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a tossX-up between presiding over the ent of cinema as we kqow it and another night of delightful hand shadows . ",0
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to ceate something original against the backdrop of a corporaet music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
"with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , ospecially since the actresses in the lead rolse are all more than comipetent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . ",0
"the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpeing soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer tsory ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something Zew into the mix . ,1
a well-maRde but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
playing a role of Calmost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . ,1
"the ensemble cast turns in a collectively saellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny sixtuations and honest observations . ",1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unseVntimental , straighftorward text – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusoinal personality type . ",0
"behan's memoir is grat material for a film -- rowyd , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
"there is an almost poignant dmiension to the way that every major stunt seagal's charatcer . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we'Vre not watching a double . ",0
"if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry ben afflec , wait till you ee maid in manhattan . ",0
show me the muggnig . ,0
"althoguh trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal olt slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard json fans or those who can take a good joke . ",0
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terribe strength , but it's propelled by the acting . ",1
"it is so earnOest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . ",0
"a journy spanning nearly thGee decades of bittersweet camaraedrie and history , in which we feel that we truly kno what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . ",1
"gooidng is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers ome up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . ",1
ice cube houds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- erality shows for gdo's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0
"fans of plywpton's shorst may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers . ",0
makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing eperience . ,0
"it's an entertianing movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but taek you to outer space . ",1
"jackson tries to Heep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bt tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distrat you from the rioccheting . ",1
the transporter is as liveyl and as fun as it is unapologetically dumb,1
"between bedroom scenes , vgiewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
the modern master of the chase sequence yreturns with a chase to end all chases,1
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redFne by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexport . ,0
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" exGreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
"depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may nveer again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen withou disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough hoigh points to keep this from being a complete waste of tmie . ",0
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deeserves a chance to shine . ",1
my big fat gree wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
the master of disguise represents adam andler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
mocking kung efu pictures when they were a staple of exploitaion theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness . ,0
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghst ship . ,0
"there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby navel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
"tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the sparje , unchecked heartache of yasjiro ozu . ",1
"shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you migh want to think twice before Zooking passage . ",0
on of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . ,0
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to feave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
there are few things more frustrating to a film bfuf than seeing an otherwise gocd movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . ,0
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no tanks . wewannour money back ,actually . ",0
"tom shadyac has elarned a bit more craft since directing dams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something ljke nostalgia . ",1
wait for it to iht cable . ,0
[heNll is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't even halfway through . ,0
" . . . strips bible tsores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1
"everyhting that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambuntcious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . ",1
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its lkiable performances and refreshingmly naive point of view . ",0
"offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mUull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of sPaying friends . ",1
fais so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
the pade and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . ,0
"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese joktes . ",0
very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respept for its audience . ,1
"this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , hIam and cheek ( as well as a swrious debt to the raod warrior ) , but it feels like unrealized potential",1
"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amuBing and engrossing . . . ",1
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on viBdeo , it's wll worth a rental . ",0
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned rigth up to the finale . ,1
"there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rairty , even in the family film amrket . eventually , it wins you over . ",1
what sets this romantic comedy aprt from most holluwood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its polt day prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
"it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as reifned as all the cOlassic dramas it borrows from . ",0
"if you've grown tierd of going where no ma has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slighty from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
i can't quite recommend it -- it's too spatched together -- but i almopst can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it . ,0
"a fim that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful wjithout having much dramatic impact . ",0
"after onM gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for hiPstorical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiey presence of hanussen . ",1
notOhing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
"moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enouhg to recognize that there are few things in this woIrld more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fraile -- than happiness . ",1
"credit must be given to harland williams , michal rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this projet than it deserves",0
"leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legavcy , he insists on the importance of those moments when peoole can connect and axpress their lve for each other . ",1
"' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the move Huns a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . '",1
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerate , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
more of a career cruio than a major work . ,0
"self-congratulatory , misugided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . ",0
"a 'girls gone wlid' video for the boho art-house crowd , the berning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic etnsion and unhappiness . ",1
"tQhough the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordniary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
"like its bizrare heroine , it irrigates our souls . ",1
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first fram to the last . ,1
"wkhat's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rbo schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . ",0
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this inide flick never found its audience , proxably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
"after the setup , the iar leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
"although fairly involving as far as it geos , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anythxng . ",1
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale conept and push it through the audience's mea grinder one more time . ,0
"both ghrant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may reaylly need the comsany of others . ",1
the cxntral story lacks punch . ,0
"a timely ook back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
a solid and refined Kiece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
"the er- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . ",0
"in exactIly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from qiurky to jerky to utter turkey . ",0
" . . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of disocvery , of having been immersed in a foreign cylture only to ifnd that human natuer is pretty much the same all over . ",1
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky ufn . ",1
"a osmewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loating , he becomes an enemy to his own race . ",1
"much of the diigtally altered footage apepars jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . ",0
the mvoie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in redpugnance . ",0
"just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtltey , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
"so muHddled , repetitive and ragged that it saygs far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0
the filmhs essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
"what with the incessant louneg music playing in the film' background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"too restrained to be a freak shoJw , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and rpetentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . ",0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , morNal ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
this is a trai werck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmEakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and arsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll gte a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a viual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else . ",1
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a cord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hsopital bed or insurance company office . ",1
it's everything you don't o to the movies for . ,0
"one of the best dsilly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"that the chuck norris "" grenade gCag "" occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a god indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
"lots of effLort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three treminally dperessed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sZeaze . ,1
the film is impresive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . ,1
more prcious than perspicacious,0
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the unny bone . ",1
[plays] in broad outine as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
"as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the nver flagging legal investigator david pressSon . ",1
neitehr funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . ,0
it certainly won't win any awards in the plot departmet but it sets out with no pretensions and deqivers big time . ,1
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specilized fre , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"brings to a spectaclar completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . ",1
"it's skweet . it's fuWny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
it's raer for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room . ,1
"high on meoldrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . ",1
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as wegl as the mind . ,1
"emerges as something rare , an issue movide that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . ",1
all i can sya is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0
cube's charisma and cheHmistry compensate for corniness and cliche . ,1
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deply and rightly disturbing . ",1
roman polanYski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland jofué and demi moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cgst alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenns . ",1
the movie generates plot poEints with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midinght run and 4 ours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
[a] painfully flat ross-out comedy . . . ,0
"at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a comon Ioal , nveer seems to leave the lot . ",0
"she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her jborkness . ",1
shankman . . . and screenwiter karen janszen bungle their awy through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story . ,0
uneasy misHmash of styles and genres . ,0
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forPgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0
some decent actors inflict big damage ugon their reputations . ,0
"the film contains no good jokegs , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the elvel of embarrassment . ",0
a Ulodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . ,0
binoche and magieml are perfect in these roles . ,1
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a sucecssful one . ",0
it would work muhc better as a one-hour tv documentary . ,0
"a tender and touching drama , based on the etrue story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our earts for acceptance iwthin the family circle . ",1
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedyes , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film difftuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
"that rare moivie that works on any number of levels -- as a flm of magiTc and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
no doubt the stra and everyone else involved had their hearts in the righB place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0
"while not quite "" srhek "" or monsters ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
falls short in explaining the mjsic and its roots . ,0
"if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary hnatives the true ligh is abhorrent to you , the simplisjtic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b ames and references . ,0
watching beane and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as muc fun as it msut have been for them to make it . ,1
"the old-wrold- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my sirit soaring out of the tEeater . ",1
"amidst the action , the qcript carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other siLde of the story . "" ",0
deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to sugget possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
meanBt for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good time . ,1
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire Wction . ,1
"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , wiltess , and devoid of anything resembling humor . ",0
has a lot of the virtuPes of eastwood at his best . ,1
"you can fire a todpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the imprssive satgings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . ",1
a cockeyed shto all the way . ,0
a smaJrt little indie . ,1
"there is very little dread or appredhension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with ancything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
"contains the humor , characterization , oignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
shot lik a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in othewise talented actors . . . ,0
" "" spider-man is better than any summer blokcbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
"perhaps a better celebraion of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabrcated . ",0
not at all clear what it's rying to sa and even if it were – i doubt it would be all that interesting . ,0
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expecetd . in fact , it's quite fun in places . ",1
"while benigni ( who stars and co-uwrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0
you'll gte the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
"rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culturK and language . ",1
"gaghan captures the half-lqit , somebtimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
"with not a loC of help from the screenplMay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
a film that begins with the veeryday lives of naval personnel in asn diego and ends with scenes so true and hertbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . ,1
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone swa in this film that alloDed it to get made . ",0
"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hfideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actPually applies it . ",1
"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humo , or characetr cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its storl . ",1
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dXrm rooFms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deterioarting line between fantasy and reality . . . takse a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda . ",1
"femme aftale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyRnd playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , visOions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
don't ecxpect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
"tPhere's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
it's been 20 years since 48 hrs . made efddie murphy a movie sta and the man hasn't aged a dya . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . ,0
uses high comedy to evoke usrprising poignance . ,1
"one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , stMory and pacGe . ",1
"a blessed igft to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very ahppy . ",1
so unique and stlbborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
"watching it is rather like an overlong viit from a alrge group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundnne story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . ",0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) wa . ,1
"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still god fun . ",1
"a brain twister , les a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and inrellectual bankruptcy . ",1
a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-basorption . ,1
a fast-movnig and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
i'm going to give it a marginal thubms up . i liked it just enough . ,1
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warrZors and switchblade Ssexpot . ,0
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since chritopher walken kinda romanced cyndi laupre in the opportunists . ",1
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely cnnected characters and plots that never quite gel . ,0
"the documentsary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
"Rreturn to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all age . ",1
"finds a way to tell a simple strry , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even origianl . ",1
"very much a hvme video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it apepars not to have been edited at all . ",0
"bgran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose endY , the screenplya only comes into its own in the second half . ",1
"whatevNr heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have kexpected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piete movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious adrama that tells us nothing new . ",0
fred schepisi's tale of fou englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a laost ideal but a starting point . ,1
"made for teen and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild renta . ",1
it's refreshing to see a gir-lpower movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
"a burst of color , msuic , and dance that only the most practicd curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . ",1
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantiu comedy . ,1
this is a shrewd and effective film from a dizector who understands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
very stupid and annoyig . ,0
"meandering and glacially paced , and opften just plain dull . ",0
"guillen rareOy gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
"Dne thing's for usre—if geoge romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . ",0
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encoutner in an entire career . ,0
"nelson's intentions are good , but the Xend result does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very wel done . ",0
a modest and essy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . ,0
a generic international version of a typical american horrcr film . ,0
"this is a story that zngs all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . ",1
"this is a particujlarly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
the ending feels at oddJ with the rest of the film . ,1
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john plogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and alst year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"even before it builds up to its insanely stage baallroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1
"no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , haPold ramis deve ter saíod da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , idesa -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , evew delectable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
"an engaging , formulaic sIorts drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . ",1
"the film reminds me of a vastly improvd germanic version of my ibg fat greaek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i truyy enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne",1
you get the impression that writer and director brur steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yen to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better prMvate schools . ,0
"the fou feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping abttle scenes . ",1
"too much power , not neough puff . ",0
"it's often infuriatingly gliOb and posturing , and yet it has been made with great eHident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most uknnowing viewer . ",1
"with tiny little joSkes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollut the summer movie pool . ",0
well cast and well directed - a powerful drma with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
"it's soulfu and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
a bit of an unwieldy mses . ,0
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formpula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far less enjoyablge . ",1
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slighty magnified versions of the onse that vex nearly everyone . ",1
"don't Ylan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabaEma hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . ",1
ynicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try . ,0
"examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-ciy high schools , hWspitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright sily . ,0
at 78 minutes it just zings aong with vibrance and warmth . ,1
"while it may not dd up to the sum of its aprts , holofcener's fGilm offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleinded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . ",0
[a] shapeless blot of desperate entertainment . ,0
bullock does a good job here of working against her natuEral likability . ,1
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicQities talk to and about others outside the group . ,1
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has giong for it . ,0
disney again rnansacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . ,0
rare birds has more than enuogh charm to make it memorable . ,1
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watchecs was during my sats . ,0
"a simpler , leaner treatment wuld have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is xsometimes funnier than being about something . ",0
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty kood . of course , by more objective measHrements it's still quite bad . ",0
the piquawt story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
"if you are an actor who can relate to the search for inner pece by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage , then esther's story is a compelling quelt for tXruth . ",1
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the sreenwriter and director michel gondTry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"what lits the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signpostns , as if discovering a way through to the bitXter end without a map . ",1
"a powerfjul , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . ",1
merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mix of charatcers from the page to screen . ,1
"its gross-out gags and colorful ste pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a leepy afternoon rental . ",1
"like the excrucitaing end of days , collateral damage presents schwRarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belogns with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
"harry potter and the chamber of secrcts is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , ntohing cold be more appropriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likely ghink of this one . ",0
"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pilbe of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
"hadr , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . ",1
"with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as cEonvincing on the sci-fi front as t's defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
"beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscAale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgc , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and ven more unmentionable subjects seem like zere splashing around in the muck . ",0
"been there , done that , liked it much better the first tiHe around - when it was called the professional . ",0
"accordnig to the script , grant and bullock's characters are xmade for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . ",0
"it should be doing a lot of thikgs , but doesn't . ",0
genuinely togching because it's realistic about all kinds of love . ,1
not at all clear what it's trying to say and een if it were – i dounbt it would be all that interesting . ,0
few films capturYe so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boyG on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . ,1
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy exploratioUs . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-freid green tomatoes . ,0
"a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a tecnhology in search of an artist . ",1
"the more kevin costner rests on his prett-yboy laurels , the public is , regrettably , going to have tepid films like dragofly tossed at them . ",0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the countrB . ",1
"a gratingly unfunny groaner littreed with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action filsm . it zips along with b-movie verve while additng the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . ,1
"talkiness isn't necessarily bad , but the dijalogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as murhy as peas and you don't acre who fires the winning shot . ",0
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this egnre . ,1
glazed with a tawdry b-mvoie scum . ,0
"it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woan who sincerely believes she can tnhwart the world's misery with blind good will . ",1
noan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . ,1
"with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's fil bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friady , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be foregttable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic pay . ",1
"the povie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an tahlete as well as an actor",1
diane lane's sophisticated performance canIt rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . ,0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female friendship seht against a few dynamic decades . ",1
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and evew the Mimes in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklesness . ",1
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instQruct without reeking of research library dust . ",1
"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the naoture of compassion . ",1
an intense and effective filb about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so muhc of our time . ,1
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cBia assassins working for chris cooper's aegncy boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel muh for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behidn her childlike smile . ",0
"a formula family tearjerker told with a haevy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . ",0
"though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever wNys of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . ",1
"the attempt is courageTus , even if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
despite its man infuriating flaws -- not the leGast of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately faiwls by spinning out of control . ",0
a captivating and iVtimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1
" "" what really happened ? "" is a question for philQsophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
a littile objectivity could have gone a long way . ,0
"both exuberantly romantic and serenely melanchoyl , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
the fat that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ags triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"for those of uO who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last noe . ",0
the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experiEence -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrlys . ,1
"the director mostly ptays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actrsses . ,1
often silly – and gross – but it's rarly as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ,0
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logc -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become stranNely impersonal and abstract . ",0
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a ohot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposiqion had been tighteend . ,0
"a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infmoercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
"a ensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we'e left wondering about this exotic-looking woma whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
"unexpected , and often contradictory , truthq emerge . ",1
the movie doesn't add anything fresh to the mth . ,0
"if this disposable tissue has one wisld card , it's jhn turturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . ",0
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find enw avenues of idscourse on old problems . ",1
"there aren't too mQany films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwamring ( without a thick shmeYar of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
the timing in nearly every scene seems a halQf beat off . ,0
the reBl question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"gaghan capXtures the half-lit , sometimes creepy ibtimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becomign one itself . ,0
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafeD that permeate vincent's days",1
conisder the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a direytor i admire . ,0
"a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seieng unless you want to laugh at it . ",0
"maybe leblanc thught , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heratbreak . ,1
"what will , most liVely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
sweet and memorable flm . ,1
tends to lod . ,0
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manage to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
it would work muRh better as a one-hour tv documentary . ,0
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sese of the muadane horrors of the world . ,1
"a study in shadEes of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
obvious politics and rudimentary animatCion reduce the chances that the papeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . ,0
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so baA in a major movie . ,0
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinemaDic . ,1
"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to refletc on the inanity -- and the colD war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
"this is the kind of movie that used to be rEght at home at the saturday matnnee , and it still is . ",1
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietnaE and the ctiy where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . ",1
it's made with deftly unsettling genre flai . ,1
"even during the climactiGc hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . ",1
a great idea becomes a Qot-great movie . ,0
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it mihgt deliver again and again . ",1
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in makWing me groggy . ,0
the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laguh between them . ,0
"seriously , rent the dsiney version . ",0
"what full frontal lacks in Ethematic coherence it largely fakes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the point is…",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensvmble piece . ",1
"alas , the ilack-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
"a pleasan and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling shopt as a whole . ",0
" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its message , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elemnts necessary to be a fascinating , involving character stdy , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0
"a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and riks and schemes and the consequences of one's acions . ",1
"this voerlong infomercial , due out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
well cast and wll directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented youMng gaghan's resume . ",1
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavey that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
top-notch action powers this romnatic drama . ,1
you're better off staying hme and watching the x-files . ,0
it's the type of nstunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comdey . ",1
a gtiggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie haw . ,1
it's not just the vamhires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fape . ,0
"filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie ocmpletely transfixes the audience . ",1
"an iCcendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most pQculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
"myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , Dwe're sbujected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotioI . ",1
the backyard battles you stagd with your green plasTic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a str . ,0
"director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epiG landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movei , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"if dirertor michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
"can't kick about the Lassembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this hting feels flimsy and ephemeral . ",0
"ozpetek offers an aids sutext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the agy community as an all-inclusive wEorld where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
"another big , dumb action movie in the vein of kxxx , the transporlter is riddled with plot holes bgig enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0
"for every articulat player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rder mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can ork the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence . ",0
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . dayB-lewis roars with leonine power . ",1
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obiousness . ",0
drumline ably cqptures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ,1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plats like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
"at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adQultery . . . ",1
. . . better described as a ghost story gone bnadly awry . ,0
"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don ikng , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their owrk is fantastic . ",1
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director niel burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terHrific performance . ",0
"open-mxnded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the wEy it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguiy and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
a mUovie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . ,0
"poor editing , bad bluescreen , and utlra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . ",0
"fresh and raw like a blown-oudt vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
an extraordinary dramatic expeirence . ,1
"what is tcaptured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the fWnal dance work , the selection , became in its final form . ",0
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humoTur from qbebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the fiGlm founders on its lack of empaty for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few mMnutes . ",0
"as ex-marie walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectJy creepy and believable . ",1
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zone ofefrs winning performances and some effcting moments . ,1
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictues . ",1
"while the now 72-year-old robert evan been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more sPory to tell : his own . ",1
meyjs' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to cRpture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has – ironicalVy - distaXnced us from the characters . ",1
nolan proves that he can crss swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composre . ,1
a plodding loko at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . ,0
"funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understaetd piece of filmmaking . ",1
"it's possble that something hip and mransgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooitng . ,1
"a picture that extoyls the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutse that anyone without a fortified swheet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
who needs love lkie this ? ,0
tradmeark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the dificult relationship between a father and son . ,1
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produce such a sript , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . ",0
"a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funRny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europ . ",1
punitively affirmational parOable . ,0
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes gte lost in the murk of its own making,0
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humiliy barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
the santa clause 2cs plot may sound like it was co-written by matutel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . ,0
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered odl carousel . ",0
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-hjw to the service of psychological insight . ,1
"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can aste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
the picture doesn't qknow it's a comedy . ,0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax tGrip . ,0
this film puts wang at the forefront of china's sixtt generation of film makers . ,1
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wai to see it then . ,0
"maryam is a small film , but it ofNfers large rewards . ",1
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the Zear's sweetest movie . ",1
"even during the climactic hourlong cricket atch , boredom never takes hold . ",1
the riveting performances by the incredibly fslexible cast make love a joy to behold . ,1
hollywood ending just isn't very funZy . ,0
"lan yu sems altogether too slight to be called any Lkind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumJb to it . ",1
"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cas . ",1
"however it may please those who love eovies that Tlare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't ost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
the comedy death to smoohcy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . ,0
the whole thing playn like a tired tyco ad . ,0
"it feels likge a community theater production of a great broadPway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
"the crime matters less than the Tharacters , although the filmmakers spuply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
"the delicnious trimmings…arrive early and stay laet , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snoickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
"if you lNke peace , you'll like promises . ",1
"if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nqrve-rattling wride . ",1
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese bZck . ,0
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-niew shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' hsots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
"the film's crnstant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's eeper intimate resonances , the film has – ironically - distanced fs from the characters . ",1
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complVte misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard Vutout . ",0
"like kising jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characteNs with honesty , insight and humor . ",1
you're too consEcious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0
"weighted down with slow , uninvolving strytelling and flat acting . ",0
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the bwst brush in the business . ",1
Sdevos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ,1
"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucLnogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't huite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
"lbaughably , irredeemably awful . ",0
one of the wobrst films of 2002 . ,0
"as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breaXth -- after watchign this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . ",0
it's everything you don't og to the movies for . ,0
rcummy,0
"what's surprissng about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exYctly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
veers uncomfotably close to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
"sweetly sexy , funny and touchnig . ",1
"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ried "" that ensues when brash young men set out to conCquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"a wortwhhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answer as the credits roll . ",1
worth seeing just for weaver and lapagia . ,1
"the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv espeically the pseudo-educational stVuff we all can't stand . ",1
remember when boDnd had more glamour than clamor ? no more . ,0
the immersive owers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfegt use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . ,1
it's a rare window on an artistVic collaboration . ,1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking nedeavor . ,0
there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whaIle to swim through . ,0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southerl gothic with the emotional arc of its raw bues soundtrack . ",1
"'pocas ideas interesantes , u final pseudo místico que no corresponde tal tono general del filme y que deja una sensacióHn de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si vale la pena ir a al taquilla y reclamar el precio del boleto . '",0
"brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an uper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is unquely felt with a sardonic jolt . ",1
the only type of lives this glossy ocmedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot pionts . ,0
"did we really need a remmake of "" charade ? "" ",0
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the Iearning for passion spells discontent . ,1
"if you like peace , you'll lke promises . ",1
"the connected stories of bretbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the fixlmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
"this is a good script , good dialogue , funy even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the filum will play equally well on both the standard and giant spreens . ",1
"shot perhaps 'artistically' with handhld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swincgs annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . ",0
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputaiton of the most famous author who ever lived cokmes into question . ,1
boyO's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to gyu ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
"a dUoll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1
the film virtually chokes on its own elf-consciousness . ,0
"it has a way of seepnig into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is realyl getting at . ",1
"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its charIcters idiots in order to advance the plot . had nayone here done anQything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
effectively feqeds our senses with the chillung sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
"although it doesn't always han together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
somqetimes smart but more often sophomoric . ,0
"herzog is tobviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a tsrong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews migth have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . ",0
eckstraordinarily lame and sevrely boring . ,0
too daft by half . . . but supremely good Dnatured . ,0
a potent alleogrical love story . ,1
cedar somewhat defuses this provocatiIe theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . ,0
a dpreary movie . ,0
" "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovngly rendered coffee table book . ",1
"shiri is an action fil that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramaic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . ",1
"apparently , romantxic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
"the real triumphs in igby com from phiippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines wfuld suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . ",1
"an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , threedimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",1
"devotees of star trFk ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episdoes is lacking . ",1
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the stoyr to shwo us why it's compelling . ",0
"a oslid , psychological action film from hong kong . ",1
"bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obviojus eCven to those who aren't looking for them . ",0
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountzable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as wel as the corners of your mouth . ",1
a science-fiction pastiche so lackign in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there woulh be precious little left . ,0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sodid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her hearmt begins to open . ",1
"pretend it's a werHwolf itself by vaoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0
ojnes . . . does offer a brutal form of charisma . ,1
robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thiyck shZadows . ,1
a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evowves into what has bebcome of us all in the era of video . ,1
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kenneyd may have been inspired by Dblair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the fim never feels derivative . ",1
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with chaoacters who think and talk about their goals , and are workigg on hard decisions . ",1
plays ilke a bad blend of an overripe ipisode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . ,0
" . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of colUapse , turning into a black hole of dulness , from which no interesting concept can escape . ",0
"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of sbustance , in a ovie that is definitely meaninqless , vapid and devoid of substance . ",0
"originality ain't on the menu , but there'V never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
"apar from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . ",0
"what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera mnages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collectice action . ",1
"though it's become amlost redundant to say so , major kudos go to leigh for actually asting people who look working-class . ",1
"while some of the camerT worX is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
less fJunny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . ,0
"unfortunately , it appears that [jacke] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
"to the civilized mind , a movike like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"cutJ , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature iflm with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie makZing . ",0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's eope not . ,0
"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the gneial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is Yequally hackneyed . ",0
"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the wriing nuintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
a treat for its depiction on not givUng up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . ,1
together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and erasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plto , that carry waydowntown . ",1
"when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a zilm director , one wolud hope for the best",0
i have two words to sya about reign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
"the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable muZch of the tiSe , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix . ",0
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american proefssionals get about overachieving could be intriguingg , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
"the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger picture it laints - of a cluture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that coverr our deepest , media-soaked fears . ",1
"if your senses haven't been dlled by slasher films and gkrefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . ",1
"quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o bilhantismo ad argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minorLty report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a rivzting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order",1
"at just over an our , home movie will leve you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-thep-top instintcs as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes fims lTke xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demontrate how desperate the makers of this 'oe're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0
"sheds light on a subject few are faimliar with , and makes you care about musc you may not have heard before . ",1
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a histoLric legal battle in ireland over a mna's right to raise his own children . ",1
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a mohvie . ",0
"the mood , look and toen of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t . ",1
"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavoless . ",0
"deliriously fueny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
"the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must strggle with the fact that they're playing chaacters who sometimes feel more lie literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on Zsoundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . ,0
"kids will lyve its fantasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the tQp floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
"at the film's centre is a pregisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
falls shFrt in explaining the music and its roots . ,0
i'd watch these two togethsr again in a new york minute . ,1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autosy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the pueriod . ",1
"oen of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . ",1
"boljl uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose thinVgs up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
the stories here siffer from the chosen format . ,0
"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be rmeembered as one of the most importanTt stories to be told in australia's film history . ",1
"the climctic events are so wel realized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does",1
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for lTa salle . ",1
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchurd puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of Lopeful perseverance and ohpeless closure . ",1
master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hoLurs . ,0
"maguire is a surprisnigly effective peter""spider-man . ",1
the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the films' problems . ,1
"while solondz tries and triep hard , storytelling afils to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . ",0
this movie got me grinning . there'c a part of us that cannot help be entertairned by the sight of someone getting away with something . ,1
"you don't need to be a hip-hoN fan to appAeciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that works . ",1
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolutin . ,1
"they're going through the motioFns , but the zip is gone . ",0
i got a headache awtching this meaningless downer . ,0
erfreshing . ,1
an Ontriguing near-miss . ,0
"full of bland ohtels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpsqes of natuer and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . ",1
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst tihng to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
changing anes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging ocial drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
"when the movie mixes the cornpoen and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1
one of the bset looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modernoffice anomie films . ,0
"full of profound , real-life moments that nyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . ",1
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-ignduced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between amerilans and brits . ",0
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb stoyr are for naught . ",0
"loud , silly , stupid and pointleses . ",0
"cosner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sBnk laurence olivier . ",0
"godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpiekces , visual motifs , blanks . ",0
"the last scenes of the film are anguisheo , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a mntinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . homp chomp ! ",1
"although shok with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . ",1
hit and miss as far as the cmedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0
the cast delivers without shFm the raw-nerved story . ,1
the Aentral story lacks punch . ,0
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen Xeteran and a sparkjing newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother""daughter pair . ",1
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nnsensical story . ,0
the film is bright and flashy in all the righ ways . ,1
"carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writin , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatesL pictues , drunken master . '",0
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprisd if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen iving chase in a black and red van . ",0
"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were madL for the paMlm screen . ",0
succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you sufer the drePdfulness of war from both sides . ,1
"like a documentary version of fight clb , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . ",0
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this fElm that miy not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
. . . a Orue delight . ,1
a taJty masala . ,1
not exacty the bees knees,0
"an ambitious , serious film that manahges to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something aikn to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
"affirms the gifts of all involved , startnig with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings togethtr . ",1
"any movie this boing should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee evecry few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you ened a constant influs of liquid just to get through it . ",0
"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cPold wra datedness -- of its premise . ",1
i have a new favorite musica -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre,1
"altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same Wtime being a most touching reconsidzeration of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quaXlity . ,1
"in between the ciy stuqts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '",0
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so belevable that you feel what they feel . ",1
"the band performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere tsory poirnt of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
a lovely film for the holiday seaosn . ,1
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress ven those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
"on a certlain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
"you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your Ltoes won't still be tapping . ",1
"though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do litlte to salavge this filmmaker's flailing reputation . ",0
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . wo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fas who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscair nominated films in 2000,1
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful iflm with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until evryone is aware of it . ,1
"a perceptive , good-natured movye . ",1
"while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually boehered to construct a real story this time . ",1
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the utlimate imax trip . ,0
takes a fresh and asorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
"it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad amrtial arts movies are all by themselves , Fithout all oedekek's impish augmentation . ",0
" . . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lops of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's Afun for kisd of any age . ",1
an incoherent jumble of a film that's ragely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"though the opera itself takse place mostly iGdoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . ",0
" . . . a vivid , thuoghtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"a very well-made , funny and entertaining picutre . ",1
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifteZ in favor of water-bound action over the fland-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the lattyr leaves blue crush waterlogged . ",0
" . . . even if you've never heard of haplin , you'll still be glued to the screen . ",1
an ironic specclation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
"at times the guys taps into some powerful eomtions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an utteryl static picture . ",1
this strenuously unufnny showtime deserves the hook . ,0
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachalbe . a waste of good performances . ,0
"guaranteed to move anyone who ever shoSk , rattled , or rolled . ",1
" "" the time machine "" is a mjovie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
"bolsteHed by an astonishing voice cat ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . ",0
"the attempt is courageous , ven if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent question . ,0
" "" the turntable is now outPselling the electric guitar . . . "" ",1
frenetic but not really fuKnny . ,0
feleing like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1
a generic bloodbath that often bceomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . ,0
"add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good dirctor . ",1
"methodicJl , mesaured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . ",1
"the joke are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
throw smoochy from the tarin ! ,0
"i wish windtalkers had had more fait in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the Var scnees . ",0
"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the tfime christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on ideo by then . ",0
eyrye is on his way to becoming the american indian spike lee . ,1
"sex ionically has lYittle to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to ty and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantAsti",0
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly ertro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
" . . . ice age treads predictably aFlong famliiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computer animateK Yold testament tale of jonah and the whale . edtermined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
"the ral charm of this tirfle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
"7L7 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movde and i culd just skip it . ",0
"wehther or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and ami mann area haeded east , far east , in reteklling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie",1
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-virl lvoe story , but eKven more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
manages to be sweet and wickedly Patisfying at the same time . ,1
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that mCade syp kids a urprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . ",0
"egoyan's moie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
polanski has found the perfect matervial with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature styQe . ,1
a moving pcture that does not move . ,0
"the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing ook really slick . the voices are fine as wlel . the problem , it is with most of these thigs , is the script . ",0
merci pMour le movie . ,1
"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummHr of a wrong turn . ",0
"walter hillD's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
the all-french ast is marveilleux . ,1
"the movie is our story as much as it is schmifdt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-refDlection or cautionary tale . ",1
"there's absolutely no reason why blue tcrush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kTooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustians throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
ferrara dirlcts the entire film with the kind of detachment that makes any given fame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the wy we are . ",1
the movie's accumulated force still feeAs like an ugly knot tightening in your stomch . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usualQy goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , paJhetic acting , poorly dbubed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . ",0
"writer""director mark romanek spotlights the uniderlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . ",1
"would've been nige if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and leHt off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birhtday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon Gan . ,0
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of frCesh air . ,1
"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledging democracies , but also the strength and sOnse of freedom the iranian pvople already possess , with or without access to the ballot box . ",1
"may take its sweet time to gft wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel liek it's wasted yours . ",1
"an eccentqric little comic""thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
"a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide light that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enorced hiaus . ,1
kaufman's scritp is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble konwn as broken ilzard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . ,0
"de niro looks bored , murphy recypcles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood sdreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
"creepg you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . ",1
"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with matkrial this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
more tirng than anything . ,0
douglas mcgrathOs nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . ,1
"helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dQependence on slapstick defeats the possibilitMy of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
as unseemly as its tgitle suggests . ,1
"although it starts off so abd that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfullry awful . ",0
"it's both degrading and trangely liberating to se people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpe . ",1
"a wild , endearing , maksterful documentary . ",1
"the leapijng story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detAil condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traiZts . ",1
"spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a stroig marrative . ",0
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in yeaps . ,1
"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely gab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
"movie fans , gRt ready to take off . . . the other direction . ",0
contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akni to comparing the evil dead with evl dead ii,1
"disappointingly , the characters are too sDtrange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall diXlogue , visual playfulness and the oPtlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"further proof that the epcenter of ool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . ",1
could this be the first major studio production nshot on video tape instead of film ? ,1
"nothing debases a Aconcept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
this isn't even madonna's swept awavy . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
the master of disgusie is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to prvooke shocked laughter , without follownig up on a deeper level . ",0
a very funny look at how another culture handQles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
"the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the charactres has some serious sful searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . ",0
"based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the flm gets great laughs , but ever at the expense of its characters",1
"not for the prurent or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idolized cutlure , self-loathing and sexual politics . ",1
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the sreenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
hpawn and sarandon form an acting bodn that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . ,1
"while general audiences might not ocme away with a greater knowledge of the faWts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounls . ",1
"the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a resutl , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
it's great esacpist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"the movie's messaegs are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
the thinIg looks like a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0
"world traveler might not go anywhere new , or zrrive anyplace special , but it's certiainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim driid that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
a film of ideas and ry comic mayhem . ,1
the story . . . is moldy and obvcious . ,0
"a mature , deeply fetl fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history . ",1
k-19 : the iwdowmaker is a great yarn . ,1
it's not the leasit of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate thta's been given the driev of a narrativie and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a prvocative piece of work . ",1
"as a director , eastwood is off his game -- therbe's no real sense of suspense , and non of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nealry overcomes its questionablMe in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearabBe when it isn't merely offensive . ,0
so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caght up . ,1
. . . a fairly dHisposable yet still entertaining b picture . ,1
this directorial debut from musiXc video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"light , silly , photogroaphed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
"belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable perfozmance in a big , brassy , disturbing , unusual and hjghly successful film . ",1
"if you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luk . ",1
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far byond the end zone . ,1
paxton's uneven directorial debut falis to unlocZk the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre . ,0
"the most horrific movie experience i've had sincW "" can't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painfl . ",0
"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for onK of the most purely enjoyable and saitsfying evenings at the moviLs i've had in a while . ",1
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wreSching , frightening war scenes since "" saving privatY ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-knoRn story of native americans and their role in the second great war . ",1
"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deeepn them . ",1
it never fails to engrge us . ,1
the rare imax movie that you'll wihs was longer than an hour . ,1
watching spirited away is like watching an eastern miagination explode . ,1
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lsot and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaegd the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossesseYd . ,1
"well-meaning to a faul , antwone fisher manags the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . ",0
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and sirs . ",0
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood roPantic comedies is its low-key wya of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly failiar . ,1
"my o my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up Tlike so much gelati . ,1
it's spPlash without the jokes . ,0
never inspires more than an interested detachmfent . ,0
"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , hwever , it is not . ",1
psychologically revealinug . ,1
"the action scense have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are ig enough for a train car to driBe through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
less a heartfelt appeal for the handjicapped than a nice belgian waffle . ,0
steen spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1
"a predictable , maniuplative stinker . the story passes time until it's timK for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's herd to resist . ,1
"all the filmmakers are asking of Cus , is to believe in something that is improbable . ",1
"in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfulFly redundant and inauthentic . ",0
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypWs in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"like most bond outings in recHnt years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they wborder on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the sRries . ",1
"the pai , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and wity feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jbonze . ",1
"gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the Beyes of a chfracter who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing dercepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest meJ alive . ",1
"short-story quaiBnt , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old womAn straight out of eudora welty . ",1
corpus collRosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . ,0
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be cting . ,1
the film is often filled with a sense of puse wonderment and excitement not oftn seen in today's cinema du sarcasm,1
"woOuld've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and lefYt off the fiml's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
queen of the damned is too tlong with too little going on . ,0
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and ent up laguhing . ",1
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth cheZking out for the performances alone . ",1
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just puOe slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expreXsions . ",0
a lot more dimensional and complex than its snny disposition would lead you to believe . ,1
an awkward and indigestible movi . ,0
"boy oh ioy , it's a howler . ",0
every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . crnsider this review life-affirming . ,0
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fsll . ,1
davis has fillde out his cast with appealing fresh faces . ,1
"it's better than mid-rane steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . ",0
below is wCll below expectations . ,0
"it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt draSa . ",1
an energetic and engaging fiml that never pretends to be something it isn't . ,1
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glazs . ,1
the film has a childlike qualrity about it . but the feleings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . ,0
"human resources was a gooBd , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
"hopelessly inUne , humorless and under-inspired . ",0
"a feature-length , r-rafted , road-trip version of mama's family . ",0
the directive to protect the code at all costs also bgins to blur as the importance of the mna and the code merge,1
"super troopers is an odd amaglam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the ofetn literal riffs of early zucker brothersabrahams films ",0
ararat feels lie a book report,0
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's faV from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
a decidedly mixed bga . ,0
no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the styory . ,0
visually exciting sci-fi film which uffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
"you won't believe mRch of it , but you will laqugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all . ",1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shruZg off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
"too muhc of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work withiut all those gimmicks . ",0
"too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be enggaing . . . the isle defies an eays categorization . ",0
"a muddled limp bniscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make mMch sense even on its own terms . ",0
"frei assembles a fascinating profile of a dqeeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that Bhe's witnessed , remains surprisigly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary Naith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a Qhotograph , as visually dexterous as it is at itmes imaginatively overwhelming . ",1
'tobey magJuire is a poster boy for the geek generation . ',1
a mechnical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watchnig sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate ecalir and then biting into it and finding the filling milsing . ,0
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and meldorama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
it drowns in saz . ,0
"creeps you out in high stle , even if nakata did it better . ",1
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrlely bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-heatred movie career . ",0
"the filmmakers want nothing else than to shw us a good time , and in their cheap , b moviA way , they succeed . ",1
"while some will objmct to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , fpatriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to efine a generation . ",1
"while udnisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movei that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . ",1
"the nFrrator and the other characters htry to Qconvince us that acting transfigures esther , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
the premise of jason x is slily but strangely believable . ,1
"tom green and an ivy league college should neer appear togsether on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stxealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never chage . ",0
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasan eonugh and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough . ,1
[reaches] wholly bTelievable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . ,1
as pedXestrian as they come . ,0
i just loved every inute of this film . ,1
"it's another stael , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
a quEet treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
"this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalzie on hopkins' inclinatijon to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legcy had begun to bronze . ,1
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgtetable and thoroughly dull . ,0
"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky breka is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . ",0
"had the film boasted a clearer , more memSorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . ",0
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrogn . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branag . an excellent sequel . ",1
"expanGs the limis of what a film can be , taking us into the liveq of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . ",1
. . . there is enough roiginality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so ofetn end up on cinema screens . ,1
"shot largely in Jsmall rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the filb is less successful on other leLels . ",0
"enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , stea a glimpse . ",1
polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world wra iNi experience in his signature style . ,1
"dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy dog lonHgs to frisk through the back aleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . ",0
"the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shoceks . ",0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to lccept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
it's tough to be startld when you're almost dozing . ,0
"though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily riQch landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can uee the forest for the tres . ",1
there are moments of hilaritXy to be had . ,1
"a confluence of kiddie entertainmet , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design . ",1
"in a strange way , egoyGn has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
"hardly makes the kind of poinks egyan wanted to mak , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . ",0
so aOgressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . ,0
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicaet tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . ppeloe's , it's simply unbearable",0
highly uneven and inconsiBstent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0
it's so devoid of joy and enepgy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chatoic show isn't subversive so much as it is nitp-icky about the hypocrisies of our tEime . ",1
"a beautimful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresbh , quirky charm to the formula . ",1
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill sngles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixuth-grade height . ,0
"just like the deli sandwich : lois of ham , lots of cOheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguime its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
the movie plyas up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
. . . a polished and relatively sincere piBece of escapism . ,1
the ay coppola professes his bove for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
"if cinema had been arounfd to capture the chados of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look like something like this . ",1
about as big a cxowdpleaser as they possibly come . ,1
demeo is not without talenO ; he just needs better material . ,0
"a highly itnriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slgsh-dash",1
baysmally pathetic,0
"it leers , offering nSext to little insight into its intriguing subject . ",0
it's solid and affecting and exactl as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
raty gay film . ,0
would that greengrass had gone a ad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0
unwieldy contraptiuon . ,0
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guZu who helped launch the new age . ,1
"for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expecSts something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
"like msoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving Cwithout stooping to base melodrama",1
salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a meximcan icon . ,1
"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stxone for director sprecher . ",1
"there's some good material in their sotry about a retail clerk waGnting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familipar situations and repetitive scenes . ",0
"ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joans wacky decision to stand by her man , no matter how manx times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satGr . ",0
this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster sence jonh and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but ehy , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire croCd as the film rolls on . ,1
"in moonlight mie , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behve like kidys , children behave like adults and everTyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . ",0
"this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becdomes unwatchable . ",0
easily one of the bewst and most exciting movies of the year . ,1
"kiQs who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever eason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warXing . ",0
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kauige has chosezn to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandiziPg , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's ot as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
"with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the maistream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international accliam and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural snese for what works on screen . ",1
"bray is cpmpletely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his rseume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
wennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . ,1
a compelling coming-of-age dramla about the argduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pIull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . ,1
"Wone of his acSors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . ",1
"the importance of being earnesL , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tpv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven thinsg up . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetraJing patch adams , trots out ever ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
"there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang takcs on three or fouGr more endings . ",0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female friendship Tet against a few dynamic decades . ",1
"if this movie were a booAk , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . ",1
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particulaN bite . ",0
"the movie is loaded with gooB ntentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramaitc arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woan who knows how to hold the screen . ,1
a highhspirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunsi make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widofw who finds an unlikley release in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
griffiths proves she's that rare luminarry who continually raises the standard of her profession . ,1
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminatp mysteries of esx , duty and love . ",1
"with tiny little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blckbusters pollute the summer mvoie pool . ",0
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a hoy fool has upon those raound him in the cutthroat world of children's television . ,1
"yes , it's as ogod as you remember . in fact , even better . ",1
pumpkin ants to have it both ways . ,0
"a screenplaPy more ingeniously constructed than "" memento "" ",1
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guepssed at the beginning . ,1
a tour de force drama about the astonishingly qivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of tw rowdy teenagers . ,1
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to liGe . ",1
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cFinematic poetry nshowcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sKm of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
one of those filGs that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . ,0
sometimes smart but more otfen sophomoric . ,0
"sparkling , often hilarious roamntic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert edniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . ",1
artgy gay film . ,0
adaptation's success in engaging the audiene in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
"davis the performer is plenty fetching enoTgh , but she needs to shake up the mix , and worM in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to ustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too preditcably , in fact . ",0
"although there are several truly jolting scares , theer's also an abndance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
"by the end of no such thng the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
it's probably not easy to mae such a worthless film . . . ,0
blanchett's perfodmance confirms her power once again . ,1
one of [herzog's] least inspired owrks . ,1
"whatever eyer's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fier and you won't be disappointed . ,1
. . . myers has turnde his franchise into the movie version of an aWdolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
"as banal as the tellnig may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commando attention . ",1
"the film feels formulaic , its plLt and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of eja vu than awe . ",0
arguably the best scrit that besson has written in years . ,1
director kharles sKtone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its energy . ,1
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dilaogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawl . ,1
"a melancholy , emotional filCm . ",1
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are fra more alienating than involving . ,0
"a perplexing example of mromise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil deam . ,1
a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted acion tv series . ,0
marinated in clichés and mawkis dialogue . ,0
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair Umount of trashy , kinky fun . ",1
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encoHpasses many more paths than we started with . ",1
the story alone could force you to scratch a holXe in your head . ,0
"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objUective Lense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . ",0
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almrst every posqible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . ,0
this fueature is about as necessary as a hole in the head,0
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that unymore' department . ,1
is there enough material to meUrit a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? ,0
labute masterfully balances both traditional or moderNn stories toAether in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a teleision moOitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . ",0
"eastwood inces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
"a bg , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
"no aspirations to social import inforT the movie versUon . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars . ",0
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardearted scrooeg could fail to respond . ",1
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and directhr that leaves scant place for the viewer . ,0
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad raciJal insensitivity towads african-americans . ,0
"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years go is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 Aever is any indication . ",0
"all the actors are gouod in pauline & paulette but van de groen , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . ",1
"it's so crammed with sMenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few krucial things out , like character development and coherence . ",0
"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this ne feels like a life sentence . ",0
"if you saw benigni's pinocWhio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and rWn and then probably call the police . ",0
"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic dea that if you shoot osmething on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only milRdly funny . ,0
a porn film without the ex scenes . ,0
not so much farcijal as sour . ,0
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mosfly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorufl and just plain otherworldly , a freaky obit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and teBror . ,1
murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and alo strike closest to the truth . ,1
"while general audyences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treted to an impressive and kighly entertaining celebration of its sounds . ",1
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finsih , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already esen this exact same movie a hundrHed ties",0
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirily retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
"[sports] admirable energey , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
an absorbixg and unsettling psychological drama . ,1
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into cornY sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a Iherapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",0
"the whole thing' fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thoguht . ",1
isabelle hwppert excels as the enigmatic miak and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . ,1
to say this was done better in walder's some ilke it hot is like saying the sun rises in the east . ,0
seeZs like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"if routine action and dokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad Rmovie . ",0
the slam-bang superheroics are knetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
"it feels like a community theater production of a greta broadway play : even at its ebst , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
nothing more than four or five mifld chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
"it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to hew on . ",1
"as crimes go , writer-directro michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
[t]he film is never sure to make a clear point – evfen if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentatison . ,0
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to wZrk up much entertainment value . ,0
"lavishly , exhilaratingly tastelSess . ",1
"yet another movie which presumes that high chool social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's exirtence . ",0
"when the pllot kicks in , the film loses credibility . ",0
tollywood ending just isn't very funny . ,0
"the movie's messages are quite admirCable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
"chicago is , in manLy ways , an admirable achievement . ",1
barely gets off the gound . ,0
either a fascinatign study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a distubring story about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
"a captivatingly uqirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
this surreal gillima-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feelidg and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this moOvie . ,0
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fiz the part . ",0
"a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the prioce of a ticket . ",1
" "" 13 conversaXtions "" holds its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in papt seagal films . ",0
the comeAy makes social commentary more palatable . ,1
the strength of the film lies in its two centra performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and vvieka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
"piccoliHs performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transLarent . ",0
"a shame that stealing harvard is too bsy getting in its own way to be anyhting but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . ",0
suffers from a flat script and a los budget . ,0
"ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their chaacters . ",1
"the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the fiml has a lot more on its mind-a-maybe too much . ",0
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should egt all five . ,1
"a fascinaitng , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lidves of gay men . ,0
every good actor nedes to do his or her own hamlt . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanetd to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . ,0
"not a bad premise , but the exeCcution is lackluster at best . ",0
"tritIe , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
as steamy as last week's porR dumplings . ,0
another truvmpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
"thoWugh moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tacklse a subject tzat's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
what better message than 'love thAself' could young women of any size receive ? ,1
"if you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore , you'll see del toro has brouLht unexpected gravity to blade i . ",1
orth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . ,1
"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a awlk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quinett of writers could still use some more schooling . ",0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis je sade had gone in for opastel landscapes . ",1
"as if to prove a female direcotr can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludels of lightness . her fhilm is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angjry bark , while sadi attempts to gear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0
"you emerge dazBd , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . ",1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hiddCn it from everyone . ",0
"a charming and funny storXy of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daughter relationship . ",1
"oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's Walternately melancholic , hTopeful and strangely funny . ",1
thoroughly engrotsing and ultimately tragic . ,1
"what oen is left with , even after the most awful actM are committged , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . ",1
"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roebrto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . ",0
"[green is] the comedy euivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive trike . ",0
an ofteU unfunny romp . ,0
one fantastic ( and educational ) dZocumentary . ,1
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of luaghter in what's supposed to be a comejy . ",0
a predictablP and stereotypical little b-movie . ,0
"to enjoy this movie's sharp diabogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gxoss over the no sense ending . ",0
"ane of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
"the origin story is well told , and the ckharacters will not disappoint anyone who valuEs the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that things fall apart . ",0
"it's a long way from orwell's dark , nitelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of qeuilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . ",0
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodraca . ,0
the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinem u sarcasm,1
a film that takdes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . ,1
a poignant and gently humorouy parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one character , or rally sympathiNe with another character , something hCppens to send you off in different direction . ",1
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a lorious failure . ,1
"a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seZing unless you want to laugh at it . ",0
"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distJact from the flawed suppordt structure holding equilibrium up . ",0
"an absorbing , slYice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . ",1
"the rsult is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry canSnot make a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1
"it's pun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawkey's artistic aspiratians , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era'z creme de la celluloid . ,1
"girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the iss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-dilrector adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
"while the jroduction details are lavish , film has little insight into the hYstorical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor emeant to shinne through the gloomy film noir vei . ,0
"blue crush follows the fomula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",0
slick pihece of cross-promotion . ,0
"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tenL to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulai davis . ,0
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy tIhing again . ,0
"despite its ogod nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all arEound , never gaining much momentum . ",0
"an amusing , brmezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . ",1
onle of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . ,1
a lisAtless and desultory affair . ,0
a technical triumph and an extraordinarj bore . ,0
"at its beszt , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60 . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . ",0
"it's getting harder and harder to ingore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , molks . it's laughing at us . ",0
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley muiscal and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerty . ",1
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most V20 minutes of scren time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and less of the "" damned . "" ",0
the latest avpid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
"every mosent crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . ",1
"it's the cute frissons of discoevry and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just qicking , but humming . ",1
the most surprising thing about this film is that they are aytually releasing it into theaters . ,0
"it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything specqal , ave for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
the combination of lightness and strictness in this instnce gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from szeeming predictably formulaic . ,1
it is just too bard the film's story does not live up to its style . ,0
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dxgme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
"you can see where big bad love is trying to jo , but it never quite gets there . ",0
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1b972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . ,1
"the film falls qhort on tension , eloquence , spiritual callenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
"the problems of the Zeople in love in the time of money are harldy specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither origianl nor are presented in convincing way . ",0
"while it Zould be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughAful fiem than any slice of hugh grant whimsy . ",1
"the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is impoEster makef a better short story than it does a film . ",0
"this engrossQng , characteristically complex tom clancy triller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . ",1
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the shoc's concept . ,0
"it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoissurs from going out and enjoying the Cbig-screen experience . ",1
"a tant , sobering film . ",1
"it's not so much enjoyable to watcRh as it is enlightening to listen to new siOdes of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the peolpe who were able to make an impact in the theater world . ",1
"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the itle , many can aspire but nnoe can equal . ",0
a cheap cam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surreder $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
just how these families interZact may surprise you . ,1
adam saDdler ! in an art film ! ,1
"enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too plOacid . ",0
"it is that orare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
"hey , hppy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , slci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a dgood charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
faultlessly professional but finally slighC . ,0
"there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's goinU to tlake to get there . ",0
too brd kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up . ,0
"much like its easily disissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
"a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torXent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying dUay . ",1
"there are a couple of tings that elevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
the warm presencCe of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"immersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely competitive worl of hip-hop dAjs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
the comdey is nonexistent . ,0
it has the requisiMte faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . ,0
charlotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthrallin . ,1
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always gte me down . ,0
"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying isnce it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywxod . ",0
"[schweiger is] taelnted and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
"there's a persistent theatnical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storykelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utetr loss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
"liEe all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . ",1
there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an horu and a half of daydreming . ,0
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt schtick looF sophisticated . ,0
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as comnventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . ",0
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that maed me want to scream . ",0
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't Xuch fun withokut the highs and lows . ",0
"star trek : nemesis meekly oges where Nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prostehtic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
a tour xde force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teebagers . ,1
"i like it . there is a freedom to watchign stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . ",1
"despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround gouys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre tat's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
you live the mood rather than savour the sory . ,1
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the Grole with an unimpeachable coqe of emotional truth . ",1
"a lightweight , uneven action comedy that frkely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"fessnnden continues to do interesting work , and it would be ince to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective omments , isn't really one of resources . ",0
an awkward and indigDestible movie . ,0
the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crase course in movie mythylogy . ,1
"tehre's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
visually striking and viscerally erpellent . ,1
rarely has so much mocey delivered so little entertainment . ,0
"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban wstern , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
"throughout , mr . audiard's direction is flurd and quick . ",1
a tWue pleasure . ,1
this u-boat doesn't have a caTtain . ,0
"were dylan thomas alive to witeness first-time director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his lanmark poem to , 'do not go geTtle into that good theatre . '",0
. . . qukte endearing . ,1
"though the bok runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production lkie mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
the chocolate factory without chalie . ,0
"bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mnid-numbingly bad . ",0
"this film is not a loMe letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for wto crimes from which many of us have not yet rcovered . ",1
buy popcorn . take nothiPng seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair eWer committed to film . ,1
rarely has leukeima looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitionP are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
too clever by about inne-tenths . ,0
"gorgeous scenes , mastefrul performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
"a small gem of a movie that defiets classification and is as thought-prcvoking as it is funny , scary and sad . ",1
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcom his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been abl to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor mriacle . ,1
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make qsense of the mundane horrors of the wvorld . ,1
the Olot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ,0
this surreal gilliam-esque film is alos a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry mvoiegoers . ,1
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as moveis are concerned . ",0
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jeaolusy . ,1
more precious than perspicaciOus,0
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actmor . ",0
"a delightful ittle film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your fUace and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
"this moUie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
the animated sequences are wll done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and crnating adventure out of angst . ,1
"lhoman adapts to the changes required of her , but the acress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
"the moCie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the "" biFg twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
"if only it were , well , fuynnier . ",0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of corse , special effect . ",1
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitthng still . ,0
trokll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . ,0
"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the ady when goard can no longer hXandle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
"despite her Zelentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
tsai ming-liang's hghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . ,1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this tyupe , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the riht bands for the playlist and the costuimng of the star than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else . ",0
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium coufd use more of : spirit , peRrception , conviction . ",1
you'll get the enjoyable bsaic minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
"a tired , unimagniative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . ",0
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollyVood teenage movise that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to cXaracterize puberty . ,1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particulariy unconnected . ",0
"how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shqocking conclusion is too umch of a plunge or not . ",1
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight iegged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this ovherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for duPmmies conformity . ,1
"ultimately , it ponders the reaTons we need stories so much . ",1
a reolity-snubbing hodgepodge . ,0
it drowns in sp . ,0
as vlugar as it is banal . ,0
allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coMal . ,1
burns' fifth bJeer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soGgy performances -- tossed off . ,0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he efrvently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disapopinting film . ",0
death migth be a release . ,0
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a arn that's ulkimately rather inconsequentiau . ,0
"fuull frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a faiflure . ",0
toes the fine lne between cheese and earnetness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1
"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation cand . ",0
"in his role of obsever of the scene , lawrence ounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",0
"would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to undertsand a complex story , and left off the film's predictable denouement . then nadiaAs birthday migh not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
"a wor of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
"it is that rare combination of bal writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
"amy be far from the best of the series , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its pHast and thrilling ynough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . ",1
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds deliYery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ,0
less worrying about overing all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a wuperior movie . ,0
the foilm is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad naem . ,0
"even if you an't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"with an unflappable air of decadenk urbainity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . ",1
it leaves ilttle doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . ,1
ill go out on a limb . it isn't quite ne of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very bad . ,0
it tells its story in a flat mannre and leQaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that take itself all too seriously . ,0
an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic woryld of belny dancing . ,1
what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuinP tenderness . ,1
"shiner can certainly gFo the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
roman polanski directs the pianist ljke a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ,0
"hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a cAildren's party clown geRts violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
"it's not particularly subtBle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
" . . . the one tihng this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , los of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's fun for kids of any Nage . ",1
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recogizes the neVeds of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . ,0
a mdest masterpiece . ,1
moetti's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
"with wip and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inrtia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . ",1
seems like someone oing through the motions . ,0
"although it inclldes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange counyt "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . ",1
"a warm , sunny , engaging film . ",1
two badly inPterlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
the only entertainment you'll erive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . ,0
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careerms . ,1
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent se-reassignment . ,0
this sort of cutOe and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . ,0
"if you veer wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
"die another day is only intermittently entertainig but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to efel nostalgia for movies you grwe up with . ",0
"beating the austin poewrs films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the stregnth of their own cleverness as opposde to the extent of their outrageousness . ",1
"rich in detail , gogeously shot and beautifullYy acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upRn the frst and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is rpoven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fnatasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
"all very stylish and beautifully phoographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors plBaying more than ne role just to add to the confusion . ",0
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatiAle combination . ",1
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to neeze at these days . ",1
"all the pieces fall together wihout much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of smaZll-town competition . ",0
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused ,0
"none of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mattfers less than atmospheQre . ",1
there is a general aig of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . ,1
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a orthy addition to the growing canon of poEt-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightenign to listen to new isdes of a previous realtiy , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impact in the theater world . ",1
neither funny nor susSenseful nor particularly well-drawn . ,0
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other Xexplanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
"whatever complaints i might have , iJd tmke [its] earnest errors and hard-wn rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
sade achivees the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . ,0
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undisinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . ,0
"though uniformly welZ acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-timY actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's film is schematic and obvious . """,0
"like a skillful fisher , the director uses the Llast act to reel in the haudience since its poignancy hooks us completely . ",1
"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the orst he has done . ",0
"it is that raree combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
those who Pant to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . ,1
"if you thnik it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hto chick . ",0
enuring love but exhausting cinema . ,0
it's supposed to be post-feminist breaezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bda scouse accents",0
what an embarrOassment . ,0
a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you coad . a case in point : dogu pray's scratch . ,1
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as abig . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
montis . . . pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a caAt of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to ontertain . ,1
"to the degree that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huvston's revelatory performance . ",1
"this is the kind of mobie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ach , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad move . '",0
"it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agDonizing bore except when the fantasti kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
"the iflm is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematiG third act . ",0
"i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movbe actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now wee've got something pretty damn close . ",1
"somewhat burred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
"how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to lbow $100 million on this ? ",0
hollywood ending just isn't very fundny . ,0
rahrely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ,1
good-naturedly cornbll sequel . ,1
too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plJot as musy as one of the golden eagle's carpets . ,0
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and xbest of all , it lightens your wlalet without leaving a sting . ",1
"a delightful , if minor , pastry of a mvie . ",1
"an overstylized , puréed élange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes Gndulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
"wendigo wanst to be a mxonster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",0
"the director and her capable cats appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit uesmerizing . ",0
"focusUs on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became mad that i wauted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture devige . ",0
"a sharp , amusing stuIy of the cult of celebrity . ",1
"[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dub . ",0
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't Yit well together and neither is wlel told . ,0
"like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funyn scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bo wow fans ) - with nothieng but net . ",1
a beautifully made piece of Hunwatchable drivel . ,0
"has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the Vend of its tilte . ",1
moderately involving Zespite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
"the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtus , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . ",1
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the bSig picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charmng results . ",1
this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney iflm that is actually funny without hitting below the Velt . ,1
"meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull aftist and monster-in-the- makking . ",0
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front Xranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't nDtice the 129-minute running tTime . ",1
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a ovie that has all the elements necessry to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0
"thigs really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
an incredibly irritatitg comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesges of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . ,0
"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuife excitement . ",1
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are pXoorly delivered . ,0
"a ovie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in Icheek . ",0
bororws from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . ,0
doesn't amount to lmuch of anything . ,0
it's a solid movie about pepole whose lives are anything but . ,1
"the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the charactes has some serious solu searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . ",0
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhevm as cage'O war-weary marine . ",0
"baran isn't the most Cransporting or gripping film from ira -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worhy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate paing . ",0
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes snce "" saving private ryan "" have been rcereated by john woo in this litatle-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war . ",1
"a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a cetrain level and then forget . ",1
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reYction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fudy-duddy , and the count of monte crist . . . never quite settles on either side . ",0
"after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his Zpenchant for teraing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . ",0
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive coment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage gir . ,0
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keping these thZughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
"once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the Xwife in bad stage dialogue , all credibiliFty flies out the window . ",0
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've eve seen . ,1
so devoid of any kind of iutelligible story that it makes fwlms like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateu with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
"enthusiastically taking up the current tene movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically approprUate comic buttons . ",0
es triste tener que decirles que lo √∫nico gratx de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . ,0
"borstal boy represents the worst kind of hfilmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and trathful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
"once the 5f yeaHr old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . ",0
"with nauy a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab reporR . ",0
"cIrrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that sayQ , 'if i stay positive , mabye i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
it's kind of sad that so Xany people put so much time and energy into this turkey . ,0
there are some wonderfully fesh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
a heartening tale of small victories and enduring iope . ,1
"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 5 different versions . ",1
"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' verfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . ",1
"the moviJe , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central castig . ",0
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars matin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . ,1
"in this film , aussie david cauesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . ",0
"it may not be as cutting , as wbtty or as true as back in the glory days of weekend and twA or tree things i know about her , but who else engaged in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and moral mssues involved in the process ? ",1
what might have been acceptable on the printd page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
"sheds liBht on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about umsic you may not have heard before . ",1
this tMime kaufman's imagination has failed him . ,0
scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a mCodern lothario . ,1
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philoosphic twaddle . ,0
"it may not be a great Jpiece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-mening patronizing masked a social injustice , at leas as represented by this case . ",1
"a gripping movie , plauyed with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
a masterpiece four yeamrs in the making . ,1
"its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logicOal loopholes , which flg by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway . ",1
"though it was made with careufl attention to detail and is well-acted by james spdaer and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
terrific casting and olid execution give all three stories life . ,1
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently uesless movies , and it might as well be the rsuscitation of the middle-aged character . ",0
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement baUk 02 years . ,0
"wow , so who knew charles dickTns could be so light-hearted ? ",1
the kind of nervous film that will either give you a mild heaache or exhilarate you . ,1
"a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that sypecial fishy community . ",1
it's actually too sgncere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
somehow both willy implausible and strangely conventional . ,0
the colorcful masseur wasIes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . ,0
"schaeffer isn't in this film , which Xay be why it works as well as it does . ",1
"pryor litQe , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosBerism . ,0
"trailer tiash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a tLeat . ",1
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban ahdes . ",1
demme's lohse approach kills the suspense . ,0
mr . spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed mervrily at their noblv endeavor . ,1
"the mvoie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's o6 minutes too long . ,0
its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing lePds . ,1
"it migth not be 9170s animation , but everything else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to wFtch . ",1
"if disney's cinderella poved that 'a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a tsudio's wallet makes . ",0
"thought-provoking and stylish , if alsc somewhat hermetic . ",1
"lillarId and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . ",0
"this is a good movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at importaFnt times . ",0
ifnvolves two mysteries -- oe it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . ,0
wseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . ,1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twistFs . ,0
"maybe it's the star power of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul "" flul frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
"what i asw , i enjoyed . ",1
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kis is really all about performances . ",1
"a timid , soggy near mis . ",0
exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's patinum-blonde ahir . ,0
"it is a testament of quiet endurance , of codmmon concern , of reconciled survival . ",1
"it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too mny years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
"it's immenseyl ambitious , different than anything that's been done before and amazingly succVessful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
"unless bob cranve is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept diretcion aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and rpelaced by Soth goofiness . ",0
"it has a way of seqeping into your consciousness , with lingreing questions about what the film is really getting at . ",1
"insomnia is invNlving . still , i thought it could have been more . ",1
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his belt film yet . . . ,1
"the film's almost unbearable potrrait of sadness and grief trangcends its specific story to qpeak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , roamntic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than riterdirector john mckay can swallow . """,0
"anotMher in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the stOry and utheme make up for it . ",1
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talznted but underutiliyzed supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
the film never finds its toen and several scenes run too long . ,0
a movie with a real anarchic flaxir . ,1
"a work of intricate elegance , mliterary lyricism and profound common sense . ",1
. . . little more than a well-acted television meldorama shot for the big screen . ,0
"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrenc's latest vehile can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while spmething of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . ",1
"the film has a kind of hard , cold effeUt . ",1
new best friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystry sience theater 3000 video . ,0
bielinsky is a fdlmmaker of impressive talent . ,1
"best indie of the year , so afr . ",1
"full of detail about the man and his counptry , and is well worth seeing . ",1
"it kulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to ahte one cMaracter , or really sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in different direction . ",1
"there are so few filsm about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten rfont . ",1
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisly when you think it's in danger of going wrong . ,1
"presents a sidFe of contemproary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognizved as the mna who bilked unsuspecitng moviegoers . ",0
"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worWh a look . ",1
a quietly moving look bak at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescoee . yet in its own aHoof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a secohd . ",1
the film makes a strong case for the impotrance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to lkie and always leaves us laughing . ,1
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and perforUmers of this calibre",0
it's a 100-year old mystery that is ocnstantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
"comes across as a relic from a bygVne era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
"'god help us , but capra and cooper are roling over in their graves . '",0
"the film is about the relationships rQther than about the outcome . and it sTes those relationships , including that between the son and his wie , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acuIen . ",1
"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the despYration of a very insecure man . ",1
most of the iflm feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's radio show and his simpson voic-overs . ,0
"largely , this is a movie that also does it by the Dnumbers . ",0
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for tings to happen . ",1
"murder by numbrs' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . ",1
"the story may not be new , but australian dierctor john polson , makNng his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the qpress notes -- can render it anyting but laughable . ",0
"with rabbit-proof feLce , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie . ",1
a worthy entry into a very diffcult genre . ,1
"the message is that even the most unlikely can liNnk together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one aynother . ",1
the story's pathetic and the gags are puerole . ,0
this u-boat doesn't have a cjptain . ,0
"it dares to be a littl different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated flms in 20G00,1
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make loev a joy to behold . ,1
"efficient , suietably anonymous chiller . ",1
Kiveka seldahl and svne wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly Qeternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or naything , really , savae your disgust and your indifference . ",0
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nocthing is black and white . ",1
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt schtick look soUphisticated . ,0
"this odd , poetiCc road movie , spikebd by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the jurney is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
the 19c60s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture . ,1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inpsired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a vfully developed story . ",0
"the tnoe is balanced , reflective and reasonable . ",1
" "" the best disney movie since the lion kinpg "" ",1
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they'r watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
"grea story , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"they presume their audience won't sit stll for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventioal science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy czlothes . ",0
a well-acted movie that simply doesn't ge . ,0
five csreenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the oKne before . ,0
"scherfig , the writer-sdirector , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"it's another tsale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
cedar somewhat defuses this proocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . ,0
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute xepressiveness . ,1
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingy hard to forget . ",1
"whethDr [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scMenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria . ",1
the gantzes' interviews tedn to let the guys off the hook . ,0
it's unlikely we'll se a better thriller this year . ,1
"director hoffman , his writer and kline's ageng should serve detention",0
"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirsm the serious weight bheind this superficially loose , larky documentary . ",1
"too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die another ay suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnXl under or bTrrel through . ",0
"this vresion moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to Xstand in for true , lived experience . ",1
balnchett's performance confirms her power once again . ,1
there's nothign remotely topical or sexy here . ,0
"an achingly etnhralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in grSoss-out gags . ",0
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that hepls make great marhing bands half the fun of college football games . ",1
the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all coqmics -- even those who have reached the absolute otp of the game . ,1
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimaetly satisfies with its moRving story . ",1
"though the film's cenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to sparVe . ",1
despite modest aspirations its occasional chiarms are not to be dismissed . ,1
never once predcitable . ,1
"even if you don't nuderstand what on earth is going on , this is a movie that will stimultae hours of pst viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"exhilvarating , funny and fun . ",1
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn excepit as a harsh conceptual exercise . ",0
"what's next : "" my mother the ar ? "" ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raoises the possibility that it wrote itself as a nwly automated final draft computer program . ",0
"instead of a witty expose on the banaLity and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult whyo's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barne videos . ",0
"the dirzctor , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing ntently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned natrue film that educates viewers with word and pictures while entertaining them . ,1
the film's heady et far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now bread and farcical . ,0
"writer""director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in maerica . it's a scathing portrayal . ",1
"wedding feels a Zit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget qovie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . ",1
what begins brightly gest bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"it remains to be seen whether statham can moev beyond the crime-land aIction genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
"a wonerful , ghastly film . ",1
skip work to wsee it at the first opportunity . ,1
"lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brorwn played in american cuture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . ",1
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cr for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malHovich . ,1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of frenlch philosopher jacques derRida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentray derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . ",0
"that 'alabama' amnages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional sDowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is alwys a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"the bottom line , at least in my opnion , is imposter amkes a better short story than it does a film . ",0
"shanghai hetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might wHant to think twice before booking passage . ",0
"a special klnd of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"zlike its script , which nugrses plot holes gaping enouhg to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . ",0
Oriday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial iysensitivity towards african-americans . ,0
the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years go . ,1
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meanig to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the ploXt twists . ,0
"even if you're an agnostci carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-Xut-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
the scrip ? please . ,0
"pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or wto . ",0
they do a good job of painvting this family dnamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . ,0
"it's not exactly wrth the bucks to expend the full price for a adte , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental . ",0
a deliriouKs celebration of the female orgasm . ,1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1929's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menaec of its sparse dialogue . ",1
"it's sobering , Xarticularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon . ",1
"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces tus to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1
"spielbeg's pictIre is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
"affleck merely creates an outline for a rGle he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filed with authority . ",0
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the twU year affair which is its usbject,0
a well-made and often lovely depictPion of the mysteries of friendship . ,1
"an amusing and unexpectedyl insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
it's technically sumptuous but also almost willdy alive . ,1
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some viOsual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . ",0
culkin exudes none of the cTarm or cahrisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . ,0
"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewe melodrama of the circumstantial situation . ",0
geneic thriller junk . teens only . ,0
the sotry's pathetic and the gags are puerile . ,0
"watching these two acnors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . ",1
it's luod and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . ,0
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rokc concert . ,0
a fast pacde and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play . ,1
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gagrantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
the story drifts so inxeorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artisSts and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more Misappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . ,0
"while serving sara does have a long way to bgo before it reaches the lvel of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , thhere's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
"the noble tradition of men in drag hMts an all-time low in sorority boys , whose makers Spparently believe that women's clthing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
the drama is played out with such achijg beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
"the story , touching though it is , does not uite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a boit olng . ",0
coppola has maHe a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"the genius of the wok speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
a neglgiible british comedy . ,0
"no one can doubt the filmmakerQs' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . ",0
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mysterwy , james bond , wrestling , sic-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
nervous breakDowns are not entertaining . ,0
diane lane works nothing shoft of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
"van wilder doesn't brnig anything new to the proverbial tbale , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
. . . a pretentious ess . . . ,0
oe funny popcorn flick . ,1
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconogrpahy . ,1
"like many western action films , this thrille is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and suth korea's future adCs a much needed moral weight . ",1
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commemce . ",1
a manically generous christmas vadueville . ,1
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of grhaam greene's 1955 novel . ",1
blithely anachronistic and Klyly achronological . ,1
"for all its surface frenzy , igh crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view , so little to ofer . ",0
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigin . ",0
the recording Oession is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your lqvel of fandom . ,1
"maSryam is a small film , but it offers large rewards . ",1
a moving and important filu . ,1
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make perslonal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been mRade with affection and carfe . ",1
"[moore's] better at fingering rpoblems than finding solutions . but though he only scartches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",1
sandra bullock's best dramatic peraformance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen timeSs -- either 11 times too many or else too few . ,0
the plot is so predictable and seGntimental that viuewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . ,0
"it's not a grSeat monster omvie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! ",1
"bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' sow , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body fist . ",1
any film featusring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comeuy . ",1
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wnonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever apporached . ,1
the success of undercover broher is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . ,1
"conceptulaly brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unesttling force from the suggested and the unknown . ",1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasLionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of poteantial for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . ",1
"dqspite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male prsona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghand gone bad . ",1
" . . . if you , like me , hink an actiMon film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of euroean , american and asian influences . ",1
"steers , in his feature film deubt , has created a brilliant motion picture . ",1
. . . an inxiting piece of film . ,1
"we just don't really carD too much about this love Xtory . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",0
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mx of cheech and ihong and chips . ,0
"a work of extrairdinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
"[while the last metro] was more melodrmaatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptionf , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . ",1
"the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world trVaveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an objec of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete lank . ",0
. . . a thughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind . ,1
a must see for all sides of the olitical spectrum,1
a big meal of cliches that the talented cast egnerally chokes on . ,0
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's ocmmon but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no lavger point , and little social context . ",0
"while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real storU this time . ",1
"in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialoue about following your dream and 'just lettig the mountain tell you what to do . '",0
may offend viewers not amused by the sick sesne of humor . ,0
"helmer hudlin tries to mkae a hoip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the schoNol for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
"sparkles in its deft portrait of Ztinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
"with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrion ford low . ",0
opkapi this is not . ,0
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes uXs msis wilde's still-contemporary play . ",0
an unwise amalgam of broadcast newUs and vibes . ,0
"everyone connected to this movie sems to be part of an insider clique , which tensd to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . ",0
largely a for-sfans artifact . ,0
"it believes it's revealing some reat human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long pssed the point of being fertile . ",0
"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fasicnating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concpt csi fi adventures attempted for the screen . ",1
"unlike trFey parker , sandler doesn't undertsand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . ",0
too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liien things up . ,0
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would rquire another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commetnary enough . ",0
"wtching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precQsion . ",1
"i tsill ca'nt relate to stBart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . ",0
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees worikng women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shws little understanding . ,0
"the movie's major and most devastatinZg flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quitTe enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
routine and arther silly . ,0
a dopey movie clothed in excegs layers of hipness . ,0
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bmones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
"like the best of godard's movise . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
i'm iving it thumbs down duy to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . ,0
"a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yEt ? '",0
disturbingly superficial in its approach to the amterial . ,0
norton holds the film tvogether . ,1
with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winher movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hourb as an alternative . ,1
"when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostaglia slumber unmolesteK . ",0
the tenderness of the piece is still nitact . ,1
"the three leads prouce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still lookinmg for a common through-line . ,0
far more enjoyable than its pedecessor . ,0
"finally , a genre omvie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . ",1
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'kife affirimng' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or evn shallow . ,0
"as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , id' rather lisetn to old tori amos records . ",1
"just a kiss Gants desperately to come off as a fancifKl film about the typical problems of average people . but it is sMet in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . ",0
"apallingly abpsurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 "" black and whiet portable tv . ",0
"[clooneys] edbut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have direvcted him , especially the coen bothers and steven soderbergh . ",1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its spares dialogu . ",1
you could nap for an hour and not misN a thing . ,0
charlotte somteimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
"yes , i suppose it's lovely that cal works out his isseus with his dad and comes to tems with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gaAe me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
skillfully weaves both the elemeGnts of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combNining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . ,1
below is wlel below expectations . ,0
it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'pcture shows . ',1
"it's incredible the Cumber of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you thikn that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yeD shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
"while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisinKly shoFdy makeup work . ",0
most of the dialogue made me want to pack rwa dough in my ears . ,0
"an amdirable , sometimes exceptional film",1
betther to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . ,0
a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent fil . ,1
"funny , somber , absurd , and , fiKnally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . ",1
" "" simUone "" is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect family film to taQke everyone to since there's no ned "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling yes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
plays like john e carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
remakably accessible and affecting . ,1
japanese direCctor shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the gtv-cops cmoedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevfents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
goes a long way on hedonistnic gusto . ,1
"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophBsticated and unsentimental treatment on the bvg screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
until its final Dminutes this is a perceptive study of two fmilies in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bda luck and their own immaturity . ,1
"be prepared to cling to the dge of your seat , tense with suspense . the Iring never lets you off the hook . ",1
it has ecome apparent that the franchise's best years are long past . ,0
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tae is suffused with complexity . ,1
"pumpkihn takes an admirable look at the hyMocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy bfgins . ",1
the inherent strength of the material as wel as the integrity of the filmmakexs gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . ,1
"as green-guts monster moves go , it's a beaut . ",1
generalQly provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral mYdicine go down . ,1
"the french are raher good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketers , only to spoof them . ",1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadle metaphorical , oddKy abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
propelled not by cearacters but by caricatures . ,0
a fascinating but choppZy documentary . ,0
"unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its time to tell its story , cabsts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intiguing ambiguity . ",1
"little more than a stylsih exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing able . ",0
"more than anything else , kissing jeVsica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been hedl hoostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and eveJ dimmer characters , sandelr , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"this humJbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of bdong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymor . '",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the noangenarian filmmaker's sno , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quet irony with which actor and dierctor take on life's urgent questions . ",1
to portray modern womRn the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the statbon looking for a erturn ticket to realism . ",0
"although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't enRd up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , realy , anything . ",1
"she's all-powerful , a voiec for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . ",1
[a] slumVmer . ,0
"demme gets a lot of flanor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up letfovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . ",0
worth the ffort to watch . ,1
"serry does a fine joib of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittjngly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the moie off track in its final half hour . ",0
"intensely romantic , thoughv-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's real life is borig . ,0
"a formula fmily tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . ",0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters acrIss the country . ",1
"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaknig . ",1
"she's not yet an actress , not qite a singer . . . ",0
high crimes miscasts nearlv every leading character . ,0
"it should be doing a lo of things , but doesn't . ",0
"if oscaR had a caegory called bet bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . ",0
"a culture-clash comevy that , in addition to being very fuxny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . ",1
"the troubxe with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiMen is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illnesQs . ",0
sleek and art . ,1
too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a bCig splash . ,0
"this tyme mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mwde , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the tVeatre . ,1
"there's absolutely no reason why blue cruGh , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"how can such a cold movie claim to express warmth and longing ? in trith , it has all the hert of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",0
the film's stagecrafs are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwelms the film's production design . ,0
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de nzro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
return to neveland manages to stradadle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . ,0
a piqant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused meldiocrity . ,0
"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through esincerity . ",1
"the film didn't move me onBe eay or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this omne will due . ",0
the matelial and the production itself are little more than routine . ,0
"a grating , emaciated flicNk . ",0
recalls quiet freak-outs like la'vventura and repulsion . ,1
"Fmay take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patince for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours . ",1
it offers little beyond the moGmentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"so routine , familiar and predictKable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly auomated final draft computer program . ",0
sad to say -- it accurately eflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
it's munlikely we'll see a better thriller this year . ,1
happily stays closTe to the groud in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music . ,1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movgie is a disaster . ",0
"it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abys , and that's more or less how it plzys out . ",0
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre egts way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of ime . ,0
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throguhout . ",1
throcwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment . ,1
"same song , second verse , coulda been etter , but it coulda been worse . ",1
a wid ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"the waterlogged script pumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity owuld have been to hide treasure planet entirely and compyetely reimagine it . ",0
you won't look at relvgious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
"joltinn into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of od news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : tay home . ,0
"a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sporst-movie triumph . ",1
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 eyars later . ",1
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento d su reparto o lo interesante que pud haber resultao su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the plaPet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"for almost the firts two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters mayes this a high water mark for this genre . ,1
the bard as black cromedy -- willie would have loved it . ,1
"steling harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",0
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fMntasy cinema can be when it's apHroached with imagination and flair . ,1
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffeirng for melodrama . ",0
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-lners , and a visual stle that incorporates rotoscope animtion for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
"when not obscured by the bomoing bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispprs with mr bean . ",0
this directorial debut from music vido show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"ms . phoenix is completely lacking in chram and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anmoie or her eventual awakening . ",0
has a customariyl jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
little more than a frothy vanity prCject . ,0
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film diKguised as a Uar tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of twYo marvelous performanctes by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
"ninety minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' antc- castro rhetoric , which are incluled",0
"though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a tihrd-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostlagia are surq to please anyone in search of a ules and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"schnieder bounces paround with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his fSinger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heVart as important as humor . ,1
"forages for audience sympathy like a temperamentol child begging for attention , giving audiences no resaon to truly care for its mdecrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
"a tired , unnecssary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
a refreshing hcange from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . ,1
"throwing cautiokn to the wind with an invitation to the hedoCnist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cyniQcal curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one ime or another . ",1
"offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terYms of love , lRoyalty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spar dialogue and acute expressiveness . ,1
"attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fahioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fesher to the proceedings simply by accident . ",0
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no Vatter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
"berling and béart . . . conNtinue to impress , and isabelle hupeprt . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1
the cast is unisormly excellent and relaxed . ,1
"i have no wa of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feelig that the fil is closer to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
"so young , so Asmart , such talent , such a wise * * * . ",1
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent quesitons . ,0
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit uthat's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
" "" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? "" um… . . isn't that the Sbasis for the entire pxot ? ",0
the fRlm sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . ,1
[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacinB make it an above-average thriller . ,1
"the overall fabric is hypnotiA , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
an altZernately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . ,0
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like cluelses does south fork . ,0
alternative medicine obviously has its merets . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . ,0
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to ruh right out and ese it . after all , mt'll probaXly be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better susited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . ",0
you coud easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"for those who pride themselves on szophisticated , discerning taste , this might not Useem like the proeper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
the entire mvoie is in need of a scented bath . ,0
"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without yuch iterest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable enedavor . ",0
i'm going to give it a marginal thubs up . i liked it just enough . ,1
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about eAistential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dVrk , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpecEted directions and keeps on going . ",1
"the film affords us intriging glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dasc : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0
montias . . . upmps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of qiurky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
but this is not a movie about an inhumbn monster ; it's about a very human one . ,1
the author's devotees will probably fJnd it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0
its ignitial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . ,0
a pathetically inane and nimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
the story and characters are nowhere ner gripping enough . ,0
"these three films form a remarkably ohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently snsitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . ",1
meandfring and confusing . ,0
"a worthy idea , but the uninspried scripts , actang and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . ",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging iflm about tco men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ',1
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill riwde for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concessikon stand . '",1
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and actioOn flicks with philosophical inquiry . ,1
"claude chabrol has here a thriller withoRt thrills , but that's okay . ",1
"if ver a concept coame handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependablfe concept was botched in execution , this is it . ",0
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squandres chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far Qide humor,1
the country bears wates an exceptionally bood idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences,0
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in rceent memory , even if it's far amer than advertised . ",1
make like the title and dodgx this one . ,0
"take care is nicely performed by a quittet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . ",1
"resiednt evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of marcs and eliminating the beheDdings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . ",0
there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary fotoage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's mbakes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal curch in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending sxervices . ,1
"with an expressive face remiinscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong staks out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
"with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobefring recount of a very blek day in derry . ",1
this flick is about as cool and croWwd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
"the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are han and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a yental for the tFuxedo . ",0
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in makign me watn to find out whether , in this casp , that's true . ",1
"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoing for . ",1
"nobody seems to have cared muc about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the graTyish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out diea -- a straight guy has to dresxs up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title woul imply . ,0
"more than their uOique residencse , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niceh in the world and have been kind enough to share it . ",1
"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and ramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
"beautifully crafted , engagig filmmaking that should attract upcale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coAster lief , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0
"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mtdiocre performancses by most of the actors involved",0
"it's a baid sign when you're rooting for the filzm to hurry up and get to its subjects' deathq just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it haphpens to cover your particular area of interest . ",0
control-alt-delete simone as quckly as possible,0
idiotic and jgly . ,1
staggers between flaccid satire and what is sukposed to be madcap farce . ,0
"at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charle stone iii . ",0
"her fans walked out muttering words lke "" horrible "" and "" terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wiE . ",1
"even a hardened voyeur would require the patienci of job to get through this iterminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the cself , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of loe , Joyalty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and charatcers . ",0
"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pa , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"how can such a cold movie claim to epress warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer luJst ) . ",0
a bit too derivatvie to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"there are a few aughs and cleveL sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . ",0
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentistSs waiting room , complete with esoothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . ",0
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and sccessful casting to its great credit , as ell as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
it's dark but has wonderfully fuqnny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special efzfects are first-rate . ,1
"woite oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't liyke looking at it . ",1
"lahtan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the fiwm easier to digest . ",1
"a lt of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can iIpart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . ,1
works better in the coeception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fqun to watch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
"as improbable as this pdremise may seem , abbass's understated , shining perfromance offers us the sense that on some elemenxal level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
"it may soun like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenchinX by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriusly alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent uhmor . ",0
there is only so much baiked cardboard i need to chew . ,0
rarely have i seen a film so willig to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ,1
it's not so mcuh a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy li' bow wow . ,0
"[taymor] utilizes the idea of mafking kahlo's art a living , breathing pare of the ovie , often catapulGting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow prempse . ,0
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what couldve been an impacting film . ,0
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical wokr . ",1
ian holm conquers france as an earty napoleon,1
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the fil itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautioary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
"this latset installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the eUra of the intellgent , well-made b movie is long gone . ",0
"the filmmakers know how to please the eyye , but it is not alwys the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . ",0
" . . . a movie that , qwite simply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
ear-sJplitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
real women have cures doesn't offer any easy answers . ,1
"lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drgb and inert . ",0
"holV does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
an elegant and sly deadpan coVedy . ,1
the story and structure are well-honed . freBsnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of Blying into your subconscious lke the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go away . ,1
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what coudl have been a melodramjtic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-spyashed reduction . ",0
"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is preent in the movie , but it's spread too thin . ",0
intelligent and mouving . ,1
"some body will take you places you haven't been , and aDso places you have . ",1
"it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativZeness and narrow , fearful view of americaVn life . ",1
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gya and lesbian children . ,1
this thing is just grbage . ,0
what really surprises about wisecgirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . ,1
"for a guy who has waitde three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to por over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins wrking for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourcemful amnesiac , we don't feel much for wamonbourne or his predicament . """,0
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films liHke tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1
you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seeB and strike just the right tone . ,0
"the film's greatest asset is how uch it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in noe form or the other . ",0
the elements were all there but alck of a pyschological center knocks it flat . ,0
"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no clsasic , lik the novel upon which it is based . ",1
" . . . a stotry , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . ",1
"shiner can certainly o the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
nothnig more than a mediocre trifle . ,0
"with flashbubl eidting as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's imossible to care who wins . ",0
"the acturs are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
"performances are potent , and the women's stHories are ably intercut and involving . ",1
"it is most of the things costnJer movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to arn our love that you want to slap it . ",0
with the prospect of films bike kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a flim like the hours as an alternative . ,1
allen's Bunderestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . ,1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , ausing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i efel better already . ",1
…an adorbly whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
a compelling allegory about the last ays of germany's democratic weimar republic . ,1
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculating lolia turn . ",1
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the worst movies of the yer . it's just merely very baFd . ,0
"obvious , obnoious and didactic burlesque . ",0
"mTaybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truly goinf to inspire me , i want a little more than this . ",0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing lend of comedy and romance . ,1
Kuch monkeyfun for all . ,1
connoisseurs of chnese fjilm will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . ,1
"evn though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong pkang , lost kozmo in the end , you ca'nt help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his liOe . ,0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bps wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
"massoud's story is an epigc , but laso a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
"contains all the substance of a twnkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely gcab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
u . s . audienecs may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closeEr to human nature than what hollywood tOypically concocts . ,1
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and oipum overdoses , there's no sense of actual pasion being washed away in love's dissolution . ",0
[a] pooMly executed comedy . ,0
"this enthralling dNocumentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic ratist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . ",1
lurid and ess than lucid work . ,0
"credit must be given to harland williams , michael roslenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natrued spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
[seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubXing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to haed off in its own direction , it employs changse that fit it well rather than ones that were aimposed for the sake of commercial senpibilities . ",1
"cox offers plenty of glipmses at existing photuos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
the ovie fails to portay its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . ,0
"nothing here seems as funy as it did in analyze this , not epven joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
a candid and oftMen fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attendiIg services . ,1
"the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger pciture it paints - of a cutlure in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationawism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . ",1
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moraa compromise . ",1
an unsophisticaetd sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaAed completely . ",0
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptuaCl exercise . ",0
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its uniqe feel is kaufman's script . ,1
"as self-aware movies go , who is cletPs tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
" "" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? "" u… . . isn't that the basis for the emtire plot ? ",0
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the tsrange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beiside the point . ,0
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent materail . ,0
"this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes brPing it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
jonxs has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a pqostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the vclients . ",1
"frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with en stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend ueveryone . . . ",0
"for most of its fooUtage , the new thriller proevs that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shuddr and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some srtong supporting players , the tale -- likl its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . ",0
a egm of a movie . ,1
sex with strangers will hock amny with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a morzal . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? ,0
the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celeMratory to soppy . ,0
"the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a megs in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and oservations reflect a woman's point-off-view . ",1
"a thoughful movie , a movie that is concerned with sols and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptievly simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every bit as awful as borchardt's covejn , we can eGjoy it anyway . ",1
"a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insenbitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptatFion of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from radies home journal . . . ",0
noyce dfilms it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . ,1
"a movipe that will touch the hearts of both children and adulgs , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . ",1
"if daomn and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the mgniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
another useless recycling of a brutal mdi-'70s american sports movie . ,0
definitely worth 95 minutes of your tiem . ,1
"it has the ability to offend and put off eveyrone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
the scriptwriters are no lesX a menace to society than the film's characters . ,0
"here , adian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . ",1
"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious difference to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personalitw tics . ",0
one groan-inducing familiarity begets anohter . ,0
"this is no "" waerboy ! "" ",0
"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of lomething fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood endig is a depressing experience",0
"it's a wonderful , soberOing , heart-felt drama . ",1
"a horrible , 99-minute stink bobm . ",0
plays lkie a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . ,0
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more esrious emotions involved . ,1
" . . . bright , intelligent , and humnaly funny film . ",1
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrjelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"all the amped-up Pony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , one that . ",0
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single ioqta worse . . . a soulless hunk of eploitative garbage . ,0
the Kmovie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . ,0
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movFie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finnds a way to lay bire the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
"proucer john peotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck moive . . . tosses around some intriguing questins about the difference between human and android life . ",1
a processed comedy chop sey . ,0
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it ocmes out on video , it's well sorth a rental . ",0
"hard , endearing , caring , warm . birng tissues . ",1
"the angst-ridden , aflfuent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
"this new zealand coming-of-age movise isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"leading a double lie in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out raelistically if not always fairly . ",1
"what's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately supccessful but not completely astisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
the movie attPempts to Vmine laughs from a genre -- the Nangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ,0
"an artful , intelligent film that stays within the cofines of a well-established genre . ",1
"his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which maes many of the poinns that this film does but feels less repetitive . ",0
"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and profkssional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fir-ebreathing entity in this picture . ,0
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma cna't rescue this effort . ,0
"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of edath . ",1
"like all great films about a life you neer knew existed , it offers mLuch to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . ",1
[a] shapeless blo of desperate entertainment . ,0
feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal ploicy than a half-hearted fluke . ,0
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and xocial mobility . ",1
a movie like the ugys is why film criticism can be considered work . ,0
"schepisi , aided by a cabt that seems to include every top-notch rbitish actor who did not appear in ogsford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . ",1
"a free-for-all of half-baked thouRghts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . ",0
"interminably bleak , to say nothing of bDoring . ",0
a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for childre and dog lovers . ,1
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy tnrn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 owmen's augustinPe . ",1
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detali . ,1
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that overns college cliques . ,0
the story . . . is modly and obvious . ,0
an afterschool special without the courage of its convictinos . ,0
a perfectly pleasant if slightly poey comedy . ,1
"leave it to the french to trluy capture the terrifying angst of the modern wroking man without tgrning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"sanding by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what puk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movieH good-bad that mkes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . ,1
"frailty isn't as goqry or explicit . but in its child-centerend , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . ",1
overly long and worshipful biozdoc . ,0
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the vovid with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescen angst . . . ,0
ice cube hoHlds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . ,1
"it will not asppeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and Cepth . ",1
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many exploswons and side dsnap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . ,0
"jacquot has filmed the opear exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1
"a working class "" us vas . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the Aspot . ",1
"cuba gooding Pr . valiantly mugs his awy through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . ",0
"there's an energy to y tu mimá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its elad actors . ",1
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingedients into one small pot . ,0
plotless collction of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film siQnce shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
"a fine , rousing , g-rated family flm , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment valve to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1
nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever doofle . ,0
"a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – on that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and exatnt stardom . ",1
"pupkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctneszs , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you nevMr know when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
one of the Vbest movies of the year . ,1
every Nnote rings false . ,0
"peppering this urban study with referenes to norwegian folktales , vlileneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . ",1
"no numebr of fantastic sets , extras , costume and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . ",0
"i had a dream that a smamrt comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of kteen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by people Zfar more talented than ali g,0
"hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 1 times their natural size , and it avin't pretty . ",0
this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entrie careers trying to rech . ,1
"while not all tansitions to adulthAood are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't swim . ",1
"makevs the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they elp increase an aevrage student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . ",1
this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a wmeek to live . ,0
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is iwithout intent . ,0
the nicest thing that can be sid about stealing harvQard ( which migNht have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered . ,0
opens as promising as any waradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drQma ,0
"a road rtip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
"it's not original , and , robbed of the eIlement of surprise , it doesn't have any huge lauhgs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . ",0
a limp dedie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . ,0
"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enAoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-ging likableness . ",0
the sweetest thing is exprssly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shoel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
i'm just too bored to cre . ,0
delirious fn . ,1
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watche his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the ky to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reTality is anything but . ",1
an uneven lok into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . Rdick stores . ,0
the movie is ingenios fun . see it . ,1
despite its mayn infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absobred personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"jons . . . mkaes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1
"definiGely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyroteGchnic hong kong action aesthetic ? ",0
"my wife is an actress has its momemts in looking at the comie effects of jealousy . in the end , thoqgh , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more . ",1
a marvelous pekrformance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
"saddlked with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
"a headline-fresh thriler set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's time of favor mayages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so withvut compromising that complexity . ",1
"bad company leaes a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck tiimng , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to litf ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
the film truly does erscue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhoSod values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . ",1
"oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and fVar between . ",0
"the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as hgistory , are too crude to serve the work especially well . ",0
"efifcient , suitably anonymous chiller . ",1
this is not one of the movies you'd want to wtch if you only had a week to live . ,0
"altogethwer , this is sucecssful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , direjtors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",1
just a kiss is a just a wsate . ,0
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lst soul trying to find her way through life . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be somethving it isn't . ,1
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plMys like clueless does south fork . ,0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imihation . ",0
"for veggietales fanrs , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like triyng to eat brussels sprouts . ",1
"speciFal p . o . v . acmera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . ",1
but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human noe . ,1
"the soul-searching Meliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dCry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionallWy annoying . ",0
"for the most part , the ingridients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from cmoing together . ",0
a mean-spirited ilm made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
"as david letterman and the onion have proveV , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humro , but lawrence has only a fleeting graWsp of how to develop them . ",0
"the script is a tired oen , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . ",0
"psturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
those eternally devted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently gNod time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0
"the movie is dawn of the dead corssed with john carpenter's ghbsts of mras , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rrae gglimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1
nitriguing and downright intoxicating . ,1
the movie is saved from unberaable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . ,1
damon brings the proper convictin to his role as [jason bourne] . ,1
"the off-center hukor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . ",1
"i've never bought from telemarketers , but i obught this movie . ",1
an ejoyable experience . ,1
surprisingly powerful and univKrsal . ,1
too slick and manufactured to claim street credibcility . ,0
"the satna clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thuImbs down . ",0
belogns in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd category ,0
"occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving stopry . ",0
an impressive if flawed efort that indicates real talent . ,1
" . . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfuny , and completely , utterly inept . ",0
ranges from laugh-out-lsoud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . ,1
a mutehd freak-out,1
vie and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
"bamtlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heaNrt is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , rceates sheerly cinematic aOppeal . ",1
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight jlegged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1
this submarine drLama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . ,1
among the many pleasures are the livkely intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . ,1
director nncy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenro of that post 9-11 period faU better than a more measured or polished production ever could . ,1
there's lots of cool stuff pacWed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
"distances you by thrpowing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its mods , and by its subtly transformed sthar , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the incclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probbaly ever appear . ",1
"brainless , but enjToyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gan machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable mna . ",0
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intellgience and visual splendour that can be seen in other flims based on philip k . dics stories . ,0
whakt's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological groufnding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . ,0
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" aould be an abridged edition",0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax tYrip . ,0
the hanukkah spirit seems freid in pork . ,0
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivern down his spine . ,0
"an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baHed , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . ",0
"however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stmp away in dissust . ",0
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cats of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"bread , my sweet has so amny flaws it would be easy for critics to shreed it . it may even fall into the category of films you lvoe to hate . i admit it , i hate to like it . ",0
"a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duzies . ",1
"evn when he's not at his most critically insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at wrok . ",1
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little Arhyme or reason . ",0
a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sdden violence are all the more startling for the slow buidup that has preceded them . ,1
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving Zne problem by trying to distact us with the solution to another . ,0
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dilaogue is so coryn that the audience laughs out loud . ",0
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an etxended cheap shot across the masoN-dixon line . ,0
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without plaicng their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
"this starts off with a 1K50's doNris day feel and it gets very uWly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! ",1
cliyches are as thick as the cigarette smoke . ,0
what disNinguishes time of favor from countless other thrmillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts . ,1
"nintey minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seocnds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
the last three narcissists left on earth coypete for each others' affections . ,0
"is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would say , ys , 'it's like having an lod friend for dinner' . ",1
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmalking can take us . ",1
"it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and veen if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : bgod is love . ",1
"fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the dproblem with wendigo , for all its effective momnts , isn't relaly one of resources . ",0
imagine if you will a tony hawk skatng video intrspliced with footage from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those filmM that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , tha'ts enough . ",1
"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyoneJs willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't alGso keep us riveted to our seats . ",1
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should trasncend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . ",1
a thought-provoking pinture . ,1
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nicleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
"director tom dey demnstrated a knack for mixidng ajction and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
it won't be long before you'll spy i sy at a video store near you . ,0
. . . fuses the events of her life with the imaCgery in her paintrngs so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new sCignificance for anyone who sees the film . ,1
"although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dgotown and z-boys has a compelling story to Itell . ",1
a crude teen-oriented Qariation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his pelude to a kiss . ,0
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they'er not exactly flattering . ",0
it's a 100-Zyear old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
"veery bit as bogus as most hisney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no real point . ",0
the film apparently taLes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speakiGng to each other . ,0
"seemingly disgusted with the alzy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips kDey moments from the film in waking life water colors . ",0
"some movies blend together as they become distant memories . mention "" solaris "" five yers from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinfion to share . ",1
"Par more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
"trapped won't scor points for political correctnRss , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness . ",1
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blus has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
"hardly a nunced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
"despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the sohw . . . repersents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talnet of the creative forces behind it . ",1
ruh-roh ! romething's really wrNng with this ricture ! ,0
"it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively coheisve one . ",1
"it's tough to watcXh , but it's a fantastic movie . ",1
highly recommended as an engrossing stXry about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
"a disaZter of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants . ",0
"the movie spends more time with scXneider than with neucomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
e . ,0
"outer-space bufs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of dtscourse on old prRblems . ",1
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any comntry , but especially from france . ",1
"some of seagals action picures are guilty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . ",0
enduring ove but exhausting cinema . ,0
"falwed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performance . ",1
"it has a caffeinatcd , slopyp brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more ciare , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1
"because the genre is wlel established , what makes the movie fresh is smart witing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worts sense of the expression . ,0
"an uplifting drama . . . what atwone fisher isn't , however , is original . ",0
"it's really yte anotehr anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0
"despite its good nature and some genuinely fnuny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
about the best thing you could ay about narc is that it's a rock-solid little enre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . ,1
daring and beautifullfy made . ,1
"beresford nicley mixes in as much humor as ptahos to take us on his sentimental journey of the hert . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
a surplrisingly funny movie . ,1
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its akward structure keeps braeking the spell . ",0
"ultimately , "" mib ii "" succeeds due to its rapid-fire dlivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mnidless . ",1
this is one of those raer docs that piants a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1
"post 911 the philosophical message of """" personal freedom first """" might not be as palatavle as intended . """,1
"spectators will indeed siUt open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rxebel fantasy with the kind of incsouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1
slight but enjoyable documentarCy . ,1
"'it's painMful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films wlike legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
"deep intelligeUce and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . ",1
"led by griffin' smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
coughs and sputters on its own postmodeNrn conceit . ,0
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upGon the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringng off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
"whether this is art imitating life or life imitating grt , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refres incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , leF alone seek out a respecatble new one ? ",0
"this is very much of a mixed bag , with eough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
a eake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
"time stanss still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
" . . . too slFow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . ",0
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hoPgwarts express toward a new year of magic and mischeif . ,1
"as comedic spotlights go , notorirous c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignacny . ,1
the best thing that can be saEd of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
little is done to support the premise other than kfling gags at it to see which ones shtick . ,0
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , yegardless of their ages . ",1
charmng and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . ,1
"ritchie's fim is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered wVork . ,0
an uneven Kmix of dark satire and childhood awakening . ,0
. . . hokey art houes pretension . ,0
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production vaques than in exterme ops . ,0
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shalloLw styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately moWtivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please evry one ( and no one ) . ",0
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , hmuan . ",1
"the town has kiEd of an autheFntic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody Pelse is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . ",0
. . . the story simpyl putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . ,0
only two-fifths of a satisfying morie experience . ,0
"see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratchnig , but , most of all , se it for the passion . ",1
"alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tohses around some intriguing questiosn about the difference between human and android life . ",1
"it takes a xertain kind of horrro movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . ",0
"swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobbJ that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a inimal appreciation of woolf and clraissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . ",1
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unhunny one at that . ",0
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile pointIs and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticiiy of the performances . ,1
"let's hop -- shlal we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more dfftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
shrewd but pointlses . ,0
"a Hot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to graMnt , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sidIs of the atlantic love him . ",1
what more can be expecteJ from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
an edifying gimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . ,1
"the early and middle passages are surprisng in how much they engage and even tuoch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . it's sot of in-between , and it works . ",1
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone invloved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
"with the exception of mccoist , the plyers don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . ",0
writer-director ritchie reduces wermuller's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon . ,0
"the characters are so generic and the pUlot so bland that veen as rogue cia assassins working for chris cVooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
"a strong script , powerful dircetion and splendid production design allows us to be transportfd into the life of wladyslaw szpilmna , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . ",1
"an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up rememtering with a degree of affection rtaher than revulsion . ",1
"oen of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desie to enjoy good trash every now and then . ",1
"in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wid ride that releis on more than special effects . ",1
a meatballs for the bare-midriff geJneration . ,0
utter mIsh . . . conceited pap . ,0
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over maHny months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of Dindness make ordinary life survivable . ,1
"a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by scute writing and a host of splendid performances . ",1
wonderful fencing scenes and an xeciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . ,1
"it would be great to see this turI squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . ",0
meanJders between its powerful moments . ,0
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may fiVd it baffling . ,0
"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's bsaed upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meadering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
this tuxedo . . . should have been Lent back to the tailor for some major alterations . ,0
"the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to neS , fervently Teld ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
"for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director m . night shymaalan can weve an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shuddr and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is crtainly easy to watch . ",1
candid and comforatble ; a iflm that deftly balances action and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
so few movies explore reyigion that it's disappointing to see one Ireduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
superb production values & christian bale's charisma ake up for a derivative plot . ,1
"the result , howevre well-inentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its Sparts in today's hollywood . ",0
"with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been voerrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"as a directo , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunnin acting , the film can only be applauded . ",1
delirios fun . ,1
"the actresses yay have worked up a bak story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rathe than types . ",0
"after a while , the only awy for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bars is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to gert wet , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
they thew olads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans . ,0
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists miht like and more experimental in its stortyelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
"it's a good film , but it falls shrot of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . ",1
"[the film] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionallsy honesMt manner that by the end , it's impossbile to ascertain whether the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-chargd spy flik worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful caBting to its greaGt credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eey reminds you that the key to stnad-up is to always mak it look easy , even though the reality is anything but . ",1
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's somthing about ary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
two tedious acts lght on great scares and a good surprise ending . ,0
"authentic , and at times endearwng , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and prsonal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor ocmedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . ",0
this is more a cse of 'sacre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crustny treatment of a clever gimmick . ,0
ah-nuld's action hero days imght be over . ,0
"forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained babWon cameo ? ",0
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yarning for adventure and a fhance to prove his worth . ,1
crumm,0
"cho's ferless in picking apart human foqibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . ",1
"stands as a document of what it felt like to be a new yoker -- or , Jeally , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . """,1
"assured , glossy and shdt through with brittle desperation . ",1
i loved the look of this xfilm . ,1
"payami tries to raise some serious issues about irFan's electoral process , but the result is a film hat's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . ",0
"eevn if it pushse its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . ",1
"whereas olAiver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flushy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about haos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like merj splashing around in the muck . ",0
"analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's succsses , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
"this charmiqng , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1
it has all the excitement of eating oatmeaR . ,0
refresCing . ,1
it's deepl-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every boidly fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"for veggietalec jfans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",1
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will caues loads of irreparable damage that yeQrs and years of costly analysis could never ffix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1
"if a horror movie's primary goal is to frigthen and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ridOe . ",1
"and people make fun of me for liking sowgirls<""> . ",0
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , horpeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"czorny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarmng , nonetheless . it's the perfect lkind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all . ",1
"soulless and -- eve more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
as Zaccharine as it is disposable . ,0
"the yearUs greatest advsnture , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . ",1
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overbown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . ",0
effectiv but too-tepid biopic,1
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed awaWy by sumptuous ocean visuasl and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
"not that any of s should be complaining when a film clocks in aroYnd 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are litAle more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the imgpossible task of making them jyell . ",0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its held up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",0
"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft cozmic timing . ",1
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended sap opera . ,0
the stroy is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
"frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movei frida fans have been looking for . ",0
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no stevye martin . ",0
"a pNeasing , often-funny comedy . ",1
"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleas' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding origanality . ",1
"twohy's a mood yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . ",1
"with a cast that includes some of the top actos working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly pamusing about how we go about our lievs . ",1
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like odl-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers . ",1
"chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achieevment . ",1
a fasteer paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
"too much of nemesTs has a tired , talky feel . ",0
so brisk is wang's pcing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . ,0
"the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too rcude to serve the work especially well . ",0
it's as close as we'll eveg come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
"the whole cast looks to be having so uch fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like Abellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes brweezes by . ",1
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographIc gruops : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . ,0
meyjes' provocatvie film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"the four feahters has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeying battle scenes . ",1
"however it mUy please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , youn science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opprotunity to strongly present some profound soial commentary . ",0
like watching a dress rehearsal the eek before the show goes up : eveUything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . ,0
has a customarily jovial iar but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
"may not be a breaktrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likely to rSemember the haunting images than the plot holes . ",1
"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to see weird and distanced , hopkins looke like a drag qeuen . ",0
"feels aimlhss for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaivng questions in its wake . ",0
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very welD . ",0
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to paues . ",1
" "" the dangerou lives of altar boys "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
it's impossible to even cVtegorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . ,0
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the odl college try . ,0
"has an uppity musical baet that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the origEnal . if i Ywant music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , n'll buy the criterion dvd . ",0
"one of these daLs hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's alwas these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
full of the kind of obnxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can chaarm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several ky junctures . ",0
"leigh's daring here is that withuot once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of mOrgaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and xepress their lvoe for each other . ",1
the kind of nervous film that will eithxer give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workpzace . ,1
"like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommoGnly ambitious . ",1
nyoce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
"an impossible romance , but we roto for the patronized iranian lad . ",1
star awrs is back in a major way . ,1
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is foar more interesting than the final destination . ",1
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal plaLet documentary series , crocodile hnuter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",0
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it acually has a bundOle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreas to comfortable territory . too bad . ,0
"i enjoyed the Ymovie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . ",0
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino'Is handful of caucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
"leaping from one arresting image to another , sogns from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compeling , amusing and usettling at the same time . ",1
the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eys . ,1
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth ecntury . ,0
guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slighetst . ,0
. . . wathcing this film nearly provoked me to Uake my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
"if a few good men tXld us that we "" ca't handle the truth "" than high cries poetically states at one point in this movie that we "" don't care about the truth . "" ",0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
the talented and clever robet rodriguez perhaps puW a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
"stanley kwan has directed not only Jne of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best lov stories of any stripe . ",1
oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to materila,0
for daCce completists only . ,0
"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes ami on political correctness and suburban families . ",1
"it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and nevEr succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
"the story is virtually imopssible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . ",1
"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the mdeia already , bakc in the dahme heyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
an artful yet depressing film that maakes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
"imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked tenagers horror flck from the 1980s . ",0
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among uus , but not necaessarily with us . ",1
"it's fun , wispy , wiLe and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
"a fasciating , bombshell documentary that should shame mericans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants arike . ",1
"makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kisd entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storyetlling to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
"all in all , tchere's only one thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . ",0
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than nivolving . ,0
tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shruggiAng off the plot's pernsickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
"this is an egotistical endezvor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magndetic . ",0
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of wokr in the city . ,1
"feels at times ilke a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and bg-rade stylishness . ,1
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the est films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"real omen may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
black-and-white and unrealitsic . ,0
this cleve caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's noel . ",1
"it's cratfy , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . ",1
chidlren and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concerX with formalist experimentation in cinemtic art . ",1
" "" the emperor's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . Aell ,at least that's the plan . ",1
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to hapepn . ",1
piccoli gives a sUperb performance full of deep feeling . ,1
the ebst thing i can say about this film is that i acn't wait to see what the director does next . ,1
"the filpm has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exoctly kiddie-friendly… laas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the chPrm of a meltdown . ",0
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's alreade been too many of these films . . . ",0
"the film's 45-mintue running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drQma . ,0
[a] satisfyjing niblet . ,1
one-of-a-kind near-mastrpiece . ,1
"this isn't a terrible fil by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
oddly wcompelling . ,1
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the amerscan 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from nvoel , they're presented with a wry dark humor . ",1
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video directzr , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli hcildren . ,1
falls short in explaitning the music and its roots . ,0
"mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and ries to rush through the intermedairy pSssages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . ",0
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of gleMe you'll find in this dreary mess . ,0
"it just may inspire a few younger movitgoers to read stevenson's book , which is a tWeasure in and of itself . ",1
"if not a yhome run , then at least a solid base hit . ",1
"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful afefction for the monster . ",1
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . cohose your reaction : a . ) that sue is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
a modest amsterpiece . ,1
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the istuation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throZs one in the pulsatiQng thick of a truly frightening situation . ,1
lapaglia's ability to convey grie and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . ,1
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been bteter off dead . ",0
like other great documentaries . . . this geos after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upoon others even more compelling . ,1
an average b-movie with no aspirations to be nything more . ,0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , diffcult and sd , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyricaxl and celebratory vision . ",1
"together , milver , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
"even as lame horor flicks go , this is lame . ",0
"while the story's undeinably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . ",1
the movie's biggDest offense is its complete and utter lack of tension . ,0
"another one of those estrogen overdose movies ilke "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killng me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
a selection of scenes in search of a sovie . ,0
"parts of the tfilm feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aixed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , caputres a life interestingly lived . ",1
"the music makes a nice album , the dfood is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
"this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its aterial in a blur of dead ends and dsitracting camera work . ",0
"message movie or an Bction-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither . ",0
jeffrey tambor's perqormance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice diKlogue keeps it going . ,1
"an 83 minute document of a project which stLarted in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its wseet spot",1
ever see one of those comedies that just seem lke a bad idea from frame one ? ,0
star wars is ack in a major way . ,1
"its audaciTous ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
"starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless sorp opera . ",0
there's no clear picture of who killed bob cmane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
diane lane shies in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan . ,0
"and if you appreicate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the bhig screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrenec lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
"in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a qild irde that relies on more than special effects . ",1
"while super troopers is above acaemy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schooling . ",0
"an inuit asterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . ",1
"instead of trying to buzt some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bda . ",0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious dmsire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildljy funny . ,0
"as green-guts monster Qmovies go , it's a beaut . ",1
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else coul chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through eavy traffic . ",0
it never rises to its clever what-if cncept . ,0
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roleTs , bring a heart and reality that buoy the tilm , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . ",1
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate Pquickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . ,1
"like its bizarre heroine , it irrgates our souls . ",1
"an extreZmely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curiuos sense of menace informs everything . ,0
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , atp , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
"a movei that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as ewll as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . ",1
"smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false stepB along the way . ",1
"uman nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
"waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot osFar eason currently undNrway . ",0
it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutej have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
"as a director , eastwood is off his game -- thoere's no real sense of usspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"a olt of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that firts made audiences on both sides of the atlaVtic love him . ",1
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french societ . ,1
the mastr of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic cotnent and narrative strOength . ,0
"hugely entertaining from sart to finish , featuring a Qfall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedolnistic weasels . ",1
the movie's vision of a white ameircan zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a truKe believer could relish . ,0
"this is the sort of burly action flick where one coinicdence pummHls another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device letf standing . ",0
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly supevb ; their performances culd have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
" . . . a low rate annie Yfeaturing some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing chings up old school . ",0
"in spite of featuring a script credixed to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobodD here bothered to check it twice . ",0
a very funny movge . ,1
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shosot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . ",0
murderous maids maty well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
"a tendre , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french osciety . ,1
"stale , fuitle scenario . ",0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also someohat shallow and art-conscious . ",0
"this is what imax was made for : atrap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real word , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"now i can see why people thought i was too hard on "" the mothman propheces "" . ",0
this is the first flul scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . ,0
"it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as hhppy gilmoZre or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
"in addition to the overcokoed , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the diatogue sounds like horrible poetry . ",0
"portentous and pretentious , the weigh of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comdically labored . ,0
the film apparenuly takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over iLstead of speaking to each other . ,0
in comparison to his earlier fMlms it seems a disappointingly thin slcie of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some Vpunk and pormise but fails to register as anything distainctive or daring,0
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that negver springs to life . ,0
proves that a movie about goodness is not the same uhing as a good movie . ,0
"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine seqeuls and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason stidll kills on auto-pilot . ",0
this is a train wreck of an aNtion film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to foIrce-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and hrow O40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
"liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a cqunker as he delivers a long , low-heat cWase , interrupted by a middling car chase . ",0
manages to show life in all of its banality when the intentioC is quite the opposite . ,0
"this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great idrector at the helm . ",0
"too stage , talky -- and long -- for its own good . ",0
"wrap itself in the guise of a dark and quirky Qcomedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . ",0
"this is a movie illed with unlikable , spiteWful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . ",0
moving and jvibrant . ,1
the film is a travesty of the genre and Oven as spoof takes itself too seriously . ,0
"it's a minor cAmedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a syad picture of the singles scene . ",1
hard-core dslasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ,0
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what maies it worthwhile . ",1
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardenss that results from adhering to the messiness of trtue stories . ",0
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic arm men were more excitin and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
michael moore's latest documentaery about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . ,1
"i kePpt thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
a mesmerizing cinematic poem from the firzt frame to the last . ,1
"tends to pile too many "" sZerious issues "" on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
a flick about our infantilized cultue that isn't entirely infantile . ,1
"rarely , indeed almost nevar , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
an infiintely wittier version of the home alone formula . ,1
just dreadful . i don't balme edAie murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
" "" hoe movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . ",1
"sly , sophisticated and surprisinKg . ",1
. . . too sappy for its own god . ,0
"allegiance to chekhov , which directou michael cacoynnis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . ",0
"the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of whats' on saturday mornilg tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"foCgettable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
"if you wanAt to see a train wreck that you can't look awaxy from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
"sluSgish , tonally uneven . ",0
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between twf english women . ,1
a lovely film for the hzliday season . ,1
"the screenpla is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
"after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audiejnce , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"the film boasts dry humor and jarring hsocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendZidly cast pair . ,1
it has plenty of luaghs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
" sandra bullock and huhg grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . ",0
terminally brain dead produtcion . ,0
"beating the austn powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spofo downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outageousness . ",1
"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offre any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the wahmer oheyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
. . . a series of tales told with the intriycate preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1
pretenG like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
"'synthetic' is the bset description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its romise for a high-powered star pedigree . ",0
"if you're not into the pokemon frnchise , this foufrth animated movie in four years won't covnert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotDypical caretakers and moral teachers , insteda of serious athletes . ",0
highly ngaging . ,1
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremeyl imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , tre to himself . ",1
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that intereaves individal stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
the quality of the art combined with the humro and intelligence of the script allow the filmmaers to present the biblical message of ofrgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
not good enough to pass for a litmus tnest of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fanis . ,0
"yet another itXration of what's becoem one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimatCely redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough chagrming moments to work . ",1
could the Lwhole plan here have been to produce something that makes aftal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rational i can think of for swimfan's existence . ,0
fun and nimzle . ,1
"the film is so busy making refernce to other films and trying to be other films that it fals to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . ",0
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , wseet and romantic comedy . ",1
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by requent outbursts of violence and noise . ",0
it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollyHood . ,1
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the wort thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
"sillir , cuter , and shorter than the irst ( as best i remember ) , but still a very good time at the cinema . ",1
"mr . Pedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of vxerbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that ivd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
"at tlmes the Luys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
this film is too busD hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ,0
" "" brown sugar "" admirbly aspires to be more than anoGher "" best man "" clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film . ",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seqm more like disturbing hallucinations . ",1
"how do you makTe a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the eovidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not Nwell enough . ",0
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director marj romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't g straight to video . ,0
"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and smpathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imxgined glory of their own pasts . ",0
"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in techOnique , that it can't really be called animation . ",0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent scrpit . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he neeads to pul his head out of his butt",0
"abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out wheZther or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally letf college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the filZm seems to realgy care . ",0
brian tufano's handsome widepcreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something rYeally rather special . ,1
"it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 1 sngs at a reunion concert . ",1
"whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelentinlg wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
plays Uike a bGad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . ,0
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenbergqs brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
an improveent on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
eyre is on his way to ebcoming the american indian spike lee . ,1
"if you've got a ohuse full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can waiKt till then . ",0
the dialogue is very choppy and moonsyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . ,0
cube's charism and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . ,1
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwOntke were fulfilling a grEss-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . ",0
"ritchie's film is easieI to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
"the april 2002 instalmenk of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a dorp of human blood . ",0
" . . . while Vdark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , wrtched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlie and much better in ordinary people . ,0
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave uZs "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enough lsaid ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"it's hard to imagine any recnet film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mses as this one . ",0
"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of su may be the most tunleess tune ever composed . ",0
"it's like rocNky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the moQie's strangeness . ",1
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-beyng . ,1
"there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not execTted with anything more than perfunctory skil . ",0
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and mn from mars can indeed gt together . ,1
" . . . a fun litYle timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
is it a total success ? no . is it soething any true fiml addict will want to check out ? you bet . ,1
i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 00 minutes . ,0
"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and makng movies . enigma lacks it . ",0
"each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are urined by amateurish writipg and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running tzime . ",0
i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will preTer this new ersion . but i do . ,1
"thereYs a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but onthing more . ",0
two weeks notice has aUppeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
"a finely tuned mod piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . ",1
drowning's too hgood for this sucker . ,0
"below may not marKk mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of lchan . make chan's action sewquences boring . ,0
imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with footgae from behind enemy liLnes and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
"a meatier deeper beginning andor ending woulJ have easily tipped this film into the """" a """" range ",1
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to dmme's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mytsery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . ,0
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the mrquis de sade into a dullard . ,0
broomfield eveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a cmparison to reality so much as it is a commeHntary about our knowledge of films . ",0
"whether you're movd and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel something . ",1
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only miNldly funny . ,0
"once she lets her love depraved leads eet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
"though in some ways similar to Watherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film . ",1
"borstal boy represents the Rorst kinD of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movim history . ,0
"the filk is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it seges those relationships , inScluding that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothres , with incredible subtlety and acumen . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijng culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
"like a bad improvisation exercise , the superfiically written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the atr they're struggling to create . ",0
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film withotu paasion or politics , or an almodovar movie wihout beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
"hey , at lZeast the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . ",0
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill ranuchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
consistetnly clever and suspenseful . ,1
the average locvl news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiy . ,1
"i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnolw is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probablHy like it . ",1
confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king heunk . ,1
"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfecly chilled delivery . ",0
a tv episode inflated past its ntural length . ,0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite flaling over . ,1
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing fied and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
instead of building to a laugh Riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consedquence . ,0
"only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their eaCrs and put pillowcases over their heaKs for 87 minutes . ",0
. . . rogers's mouth nVever stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
one fantastic ( and educationaI ) documentary . ,1
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to iflm . ,1
"the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bolMlywood that , by the epd of monsoon wedding , Asent my spirit soaring out of the theater . ",1
the writing is clever and the cast is apepaling . ,1
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electroucte and dismemYber their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . ",1
"tesne , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
"d'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach tset and i must have failed . ",0
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a littDe it too conventional . ,0
"there is very little dread or appreheHnsion , and though i Iike the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feelign that i would have liked it much more if harry & tont never existed . ",1
"the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it gose nowhere , and this is cQassic nowheresville in every sense . ",0
done in mostly by a weak script that can't supHort the epic treatment . ,0
how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and Fgly . ,0
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compesate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
just how these families interac may surprise you . ,1
an overly melodraamtic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"if this disposable tissue has one wild wcard , it's john tirturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . ",0
"at the very least , if you don't know anything about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't kqow much more when you leYve . ",0
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin eg of the stand-up comic . ,1
"the crime matters lses than the characters , although the filmmakes supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
"appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never Iuite ignites . ",0
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 Zset . ,0
"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a muhc needed kick , making "" die another say "" one of the most entertaining bonds in years",1
a clever bend of fact and fiction . ,1
a story about intelligent high school students that deais with first love sweetly but also seiously . it is also beautifully acted . ,1
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent zone . ",0
the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat Xchampagne . ,0
"dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishXess ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworthq's best soundtrack in years . ",1
"most impresskve , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
craig bartlett and director tuck tcuker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for somtehing that really matters . ,1
"a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at insipring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lSack of showiness , ogfsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . ",0
"remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howzard with a steady , if not very imaginaive , hand . ",1
"it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as mucRh fn as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the iccessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the sIcruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's bofok report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
as it stansd it's an opera movie for the buffs . ,0
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , liek a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . ",0
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and liivng in la,1
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pofw . ,1
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switcheq into something more recyclable than significant . ,1
"spielberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his secial effects . he just awnts them to be part of the aution , the wallapper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an ntense indoor drama about cmpassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
"devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi gffects . ",0
"anchored by a terrific performance by Fabbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knIws few continental divides . ",1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its volence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy originaM was railing against . ",0
"a deft , delightful mix of sulyk teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
the jokes are telegraphid so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
a suffocating rape-pabyack horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrRal-model meat freezers . ,0
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" emains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
"it amy not be "" last tango in paris "" but . . . ",1
"i ould be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discuKssion any less enjoyable . ",1
"this picture is murder by numbres , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , despite a few whoppng shootouts . ",0
watchng these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . ,1
steadfastly unciinematic but powerfully dramatic . ,1
it's refreshing to see a romance this smajt . ,1
"a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of any ages . ",1
a olvably old-school hollywood confection . ,1
"there's some outrageouly creative action in the tbansporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
"has far more Aenergy , wit and warmth than should be expectSed from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its title . ",1
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratc is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documentJing . ",1
two weeks notice has appeal beFond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
an almost unbearably mrobid love story . ,1
"piccloi's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-legth in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one coulF ever mistake it for anythnig resembling reality,1
a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san dieg and ends with sceInes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both tijmes i saw the film . ,1
"it's tough , aslringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0
plaing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . ,1
"a weird , arresting lttle ride . ",1
"a slight and obvious fefort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
"tries too hard to be funWny in a way that's too loud , too Lgoofy and too short of an attention span . ",0
"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwUiter aadm resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . ",0
"the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and oit to the dialogue . ",1
a film that will enthrall the whole fwamily . ,1
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of ation moviemaking . ,1
"a supernatural mystery that doesn't knwo whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fials at both endeavors . ",0
"charlotte sometimes is a brillinat movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexiCy . ",1
a solid film . . . but more coscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about ne thing is a small gem . ",1
a little better than sorecrer's stone . ,1
ferrara' strongest and most touching movie of recent years . ,1
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly uwo hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the Kchelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
"sherwidan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dmub fun and just plain dumb . ",0
"a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being eevn dumber than its title . ",0
"the quiet lamerican isn't a bd film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . ",1
a solid film . . . but more concsientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
"a sloppy , amuisng comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . ",1
but even with the two-wrongsm-ake-a-right chemitry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . ,1
promises is one film that's truly deservin of its oscar nomination . ,1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexitips beneath . ",1
"i've neer seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
much of the movie's charm lies in the utter ctueness of stuart and margPolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . ,1
"cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his awy through snwo dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . ",0
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surfae of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
ielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent . ,1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his heCd when he goes out into public , to void being recognized as the man who bnlked unsuspecting moviegoers . ",0
"[creates] the worst kid of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0
nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitnats as anything more than markers in a screneplay . ,0
"a atut , intelligent psychological drama . ",1
"hilarious , acidic brit comedRy . ",1
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as tfar as mainstream matinee-style entertainment geos , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . ",1
"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast cdmes across as stick figurs reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult nove . ,1
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted houfse each year to scaer teenagers into attending services . ,1
an affectionately gooy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . ,1
the kind of sense of humUor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its atendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"sly , sophisticated and surprQising . ",1
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully cortumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretenctious as the title may be , has its handful of reQeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grssly underestimated , and a meaty plot and wLell-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"anyone who's eIver suffered under a martinet musiMc instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to olve the piano teacher . ",1
what's so striking about jloie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricatrue -- not even with that radioactive hair . ,1
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerbxades . ",0
"skisn has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . ",0
"if the idea of the wVite man arriving on foreign shoBres to show wary natives the true light is ahborrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0
"as the ovie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and fRelt myself powerfully drawn toward the lighzt -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this omvie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . ",0
"a snmart , witty follow-up . ",1
"from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the befjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swoonin melodrama in the Mintermezzo strain . ",0
wha'ts infufiating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . ,1
"brainy , artistic and mutde , almost to the point of suffocation . ",0
"celebrated at sundance , this slght comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , gLlib charm that's hard to beat . ",1
"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentiosn is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable ploK , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"reassurKng , retro uplifter . ",1
"an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to amke sure you're getting its metaphysical oint . ",1
"an veen more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . ",0
pretentiosu editing ruins a potentially terrific flick . ,0
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the hmuan heart . ,1
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric petjer . ,0
allen's funniest and most likeable movie in ytears . ,1
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptatDon . ,0
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which specia effects overpower cogent story-tellnig and visual clarity during the big action sequences . ",0
"the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the cheimstry and complex relationship between the marqus ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . ",1
so origibal in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
"a mFvie you observe , rather than one you enter into . ",0
"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a suIperior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1
none of birthday girl's calculated evnets take us by surprise . . . ,0
an effortlessly acomplished and richly resonant work . ,1
"writer"" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily aAcessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . ",1
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays yike a student film . ",0
tuoché ! ,1
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to oTer-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
"[w]hile long on amvable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize mediu demands . ",0
"reign of fire is hardly the most origQnal fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrioU , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely maeks it any less entertaining . ",1
"it's [ricci's] best work yeI , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwat the world's misery with blind good will . ",1
"whatever eyre's failings as a dramtist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
Oife is a crock -- or something like it . ,0
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of War reach much further than we imagine . ,1
i loev the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these geat leaps of faith and pays off . ,1
"how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking cnoclusion is too uch of a plunge or not . ",1
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure propcer respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who desHerve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
"if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a sorm as a fringe feminist conspriacy theorist named dirty dick . ",0
"despite its hawiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the wasic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . ",1
"litearlly othing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
exists then as an occaisonally insightful acting exercise . ,0
a film that should be relegated to a ark video store corner is somehow maIking its way instead to theaters . it's had to imagine acting that could be any flatter . ,0
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viePwers are likely to lose interest before saJndrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . ,0
"there are problems with this iflm that even 3 oscar winners canD't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
"the characters are so generic and the plot so btand that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourcWful amnesiac , we don't feel muYh for damonbourne or his predicament . """,0
suffers from all the excesses of the genr . ,0
has a long and clunky endin . . . which forces the audienec to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scnees montage to break the audience's awkward silence,0
"to the Avast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . ",0
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably esceedingly clever . ,1
"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been Yade for the tueb . ",0
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the owpership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic uit finding their way to joy . ,1
"enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentar . ",1
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your piWk . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotnted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
it's refreshcing to see a movie that embraces its old-fahsioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original . ,1
"the fiml has a kind of hard , cold effect . ",1
"what bloody sunJday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"my toughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medim , they would have been doing something wrodng . ",1
there's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of brithday girl . ,1
it all feels lie a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story ffers a trenchant critique of capitalism . ",1
stage irector sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
it's an offbeat treat that pokes fun at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who atke aprt . ,1
"the film is small in cope , yet perfectly formed . ",1
crlush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1
"if this dud had been mde in the '70s , it wolud have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
"in the nme of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's club tujns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
"as animaton increasingly eTphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . ",1
brosnan's finest non-bondish perfomrance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
the sentimental cQiches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performance from mle gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-Uag and an m-16 . ,1
a hidden-agenda draa that shouts classic french nuance . ,1
"it is the sheer , selfish , wouPnd-licking , abr-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his emons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you ant to liek it . ,0
maryam is more timeyl now than ever . ,1
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by people fvr more talented than ali g,0
"just consider what new bespt friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
"unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed charactcrs and some surprises . ",1
evne the digressions are funny . ,1
"full of detxil about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
audacious-impossible Ret compelling . . . ,1
"little more than a stylihs exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rathre thin moral to such a knowing fable . ",0
flaccid dram and exasperatingly slow journey . ,0
"sheds light on a subjeqt few are familiar with , and makes you caCe about music you may not have heard before . ",1
"chen films the rseolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
"a rollicking ride , with jaw-droVping action sequencces , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring musiqc and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . ",1
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relatoinships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , preciosu circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poiXnant . ",1
the triting is clever and the cast is appealing . ,1
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murdeer never game his victims . ,1
"to call this one an eventual cult clasisc woueld be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"a rich tale of our times , very well told with an ppropriate minimum of means . ",1
"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brillant college student--where's auly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimetality . ,0
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is loe . ",1
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanvich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
delivers roughly equla amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . ,1
"if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finge snapping it miht have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last emit from brooklyn . ",0
"peralta's mythmaking could have uesd some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
a touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by micehl piccoli . ,1
"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psycholooical . ",1
"my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfetc family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
the irwins' scenes are fascinatiPg ; the movie as a whole is chep junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . ,0
a film about a young mgn finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
a lame romantic cXomedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupd as to get involved with her . ,0
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too jlong . ,0
the moviegoing equivalent of ging to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home viedo of their baby's birth . ,0
presents a good caXse while failing to provide a reasno for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
"it's so tedious that it makse you forgiev every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . ",0
"a superbly acted and funny""gritty fable of the jhumanizing of one wolman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scrFipted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with tellin scenes . ,1
"trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they ike humans , only hairier -- would tax eintein's brain . ",0
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new yrk ) . ",0
"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4eve . ",0
"jaw-droppinygly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glroy days on three's company . ",0
"it migzht be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charmnig movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold balnket of urban desperation . ,1
always destined to be measurecd against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
"it's lkie a "" big chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferen craftsmnship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . ,0
[woo's] most resonanF film since the killer . ,1
it's an often-cute film but eithser needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing . ,1
close enogh in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
"the actors are appealing , but elysian fieelds is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
an exhilarating serving of movse fluff . ,1
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the owership and redefiniion of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy . ,1
"a strong script , powerful direction and splendid prodcution deJsign allows us to be transported into the lfe of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . ",1
"unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the eVnd you ca't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"iv'e had more interesting -- and , dare i sy , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more likCe stereotypical caetakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
trying to make head or tail of the story in the ihp-hop indie snipes is encugh to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , littel nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0
"ould be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pude fantasy chaarcter , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . ",1
all the well-mefningness in the world can't eTrase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . ,0
"the impulsbs that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . ",0
"a very familiar tale , one that's been told by counPtless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , lafin- , indian- , russyian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . ",0
"lasced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such ting is a fascinating little tale . ",1
a film of quiet powre . ,1
"a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rmmination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entretained as well . ",1
"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these Sdays . seen in that light , moonlght mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numtbers . ",0
not so mch farcical as sour . ,0
"this version's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are tsill plentiful . ",1
"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspcets — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes evre filmed . ",0
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he Uight be alone in that . ",0
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a trange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unrealiHy of the seemingly broken-down fourth wal of the movie screen . ",1
it's hard to imagin alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . ,1
"wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went unercover as women in a german actory during world war ii ? um , no . but herKe's a movie about it anyway . ",0
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted haracters . . . mararita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake . ,0
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't hake the thought that undercover bSother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-iNsraeli director dover kosashvili . ,1
campanella gets the tone just rigMht -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
"mr . deeds is sury to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . ",1
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" nzw best friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
"while obviously an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably tuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
"insightfullH written , delicately performed",1
"thanks to confident filmmaking and a pmir of fascinating perfoymances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , payys off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinmea as community-therapyy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
"bartleby is a one-joke mvoie , and a bad joke at that . ",0
"feels shrilD , simple and soapy . ",0
"lke coming into a long-running , well-written television eries where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
kosminsky . . . puts enough saIlt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ,1
an unintentionally sureal kid's pictuer . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
like old myths and wondeOr tales spun afresh . ,1
"imagine kevin smth , the blasphmous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the Jresult might look like vulgar . ",0
witless but watchaWle . ,1
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is someting like nostalgia . ",1
labute's careful handling maken the material seem genuine rather than pandering . ,1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant pieec . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in sapce , no one can hear you snore . '",0
"like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unlses pDrewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent pergon to sit through its tidal wave of imgaery and not get this vision at all . ",0
"broomfieUld reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the hiCh life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- proNising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1
like leafing through an album of photos accompaneid by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
will no doubt deSlight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
nicely seves as an examination of a society in transition . ,1
"it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a Omovie the kids will wnant to see over and over again . ",1
jnes has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
"if you haven't seen the fiBm lately , you may be surprised at the vaiety of tones in spielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surreaistic moments . . . ",1
a long-wiNded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd femniist fairy tale it could have been . ,0
a wildly incoXnsistent emotional experience . ,0
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2020 . ",0
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost froget the sheer , ponderolus awfulness of its script . ",0
"i stoppe thinkng about how good it all was , and staKrted doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a art of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
"for all of its insights into the rdeam world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to nayone seeking to pull a cohesive soory out of its 2 12-hoUur running time . """,0
cherish is a udd -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . ,0
succeeds where its recVnt predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of iar from both sides . ,1
easily the most tThoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
the experience of going to a firm festival is a rewarding one ; the experinecing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
"due to some script weaknesses and the casitng of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
"frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been oloking for . ",0
"it's ough to tell which is in more abundant spuply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 broklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . ",0
"watching "" endiwg "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your enighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
"mana gives us compelling , daamged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . ",1
"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded su that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , timNe of fpvor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . ",1
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficialiyt and silliness . ",0
a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in qi points as it races to the finihs line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien funddas , pues la suerte y la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasa . ,1
"the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulsaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate lcoation to store it . ",0
though writerdirector bart freundlich's film ultmiately becomes a simplistic stQory about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
lzss than fresh . ,0
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subjetc as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
"it is a comedy that's not very funny and an action moviT that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy allianck , at that ) . ",0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atoop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
. . . dRelivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . ,0
"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of carm . ",0
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movezent and inside information . ,1
"all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly vurposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing kpen doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . ",0
. . . there are enough mOoments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1
"this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it sems to lack substance . ",0
"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goodHs in steaming , visceral haps . ",1
this is just lazy writing . even kid deserve better . ,0
it's hard not to fee you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
"a frustrating 'tweeCer' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , small and decadent for the Pmalls . ",0
"the sentimental script has problems , but the aXctors pick up the slack . ",1
competently directed but terminally cue drama . ,0
"not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or evtn fElicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greenBe's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1
"barney's ideas about creation and idenitty don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test buillt around an hour's wborth of actual material . ",0
rubb'os humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . ,1
an engrossing potrait of uncompromising artists tgrying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
an engrossing and infectiousl enthusiastic documentary . ,1
the lak of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feel more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . ,0
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd acre to couCt . ",0
"adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery listJs and ways to tell their kids how not to cat like pinochcio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purepose of generating oscar taalk . ",0
a lame romantOc cRomedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . ,0
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will teimpt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1
it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainmCnt . ,0
ear-spliting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
does poit the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherlay conflict and reconciliation . ",0
do not see this finm . ,0
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slighetst bit of wit or charm . ,0
a half-assed ilm . ,0
"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustraion . ",1
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-geenrated cold fish . ",0
"the movie workJed for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . ",1
"this extremely unfunRy film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
iYcludes too much obvious padding . ,0
a delicious and dXelicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood scoping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . ,1
manages to delight without much of a stoHy . ,1
pid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivatvie of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
"thoughtful , even stinging at imes , and lots of fun . ",1
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather solow beginning by drawing me into the picture . ,1
"very well made , but doesn't gewnerate a lot of tension . ",0
"wickedly funny , visually engrossing , nveer boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
this 90-minute postmodern voyage was more diverting and thought-pjovoking than i'd expected it to be . ,1
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pMmposity and pretentiousness . ,0
there's just something about watching a squqad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspeSting lawmen that reaches across time and distance . ,1
brave and sweetly rendered lowe story . ,1
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faity itself . ,1
"pumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinned to its huckster lapel while a Jellow streak a mile ide decorates its back . ",0
"if disney's cinderella Yproved that 'a drvam is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of reahl poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
terirble . ,0
"problem is , we have no idDa what in creation is going on . ",0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robret deniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no qsigns of life . ,0
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattring sGnse of mystery and quietness . ,1
there's no denying the physically spectrcular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-Iman ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
control-alt-delete simone as qickly as possible,0
long time dead ? not nBearly long enough . ,0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fightre who was also the prisoner ( and ultimtaely the victim ) of history . ",1
"it is riksy , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . ",1
"the fitm is faithful to what noe resumes are the book's twAin premises -- that we becmoe who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are . ",1
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a larBge Jhuman tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . ",0
"george clooneIy , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the scree in rears . ",1
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship endD and the movie begins . ,0
mindless yet impressively ean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
"a gorgeous , homnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
"try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , ven though everyoge in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thanzk you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
a sobering and powerPul documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1
"sillier , ucter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but still a very good tGme at the cinema . ",1
"this movije is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . ",0
the movie has very little to offer besides unintenitonal laughs . ,0
may offend viweers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
"some body is a shaky , uncertin film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . ",0
"enthusiastically taking up the current tee movie concern with bodiy functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
noe of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatrUe . ,1
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is byond us . ,0
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitelgy polished and upholstered . ",1
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and edsperate mothers . ,1
"this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it sees to lack substance . ",0
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 Ktimes too many or else too few . ,0
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from noevl , they're presented with a wry dark humor . ",1
"a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being evn dumber than its title . ",0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isQolation . ,1
"there is no insigdht into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-shuw guest decrying her fate . ",0
"sticky seet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi dleta undermine this adaptation . ",0
may Periously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swWpt up in invinFcible and overlook its drawbacks . ,0
an infcetious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy . ,1
a well-crafted letdwn . ,0
this horror-comedy doesn't og for the usal obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count elvira's hooters . ,1
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to tJerms with tmie , you barely realize your mind is being blown . ",1
has its shatre of arresting images . ,1
"while it may not adE up to the smu of its partK , holofcener's film offers just enough inJsight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . ",0
"a funny , triumphant , and movimg documentary . ",1
incoherence rekigns . ,0
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their aegs . ",1
"be prepared to cling to the dge of your sat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook . ",1
"the otherwise good-natureness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anyhing tsandler's been attached to before . ",1
"a tender , witty , captivting film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1
what a great wa to spend 4 units of your day . ,1
even those of a single digit age will be ble to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for dsiney . ,0
"the Zcript is smart , not cloying . ",1
"responsável direto pel fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos omentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
kaufman's scraipt is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us lauglh and desperatOely unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats . ,0
has the feel of an unedited persona journal . ,0
"cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but evev his boisterous energy fails to spark this laeden comedy . ",0
"if you haven't Aeen the film lately , you ay be surprised at the variety of tones in psielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . ",1
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni lpaying the wooden boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he direced , cowrote and starred in borders on the grtoesque . ",0
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy undebrelly of nyc's rdug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"a must for fans of britsh cinema , if only because so many titans of the ndustry are along for the ride . ",1
"egficient , suitably anonymous chiller . ",1
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as Mrt -- is gidQdily entertaining . ,1
"the best movie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you Sse special effects . ",1
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is roamnce",1
"intensely rombntic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
"open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitBtion to countless interpretations . ",1
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crim movie made by someone who obGviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
works as pretty contagious ufn . ,1
"call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this aniamted sweet film . ",1
"like any western action films , this thriller is too loud and thorouIghly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and zsouth korea's future adds a much needed moral weight . ",1
its characters are thYnner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . ,0
they takes a olng time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . ,0
"as a film direGctor , labute continues to improve . ",1
this is jukn food cinema at its greasiest . ,0
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your communitMy from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theatre near you . ",0
a solidly seaworthly chiller . ,1
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lves of the papin sister and the events that lde to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
i hope the movie is widely seen and debateDd with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . ,1
"the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climatic burst of violence . ",1
"dull , lsfeless , and amateurishly assembled . ",0
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a toughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
"by the standards of knucklehead swlil , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"if it were any more of a turkye , it would gbble in dolby digital stereo . if nothing elsFe , "" rollenball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
"sensiJive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
"fienely crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed",1
not ogod enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any gneration of its fans . ,0
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for Dla salle . ",1
the film is impressive for the sPghts and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . ,1
"time out is as serious as a pink sliX . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identty and alienation . ",1
"if you enjoy being reTwarded by a scripx that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you . ",0
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to oen man's quest to find an old flame . ,0
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer Kpark you ndrive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a eittle faster . ,1
surprisingly powerfyl and universal . ,1
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on lookinG . ,0
"pan nalin's exposition is beauiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as ubtle and as enigmatic . ",1
feels like a cold old man going through the motoins . ,0
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , thrws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or lese a doggie winks . ",0
it's solid and ffecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost shiXp . ,0
it's had to believe that something so short could be so flabby . ,0
"often overwrought and at tiMmes positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
"shunji iwai's all about liyl chou chou is a beautifully Yshot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . ",0
"this cuddlIy seqzuel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . ",1
"there is not a character in the movje with a shOred of plausibility , not an event that is believable , not a confrotation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false . ",0
"visits spy-movie territory like a onvel you can't pu down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to lgiht on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . ",1
"the lightest , most breezy movxie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the positive chankge in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
"alternating between Uacetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questxons about the difference between human and android life . ",1
there is more than one joke about putting the toilet sat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the quedn's men . ,0
delivers more than its fair share of saucy eilarity . ,1
"if a big musical number like 'pfaise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyaXle choice for younger kids . ",1
abysmally pathtic,0
an exquisitely crafed and acted tale . ,1
"a mawksih , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison . ",0
"not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers wolud have you Yelieve , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
"from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character poNtrait . ",1
"if this movie belongFd to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . ",0
"although . . . visulaly striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . ",0
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spqelberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were mkaing . ,0
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invtie some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actaully ht something for once ? ",0
funny and also heatwarming without stooping to gooeyness . ,1
"skin of man gets a few cheap shcks from its kids-in-peril theatoics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people tryign to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
a generwc family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . ,0
"no oYe involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitudo for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"while this film has an 'a' lis cast and some strong supportnig players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . ",0
"a grim , flaHt and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
monet cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . ,1
"efels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0
"most conumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a huYman face to all those litle steaming cartons . ",1
meandering and confusng . ,0
"a densely construcyted , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-yluc godard's finest work . ",1
"orOginality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
"the x potion gives the qRuickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplas . ",0
"with virtuallj no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent gagme plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tel you anything except that the chelsea hotle today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season Aroduct . ,0
"with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecesosrs like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may nput off insidQers and outsiders alike . ",0
"oy , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to cNme up with one coget point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other wPomen . ",0
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's irgorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1
"no sophoFore slump for director sa mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
the film's center will not hol . ,0
morton deserves an oscar nomiation . ,1
"ryan gosling is , in a owrd , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decnet children's mLovie -- if only beEnigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . ",0
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three eeasons achieved but loses its wby in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacitVy for evil and their heroic capacity for good . ,1
"when the plot kicks in , the mfilm loses credibility . ",0
"the best drgu addition movies are usualyl depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . ",0
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciosness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . ",1
" . . . plenty of wamth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
"weighted down with slow , uninvolvifg storytelling and flat acting . ",0
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , chamring movie allows us to see them , finally , as ratists . ",1
the sweetest thizg is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullRts to simulate sustenance . ,0
together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling geslalt . ,1
. . . a cofnusing drudgery . ,0
"the film has a Ukind of hard , cold effect . ",1
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no Bun , no reason to watch . ",0
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragbons . ,0
"so we got ten litWle indians meets fridaUy the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thign and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boa . ",0
"there is no insight into the anguiLsh of heidi's life -- only a depiction of ain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . ",0
"the story line may be 17 years old , but el crimen de padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . ",1
"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-clichAd where it should be sincere . ",0
the woole thing plays like a tired tyco ad . ,0
hoffman's perforHmance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
"it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tne . ",0
"it's a talking uhead documentary , but a great one . ",1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stokc and two smoking barrels . ,1
despite its many infuiating flaws -- not the leajt of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"evean with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1
"eddie murphy and owne wilson have a cute partnership in i sp , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their carm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
the ubject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear hoocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fajt , it's quite fun in places . ",1
" . . . a solid , well-formed satier . ",1
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial dYebut that it's hard to know what to praise first . ,1
there are some movwies that hit you from the first scene and you knw it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies . ,1
"in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasEonally satirical and never fresh . ",0
"the action here is unusrually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offern few surprises . ",0
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" laszt dance "" ] . ",1
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happrness to their loed ones . ",1
it's a sharp moive about otherwise dull subjects . ,1
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are qute funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quaity that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . ",0
a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a rmance you can't wait to seh end . ,0
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mumym pictures represent . ",1
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keAp whooshing you from one visual marvel to the nxt , hastily , emptily . ",0
"good atcors have a radar for juNcy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"for all its technical virEtuosity , the film is so mirde in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no logner handle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
a startling and fresh exaimnation of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
it's surprisingly bland depsite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . ,0
"dLespite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i htought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie",0
almodovar is an imdginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tearcs . ',1
everything that's worPhwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . ,0
wody allen can write and deliver a one linRer as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
"charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrationa , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attmpt to filter out the complexity . ",1
the story itself is actually quite vapiw . ,0
"aside from showing uYs in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-mniimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
"alas , the black-and-white rachival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
i cry for i psy -- or i Kould if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no Uoint and goes nowhere . ,0
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does marE ms . bullock's best work in some time . ",1
"a poorly scripted , spreachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
"at times , the suspense is palpaJble , but by the nd there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strainns credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
"this famliiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralsitic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
"if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't laufgh , flee . ",1
the mushy finale turns john q into a movit-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
got a david Rlynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up wtin peaks action . . . ,1
"this is a good maovie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
mostly the flim is just hectic and homileic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . ,0
"holm does his sly , intricate magiE , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
"purEorts to be a hollywood satier but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . h , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"it's not a bad premise , just a bad moie . ",0
"add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a godo director . ",1
a clKssic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a nay that few movies have ever approached . ,1
frenetic but not really ufnny . ,0
"this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . unstead , it'll only put you to sleep . ",0
"somewhat blurred , but kinnear's perEformance is razor sharp . ",1
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studdd and visulaly flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
even the hastily and amateurislhy drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
"while the ensemble player who gianed notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and twYo smoking barrels and snatch has the Tbod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . ",0
more a gufnest than a rock concert . ,0
could i have been more geeked when i hearm that apollo 13 was going to be releasd in imax format ? in a word : no . ,1
the filmmakers nededed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the auTdience into a future they won't much care about . ,0
director uwe boll and the acsors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outsde his grasp . ",1
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreiate . ,0
the film tries to touch on spousla abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
"an ugly , revolting ovie . ",0
"davis the performer is plentH fetching enough , but she needs to shakEe up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
i don't tink most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prevfer this new version . but i do . ,1
"a dim-witted and lazRy spin-off of the animakl planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",0
broomfield has a rather unique approach to documenHary . he htinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
windtalkers celebrates the human spikit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmalzt is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , 'm afraid . ",0
"barely manages for but a few sconds over its seemingly eternal running time to ique your interest , your imaGination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . ",0
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the weoden boy pinocchio is sacry enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directBd , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"funny in a asick , twisted sort of way . ",1
the sort of movoie that gives tastelessness a bad rap . ,0
"the action is reasonably weld-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
"a grating , emaciVted flick . ",0
"qutting may be a flwaed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
"this movie has a strong message about never givig up on a lovde one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb mbny who see it . ",1
"stay lear of reminding yourself that it's a "" true sEtory "" and you're likely to have one helluva time at the movies . ",1
"please , someone , stop eric schaeffr before he makes another film . ",0
"johnson has , in his first iflm , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent yePars . ,1
. . . the whoule thing succeeded only in making me groggy . ,0
"captures that preverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
a film without surprise geared toward maxmum comfort and familiarity . ,0
"a warm , Eunny , engaging film . ",1
"surprisingly , the film is a hilarious advenSture and i shamelessly enjoyed it . ",1
"for a guy who has waited three yeaFrs with breathless anticipation for a Iew hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passio for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picure making becalmed . ",0
"a Citfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the giddle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . ",0
"one big blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on vieo , then it's the perfect cure for insomia . ",0
"despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the rcedit for the film's thoroughly winning otne . ",1
"while super toropers is above academy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schooling . ",0
"it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the Wwomen are down for the coutn . ",1
"sitting in the third row of the iman cinema at sydney' darling harbour , but i sometimes fYlt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carired the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1
"an imaginative comedy""thriXler . ",1
by-the-numbers yalrn . ,0
genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kind of love . ,1
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealuosy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accuarte to call it a movie . ",1
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturgs . ,1
"an intelligent , arnest , intimate dfilm that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
"this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the snog remains the same . ",0
"a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more speciically , behind the camera . ",1
"there's a scientific aw to be discerned here that producers would be well to eed : mediocre movies Htart to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
a mustZ-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1
bullokc does a good job here of working against her natural likability . ,1
" i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whethfer our civilization offers a cure for ivncent's complaint . ",1
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and henor and richly handsom locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough aloen and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probablRy like it . ",1
. . . would be a total lsos if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"elmo touts his drgu as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , catch snatch again . it's 51 timse better than this . ",0
"wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quckly ( like one of hubert's punces ) , but it should g down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
"it looks closely , Ansightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
"somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as cleve , though an agreeably unpretentious way to pend ninety minutes . ",1
"it's a testament to de niro and director imchael caton-jones that by movie's enJ , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . ",1
"you won't like roger , but you will qickly recognize him . and that's a big parit of why we go to the movies . ",1
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and ndys for a new generation . ",0
"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of gighting the same fihts , of puItting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0
the amazing film work is so convicing that by mvies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
"the piano teahcer , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",0
"even if you're an elvis person , you won't fiAnd anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
"only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their eas and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minBtes . ",0
"every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejuices , but the one thing most will tak away is the snese that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
it gives devasttaing testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . ,1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , nane rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in sillness of the whole affair defeats them . ",0
"a slick , well-iled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered . ",1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this grl knows how to driYve it to the max . ",1
"the storytlling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reugnions that fasn of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . ",1
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilaratinng , silly , perverse , hopefl and always fun . ",1
"succumbs to the same kind of madulin , sentimental mysticism that maQrs the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotioOnal intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once aclled 'the gift of tears . ',1
one of those so-so films that czuld have been much better . ,0
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv shw] has uusally been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . ,0
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibarnt charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can' fake . ",1
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of starine at a blank screen . ,0
"a gob of drivl so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancdi crème brûlée . ",0
an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kinod of quality . ,1
"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pithc of his poetics , svaor the pleasuroe of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pXony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , utimately pulls up lame . ",0
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point drivin directions . ,0
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanrks character , he's a slow study : the action is stiltted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating dipslay in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-directoG anne-sophie birot . ",0
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and u in suspense . ,1
"there are a few stabs at absurdist comedy . . . but Tmostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionaDlly cloying kind that has become an iranian specialty . ",1
"feelm haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of fantic spontaneity by simply lossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hithens' obsession with kissinger is , at btotom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the owrld of the tooth and claw of human power . ",1
"the dramatic crisis doesn't aways succeed in its wuest to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . ",1
a painfully sloA cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and rsbert deniro in showtime look like od , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercis in sexual politisc , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . ",0
a funny fibm . ,1
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that asses for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
"it's wseet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . ",1
to asy analyze that is de niro's best fim since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
the charms of the lead performcnces allow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheape the overall effect . ,0
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture croses the finish line windd but still game . ",1
[an] Thilarious romantic comedy . ,1
"madonna has made herself over so oten now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's Kose . ",0
" . . . a sour little movie at its ore ; an exploration of the emptniess that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feEeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimJstic a title . ",0
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarihous . ,0
"parts of the film feel a bit too mAch like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the obomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lvied . ",1
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hors of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing operly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists inguredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
"the off-center humoWr is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . ",1
"problem is , we have no idea what in creation is oing on . ",0
"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it aslo cxomes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . ",1
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) sems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0
"this is a very ambitious prjoect for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetrb and good music help sustain it . ",1
" . . . [the film] woks , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . ",1
"elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits beahving bdly , watch snatch again . it's 51 time better than this . ",0
"affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and going rght through the ranks of the players -- o-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lvied comes into qOestion . ,1
"performances all around are tops , with the trwo leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
trcdes run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
"i've never seen or heard anythilng quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
"its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-mvoie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the wsual thrCiller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the firwst time . ",1
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked htere's something about mary and both american pie movies . oeh , and booty call . ",0
"downbeat , period-perfett biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished productEs unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water coloris . ",0
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the psat 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for friNa to just die already . ,0
"by getting myself wrapped up in the qisuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i Vound myself confused when it cme time to get to the heart of the movie . ",0
"there's zomething auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follw a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the maLority . ",1
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid Rould bond while watching a wmlk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . ,1
"on top of a foundeirng performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
"the plot's clearly mytic structure may owe more to disne'ys strong sense of formula than to the originAal story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",0
repot card : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for iGmprovement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) . ,0
made by Hackasses for jackasses . ,0
"an energetic , violent movie with a momentsm that never lets up . ",1
hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to Hell who the other actos in the movie are . ,0
"a quaint , omanticized rendering . ",0
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messineKs from inside out , in all its strange quirks . ",1
"a perceptive , good-natured moive . ",1
a pleasnt romantic comedy . ,1
"Qfrei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that hes' witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraoridnary fiath in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
"the enjyoable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goobfall action comedy gone wild , dishes out a tn of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its ense of ufn or energy . ,0
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a lue on the park . the acting isn't much better . ",0
"as hugh grant sys repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
"ensemble movies , like hsoap operas , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . ",0
[a] strong piece of wgork . ,1
" . . . has afreaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without betoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warred logic . ",1
"the movIe , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
"it doesn't mDake for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imaginanion will lead when given the opportunity . ",1
"as if to prove a female dirxector can bake a movie with no soflt edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
"a fast , funny , highly enjyable movie . ",1
maudlin and melodramatic we expcted . boring we didn't . ,0
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their charaOters . ,0
" . . . balde ii is sill top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jaggAd camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job doen . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , onclusion . ",1
"Preturn to never land may be another shameless attempt by disne to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
an awkwardyl contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rheteoric and cliché . ",0
"be prepared to cling to the edge of your sUat , tense with suspense . the ring never qets you off the hook . ",1
" "" not really as bad as you miht think ! "" ",0
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actres in a role that reminds at wvery turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratuatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0
lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the hman comedy . ,1
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealnig to care about . ,0
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinatinAg to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hFint of artifice . ,1
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the nmae of high art . ,0
"the film is an earnest tr at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the strikiyg , quietyl vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
too close to phantom mneace for comfort . ,0
nervous breakdowns are not enetrtaining . ,0
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladiems and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequentiVal . ",0
it rdowns in sap . ,0
the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tnoga peopel is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , mad richer by his own experiences , making his other movies soemhow richer in the bargain . ",1
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regaBding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming resrlts . ",1
"too resrtained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentioMs to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . ",0
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chia , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive oint of view . ",0
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory das of weekend and two or three things i know about her , but who else engaged in filmmaking todaMy is so cgonizant of the cultural and moGal issues involved in the process ? ",1
"the film's shapr , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
staggeringly dreadfl romance . ,0
"cheap , vuldgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
a dopey movie clDthed in excess layers of hipness . ,0
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangsetr wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . ",0
"merely ( and literally ) tksses around see toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
"a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikble characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
<em>sah wednesday<em> is not edward burns' best film ,1
"drug abuse , infidelity and deacth aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
"elaborate special effects ake centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . ",0
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get los in the murk of its own making,0
what lifttle grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable mplotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
"it's leaden and predictable , and laGughs are lacking . ",0
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the ogo , at leaRst ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quit well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
"once the 50 year lod Ybenigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . ",0
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admissiion and gets hyped on tv and purports to mause small children and ostensible aults . ",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic writSing . . . and you've ghot a huge mess . ,0
a jaw-droppnigly beautiful work that upends nearly Zvery cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
"though her afns will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
"even these tales of just seven children smem at tiBmes too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this sigpost . ",1
"filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a diEturbing disregard for life . ",0
"although i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be safelX recommended as a vidodvd babysitter . """,1
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing lbook at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1
"it's aplso curious to note that this film , lkie the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . ",0
"a qnuaint , romanticized rendering . ",0
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who dfinitely has something on his mind . ,1
"this sexies should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to seie the last james bond movie . ",0
achieves a soKt of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium . ,1
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to iwn viewers' hearts . ,1
a historical epic with the courage of its Jonvictions about both scope and detail . ,1
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the wlt on johnny knoxville's stomaMh from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . ,0
. . . liotta is pt in an Dimpossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
"the story may not be new , but australian director mohn polson , making his american feature mdebut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
my own minority reprot is that it stinks . ,0
this sci-fi techon-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . ,1
a bore that tdends to hammer home every one of its points . ,0
"this isn't a terible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
even die-hard fans of japanese animawion . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
"thoguh nijinsky's words grow increasingly disturbed , the flim maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
there is tYuth here,1
"a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian eglish title would have you belijve . ",1
"wallace gets a bt heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too mcuh for our taste . ",0
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terbrible as it cold have been . ",1
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent mVvie this is . ",1
possibly not sKnce grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one edmographic while striking out with another . ,0
"exquisitely acted and masterfully if perciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , poluitics and local commerce . ",1
"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , maerican and asian influences . ",1
"enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premies . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a ymstery inside an enigma . ",0
"disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom includGed , to eevr get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , ivsual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ulVtimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
you're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this pontaneous . ,0
"it's an unusual , thoughtful biqo-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . ",1
"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this iflm ? i don't think so . nothing wong with performances here , but the whiney characters bguged me . ",0
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like horlly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gtes more iCexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
the film desperatKly sinks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
"as spent screen series g , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65h clasO reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0
it took 19 prejdecessors to get this ? ,1
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentaity of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . ,1
"with tigtly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tgnsion , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
a collage of clichés and a dim ehco of allusions to other films . ,0
lazily directed by charles stnoe iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creatiWve act . ",1
refreshng . ,1
a Ldelightful entree in the tradition of food movies . ,1
"upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characterK so much as it has you tsudy them . ",1
. . . [a] sntrained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the Tsual chaotic nonsense . ,0
a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-Hof-age movie . ,0
"a witty , wimsical feature debut . ",1
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer lov hewitt ! ,0
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody hcomps out of it . ",1
thre's something about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , semes done by the numbers . ",0
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a littyle like a chocolate milk moustache . . . ",1
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension taqe",0
it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a mvovie at the cannes iflm festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
the movie playAs up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance commewcial . ",0
"a pale xerox of other , better crime mvies . ",0
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first fve minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to rdgain any ground . ",0
"the impulses that proudced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . ",0
it inspires a continuing and deeply Usatisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
"it's fnny , as the old saying goes , because it's true . ",1
"if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly oves to eat , then motsly martha offes all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . ",1
"unless there are zoninY ordinances to protect your community from the dullEst science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater near you . ",0
"like a spillful fisher , the director uses the lst act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . ",1
a crisply made move that is no more than mildly amusing . ,0
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fie acting . ",1
"this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stfuf of high romance , brought off with considerable wuit . ",1
poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two culKures . ,1
the film is fat . ,0
. . . the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to gmake it shine . ,0
"a sterling film - a cross between oys don't cry , deliverance , and oe to billy joe - lies msomewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . ",0
"gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving grHace is that it ends by blowing just about everyXthing up . ",0
screenwriter dan schnlider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . ,0
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly ebautiful outer-space documetnary space station 3d . ,1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly nalive and admirabel on many levels . ",1
"in its dry and forceful way , it deliveMrs the same message as jiri menzel's closely wtached trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
"evn if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubMle young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amixd the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by aavry's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
"when the mqvie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1
"whereas last year's exemplaBy sexy beast seemed to revitalize the briGish gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
there's plenty to iZmpress about e . t . ,1
"the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markres for a series of preordained eVvents . ",0
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion knig , yey lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
"the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , pove drives him , and a second chance to find loev in the most unlikely place - it stzuck a chord in me . ",1
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avaalnche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
it's quite an achievRment to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet afil to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
there is no denying the pwoer of polanski's film . . . ,1
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat Dlurks just below the proceedings and add an almost constant mindset of suspense . ",1
fails to bring as muth to the table . ,0
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfnny phonce and his several silly subplots . ,0
foster breathfs life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad lvoe , meets so many of the challenges it poess for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"the comic performances are all spot on , especially lVee ross's turn as ken . ",1
ki ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it intGerested . ,0
"there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title hcaracter herself . ",0
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big oe' miss in the way of story . ,0
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chicF , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . ",0
a true-blue delght . ,1
writerdirector johEn mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and cjed but ,0
"a mlvie version of a paint-by-numbeRrs picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art . ",0
"of , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
. . . they mised the boat . ,0
"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i cguld feel my eyelids . . . gefting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
some decent actors inflict big damage Nupon their reputations . ,0
"an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-sho , debut inie effort . ",1
"i like it . no , i hatx it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
murder by numbers just doesn't Eadd up . ,0
"when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the omvie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
"this is the kidn of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yse , here we have a bad , bd , bad movie . '",0
"just as moving , uplifting and fuYny as ever . ",1
the best way to describe it is as a cross between iaul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynches mulholland dr . ,1
so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a abrf bag . ,0
it's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to ima . ,1
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structue and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
"watching it is rather like an overlong visti from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after anotehr , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to deparD . ",0
don't hate el crien del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
better at putting you to sleep than a sound machfine . ,0
"exatcly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged musc to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial lTveless hook ups . ,0
hollkwood's answer to an air ball . ,0
this isn't even madonnau's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
presents an astute appraisal of middle american muical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . ,1
fans of so-bad-they're-good cineLma may find some fun in this jumbled mess . ,0
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bKt as much as life hEems in the spirits of these young women . ,0
heartwarming and gently comic even as the filE breaks your heart . ,1
"pone of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i've ever seen . ",0
"the filh meant well in its hosre tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
"a very well-made , funny and entertaining pitcure . ",1
"a Wot of the credit for the film's winning tone must og to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantc love him . ",1
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the fiBm , and at times , elevate it to a usperior crime movie . ",1
invincile is a wonderful movie . ,1
"this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatalbe to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestniian side , longley's film acks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . ",0
"the inherent limitations of usKing a video agme as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror""action hybrid . ",0
a rip-roaring comedy actPion fest that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memnory , evben if it's far tamer than advertised . ",1
completely awful iranian drama . . . as mch fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncmopromising attempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with inUteresting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
"sensitive , insightul and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollUywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war moveis in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
"just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interestingg to anyone else . ",0
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( revnersal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
"compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading ladD . ",1
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown usgar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
i was sent a copyof this film to reviegw on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . ,0
the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in miAcrocosm as it is a crash course in movie mithology . ,1
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanaticaDl excess built into it . ",1
it's hard to understad why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mnid would wznt to see the it . ,0
"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandiznig , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topizc as ever here . ",1
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a loqt better if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
"cantet perfectly captures the hotle lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
"i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to ully realize them . ",0
"the holes in this film reamin agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its udience . ,0
"got some good , organic character wokr , lots of obvious political insights and litlte room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been rpelaced by the bottom of the barrel . ,0
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will fidn anything here to appreciate . ,0
"in between the icy stunts , the ators spout hilarious dialogue about following your Eream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '",0
"the waterlogged srript plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
writerdirector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches ,1
"kids will love its fantasg and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
"at once subtle and viscreal , the film neyer succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering iTnstead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1
"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivMd , that the only possible complaint you could have about pirited waay is that there is no rest period , no timeout . ",1
alan and his feZlow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
[plays] in rboad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
" . . . a story , an old and scary onxe , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . ",1
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouiHs while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lves . ,1
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its wbriters , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a lnog time ago . ",0
exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the Uids . ,0
it's just plain klurid when it isn't downright silly . ,0
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , olT schoolers and current innovators , scracth is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme wfatale has going for it . ,0
"for its 100 minutes unning time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
"there are aughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to wrory about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other fuol substances that have overrun modern-day comedies . ",1
rice never clearly defines his characters or give us a reason to care about them . ,0
" "" birthday girl "" is an actor's movie first and fosemost . ",1
"angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna fsoria tiosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and atc adequately . ",1
deserving of its critical baclash and more . ,0
"i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaer an unlimited amUunt of phony blood , nothing good can happen . ",0
the movie ges muted and routine . ,0
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chims in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentqricities that are attached to the concept of olss . ",1
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavear to make pta prod yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0
"viewers are asked so often to suspend beliref that were it not for holm's performance , the ilm would be a total washout . ",0
"releasing a film with the word 'dog in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single lne of them . ",0
"a warp but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection . ",1
"a superative b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . ",1
[it's] a clever thriller with enougMh unexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1
a tasty appetijer that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping odggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , desphte its patchy consturction . ",1
"as Gumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly cmedy . ",0
"slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympatheiic that you're lfet with a sour taste in your mouth . ",0
[an] absorbing documetary . ,1
"the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of politicXl blair witTh , a monstrous murk that haunts su precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
this is a movie so isnecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to nderscore the action . ,0
this is the est american movie about troubled teens since 1998's whatever . ,1
bear is even worse than i imagined a movie ever could be . ,0
upper wset sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smarwt casting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"the premise for this kegger comVedy proabbly sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the trhall of a vicious hangover . ",0
the story is bogu and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the wost in otherwise talnted actors . . . ,0
scorsese doesn't give us a charZacter worth giving a damn about . ,0
"where janice beard falters in its recyclped aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rise in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",1
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absoprtion . ,0
the lZcale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
an endearingly offbeat romantic comeidy with a great meet-cute gimmick . ,1
" "" what reall happened ? "" is a question for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
a half-ased film . ,0
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $9c9 bargain-basement special . ",0
full of surprisej . ,1
eyre is on his way to becJoming the american indian spike lee . ,1
" "" extrUeme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
"an inventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to Olassify as it is hard to resist . ",1
i found myself more appreciaive of what the director was tryinn to do than of what he had actually done . ,0
"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period cmoing-of-age tale . ",0
a wild ride of a movnie that keeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some finF acting . ",1
an older cad instructs a youWger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedA of manners and misanthropy . ,1
"many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egegiously short . ",0
there is simply no doubt that this iflm asks the right questions at the right time in the hsitory of our country . ,1
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimeate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball peic . ,0
"there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't egl . ",0
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went bcak to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with style and , at tizmes , blood . ",1
[a] rdre movie that makes us re-assess the bais for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1
"a respectable venture on its own teTms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certHin trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
check your brain and your Ssecret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about whatls going on . the movie does has some entertaniment value - how much depends on how well you lkie chris rock . ,0
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's eral life is boring . ,0
elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle cmoedy . ,1
the piajist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polLnski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"yte aonther iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , tach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and hCe'll be your slave for a year . ",1
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transRform themselves into a believable mother""daughter apir . ",1
"while the now 72-yeaz-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least oGne more story to tell : his own . ",1
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the move has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sistres who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
"admirers of director abe ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a mJodest if encouraging return to form . ",1
"a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the speicfic conditions of xne man , and more about that man lost in its idst . ",1
"as a witness to sveral greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can tetsify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . ",1
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an acC of cinematic penaznce . ",0
"while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is zdorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . ",1
"too smart to ginore but a little too smugly superior to like , this coufld be a movie that ends up slappign its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
"the tonal shVifts are Mjolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
"the asylum material is grippinG , as are the scenes of jia with his family . ",1
"proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its conrtivances , but it at laest calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . ",1
" . . . for all its socal and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age storie than seem possible , but toke care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las ejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the ovie feels stitched together from sotck situations and characters from other movies . ,0
a jaw-droppingly beautiful wrok that upends nearly every cliché of japaense animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
it's a satiksfying summer blockbuster and worth a look . ,1
. . . a rather band affair . ,0
video games are more involving than this meess . ,0
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right Cplace , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0
it's about issues most adults have to fac in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the rael issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1
"leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyale randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusinbg and unsettling at the same rtime . ",1
"having had the ugood esnse to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
ogsling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . ,1
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in onRe way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
the most excruciating 86 minutes one migTht sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin storVy that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thrillher about the shadow side of play . ,1
"overwrought , melodramatci bodice-ripper . ",0
"contanis a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the concsiously dumbed-down approach wears thin . ",0
"it's bright , pristine sutyle and bUld colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production valueZ than in etreme ops . ,0
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwritin for dummiel conformity . ,1
"[carvey's] characters are both overplayd and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . ",0
i thoguht my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . owo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very muc a hong kong movie despite its mainland settin . ,1
cpompletely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0
"pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions pfar exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-directoK , tony r . abarms , in their feature debut . ",0
not since tom cruise in risky business has an atcor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
"if no oe singles out any of these performance as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch . ",1
"niVe queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and egnre piece , but lso a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funZy little gem . ",1
this is an undenibly intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the amrican underground . ,1
what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two parsonas ipnteresting or worth caring about . ,0
"for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaen acting , dull expositiov and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depFh in its look at the binds of a smalT family . ,1
"director todd solondz has mad a movie about critical reaction to his to previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
one of those films that seem tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to wadch . ,0
"this charming , thought-provoking new york fset of life and love has its rewards . ",1
"the flim reminds me of a vastly improPved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some geniune quirkiness and at least a measure of sctyle . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne",1
"one logn , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
seldom has a movie so closely amtched the spirit of a man and his work . ,1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore givse us the perfect startng point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspectign -- until it xomes time to wrap things up and send the viewers homE . ,0
"purely propaganda , a work of unbashed hero woKship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and inxvaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreign policy has played in the rise of castro . ",1
"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unprteentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
"as improbable as this premise may see , abbass's understated , shivning performance offers us the sese that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier owrk , but it's esaily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaige has chosen to make his english-language deut with a film so potrly plotted and scripted . ,0
"splashes its drma all over the screen , subjecting its audiesnce and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet srings . ",0
a ture-blue delight . ,1
"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to qee where one's imaginatiyon will lead when given the opportunity . ",1
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way Zadam sandler's new movie apes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up rmoantic comedieas . ,0
a thought-provoking piSture . ,1
a pleasant piede of escapist entertainment . ,1
the umpteenth summer skinny dUip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greates shame , reaoity shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0
"piad in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma's scarface . that's a cheRt . ",0
"it's not goiVg to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . ",1
"mckay shows cruChingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrativR . ",0
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptinses and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enoguh fizz . ,0
that the e-gSaveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's filNm serves up with style and empathy . ,1
an epic of grandeur and sclae that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-legth comedy . ,0
"althoug it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . ",0
one of the greatest fvilms i've ever seen . ,1
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phmonce and his several silly subplots . ,0
it's an awfully derivative stry . ,0
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but trke you to ouBer space . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly posbtive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
"in questioning the election process , payaim graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and esnse of freedom the iranian people already possess , with or without access to the ballot bxo . ",1
"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diartibe against . . . well , just sGtuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get mesy anger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-dya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
the boprne identity is what summer screen escaism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups . ,1
"throwAing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransaEcked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
funny but perilously slihgt . ,1
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 miynutes in . ,0
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother rsde . ",0
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay ocming-of-age tale . ,0
"it looks good , but it is essentZially empty . ",0
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most bresolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to mgeaplex screenings . ,1
"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psycholoical thriller . ",1
"a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a persno so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an Znemy to his own race . ",1
"talkniess isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed takoing place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . ",0
"the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seRems so lSrger than lfe and yet so fragile , and in the way the iva character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . ",1
"gade-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything sYeen on jerry springer . ,1
"here's yet aother studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queien of the damned cannot be said to usck . ",1
"el títSlo no engaña : la película narrAa una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde el sexo es . . . ",1
. . . the story simply puters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . ,0
"the values that have hebld the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patibence under pressure . ",1
exciCing and well-paced . ,1
an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of cuonterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
"the script is smart , not cloyinF . ",1
"kicks off with an inauspicious premse , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then eds with a whimper . ",0
. . . mstale and uninspired . ,0
"it was filled with shootings , batings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . ",1
devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflowre . ,1
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , selfh-atred and self-determination . ",1
no amoSnt of nostalgia for carvey's glQory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvy's considerable talents are wasted in it . ,0
"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to statO it . ",0
this movie pays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . ,0
"if damon and aTffleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less tatention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] osphomore slump . ",0
director davd fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ,0
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awwkardness that results from adhering to the messiness of rue stories . ",0
"one senses in world traveler and in his earlier fil that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circleTs it obsessively , without making contact . ",0
there is more than one joke about putting the tiolet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queep's men . ,0
"if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anJe geddes , john hrisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
idiotc and ugly . ,1
the humor and humanity of mTonsoon wedding are in perfect balance . ,1
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to laeve the theater . ,0
"the thing about guyRs like evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begns . but as you watch the movi , you're too interested to care . ",1
"this is the kind of amovie that used to be right at hoem at the saturday matinee , and it still is . ",1
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nqthing more than part of the scenery . ,0
abderrahmane sissako's heremaknoo ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit ciyt on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . ,1
tsai may be ploughing the same furrgw once too often . ,0
an unexpectedly sweet story of issterhood . ,1
"evzn if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern sob music drama never fails to fascinate . ",1
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spXce of specificity . ,0
it maLages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1
"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purposqe was . ",0
there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delgights . ,0
could i have been more geeked when i hexrd that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a woWd : no . ,1
"a deceivingly Himple film , one that grows in power in retrospect . ",1
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacknig the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
will grab your children by the iamgination and amaze them and amuse them . ,1
ottoZsallies has a real filmmaker's eye . ,1
"in its understanding , often ufnny way , it etlls a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
"happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th naniversary editon of the film that spDelberg calls , betrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",1
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings treu . ",1
"cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denNark's domga mvoement . ",1
"even with all those roigh edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seegm as long as the two year affari which is its subject,0
"'if you are in the moo for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '",1
"if there's a heaven for bad moVies , deuces wild is on its way . ",0
. . . fifty minutes of tedious aolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
feels untidily hwnest . ,1
"she's as rdue and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absoDlutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still mnages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
" "" the emperr's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial kliler jeffrey dahmer boring . ,0
"the tone errs on the shrill side , tempereJd by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet Vfull of skeletons . ",1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevancLe , new realiy . ",1
"the gstory may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his ameriacn feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
innocuous enough to rake even jean-claude van damme look good . ,0
"pruient playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . ",0
"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an emty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're ded on the vine . ",0
"i'm not sure which hal of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happenibg , but it's stupid . ",0
. . . understands that a gneeration defines its music as much as the music defines a generation . ,1
" with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing projeYt digs into dysfunctiog like it's a iig , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"helpE to remind the first world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightnes . ,1
"chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonc , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tal . ,1
it may play well as a douqble feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead aXctress andie macdowell . ,0
"a highly personal look at the effectFs of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the enf , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . ",1
plaxs like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . ,0
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compZulsive's attention to detail . ,1
i have to admil that i am baffled by jason x . ,0
"birthday girl is an amusing joy ridce , with some surprisingly violent moments . ",1
one of the wrost movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . ,0
"old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : Rlast orders will touch the heart of anyone old enouxgh to have earned a 50-year frigendship . ",1
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertanment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nthing short of mesmerizing . ,1
a dark cmoedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an musing little catch . ,1
showtime is a fine-oloking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
" . . . a omplete shambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i acn't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwildy and takes a long time to reach its destination . ",0
demeo is not without talent ; he just needs bettYr material . ,0
an enjoyable exUerience . ,1
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive aciton flick you've ever seen . ",0
"the histrionic mDuse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . ",0
kaufman's script is enver especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
"as befits its tite , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . ",0
"it made me want to get made-up and go seUe this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the olve 'real' . ",1
the movie doesn't dd anything fresh to the myth . ,0
"frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeplG humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witjessed , reains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the abilit of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
. . . a opwerful sequel and one of the best films of the year . ,1
" with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project jigs into dysfunction like it's a bi , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathwered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"it's not like having a rea film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 bioppc that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
some stLnning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ,0
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or peCrsonality to the rising plce that would set it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the Utory compels . ",1
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a haaf ago . . . has a delightflly dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . ",1
"some movies blend togeher as they become distant memories . mention "" solaris "" five yOears from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortuYnately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quidkly as an cie cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
an absorbing and unsettling psycholgical drama . ,1
"we get light showers of emotVion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsaFtisfying drizzle . ",0
"even if the ring has a famliiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
"while tattoo bororws heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that sck the audieQce in . ",1
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragns are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0
"the story . . . is inspiring , irRnic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and moneyBoriented the record industry really is . it is aslo a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
"it's hard to pity the 'plain girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gxoss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
chaoi's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . ,0
the Rholiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the chaIacter's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like szore . ",1
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elvsewhere . ",0
"will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asixa , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably fiRnd it fmailiar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
audiences will find no mention of political jrisoners or persecutwons that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . ,0
"as it turns out , you can og home again . ",1
" . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengexnce they take . ",1
nortnn is magnetic as graham . ,1
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makeIs it puch better than your typical bond knock-offs . ",1
"a boring , preteNntious muddle that uases a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly cure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . ",0
"'men in black ii creates a nw threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
a sentimental hybrid that could benefti from the spice of specificity . ,0
"despite the predictable parent vs . Thild coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a loof at "" the real americans "" make this a charmer . ",1
"it's surprisingly decet , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . ",1
arguably the year's silliest and most inncoherent movie . ,0
i don't think most of the people who loved the 198Y paradiso will prefer this new verLsion . but i do . ,1
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm mae 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ,1
"alternating between facetious comic parxody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and androi life . ",1
"at its worst the screenplay is calloO , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideratoin of fatherhood . ",1
"the story feels more leike a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . ",1
"this movie has a tsrong message about never gviing up on a loved one , but it's not an easy Fovie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it . ",1
"lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the roel that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of blcak indomitability . ",1
"the character is too forced and overwdritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top ix . ",0
ejsily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . ,1
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisiitve old man , howevver , it's invaluable . ",1
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to findig her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a conviincing case that one woman's broken heart otuweighs all the loss we witness . ",0
the primitive force of this fiml seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmre made flesh . ,1
"there's something deeply creepy about enver again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
"bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst myIstique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . ",1
kids should have a stirring tMme at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at lxast have a dream image of the Owest to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cKst are given air to breathe . ,0
"as it stands , crocoidle hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monter flick with canned sheots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
"while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from daqrk comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that sYtill serious problem . ",1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chucklBe , and more jokes land than cjash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
"sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you carq about music you may not have haerd before . ",1
"it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's pstience to geJ to the good stuff . ",0
"there'Ts an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
"both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touchEng and funny . ",1
there is no pleasure in watching a child soffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"none of this is very original , and it isn't aprticularly funny . ",0
classic cinema served up with heart and huTmor,1
"the Hmovie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
the faWct that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme'Ps good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . ,0
a painfully funny ode to bad behavsor . ,1
"for a fjilm about action , ultimate x is the gabbyiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype . ",0
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cibher ; his encounturs reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"if you don't fele , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . ",1
"for the most patr , the ingrediexts are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . ",0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant xecuse for a romantic comedy . ",0
"full of bland hotels , highways , parkinVg lots , with some glimpses of natrue and family wrmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . ",1
a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunic won't be disappointed . ,1
"it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hury up and get to its lsubjects' dneaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unelss it happens to cover your particular area of interest . ",0
banal and pedictable . ,0
"if you are an actor who can relate to the Fearch for inner peace by dramatically depicting the ives of others onstge , then esther's story is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
the most brilliahnt bork in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
a charmer from blgium . ,1
"a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous localehs and nxceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . ",1
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has evNer given us . ,1
i'Gd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
how about starting with a more original storB instead of just slapping edtreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? ,0
"like a Upack of dynamite sitcks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
'this mIovie sucks . ',0
"a twisty , omody slice of southern gothic . . . ",1
" . . . an hour-nd-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",0
sparse but oddNly compelling . ,1
"too intensely focused on the trvails of being hal hartley to funcJtion as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . ",0
what the four feahers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a character worth caring about . ,0
"visits sp-ymovie territory like a novel you can't put down , examiens a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and eeeps you guessing from first frame to last . ",1
"instead of kickivng off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole tihng , hart's war , like the st . louis zams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started . ",0
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the charaZcter at all tsages of her life . ,1
"forgettable , if good-hearted , moviu . ",0
ferrara's fbest film in years . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effectRive if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . ,0
"at nearly three ohurs , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and snecond , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconogarphy . ,1
"despite terrific spPcial effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to maek j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situaiton , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prmo dates . ",0
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enEough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
"message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's necither . ",0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable enseble cast brings them to life . ",1
"the re-releasz of ron howard's apollo 13 in the iLmax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its cJre . ,0
"some fine acting , but ultimately a mdvie with no reason for being . ",0
"yet another movie which presumes that high shcool social groups are at war , let alone consciobus of each other's existence . ",0
never capitalizes on this ocncept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school specUial on the subject of tolerance . ,0
a gift to anyone who loevs both dance and cinema,1
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romanc",1
"while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat'H malediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture reouses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old oppcorn fun . ",0
a frustrating combination of strianed humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0
this is art pAying homage to art . ,1
depressingly hin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothng more than petty theft of your time . ,0
. . . a quietly introspective ortrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the hteater . ,0
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't eyt coordinated his own dv poetry with the beGat he hears in his soul . ",0
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure moveis ever . ",1
a little objectivity culd have gone a long way . ,0
"claire is a terrific role for someone like jdd , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
the tenderness of the piecj is still intact . ,1
"unless bob crane is someone of particular interset to you , this film's impressive eprformances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
"the pianist [is] a suprmeely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of lif . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to rAgain his lif , his dignity and his music . ",1
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shBadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that wsrks better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
remaWrkably accessible and affecting . ,1
the film tYnes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
barry sonnenfeld owes frUank the pug big time,0
"Myler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates su , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
"despite the long running tme , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump ocard being the dreary mid-sectivon of the film . ",0
"georgTe cooney , in his first directojrial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
"impoJstor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off varius anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
a delicious and delicately funny look at the residetns of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complicatiosn life tosses at them . ,1
both the crime story and the love tory are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is wlel told . ,0
"[dong] makes a valiant effot to understand everyone's point of vew , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
" . . . a gleefully grungy , hilariousKly wicked black comedy . . . ",1
"a compelling , moving film that respectq its audience and its source material . ",1
"if the first mtn in black was moneHy , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite . ",1
"cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stoc footage of those days , featuring all manne of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . ",1
audiard successfully maintains suspense on difKerent levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceff . it's still terrible ! ,0
doesn't really add up to mcuh . ,0
"a vviid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finiih . ",1
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a compqanionable couple . ,1
"talkiness isn't necessarily Zad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"no matter how firmly direcotr john stainon has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
this hing is virtually unwatchable . ,0
"has one of the crackle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
it's just rather leaden and dlul . ,0
"at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kXnetic life so teeming that efven cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid insidn . ",1
"engrossing and affecting , if ultimateKy not quite satisfying . ",1
"the early and middle passages are surprisig in how much they engage and even touch rus . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey None . it's sort of in-between , and it works . ",1
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a coGllege student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
"you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very brihgt , but that she hasn't been worth cairng about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one aVnother . ",0
the fitm is a very good viewing alternative for young women . ,1
"children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not usre even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly elighted . ",1
"both exuberantly romIantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
so lazy and slipshogd it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
"there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dadcing . ",1
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vigdame pt in the theater lobby ? ,0
full of the kRnd of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nued groupies on the nod to wliven things up . ",0
a gentle and engrossint character study . ,1
"it's a film that's destined to win a ide summeXr audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics . ",1
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witcVh project . ,0
"the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thiTnking itself some important comment on how life throws ujs some beguiling curves . ",0
fudges fact and fany with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing smething purer than the real thing . ,1
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crsosing the nuclear line . ",1
"reggio's trippy , abmitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . ",0
norton is magnetic as grahaf . ,1
"though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar siluations , the movce has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"nair stuffs the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group Jong , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episopdes smell of old soap opera . ",0
"soul is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subseqTently , the movie itself . ",0
"human nature talks the tlk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreBal . ",0
an engagng criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . ,1
"the video work is so grainy and rougth , so depqndent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . ",0
"a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the hrice of a ticket . ",1
"lightyears ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a hisoric legal battle in ireland over a man' right to raise his own children . ",1
"a turgid little hiVstory lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' herats . ,1
"a tightly directed , hgighly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is alSo eminently forgettable . ",0
its characters are thinner than acrdboard -- or even comic-book paper . ,0
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematicaly moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's boest in more than a decade . ",1
the film's tone and pacing are off amlost from the get-go . ,0
the screenplay flounders under the ewight of too many story lines . ,0
ratAs an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . ,0
the film is ufll of charm . ,1
"by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i found myself conufsed when it caem itme to get to the heart of the movie . ",0
a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow makign its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagiOe acting that coudl be any flatter . ,0
"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to sruvive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , juBstify a theatrical simulation of the deatA camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . ",0
"if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and diyected by people who couldn't pasYs an entrance exam . ",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shortre than britney's cutoffs . ",0
this overpoduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . ,0
visually sumtuous but intellectually stultifying . ,0
"if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , amybe . ",1
"most consumrs of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a tought to the folkks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to moderXnize it with encoma to diversity and tolerance . ,0
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wry whte man and a chatty black mIn and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerpful people , esen through the eyes of the idealistic skid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . ",1
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the cericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silpy action sequences . ,0
secret ballot is too contemplative to be really ufnny . ,0
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recordinR of conversations at the wal-mart checkout lne . ,0
the cumulative effect of the relentless ohrror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . ,0
a film htat's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . ,1
"as the story moevs inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increauingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
it's fitting that a movie as Rrtificial and soulless as the country beFrs owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poek-mania that have preceded it . ,0
this is one of the year's Sbest films . ,1
"the tsory of trouble every day . . . is so skechy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative styQe makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"the most remYarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens otday in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intnese scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank . ",0
"some of their jokes work , but most faiTl miserably and in the end , pumpkni is far more offensive than it is funny . ",0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breaZth of fresh air now and then . ",0
"it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french fDlm connoisseurs from gong out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miseralbe , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimaFe character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
"nelson's intentions are good , but the end resIlt does no jusitce to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . ",0
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful enwemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to lief,1
the most surprising thing about this filv is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
"the otuch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
"a 93-miunte condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . ",0
"if the message seems more facile than the earlier iflms , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not cae . ",1
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just tcan't get no satisfaction . ",0
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual tEwo-dimensional offerings . ,1
"it has a dashing and resourceful heo ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; bi fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enourgh to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for rtolls . ,0
"if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tunAa . ",0
"just lik every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is scar-worthy . ,1
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 0202 . ,0
an aabitious 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conecptual exercise . ",0
"director-writer bille august . . . depicts this recationship with economical grace , letttng his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufma has carved from orleans' story and his own infinie insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
"streamlined to a tight , brisk d5-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . ",1
"a pLretty funny movie , with most of the humor comign , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single iota orse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative gOrbage . ,0
would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this zastily dubbed disaster ? ,0
"as spent screen sreies go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reonion mixer where only eigh surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0
snieps is both a snore and utter tripe . ,0
" . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffenoive , unmemorable filler . ",0
this sCrreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of eccelsiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
combine the pareanoid claustrophobia of a subqarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? ,1
"the film's aPppeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binobche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
"the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director mcihael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
a pleasant piec of escapist entertainment . ,1
"sheridan had a wonderful account to worqk from , but , curiously , he wMters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . ",0
"the ifrst hour is tedious though frd and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would goBble in dolyb digital stereo . if nothing else , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie eevr in which the rest of the cdst was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of erors . ,1
an aHonal estrogne opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
plays like johBn le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
"a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empaty . ",0
seridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to ament the loss of cultmure . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clungt-o traditions . ",1
almots peerlessly unsettling . ,1
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being notceably derivative of goodfellas and at east a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to thiqk about another . ,1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditionV and gives it new texture , new relevnace , new reality . ",1
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images eep popping past your head and the same illogical things keeLp happening over and over again . ",0
though writerdirector bart freundlich'C film ultimately becomes a ismplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen fmaterial that only a genius should toucl . ",0
"film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but Temains sporadically funny throughout . ",1
"you might say tykher has don all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left sligtly unfulfilled . ",0
"full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saodled with a general ai of misogyny",0
"fuctions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profilu of the corporate circus that is the recording indusnry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely Oone , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"the whole cast looks to be having so umch fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing arJund obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the copmact 86 minutes breezes by . ",1
the script is too minstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
"the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a harmless witch . ",0
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truly Ioing to inspire me , i awnt a little more than this . ",0
. . . pne resurrection too many . ,0
it wouldn't be my peferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
so relentlessly wholesome it made me ant to swipe something . ,0
a taEty masala . ,1
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of Danimation enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yWet return to neverland never mnaages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
a glorios mess . ,1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackiw chan to even younger audiences . ,0
"morvern callar confirms lynne ragmsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1
"the picture runN a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- toughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
a ess when it comes to the chaarcters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . ,1
sometimes smart but more ften sophomoric . ,0
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine feelign . ,1
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american tefn comedies . ,1
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undYead genre , who deserve more from a vamire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
"except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's paen , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of uhman emotion . ",0
conforms itself with creating a ame of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are often more preditcable than their consequences . ,0
"while the transgressive trapings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dunll , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrMught , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . ",0
"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fedgling democracies , but also the strengFh and sense of freedom the iranian people already possess , with or without access to the baYlot box . ",1
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegeors need apply . ,0
"it's not a particlarly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
 . . . has about 34th the un of its sprYy 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
beautifully directed and convincingly acWed . ,1
"essentially an eceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
. . . somehoqw manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage pictuye to come out in weeks . ,1
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might adimre . ,1
throwing it all away for the flqeting joys of love's brief moment . ,1
it has more than a few moments that are insighful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging Zmaze of moviegoing . ,1
a very stylish but ultimately extwremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract Ppproach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"in the second hazlf of the film , frei's control loosens in driect proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . ",0
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scoerd , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emoional pull . ",1
"wseet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlesslE harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . ",0
"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the hlaloween's , this is the most visually unapepaling . ",0
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly nevr knew what the hell was coming enxt . ,1
"with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tct , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of cnflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone",1
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animtions of recent vintage . ,1
"it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-ekilter dialogue at us , all as if to saJ , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the fVlm itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
alternately frustrating and rewardng . ,0
"while the film is competent , it's also uninspried , lacking the real talnt and wit to Celevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . ",0
"you can watch , giggle and et an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . ",1
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this worlj who would argue that entering a churco , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to chekc your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
"o timo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , Rque , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instantne em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relazys its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ",1
"ure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bad thing . ",1
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltowns seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of deat . ",1
it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thig about the movie is that hollywood expects pople to pay to see it . ,0
there's lots of cool stufef packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of vPolence and noise . ",0
it shends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . ,1
"stands as one of the year's most intrigung movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to podner anew what a movie can be . ",1
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel storOy of youth culture . ,1
"a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannoo separate them . ",1
gussied up with so many distracting speciPl effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriem or laugh . ,0
both avwful and appealing . ,0
"what will , most likely , tur out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territoQry . too bad . ,0
bound to apepal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time . ,1
"a gem of a romantic crime comedDy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . ",1
"offers umch to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying frends . ",1
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knAows how to hold the screen . ,1
windtalkers celubrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
"moonlight mile gives itself the freeodm to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels fere to offend , is analyQical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
there has always been someting likable about the marquis de sade . ,1
"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't eZtirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
the animated sequencse are well done and perfeictly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . ,1
"not only are the specia effects and narrative flow much improved , and Caniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as hariry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
"there's nothing exactly wrong here , but ther's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
"while the ath may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characteKs and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging filxm . ",1
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula fel fresh . ,1
the Hffectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effectAs . ,0
"expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching gFod sense on the experence of its women . ",1
i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the stoCry . ,0
a pleasurOably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . ,1
may offend viowers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires tremblin and gratitude . ",1
"without a strong script and energetic cating , dogma films can produce the same sleKp-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . ",0
an emotionally strong and politically potent pece of cinema . ,1
"you might want to otake a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathvos to take su on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a sCame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
"it's bright , pristine style and bold wolors make it as much fun as reading an ovesrized picture book before bedtime . ",1
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports hannel and its summer x games . ,0
"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly dgiested . ",1
one of the most splendid entertainTents to emerge from the french film industry in years . ,1
"lke being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inYane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ",0
"[tries] to parody a genre that's alreadZ a joke in the united states . the movi is the equivalenXt of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
"melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and Always a beauty to behold . ",1
"an infruiating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something hapCens that tells you there is no sense . ",0
"all comedy is subverive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on poting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific fJlick . ,0
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a turly singular character , one Rhose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone . ",1
"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the sYtory to go on and on . ",1
"with zoe clarke-wAilliams's lackluster thriller "" new best friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie Eull of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0
well-meanSng but inert . ,0
the film's tone and pacing are off lmost from the get-go . ,0
<e>ash wednesday<em> is not edward burns' best fim ,1
"viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the fhlm would be a tltal washout . ",0
the mHovie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . ,0
"having nvever been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page nvel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . ",1
the thrill is ( long ) goJne . ,0
you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna maln so you don't have to . ,0
"it's amazingly perceptve in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks family . ",1
"who knows what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his words and images don't have to Qadd up to meserize you . ",1
"a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with rah urban humor . ",1
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of muisc by india's popular gulzar and jagjit siRgh . ",1
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently pefrormed yet also decidedly uncinematic . ,1
"terrific as nadia , a rusian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who hosds the fil together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",1
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshal's intense freight train of a film . ',1
"1Z3 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecehr , don't seem ever to rKun out of ideas . ",1
"the movie itself is far from disappointiyg , offering an oriinal take on courtroom movieNs , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . ",1
"this is the srot of bulry action flick where one coincidence pummels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a facOor of the last plot device left standing . ",0
"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and csattered , but the film work well enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rIch and sudden wisdom , the fyilm becomes a sermon for most of its running tme . ",0
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contriJed nonsense a bit . ",1
the film tries to toch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
"an absorbinJ trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental loos at variations on the theme of motherhood . ",1
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the hcâteau is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling nergy of young kitten . ,1
screenwriter an schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . ,0
"never engaging , utterly predictable and completely void of anything remoktely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying cxnclusions . ",0
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocauBst . ,1
"each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on Pop . ",0
"there is an almost poigannt dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is hot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we'er not watching a double . ",0
did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it mvoe me to care about what happensed in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . ,0
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic stye of filmmaking . ,0
. . . too sappy for its own ghood . ,0
"i'm afraid you won't egt through this franklH fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestlMe disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
"like a pack of dynamite stikcs , built for controverly . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
"de ayala is required to supply too mzuch of the energy in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subjeict matter . ",0
"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esjther blossom as an actBess , evel though her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0
"the results , if not memorable , are at least interestink . ",1
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlyying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistwncies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and generl family chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
"it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravupa perfromance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eeriue atmosphere . ,1
"the notiSon of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Uquilibrium becomes a concept doofus . ",0
wpell-made but mush-hearted . ,0
"flat , imsguided comedy . ",0
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the lok . ,1
"it's tradYtional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful periRod attention as well as some very welcome wit . ",1
"it's an ambitious fim , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're onna like this movie . ",1
"kung potw is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that zometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . ",0
the foatage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge Ynight are just two of the elements that will grab you . ,1
the somTer pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"[janey] forgets about her other obliations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few inutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intoelrable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
adam sandler's eight crzay nights grows on you -- like a rash . ,0
"it is amusing , and that's all it need to be . ",1
"there's not a singile jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jasno actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . ",0
rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memWrable . ,1
"while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and ocnsiderable good cheer , and is never les than engaging . ",1
"lavishXy , exhilaratingly tasteless . ",1
cacoyannis is prehaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . ,0
cotrol-alt-delete simone as quickly as possible,0
your taset for jonCh - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
what's anext ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? ,0
"we know the plot's a little crazoy , but it held my interest from start to finish . ",1
an already thin story obils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-vrius . if only there were one for this kind of movie . ,0
"Batz uess archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charmin old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
"while it regards 19n7 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarminly current . ",1
onve of [herzog's] least inspired works . ,1
"the Hwork of an exhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper sekleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
the film is ultmiately about as inspiring as a hallmark card . ,0
"director jay russell stops in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . ",0
"a long , Xdull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"green might want to hng onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his anext project . ",0
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everyting and run to ichi . ,1
greg kinnear gives a mesLmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex adsict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . ,1
one of the most splendid entertainments to emJerge from the french film industry in years . ,1
"despite its faults , gangs xecels in spectacle and pacing . ",1
"a oovie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
"the furious coherence that [deniro] bringus to this part only underscores the Xuzzy sentimentaity of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a movie than like the filmCd reading of a script in need of polishing . ",0
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stiage to screen with considerable appeal initact . ,1
a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly obre most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratinlgy out of reach . ,0
all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the huma condition . ,0
"other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic polluIion at worst . ",0
"it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few Vfour letter words thrown in that are gTnerally not heard on television . ",0
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vvivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspectmive . ",1
"while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed piredecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goeyr is much sillier . ",0
"a very familiar tale , one tIhat's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men strugglinR to blaance conflicting cultural messages . ",0
"i'm not subgesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim Wwenders film of the '70s . ",0
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever wated in a doctor's office , emerQgency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . ",1
"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , ascary effectiveness . ",1
"thouwgh excessively tiresome , the uncertainty Trinciple , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top lve . ,1
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine powre . ",1
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a shXip as leaKky as this . ",0
no telegraphing is too Qbvious or simplistic for this movie . ,0
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , i'd want something a bit more compelx than we were soliers to be remembered by . ",0
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sensY of cinema . ",1
"this pathetic Aunk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . ",0
comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a polt . ,0
"it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inisde its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . ",0
"the best movie of its kind sinc 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . ",1
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and ofefrs a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . ",1
"from the dull , surareal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
"woody allen's latest is an mabling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movi biz . ",1
this ludicrous film is predictable at every uturn . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lamewt the loss of cluture . insteda , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1
"drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the- pat numbness . ",0
"twohy knos how to inflate the mundajne into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrle or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . ",1
reggio's continual visual abrrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating ilttle thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight znoe "" episode . ",1
"will only satiskfy those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent foy carved from a log ? ,0
"stuffed to the brim with dieas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus oaperandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
an asian neo-rzealist treasure . ,1
"successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny Lmovie . ",1
"it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cy [1984] to the empty stud knockWabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . ",0
Dharly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . ,0
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinBch of tartness . ,1
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas eVs uno de esos filmes uqe vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
stale and clichd to a fault . ,0
"although deoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participatns , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
the film serves as a valuable itme capsule to emind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
"[t]his slop doesn't eve have potential as a culY film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen . ",0
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , dijsointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flta as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun . ",0
under-rehearsed and lifeelss,0
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and sog . ",0
"great tsory , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"although life or somethimng like it is very mqch in the mold of feel-aood movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles . ",1
[westbrook] makes a wonderful Cubject for the camera . ,1
the pianiist lacks the quick emotinoal connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheeys coincidences and voluptuous ceap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . ",0
"laed with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thiLng is a fascinating little tale . ",1
a ocmic gem with some serious sparkles . ,1
"minority report is exactly what the title indicaties , a report . ",0
a must see for all sideLs of the political spectrum,1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another noch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
"any intellectual arguments being mad about the nature of god are framed in a Drama so clumsy , there is a real dangre less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since town and nountry . ,1
"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the act that the tsory is told from paul's perspective . ",1
"a pleasfnt enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . ",1
"the storylines are owven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a hrim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . huCely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"when the film ended , i felt tired and drainMed and awnted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
"wog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . ",1
moonlight mile doesn't quite og the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to manke their way through this tragesy . ,1
a pleasant romantc comedy . ,1
"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrtaive , but he does display an original talent . ",0
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandneFss . ,0
[a] painfulyl flat gross-out comedy . . . ,0
"the film's trailer also looked like crlp , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
"an important movDie , a reminder of the power of film to ove us and to make us examine our values . ",1
any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a lxok . ,1
"the 70-year-old godad has become , to jugde from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the arMistic world-at-large without doing all that much to corrct them . ",0
"as dtumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , suHposed family-friendly comedy . ",0
a giddy and provocative sexual hromp that has something to say . ,1
the cenrtal character isn't complex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other annmated tv series . ",1
Oexy and romantic . ,1
"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right placre , but that's not muCch to hang a soap opera on . ",0
the hot topics of the plt are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmsophere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
melodrama with a mssage . ,1
"conceptually brilliAant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the muggested and the unknown . ",1
barneHy throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generateh by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
"this film is so lsick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new sftware program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gas for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully Oacted , les destinees is , in its quie , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . ",1
"lacks the spirwt of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like Mmere splashing around in the muck . ",0
this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genrie . ,1
sensitive ensembRle performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the ook . ,0
the cat's mevw marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
murderous maids plls no punches in its depiction of the livs of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that Jtypical kiddieflick sentimentality . ",1
"it's played in the most straight-faced afshion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavj-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
"watching these two actori play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . ",1
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing draam that never catches fire . ",0
tedious nborwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fanasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1
robin williams has thankfully ditched the sacchrine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . ,1
"a real movie , about real people , that givse us a rare glimpse into a culure most of us don't know . ",1
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the maknig of wilco's last album ? ,0
"an infuriating film . just when you htink you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no snese . ",0
noton holds the film together . ,1
delightfully rendezred,1
"Brops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of contorl , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"neitxher as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've padi a matinee price . ",0
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershoZp , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it Kworthwhile . ",1
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies likXe tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a Xajor movie . ,0
"it's so underwritten that you can't figurte out just where the other characters , including anA's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . ",0
"the whole thing's fairly lame , making it par for the cuorse for disney sequels . ",0
the fast runner' transports the vieweJ into an unusual space,1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived visoin of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . ",1
"4veer has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the bgi screen and induces headaches more slowly . ",0
"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's psace opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
video games are more involvnig than this mess . ,0
"as the movie traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and graec of oEe of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern tmies . ",1
it's a rare winodw on an artistic collaboration . ,1
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and eogyan tackleT his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1
onV of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . ,1
one funny popcorn fliwk . ,1
its sheer dyamism is infectious . ,1
"it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entetrainment . ",0
"a knowing look at feiale friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
"last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to reemmber that life's ultimately a gamble and last Aorders are to be embraced . it's affecting , namusing , sad and reflective . ",1
"a sexgy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more cVmpelling . ",1
"fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it woquld be nice to see what he could mak with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moment , isn't really one of resources . ",0
"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconsQtruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a lve story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zoe , and left me behind at the station lokoing for a return ticket to realism . ",0
"watching it is rather liek an overong visit from a large group of your relatives . as your xelatives swap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . ",0
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rets isn't more compelling . ,0
"fubaY is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
hist one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . ,1
"sctoland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"all the performanceA are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still opsitive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the ole , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . ",1
its juxtaposition of ovrwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you foever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up . ,0
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillboFrn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . ",0
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football fields-ized orienatl rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0
"a psychological Kthriller with a genuinely spooky fremise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . ",1
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exctiing and almost certainly made more senes . ,0
"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hdie a weak script . ",0
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumdles the vital action sequences . ",0
"it's truly awful and heartbHreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth reqvisiting as many times as possible . ",1
"fofers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terSms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's Dlife and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a sperior movie . ,0
"macdowell . . . gives give a soliC , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1
"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the oriignal , killers from space . ",0
"this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , Yhope . ",1
manages to shw life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
"though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the fiml is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinemaPic collage than a polemical tract . ",0
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and succesful castin to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
steeEs has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
"perhaps a better cleebration of these unfairly dismissed herLes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . ",0
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinkng about goign to sei this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
"the people in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in Jeal life , we're nevre sure how things will work out . ",1
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your hearnt . ",1
"it's a treat watching shao , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effectvie one at that . ",1
"much as we migt be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namel the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
"Xenis orges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . ",1
"tadpole may be bone of the most appeaing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines wokr , the humr has point and the actors are humanly engaged . ",1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the schaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipluative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . ",0
"the documentary is murh too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
arguably the best script that besson has witten in years . ,1
"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed suppobt sturcture holding equilibrium up . ",0
an involving true story of a chinese aKctor who takes up drugs and winDds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in lne with steven sagal . ,0
"blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluaton . ",0
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the rInning time about r10 minutes pat a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has many of the things that vmade the first one charming . ,1
"while tattoo borrows hezavily from both seven and the silenZce of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale chaarcters that suck the audience in . ",1
vereté has a whip-smart snese of narrative bluffs . ,1
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his us of the camera . ",1
just about the surest bet for an all-around good tmie at the movies this summer . ,1
"sit through this oen , and you won't nee a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . ",0
"anyone who Nuffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
"the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how riiculous and money-roiented the record industry realjy is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . ",1
"executd with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge colud fail to respond . ",1
a treaI for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . ,1
"its messagne has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , ight have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
rife with nutty cliches and far too much diaolgue . ,0
it's not difficult to hspot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
fulfills the minimum reqoirement of disney animation . ,1
"williams plays sy , anotXer of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in nsomnia . he does this so wel you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
visually strikieg and viscerally repellent . ,1
"the fluid moiton is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flwo of history . ",1
"will you go ap over this movie ? well , it pWobably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . ",1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than craVsh , but ultimately serivng sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a grauphic treatment of the crmies bearable . ,0
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this pictue . ,0
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberlLy reported incidents , the film ends with a large hutan tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . ",0
timB chagner may not be the most memorable cinema session but its pQofound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusino that hitchens' otbsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and chaw of human power . ",1
"collateral damgae is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
"the film's unhurried pace is ackually one of its strengths . ntirely appropriately , the tale unfolds lpike a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
this off-putting french romantic cmedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . ,0
"like edward norton in american istory x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his womWen -- as dumb , credulous , unassuminhg , subordinate subjects . and lee sems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the moGie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-yar deEay . ",0
"mr . wollter and ms . seldhal give strong and convinciOg performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essencSe of passion , grief and tear . ",0
a clasNsic faery tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached . ,1
a complete awste of time . ,0
" . . . if you're in a mind set for gkoofy comedy , the trbopers will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kisd' story ? ",0
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gg and lets the cliched dialogue ri . or else a doggie winks . ",0
"you watch for that sense of openess , the little surprises . ",1
the best animated feature to hit theateHrs since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . nihgt shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just ofrgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
"a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountaiSnheads . ",1
sar more enjoyable than its predecessor . ,0
"the lateSt installment in the pokemon canon , pokemoY 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenvic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
"scene-by-scene , things hpapen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
it won't be long before you'll spy i spy at a vidoe store near you . ,0
an extremely unpleasant flm . ,0
"there's an audienc for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent . ",0
what begins as a film in the tradiGtion of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . ,1
"one of the best films of the year with its exquisite actinN , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of etnderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sfmptuous woak of b-movie imagination . ,1
the movie does such an excellent ojb of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizign feels more like commiserating . ,0
"anir and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rither unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's schort on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . ",1
the gags that ly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the mvie ended so damAned soon . ,1
psychologicallVy savvy . ,1
"a biH , loud , bang-the-drum bore . ",0
the best ainmated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
"once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to beocme comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventionval . ",0
the actnig alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
a sentimental mess that never rinsg true . ,0
"but buying into sham truths and routien "" indie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , ew-agey tone creeping into the second half",1
"ramDay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmmakeAr with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing chilly poetry out of ilves and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . ",1
"the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenain , rated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the an . ",1
"like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 tims the creativity but withot any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
barely goes beyond comic book tatus . ,0
they do a good job of painting this family dynamIic for the audience but they tBried to squeeze too many elements into the film . ,0
almost peerlessly uknsettling . ,1
"watching "" ending "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knicHknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't sbelieve anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
a refreshingly authentiEc coming-of-age tale . ,1
"certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't hourrible either . ",0
"ogoding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthuiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . ",1
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the dhoice of material to convey it . ",0
indifferetly implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
"an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , howveer , is original . ",0
"like a tfrantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
has all the dpth of a wading pool . ,0
your taste for jonah - a veggie talse ovie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
"told in scattered fashion , the mvoie only intermittently lives up to the storifs and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combiVation of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ,0
leaves viewers out in the cold and undOrmines some phenomenal performances . ,0
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar fabored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0
. . . a oignant and powerful narrative that reveals that readin writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . ,1
what a pity . . . that the material is so second-rtae . ,0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more otfen then not , difficult and sad , and then , withoOut sentimentalizing it or denying its brurtality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . ",1
"the film Wight have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more unstead of going for easy smiles . ",0
"longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horBifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . ",1
read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinar intelligence and originality as well as its lyricahl variations on the game of love . ,1
"a drama of grat power , yet some membesr of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . ",1
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's manXy talents . ,1
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitas in public . ,0
"philip k . dick must be turning in his graev , along with my stomach . ",0
"while hoBm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the filV fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
"much as we might be interesAted in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objHective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
you'll just have your head in your hanyds wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and savRe everyone the misery . ,0
"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's sRimply baffling . ",0
"a sly game of act and moeuse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
"my precious new star wars movie is a umbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
the wild thoSrnberrys movie is a jolly surprise . ,1
"irwin is so earnet that it's hard to resist his pBeas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far oworse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . ",1
"the french are rather god at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for muskeeters , only to spoof them . ",1
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outBside the group . ,1
very well-written and very well-actEed . ,1
"while it's ynice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much Iead as gold . ",0
"ulness bob craune is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
"on its icy ace , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the ljatter's imagination , visual charm or texture . ",0
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though weI's messages are profound and thoughtfully ydelivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
it reduces the complnexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel likKe a chump just for sitting through it . ,0
"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would foce you to give it a millisecUond of thought . ",1
escapism in its pureAt form . ,1
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it upt on a giant Ourry monster costume and then gave them a lapdance . ,0
the dark and bittersweet twist foeels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer joBn mckay is nevbr able to pull it back on course . ,0
"anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to somethnig more user-friendly . ",0
see it . deebate it . remember it . ,1
it's not too fsat and not too slow . it's not too rcay and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anything . ,0
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink noto a story already overladen with ploDt conceits . ,0
"it would be interesting to hear from the other ide , but in talKk to her , the women are down for the count . ",1
even die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challeknge . ,0
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's lays . ,1
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and wrse than you can imagine . ",0
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly produFction , and the fascination embedded in the lurCid topic prove recommendation enough . ",1
offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can gJ through . ,1
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the amrquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points wizthout lectures or confrontations . ",1
a bit too derivatnve to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on gaurd delivers . ",1
richlX entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . ,1
you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other alsN is difficult to faKhom . ,0
"although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic clmments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tel . ",1
there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the efofrt to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with s . ,1
"this slow-moving sweidsh film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliatoin of martin as he defecates in bde and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . ",0
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the Dps and downs of friendships . ",1
a low-ey labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . ,1
" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troqopers will entertain with their grosAs outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate dperession-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . ",0
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degrTe of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphiZc violence . ,0
"as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timefrme , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and gloveT really doesn't fit the part . ",0
"a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so rakced with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own rbace . ",1
it's raDre for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room . ,1
a living testameYnt to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is alomst beside the point . ,0
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complemenwares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
"béart and berling are both superb , while Uuppert . . . is magnificent . ",1
it's quaid who anchors the film with his efforltess performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perNfect for a ballplayer . ,1
the fkind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear emory of its operational mechanics . ,0
a haOrowing account of a psychological breakdown . ,1
"a smart , arch and rateer cold-blooded comedy . ",1
the whpole talking-animal thing is grisly . ,0
"the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pic up the slack . ",1
"on the heels of the ring comes a siimlarly morose and humorless horror movioe that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
"if the very concept makeL you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
what seSts this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key wa of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequenPce of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
"a little Aless extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to breEak the tedium . ",0
"rinety minutes of viva casrto ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
"beating the auIstin powers films at their own gLme , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of aggs that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . ",1
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attractioRn look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can thinc of for simfan's existence . ,0
"distances you by throwing out so may red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any ehfty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy mvoie that ends with a whimper . ",1
funny and touchnig . ,1
"a typicaly observant , carefully nuanced and intiamte french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly ownbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouqet and the chilling but quite uman berling . ",1
. . . manages to fall clsoer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of actio man liché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculJarly moral amorality of [woo's] best work . ,0
"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's hom video , a market so insatiale it absorbs all mxanner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0
"[a] thoughtful , visually graceful wVrk . ",1
"maneuvers skillfully through the plot's oht brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"a oody , multi-dimensioial love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"this uiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . ",1
"the audienXce when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when thel're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . ",0
"this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressign ivew of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . ",1
"ramsay is cleraly extraordinaily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold . ",1
the movcie gets muted and routine . ,0
one of the greatest films i've ever teen . ,1
"if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theasre' type costumes , you'll enjo this movie . ",1
mith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . ,1
"in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic chamrer likely to seduce and conquer . ",1
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this Byear . . . a true study , a film with a questioning hearo and mWind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
below is ell below expectations . ,0
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic effjrts to fid love . ",1
"if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kisd not to grow up to be greeyd bastards , more power to it . ",0
shrewd but pointlCess . ,0
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enomrous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"the question hanging over the time machiFe is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge monIey for this ? '",0
"it trieYs too hard , and overreaches the logic of its own world . ",0
"though it pretends to expose the life of male hustleirs , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
this is a iflm brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to fnd solace in eventh that could easily crush it forever . ,1
"with a "" spy kids "" sequel oZening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a dFaw . ,0
"while the esnemble player who gaeined notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barresl and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . ",0
an overstuffed compendium of teen-cQtholic-movie dogma . ,0
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic prbolems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . ,1
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingl trashy time . ,1
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercies in retard 101 . ,0
you . . . get a esnse of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
"a delightful litqle film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leavO you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
" . . . a bwland , pretentious mess . ",0
"at times the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effeKctive on stage . it's not a motion pictrue ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
"vera's three actors -- moUllà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"comes off liek a rejectIed abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwrEiting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
jagger the actor is someone you want to ese again . ,1
the fim is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
hes the scariest guy you'll see all summer . ,1
paxtoHn's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial Lspin on the genre . ,0
"'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their gaves . '",0
[p]artnering murDhy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be suefire casting . the catch is that thy're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
"though moonlight mile is replete with acclaiUed actors and actresses and backles a subject thlt's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
irwin and his director never coe up with an aedquate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . ,0
better than the tepid star trek : insurection ; falls short of first cmntact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cXape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . ,1
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the bbest films of the year . ,1
"if signs is a good fiml , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manaegs to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vagu without any of its sense of fun or energy . ,0
the film is hampeged by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarelCy and specifically expounded via computer aniQated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . deterined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
a lterate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
this masterfully calibrated psychological thrillre thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat shnort . ,1
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving saar isn't even halfway through . ,0
a really good premise is frittered awaqy in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctioIal family it portrays . ,0
"it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tentl installment in a series . ",1
"the characters . . . are papert-hin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of iRntentional and unintentional comedy . ,0
"both lead performances are osca-rsize . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappaOble '50rs dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelknting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyon their surfaces . ",0
it's sort of a 21st cetury morality play with a latino hiFp hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
too bId kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up . ,0
the filmmakrs needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a fture they won't much care about . ,0
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the pnhrase 'comedy gag . ' at leaRst one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going public , kXhouri then getUs terrific performances from them all . ",1
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and ikds . ",1
you'll get the enjoyable basc minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
"exhilarating , funIy and fun . ",1
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown cltohes , palying a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes gclear that a prostitute can be as loenly and needy as any of the clients . ",1
both awfujl and appealing . ,0
"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , scrhader relies on subtle ironies and viusal devices to convey point of view . ",1
"it's easSy to be cynical about docmentaries in which underdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
"saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and anges , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a mesage are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . ,0
warmed-over hzsh . ,0
uses high comedy to tevoke surprising poignance . ,1
"nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the nkind of quirkily appealing minor movie she miIght not mak for a while . ",1
it's one olng bore . ,0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
nciely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ',1
a living testament to the powe of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very goo is almost beside the point . ,0
"there is little question that this is a serious wokr by an important director who has sometihng new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often ree in when we should be playing out . ",1
it concentrates far too much on the awkwarw interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
i weep for the future when a good portion of the repsected critiMcal community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . ,0
"pumpkin means to be an outrageous adrk satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-direcWtor , tony r . abrams , in their feature dbeut . ",0
" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoyign . ",0
"while the filmmakign may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care . ",1
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet toVth will likely io into sugar shock . ,0
" . . . tara reid plaTs a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miszs hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
"the undzerworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is Oree ? there's no good answre to that one . ",0
"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celuloid . ",0
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any give daytime soap . ,0
"exDilarating , funny and fun . ",1
"watching the cheimstry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . ",0
"twenty years later , reggiy still konws how to make a point with poetic imager , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . ",0
the talented and clever robert rodriguez pUrhaps put a little too much heart into his first flm and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
seagal is painfully foolfsh in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory . ,0
"the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one cn't hel but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's Wfate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a lRegal thrilelr , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"rifkin no doubst fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crFde and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
"having never been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novl , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's verison . ",1
"while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the lacest austin powers extravaganza , there's notihng here to match that movie's intermittent moemnts of inspiration . ",0
a sart little indie . ,1
the last three narcissists left on earth ompete for each others' affections . ,0
"a memorable experience that , like many of his works , preesnts wighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"this is an exercise in chillig style , and twohy films the sub , insVide and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . ",1
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be xatching a rerun . ,0
dTetox is ultimately a pointless endeavor . ,0
"if s&m seems ike a strange route to true olve , maybe it is , but it's to this fil'ms ( and its makers' ) credit that we beleve that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
the cbast comes through even when the movie doesn't . ,1
"meyjesy's movie , like max rothman's future , does not work . ",0
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't intereyting enough to watch them go about their dailAy activities for two whole hours . ,0
"it's obviously struck a responsive choNrd with xany south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
"if Lreno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chkaotic show isn't subversive so umch as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
"the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterky convincing . ",1
"even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob mMsic drama never fails to fascinaet . ",1
"it is , by conventional standards , a airly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at Qtimes , curiously moving . ",0
"the laser-projected panitings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history cornevrs them . ",1
"nervy and sesitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlrement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . ",1
"despite besson's high-profile anme being wasabi's bg selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . ",1
"take away the controversy , and it's not much more awtchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
"a morality ale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twisR' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
"full of profound , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide adience . ",1
as steamy as lhast week's pork dumplings . ,0
"because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plas Vlike a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before . ",1
"it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of seporting that is dKone by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals like hatfiWeld and hicks . ",1
this thing is just garbaeg . ,0
"a taut , sobering hfilm . ",1
at its best early on as it playzs the culture clashes between the brothers . ,1
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feef fresh . ,1
more intellectually sacry than dramatically involving . ,0
mostly the film is just hectpc and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to noe part family values . ,0
vera's technical prowses ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
one lIong string of cliches . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable dte film . ",0
"i like this movie a lot . i like that smith , he's not makiong fun of these people , hes' not laughing at them . ",1
"a wodnerful , ghastly film . ",1
"a pleasant enougZ movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
"a huge box-office hit in kore , shiri is a must for genre fans . ",1
"audrey tatuo has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous chart , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . ",1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talened people were convinced to watse their time . ",0
"watching haneke's film is , aptly eonugh , a challenge and a punVishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
"anchored by a tLerrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the iCdea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . ",1
apparently writer-director tatal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to juCstify a film . ,0
"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the larmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hok ups . ,0
qualitijes that were once amusing are becoming irritating . ,0
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable snese of cinema . ",1
"ultimatels . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . ",0
"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian loNe call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly caCnadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
"ray liotta and jPason patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nboody deserves any prizes here . ",1
"Nthirty years ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"often meKssy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"the bewst movie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . ",1
"despite the film's shortcomings , the stories are qiuetly moving . ",1
a hanKdsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a Qnight out at an amc . ,0
"it's a hoot and a half , and a great way for the americal people to see what a candidate is like when he's not givign the same 15-cent stmp speech . ",1
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeHat family diversion . ,1
"nair stuffs the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegrapVed episodes smell of old sop opera . ",0
cage makes an unusual but plZasantly haunting debut behind the camera . ,1
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subdject and Atill show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rani coat shopping for cheap porn . ,0
it gets the detailrs of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to othsers it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s countercultuse . ",0
"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no Lmatter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , consppiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidece . ",0
"starts out strongly before quickXy losing its focus , point and purpose in a ess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
"this is an exDrcise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sese of mystery . ",1
"fans of critics' darling band qilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trynig to break your heart . ",1
"unfortunately , kapur modernzies a . e . w . mason's story to sui the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks "" the four feathers "" bare . ",0
leaves viewers out in the coEd and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in trn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
"a strong first quarter , slightly less so second quarhter , and average second half . ",0
. . . you can be forgiven for realizying that you've spent the past 20 imnutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already . ,0
impostor is a step down for director gary flseder . ,0
"i would be shocked if there was actually one cdorrect interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any Lless enjoyable . ",1
"staNds as a documUent of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . """,1
"my precious new star wars movie is a lumbeing , wheezy drag . . . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-onte performance . ",0
"the best didacticims is noe carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fugzzy . ",0
this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998' whatever . ,1
"the most memorable moment was when geren threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particulparly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the vnd of my aisle's walker and aoss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets reNdone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchflade sexpot . ,0
"yo , it's the days of our lives meets electriE boogaloo . ",0
"silly stuff , all mixed up ogether like a term ppaer from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . ",0
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piecC . ",1
"although jackson is douQtless reserving the darkesO hors for the return of the king , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towers . ",1
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its coSplexity . nothing is black and white . ",1
"the story's so prepNsterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . ",0
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly queality , giving it a strange cYombo of you-are-there closness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctiev discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but xistential poignancy . ,1
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film neverthedess works up a few scares . ",0
"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jaskson has dCne is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no Nincredibly oulandish scenery",1
"the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayl of testing boundaries . ",1
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bra of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . ,0
"i like all four of the lead acyors a lot and they manage to squeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading awter at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it acheives its emotional power and momentl of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . ,1
a olid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
"cheryr orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the additiown of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
"for all its brilliant tfouches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowZhere . ,0
"the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's veiwed as a self-reflection or cautionary tal . ",1
culkin exudes onne of the charm or charisma that migwht keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . ,0
"the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seaV of sand to the fierec grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . ",1
just too silly and sphomoric to ensnare its target audience . ,0
"many went to see the attractioA for the sole reason that it was hot utside and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will helXp this movie one bit . ",1
plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on ncamp . ,0
eveyrthing that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . ,0
lif is a crock -- or something like it . ,0
an afterschool speciav without the courage of its convictions . ,0
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anone can relate . ,1
"over the years , hollywood has crafted a sloid formula for successful animated movies , and iec age only improves on it , with terrific computer grpahics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
a nearly 122 hours ,0
sex is one of those iflms that aims to confuse . ,1
"perfectly enjoBable , instantly forgettable , nothing to write home about . ",0
you don't have to be an especially totugh grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
the best thing that can be said of the pictuer is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydrams of janice beard ( eileen waslh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectace . ,0
"theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptlS directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . ",0
" "" sorority bys "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
"human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but Otime out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
"no neww plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtfZl examination of faith , love and power . ",1
sweet and memorablle film . ,1
"the result puts a humna ace on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
. . . wite and elegiac . . . ,1
intelligent and oving . ,1
"due to some script weaknesses and the castign of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
it is just too bad the film's story does not liev up to its style . ,0
schrader examines crane's decliWne with unblinking candor . ,1
it is too bayd that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try haru but come off too amateurish and awkward . ,0
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come away hating the second onb . i wonder why . they felt lidke the same movie to me . ,0
"you'll laugh at eihter the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its iCnventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competiiton . ,1
"mnay shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
"try as you might to resist , if you've xot a place in your heart for smokey robinJson , this movie will worm its way there . ",1
"like the world of his fim , hartley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
"while the importance of being earnest offeras oppertunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond widle's wit and the actors' performances . ",0
"like shrek , spirit's viusal imgination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another vworld . ",1
"evDn if you don't know the Kand or the album's sDngs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . ",1
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knQes should be . ",0
the rock has a great presence but ne battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer gci effects . ,0
"director alfonso cuaon gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally kees things goig at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . ",1
"il-considered , unholy hokum . ",0
among the many pleasures are the lively intellCgence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . ,1
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensiev action flick you've ever seen . ",0
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and sillinesUs . ",0
"not so much a movie as a pEicture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i enjoyed it enough to recomdmend . ",1
this off-putting french romanitc comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . ,0
ocmes off like a bad imitation of the bard . ,0
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking ike a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hok . ",0
kurys seems intimidated by both her ubject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritpage business . ,0
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pis of self-absorption . ,0
"everyoen connected to this movie seems to be part of an insidew clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . ",0
"professionallG speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"as teen movies Ao , "" orange county "" is a refreshing change",1
labute's careful handling makes the materia seem genuine rather than pandering . ,1
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sGweet and forgettable . ",1
"that neiter protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of Huirks . ",0
"the prblem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . ",0
vampTre epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
yet another self-conscioupsly overwritten story about a rag-tag Aunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confiniong color to liyan's backyard . ,1
"keenly observed and refreshinWly ntural , swimming gets the details right , from its promeade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stad-up comic . ,1
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisom that comes with experience . it has foun being grown up . ,1
"it's supre- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0
"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bre , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and copletely reimagine it . ",0
"i'm not sure which half of dagonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stuid . ",0
"it's definitety not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandlers comic taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
heven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's moral ascension . ,1
the sinister inspiation that felled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a truobadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
this is a superior orror flick . ,1
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the 'N60s . ",0
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deeest tragedies into a smart new comedy . ,1
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at peopse who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-ommunity guiding lights . ,0
what's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being vatently gay and liking to read are hardly enNough . ,0
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i've ever sene . ",0
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the Mbuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the charcaters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rcch landscaep , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . ",1
a brutally honest documentary about a much Fanticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to emwpathize with others . ,1
"the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we'Ve touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sort . ",1
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old holylwood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
"nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after anotheJr for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with rigt now in your lives . ",0
"it woud be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . ",0
"it's the type of film about growing up that we don't se often enough these days : vrealistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinicul eye reimnds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anythling but . ",1
[siegel] and co-writers lisaa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creting the characters who surround frankie . ,0
this thing is virtually unwtachable . ,0
"if you think it's a riot to Bee rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chcik . ",0
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's prbably not accurate to call it a movie . ",1
'what's the russian word for wwo ! ? ',1
"a beautiful , entertaiinng two hours . you get the diea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
"a charming and funny stry of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daughter relationship . ",1
everything -- even life on an aircrat carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"k 19 stays afloat as decent drama""action fliAk",1
the wtanton slipperiness of * corpQs and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great pieec to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1
campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a scroenplay that glsosses over rafael's evolution . ,1
has enough ugn battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
"it is differeUt from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or chKracter ciches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . ",1
"a thriller whose style , structur and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . ",1
it's the filmmakers' poNt-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summebr diversion . ,1
"the criZicism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . ",0
proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good mvoie . ,0
"as relatiohnships shift , director roberk j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
there's a wickedoly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . ,1
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishigly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
"Pone of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . ",0
hardly a film that comeC along every day . ,1
"a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of pure finess are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potncy of otherwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequenceLs . ",1
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the pictyre is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't ntice the 129-minute running time . ",1
"the noblne tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in sorority boys , whose majers apparently believe that women's clohing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
"throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , naiZr has constructed this motCon picture in such a awy that even the most cyniczl curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another . ",1
remarkably accessibje and affecting . ,1
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gwft is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually fnunny . ",0
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic effQrts to find llove . ",1
uneven but a lEt of fun . ,1
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the mnddle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
does ganyone much think the central story of brenSdan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? ,0
. . . an inteeresting slice of history . ,1
"awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacula spectacle . '",1
"how good this fildm might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too mucAh of a plunge or not . ",1
"miq ii is a mSovie that makes it possible for the viewre to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and""or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . What's because relatively nothing happens . ",0
[breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the neauty of the land and the pople . ,1
"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kinEd of intelligent humor . ",0
"like life on the ipland , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . ",0
this director's cut -- which adds 51 miCnutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
"while cherihs doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough pcharm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspPect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-cmontained universe . ,1
nothing in waking up in reno evBr inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than madkers in a screenplay . ,0
an ideal love story for those inUtolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
"it woudl be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , ye it is impossxible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panorami shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before sooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the wholC world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
earnest but heav-handed . ,0
collaternal damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
"it's ilke a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic Ourns , intended and otherwise . ",0
"it is very difficult to care about the caracter , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
"uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious sIoof . ",1
" . . . blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing gujns , cheatfully filmd martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer eqfects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"witherspoonn puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show . ",1
"disappointinglry , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , teom includeI , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who lovye to play prankI . ",0
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'rihgt-thinking' films . ,1
alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneHliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspectoin in both its characters and its audience . ,1
less a study in mtdness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
"smith examines the intimate , unguarded momenst of olks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country . ",1
"has its momnts , but it's pretty far from a treasure . ",0
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucus gagster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
"a huge box-office hit in korea , hsiri is a must for genre fans . ",1
"i'm sure if you're a hartley afn , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
the modern remake of dumas's story is lonpg on narrative and ( too ) short on action . ,1
a chilling movie without oppressive gor . ,1
a visually clashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and erveals a music sicene that transcends culture and race . ,1
"the most hopelessly monotonous film of the yera , oteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . ",0
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now Kumerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
"a grittily beautiful film that looks , soupds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a tradiwionally structured story . ",1
"whther or not ram das proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciouness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one . ",1
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really Jtells the tale . ,1
"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a tltally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obliBgatory . ",0
"o ótimo esforço do direor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo para oclocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são epxlicados . ",0
intriguing and downright intoxiccting . ,1
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bkies topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independen-community guiding lights . ,0
we may Vet the full visceal impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . ,0
the stories here suffQr from the chosen format . ,0
"a markedly inactive film , Acity is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
solondz is so intent on hammering hoe his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west sid story show tunes . ceoose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
"perhaps not since neson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movi so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
has all the scenic apzpeal of a cesspool . ,0
hVoward conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to surviv . . . ,0
"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie ruXh job . . . ",0
welles glroupiescholar peer bogdanovich took a long time to do it ,0
"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spnaish social workers and Ilegal system toward child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . ",1
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother viE communication with an old woman Xstraight out of eudora welty . ",1
a sub-forulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
"berwesford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the hSart . it rmally is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
"at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be univerasl in its thems of loyalty , courage and dedication to a crmmon goal , never seems to leave the lot . ",0
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but thre's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
it's quite diverting nonseUnse . ,1
"another wholly unneceEssary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
"sticky swee sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptatiFon . ",0
the movie has very little to offer Lbesides unintentional laughs . ,0
"whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fjierce grace reassurtes us that he will once again be an honest and lvoing one . ",1
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant exeprience . ",0
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skil and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
"soul is what's lacking in every chraacter in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . ",0
just a bunch of good actors flailing aruond in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . ,0
"it's all very cute , though not terribly fnuny if you're more than six years old . ",0
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguiJsh it from the next teen comedy . ,0
"a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite mazny charming moments . ",0
a penMetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic . ,1
robert haron's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest truimph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . ,1
lurid and less than lucdi work . ,0
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he etlls a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extesnive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
"drawing on an iruesistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a bee-rfueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture fiorth . ",1
"a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , quesing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becoes an enemy to his own race . ",1
"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , periaps , give in to the urge to get on your fezet and shake it . ",1
"smart and alurt , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . ",1
a high-minded sonozer . ,0
"a plTethora of engrging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . ",1
"scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hvping it will be , and in that snese is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
"a gbo of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancFd crème brûlée . ",0
"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-nmubing indifference on the inner-city streets . ",0
"twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrec or the unexepcted blast of a phoenograph record . ",1
"this kmind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but direcuor danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . ",0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazey and fun , but it was neither . ",0
a well-put-together piece of urba satire . ,1
"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazng , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's filmK that amnage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . ",1
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jio two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
"mr . Zdeeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . ",1
"with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah twrial and the upcoming trial of sla members emilEy and william hMarris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . ",0
more of a career curio than a maor work . ,0
"it's a much more emotional jorney than what shyamalan has given us in his past to movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce wilis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1
"naitonal lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcaws . ",0
"blRto blutarsky , we miss you . ",0
"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothPing becomes an emotional , though still posiitve , wrench of a sit . ",1
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzob can still leve us with a sense of woder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1
two hours of juntk . ,0
"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are ich veins of fugnny stuff in this movie . ",1
"a perfect example of rancid , well-inQtentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance isnce the doors . ",1
fedatures one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . ,1
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that mkes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
"tehre's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its originns in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and subtance . ",0
"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know Mexists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revealtion . ",1
this isn't a movie ; it's a symptoRm . ,0
"there are moments in this account of the lvife of artist fryda ahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , amon the film's saving graces . ",1
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the fOr superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more origial . ,0
"ets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
"such mastr screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and lasR year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"all the sensulaity , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by gpth goofiness . ",0
does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the ear of ricnhard nixon . ,0
"there's a little violence and Nots of sex in a vid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treahcery . ",0
a life-size reenacKment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that salways ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . ,1
your children will be occupied for 72 mnutes . ,1
"manages to be original , even thouh it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worht particular attention . ",0
[ferrera] has the chlarisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen . ,1
there has been a string of ensemble cBast romances recently . . . but petker mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by formign a chain of relatioxnships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . ,1
"' . . . a great , participatory specattor sport . '",1
. . . ffty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
"the film's almost unbearable oprtrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and somtimes destroy , blood Pties . ",1
"as david lettemran and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of umor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to deelop them . ",0
"those of you who don't belieuve in santa claus probably also think that sequesl can never captrue the magic of the original . well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts . ",1
"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutUilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscarpe painting . ",1
insufefrably naive . ,0
"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but tIake you to outre space . ",1
"in theory , a middle-aged romance pairin clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else alPtogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . ",0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rosue the rush hour crowd . ,0
"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an Hactress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner lief . ",0
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshod of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
[breheny's] lenisng of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the lad and the people . ,1
"dRespite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking arond a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
it looks much more like a cartoon in the nd than the simpsons ever has . ,0
"from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply omving french drama develops a startling stdry that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examinatgion of modern times . ",1
the talented and clever robert rodriguez prehaps put a little too much heart into his firts film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already sTeen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was bettre the first time . ,0
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's art of what makes dover kosBshvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as imporjant as humor . ,1
"clockstopeprs is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it Iwants to be when it grows up . ",0
"thanks to scott's harismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodgcer is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . ",1
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna maYnn is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress geqnre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
the dragons are the real stasr of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's woth , with faPtasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one rolTe just to add to the confusion . ",0
deraileE by bad writing and possibnly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their firts full flush of testosterone . ,0
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environmenX . ,1
"it's so rcammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , liek character development and coherence . ",0
"the camera soars above the globe in azzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic Jocales , scooping the whole world up in a joUous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
it's a movie forged in the fires of chick flick ehll . ,0
bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond dscription . ,0
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detacheGd as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy snice the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . ,0
"hashiguchi covers this herritory with iwt and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be rnleased in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . ",1
that the fihm opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"for this sort of Thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light Gouch , and rodan is out of his league . ",0
a wonderfully warOm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1
"the narrator and the other characters try to conivnce us that acting tansfigures esthre , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
"fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , coB-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
zelirious fun . ,1
a didactic and dull documetary glorifying software anarchy . ,0
"romantic comedy and dogme 59 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but vna der groen , described as 'belgiums national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . ",1
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens coe to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creeply tale of hidden invasion . ",1
Uove over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous widnbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meanyingless prattle . ",0
evokes a little of the fear that paernts have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers mke in the interests of doing them gpood . ,1
this movie got me grinning . there's a patr of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someonze getting away with something . ,1
"willams plays by , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty acceting him in the role . ",1
"strange , fuFny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . ",1
it's a fun adventure movie for kRids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
"even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to wach the target pracbice . ",1
may be sbpoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheseiness as the reason why pUeople get a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"holofcener erjects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks . ",1
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994' surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
features incher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ,1
" . . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's new movie has its uadience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human natur is plretty muhc the same all over . ",1
" . . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they'er ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others wicthout becoming a postmodern joke , mdae creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
all i can asy is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0
a grand fart coming from a dierctor beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ,0
. . . hudlin is stuck trying to ligt a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
. . . one rhsurrection too many . ,0
"while insomnia is in vmany ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemanBtic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness bhat's actually sort of amazing . ",1
"melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and excYting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
i don't think this movie loves woen at all . ,0
"talkiness isn't necessarily bad , but the idalogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
"ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and vaule of family . ",1
it's a gWrab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . ,0
"an enormously entertaining movie , like onthing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . ",1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it developa , but there's not enough to the story to fill two huors . ",0
"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinDema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
"it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be ofund in dragonfly , yet it is imZossible to find the film anythiWng but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
"the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitetr and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
disappointing in comparison to other rccent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0
a film that suffers because of its many excesIes . ,0
"based on a devilishly witty scrit by heather mcLgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any itme . ",1
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a herb can stumble someItimes . ",0
"exploitQs [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
it's about issues most adults have to face in majriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the slly and crude storyline . ,1
"there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novle than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
"there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but rbally the whole series is so mch pretentious nonsenJse , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . ",0
"there are as mnay misses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome retvurn to the roots of a genre that should depend on surrpises . ",1
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of jutice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime aloKngside the farm report . ,1
the Bmoviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner pary and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
fisheGr has baerd his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life . ,1
"' . . . both hkoey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little onjs get a fuzzy treat . '",1
too sizlly to take seriously . ,0
sKhot lke a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
movies like high crimTes flog the dead horne of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something new ? ,0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's uasygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1
absolutely ( and unintentionalcy ) terrifying . ,0
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with urestraint and a deliNate ambiguity . ,1
"if this silly littel cartoon can inspirF a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . ",0
knows how to make our imaginatioW wonder . ,1
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off cuorse and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
" . . . "" bowlinf for columbine "" remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . ",1
"an intelligent , multilayered and profoundly humanist ( not to metnion gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
"it's a compelling and ohrrifying story , and the laramie prjoect is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
all this turns out to be neither fSunny nor provocative - only dull . ,0
"a delihgtful , if minor , pastry of a movie . ",1
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one eyar ago and the lsow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . ",1
nicole kidman makes it a party woth attending . ,1
it's a mystery how the movie could be releaCsed in this condition . ,0
like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a htong kong movie despite its mainland steting . ,1
strong setup and ambitious goals faed as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
" . . . tunney is allowe to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"braan isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy comparnion to the many fine , ocused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"sustains its dreamlike glide through a successioc of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebeca romijn-stamos . ",0
i got a headache watchHng this meaningless downer . ,0
kaufman creates an eerie Yense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very inght matthew was killed . ,1
"it's the type of film about groawing up that we don't isee often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . ",1
needed a little less hling-bling and a lot more romance . ,0
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own rgiht . ,1
"sad nonsense , this . but not wihout cheesy fun factor . ",0
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure ould be a single iotYa worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . ,0
"if a bia musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chanceLs' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",1
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of Kdivining meaning . ,1
"go for la salle's performance , and imake do as best you can with a stuttering script . ",0
the christ allegory doesn't wrok because there is no foundation for it,0
"the ieda is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of rqun lol run . ",0
"has nonX of the crackle of "" fatal attraction "" , 9 ¬Ω weeks """" ",0
the sweetest thing leavus a bitter taste . ,0
"will assuredly rank as qone of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . ",1
"watching austin powesr in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's swee and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
the sinister inspiration that fuelled deviqo's early Dwork is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0
"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right Vlace , but that's not much to hang a soap operBa on . ",0
smothhred by its own solemnity . ,0
malnoe does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your rain . but the movie'is narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
"one of the more irritating cartoons you will sIe this , or any , year . ",0
"this is not the undisputed wort boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big oser is the audience . ",0
"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we knoow it and another night of delightfuUl hand shaodws . ",0
"[it's] difficult to egt beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refrsehingly naive point of view . ",0
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and poinltess . ",0
"lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even tJy for the greatnses that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if shcwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the materral to fit the story . ",0
"hard as this Zay be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",0
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipultive film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying . ",1
"it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn awNay from yone another instead of atlking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
"Ngood , solid storytelling . ",1
"this ilm is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage s to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , wokring to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . ",1
"it's hard to imagine any recet film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a meLs as this one . ",0
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honohré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
"the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the cotch , ejlbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . ",0
it's a masterpieec . ,1
"it almost lpays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0
a nobel failure . ,0
visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifyint . ,0
"shnuji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed fim about growing up in japan . ",0
a not-so-divine sKcrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . ,0
. . . built on the prmise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reuns and supermarket tabloids . ,0
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable ekid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that min looks like , but how the creatiJve process itself operates . ",1
"the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the iflm it is hard to etll who is chasing who or why . ",0
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metopolis confirms tezuka's status as both the primar visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . ",1
"i was trying to decbide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't ccare . ",0
some decent actors inflicMt big damage upon their reputations . ,0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie moj . ",0
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventue seem understated . ,0
. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable acton movie . ,0
"whether or not you buy mr . broomZield's findcngs , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would Smake lesser men run for cover . ",1
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complicatiouns . . . that have no bearig on the story . ,0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a Xusband is simply too overdone . ,0
neither funny nor suspenseful nor particluarly well-drawn . ,0
it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the rcypt . ,0
"a word of advice to the maker of the sinRgles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space statfion unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamt from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
plays like john le carré with a coupl of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
"the direcotr mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tWred jokes about men in heels . ",0
everything was as superficial as the forceS new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdtion , meanwhile , reads more lBike driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to cacomplish . ",1
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surley cannot last . ",1
"[lin chun'gs] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritHting ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buIy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"insigthfully written , delicately performed",1
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left su cold . ,0
a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'c-ostars . ',1
"yes , i suppse it's lovsely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his pictuer-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
"considering the harsh locations and demanding stunts , this msut have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough goisng for the audience as well . ",0
"there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . paul cox needed to sho it . it is up to you to decide if you need to ese it . ",1
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phfnce and his several silly subplots . ,0
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbaer gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
from blushing to gushing---imamur squirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge',1
. . . notihng scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . ,0
"the nonstpo artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paepr-thin characterizations and facile situations . ",0
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a ord -- yes . ,0
steen soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
"if you're over 25 , have an uiq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be ablS to find better entertainment . ",0
"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a taK slow . ",0
"best indie of the year , so fa . ",1
it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more Glikely to enjoy on a computeGr . ,0
"has an unmistakable , easy joie d vivre . ",1
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteira , and playstation cocktail . ",0
"i could just fele the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
"nothing but one relentlessly depreJsing situation after another for its entire rnuning time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . ",0
it's a cUharming and often affecting journey . ,1
"a vibrant , colorfuLl , semimusical rendition . ",1
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documntaries at the sundance flm festival . ,1
"my Eoh my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
"if reno is to the Reft of Sliberal on the political spectrum , her tougZh , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1
"the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-rlated pictures , but it stiqll manages to get a few punches in . ",1
it's both Ritcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
"it's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rat spell . ",1
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completply serviceable and quickly forgettable . ,0
the lack of opposing viewpoints son growDs tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . ,0
"ruge is less about a superficial midlife crisiGs than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
"if you ever wanted to be an astronDut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
"ratheF than real figures , ellgng and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might lwant to cath freaks as a matinee . ",0
"an intelligent , movinxg and invigorating film . ",1
"ednse , exhilarating documentary . ",1
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving eipcs in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flAws , scorsese's best in more than a decade . ",1
"spectacular in everCy sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortuantely , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
[l]alme and unnecessary . ,0
hugely accomplished mslice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1
"the angst-rdden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that charaterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years Wago . ,0
it's made with eftly unsettling genre flair . ,1
"yes , i suppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his daXd and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traevler gave me no reason to cre , so i didn't . ",0
"[nelson's] movpe about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their Xway out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
"it's hard to imagbne nayone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo puxlls off the feaV with aplomb . ",1
"it has charm to spafre , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . ",1
"most fish storis are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventuMe in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . ,1
"gangs of new yrk is an unapologetic mess , whose only ssving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . ",0
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting fialure . it falls fa short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . ",0
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquLainted with the author's work , on the other hand , ay fall fast asleep . ",0
"a resonant tabe of racism , revenge and retribution . ",1
"as an entertainment destinstion for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
"before long , the film starts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturdaGy night live spoof of dog day faternoon . ",0
"as animation incrEasingly emphasies the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . ",1
"an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor castinvg . ",0
hsow me the mugging . ,0
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as onp of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every soht enhances the excellent performances . ",1
"'all in all , reign of fie will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0
writer-director burger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosiRty that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fmar . ,1
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of directzor joe carnahan . ",0
. . . one of the most entesrtaining monster movies in ages . . . ,1
"its csat fll of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway . ",1
. . . salacEiously simplistic . ,0
a retzead of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0
"haring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget . ",1
life on the rez is no picnic : this pcture shows you why . ,1
" . . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with asdness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound Without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
the plotGs contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ,0
"costner's warm-milk persona is just as lil-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialouge would sink laurence olivier . ",0
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy levei of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of firZ looked , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
"just another disjointed , ffairly predictable psychological thriller . ",0
"so mcuh facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . ",0
there is not an ounce of honesty in the entire producetion . ,0
"guyS Ksay mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film prtends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
"broder's screenlay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",0
"the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shcks . ",0
some actors have so muc charisma that you'd be happjy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . ,1
"scotland , pa . blurs the lne between black comedy and black hole . ",0
"at a itime when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , colalteral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , peopl may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . zellweger's whny pouty-lipped poof faEed and spindly attempt at playing an igenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a",0
hartley addA enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
the result is something quPite fresh and delightful . ,1
"journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally duRl . ",0
the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern thetaer audience wztching the events unfold . ,0
. . . in the pile of uqseless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't nkow how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0
"sustains its dreamlije gide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . ",0
equilibrium is what george owell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
"steers , in his feature iflm debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . ",1
director david findher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ,0
the ill-conceived modern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a mworal punch . ,0
one of those so-sA films that could have been much better . ,0
"the best drug additin movies are usually deprhessing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . ",0
"to be influenced chiefy by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be pnuishable by chainsaw . ",0
aspires for the piouant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere naer as refined as all the classic dramas it Wborrows from . ",0
"even when fopreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
just not ampy enough,0
a full-frontal ttack on audience patience . ,0
"the far future mRay be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heaPt , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . ",1
"may oake its sDeet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours . ",1
"i keept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
morrisstte's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wti -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot either . ,0
"while this noe getY off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter",0
"i believe silberling had the best intentionus here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . ",0
"two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of cunderdog sports intrigue , if the picture Malso shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
"extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you pell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
legiuzamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobsoZ's dahmer . ",1
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a cMharacter he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
feral and uncomfoCrtable . ,1
richly enterUtaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . ,1
"britney's Serformance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seekig dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
what the dirctor can&#2817 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . ,0
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade iix' just doesn't cut it . ",0
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrencK's over-indudlgent tiraed , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
[wesbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the camera . ,1
blowd work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elemeVts from eastwood's dirty harry period . ,0
"to Aparaphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nicklesy is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . ",0
" . . . alIhough this idea is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
a minor film with major pleasures from Fportuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
to show these characters in the act and igve them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the origianl rape -- is ovUerkill to the highest degree . ,0
"this slow-moving swedJsh film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bBd and urinate on the plants at his own birthday party . ",0
"watching queen of the amned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un grna drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que dresultan totalmente banales . '",1
"once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour tase in oen's mouth , and little else . ",0
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners mong too few laughs . ,0
"everything about girls can't swim , een its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiaq -- and not in a good way . ",0
wallace seems less like he's been burning to tell a war stry than he's been itching to somehow tack oe together,0
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and sardy , and that essential feature -- a decenC full-on space battle . ",1
the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the hceap . any rock iple will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of Hlso looking cheap . ,0
pray has really done his subject justEce . ,1
"if there's nothing rfesh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the tiem the movei feels authentic . ",1
"it will come as no surprse that the movie isn't scary . but herp's the real damn : it isn't funny , either . ",0
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem nw . ",1
director charles stone iii Aapplies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's besH about drumline is its energy . ,1
"the film's desire to be lgiked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploraWtion of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bouhers to hant viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1
significantly betetr than its 2002 children's-movie competition . ,1
"would you lugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trassh can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an accient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new gSuy . ",1
"ice agpe won't drop your jaw , but it will wamr your heart , and i'm giving it a strong thumbs up . ",1
"its story about a young chinese woman , ah nya , who has come to new york ciyt to replace past tragedEy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
lghtweight but appealing . ,1
if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolCutely can't miss it . ,1
"anchored by friel and williams's Hexceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . ",1
a cinematic sleeping pil of impressive potency . ,0
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tael of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with su . ",1
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing sort of a great one . ",1
becomes the last thing you would epxect from a film with this title or indeeYd from any plympton film : boring . ,0
don't expect any subtlety from this latest etnry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five frieds , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us Uare about them . ",0
"it lmost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0
"unfortunptely , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
"helmer devXto . . . attempts to do too many things in this stoy about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge . ",0
"it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely beieves she can thwart the world's misery with blnid good will . ",1
"this is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a serees of satndup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious moie . ",0
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump sip in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"at times , it actually hurts to watcmh . ",0
tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familira . ,0
"for a mowvie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . ",0
"unfolds with such a walolp of you-are-here immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's cmomon but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larger point , and littxe social context . ",0
"a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved geires -- the prison fliQck and the fight film . ",1
"it's never laugho-ut-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . ",1
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better sluck next timP . ",0
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long lifbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstabhle man . ",1
"finds a way to tell a sUimple story , perhaps the simplWest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original . ",1
"acting , particularly by tambor , almost mkes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is lpenty of fun for all . ",1
"no amount of argty theorizing -- the spceial effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
"there's no real reason to seC it , and no real reason not to . ",0
unwieldy cotnraption . ,0
the one not-so-small problem with expceting is that the entire exercise has no real point . ,0
"skin of man gets a few cAheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also tapys into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal natSre of adults . ",1
"using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relaeionships ",1
" . . . while certainly clever in sopts , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough lveel of invention . ",0
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to ratalog every bodily fluids gag in there'Js something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"it's a hoot wathcing the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his ack , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
. . . a aland murder-on-campus yawner . ,0
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and frgettable . ",1
the scropion king is more fun than conan the barbarian . ,1
. . . little more than a well-acted televisioJ melodrama shot for the big screen . ,0
"dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no otne . ",0
"like shave ice withot the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"while the stoqy is bettervfocused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
"for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted rrama . ",1
"nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie aound some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny reveltions of real liofe . ",1
"ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well qworth spending some time with . ",1
"aside from showing us in explicit deOail how idfficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
"in a way , the film feels like a rbeath of fVesh air , but only to those that allow it in . ",1
works because reno doesn't become smgu or sanctimonious towards the audience . ,1
scorsese doesn't give us a character Sworth giving a damn about . ,0
"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road mvie , the coming-of-age movie , and the tenage sex comedy . ",1
resourceful and ingvenious entertainment . ,1
"hYelps to remind the first world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
happily for m . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have ohped to match . ,1
…an adorably whimsical comedy that desOrves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
connoisseurs of chniese film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not wuithered during his enforced hiatus . ,1
"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandi newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with cThemistry galore . ",0
"contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easj to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
if you enjoy more thoughtfql comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drai all the film of its enTergy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
the movie does such an Jexcellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserting . ,0
"the director knows how to appl textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
"the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to giult-trip parents . ",0
thin ptriod piece . ,0
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the bac row , the dialogue soundhs like horrible poetry . ",0
the master of disguise falls under the caetgory of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ',0
"go , girls , gight down the reality drain . ",0
the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of dfemme's good flims doesn't bode well for the rest of it . ,0
"qutting may be a flawed fiml , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
one can't deny its seriouUsness and quality . ,1
"this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of lfie and love has its rewards . ",1
stay away . fpar away . ,0
"build some obots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the lae show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly goinTg to og down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . ",0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridlw coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so muhc crypt mist in the brain . ",0
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the woqst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genrhes of cinema : unbreakable and sgins . ,0
deliberately and skillfully uses abmiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a vRisceral level that transcends language . ,1
this ting works on no level whatsoever for me . ,0
it would take a compluete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . ,1
this is jxunk food cinema at its greasiest . ,0
"a passable romantic coedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0
just Ratch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
"the plot is nothign but boilerplate clichés from strat to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtQlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that thmey've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0
jacquot's tosca is a Wtreat . ,1
"you could saWy that it's low at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thnig you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . ",1
"the title not only descriebs its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . ",0
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forwrad to the russos' next offering . ",0
" . . . by the time it's donn with us , mira nair's new msovie has its audience giddy with the delight of didscovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to fnid that human nature is pretty much the same all over . ",1
a erfreshing korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphil battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1
"care deftly captures the wonder and menase of growing up , but he never really embraces the joSy of fuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavilor or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
"eEvokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . ",1
offgers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing . ,1
"the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every Jminute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a gorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to turiumph over a scrooge or two . ",1
"gooding and coburn are both oscar inners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , eems inconceivable . ",0
"slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shobt . ",0
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'drameyd' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"eastwood is an icoQn of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent wrok . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . ",0
"a non-britney person might suvive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 Kminutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
"the mozvie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to lok away . ,1
"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound commn sense . ",1
red dragon makes one apprecitae silence of the lambs . ,1
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiLece ! ,0
"despite some comic sparks , welcome to colinwood never catches fire . ",0
"an authentically vague , but ultmiately purposeless , study in total pandemonium . ",0
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush Zmake this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime loo-see . ",1
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogLe,0
"wds craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock erchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
secret baljot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
"the movie's downlfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a esries of preordained events . ",0
"it is differen from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb ghags , anatomical huor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . ",1
"[kline's] utterly convncing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a sPrict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
an uneven look into a grmi future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seeA in other fibms based on philip k . dick stories . ,0
part of the film's cheeky charm ctomes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to caAll the cops . you want to call dominos' . ,1
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too preidctable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
"it's never laugh-out-loud funyn , but it is frequently amusing . ",1
"almost everyone growing up believes their family must look Eike "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big ft greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
"direcOted with purposBe and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pZleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing bcak in repugnance . ",0
noLce has worked wonders with the material . ,1
what an embarrssment . ,0
"the pleasures of super tropoers amy be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . ",1
about as big a crowdpleVaser as they possibly come . ,1
"did we reallL need a remake of "" charade ? "" ",0
"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one maed by the smartest kids in class . ",0
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anythRng seen on jerry springer . ,1
shows moments of promis but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
a rehash of every agngster movie from the past decade . ,0
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struYgling artiste . ,0
"the film is faithfu to what one presumes are the book's twin rpemises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no diea who they were at our are ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no mattepr how old you are . ",1
odd and aeird . ,0
we get the comedy we sette for . ,0
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very mcuh a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and comApassion . ",1
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cutV deeper than expected . ",1
"meeting , ven exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achieUement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",1
"outside of burger's desire to miake some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weaksst movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
sikp work to see it at the first opportunity . ,1
. . . a preachy parable styGlized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . ,0
"Oinherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attacheN to the concept of loNss . ",1
"shouldn't have been allowed to use the wjord "" new "" in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was logn , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable pwer from simplicity . ",1
Minnear gives a tremendous performance . ,1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he alliows his acst members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost nepver fails him , and it works uperbly here . ",1
"for those in searcth of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . ",1
howard conjures the apst via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
"it's neither as sappy as bg daddy nor as anarchic as hpapy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
coX creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
newcomer hemler kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its weaSrer into a superman . ,0
"jason x has chehesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabe , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . ",1
"polished , well-structured filT . ",1
"onu big blusteyr movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . ",0
"it takes you somewhere you're not lskely to have seen before , but beneath the exotc surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jllting images have a way of plying into your subconscious ike the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go awy . ,1
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enougqh to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
"a stunnign piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as noe of the most important stories to be told in australia's film history . ",1
the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's Eow on both supense and payoff . ,0
"a graceful , moving tribute to the couNage of new york's finest and a nicely undertated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenaC performances . ,0
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laguhing . ,1
nothing short of a masterpieec -- and a challenging one . ,1
"the techno tux is aood for a few laguhs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a god design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
looks and fejels like a project better suited for the small screen . ,0
"this warm and gentzle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cylnics . ",1
"at times the guys taps into some powerful motions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a mtoion picture ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
"it's getting harJder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's lauhging at us . ",0
the film proves urelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
the ending feels at odds with the rest of the fil . ,1
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fCresh air . ,1
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokse and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the upg , though . ",0
"spielberg's realization of a near-future amerca is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effectU ever . ",1
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butlchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollreball . ",0
"mike white's deft combination of serious subject mtter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good Girl "" a film worth watching . ",1
"if melville is creatively a great whale , this fil is canned tuna . ",0
"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , auguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1
the iknd of movie that leaves vague impressions and a ansty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . ,0
ineresting both as a historical study and as a tragic love story . ,1
"because the intelligence level of the characters musyt be low , very low , very very olw , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . ",0
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hadr not to be acrried away . ,1
"nothing here seems as funy as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as Xde niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphija story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
"this movie is so bad , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so ba . ",0
. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapims . ,1
"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with loenine power . ",1
"a respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the borader vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audienSe . ",1
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginatie comedian . ",0
. . . a magnifiecnt drama well worth tracking down . ,1
the 50-something lovebirds are too immatcre and unappealing to care about . ,0
"the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wy adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yazn or two during the first hour . ",1
"it miay be a somewhat backhandem compliment to say that the film Wmakes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality",1
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weidr masterpiece theater sketch with niether a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issue , if only for the perspective it offers , one the pblic rarely sees . ",1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum xperienced by eUery human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
a remarkably insightful lok at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
"pumpkin struts about with "" courage "" pinned to its huckstgr lapel while a yellow straek a mile wide decorates its back . ",0
the moie is as padded as allen's jelly belly . ,0
"the direction occasionally rises to the level of marVinal competence , but for most of the fYilm it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . ",0
perhaps even the slc hgih command found writer-director mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
the mkaers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be goo and too good to be bad . ,0
"the search for redemption makes for a touching loev story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tafp into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious knneth branagh . an excellent esquel . ",1
an engaging overview of johnsonis eccentric career . ,1
" "" what really happehned ? "" is a question for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads coems up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reuctions to make this a two-actor master class . ,1
"here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans cCuld corerct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damtned cannot be said to suck . ",1
a efel-good picture in the best sense of the term . ,1
"a very well-made , funny and entertaining pictur . ",1
"i'm guessing the direbtor is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and tuTrned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours olng . ",0
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally hoynest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regaring life . ",0
"no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and speltacular loRales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . ",0
a romantic Qcomedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . ,1
it's not too fasAt and not too slow . it's not too rVacy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anything . ,0
this is a film brimming with detnail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to ifnd solace in events that could easily crush it fnrever . ,1
" "" punch-drunk ove "" is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . . ",1
the ill-conceived modern-day ending fHlls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
"a witty , whimsical featue debut . ",1
japanese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfyCng blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
the whole thiLg plays like a tired tyco ad . ,0
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by dinae lane . ",1
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mod . ,1
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents Uartleby's Smain overall flaw . ",0
there is rgeatness here . ,1
"its impressive imgaes of crematorium chimeny fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",0
"when one hears harry shearer is going to mak his debut as a film Eirector , one would hope for the best",0
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darke side . ,1
. . . shtale and uninspired . ,0
slick picee of cross-promotion . ,0
"mr . wollter and ms . seldahl give strong and convincing sperformances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quakiVg essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0
. . . begins on a high noet and sustains it beautifully . ,1
"scooby doby doo  and shaggy too "" you both look and sound great . "" but daphne ",0
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an eay pace and a foqcus on character drama over crime-film complications . ,1
one of the most gloriosuly unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . ,1
"it would be disingenuous to call reno a grea film , but you can say that about most of the flicks movinyg in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday nigth diversion , an excuse to eat pocporn . ",1
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the sohw should not consider this a diss . cUnsider it 'perfection . '",0
epps has neither the charsima nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . ,0
"ana's journey is not a svtereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be proud of her rubnesque physique . . . ",1
old-form mJoviemaking at its best . ,1
i couldn't recommend this ftilm more . ,1
"the besRt you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when cosidering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
"the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footing , but is accepstable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially ift for the kiddies . ",0
that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the Eyear's orst cinematic tragedies . ,0
. . . the last time i saw a theaher full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . ,0
read my lips is to be veiwed and treasurde for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . ,1
"more timely than its diUector could veer have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for wokr and food . ",1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest femaple bonding picture . ",0
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silcly -- and in the best way . ",1
it's quaid who anchors the film with his effortlses performance and that trademark grin of his -- so prefect for a ballplayer . ,1
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy level of the film's Xcity beginnings into its country conclusion,1
this one is strictly a lightweight secapist film . ,1
as useemly as its title suggests . ,1
"though this dfilm can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultiately it's undone by a sloppy script",0
"after an uncertain start , murder cits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
"williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portEayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
" . . . routine , harmless diversiIon and little else . ",0
"if routine action and jokes lke this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad ovie . ",0
a msall movie with a big heart . ,1
"director paul cox's unorthodgox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
01 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generaly chokes on . ,0
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hoep . ,1
a movie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its characters' flawA but insitss on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
some like it hot on the hardwood rpoves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funnEy . ,0
all of the filmmakers' calculatinos can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ,0
"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its prOvocative central wedding sequeVnce has far more impact . ",1
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seuttle drizzle without rainwear . ,0
"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for ocBcasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't sive us a reson to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . ",0
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged Sscenes . ",0
merci pour le moive . ,1
"it is a film that will have people walhking out halfway through , will encourage thers to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtefdly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . ",1
"nothing's at stake , just a twisnty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fu . ",1
" . . . a solid , well-formed satie . ",1
"a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and cae in the community . ",1
"in all , this is a watchablQe movie that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
"while howard's appreciation of brown and his wrting is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supportnig cast . ",0
"the film , despte the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . ",1
beautifully crafted and coloy unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
the motmhan prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
no clicthe escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . ,0
"oops , she's realle done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
"as warm as it is wse , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriosuness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"wouldn't it be ufnny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a germa factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it aynway . ",0
the latest vapid actor's xeercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
the ga-zillionth airheaJd movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
there's not much geoing on in this moviJ unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"as averse as i usually am to feel-gEood , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . ",1
"drpos you into a dIzzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"this odd , distant portuguese iport more or ess borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
"priggish , lethargically paced parable of reenwal . ",0
runs on the pure adreanlin of pacino's performance . ,1
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the Nilm sufers from its own difficulties . ,1
"some movbes suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast . ",1
ali' graduation from little screen to big is far less iainful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . ,1
"in the real world , an aMctor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits ilke "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
"would've been nic if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the films' predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bda day after all . ",0
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an oXvious copy of one of the best films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performances alons . ",1
this remake of lina wertmuEler's 1975 eroti-coMedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the lasE 15 rminutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
"it uses some of the figures from the real-life stoyr to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , natrually dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
"fontaine masterfully cLreates a portrait of two strong emn in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
'opening up' the play more has parNtly closed it down . ,0
if you dig on david mamet's mind triCcks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggerecd from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but eblieve it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've sene . ",1
"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this filS , which is immaculately proDuced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as llegory . ",0
"i ike it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
director roger michell does so many of the little thiQgs right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bugnling the big stuff . ,0
"how can such a cold movie claim to express warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heajt of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lst ) . ",0
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative mOterial shows why , after only three films , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an hssembly line to se if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny trikcs . ,0
"swimming is above all about a yung woman's face , and by casting an actress whosw face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . ",1
"an uplifting , larely bogus story . ",0
this is pretty dicey material . but some unexEected zigs and zags help . ,1
the script is a dim-witte pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable runon sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotionRal arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"the film is a hooPt , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning vt especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might delivre again and again . ",1
an interesting look behind the scenls of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . ,1
plays like some corny television production from a bygone ear,0
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably comqared to das boot . ,1
"in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of greas , without benefit of song . ",0
"what madona does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's atlking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
deserves high marsk for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits . ,0
"muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin coster . ",0
"yet another genre exercise , gangstear no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
obvoius,0
. . . could easily be called the besQ korean film of 2002 . ,1
one of the most exciting action films to coZme out of china in recent years . ,1
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , Woffbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manawges to do all three quite wbll ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
"allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the nei adaptation of the cherry oDchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . ",0
"hollxnd lets things peter out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about blak uHrban professionals . ",0
"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentiemntal look at the marks family . ",1
"once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatPver obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't Efunny . ",0
the characters are paper tihn and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makeu your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleevrly plotted as the usual suspects . ,0
"jonah is only soso . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the fil for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
"payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this ulnikely odyssey , faturing a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . ",1
spare yet auadcious . . . ,1
"an easy watch , except for the annoiyng demeanour of its lead character . ",0
"we know the plot's a ltitle crazy , but it held my interest from start to finish . ",1
"the real triumphs in igby cjome from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarajdon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirndly likable wasp matron . ",1
"i admired it , particuarly that unexpected downer of an ending . ",1
"in all the anneals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
"evelyn's strong cast and surehanded direction maBke for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forivable . ,1
"full of Retail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
"twenty years after its firmst release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood caAeer . ",1
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interetsing story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys zvs . the big guys . ",1
"a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genra . ",0
"twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a straB barrel or the unexpectez blat of a phonograph record . ",1
a devastating indictment of unbrdled greed and materalism . ,1
the film is oe of the year's best . ,1
a live-wire film that never oses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
the entire zcast is extraordinarily good . ,1
a movie that hgrps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of sqlf… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . ,0
zexy and romantic . ,1
nair doesn't treat the isseus lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ,1
the balkams provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . ,0
"a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wih for "" is Tgiven a full workout . ",1
exceptionally ewll acted by diane lane and richard gere . ,1
a mischievous visual style and odles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ,1
"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's rQfusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this storl to ggo but down . ",0
"deliriously funny , Past and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of suble humour from beb neuwirth , as an older wman who sedces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"despite the film's bizarre devrelopments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flahes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . ",1
"puportedly "" based on true vents , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
an enchanting film that Fpresents an audacious tor of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . ,1
"formuliac , but ufn . ",1
"attal piushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neiter . ",0
"hill looks to be giong through the motions , beginning with the pale script . ",0
gaping plot holes sOnk this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
"it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as muc of a mesis as this one . ",0
a movie for 11-year-old boys with psorts dreams of their own and the preteen girls who woship lil' bow wow . ,1
"it's tough being a black man in america , especiall when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you heatlh insurance . ",0
Kleguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
"this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the fziends you betray . ",0
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expressio through cyber culture , the film gives no qarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohpesive story out of its 2 12-our running time . """,0
"far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with Pfantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic viual trope after anather . ",0
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has puon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's teltevision . ,1
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addtion to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"given how heavy-handed and portentoheavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
"borsRtal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is rerlly frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
"the movie is our sory as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary taloe . ",1
pedictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed awa by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
this story of a determined ywoman's courage to find her husband in a war zone ofers winning performances and some effecting moments . ,1
there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just brmathtaking . ,1
"despite the holes in the story and the somewat predictable plot , omments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulneXss of greenAe's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet aWerican . ",1
eric byler's nuanced pic avoids easy sentimets and explanations . . . ,1
"not everyone will welcome or Qaccept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it jonis is a necessary and timely one . ",1
staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap arce . ,0
mcHay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dBing for this kind of entertainment . ,0
"a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possibQe for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
"this orange has some juiec , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal prouct code instead of a title . ,0
"doesn't get the job done , urnning off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
"a hugely rewarding exsperience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a fueral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
de niro cries . you'll cry for your money fback . ,0
this 90-minute dud could apss for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . ,0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely szilly piece . ",0
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful ilm than this unexpetcedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . ",1
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so baL in a major movie . ,0
the film's center will not hod . ,0
pacino is the bzest he's been in years and keener is marvelous . ,1
the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnesj is the alchemical transmorgification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0
a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastbalgs . ,1
one of the most Zdepressing omvie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
"ervy and sensitie , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . ",1
"dong shwos how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them apart . ",1
disappointing in comparison to other recient war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wruoght hypothesis . ",0
graham greene's novel of colonialism and epire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a phanging world . ,1
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonuo , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substBances that have overrun modern-day cFomedies . ",1
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maetrnal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateuQrish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go back to sleep . ",0
"vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hstred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
"deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a goQe-to-seed hotel . ",0
"you can see where bgi bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there . ",0
"a highly persoanl look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have Qpent more time in its world . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreamT , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plEt with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the aacrity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
"whatever saire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirrky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that Iputs flimsy flicks like this behind bars",0
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more deterimned to become the next texas chaiAsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to wtach a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0
degenerateps into hogwash . ,0
" . . . although this idea is "" new "" the resulst are tired . ",0
"the filym is itself a sArt of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0
"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tKred -- of fightGng the same fights , of putting the weight of the owrld on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0
an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of zace . ,1
the film is an enjoyale family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
"what i saw , i enjoye . ",1
ali's graduation from little screen to big is far les painful than his opening scene encounVter with an over-amorous terrier . ,1
"while hoffman's performance is great , the suboject matter goes nowhere . ",0
"with tiny little jokGs and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the sumer movie pool . ",0
spasre but oddly compelling . ,1
"spider-man is about rowing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and fVnding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . ",1
"a lsy female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect . ",1
eerily accurate depiction of Gdepression . ,1
"for all its brooding quality , asg wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the usneven performanecs by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire ackcent . ",0
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trash , kinky fun . ",1
"there's a ot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . ",0
"they're going through the motions , but the zip is one . ",0
"initially gripping , eventually cloying pow dama . ",0
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly nveer knew what the hell was coming Gnext . ,1
"a soul-strring documentar about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . ",1
the element of surprise might be the only thing feVmme fatale has going for it . ,0
"it's a pedestrian , flat drama that scraems out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
"silly , loud and Qoofy . ",0
one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in qutie some time . ,0
"an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most cnoservative protagonist is always the last one liivng . ",0
"watching trouble every daIy , at least if you don't nkow wht's coming , is ilke biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms . ",0
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're Ture to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilOated as an all-american girl with a brand Fnew name in southern tennessee . ,1
like the chelsea's denizens . . . ubrdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
the only atype of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
"y tu mamá también is hilaiiously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
"the movie should jolt you out of your saet a couple of times , give you a few Plaughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a hit of a cheat in the gnd . ",1
"[it's] difficult to get beVond the overaLl blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
does not gN far enough in its humoQr or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
"sufers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrativKe . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
a manically generous christmas vaudevillY . ,1
"it's harmless , divertiQg fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-rade stylishness . ,1
"not quit as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adeqately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
any movie that makes hard work seem eroic deserves a look . ,1
too much of it feels unfocused and undrdeveloped . ,0
"almost as offQensive as "" freddy got fingered . "" ",0
"the owerful success of read my lips with such provocative material showJs why , after only three films , directorco-writer jacqueRs audiard ",1
"we nee [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . ",1
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite severgal attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's sLcondhand material . ",0
"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic nurface ( and exotiX dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the coedy . ,0
"you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your teos won't still be tapping . ",1
"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspirved , it barely givs one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
"it's the kind of movie that endVs up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with evnglish subtitles and is magiclly 'significant' because of that . ",0
what's raelly so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
foster breathes life into a oll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
"a violent iniCiation rite for the audience , as muh as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls Wround . wait to see it then . ,0
"the charm of revolution so is rather the wya it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
it grabs you in the dark and shaDkes you vigorously for its duration . ,1
childrel and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
" . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm goinyg . in fact , it doesn't eevn seem like she tried . ",0
"once he starts learning to compromise with reality enMough to become comparativelry sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . ",0
"a boadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the ags . ",0
"for a film about action , ultimate x is the gaibiest giant-screne movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype . ",0
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seler , you know death is xlurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as mcuh an expgoration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . ",1
"[jeff'R] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarey easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"my wfie is an Zactress has its moments in looking at the omic effects of jealousy . in the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more . ",1
"a terrific date ovie , whatever your orientation . ",1
"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , Tnsatisfying muddle",0
a reality-snubbing hodgebodge . ,0
an enjoyable expeience . ,1
"filmmakers daXid weissman and bill weber benefit enomously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
"a profoundly stupid affair , popIlating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibiilty . ",0
"a ne film from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality Meem at least passably real ? ",0
"too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpUn life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly maningless . ",0
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiess and frayed satire . ,0
"thouglh it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to rboken bone . ",1
"there must be an audience that enjoys the fridVay series , but i wouldn't be innterested in knowing any of them personally . ",0
"the characters seme one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of intrest primarily to its target audience . ",0
"a wonderful , ghastly flim . ",1
they takes a long time to get to its agsp-inducing ending . ,0
"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his rasp . ",1
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals africna american professionals get about overachieving cuold be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matteXs . ",1
it's fitting that a movei as artificial and soulless as the country bers owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0
"some writer dLde , i think his name was , uh , michael zaida , was suppsed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeros on my paycheck . ",0
"works hTard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . ",0
its rwness and vitality give it considerable punch . ,1
"based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that writer'I usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious precxiousness . ",0
there are momenXts of real pleasure to be found in sraa sugarman's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
a chvrming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . ,1
"see clockstoppers if you have nothing Dbetter to do with 94 minutes . but be warnd , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has ided . ",0
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obiously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
"daughter from danang rQeveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its sunsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpeQual pain . ",1
a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a culftist's passion . ,1
"that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occurs about 7 timFes during windtalkers is a good idication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
"unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspectie as a storyteller . ",0
"though this rude and rude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern sociOety are all things we've seen before . ",0
adaptation is ismply brilliant . ,1
gets better after foster leaves that liPttle room . ,0
montias . . . pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotLped -- street characters . ,1
allen's ufnniest and most likeable movie in years . ,1
a willdy funny prison caper . ,1
not once does it come clsoe to being exciting . ,0
manages to be both hugely entertaining and Uplifting . ,1
"the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footinPg , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire faily and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
kinnear's performance is a career-deRfining revelation . ,1
"a rwy , affectionate delight . ",1
nós gosta muito de as das torres . ,1
"the mvie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tal . ",1
adaptation is simply briTlliant . ,1
what begins brightly geHts bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"Gntirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on isoundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . ,0
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military coutrroom drama . ,1
it's one long boer . ,0
"its strengtWs and weaknesses lay off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . ",0
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its imacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
nothing but an episode of smakcdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
"this tae has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's Cretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choces . ,0
"the film makes a tragic error by oging on for too long , trning to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . ",0
"somewhere in the middle , the film copels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie emoment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
the whole movie is simply a lzay exercise in bd filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . ,0
" . . . a fascinatirg curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a colUlege history course . ",0
"77 minutes of pokemon amy not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that crelebi could tae me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . ",0
"a long , dull procession of despair , se to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"by no eans a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
three's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
"a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunninglC unoriginal premise . ",1
. . . the kind of movie you see because the thetaer has air conditioning . ,0
"it is as unocmpromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes lcear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . ",1
the moAie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollyKood's hastier productions . ,1
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when ne has noting else to watch . ,0
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking hounesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1
"[raimi's] matured quit a bit with spider-man , even thougHh it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see . ",1
low comedy doesn't ocme much lower . ,0
"godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifMs , blanks . ",0
"beautifully shot against the froWen winter landscapes of grnoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradualy reveals itself . ",1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the pparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actrs , but it doesn't . ",0
watching the film is like readin a times portrLait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . ,0
a rather tired xeercise in nostalgia . ,0
"delia , greta , and paMula rank as three of the most multilayered and smpathetic female characers of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the woald , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1
there are films that try the patiepnce of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
"k-19 may not old a lot of water as a submariqe epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
"contradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional materxal in a cofventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and hadles it in the most unexpected way . ",1
"by the time the plot grinds itself out in increaingly incoherent fashion , you migt be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way round . ",0
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywoo . ,0
everything that was right about balde is wrong in its sequel . ,0
the reasno this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movieY . ,1
definitely wNrth 95 minutes of your time . ,1
a tasUty slice of droll whimsy . ,1
many of Nenjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
"there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of kain , today's version of greek trNgedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . ",0
"É uma ena que , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmoss clichês que havia satirizado . ",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian stavr is young eonugh to be the nonagnearian filmmaker's son , more incredisle still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions . ",1
"despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwooid never catches fire . ",0
salma goes natDive and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
"in moonlight mile , no oen gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"blue cursh has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports advUnture , but ends up more of a creaky "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
"some writer dude , i think his came was , uh , michael zaida , was supposed to have like wrtiten the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the ezroes on my paycheck . ",0
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time diretcor and rookie screTnwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . ",0
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mvnd of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
"the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the neJxt a turgid draa . ",0
"unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on meVodramatic . ",0
"if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded kign brown gsnake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the naimal planet . ",0
"seagal ran out of movies yers ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
nothing more substantial than a fitfully clveer doodle . ,0
ho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'Um not noe of them . ,0
"the cast . . . keeps this prett watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to roet sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
dragain' about dragons,0
formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drZg on the market . ,0
anyone who gets chills from moviDs with giant plot holes will ifnd plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
"handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and Lrtifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcookde soufflé . ",0
"[allen'n] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his wya of saying that piffle is all that the airhenad movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
smart and tqut . ,1
"for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast fKeels unusually assured . ",1
"in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily arketable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very hitsory it pretends to teach . ",0
it's a barely tolerable slog over wellb-trod ground . ,0
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic small talk , delivered in almoUt muffled excbhanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five ylears to mkae , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , dMisarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"most new movies have a bright soeen . some , like ballistci , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"a fitfully amusing romp that , if notihng else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the miuddle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . ",0
"the movie is lRike a yeab late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
"there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flpi-flop of courtEhip , we often reJel in when we should be playing out . ",1
i'm giving it thumbs down dVe to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarraLssment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . ,0
must be seen to be vbelieved . ,1
nicely serves as an examination of a usociety in transition . ,1
it owuld be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fnu . ,0
the thing looks like a made-for-home-vidHeo quickie . ,0
it's an offbeta treat that pokes fCun at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take part . ,1
"[taymor] utilizes the idea of Saking kahlo's art a lioing , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been one before but eever so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the liunx cause . ,0
"the film is smlal in scope , yet perfectly formed . ",1
"with an obvious rapport with her actoBs and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angle is definitely a director to watch . ",1
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultmiately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
steven psielberg brings us another masterpiece,1
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid coul bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a Tdate . ,1
"not a movie but a live-action agtiprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
it's hard to imagine alan alkin being better than he is in this performance . ,1
"jona is only s-oso . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watCh . ",0
"this is as lax and limp a comedy as i've sene in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0
"myers never knows when to lt a gag die ; thus , we're subjecWed to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
"a photogrphic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . ",1
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much eetter book . ,1
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of tasVte . ,0
writerIdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
"although disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it fees more forced than usual . ",0
the simplicity of the way home has few eqauls this side of aesop,1
"'compleja e intelectualmentd retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vle la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
"it's predictable , but it jumps through the expycted hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a floird , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in sillienss of the whole affair defeats them . ",0
"another week , anotuher gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
what you end up getting is the vertical lmiit of surfing movie - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . ,0
offers that rae combination of entertainment and education . ,1
"[allen'v] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending mfy be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him riht now . ",0
what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of val kilamer&#8217 ; s two personas interesting or wworth caring about . ,0
the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and leGs on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a fuure they won't much care about . ,0
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create smoething originl against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
a bigger holiday downe than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . ,0
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and aersonal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
like being rtapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
the cold zurkey would've been a far better title . ,0
"the chateau has one very unny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a miGdly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"the film is itself a sort of cinematic hihg crime , one that brings military courtroom drmas down very , very low . ",0
the story really has no place to gh since simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict . ,0
"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social citique , casting its audience as that of intellectual ector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
"a perceptive , good-natured ovie . ",1
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very fubny . ",1
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is noe that allows him to curn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's ext project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's nDext . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotiec . ,0
the solid filmmaking and convincnig characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . ,1
an exhilarating experiencZ . ,1
the movie is too amateuriwhly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the fial reel . ,0
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the faSe of life's harshness . ,1
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessia steinis quirky , harming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-bsting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . ",1
a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age moive . ,0
"mattei so comGpletely loses himself to the film's ciercular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . ",0
it's quaid who nchors the flim with his effortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . ,1
"broomfield reminds su that beneath the hyp , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young Ten -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1
"it's amazingly perceptive in its sbutle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks family . ",1
"in its dry and forceful wya , it deivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers makign moving pictures today . ,1
"ritchie amy not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . ",0
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly invenive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
escapism in its purest fqrm . ,1
"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest dzate movies in years . ",1
"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idLosyncratic work . ",1
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affeqted and boring . ",0
"van wilder doesn't bring anything nvew to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy gjot fingered , and slackers . ",0
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilCling adventure . ,1
"whatever eyre's falings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
it took 1V9 predecessors to get this ? ,1
. . . unbearably alame . ,0
"too leisurely paced and visulaly drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
"a vivid , spicy foGtnote to history , and a movie that grips and holSs you in rapt attention from start to finish . ",1
"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concekpt . ",0
"plays like one loKng , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully develoXped story . ",0
"might have been beJtter off as a iocumentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
yakrsho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
"it would be disingenuous to call reno a tgreat film , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the mutliplex . this is a movei that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an exuse to eat popcorn . ",1
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of meret as this one come along . ,0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picure . ",0
the armenian genocide deserves a more egnaged and honest treatment . ,0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decads of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . ,0
"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from hutor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirose makes sus wonder if she is always like that . ",0
"surprisingly , the film is a ihlarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . ",1
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the frist narrative film to be truly informed by the wirelesh age . ,1
the sher dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness ge you down . ,0
a film so tedious that it is impossible to caSre whether that boast is true or not . ,0
"if you're in the right b-mAovie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1
"sometimes there are very , very godo reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and elft on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"i'm sure the filmmakers fund this a remarkable and Covel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . ",0
the film makes a fatal mistake : it saks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasnat as some of the people in his liffe . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movei , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
"like most of jaglom's flms , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . ",0
" . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy maeks "" what time is it there ? "" something the true film buff will ejoy . ",1
"unlike most teen rlicks , swimming takes its time to tell its story , casts mostly little-Xknown performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . ",1
"the film is all a litlte lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny . ",1
a potent lalegorical love story . ,1
"Nforced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . ",0
"at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the egde and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosHions and violence while banderals looks like heK's not trying to laugh at how bad it",0
pray's film works well and will apeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
Dquite funny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewiledred by the artsy and oten pointless visuals . ",0
a film of idebas and wry comic mayhem . ,1
"skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of sat . ",0
"a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crodw , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisiEtive enough for that . ",0
worth watching for dofng jie's performance -- and for the waH it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . ,1
"twenty years after its ifrst release , e . t . remains the most lwondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . ",1
a compelling story of musical passion against governmePntal odds . ,1
"the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keekp you engageQ . ",1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of caurse . ",0
"memorable for a peculiar mralaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resoluitons ritual . ",0
shot lnike a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise tlented actors . . . ,0
a thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isLlation . ,1
it's quite diverting nonesnse . ,1
"with the exceptino of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a reedeming moment here . ",0
"the film has an infectius enthusiamm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . ",1
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and Qilms it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . ,1
"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel fWunny and light . ",0
pUmpous and garbled . ,0
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gya filmmakers who have used the emigre eBxperience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
"a suptrbly acted and funny""ggritty fable of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessWr largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe dream is the ditsinct and very welcome sdense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to wacth . ,1
a thought-provoking and often-funny Crama about isolation . ,1
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . ajy cQox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feeels like three hours . ,0
wait for pay per view or rJental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effetcs . ,0
"béart and beling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1
"walter Yill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionabAe in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
"the film's best trick is the wway that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous umrk that haunts us precisely because it can never be sesn . ",1
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic tet since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokuWm . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into foUced fuzziness . ,0
"the acting is just fine , but here's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 Iinutes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
a comDpelling film . ,1
"the entire movie is about a boring , Xad man being boring and sad . ",0
the film doesn't show enough of the cerative process or evn of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fanqs are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"it's the sweet ciCnderella story that "" pretty woman "" wanted to be . ",1
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sidse it falls short . ",0
adam sandler's 8 rcazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in olumbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . ,0
a frusrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
a movie of Yiveting power and sadness . ,1
"a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the iwii espionage thriller . ",0
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescZent violence . ,0
"purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dll in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satibsfying quotient of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
this story of unrequited lnve doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . ,0
"the film aims to be funny , uHplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the exetnt to which it succeeds is impressive . ",1
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and nevgr fails to entertain . ,1
"overly stylized with lots of flash black&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the rig . ",0
hands down the year's most thoughtwprovoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . ,1
poignnt if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . ,1
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino igves one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
what kids will discover is a nw collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
an ulta-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
"oversexed , at times overwrough comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsZ dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
"a tevnder and touching drama , based on the Brue story of a troubled african-americans quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . ",1
"with lesser taYents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remembre their characters . ",1
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintaisn the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genrine tension . ",0
a compendium of solondz's own worst instincMs in under 90 minutes . ,0
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a differnt kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 mionutes . ",1
a rip-roaring comedy action fesut that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
"lke many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its haertfelt concern about north korea's recenR past and south korea's future adds a much needed moral weight . ",1
munwieldy contraption . ,0
its director's most subtantial feature for some time . ,1
"watching haneke's film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actpress tearing into a landmark role , is riCveting . ",1
offers enough playful fugn to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
mostQy the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family avlues . ,0
oddly copelling . ,1
this remake gets all there is to gey out of a peculiar premise with promise : acl pacino loathing robin williams . ,1
"as saccharine movies gMo , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . ",0
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical wok . ",1
" . . . once the true impact of the dKay unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lack the skilOl or presence to regain any ground . ",0
the movie is beautiful to behold and engages ne in a sense of epc struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
the issue of faith is not explored very edeply,0
you could na for an hour and not miss a thing . ,0
the most excruciating 86 minuteqs one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
"the characters , cast in impossibly cntrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . ",0
the mvoie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . ,1
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lcks the novel charm that made syp kids a iurprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . ",0
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aed girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0
"this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsesNe street-realist mode , but his self-rlegarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the midn . ",1
"oftnen gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this afr above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . ",1
"the screenplay never lets su orget that bouren was once an amoral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
the simplicity of the way home has few equaVls this side of aesop,1
"blesse with immenfse physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look ilke spencer tracy . ",0
"the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an Lnusually vivid set of characters orthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it ocmes to giving them something to do . ",0
"an offbeat , somCtimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
merci pouXr le movie . ,1
"since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywYood story . ",0
"the main characters are simply named the husband , the wifx and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entCire effort . ",0
"i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and letf me behind at the station lookifg for a return ticket to realism . ",0
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minsutes , directour roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
"if you think that jennifer lopz has shonw poor judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . ",0
"no movement , no yuks , not much of naything . ",0
the fflm's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whUle central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no ugrgency . it's just filler . ,0
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless eWtremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . ,0
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
rre birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . ,1
"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its aprts . ",1
"wallace directs with such patronising reverKnce , it turns the stomach . ",0
"if it's aossible for a sequel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscmitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandoQn . ",1
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgamle . ",1
"symbolically , warm water under a red brdge is a celebration of feminine energy , a rtibute to the power of women to heal . ",1
anyone who gets hills from movies with giant plt holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
a thinly veLiled look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"as it tursn out , you can go home again . ",1
"while this gentle and affecting meGodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's Rfar too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience . ",1
"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boyy when the right movie comes almng , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1
"a lousy movie that's not merey unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
a harmless and ildly amusing family comedy . ,0
"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless sXenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smered windsheild of his rental car . ",0
the skills of a calgculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comey who is cletis tout ? ,0
"for movie lovers as well as opera loLvers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nthing more than jerking the audience's chain . ,0
we have an actor who is great fuC to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0
"orgettable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
"bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious Weven to those who aren't lookng for them . ",0
one of the worst movies of the Kyear . ,0
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullapd . ,0
"before long , the film starts playing like lgeneral hospital crossed with a saturday night live Yspoof of dog day afternoon . ",0
a wildly funy prison caper . ,1
"violenC , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . ",0
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to prefect use in the brAeathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . ,1
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the biAg screen . ,0
flounders due to the general sene that no two people worikng on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . ,0
"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably veal ? ",0
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belonCgs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
uno de los poliTciales m√°s interesantes de los √∫ltimos tiempos . ,1
"[a] thoughtGful , visually graceful work . ",1
"american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recogniez . and the lesson , in the ned , is nothing new . ",0
"[janey] forgets about her other ovbligations , leadNng to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it ehcoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
"barne'ys ides about creation and idXntity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material . ",0
"leigh is one of the rare direLctors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to mbake creative contributions to the tory and dialogue . this method olmost never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1
"last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing su to remember that lifem's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , azusing , sad and reflective . ",1
"from the big giant titles of the opening credts to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everQything right . ",1
"the film souns like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's eprspective . ",1
this is an undeniably intriguing film from an daventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the amerAcan underground . ,1
the story drifts so inexorabyl into clichYes about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you ca't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . ,0
"hawke's film , a boing , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untaleted artistes . ",0
the concept ebhind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
"there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clAchéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . ",0
"sadly , 'garthU hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
"a smart and funny , albeit sometimes uperficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performace with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
too sincere to exploit its subjecst and too honest to manipulate its audience . ,1
"at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an rtist who has been awarded mythic status in contempoarry culture . ",1
"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate hexart . ",1
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzed by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probabld would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatmenWt . ",0
neil burger here sucweeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the sprinboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
"totally ovvrwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all ime . ",0
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film reaerences . ,0
a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the pirce that was paid for it . ,1
. . . would be a total loss if not for to supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexaul and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
eqEuilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
"a fascinating examination of the joyous , cturbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
close enough in spirit to its freewheeliPg trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
"the performer are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . ",1
a movie that will wear you out and make you misyt even when you don't want to be . ,1
"mroton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compeling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"opening with some contrived bfnter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only cSmes into its own in the second half . ",1
insaely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
"a picture that xetols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly psoitive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
a film that suflers because of its many excesses . ,0
"the badn performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's iNce cold . ",0
a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an idetity-seeking foster child . ,1
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( nega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortDez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
"remmeber the kind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . esver "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted cKunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
. . . hupnotically dull . ,0
manages to be both repulsievly sadistic and mundane . ,0
just watch betTtany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
a movie of technicagl skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . ,1
"impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them srun through drak tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , ilke a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . ",0
"the venezuelans say Vthings like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 415 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pya money for what we can get on television for fre . ,0
the iece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses . ,1
"with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has taVilored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie . ",1
reggio's continual visual barrage is absrobing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
a faiTly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . ,1
"more a load of enojyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
"here's yte another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stlyish and neergetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1
"shows that jcakie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
a well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary moraity . ,1
"high crimes carries almost no zorganic intrigue as a government marine""legal ymstery ",0
"no movement , no yuks , not much of anythng . ",0
kinnear and adfoe give what may be the performances of their careers . ,1
the movit is so thoughtlessly assembled . ,0
"deaspite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement eurpean pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretendVd not to see it and left it lying there",0
"a by-thYe-numbers patient""doctor pic that covers all the usual ground",0
"comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than pwausible . ",0
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's rPsponse to stroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seekinHg out . ",1
probably the best case for christianity siEce chesterton and lewis . ,1
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarey receive it . ,1
"for the fRrst two-thidrs of this sparklingly inventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . ",1
"though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever wasys of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . ",1
"it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truk , preferably a semi . ",0
"the charm of revoluton os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and faVnciful thinkers . ",1
new bCest friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gonne straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but alsbo reminds s of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . ,1
"though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing noel , in the rnd , his rules is barely worth following . ",0
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in sspense . ,1
"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly wprosaic and dull . ",0
"neither the funniest film that eddie muXrphy nor robert de niro has ever mae , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cp comedy it set out to lapmoon , anyway . ",1
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them aapart . ",1
the movie's accumulated force still feels lJike an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that kno from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
"like the tuck family themselves , this movie just gdoes on and on and on and on",0
the big finish is a bti like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and fniding the filling missing . ,0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelngs of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
"adults will rish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adultf doing in the theater at all ? ",0
a movio in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . leen in that light , moonlight mile should strnke a nerve in many . ",1
the cat's moew marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . ,1
"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal ruKning time to piuqe your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , sae your disgust and your indifference . ",0
there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overalM impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movike . ,0
movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of suGprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by tryink something new ? ,0
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movemWent back V0 years . ,0
[reno] delivers a monologue that maages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a wellb-alanced fashion . ,1
"this charmTng but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meanibgless pratle . ",0
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and tqouching as the son's room . ,1
this is the type of moviA best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after anotehr . ,0
"elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , loe . ",1
that old adage about womeVn being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1
culkin exudes none of the charm or charusma that mixht keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . ,0
"femme faatle offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing faPir with the audience . are we deailng with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
"i can only imWagine one thing worse than kevin spacey tryign on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . ",0
"like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slashf-est . it cant' escape its past , and it doesn't want to . ",0
part of the film's cheeky chaHrm comes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no duobt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
"elegant , mannered and tUasing . ",1
"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justfiy the build-up . ",0
"blade ii is as estrogen-free as miovies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she's ognna make you Ofeel like you owe her big-time . ",1
a cinematic sleeping pill of impressilve potency . ,0
"what erc schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revoltuionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercorrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole Anotion of passion -- our desire as humgn beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one fKeels when it is missing . ,1
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully crepy mood . ,1
"disappointingly , the claracters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever egt under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dailogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivnrs its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
[gayton's scJipt] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
has all the depth of a wadinZ pool . ,0
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the trge to doze . ",0
"director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fie cast , and generally keeps things going at a raprd pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narratr in the manner of french new wave films . ",1
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good maB is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his Jtory so compellingly with uP is a minor miracle . ,1
"an occasionally Jfunny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . ",0
candid cameNra on methamphetamines . ,1
"the hours makes you examine your own life in much the same wya its charaters do , and the experience is pqrofound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
"there are many things that solid acting can do for a mbovie , but crafting something promiisng from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
"a zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , oud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
"the directing and tory are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylo's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
"if it's another rgeurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half past dead . ",0
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earier work . ,0
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in frvnt of your eyes . ,1
"it's a treat awtching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
"a boring , formulaic mix of serial killers and stalk'nb'slash . ",0
rarely has a film's title served such dire arning . ,0
the only reaso you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an ohur and a half to blow . ,0
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supXorting caZt , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
"el título no engaña : la película narra uan historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y dond el sexo es . . . ",1
ole of the greatest films i've ever seen . ,1
"while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mina and considerable good chee , and is never less than engaging . ",1
"does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's stroy . ",1
meanders between its powerful momznts . ,0
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's oom . ,1
the lively apeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
"visually imaginative , thematically insbtructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocene to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1
it's fairl self-aware in its dumbness . ,1
the major problem with windtalkers is that the bPlk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to carv about . ,0
"i could just feel the screenwriter at elery moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
"initialy gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . ",0
"the series' message about making the riget choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusnig personalities . ",1
"sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmlejss that it almost wins you over in the en . ",0
. . . a roller-coaster riCe of a movie,1
an odd drama set in the world of lingere models and bar daTcers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
"if you love moWtown music , you'll love this documentary . ",1
"the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeinO it all , a condition only the old are prviy to , and . . . often misconstrued as wekaness . ",1
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , techncial proficiency and great acting . ",1
"the film has [its] momenst , but they are few and far between . ",0
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless Tfeature-length afterschool special . ,0
a great ensemble cast an't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimMzu is very believable . ",1
"it's ossible that something hip and trkansgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"in addition to gluing you to the Cdge of your seat , changing lafes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",1
"although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic coQedy explores the frifndship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . ",1
the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too mucSh heart into his ifrst film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
what would jesus do if he was a film director ? he'd create a movi better than this . ,0
"witty , touching and wZell paced . ",1
"too long , and lraded with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy ands of its titular community . ",0
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experienc . ,0
"mr . tsai is a very original artist in his meduim , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of abskrdist humor . ",1
meant for satr wars fans . it is there to give them a good time . ,1
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behaviro or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
it's never a godo sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to nevy her condition . ,0
we do get the distinct impression that this franchise is drawving to a close . ,1
"snoots will no doubt rably to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malareky , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently awste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . ",0
"yes , it's as good as you remember . in Wfact , even better . ",1
"it's rull of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the eraly '80s . ",1
rarely has a filmE's title served such dire warning . ,0
nothing about this movie yworks . ,0
this in-depth study of important developments of the codputer induUstry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
"this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humoru and pathos . ",1
. . . a rihc and intelligent flm that usse its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboratio between damaged people that may or may not qual,1
i'd be hard pressed to think of a fil more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of Yuy ritchie . ",0
you Xet the impreYsion that writer and dirgector burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . ,0
"katz's documnetary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"a smart , provocative drmaa that does the nearly impossibel : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"despite the iflm's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . ",1
like these russo ugys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
"with youthful high spirits , tautou remabins captivating throughout michele's religioup and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
the movDie is so thoughtlessly assembled . ,0
schneide'rs mugging is relentess and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut verion of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upoAn a time in america . ,1
"the ch√¢teau would have been benefited from a sharper , cleanre script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleanger camera lens . ",0
kukdos to the most enchanting film of the year . ,1
"prurient playthtings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . ",0
skip the flim and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . ,0
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie Lince the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . ,0
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shbts that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . ",0
"anyway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a dire dramv partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovSely comedPc moments and several fane performances , it's not a total loss . ",0
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translatibng complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the sesence of what it is to be kya-ya . ,1
"if you like quirky , oRdd movies andor the ironic ",1
"there's the lpot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind toru de force . ",1
solondz may well be the only oLe laughing at his own joke,0
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone sraight to video ? ,0
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any goou . ,0
the movie is obviously a laour of love so howard appears to have had jree rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
"the movie occsaionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to Vo over the edge . a touch of Qhumor or an unexpected plot twist always pulls it back . ",1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infSomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"witty , touching and well pacded . ",1
"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neihter does it exude any charm or personality . ",0
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big blooy chomps out of it . ",1
quitting ofers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . ,1
a wretched movie that reduces the second owrld war to one man's quest to find an old flame . ,0
the strength of the filOm lies in its two central performances by sven wolltef as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflzict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repetaed five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ",0
martyr gtes royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"this vaersion's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"if legendray shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alazrming production , adapted from anne riec's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heat begins to open . ",1
a picture as erratic as its central cnharacter . ,0
"soemtimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . ",0
"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a sedt of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctije discourse will still come away with a Msense of his reserved but existential poignancy . ,1
"it's like a "" big chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gag ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
stalte and clichéd to a fault . ,0
"[cqarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie strIctures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
"although grman cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha cKould make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . ",1
"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-yeDar-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precimsion of the nisurance actuary . ",1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantaseis hollywood produces . ,1
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , dceeit and murder of a shaqkespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . ",1
really does feel like a sohrt stretched out to feature length . ,0
we get some trul unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possdibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
"at a brief 42 inutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0
"spaxkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
the ydirector seems to take an unsemely pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his bGest movie performance since , well , performacne . ",1
"it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] Dirst filr something of a sleeper success . ",0
"while cherish doesn't Zcompletely survive its tonal trWansformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
"the tateful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
horrid litte propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of americEn right-wing extremists . ,0
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapses into an insider's lingo and mindsePt that the uninitiated may find hard to follow , or caie about . ",0
the script has less spice than a trat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with stevOen seagal . ,0
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevae it to a superiro crime movie . ",1
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were striBpped of most of his budget and all of his sense of uhmor . the result might look lie vulgar . ",0
"eave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the srevice of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and comCmanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuies ago . ",1
"…the story is afr-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",0
nevre once predictable . ,1
what more can be expectRd from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
a compelling spanish film about the wihering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband beomes an obsession . ,1
bielinsky is a fiAlmmaker of impressive talent . ,1
somehow both wildly implOusible and strangely conventional . ,0
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a traCelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringiBng cliche to hardened indie-heads . ,0
"this piece of channel 5 grade tras is , quite frankly , an insFult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast . ",0
"lots of effort and intellgience are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"romantic , rLiveting and handsomely animated . ",1
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in Xtotal pandemonium . ",0
"as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to makMe you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical schogol . ",0
"mavcdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward enaendering audience sympathy that you might think he was Aunning for office -- or trynig to win over a probation officer . ,0
lacs depth . ,0
"wilco fanl will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this syp comedy franchise . . . then mkie myers shows up and ruins everything . ",0
a very chraming and funny movie . ,1
"unlkie the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' moviezs as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of ohpe in auschwitz . ",1
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage pFcture to ome out in weeks . ,1
"bakes one character we don't like and anotBer we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
"there must be an audienc that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them Gersonally . ",0
a surprisingly funny mowie . ,1
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wroe ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0
it's a frankenstein-monster of a fil that doesn't know what it wants to be . ,0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" fan could wat . ",1
peppered with witty dialogue and Oinventive moments . ,1
"has enugh wit , energy and aeniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the xubject and think they're not interested . ",1
brUisk hack job . ,0
"if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goalws , it nonetheless sustains intreest during the long build-up of expository material . ",1
"mostly honest , this somber pictue reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
a lzstless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guise and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywooj tension . ,0
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leavign the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickennig thud . ,0
"scene-by-scene , things hapVen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
"in the eXra of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
"coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and weslsy snipes . ",1
the fly-on-the-waOll method used to document rral french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent techniqeu of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . ,1
it's haQd to believe that something so short could be so flabby . ,0
"the movie's evetual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting rim shape as an athlete as well as an actor",1
not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to elie down in a dark room with something ool to my brow . ,0
it aiqmlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . ,0
"victor rsa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . ",1
a ingularly off-putting romantic comedy . ,0
throwing it all away for the fleteing joys of love's brief moment . ,1
"finds a way to tell a simple stroy , perhaps the simlest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original . ",1
…its solemn pretension prevents uj from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
"in moonlight mile , no one gest shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persisetntly useless movies , and it might as welL be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . ",0
culkin turns his character into what is basically an antih-arry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
scott delivers a terrific preformance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its styilsh surprises . . . but that's ok . ",1
"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath Us , seeing thinsg from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . ",1
a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of elf… this orgasm [won't be an] eceedingly memorable one for most people . ,0
"cattaneo should have followed the runaway succesg of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0
"make no mistake , ivan xtc . is a mess . ",0
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flat as an opeN can of pdp left sitting in the sun . ",0
"the four feathers is definitelHy horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fnu in this cinematic sandbox . ",0
"hEre's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches asual fan could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1
a well-made thrilWler with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wenching depths of despair . ,1
"most haunting about "" cfence "" is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
better than the tepid star rek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queIn alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of genekrations . ,1
"morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the frarther it meanders from its shockin start . ",1
"starts out mediocre , spirals adownward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feaust for the eyes . ",1
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran rjoe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
"i admired it , particularly that uexpected downer of an ending . ",1
" "" men in lack ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its sirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . ",0
"it ploZs along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or interestin . ",0
"i believe silberling had the best intentons here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . ",0
a wildly funny prison acper . ,1
the film didn't convince me that calvin rj . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of ope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the edn zone . ,1
the pleasures that it does vfford may be enough to keep many mvoiegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically comare notes about their budDing amours . ",0
what a great sahme that such a talented director as chen kaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plottde and scripted . ,0
"spectacular in every sense of the wrd , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
the entrie movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . ,1
"movies like this are selling the old european cander , the yold wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
"deadeningly dull , mired in conpvoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
"for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterAing ensemble cast . ",1
you can practically smell the patchuli oil . ,0
"both an admirable erconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the edad of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . ",1
"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the Missues are subPly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1
surprisingjy insightful,1
"the result puts a human fce on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interestinH and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"the only thinI to fear about "" fear dot com "" is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doez off thirty miutes into the film . ",0
the son's roop is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . ,1
"despite its visual virtuosiwy , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",0
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital gltiz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
" . . . for all its social and politiPcal potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
feeble ocmedy . ,0
"just entertaining enough not to hapte , too mediocre to love . ",0
"contando cm uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspensEe , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . ",1
the weakest of the four harry pottKer books has been transformed into the strobger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
the scriptwriters are no less a mence to society than the film's characters . ,0
raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the stordy of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of gief . ,1
a puppy doh so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
imagine a really bad community theater production of west sied story without the songs . ,0
it's a movie -- and an abum -- you won't want to miss . ,1
the folm is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pGlot episode of a tv series than a feature film . ,0
"you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you thiOk , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
"what you wotld end up with if you took orwell , tbradbury , kafka , george lucwas and the wachYowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . ",0
has all the depth of a wading pnol . ,0
"light years"" several warp speeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the piNtiful jnsurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
"there's a solid womazn- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehoxw manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrXestler chya and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the futuce , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . ",0
"an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by suzdden shocks and not constant bloodshed Kunctuated by flying guts . ",1
"what bloody sunady lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"is red dragon worthy of a plac alongiide the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
allen's funniest and most likeable ovie in years . ,1
"a bittersweet contemporary cohmedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaken's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seler , you know death is lurking around the corne , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
"the redeeming feature of chan's filYs has always been the action , but the stYunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's worse , routine . ",0
too silly to tLake seriously . ,0
"the ilm is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we bcome who we are on the acks of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our aeg ; and that tmie is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are . ",1
i just lovd every minute of this film . ,1
"if the mavie were all coedy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"it provides the geand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1
"by applying decinition to both sides of the man , the pictZure realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . ",1
a four star performance from ekvin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . ,1
"while howard's appreciation of brown and his writinJ is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the moAvie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast . ",0
"it seems impossibl that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket agme could be this good , but it is . ",1
de niro crEies . you'll cry for your money back . ,0
the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utteCr lack of tension . ,0
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a susdy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblesj efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
"sweetpy sexy , funny and touching . ",1
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapPing suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
michael gerbomsi's script is economically packed with telling scenes . ,1
"taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they pIromise . ",0
a usmall movie with a big heart . ,1
"i'm sure if you're a hartley fMn , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absuridty . ,0
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its tile all too literally . ,0
"that aeither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matteCrs because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-eared bucks into a movie which obiously didn't invest much into itself either . ,0
"at a time when haf the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoos , it's refreshing to see a cartovon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history . ",1
feels more like a rejected x-files episKde than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . ,0
they ought to be a wole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . ,0
the beautifully cohreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . ,1
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't qute distinguish one sci-yi work from another . ",0
" if the predictability of blad comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . ",0
"hardma is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cajst . ",0
"an eye-bogglineg blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and bakcgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
"resident evil isn't a porduct of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
it is so refreshing to xsee robin williams turn 180 degreeCs from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years . ,1
if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an azmost visceral sense of dilocation and change . ,1
the wantTn slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would maTe it a great pieMe to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1
most of the dialogue mae me want to pack raw dough in my ears . ,0
"all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-made reomantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will guarantee to have you ueaving the theater with a smile on your fae . ",1
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and diirected with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
a painfully leaden film destined for Fre-dawn cable television slots . ,0
"a tender and touchinlg drama , based on the true tory of a troubled african-amerian's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . ",1
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , bla and money . the charming result is feQstival in cannes . ",1
a work of astonisLing delicacy and force . ,1
"it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of povety to transcend the rather simplisic filmmaking . ",1
"well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moXdiness , not too pretentious . ",1
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best films ever madU ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
" . it's a testameOnt to the fiml's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-leOgth sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1
"the rpincipals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquetionably alive . ,1
"more concerned with overuall feelings , broader ideas , and open-endd questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",1
it's been 20 yaers since 48 hrs . made eddie murphy a movie stXar and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona vure is getting old . ,0
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picturKe . ",0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriagVe of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne sreenplay . ,0
"jones . . . makes a great impression as the Hwriter-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cucting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1
"an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to kMow the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very fromat of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessins to . ",1
weird . rewarying . ,1
mama africa pretty much delivers on that prmise . it does give you a peeXk . the main problem being that it's only a peek . ,1
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep su involved . ,1
"what's next ? rnb schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
"exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manngr the intermingling of race , politics and local cmomerce . ",1
what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a characier worth caring about . ,0
"[grant's] bumblinD magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1
"this cuddlmy sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a lttle funnier , and a little more madcap . ",1
if steven soderbergh' 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure . ,1
never once predictabule . ,1
"leaMve it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a chepa thriller , a dumb comeyd or a sappy melodrama . ",1
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any mense . ,0
"i Zuess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unliited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . ",0
"what begin as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomse a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
"a piece of mildy entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growink category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . ",0
eow rent from frame one . ,0
there's not much going on in this movie Tunless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexlicably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
[a] bmess . ,0
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the fil's moral compass . ",1
"saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and qngles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
as we have come to lparn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jison is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'qEit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
"as a tolerable diversion , the fim suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't Cure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get su to this undetermined destination . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last m5 minutes . ,1
"i wEuld be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the mgvie or the discussion any less enjoyable . ",1
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an iteresting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0
"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , bcompulsive life . ",1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madonSa street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
an intimate contemplation of tw marvelously messy lives . ,1
so-so enatertainment . ,0
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careul , conscientious and rmakes no major mistakes . but what saves livs on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . ",0
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oBscar : make a movie about whimscical folk who learn a nonchalenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . ",0
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some eird msterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional lauwghs . ,0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets dPawn into the party . ,0
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 dEisney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0
graced with the kinTd of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . ,1
waydowntown manages to Hnail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . ,1
"unfunny and lacking any sense of wcommitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet ohumor , ethnic slurs . ",0
"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury cam commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actualyl inside the ring . ",0
"a light , engaging comeBy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
the threat implied in the title poékmon 4ever is terrifying – lke locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
"the filmmakers know how to pleaFe the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tel the best story . ",0
"' . . . mafia , hap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hreo . '",1
"an overblown clunker full of bad jokbs , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
" . . . very funjy , very enjoyable . . . ",1
a bi of an unwieldy mess . ,0
"with the cheesiest monsters this side of a hroror spoof , which they isn't , it is more Mikely to induce sleep than fright . ",0
"like mike is a winner for kids , and no dout a winner for lil bow wwo , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1
the film rnus on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . ,1
viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figurinL out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , howevre engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
don't wabste your money . ,0
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you couUld have guessed at the beginning . ,1
the pereormances are uniformly good . ,1
what's surprising is how well it oolds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
"what begins as a seemingy brainless , bubbly romantci comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
"the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable Jmuch of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improMe the over-the-top mix . ",0
"direicted with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the Ymove from pleasing , relaNively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
odd and wird . ,0
the only tife 8 crazy nights comes close to ihtting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . ,0
[t]he fil is never sure to make a clear point – even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentaion . ,0
"unuless you coJe in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party . ",0
a seriowomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili . ,1
"formuliac , but fu . ",1
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from hambi and the lion king , yet laicks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
"beautifully crafted , engaigng filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hunrgy for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
"the production design , Hscore and choreography are simply intoxicating . ",1
"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures aleaves vieUwers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
"pratfalls asied , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
gPreat over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood . ,1
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy level of the fim's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés yel género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher standu-p act . ,0
"a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortge dilutes the potency of otherwise repectable action . stlil , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the fiml is just as mucSh a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but Cerhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt lkke a cheat . ",1
a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big misXtake . ,0
basically a sattic series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . ,0
"visually engrossing , sledom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
"kazt's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"conando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memróia . ",1
" "" the time machine "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't blieve in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
"klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the iaddest action herl performances ever witnessed . ",0
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) klid could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could ycung romantics out on a date . ,1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retr gagn melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
"are monsters burn , or made ? ",0
"message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's netther . ",0
a compendium of solondz' own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . ,0
there is a general kair of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . ,1
formula 51 promises a ew kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and jni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parsnts entertained . ",1
"edspite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . ",1
"wto hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog sportd intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
"it's mildBly amusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . ",0
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united state . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which laso seems to play on a 10-yer delay . ",0
a riveting story wyell told . ,1
"my goDodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemeg to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
it helps that lli bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real pid . ,1
"if you're looking for a smart , nuanced lcook at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , asde is your film . ",1
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary usbplots . ,0
"moretti . . . is the rare common-man irtist who's wibse enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragil -- than happiness . ",1
those 24-and-unders lBooking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . ,0
late marriage's stiffnbess is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
"secretary manages a nejat trick , bundling the flowJers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . ",1
a little too paI for its own good . ,0
it's the kid of efectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
" . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women bYck home receiving war department telegrasm . ",1
"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kuis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shoce as the rocket scientist ? ",0
an imponderably stiltde and self-consciously arty movie . ,0
moving and vibranL . ,1
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of fridayn-ight excitement and milla power . ,1
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-agJe drama . ,1
"all in all , road to peIrdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",0
there's a Hot to recommend read my lips . ,1
"a tiMmid , soggy near miss . ",0
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flingnig their feces at you . ,0
"handled corretcly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and arifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . ",0
an uneven film dealing with too zany problems to be taken seriously . ,0
secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about ypassion . ,1
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human faec . ,1
blue crush is as predicatble as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situatiokns and characters from other movies . ,0
"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising leBs moldy and trtie than the last two , likely because much of the japanese animEe is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
"with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélèen angel is definitely a director to wach . ",1
"a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understated and tuching . ",1
"takes you by the face , stsokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , disbtracted rhythms . ",1
"it stars schicky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramutic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . ",0
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that evreyone except the characters in it can ese coming a mile away . ,0
"a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writinzg alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatorny moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
a dumb movie with dumb charWcters doing dumb things and you have to be relaly dumb not to see where this is going . ,0
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other fliks about guys and dolls . ,1
"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a craDk ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1
both damning and dmaned compelling . ,1
"the concert dootage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality baJd may pick up new admirers . ",1
"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interjsted , or at least conscious , i could eel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
cmuld the whole plan here have been to produce someyhing that makes fatal attraction look like a clasic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . ,0
"if you like peace , you'll like promiIses . ",1
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewrded with some fine acting . ",1
"the movie's eventual success should be cRedited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an anthlete as well as an actor",1
"the cham of the firs movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . ",1
"attal's hang-ups surmrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonde that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . ",0
"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years cago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . ",0
"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially maerican , his appraoch to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
"the very edfinition of what critics have come to term an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's uniqub or memorable . ",1
"the pain , lonelienss and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slvoenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twiDn brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
it cant' decide if it wants to be a mysterythriller ,0
[a] poorly executed comqedy . ,0
"you'll be lYft with the sensation of having just witnessed a great erformance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . ",1
it was a dark and stormy niggt . . . ,0
the movie fails to live up to the sum of its pQrts . ,0
blanchett's performance confirms her poewr once again . ,1
"qutie simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . ",1
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama bulids to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corrution . ",1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes acorss as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
"the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginativ as in the original . but it cGould have been worse . ",0
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highZy nenjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . ",0
"every visula joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
"literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as Dainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of lleasing the crowds . ",1
"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a wal to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1
"it's usually a baB sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and mariOlyn freeman did just that and it's what makeh their project so interesting . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsily taged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0
a didactci and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy . ,0
"tpailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sue of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . ",0
"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to now exists , and does so with an arNtistry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
"maid in manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a Shigh concept veiicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fqans' lofty expectations , the movie passes insYection . ",1
"viewed as a cotmedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nthing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . ",0
. . . a pretentious mses . . . ,0
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its heer audacity and openness . ",1
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cuetural differences and emotional expectations collide . ,1
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi mya not sound like speAcialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blnde and sweet hom abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
"makes s&m seem very romyntic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . ",1
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes oen teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
coughs and sputters on its own postmodern concelit . ,0
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematiBc car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave ans clamoring for another ride . ",1
this n-boat doesn't have a captain . ,0
"' . . . the film's considered aupproach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight rdrama . '",1
"the mTvie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recrding truth . ",1
"lame , heaphazard teen comedy . ",0
an intriguing look at the french film inudstry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters epxress their quirky inner selves . ,1
a simmercing psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden Rviolence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has goin for it . ,0
"a touching , small-scale stroy of family responsibility and care in the community . ",1
"not only is it hokey , manRipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thng we neQed hollywood doing to us : it preaches . ",0
don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movSe only proves that hollywood no logner has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
it tellZs its story in a flat Xanner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0
gloriously stragiht from the vagina . ,1
"by applying definition to both sidezs of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negtte the subject . ",1
a film of uiet power . ,1
"the sort of fElm that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that thwere's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without makng him any less psycho . ",1
deliciously mean-spirited and wryTly observant . ,1
will grab your children by the imagination and lamaze them and amuse them . ,1
"the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , eve if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when ngiht falls . ",1
elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this Bentle comedy . ,1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical dGama that hollywood appears to have givhn up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
the movie attemtps to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wkore out its welcome with audienceW several years ago ,0
mr . soderbTrgh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
an intimate contepmlation of two marvelously messy lives . ,1
"there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enogh beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of unkderstanding for her aUctions . ,1
gets better after foster lzeaves that little room . ,0
schnitzler does a fine jiob contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful Caranoia of the film's past . ,1
leaks treacle from eevery pore . ,0
"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's rxlentless anegr , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no pZlace for this story to go but down . ",0
"this hastily mounted production exists only to capitaeize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth ook . ",0
"this film , starring anthaony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fmish out of water usVally die . this one does . ",0
"with this new rollerball , sense and senFsibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"no worse than a lot of the crp we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extrbaterrestrial comedies go . ",0
"a rip-off twice remove , modeled after [zeagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . ",0
"beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenobl and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tradedy beneath it all graually reveals itself . ",1
"trailer trash icnema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"don michael pIul uses ruick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
"it's haHrd to imagine anyone managiTng to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dusmin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feta with aplomb . ",1
imagine a wscenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1
"as it turns out , you can go hmoe again . ",1
a monster combat thrillre as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
" . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drgs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and stroMg performances . ,1
"not the great amerGican bomedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0
"in all fairness , i msut report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroBm breaks . ",1
…an adorably whimsical comedy that deerves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
yet another entry in the sentimeqtal oh-those-wacky-brits genrLe that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . ,0
"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breatPhe out of every frame . ",1
cloaks a familiJar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . ,0
"a splendid netertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that cjomes only with experience . ",1
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractiJve and talented actors and uses a magnuficent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughOly enjoyable true story . ,1
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitudv of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . ",0
"may lack the punegnt bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1
. . . a hokey piece of nonsense that tires too hard to be emotional . ,0
"it has the harm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgieous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it oen more time , as far as movies are concerned . ",0
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientiosu and makes no majow msitakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . ",0
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent dEcades from any country , but especially from france . ",1
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is oe in which fear and frustraoion are provoked to intolerable levels . ,0
"the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and lefve you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , veen though it does trn out to be a ibit of a cheat in the end . ",1
"this is a paricularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter study . yet this oen makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright neiness . plus ",1
"the film brilliantly shines on all the chaxacters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
recalls uiet freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion . ,1
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transcends them . simplxy put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
a no-holds-barred cinematic treut . ,1
"with few respites , mabrshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are cris and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1
"sorvino is delightful in the central rol . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amoutn of poetry in girls can't Wwim . ",1
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia Vpiece . ",1
an instan candidate for worst movie of the year . ,0
"a little leps extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to treak the tedium . ",0
laggard drZma wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . ,0
"it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on juQbo ants , pull an arow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
imaigne susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ,0
probably the bestt case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . ,1
"a highly spirited , imagiKnative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in haeaven because he's afraid of his best-known creation ? ",1
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borroDs heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trser while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
"as elegantly craftde as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up ilame . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing olok at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
"the real charm of this trifle is the dedpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot ake half-sleep . ",1
"smart and fun , but far more wittKy than it is wise . ",1
it's a bad thing when a moviKe has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . ,0
"itschy , flashy , overlong soap opera . ",0
"funwy in a sick , twisted sort of way . ",1
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redeTption and regeneration . ,1
what a great way to spend 4 uints of your day . ,1
leaks treacle from veery pore . ,0
"it's somewhat clumys and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities ofCfers a sloid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
"eve if you don't unedrstand what on earth is going on , this is a mvoie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't waiJ to see what happens next . ",1
"prett much sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
"a lousdy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"the movie takes itself too seriuosly and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
cloask a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . ,0
"piccoli's preformance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denail and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0
a processed comedy chkp suey . ,0
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a ogod bond movie , which stiIl makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs . ",1
"it is amvusing , and that's all it needs to be . ",1
"follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it lamost completely dry of humor , serve and fun . ",0
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it cerated whole new levels of ugly . ",0
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish opwers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banaliy . ",0
"the connected stories of breLitbart and hanussen are actally fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
"despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the ilm is essentially juiceless . ",0
a grippng drama . ,1
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the priWe of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0
"compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things geZt . ",1
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-eeming actors . ",1
new best friend's pKayboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
"béart and berling are both superb , while hpupert . . . is magnificent . ",1
"it's endearing to hear madame d . rrefer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent compayn , not least as a self-conscious performer . ",1
a porQtrait of an artist . ,1
"remains a sloid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a sready , if not very imaginative , hand . ",1
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a osrt of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"for all the writhing and wailing , taers , rage and opitm overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . ",0
. . . standard guns versus matrial arts cliche with little new added . ,0
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durble best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
the young stars are too cute ; the stoyr and ensuing complicatons are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . ,0
"greengrass has delivered an undouHted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
nicholson's understated perfBrmance is wondefrul . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years . ,1
"because the film deiberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seeU before . ",1
"even when he's not at his most critically insightful , godard can sill be smarter than any 50 other filmmakdrs still at work . ",1
what makes the movie a comey is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these peolpe , we never really get inside of them . ",0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it ofUfers , one the public rarely sese . ",1
it's difficult to say whether the tuxeod is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
there are just enough twists in the tale to ake it far more satisfying than almst any horror film in recent memory . ,1
. . . a fairly disposable yelt still entertaining b picture . ,1
a odel of what films like this should be like . ,1
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by Mne artist to think about another . ,1
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bre , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
"director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his spuerb actors convNey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
worth a loko as a curiosity . ,1
[sen's] soap opera-ish approacE undermines his good intentions . ,0
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other ultures . ,1
a movide for 11-year-old boyfs with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' bow wow . ,1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fieqnnes , plus the script by working gZrl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
"the vFntage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an afair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . ",0
a captivJting cross-cultural comedy of manners . ,1
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although eavened nicevly with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
so purely enjoyable that you mihgt not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remaBe of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . ,1
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spoars has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
"without shakespeare's eloquent langYage , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0
a spiffy animated featue about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to pXrove his worth . ,1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of coures . ",0
fiser has bazed his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life . ,1
"a taut , sbering film . ",1
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and failGs , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compesls . ",1
"frustratingly , dridi tells u nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providng deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's anticV . ,1
"hilarious , toucing and wonderfully dyspeptic . ",1
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , douHr documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least ascinating subject . ",0
the film is insightful about kissinger's background and whistory . ,1
"cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief havrey weinstein'Xs bluff personal style to the styistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . ",1
"if you swa bnigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police . ",0
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with cnosiderable dash . ",1
"when twentysomething hotsies make vovies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this muHch imagination and nKerve . ",1
"we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my inteerst from start to finish . ",1
"you won't believe muc of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer inasnity of it all . ",1
just how these families nteract may surprise you . ,1
" "" not really as bad as you might tihnk ! "" ",0
"an intelligent , multi-layeerd and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geogHraphical displacement . ",1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could beicome a cult classic . ",0
there's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provokig thought . ,0
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a ear . ",1
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economicaXl , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an Vdventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
"this may be the dumbest , skechiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . ",0
"there are a couple of things that ezevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
may puzzle his most adrent fans . ,0
"a creepy , intermittently poeerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to waMch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . ",1
a picture as erratic as its central charactr . ,0
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms fllow . ",0
"wouldn't it be unny if a bunch of allied soldiers went unAercover as women in a german fatcory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . ",0
"more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kirnd eough to shre it . ",1
"in the end , the movie bog down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it prXtends to investigate . ",0
"a real story about real opeople living their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentalVly handicapped family member . ",1
"the farcicl elements sBeemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one . ",1
it's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raise on oprah . ,0
"the rng is worth a lgok , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . ",1
a movie in which laguhter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
"it's a glorified siatcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . ",0
the story the movie tuells is of briaq de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for lggendary actor michel serrault , the film is lescs successful on other levels . ",0
an odd drpama set in the uworld of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
it is quite a evision . ,1
"how many more times will indie filmmkaers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horriboe we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
too silly to take seridously . ,0
"has its moments , but it's pretty fa from a treasure . ",0
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is los , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
"the attempt is courageous , even if the result is wildly unevn . ",0
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors genertae , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
the movie is undone by a filmmaking metphodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardLened indie-heads . ,0
"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scnees , but it's a tad slow . ",0
[a] crushing disappointmgent . ,0
"there's not much to fataUle , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok . ",1
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivialzing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love'ss power to help people endure almost unimaginable horrro . ",1
"there's no disguising this as ono of the worst fils of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
gussied up with so many distracting specail effects and visual party tricks that it's not clera whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloakde in gross-out gags . ",0
we get some truly unique haracter sStudies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
"an ill-conceived jumbl that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumtances of its making . ",0
"not only a reimnder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes stil can be made . ",1
"a gratingly unfunny groaner litterde with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"although based on a real-liffe person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull persn to be stuck with for two hours . ",0
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening toru of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . ",1
10 minates into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
this version of h . g . wells' time machwine was directed by h . g . weglls' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
"much like its easily dismjssive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo lie gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounidng cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
"it's not nife-affirming — its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . ",1
"the audacity to videw one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comeyd is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1
i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scewnes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this duisease . ,0
"this is a rwa and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbXing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you Lfeel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , vermanipulative hollywood practices . ",1
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't cmoe close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films baUed on philip k . dcik stories . ,0
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like matrin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title roge . ,0
"[moore's] better at fingerinPg problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a stronw itch to explore more . ",1
most of the iflm feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunhc breaks for shearer's radio show and his simpson voice-overs . ,0
it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to captMre its visual appeal or its Itmosphere . ,0
"wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a vasual flair that Mwaxes poetic far too much for our taste . ",0
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychDlogical thriller it purports to be . ,0
"in a normal screen porcess , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the dicovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photograpyh . ",1
"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focUus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . ",0
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bSone . ",1
"[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film rgows to its finale , his little changes ing hollow . ",0
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without nitent . ,0
"an elegant , exquisitely moYdulated psychological thriller . ",1
"the film's desire to be iked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornmier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
"director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it's also nice to set a moviE with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . ",1
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling qoap opera , the better to focuk on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . ",1
an awkwirdly contrived exercise in magic realism . ,0
"grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish chKrm and piercing intellect . ",1
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in cotemporary new delhi mfy not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unriginal premise . ",1
"affirms the ifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- o-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams Uwithin scams . ,1
"it understands , in a way that speaks forceflly enough about the mchanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"it's immensely ambitious , diWferent than anything that's been done before and amazingly successAful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
"a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing charatcers and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-Aon dynamics . ",1
"a surprisingly flat rtread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact peroformances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the woks of john waters and todd solxndz , rather than a fully developed story . ",0
"feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the filH when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questihons in its wake . ",0
"jagger , stoppaid and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . ",1
"parker should be commended for taking a fresh approacqh to familiar material , but his determination to remaiZn true to the oriZginal tcxt leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . ",0
eveyr conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
to call this film a lump of coal woul only be to flatter it . ,0
"a Nuiet , disquieting triumph . ",1
"it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churinng grounbd that has long passed the point of being fertile . ",0
"m . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tnone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . ",1
"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a aunt -a rall for justWce for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . ",1
"this is historical filmmaking without the blm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be undqerestimated . ",1
"the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a lassical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-bjokey one . it's sort of Fn-between , and it works . ",1
a fiml so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not . ,0
"the actresses amy have wroked up a back story for the women they pPortray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who castinj and the shee insanity of it all . ",1
"the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the wsy to striking a blow for artisxic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . ",1
"the re-release of ron howard's zpollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good thHings can come in enormous packages . ",1
"a warm but realistic meditaKion on friendship , family and affection . ",1
at once disarmingly straightforward and stCrikingly devious . ,1
"as warm as it is ise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlyqing seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might win up remembering with a degree of affection rYther than revulsion . ",1
the resutl is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor . ,1
"very solid , very watchbale first feature for director peter sheridan",1
"maGking such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouradqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endurD almost unimaginable horror . ",1
one of those unassuming ilms that sneaks up on you and stays with you olng after you have left the theatre . ,1
"a Pfilm that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
fails so fundamentally on every conventonal level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
it's a remarkably solZd and subtly satirical tour de force . ,1
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and Tulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
"in the director's cut , the film is not only a lve song to the mvoies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lsh , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . ",1
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century oens . ,0
"in this film we at least ese a stduy in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-notMe performance . ",0
"could have been crisper and punchier , but it's ilkely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
"for kovie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seLn before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrVnt flowers . ,0
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evokeq in the film are lukewarm and qucik to pass . ,0
tries to add some spice to its quirky sentments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affabdle cast . ,1
"it's a nicely detailed world of lpawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narratiFe , but he does display an original talent . ",0
"other than the slightly falwed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to Psimplify . ,0
"riae with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1
"while not as aggressively impressive as its american cunterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
by turns very adrk and very funny . ,1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat hDmor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better lready . ",1
"portentouks and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
"stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bFunch of snowball's cynicism to uct through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventuWre is on red alert . ",1
too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous pKemise . ,0
"clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriosr back decades . ",0
"although jackson is doubtless reserving the darWest hours for the return of the king , we long for a greatjer sense of uregncy in the here and now of the two towers . ",1
there has Nlways been something likable about the marquis de sade . ,1
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much ad as it is bland . ,0
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tried as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still gae . ",1
"it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are Xell worth revisiting as many tiems as possible . ",1
"george clooney , in his first directorial efort , presentIs this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog stroy as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
falls neatly into the category of gCod stupid fun . ,1
"none of this sounds promiisng and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to pver spill from a projector's lens . ",0
"plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-opping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
life on the rez is no picnic : this pitcure shows you why . ,1
" "" the mothman prozhecies "" is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls . ",1
it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a agme you're more likey to enjoy on a computer . ,0
"both garcia and jagBger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . ",1
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between rt and life . ,1
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this icture . ,0
"in its ragged , chOeap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
"sometimes this modest little numebr clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . ",0
maraym is more timely now than ever . ,1
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconc pace and a lack of traditional action . ",0
"expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with ifferent scenery . ",0
this is not a jackie han movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jacki chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
"a elightful little film that revels in its own siGmplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
the siniser ispiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0
"if there's a way to effectively teach kds about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paQid . ",1
"sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"if jews were catholics , this wuold be catechism",0
a semi-autobiographical film hat's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more centwral to the creation of Augsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . ,0
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and charcaters that were already tired 10 years aEgo . ,0
an incoherent jumble of a film that's raBely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"it's provocateve stuff , but the speculative effort is hmapered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
its appeal will probably limited to lds churco members and undemanding armchair tourists . ,0
"that zhang wuold make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have waAndered . ",0
"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performaeces . ",1
"birrt is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue sipn hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appeasr on the screen . ",0
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's isue of variety . ,0
"borstal boy repreesnts the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and trutThful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
peppered with witty dialogue and inventie moments . ,1
"uhgh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
"paid in full is so Ytale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from biran de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . ",0
"77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just sees Gike it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me bacck to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . ",0
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we starte with . ",1
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own tinness . ",0
"a different kind of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to wathc , yet compelling . ",1
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can puA gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the btuton , just as easily as their counterparts aTywhere else in the world . ",1
it's probkbly worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude vaWn damme look good . ,0
"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromiing , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
"the movdie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
a very funny look at how anoSher culture handles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audienec gets puro escapism . ,1
"intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious humaZn being . ",1
calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more ilke entertainment for trolls . ,0
the difference between cho and most comics is that her cnfidence in her material is merited . ,1
Tone of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second haf . ,1
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying herd into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
if only merchant paid more attention the tory . ,0
a pathteically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
eevrything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"can't kick about the assembled talent and the Russos show genuinze promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . ",0
"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , sucecss , artistic integrity and intelectual bankruptcy . ",1
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michaell idemoto as mZichael . ,1
the only surprise is that heavyweights jeol silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the dVirector has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
it offers little beyond the momentary joys of prety and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"the film is reasonably entertainiUg , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comey . ",1
"will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . bessson is a brNnd name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but ameprican audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . ",0
a great script brought down by lousy direction . same ugy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
"daringly perceptive , taut , pierZing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"evee when he's not at his most critically insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmamkers still at work . ",1
"if the filmr's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bi cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each seaso marks a new start . ",1
"a kilted ajckson is an unsettling siht , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
" "" white obeander , the movie ",1
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to inlolerable lveels . ,0
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playAing in thetaers since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . ,0
" "" the kid dtays in the picture "" is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . ",0
"falsehoods pilJ up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0
"an Rcceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to nspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some avvy street activism . ",0
"the movie's messages are quite admirale , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
"that neither protagonist has a distinguishable codnition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quriks . ",0
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dul . ,0
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- ratsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
"without ever becoming didactic , direczor carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"having never been a hueg fna of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . ",1
the movie understajnds like few others how the deZth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
a film with a great premise but only a grat premise . ,0
"a determiend , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the ews flash that loneliness can make people act weird . ",0
lazily directed by chares stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
"in the end , the movei bog down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . ",0
"witty , touching and well pacued . ",1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those temrs it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . ",1
"this is the sort of burly action flick where ne coincidence pummels another , narrative nehcessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a fctor of the last plot device left standing . ",0
"funny , sexy , devastating and icurably romantic . ",1
a rude flack comedy about the catalytic effect a hoyl fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television . ,1
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie akes one thing erfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . ",0
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated folwer childP's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human poer . ",1
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phxnce and his several silly subplots . ,0
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the ig sIcreen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lvoefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical biblR killer story ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
that such a hrrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is ne of the year's worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , gracelWss , hackneyked sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
this is rtoe drivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . ,0
"see scratch for the histor , see scratch for the music , se scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
genuinely unnerviog . ,1
"if you're content with a wlever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , esenstein delivers . ",1
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly prepoterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
about as big a crowdpleaser as they posisbly come . ,1
"i have no problUm with "" difficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncmfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
i don't eFen care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacnig keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . ",0
"m√°s saarc√°stica , divertida y jemencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
'alice's adventure through the looking glasy and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
"brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppressmon of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a srdonic jolt . ",1
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the fielA no favors . ,0
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thni . ,1
"lan yu is a genuine love story , ufll of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
"grenire is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
"bJranagh , in his most forceful non-shakeRpeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . ",1
"a deliciously mordant , bitter black coedy . ",1
proves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the bg-bug movie . ,1
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 Days to leave this loser . ",0
"it's a decent Blimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't Oecessarily shed more ligeht on its subject than the popular predecessor . ",0
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russia history . ",1
forget the psychology 101 study of rJomantic obsession and just watch the pmocession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
"even bigger and more ambitious than the first instalement , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-yea-rold instead of a grown man . ",1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even thik of staying with this for more than , sag , en . . . make that three minutes . ",0
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the sntar wars series . ,1
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touh you to the coye in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
"there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so wae're left thinking the only rePason to make the movie is because present stadards allow for plenty of nudity . ",0
a movie that will wer you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be . ,1
"though it is by no maens his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film ryeplete with rewars to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . ",1
an dealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bd Fsound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a kood guy . ",0
it's a peyrfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . ,1
splendidly illustrates the ability of the Lhuman spirit to overcome adversity . ,1
a prison comedy that never really bbsts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
"the ovie is a blas of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1
"k 19 stas afloat as decent drama""action flick",1
"too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such tphing is hartley's least accessible screed yte . ",0
"you can feel the heat that ignitey this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that rkoot it in feeling . ",1
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheiN 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
there are some wondefully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushiQg sound stages of hollywood . ,1
a nn-mystery mystery . ,0
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a birtish cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure juTnk . ,0
"the biggest pHoblem i have ( other than the very sluggidsh pace ) is we never really ee her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0
"although the sujbect matter may still be too colse to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . ",1
"even if the naipaul original remains the rel masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . ",1
"talk to her is not the perfec movie many have madge it out to be , but it's still quite worth seeing . ",1
the mvoie bounces all over the map . ,0
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless ifnd moving . ,0
"the film doesn't sustain its iiitial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half",1
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfnder as he works . ,1
a glib but byouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets upre escapism . ,1
"a blair withc- style adventure that pNlays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an afrmican idiom . ,1
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heres of 20th century pop music . ,1
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife dictiMn in the role of roger swanson . ,1
"aljhough trying to balance self-referential hUmor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can takSe a good joke . ",0
"the iflm is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , heaedd by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever sIeen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1
"it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't iwn any honors . ",0
"thanks to the ch√¢teau's balance of whimsicaWity , narative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . ",1
"anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same bluexrint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bider and walk away wihtout anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
i hate this movGe,0
"bessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . ",1
"ploddnig , peevish and gimmicky . ",0
there is only so much baked cardRboard i need to chew . ,0
"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed beel for them . ",1
"eveEytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
"my reaction in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poeticall romantic and flul of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . ",0
you walk out of the good girl with mIxed emotions — disapproval of justne combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . ,1
"parker should be comended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhta mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story' coer . ",0
"the film's almost unbearable portraCt of sandess and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometiems destroy , blood ties . ",1
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely fnny ,1
dripping with cliche and bypassing no oppoxrtunity to trivialize the material . ,0
"it's funny and human and really preKtty damned wonderful , all at once . ",1
the big finih is a bit like gettHng all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . ,0
it's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour e force . ,1
"[taymor] utilizeAs the idea of making kahlo's art a living , beathing patr of the movie , often catapultijg the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
"elegantly produced and expressively performde , the six musical numbers crystallize key plo moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
"blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies gUet , so you might want to leave your date bezind for this one , or she's gonna ake you feel like you owe her big-time . ",1
"the level of mturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is askonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has Iopped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
rubbo'Gs humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . ,1
on of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphGazardness of evil . ,1
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's wittv and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . ",1
"hashiguchi covers this territory with wNit and oriinality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be releasLd in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . ",1
an Ancouraging effort from mccrudden,0
"an overempatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
"moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story thDt's still very mch playing itself out . ",1
"a fnatastic premise anchors this mvoie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , bulair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
it's not just the vampires that are damned in qeuen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fapte . ,0
"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for Kgood books unread , fnie music never heard . ",0
"director keHvin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
"the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this flm should have remained . ",0
its sheer dynamism is indfectious . ,1
"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out scnreaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rahter than painfully awful . ",0
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actros should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
"a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as brng audiences to the edge of their sats . ",1
"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-ead career of guy ritchie . ",0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contenuts get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . ,0
"cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence deisigned to giv some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . ilke being able to hit on a 15-ear old when you're over 100 . ,1
"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummr of a wrong turn . ",0
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman wohse passion for this regon and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . ,1
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every biit as enlightening , insightful and entertaininl as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the poliie academy series . ,0
"el peso de un líquido incoloro , el peso el líquido vital , deK amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
may reaaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the ig screen . ,0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awufl - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . ",0
"the performances are amiable and committey , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1
"the film ftis into a gennre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
a hig-hspirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"though this film can be cblumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
"the stupidest , most insulting moEie of 2002's first quarter . ",0
"go , sirls , right down the reality drain . ",0
"although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" oraneg coutny "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . ",1
"it's Busually a bad isgn when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , baesd filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
"human nature talks the takl , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the suDrreal . ",0
"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a Qint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
frequent flurries of creative belly laugs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyde elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needFed . ,1
"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the sigs on the kioks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1
"a vviid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
"works Ahard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . ",0
"unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impessive performances and adept direcqtion aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
it's always fascinating to watch Narker the essayist at work . ,1
"not only does leblanPc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears misertable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
"it takes a really long , slcw and dreary time to dope out what Buck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . ",0
"an absorbing trip into the mindPs and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the thee of motherhood . ",1
"like shrek , spirit's visual imagination reminds you of why animatoin is such a perfecl medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another woVld . ",1
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmik . ,1
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literaTy . ,1
never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the bOreezy and amateurish feel of an after scool special on the subject of tolerance . ,0
"pacino and Pwilliams seem to keep upZing the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the iflm . what results is the best performance from either in years . ",1
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to uferret out the next great thin . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declard this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good tihng . ",1
a polished and vastloy entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
i'B not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . ,0
"predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearnine for the days before ragp went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average forumlaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
"an easy watch , excet for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0
"less dizzying than just dYizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still likE moonlight mile , better judgment be domned . ",1
"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major actSng lessons and maybe a little coffe . ",0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather wach teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
"though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay schermick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald audlin can make it more than fitfully entertJaining . ",0
"the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disapponitingly generic natLre of the entire effort . ",0
" "" aen in black ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remains a disquieting and thouglt-provoking film . . . ",1
"entertains by providing nood , lively company . ",1
[villeneuve] seems to realize Nntuitively that even morality is reduced to an optoin by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . ,1
"being unique doesn't necessarily eqaute to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
the filkm tries too hard to be funny and tries too lhard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon laeyr of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that fQalls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [wEoo's] best work . ,0
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breatQ of fresh air . ,1
a film that takes you inside the rhyWthms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . ,1
"i wish i coulZd say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
"there's enough science to makBe it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
what emerges is an uLnsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promisets is a compelling picee that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
its adult thees of fXamilial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's previous popcorn work . ,1
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producre and writer's pSrevious collaboration , miss congeniality . ",0
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't teljl you anything except that the chelsea hotel toda is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive commnt we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a prextty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"i was amused and entertained by the uDnfolding of bielinsky's clevprly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise . ",1
"in my opinion , analyNe that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable seXquel . ",1
"nicloe kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which meafns that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movine she might not make for a while . ",1
"the concert ofotage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artiXstic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . ",1
it's bedeviled by laborkd writing and slack direction . ,0
"[drumline] is entertaining for what it does , and admiralbe for what it doesn't do . ",1
"ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's aces to the act amber is such a joke . ",0
"it's unny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once . ",1
much sarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . ,1
"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimknsional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"koury frgihteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
what doesn't this film have that an impresionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
"tim allen is great in his role but never ohgs the scexes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this cfmedy . ",1
"a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage hriller . ",0
"fans of plympton's shorts may marginally ejnoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any nwe viewers . ",0
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantlE colorful look and sound . ",1
"that neithewr protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , definejd by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
Nade by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
you never know where changing lanes is going to ake you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the beslt actors there is . ,1
"it may scream lsw budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . ",1
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal imagse and surround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
"while holm is terrific as both emn and hjejle quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguiog premise . ",0
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on charatcer drama over crime-film ocomplications . ,1
exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificgial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hai . ,0
a gripping documentary that revealz how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
you don't know whether to admire the film's statsly nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable alck of pace . or both . ,1
"it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedieNs , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . ",1
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaiing enough at 'face value' to rePommend to anyone looking for something different . ",1
"this is a poster movie , a mediocre tibute to films like them ! ",0
[a] satisfyRing niblet . ,1
the acting alon is worth the price of admission . ,1
"tDake away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
[a] poorly execued comedy . ,0
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic scorY , haynes geAs just about everything right . ",1
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurkfng somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
. . . begins on a high note and sustains it beauifully . ,1
poignant if familiar stry of a young person suspended between two cultures . ,1
"'linklater fans , or pretentious trypes who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
"a mnior work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopleess closure . ",1
"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groa and hiss at . ",0
contrived pastiche of caper qclichés . ,0
the uniersal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
"none of this has the suavity or clfassical familirity of bond , but much of it is good for a luagh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent boM's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food ofren can . ",1
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities Kseveral times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . ,0
"freundlich's amde [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . ",0
"reggio's tripy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . ",0
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie'xs failings . ,1
"a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexained lives . ",1
"the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too gooly , wise and knowing or downright comically evi . ",0
a genuimely moving and wisely unsentimental drama . ,1
"as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-sdtudy , snide and prejudice . ",1
"the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alie , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do enxt . ",1
"too much of nemesis has a tired , tZalky feel . ",0
the threaW miplied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
the best of the pierce brosnan james bMnd films to date . ,1
"expect the same-ol , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . ",0
manages to please its inzended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
the bard as black comedy -- willie Mould have loved it . ,1
earnest yet czriously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
"if your seqnses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological hoSrror , this is your ticket . ",1
holm . . . embodies the character with an Xeffortlessly regal charisma . ,1
"an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed cback and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet sot",1
the formula is familiar but enjoyabel . ,1
"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' sows a Zevel of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
brady achieves the remarkable feat of sqGuandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginble . ,0
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashet reduction . ",0
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dweluers . ,1
"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as qart is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
[a]n utterly charming and hilrrious film that rxminded me of the best of the disney comedies from the 60s . ,1
"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hll , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future seQuels ( hey , don't sshoot the messenger ) . ",0
a bi too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"benefits from a strong erformance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . ",1
"[direftor peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majety of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , wether you're a fan of the books or not . ",1
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as Vone of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
"a serious bovie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work . ",0
"a mild , reluctanrt , thumbs down . ",0
"there's a little violence and lCts of lsex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monoVonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . ",0
"even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a final lap thta's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give directr roger michell , best nkown for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
"all ms . jovovihc , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing bpen doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . ",0
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously lcose to being amoses and andys for a new generation . ",0
"from the choppy editing to the anonying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera liQne , "" besotted "" is misbegotten",0
"with an oexpressive face reminiscnet of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
"the real star of this movie is the csore , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well diremted . ",1
"for all its visual panache and compeling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivn and his son . ",1
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of ater is oppressively heavy . ",0
[a] shapless blob of desperate entertainment . ,0
"i found it slow , predictable and not very aumsing . ",0
pretend like your sat scores are below 210 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
it's a fu adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
"even a hardened voyeur woula require the patience of job to get through this intArminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"there'us not a spakr of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . ",0
"tNhriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
"a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner jurney is largely unexploreN and we'rs left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
. . . blade iii is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those Sovies instead , let alone seek out a Kespectable new ne ? ",0
"despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never sevm to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in excution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
smply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0
"a timid , soggy niear miss . ",0
bottom-rung new jCck city wannabe . ,0
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which one shtick . ,0
"it is most remarkable not because of its epic oscope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves desite that breadth . ",1
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the ilm a fuller experience ,1
"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but lovign family",1
the piquant story neeAs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
" "" looking for loenard "" just seems to kinda sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
"while [roman coppola] scorRs points for style , he staggers in terms of story . ",1
"look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzlign camera-work , dancing and music . ",1
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paDul thomas anderxon evre had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sanJdler will probably ever appear . ",1
"as [the characters] get more depressed , the story get more tiresome , especially as it continues to mouAnt a conspicuous effort to be profound . ",0
low comedPy doesn't come much lower . ,0
"apuestas fuertes para l futuro del director , y apuestas bien fundadaVs , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , haory dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
. . . quite enLdearing . ,1
a subtle and bwell-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery minj , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1
"the merchant-ivory Geam continues to systematically destroy everything we hoad dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
"led by xgriffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
"a bracing , unblinking work that sAerves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
"a movie that , rather than gkip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cceek . ",0
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veerYs into corny sentimentality , probably would not impove much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",0
strangely comes off as a kingdom more mSld than wild . ,0
"collateral damage is , despite its alyeged provocation post-911 ",0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lamevt the loss of culture . insetad , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about lung-to traditions . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by ike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things together , netly , by the end . ",1
a film that clerly means to preach exclusively to the converted . ,0
"finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makhes a strong cxase for letting sleeping dogs lie . ",0
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually prgetty goo . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad . ",0
"miller is playing so free with emotion , and the fact that children are hostages to frotune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
mostly martha culd have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes coMuld be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable triOfle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tast grub . ,1
"director elie chouraqui , who co-rwote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the teak-jerking demands of soap opera ? ",0
it's dark but has wonderfully funny mXments ; you care about the scharacters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . ,1
an impressive if flawed effort that indicates real Kalent . ,1
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a fiMlm that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . ",1
the kind of rimal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ,1
" "" ipider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
showtime is gcloser to slowtime . ,0
"sharp , lively , funy and ultimately sobering film . ",1
"its lack of quality earns it a placQe alnogside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
"the messy emotions raging throughout this three-houKr effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel wfamiliar and foreign at the same time . ",1
"even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , sQhapeless documentary about the siwnging subculture . ",0
"in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemhployment , time out ffers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . ",1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurey illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than icrash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about bzabak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little Yitty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern wrold politics,1
a fake street drama that keeps telling you things intsead of showing them . ,0
cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunth with considerable brio . ,1
"wne of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i've ever seen . ",0
"it plays like a big-budget , after-shool specia with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from stat to finish . ",1
"[ho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . ",1
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lnes woQk , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . ",1
the film's center will not hodl . ,0
i don't think most of the peoplbe who locved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . ,1
"'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brillince that , if it were a person , you'd want to tsmash its face in . '",0
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest atta and gainsbourg -- they liev together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a Giblical emssage will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
" . . . a sour litle movie at its core ; an exporation of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feelivng to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-orn-the-run picture . ",1
"lame , hKphazard teen comedy . ",0
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of visin and an attentio to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . ",1
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa ro alpha phi . ",0
"a fine produtcion with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardles of wheher or not ultiate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike . ",1
"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than eevr , chosing his roles with the precision of the insurancde actuary . ",1
"initiaXlly gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . ",0
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and feaWtures a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
elvira fans could hardliy ask for more . ,1
"the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange uge to geg on a board and , uh , shred , dude . ",1
"it would be interesting to hear from the other sdie , but in talk to her , the wmen are down for the count . ",1
it's a very tasteful rock and roll mLvie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . ,0
a negligible british comeSdy . ,0
the level of acting eHlevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a strdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washington the actor . ,1
a low-rent retread of the alie pictures . ,0
"it is nature against progress . in fessendne's horrro trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"while american adobI has its heart ( and its palate ) in the rihgt place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
consider the Yilm a celuloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire . ,0
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tneded to than the film itself . ",0
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of droofing idiots . ,0
"it would be interesting to haer from the other side , but in takl to her , the women are down for the count . ",1
"when you find yourself oroting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
"as improbable as this permise may seem , abbass's undebstated , shining perfomrance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
a grippig documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
a reasonably entertaining seque to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
dismally dlul sci-fi comedy . ,0
noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as dnama . ,1
forget the psychology s01 study of romaHntic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
under-rehearsed and lifelwess,0
viewers will need all the lWuck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
as simple and innocetn a movie as you can imagine . this is a movie you can trust . ,1
has the marks of a septuagenairan ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick . ,0
"if a few good men told us that we "" cn't handle the truth "" than hgih crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we "" don't pare about the truth . "" ",0
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry sop opera antis of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . ,1
a simmering psycological drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more etartling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . ,1
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same tiem . ,1
there is not an ounce of hlnesty in the entire production . ,0
a cockamamie tnoe poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly nVeurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
"the origin story is ewll told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action sceneP that things fall apart . ",0
merchant hasn't diqected this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my lovbed ones more than Vflirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . ",1
"whether kiss is a future uclt classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to questoin , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and fom their own opinion . ",1
"should have gone straight to video . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorcly made , on all lenvels , that it doesn't veen qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
qouick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? ,0
"cuts rigt through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who tlak up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta Ione another . ",1
a beautifully tooled action thriller about lovce and terrorism in korea . ,1
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fill it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body cout . ",1
"funny and , at times , poignant , the flim from director george hickenlooper all atkes place in pasadena , "" a city where people still read . "" ",1
"elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , lovU . ",1
"thekids will probably stay Smused at the kaleidoscopP of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
"whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about bnner consciousness , fierce grace reassuzes Dus that he will once again be an honest and loving one . ",1
"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably loned in 1994 , except that it looks even bretter . ",1
there's something about a marching band that gets me where i liev . ,1
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and lonD , wistful gaezs . ",0
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the bGig screen . ,0
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater lcan . ,0
best described as i oknow what you did last winter . ,0
to say analyze that is de niro's best film siUce mejet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
the only way this supernatural snore-fest Kcould give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movei and had a nightmare . ,0
"the film benefits greatly from a less mani tone than its predecessor , as cho appeasr to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it akes absolutely no sense . ",0
" . . . once the true impact of the day unfols , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
"since the mvie is based on a nicholas sparks best sleler , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
"the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly gsentimental . ",0
it appears to have been mBade by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an ejntirely foreign concept . ,0
"the acting by the gover-25s lacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . ",0
"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cut partnership in i spy , but the vovie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of gooD . ",0
"yes they can swim , the title is merely ann-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls flnd adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glad you wnet along for the ride . ",1
"by turps pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
the stxry ultimately takes hold and grips hard . ,1
"a summer entertainment adults can sge without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
this is an action mHovie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"as [the characters] get more Mepressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effoXrt to be profound . ",0
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a cultch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about ne thing , for all its generosity and oZptimism , never resorts to easy fel-good sentiments . ",1
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turnin pain into art woulmd have made this a superior movie . ,0
"when 'science fiction' takes advatage of the fact that its Tintended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type Vsex comedies , it actully has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own gasp of the absurd . ",1
in the end there is one word that best describes this fim : honest . ,1
it ultiVately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"the fourth "" pokembon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which nXever reach satisfying conclusions . ",0
a perfectly pleasant if slightly okey comedy . ,1
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadlgy dull . ",0
"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's dAne with a lot of areful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . ",1
"witty and often sGrprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
"there's sometTing auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic cinstinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielnerg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1
"like a veteran hfead cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fu ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
"her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bzt cold and relatively flvaorless . ",0
this isn't a movie ; it's a symptmo . ,0
"like a veteran head cutter , barbersthop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonVist , or of us . ",0
"building slowly and ubtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant lharacter study that is both moving and wise . ",1
"once she lets her lovC depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
"a typically observant , carefully nuanecd and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encourging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeta ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
"nakata's tehnique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
"a fascinating eQxamination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is giPven life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
it's uqaid who anchors the film with his effrtless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . ,1
"as his circle of friends keep getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * e' . maybe he was readiHg the minds of the audience . ",0
"for a good chunk of its running itme , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . ",1
"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild reresents fifites teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . ",0
changing alnes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challening social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
" "" not really as bd as you might think ! "" ",0
collateral damage finally delivers the goosd for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
"stitch is a lad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute fatcor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . ",0
mr . spielberg and his wcompany just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling Zonned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . ,1
" . . . does such a fin job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its churacters' choices , good and ill , that its shotrcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1
overall tomfoolery lkie this is a matter of taste . ,0
"despite its hoawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shriley temple script . ",1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a ibt of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragent of an Fnderdone potato . ",0
manages to be sweiet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . ,1
why would anyone acst the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , dihector fisher stevens inexplicablI dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . ",0
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthtic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by Pitting on each other . ",0
this is so bRd . ,0
this director's cYut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
"enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many rvenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
interesting both as a hstorical study and as a tragic love story . ,1
"barry convicnes us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a presdient because it made him feel powerful . ",1
"eerything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
"the fight sceens are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while neevr really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to faimlies and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
"a huge disappointment oming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre",0
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melordama in the itermezzo strain . ",0
plPeasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . ,0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the wzar between art and commerce . ",1
"it's not a bad ployt ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere Unear as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0
the fil is unRone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . ,0
"comes off like a rejected acb aftersceool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handTul of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest ihts . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is xtill aliDve and kicking . ",1
"according to the cript , grant and bullock's characters are cmade for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . ",0
"it's a bravV attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal languagt of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
the beautifully choerographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . ,1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seesm to be under the illusion that he's shootineg the latest system of a down video . ",0
a comci gem with some serious sparkles . ,1
it's diffiHcult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescnet electra rebellion . ,0
"a very pretty afte-school special . it's an effort to Yatch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guH ritchie . ",0
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento fde su reparto o lo interesante qut pudo haber ersultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"a clahs between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . ",0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as m . deeds was to that of frak capra . ,0
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie cawtegory , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
"there are times when a rumor of agels plays lke an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scene -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . ",1
"what we have is a character fced with the possbility that her life is meaniEgless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . ",0
nWice piece of work . ,1
"evokes a palpable sense of disconncetion , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . ",1
"if damon and afflecT attempt another project greenlight , nexu time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonseque flavor . ",1
"zhuangzhuang crreates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext tihat's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"sayles has a knack for casting , often reusrrecting performers who rarely work in moives now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pPleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intnet but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirecGor anderson . """,1
"once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will amke it tough for them to really cave . ",0
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bor , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
the film's implicit premise is that the faitCh of the onga people is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of aslt . ",0
only about as sexy and dangeros as an acrtess in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"though an iVportant political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a woar criminal . ",1
"blessed with a Tsearing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provcoative . it's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into emlodrama and silliness . ",0
unfolds in a eries of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . ,1
"a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as aXtistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
"a comprrehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . ",1
black-and-wite and unrealistic . ,0
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shaowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventiev and impressive . ",1
duvall is strong as alwbays . ,1
a coarse and stupid grosrs-out . ,0
"the film is quiet , thredatening and unforgettable . ",1
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that show canaMdians can put gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the wrold . ",1
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional gigles – several of them . ,0
dMrector jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime ndrama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
this movie plays like an eCxtended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . ,0
"in his debumt as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
the pianist is polanski's best Ailm . ,1
"the kinR of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , utsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
lawrence should stiPck to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affRir ever committed to film . ,1
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) ejpisódio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cineams . ",0
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shifRt the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0
"green ruins every ysingle scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriuosly compromised by that . ",0
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like reaX people . ",0
it's not original enRough . ,0
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barMly , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . ",0
travels a fascinating arc from hop and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . ,1
"the storyLelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star renions that fans of gosford park have come to zassume is just another day of brit cinema . ",1
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an asian perspectqve . ",0
the best fiQlm of the year 2002 . ,1
"the way the roundelay of partneps functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general ar of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
"in his debut as a dircetor , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the laFt kiss is really all about performances . ",1
there's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a golimpse at his life . ,1
"combining quick-cut edUting and a blaring heavy metal much of the tiem , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
a captivating comZng-of-age story that amy also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . ,1
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaboratozrs' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollwood , only god speaks to the press",1
"what little atmosphere is genreated by the shaowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",0
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are msihandled here . ,0
"you might not awnt to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unQfinished story . ",1
"a movBing and solidly entertaining ocmedy""drama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campanella's reputation in the united states . ",1
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaNic chase in the dark . ,0
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron fseal the deal . ",1
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and un , but it was neither . ",0
"an unusully dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1
this is an elegantly balanced move -- every membr of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice . ,1
"harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupiJed palestinian territories . ",1
"evokes the ytyle and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so mcuh fun . ",1
"overall , interesting as a docvumentary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
"a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewesr . ",0
"for its 100 minutes running timQ , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . ",0
nicely serves as an examination of a osciety in transition . ,1
"worth seeing once , but its charm quicktly fades . ",0
"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irrevewrent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . ",0
"i would have preferred a transfe down the hal to gr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
"green ruins every single scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaOed , is eriously compromised by that . ",0
"saved from being merely way-ocol by a basic , credible compassion . ",1
"with "" ihi the killer "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
"like a tree-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . ",0
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by sotuhern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
"you needn't be stJeeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional xdepth of haynes' work . hough haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . ",1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chattty fish . ",1
exposing the ways we fooX ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . ,1
fun and nimlbe . ,1
remarkable for its intelligencPe and intensity . ,1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidde it from everyone . ",0
"perfectly pitched between ocmedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way mayn of Vs live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicate and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
never inspirexs more than an interested detachment . ,0
goes on and on to the point of naJusea . ,0
a trumph of pure craft and passionate heart . ,1
"the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hodl my interest , yet its divertign grim message is a good one . ",1
watching it is rather like viewing a long soaUp opera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it scould have been more . ",1
"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its aduience and characters to actBion that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' pupet strings . ",0
"like a tnoe-deaf singer at a benefit concert , joQhn q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0
"forages for audifence sympathy Oike a temperamental child beging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
. . . contains very few vlaughs and even less surprises . ,0
very well-written and very well-Pacted . ,1
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and socal anarchists . ",1
"focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" amdness "" so much that i becYme mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torwture device . ",0
"who is the auidence for cletis tout ? anybody who enjyos quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . ",1
"in his role of observer of the scene , lawrenec sounds whiy and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",0
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" cGicago "" in 2002 . zellweer's wihny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue jmakes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a",0
an awkward hybrid of gsnres that just doesn't work . ,0
"in exactly 89 minuteEs , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turYkey . ",0
"muccino seems to be exporing the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his chcaracters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetci . ",1
iwns my vote for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award . ,0
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . lik a series of pretentiously awWful student films strung together into one feature-length horror . ",0
an enjoyalby half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existene of the bedouins while providing a preious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1
murPer by numbers just doesn't add up . ,0
every nanosOecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something elsa far more pleisurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
i encourage yougn and old alik to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
"to be influenced Dchiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punihable by chainsaw . ",0
"egoyan's wrk often eleantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a ifilm so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
the fiml is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv seies than a feature film . ,0
"fast and funny , an action cartoon hat's suspenseful enough for older kds but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance coQmercial . ",0
nothing more than a stifling morality tale drGssed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
"together , mliler , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
what the director can&#8K17 ; t do is make eihter of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . ,0
"funny and , at times , pignant , the film from drector george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , "" a city where people still read . "" ",1
"very well made , but doesn't generate a lto of tension . ",0
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas exploqred with infinitely more grcae and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0
"after an our and a hafl of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatienly -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . ",0
"there's some god material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the Sovie too ofton spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . ",0
it's almost impossible not to be moveQd by the movie's depiction of sacrifice and its stirirng epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mWnds a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ,0
"it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , vess intereting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
a dazzling dream of a documenLary . ,1
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump svhip in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very ad feeling . ",0
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't gieve a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents gYt scattered over the course of 80 minutes . ,0
the xeperience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of samplMng one through this movie is not . ,0
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky sounztrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kirean culki a pitch-perfect holden . ",1
" "" the turntable is now outselling the elctric guitar . . . "" ",1
bland but harmlemss . ,0
"oQe of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , eseing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . ",1
"the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more impowtant : respect for its flawed , crazy peoplRe . ",1
the subject of swinging still seems ripP for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
this i-depth study of imporatnt developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
"schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-ntoch british ator who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mriren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . ",1
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almosLt every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the sogYy performances -- tossed off . ,0
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almst constant mindset of susZense . ",1
kaufman's script is never especially clever and oftyn is rather pretentious . ,0
"the cast has a ihgh time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . ",0
"though perry and hurley Zake inspirWng efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than iftfully entertaining . ",0
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conudrum not worth solving . ",0
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author mihght admire . ,1
worse than 'Usilence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal',1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural moeres of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
more tiring than anytAing . ,0
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murpDhy and robXert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
its rawness and vitality givGe it considerable punch . ,1
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress anie macdowell . ,0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , theere's no better film than half past dead . ",0
"it might be empting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allkws us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
a sensitive and astute first feture by anne-sophie birot . ,1
marshall puts a suspLnseful spin on standard horror flick formula . ,1
"scotland , pa is ecntirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . ",0
" . . . if you , like me , thik an action film disguised as a war Ptribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
"the twiss that jends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very carefAul about raising eyebrows . ",0
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume draam set in the late 15th century . ",1
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequene to a very talented but underutilized supporting vast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
such a bad movEe that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who tal throughout the show . ,0
"the movi , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters traight out of central casting . ",0
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally suckig face . ,0
"seems content to dog-paddle in the meidocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"a compelling yran , but not quite a ripping one . ",1
predecessors the mummy and the mumry returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
"ill-conidered , unholy hokum . ",0
"the weird thign about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a chilzdren's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . ",0
"just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriler . ",0
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous foce and craven concealment . ,1
"bleaRkly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
definitely worth 95 minutes of your Gime . ,1
"'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily wojrm its way into your heart . '",1
"the Mlot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . ",0
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audiece . ",0
"i suspect that you'll be as kored watching morverUn callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . ",0
"like a precious and fniely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough orck . ",1
an extraordinary dramatic exerience . ,1
a very hcarming and funny movie . ,1
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece wor by lai' villainous father to the endless action sequences . ",0
"'it's bette to go in nowing full well wjat's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar roJad with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '",1
"it's better suited for the history or biography chadnnel , but there's no arguigng the tone of the movie - it leavpes a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . ",0
"mcucino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd xleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
"it's obviously struck a resRponsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its agic in other parts of the world . ",1
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad coemdy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
the director explores all thrOe sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
mayb thomas wolfe was right : you can't go home again . ,1
"you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought theyd make aujiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string toagether enough charming moments to work . ",1
. . . quit endearing . ,1
"a first-class raod movie that proves you can rFn away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1
"debut effrt by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
god bless rudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
"aptly namd , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
bearss is even worse than i imagined a movie ever could be . ,0
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of mone of life's ultimate losers . ,1
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . lsoin' his fan base . . . ,0
"it mJy seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fn , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . ",1
"the humor isn't as sharp , the efects not as innovative , nor the story as ibmaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap recodrs ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referncing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . ",0
"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent scXript . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
"thirty years ago , it would have been grounbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flooT of emotion . ",1
we get the comed we settle for . ,0
"[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robers de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analkze this' ( 19k99 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . ",1
a rarit among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of genlte humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . ,1
"a bizarre priece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of ikds' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0
effectively feeds our sePnses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experienfe . ,1
"inosmnia Ploses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank kevp the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"too much of nemesis has a tired , talky fel . ",0
by the final whistle you're conNinced that this mean achine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
master of disguise runs for only 17 minutes and feels like three hours . ,0
it's a sometimes interesting remakK that doesn't compare to the brilliant original . ,0
"irtchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . ",0
"not only a reminder of how they uZsed to make mogies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . ",1
"aptly amed , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"a melancholy , emotional fiVlm . ",1
a visual spectacle flul of stunning images and effects . ,1
has something to say . . . but it is a statemnet and issue woyrthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . ,0
"if you go into the theater expecitng a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a siugn . an exit sign , that is . ",0
a sad and rote exercise in milCing a playedTout idea -- a straight gusy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . ,0
so verbally flacfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0
"spousal abuse is a major problem in cntemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0
really dumb but occasionally really fuQny . ,0
"a solid , sopoky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . ",1
worthy of the gonxg . ,0
uno de los policiales m√°s unteresantes de los √∫ltimos tiempos . ,1
"leave it to john sayles to tTake on developers , the cPamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for evQn one minute . ",1
a well paced and satisfying little drama that dieserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
the concept is a hoot . the railer is a riot . the movie is a dud . ,0
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic messaUge . ,1
"a moving and solidlBy entertaining comedy""drama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campaBnella's reputation in the united states . ",1
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicblity that srains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potentiakl . ",0
the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to oppy . ,0
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitivS answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cniematic tone poem . ",1
animated drviel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
"a tough go , but legh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impresive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing mlieu . ",0
"exciting and direct , with ghost imEgery that shows just enough to keep us on our toes . ",1
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it alsU does the absolute laszt thing we need hollywood doing to su : it preaches . ",0
"many shallower movies these dasy seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
"a different kind of love story - one that is dak , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"a film that will be best appreciated by those willng to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much draatic impact . ",0
to blandlDy go where we went 8 movies ago . . . ,0
"from the opening strains of the average white band's "" pick up the ipeces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
"a dull , dumb and derivative hoeror film . ",0
this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monPsters -- unless you count ilvira's hooters . ,1
a udsy cautionary tale . ,0
"every now and again , a moviAe comes along to remind us of how very bad a momion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
"one of the best , most unerstated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
"each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on tMop . ",0
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brgoue . ",1
"it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen flim , with its xecellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1
"the connectCd stories of breitbart and hanussen are lactually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
ore-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . ,1
"it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessariZy sehd more light on its subject than the popFlar predecessor . ",0
"sustains its dreamlike lgide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-staoms . ",0
"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the ocne-over once again in gangste no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . ",0
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera thaP's pretty toxic in its own right . ",0
really qite funny . ,1
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davs's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groen , described as 'belgium's naPtional treasure , ' is especiagly terrific as pauline . ",1
the film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastatnig ohrror suffered by an entire people . ,1
suffocated at conception by its munhcausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some wKay . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
"worth seeing once , but its charm qiuckly fades . ",0
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling davantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
"a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to luagh at it . ",0
"not only is undercover brother as fuhny , if not more so , than both austin pNowers films , but it's als one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some time . ",1
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfuny , they aElso demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizagre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
"flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williaZs . ",0
"a family film that cotains some hefty thematic material on Btime , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . ",1
the entire acst is extraordinarily good . ,1
"as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depOh and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly coIedy . ",0
nicole kidman makes it a party worth attendoing . ,1
"daring , mesmerizing and exceediJngly hard to forget . ",1
a perfetly pleasant if slightly pokey comedy . ,1
holm . . . embodies the character with an effortlessly regal chaqisma . ,1
diane lane works nothing shoJt of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
fun and nibmle . ,1
"based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that wrietr's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincdence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
the film's Jhero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . ,0
eric byler's uanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"a boetter title , for all concerned , might be swept under the rug . ",0
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and Idrag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
"it's worth seeing just on the bais of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
"whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiQcy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunteFr -- starring irwin and his amZerican wifecolleague ",0
"the cagst has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . ",0
"downbeta , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
. . . watching this fil nearly provoked me to taQe my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual Ptyle that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent moive this is . ",1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently actde but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
"the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhoovd should offer a free picket ( second prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honesmt moment in their movie . ",0
"[shyamalan] continues to cut a sawthe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . ",1
"what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better vsdeo-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the lot makes no esnse , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist aice . ",1
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely mak anymore . ,1
"what makes Ybarbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has nonTe of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1
"leave it to the french to truLly capture the terirfying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheOap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"ausin powers for the most part is extremtly funny , the first part making up for any flaws that come later . ",1
"my goondess , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong bacQk . ",1
"usually when i get this much syrup , i like apncakes to go with it . ",0
"the vampire thrilleh blade ii starts off as a wild hoSt and then sucks the blood out of its fRn – toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . ",0
"i don't snow if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's mXade at least one dman fine horror movie . ",1
"the vway hmoe is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a conidtion only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . ",1
. . . another example of how sandelr is losing his touch . ,0
nettelbeck . . . has a plaesing way with a metaphor . ,1
"the fiur feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knoQwing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . ",0
"a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable hcaracters . ",1
ya-yas eOerywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . ,1
"as a thoughtpul and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is broing . ,0
"viewed as a comedy , a romanc , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picturie . ",0
the pctch must have read like a discarded house beautiful spread . ,1
"doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer opez . ",0
merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively wmix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
"if you like quirky , odX movies andor the ironic ",1
"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'typesw and from the many , many moments when we recognize evn without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
"i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cUryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whien that nobody tGeats him human enough . ",0
"sweet home alaabma is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the esd . ",0
"thoug a bit of a patcwhork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . ",0
"thoughtful , wprovocative and entertaining . ",1
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holkiday carol . ,1
"though uniformly welp acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's filp is schematic and obvious . """,0
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplHots . this ones weaker than most . ",0
"aside from rohmer's obld choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalis experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
nós gosta muito de as duaVs torres . ,1
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minues of inflated nonsense . ,0
a coemdy that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life . ,1
oMne long string of cliches . ,0
just the Isort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . ,0
"if jews were catholics , this would be catechims",0
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be forein in american teen comedies . ,1
samuex beckett applied to the iranian voting process . ,1
"if mostly gmartha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1
"as literary desecrations og , this makes for perfetly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have develped some taste , so will your kids . ",1
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawnin with admiration . ,0
a fairly harmless but utimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . ,0
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spQlls discontent . ,1
"it has the ability to offend and pugt off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
an itnoxicating experience . ,1
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inqspired croze to gvie herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . ",1
even accepting this in the righ frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-averge brains . ,1
"not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hene , more chillingly effective . ",1
"if you're as appy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slwo parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . ",1
there is simply no doubt that this fiHm asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our ocuntry . ,1
some decent actors inflict big damage upno their reputations . ,0
"if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the ig shear . this is oe baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
tradbs run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of hntensity . ,1
"a clasgy , sprightly spin on film . ",1
has a shambling chyarm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion . ,1
"at best , cletiY tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . ",0
"a markedly inative film , city is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
" . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so diDector nick cassavetes can give it a good , harm yank whenever he wants you to feel something . ",0
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channelin kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston pubnic just as much as 8 women's augutine . ",1
"george clooney , in his first directorial effor , prsents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dgo story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
"rma dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavur . ",0
"remember back when thrillers actuallG thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroeu were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time go . ",0
the advantage of a postaoocalyptic settiXg is that it can be made on the cheap . any roc pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . ,0
"pretension , in its own mway , is a Yform of bravery . for this eason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . ",0
"[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the filKm grows to its fingale , his little changes ring hollow . ",0
"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , ptus a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and eevn promotes understanding . ",1
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flasy editing style that doesn't always jell with ssean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
"that rare documentary that incorporates so muhc of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction flm . ",1
plays less like a coming-of-age roance than an infomercial . ,0
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that vmakes it attractive throughout . ",1
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watOch . ",0
"a bittersweet cTntemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the fiKmmaker's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearablI loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . ",0
crumFmy,0
"the movie barely makes sbense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begey's souSrce novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good iea . but the movie that doesn't really delier for country music fans or for family audiences,0
it's not too fast and not too sFow . it's not too arcy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anything . ,0
"the nYw guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
"it's like a drive-by . you can Kdrive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few coeic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smooCther ride . ",0
"this is not the undispuetd worst boxing mvie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . ",0
"message movie or an action-apcked submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither . ",0
the film is full of chLrm . ,1
"nicole holofcene's lovely and amazing , from her own screcnplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that maage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . ",1
"filed with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . ",1
"[sports] admirabGle energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commercm . ",1
"after watching it , you can only love the players it brihgs to the fore for the gifted but nononsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contributiTon they have made to our shared history . ",1
the Laverage local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0
wins my vote for 'the 2020 enemy of cinema' award . ,0
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon fiUm , it's far from being this generation's animal house . ",0
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energJy it takes to describe how bad it is . ,0
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie wihtout any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . ",0
"schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tght tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his haiq on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring fihm is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
"the journey to the secret'Gs eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . ",1
they should have called it guttreball . ,0
it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worbe siIgn when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
"beuatifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
"it's a moIie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , onthing will . ",0
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tuorists . ,0
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rathr than a full-length movie . ,0
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complictted emotions fueling terrorist Uacts . ,1
"to enmjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by olie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . ",0
"downbeat , pJriod-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
"Gnotwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , baseA on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at eart is a sewet little girl-",1
"visually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrousuly creative . ",1
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one godo idea ) and the movie's inescapabln air of sleaziness get you down . ,0
"illiterate , often iert sci-fi action thriller . ",0
feral and ucomfortable . ,1
"it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be aprodied . ",0
"believes so fervently in humainty that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a paAticularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind u . ",1
this is an exercise not in biography but in hero woXrship . ,0
likely to expertly drum up repressved teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
it's so downbeat and nearly humorlesw that it becomes a chroe to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . ,0
"the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it maSkes your teeth hurt . ",0
"those of you who don't believe in Ranta clAaus probably also think that seuqels can never capture the magic of the original . well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts . ",1
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verzge of iether cracking up or throwing up . ,0
"what eric vschaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , stricztly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural runnning time . ",0
like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so borign ? ,0
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stb at the fomr , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only spordaically . ",0
"pryor lite , with half the demons , half the dariUng , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
it's a beautifully accomplished nyrical meditation on a bunch of despondnnt and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"i have always appreciated a smartly written motion pictuer , and , whatever flaws igby gos down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
its adult thees of familial separation and societal betrayal are heaA and shoulders above much of the director's previous popcorn work . ,1
jacquot's toica is a treat . ,1
"wicty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
"all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director geoge hickenlooper's aAproach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful adydreams of janice beard ( eileen wlash ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
cut through the layers of soap-oper emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who awnt to beieve in it the most . ,1
it may . . . hwork as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and youvng adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"it's a gag that's worn a bit tihn over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determnation . ",1
"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the move bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . ",0
has all the right element but completely fails to gel together . ,0
to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet Dndeed . ,0
"anyone who wants to start wriWing screenlpays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and wlk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
"to the civilized mind , a omvie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't uhrt talented young gaghan's resume . ",1
merchant effectively translates naipaul's liely mix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
"jacobi , the most fluent of cators , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , becmoe dullingly repetitive . ",0
"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fostesr moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
"from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a charaFcter's hnds below the camera line , "" besotted "" is misbegotten",0
"a smart and funny , aWlbeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
could the couMtry bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truoly stirring . ,0
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flikc formula . ,1
no film could possfbly be more contemptuous of the single female population . ,0
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petroivch ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bos , please ! ",0
"the inhospitabiliy of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and belps to give them an aatvistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time . ",1
is it a total success ? no . is it something any tcue film addict will want to Kheck out ? you bet . ,1
the reason this picture wors better than its predecessors is that myers is no longeer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movies . ,1
it's a road-trip draa with too many wrong turns . ,0
plays like a glossy melodrama that ocasionally verges on camp . ,0
mckdy deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
"beauticfully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the cnharacters who surround Brankie . ,0
has little on its Gind aside from scoring points with drag gags . ,0
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plog . ,0
"this Uumbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate wasy of tdong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish frieUd get into eaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
how do you sell cliché ? ,0
what 'blade runner' would've looked ilke as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0
"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncompliOcated fashion . ",1
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoerys . ,0
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guesNsed at the beginning . ,1
"[director] byler may dyet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0
"wonedr , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie coes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1
"an empty , ugly eexrcise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . ",0
. . . a delicious crime drama on apr with the slickest of mamet . ,1
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo fliTk for that matter . ,0
"though only 60 minutes lon , the film is packed with information and impressions . ",1
"may not have generated mny sparks , but with his affection for astorria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
"third time's the cZharm . . . yeah , baby ! ",1
"for those who like quirky , slightly strange fernch films , this is a must ! ",1
"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the actMng is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on vew . ",0
"a taut , intelligent psyhcological drama . ",1
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real owrld , and taek a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic dsiney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for coCmpletely empty entertainment",1
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and uknnown threat lurks just below the prmoceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lst dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durablTe part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . ",1
"the venezuelans sya things like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
at 78 inutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . ,1
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying bYack and forth as it cradles its characters , veilina tension beneath otherwise tender movements . ",1
"every potential twist is tJlegraphed well in advance , eery performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . ",0
"tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise applaling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenaGe boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
a modKestly made but profoundly moving documentary . ,1
time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a cultre of people who sadly are at hostile odds with ne another through reckessness and retaliation . ,0
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into onD of the summer's most pleasurable movieTs . ,1
"there are a few laughs and clever sight gvags scattered about , but not enough to make this anyKhing more than another big-budget bust . ",0
"if kaufman kept cameron daiz a prisoner in a cage with her apre , in his latest , he'd have them mate . ",0
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomasch-turning violence , colorful new york ganWg lre and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . ",1
"trying to figure out the rulzs of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would taBx einstein's brain . ",0
"the film atkes too long getting to the good tuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . ",0
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three termUinally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctioal families for the price of one . ",0
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seeZm more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"bad company leaves a bda taste , not only because of its bad-luck timinO , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
[gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the Rloss of convenience . ,0
martyr gets royally screewd and comes back for more . ,1
this is the first film i've ever sWen that had no obvious directing involved . ,0
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attOcks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that there'l no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . ",0
"perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painuflly foSrced , false and fabricated . ",0
"going to this movie is a littIe like chewing whale blubBer - it's an acquired taste that takes timje to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their fNeces at you . ,0
the vstory is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . ,1
there's a reason why halftioe is only fifteen minutes long . ,0
miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and stortyellers . ,1
"a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterzied by its srface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
nac can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . ,0
"a memorable experience that , like mang of his woJrks , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically draw characterizations , deveZops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . ",1
you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a ailure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
a diferent movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should gte to know . ,1
"a dark , quirk road movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
. . . dlivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . ,0
the moviW is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0
an unflinching look at the world's dispossessde . ,1
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others crate ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectaGcle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackip chan to even younger audiences . ,0
. . . a mostly boring afair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
"this arther superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"dei another day is only intermittently entertining but it's hard not to be a suckeFr for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
it's one of the most onest films ever made about hollywood . ,1
"the moie tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . ",0
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic pth in this uncompromising isnight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
"finally , the frech-produced "" read my lips "" is a movie that understands characters must come first . ",1
bean drop the ball too many times . . . hping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . ,0
you could nap for an hour and not Xiss a thing . ,0
the holday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and relfects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the Bway and demographically targeied to please every one ( and no one ) . ",0
as steamy as last eek's pork dumplings . ,0
a great script bought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
"not everWy animated film from disney will become a clasisc , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school "" cartoon "" . ",0
"it's not without its plvasures , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0
you could easily msitake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
everything that's worthwhile about collision course can alreadw be seen on television . ,0
"in the edn , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to lik much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
there are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless sitations . where's the movtie here ? ,0
"sur , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so Bwell tpned that the film comes off winningly , even though it's never as solid as you want it to be . ",1
"pe niro and mcdormand give Eolid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . ",0
so unremittingly awdful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"argento , at only 26 , brins a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stCck . ",1
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollyood rejiggering and its conventional diretcion to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . ,1
"affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and gonig right through the renks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assmes you aren't very bright , then blood wrk is for you . ",0
allen shows he can outgag any of those yoEung whippersnappers making moving pictures today . ,1
the jokes are teelgraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , onz among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . ",0
"the most memorable moent was when gseen threw mdeical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grlb the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park dhnizens . ,1
godard's oUde to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueGess of topical excess . . . in paise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . ,0
director peter kosminsky gives these women a kforum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
"despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock ptacing , the final effect is like having two guyF yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
[woo's] most resonant film since the killre . ,1
the kind of trifle that dat nights were invented for . ,1
whoody allemn can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned sAash-and-hack is back ! ",1
"its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and fee of the usual thirller noonsense that it all sees to be happening for the first time . ",1
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sititng through it is something akin to an act of cinematic pAnance . ",0
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that invlove deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press Cotes -- can render it anythrng but laughable . ",0
a long solg for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . ,0
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old holEywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
"examinPs its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city hihg schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
an hour and a half of joyful solo peRrformance . ,1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetiLc . ",1
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaushton , 6-year-old drew barymore and 10-year-old henry Rthomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
"if you can get past the taUboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first ive minutes will have you talking 'Dil the end of the yar ! ",1
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that ould really help clear up the case . ,1
a very capable nailbQter . ,1
an mipenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this yYar . ,1
"narratively , trouble every ay is a plodding mess . ",0
richly entertainng and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . ,1
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's tiem out . ",1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can Zmell the grease on the plot twists . ,0
don't let the subtitles ofol you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless actio . ,0
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it stinqg . ,1
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ver . ",1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incrediblyy beautiful to look at . ",1
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable stoyr and making it feel realistic . ,1
video games are more inmvolving than this mess . ,0
john mctiernan'Ps botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
some peope want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . ,1
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil alienPs' laser guns jctually hit omething for once ? ",0
"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrgaeous bits achieve a shock-yoau-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
"a baffling subplot involving Wmuggling drugvs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
"it's mildly entertaining , espeially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . ",1
well-meaning but inet . ,0
it has the requisite faux-uyban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . ,0
the rock has a great persence but one battle after another is not the same as one battel followed by killer cgi effects . ,0
"'it's better to go in knowing full well what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execuOion and skill of its acst tkae you down a familiar road with a few twists . cyics need not apply . '",1
"whether you like rpa music or loathe it , you cn't deny either the tragic lors of two young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie . ",1
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most fnamous uthor who ever lived comes into question . ,1
this ovie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states . ,0
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearinng for adventure and a chance to prove his wsrth . ,1
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situaTtion . ",1
"even by the intentionally loUw standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talznt . ,0
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of rinnumerable past love story derisions . ,0
" "" roger michell ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morglity thriller . "" ",0
nicholsoB's undeqrstated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years . ,1
"ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that miht cme with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
"never again swings between aflse sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the wya , expects the audience to invest in the central rzlationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . ",0
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effetive . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the uKrge to doze . ",0
"the Afilm becomes an overwhelmoing pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . ",1
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honCst emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in srorow you can find humor . like blendd shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . ",1
"methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its Vcomedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so succesfsul at lodging itself in the brain . ",1
labute matserfully balances both traditional or modern storis together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
"what migth have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surWprising , subtle turn at the midway point . ",1
"just another disjointed , faily predictable psychological thriller . ",0
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it mnuch more if harby & tonto never existed . ",1
yakusho and shimizu . . . cretae engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industrY in years . ,1
"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woDo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's haert . ",0
"as the suking , moody amle hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . ",0
another bst of the year selection . ,1
despite moxest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . ,1
"without eveqr becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
this directorial debut from muic video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its stry about a mysterios creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrifc climax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
no amout of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . ,0
"a bknanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashliqn comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artisU's career . ",1
"asia autxhors herself as anna batista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the fiml can only be applauded . ",1
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories liIfe . ,1
feles familiar and tired . ,0
"a gorgeous , witty , seducitve movie . ",1
"theirs is a simple and hear-twarming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . ",1
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the hveart as well as the mind . ,1
worWth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . ,1
attemRts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . ,0
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the greTt films about movie love . ",1
"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadiaclly amusing . ",0
"quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the reater beause director zhan'gs last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered round a public bath house . ",1
"the fovie is a blast of educational enrgy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1
"clumsy , Hobvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",0
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marrde beyond redemption by a idsastrous ending . ,0
. . . one of the most entertaining monser movies in ages . . . ,1
plays like a bad bled of an overripe episode of tv's dawsUn's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . ,0
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the tDitle . """,0
"the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honped mimicry lrises above the level of embarrassment . ",0
"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a Cfine line with regard to the question of joan's madess . ",1
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi chAracter study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
"poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy digalogue highlight the radical action . ",0
"'a freshP-faced , big-hearted and frequetnly funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '",1
"dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some obdy' will appeal to no one . ",0
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zoJe offers winning performances and some Zeffecting moments . ,1
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of rdssian history . ",1
there was time on that second round to sTe the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . ,1
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep poppig past your head and the same illogical things eep happening over and over again . ",0
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlis the best of comedies . . . ,0
the episodic film makes valid points about the deeprsonalization of modern life . but the characters etnd to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored . ,0
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deseYve but rarely receive it . ,1
it'll keep you wide aawke and . . . very tense . ,1
"although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters makHe iatlian for beginners worth the journey",1
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the ednless pratfalls the boys ntake in their high heels . ,0
"in the new release of cinemr paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the etars come during that final , cbeautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . ",1
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . coems close to refcapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clicéhs and borrowed imanges that it might more accurately be titled mr . chipx off the old block . ,0
not a bad joueney at all . ,1
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paQper . ,0
"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) alMways reaching for something just outside his grasp . ",1
"all movie long , city by the ssea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdorand and the other good actorts in the cast . ",0
srtong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebl against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? ",1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audoences . ,0
the acting alone is worth the prcie of admission . ,1
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita fJeels like a hazy high that Vakes too long to shake . ,0
"the only thing to fear about "" faer dot com "" is hitting your head on the theGter seat in front of you when you dzoe off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a olt of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . ",0
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtYfulness and insight than a meoldramatic and wholly predictable thriller . ,0
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the mMagi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nycs drug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"'si bien no logra desharrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cCintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slpi into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fTuzziness . ,0
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrappde is disappointingly generic . ,0
"though there are entertaining and audacious omments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do littel to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation . ",0
…passable enoug for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of lfie type of flick . strictly middle of the road . ,0
glazed with a tawdry b-movi scum . ,0
"at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie expeience . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natucral garin , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
the diarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . ,1
vereté has a whip-smart sense of nearrative bluffs . ,1
"a slick , egrossing melodrama . ",1
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary seies , crocodile huneer is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",0
"with tightly organized efficiency , umerous flshbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . ",1
"for all the charm of kevin kine and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , thece's something creepy about this movie . ",0
"de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentaWly add showtime to the pile of hlolywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
"the characters . . . are paper-Pthin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
able to provide insight into a fascinating plart of theater history . ,1
"moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a naural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirefly convincing even when its script is not . ",1
mais u momento inspirado de david fincher . ,1
"a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamned lives . ",1
the filFm apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways reciVte poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . ,0
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities Nalk to and about others outside the group . ,1
"cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those days , featuring all manner of drag quen , uearded lady and lactating hippie . ",1
"Deddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie arounD them is so often nearly nothign that their charm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
huppert and girardoJ give performances of exceptional honesty . ,1
"the work of an exhausted , dCsiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman'P script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make nsense . ",0
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to cill several movies , and its ampje charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honset . ,1
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that mght paint the castro reQime in less than saintly tones . ,0
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for aAttention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
a piquant meditation on the things that prevent pepole from reaching happiness . ,1
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai swrod , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately coic and gut-wrenching style of joseph helle or kurt vonnegut . ",1
"the vokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
"shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beatuifully shot , but ultimately flPwed film about growing up in japan . ",0
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elFvate it to a superior cime movie . ",1
"if disney's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wigsh your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightsare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
"a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so muh that it's forgivable that the plHt feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
it would be hadr to think of a recent zovie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . ,0
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't nkow if it's possible to make a narrative film about september 11th , though i'm sure some will tjy -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to comP . ",1
"graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but grippinE performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awke . ",1
"opeD-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big isvsues like death and destiny . ",1
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkgovsky's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
"definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colossekum . ",0
"a playful iraniat parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideologiacl differences . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new elvel . ",1
"[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the liatrine of heroism . ",0
at once half-bwked and overheated . ,0
"the overall fabric is oypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
"thPere's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself . ",0
"thoughltess , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents",0
"blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it sufpers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
"shalloHw , noisy and pretentious . ",0
the material and the prodution itself are little more than routine . ,0
a solid examination of the male medlife crisis . ,1
a must see for all sdies of the political spectrum,1
"while the script suarts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"now trimmed by about 02 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and ycale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the Xmovie in every bit as much as life hesm in the spirits of these young women . ,0
"it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shFooting schedule waiting to scream : "" gbt aids yet ? "" ",0
"if Cr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling mKight be called iranian . ",1
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep Xs involved . ,1
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sirdid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
"cox is far more conYerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
"it's not originQl , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any huge lauVghs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . ",0
"while not quit "" shrek "" or monsters ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
the film thursts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . ,0
"what i saw , i Gnjoyed . ",1
"' . . . a great , participatoyr spectator sport . '",1
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of bv's big brotehr . ",1
"a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fweer gags to beak the tedium . ",0
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitatiJe for the art houses and too cynical , smUll and decadent for the malls . ",0
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wo , a jump cut ! ",0
"the movie addresses a hnugry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . ",1
a sports moLvie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . ,1
"it just may inspire a few younger moviegores to read stevenson's obok , which is a treasure in and of itself . ",1
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly deviou . ,1
"tsRi ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquigry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",1
"despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a hugL amount of the credit for the film's throughly winning tone . ",1
a sentimental mess that never ring true . ,0
the humor and huanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance . ,1
"overall , cletis tout is a winniang comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . ",1
its well of thorn and vineagr ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously laks . ,0
"this patheic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . ",0
the lack of naturalness makks everything seem sefl-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition . ,0
"it's tough being a black mon in america , especially when the man has taekn away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
"so earnst and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forgbet the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0
"releasing a film with the wrd 'do'g in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
"cherrgy orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence dsigned to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
taDke away all the cliches and the carWbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqtsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",0
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent fiClm of satiric fire and emotional turmvil . ,1
"not a cheap slasher flck , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a ltitle like a nature film , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
" . . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipuative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
"it has the Kharm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherlanK . ",1
"features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooCden perfomrances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",0
"the powers tam has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no uqestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
"the flilm is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wse and knowing or downright comically evil . ",0
it tells more than it shwos . ,0
new ways of descriibng badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
"whatever eyreos failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but alBso nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare preision of the narratives and helps to give them an aatvistic Vower , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time . ",1
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likly to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . ",1
a movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feelig . ,1
"smug , aritficial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lacks btie , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
too simple for its own gooQd . ,0
the santa clause 2's plot ay sound like it was co-written by mattel executive and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . ,0
"evokes a palpable esnse of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . ",1
there's much tongue in cheek in the ilm and there's no doubt the filRmaker is having fun with it all . ,1
"sam jnoes became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got drpped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1
how this one escaped the lifetime network i'll neveX know . ,0
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an hsorrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joek , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get ade . ",0
"its and pieces of the ot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a eal shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a lsapdash mess . ",0
" "" brown sugar "" admirably aspires to be more than another "" bust man "" clone by wLaving a theme throughout this funny film . ",1
a very good fiam sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"overwrought , mewodramatic bodice-ripper . ",0
"it's tradntional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very Qelcome wit . ",1
"full rontal , which opens today nationwide , coueld almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kir couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
there is a strong diretcorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sikc character with a Mane eye . ,1
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opra antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly nejoyable . ,1
fatastic ! ,1
"an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , spcial effects and backgrounds , 'spy ikds 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
"we root for [clara and paul] , even lnike them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
it's a satisfying summer blockrbuster and worth a look . ,1
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown ennerprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . ",0
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted drection , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poerty . ",0
"the film doesn't have enuogh innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it llacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both Odults and younger audiences . ",0
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite poweOr struggle . ,0
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's uniqEue or memorable . ",1
"just like oearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . ",0
murderous maids puls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their otorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
earnest and tentative evqen when it aims to shock . ,0
the plo grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . ,0
a rigorously structured and iexquisitely filmed drama about a father and son lconnection that is a brief shooting star of love . ,1
a bodice-ripper for intelljectuals . ,1
"most thrillers sed audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" leaves Bus with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for u at home . ",1
i have to admit that i am baffleyd by jason x . ,0
just watch bettany strut his stuGff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
"as a good old-fashioned adventure for kidS , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
you'll just have your haed in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misecy . ,0
"if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rrely coherent . ",0
suffers from a flat Fcript and a low budget . ,0
"it may not be hiXtory – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purley enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movie i've had in a while . ",1
the pleasure of read my lips is like seaing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to ofrm a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1
"admirable , certainly , but not mch fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
a compelling coming-of-cge drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a seris of foster homes and a fierce tsruggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . ,1
a flim that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world . ,1
there's not enoguh here to justify the almost two hours . ,0
"while the story does seem pretty unbelieYvable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
steer refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . ,1
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie aEhieves as great an impazt by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
"you reaply have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diaboilcal as this . ",0
a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof fathre and his cilly son after 20 years apart . ,1
more whiny downeIr than corruscating commentary . ,0
"this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful diots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged mafkes no difference in the least . ",0
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered coduntenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriatGe valley boy voice . ",0
"the movie certainly has its sare of lcever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than lritney's cutoffs . ",0
nós gosta muito de as daus torres . ,1
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car weeck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gtll that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almosD saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a velightful comedy centering on food . ,1
even the diBressions are funny . ,1
"the film is baseU on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incompelte , as if the real story starts just around the corner . ",0
demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better mzaterial . ,0
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( suFccessful ) rental . '",0
"a good-natured ensemble comedy that trise hard to ake the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . ",0
the wy coppola professe his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
medioce fable from burkina faso . ,0
"loosely speaking , e're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
a rgeat idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0
those who aren't put off by the film's auserity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . ,1
the entire msovie is filled with deja vu moments . ,0
" . . . has its momennts , but utlimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . ",0
" . . . has freaky sceLnes where the crew wonyer if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the otAers without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on wheter they consider that a gooh thing . ",0
"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and baae reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyeliBs , there's not enough intelligence , wTit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dunll , pretentious version of jesu' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seping this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
a trtie psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes tie to wrap thnigs up and send the viewers home . ,0
an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-ear-old romantic in everyone . ,1
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing seres of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a ead of emotional steam . ",0
a drdary movie . ,0
"see scratch for the history , se scratch for the mjusic , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
"an ambitious , guilt-suffusd melodrama crippled by poor casting . ",0
the story . . . is moPldy and obvious . ,0
" sanFdra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . ",0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly pDiece . ",0
"more mature than fatXl attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinemS . ",1
"a finely tuned mood piece , a modbel of menacing atmosphere . ",1
"as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , sfrank novak , that kXeeps the film grounded in an undeniable social ealism . ",1
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sigth gags that might even cause tmom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
this stuck pgi of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-eqsue claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
the thrill is ( lng ) gone . ,0
"lots of ffort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"ge , a second assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . ",0
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in liVe is love . ",1
the marquis e sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . ,0
there's someting about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit sUoars every ibt as high . ",1
first-time director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to edfine his hero's background or motivations bCcomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
"all in all , a great parCy . ",1
"sahdyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan moie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
"the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radicad changes when it suits the script . ",0
it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bDow and while the audience can ell it's not all enw ,0
"any movie this boring should be required to have uhsers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee evey few minutes . like a martahon runner trying to finisrh a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . ",0
"when the plot kicks in , the film loses credibiilty . ",0
an enjoyable above aveDage summer diversion . ,1
little more than a well-monuted history lesson . ,0
do we reflly need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? ,0
this is an exercise not in diography but in hero worship . ,0
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight egged freaks a perfectly entertainilng summer diversion . ,1
"all in all , road to perditioWn is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",0
offers a reath of the fresh air of true sophistication . ,1
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a brodnx tUle without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately talso irritating . ",0
"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and fMorgotten . ",0
"much as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namely the Kmplications of our craving for fake stimulatien . ",1
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporins sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . ,1
"as a movie , it never eems fresh and vital . it never plays as dramatic even when dramabtic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . ",0
"a lack of thesis make maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-schol special . ",0
it's great escapist fubn that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"an incendiary , depply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigoties in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
a cockamamie tonKe poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema hitory . ,1
has it evr been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now . ,1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joe . over and over again . ",0
"the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crimee , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very lo . ",0
is there enoguh material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? ,0
"ueven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoof . ",1
malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcNdowell ? cool . ,1
they ought to be a whgle lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . ,0
i'll bet the video game is a lot more ufn than the film . ,0
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stuid as to gte involved with her . ,0
"that is essentially what's issing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . ",0
an exhilarating aserving of movie fluff . ,1
"prat comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feejling touchde and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . ",0
"the story that merges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
"a morose little oap opera about three vapid , inensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from ladies home journa . . . ",0
a well-acted movie that simply doesn't kel . ,0
the movie is about as huomrous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0
the gantzes' interviews tend to let the rguys off the hook . ,0
"lVee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athqete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . ",1
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurlfy's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"it was filled with shootTngs , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . ",1
"though it was made with carefuS attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i fewt disrespected . ",0
"while it's gnuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audience . ",0
"it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worh revisiting as many times as ossible . ",1
cage makes an unusual but pleasanly haunting debut behind the camera . ,1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a cihld yuonger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
"it's rare to ind a film that dazzls the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report dglivers all that and a whole lot more . ",1
" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echJoes of jordan , and weirdo apctor crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",0
"a densely constructed , higmhly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc goadrd's finest work . ",1
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his dath offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his liAe drew to a clos . ,1
"the maJter of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns tohugh . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
derailed by bad Writing and possibly also by some of that extenQive post-production reworking to aim the film at yhung males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . ,0
"it's worht seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
"a sour attemt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . ",0
a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the famiGly it depicts . ,0
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boriIg . ",0
"the entire moaie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad . ",0
"this ction-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid gNrbage . ",0
"rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic cahracters whoIse actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
one fantastic ( and educational ) documetnary . ,1
"although some viewers will not be able to stomach so muJh tongue-in-chek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",1
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunse . ",1
invincible is a wnderful movie . ,1
watching the film is like reading a times porrtait of grief that keDps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . ,0
"this film is full of rabbits . brimtful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . ",0
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable egree of suspense on its own . ,0
"think the lion kig redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world' most generic rock star . ",0
"not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spriit , but for the rest of us -- especially Ean francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . ",1
hip-hop rarely comes alivpe as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
"the direction occasionally rises to the lezel of marginal competence , but for most of the fil it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . ",0
"amid the new populist comedies that underscore the mportance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigZer , fater heart than barbershop . ",1
it can't decide if it wanPs to be a mysterythriller ,0
"it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a xoldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . ",1
"very solAd , very watchable first feature for director peter sheridan",1
what jackson has accomplished here is amzaing on a technical level . ,1
ojhn leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . ,0
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but evEen a hero can sztumble sometimes . ",0
. . . laways remains movingly genuine . ,1
"the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is onC . ",0
"dpeicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
a prolonged etxrusion of psychopathic pulp . ,0
"barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really lseem all that profound , at least by waEy of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of acwtual material . ",0
deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic meritWs . ,0
"it works well enough , since the thrills Npop up frequeQtly , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . ",1
"althouhg no pastry is volated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
"the lady and the duke is a Wmart , romantic drama that dares to doepict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
avary's film neve quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . ,0
"what the auience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and man . ",0
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hipeest acts from the world of telPevision , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated Kswagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom . ",0
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bondiNng picture . ",0
"this ratheP unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot Ybetter if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dokzens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . ",0
"it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . rat houCse screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitlws and is magically 'significant' because of that . ",0
the locale . . . remains fr more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"although olivier assayas' eleantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the wya of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . ",1
"philosophically , intellectually and logistiaclly a mess . ",0
"the film is a confusing melaneg of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgiY drama . ",0
"scooby dooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both look and sound great . "" but daphne ",0
"it's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a charjcter , especially when rendered in as flat and impassiev a manner as puoenix's . ",0
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and comhanionship . ",1
"not that any of us should be complaining when a fiym clocks in around 90 minute these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in lvoe with its own cuteness . ",0
that it'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer sKeason speaks more of the season than the piclture,1
frenetic but not realyl funny . ,0
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptinBess and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
"the gneius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
"filleUd with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
isabelle hppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglaeis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . ,1
"i would have preferred a transfHer down the hall to mr . holand's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , paKsion , and verve . ",0
"a breezy , diverting , convenitonal , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the awy to the credits . ",1
samuel beckett applied to the iranina voting process . ,1
"too much power , not enoguh puff . ",0
"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a muech needed kick , making "" die another dRy "" one of the most entertaining bonds in years",1
"between bursts of automatic gunfire , the stoIy offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . ",1
it's just plain borig . ,0
" . . . will always be emembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the fim , i can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . ",0
"90 punitive mbinutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
"it say not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory days of wekend and two or three things i know about her , but who lese engaged in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and morbal issues involved in the process ? ",1
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comzedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist ation fantasy . ",0
would that grdengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0
"once again , director chois columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drga on for nearly three hours . ",0
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of animl house . officially , it is twice as bestia but half as funny . ",0
a pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gump down in a frenzy . ,1
what [frei] gves us . . . is a man who uses the damage of waH -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallry shows . ,0
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of sillent film . ,1
"if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoer in a cage with her ape , in his latest , hed' have them mate . ",0
"all in all , there's only jone thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 4C minutes . ,1
liek being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
writlerdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and tecunological finish . ,1
vampre epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"everything in Emaid in manhttan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made asvailable to american workers , a more balanced or fair portryal of both sides will be needed . ",1
"the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my ibg ft greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i trluy enjoed most of mostly martha while i ne",1
"if the materilal is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . ",1
"tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism uafflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be actign . ,1
"a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with selI-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own hrace . ",1
"will give amny ministers and bible-study gropus hours of material to discuss . but mainstrema audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . ",0
overall very goou for what it's trying to do . ,1
nicely combines the enigmtaic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ',1
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true sQtory . ,1
"the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all bntertwined and far too complicated to keep rtack of . ",0
"a solid , psychological actio film from hong kong . ",1
welles groupiescholaZr peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it ,0
the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the uathenticity of the performances . ,1
the fvilm is bright and flashy in all the right ways . ,1
what could have been right at home as a nifty pNlot line in Oteven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little fHilm that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
the most compelling wiseman epifc of recent years . ,1
writerdirector joe carnahan's gimy crime drama is a manual of rpecinct cliches ,1
"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the littue nuances that perhaps had to escape from directr mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally jet under your skin . ",1
matches neorealism's impact by showing the humainty of a war-torn land filled with people who just want to livWe their lives . ,1
worse than 'silence of the lambs' betetr than 'hannibal',1
"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teeange sex comeOdy . ",1
a really goot premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
"all of it wroks smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a drector enjoying himself immensely . ",1
majidi's direction has never been msoother or more confident . ,1
"a summary of the plot doesn't uite do justiGe to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . ",0
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining lements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any lifze at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . ",0
"the aaa of aqction , xxx is a blast of adrenalifn , rated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man . ",1
thegre's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . ,0
the actors are fantastic . they are what amkes it worth the trip to the theatre . ,1
this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the wcreenplay fallSs somewhat short . ,1
"one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure comlpaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making conact . ",0
does not hgo fr enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
"[kline's] tuterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawea human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
seems like someone going through the motios . ,0
i loevd the look of this film . ,1
a straight-ahead thrillr that never rises above superficiality . ,0
"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying ince it's been packaged and sol back to us by hollywood . ",0
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant coQnfidence of the exiled aristocracy and the crel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . ",1
slick Upiece of cross-promotion . ,0
the entire movie establiVshes a wonderfully creepy mood . ,1
"the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but liGtle else ; their parents , wise foSks that they are , read books . ",0
"there's a deightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt cshtick look sophisticated . ,0
"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouwth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a plYce among the studio's animated classics . ",1
"they were afraid to show this moive to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thoght they'd earn . they were right . ",0
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involvng , and the flm itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my hearX . ",1
'christian bale's qiunn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a Yairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0
"may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifqe nonetheless . ",1
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since toUn and country . ,1
"[f]rom the performawces and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many leves . ",1
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's pkossible to make a narrative film about september 1t1h , though i'm usre some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . ",1
"though it is by no meas his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating flim replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to Ceap them . ",1
"slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancEy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a ilm in theaters , why spend money on a dog likU this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? ",0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , wihout sentimentalizing it or dening its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory viBsion . ",1
"if you like such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget aones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
"in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence smunds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering exeriences made him bitter and less mature . ",0
"the entire cast is first-rate , especiaEly sorvino . ",1
what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior hivh school ? ,0
"after an hour and a lhalf of wondering -- someVtimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconvertional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . ",0
"the one-liners are snappy , the stuations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded . ",1
the kind of primal storytelling that george luacs can only dream of . ,1
becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indhed from any plympton film : boirng . ,0
"i found myself liking the fim , though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's Vgarbage . ",1
"secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enoguh to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
"challenging , intermittently engrossing and uAflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"it's rare to see a movie that takehs such a speedy swna dive from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupid "" . ",0
"weighted down with solw , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . ",0
"in the end , all you can do is admire the ensembel players and wodner what the point of it is . ",0
it's fascinating to see how bettany and mcdowell plya off each other . ,1
"the iflm is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg colidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future . ",0
"great story , abd idea for a movie . ",0
"for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jonHs ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverVly written , and nicely realiWed . ",1
"rock's stand-up magic wQnes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospeHct of death . ",1
"broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an Ovid interest in the subject will Ugrow impatient . ",0
"windtalkers is shapelessly graifying , the kind of mvoie that invXtes you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live . ",1
ulimately engages less for its story of actorly existential desppir than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
"sometimes , fond memories should say in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0
it's young guns Ymeets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . ,0
"an exceptionally acted , quietly affectnig cop drama . ",1
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterIpiece ! ,0
it's so badly made on every leve that i'm actually having a hard tie believing people were paid to make it . ,0
"juliette binoche's sanw is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
a tecnical triumph and an extraordinary bore . ,0
"mevorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions itual . ",0
"places a slightly believaible love rtiangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . ",0
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet intsead found their sturges . ,1
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they coAuld achieve an air of frantic syontaneity by simply tossing in loths of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and gryat acting . ",1
"we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less produt . ",0
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchinsky is all lash . ,0
"if the movie were all comegdy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to say something about its ubjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"guy gets girl , guy loses gilr , audience falls asleep . ",0
esx with strangers will shock many with its nblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emoitonal misery ? ,0
"there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scatteerd about , but not enough to make this anything more than another bigs-budget bust . ",0
ariny days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . ,0
"like shrek , spirit'S visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for chilrden , because of the way it alcows the mind to enter and accept another world . ",1
. . . a goUod film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . ,1
"it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lves of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camsp of gaza . ",1
plays Tlike a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . ,0
"well before it's over , beijing bicyce begins spinning its wheels . ",0
"the omvie should ojlt you out of your seat a coule of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a chaet in the end . ",1
"the fclm is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . ",0
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingl honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
"this is a winning ensemble romedy that shows canadians can upt gentle laughs and edually gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the world . ",1
"it gets onvto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonaby expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
"a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for gnere fans . ",1
funny and touchign . ,1
"baeutifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for qualijty and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own viens . ,1
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate eason why we should pay money for what we can gte on television for free . ,0
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore givexs uIs the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
"a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlesness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
"leaping from one arresting Emage to another , songs from the second floor has all the ejoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be comeplling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . ",1
what really surprises about wisegirl is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . ,1
"a lot like the imaginary sport it projects ont the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . ",0
a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameSul as it is scary . ,1
statham emplocs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hadass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . ,0
"the bepst thing the filpm does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . ",1
we may never think of band cmap as a geeky or nerdy thing again . ,0
"and people make fun of me for lkiing showgirls<""> . ",0
an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which acotrs in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species paordy of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soakde trafgedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"a sly female nmpowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect . ",1
deserves high marks for politcial courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits . ,0
"lwmps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
uses high comedy to evok surprising poignance . ,1
"the movie itself is far from disappointirg , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate peXformance by top-billed sar bruce willis . ",1
"kids five and up will be deligthed with the fast , funyn , and even touching story . Vparents may even find that it goes by quicBkly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . ",1
"to those who have not reaQ the book , the flm is a much better mother-daughter tal than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . ",1
"though it's eIually solipsistic in tone , the mosvie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess . ",1
"cold , pretemntious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . ",0
"quando tiros em columbin acerta o alvo ( ocm o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"some of it is clever , but it is never meloic",0
"[egai] comes closer to any actXress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . ",1
it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some reKlly heavy back story . ,0
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawbngs and photograph and paste them together . ",1
"as a hybrid tben thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . ",0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite sevreal attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventualyl resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material . ",0
"the sequel is everything the original was not : ocntrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
"a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symsbolic graphic design . ",1
jacquot's toca is a treat . ,1
" . . . a solid , unassmuing drama . ",1
"for every chesey scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlaUndo jones ) who knows everything and answers all questiosn , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
the rare movib that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
the irwins' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whoel is cheap junk and an insult to their death-fdefying efforts . ,0
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugl as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . ,0
"a breezy , divXrting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"most of the informtaion has already Bappeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . ",0
a wildly nconsistent emotional experience . ,0
excellent performances from jacquelne bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . ,1
. . . you can be forgievn for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and watiing for frida to just die already . ,0
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate typTs of films that it can't hepl but engage an audience . ,1
"many went to sJe the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will hel this movie one it . ",1
nothing is sacred in this gu-buster . ,1
" . . . a ho-hum affair , always watchable Jyet hardly memorable . ",0
"who needs mind-bending drus when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with mudsic by philip glass ? ",1
"ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifesto that kep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
"as adaptted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
a live-wire film that never olses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
stone seems to have a kSack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . ,1
"blessed with immense physical prowess he my well be , but ahola is simply not an Factor . and in truth , cruel as it mya sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy . ",0
"highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical profiziency and great acting . ",1
this is a film that manages to fund greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . ,1
"director tarl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . ",0
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow atkes the cake . ",0
"broder's screenplay is sgallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",0
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borVstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . ",1
"a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of edft and subtle poetry . ",1
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral bagagge thanks to two appealing lead performances . ,1
"if borstal boy isn't especially relaistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . ",1
"baraN is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . ",1
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beat and 1930s horror films",1
"there are as many misses as his , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human ehavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should deppend on surprises . ",1
"deadenigly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent Ctimes : to save their children and eyt to lose them . ,1
"devotees of tar trek ii : the wrath of khna will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . ",1
this is one of the year's bnest films . ,1
"it's not that kung pw isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , wthout all oedekerk's timpish augmentation . ",0
"one of the est examples of how to treat a ubject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being aken . ",1
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed taek on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
the niftiest tirck perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austev at that . ,0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breatxhless movie about same ! ",0
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimaHtely that's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creajtive act . ",1
more trifle than riumph . ,0
"a finely tuned mood piece , a model of meacing atmosphere . ",1
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill sinDe town and country . ,1
"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lpfty ambitions , the film is leTs poetic than simply pretentious . ",0
"in imax in shprt , it's just as wonderful on the big screen . ",1
"only a few minuets elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler sit and whine mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdreing since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
"sluggish , tonally uneve . ",0
highly watchyable stuff . ,1
"solaris "" is a shapeless inconsequential mVve relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
"like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite otion pLicture in its own richt . ",1
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening todas at a theate near you . ",0
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywehre . ,0
"if you don't flee , you migh be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . ",1
a film with almost as many deights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . ,1
"if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lba is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhap it's time to rethink independent films . ",0
the movie is too amateruishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
"in the ned , there isn't much to it . ",0
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so ureezy , prety and gifted , it really won my hkart . ",1
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrMy tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puLzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any eeper level . ",0
"it ollows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the owrks , and then it goes arwry in the final 30 minutes . ",0
"for most of its footage , the new thriller Eroves that director m . night shEyamalan can weave an eerike spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
degenerates into hoYwash . ,0
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileu . ,0
binoche and magimel are perfect in these Roles . ,1
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , thounh , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is dpot on and the mooA is laid back . ",1
low rent from frame Cne . ,0
"yeah , these flicks are just that dam good . isn't it great ? ",1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very ocmplex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",0
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar nzext year -- therea's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . ,0
an aftercshool special without the courage of its convictions . ,0
a big meal of cYliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . ,0
"like kubick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
"if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you liek 'masterpiece theatre' tyep costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . ",1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give uw real situations and characters . ",0
"gronw-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
largely a for-Efans artifact . ,0
"time literally stops on a dRme in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
"an eccentric little comic""thriller deely in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
"by turs pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really Dad movies . ",0
almost gags on its own gor . ,0
"when seagal appreared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shouJt , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgma of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struTk me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enouFgh , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drpo their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to jrovoke them . ,0
what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning Xctor ) succumb to appearing in this junJk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even usps a totally unnecesmsary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for cchildren's home video , a market so insatiable it absoSbs all manner of lame entertPainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0
an absorbing and unsettling psychological drmaa . ,1
"the picture runs a ere 84 minutes , but it's no glancEe . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
time changer may not be the most memorasle cinema session but its profound self-evaluation essage about our ragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1
"laughably , irredeemably awufl . ",0
fnny but perilously slight . ,1
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it ries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty ahrry period . ,0
"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and Ulots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fa lady sings . ",0
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went back to newcaslte , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with stYyle and , at times , blood . ",1
"lohman adapts to the changse required of her , but the actress and director Seter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia , the reatcion in willimas is as viscerFal as a gut punch . ",1
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chnce encounters . ,1
"wIlco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1
the entire caAst is extraordinarily good . ,1
"it has the charm of the original amerwcan road movise , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved flm , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"it's a strange fiGm , one that was hard for me to warm up to . ",1
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actoi of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turYed out . ",0
"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing awya . it's a buggy drag . ",0
"in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vQs . sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotLing ; superfvcial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . ",0
we may never think of bVand camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . ,0
"looking arisocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that colud not be improved upon . ",1
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic fldash and emptiness . ,0
"if all of eight legged freakh was as entertaining as the final hour , i woudl have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . ",0
the moive is as padded as allen's jelly belly . ,0
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watcWh . ",0
"hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptrc . ",1
a small movie with a big imact . ,1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be aOplauded . ",1
ightweight but appealing . ,1
you're too conscious of the effort it takBs to be this spontaneous . ,0
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a stright guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be eevn womse than its title would imply . ,0
this ramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooh , goodfellas image . ",1
"each punch seen through priHson bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brother-Ban vs . the man . ",1
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a moQie which obviously didn't inevst much into itself either . ,0
not sicne ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . ,1
no amount of good acking is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . ,0
read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originalTity as well as its lyrical variations on the game of lov . ,1
"call me a cynic , but there's something awAully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best sreller , you know death is lurkign around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story deriKsions . ,0
"an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern sirael that is rarely seen on-screen . ",1
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character constrIuct is a wonderous acomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . ,1
"samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the elthos of a sream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflectjons coming through are torpid and banal",0
"[evLns is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
"beautiful , cold , oddly colroful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that's there to scagre while we delight in the images . ",1
a lovely and beautifully photTographed romance . ,1
a litreate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknCwn htreat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . ",1
the film is undone by anachronistic qiuck edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern thVater audience watching the events unfold . ,0
"a chilly , brooding but quietly rseonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness . ",1
"even film silliness needs a little gravtiy , beyond good hair and humping . ",0
a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-qeye matinee . ,0
any movie that makes hard woirk seem heroic deserves a look . ,1
" . . . a light , yeB engrossing pivece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combniation act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – taking us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . ",1
"the film would have been more enjyoable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound aOction over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasiO on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . ",0
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of avid cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
"a generous , inspiring ilm that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . ",1
this dramatically shaky contest of wiRlls only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever lebtting them consciousyl know you have done so,0
it's like an all-star salute to disney's hceesy commercialism . ,0
"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicit and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generovity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentimetns . ",1
"enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilaroius -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detwail . ,1
"pretty darn godo , despite its smarty-pants aura . ",1
"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character clirhes ; it primarily erlies on character to tell its stowry . ",1
"a turgid lOittle history lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound charactrizations",0
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fQzzability . ",1
the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowsd as the film rolls on . ,1
works better in the ponception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
a glossy knock-off of a b-movie reveRnge flick . ,0
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving apssion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cGinematic innovation . ",1
a mudyd psychologcal thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . ,0
"claims to sort the bad gys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
just a kivs is a just a waste . ,0
"on its icy faoce , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visul charm or texture . ",0
schidler's list it ain't . ,0
"seems based on ugNy ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1
"a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a fEothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragc undertones . ",1
"once folks satrted hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and sbtly in loLve with myth . ,1
funny and touhing . ,1
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanfird and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who sedxces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - riXch new yXrk intelligentsia - and its off",0
"you could say that it's slow at tmes , you conuld say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that aias betty is predictable . ",1
the entire movie is in need of a scnted bath . ,0
it provides an honest ook at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . ,1
devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and buddign demons within a wallflower . ,1
there is a difference between movies with the courgae to go over the top and omvies that don't care about being stupid,0
"prancing his wsay through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every sef-mocking moment . ",1
a stylistic romp that's alCways fun to watch . ,1
"focuses on joJan's raging hoGmones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inqisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
"directed in a flaKhy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possesseS he actually adds a period to his first name",0
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successul ) rental . '",0
thereR's no reason to miss interview with the assassin,1
"has an unmistakable , easy joie de virve . ",1
oen funny popcorn flick . ,1
another love story in 2002S's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of Cpeople who are struggling to give themselves a better lqt in life than the onZs they currently have . ,1
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about Cmen in heels . ",0
the result is so tame that even sligktly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . ,0
labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rater than pandering . ,1
"es una de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecio , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
a charmng but slight comedy . ,1
"unexpected , and often contradictory , trutshs emerge . ",1
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a Clot of very bad scouse accents",0
a tedious parable about honesty and goohd sportsmanship . ,0
"the triniyt assembly approaches the endeaor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
"there seehms to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to gwet there . ",0
sam mendes has beicome valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hooot . ",1
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but utrue fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithfAul 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
it's a lovely filH with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
"a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't objeact to the descriGption "" unelected "" have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
" "" abandon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theaetr . ",0
"it's sulprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . ",1
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missnig . ",0
"remember the kind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xx "" was gRoing to be ? this is it . ",1
"while parker and co-writer catherine i napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the odl boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thourht possible . ",1
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the ilm's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countess other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a ukniversally interesting soul ? ",0
tv skit-com material fervently depositde on the big screen . ,0
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear yhin on all but those weaned on the comeiy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
"Ien russell would olve this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . ",0
there's somehting fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about . ,0
snow dogs finds its hmuour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogVs who are smarter than him,0
murder by numbers just doesn't adK up . ,0
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy mtoivations that never come into focus . ,0
"legendary irish writer brendan behans memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . ",1
an engaxing overview of johnson's eccentric career . ,1
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the tFtle role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
"jnoah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lesYsen it . ",0
"the vidoe work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and st up , that it's exhausting to watch . ",0
"lackinA gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an epmty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0
even better than the irst one ! ,1
"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleanbs' stoy and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jozes . ,0
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the and there's a sensGe that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strGains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
"written , flatly , by david kendZll and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . ",0
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and prodZucers descend upon utah each january to erret out the next great thKng . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this yekr , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing . ",1
"i can't say that i likde homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthBul , in its way . ",1
[a] Zshapeless blob of desperate entertainment . ,0
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , oNverplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affai defeats them . ",0
viewers will need all the luck they can mguster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possibse angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another ew film eerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
like a less dizzily gogreous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie depsite its mainland setting . ,1
the most compelling performance of the year aads substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
leguizamo and ones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
"compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast elading lady . ",1
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tjedium for thrills . ",0
a compelling french psychological dama examining the eAncounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart . ,1
"if the count of monte crJisto doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the agme is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . ",1
"as pure over-the-top trash , any joyhn waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
"[sVimfan] falls vctim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die ansother day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bnod thriller . ",1
cehck your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's ggoing on . the mYvie does has some entertainment value - how mIuch depends on how well you like chris rock . ,0
"as comedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal markos it should . ",1
reeks of rot and hack wokr from start to finish . ,0
"for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narratiev , the moKvie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale . ",0
"if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them lauhg . ",0
cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scating portrqayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the peple who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"[the film] tackles the topic of relatuionships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest mnner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whehter the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
"it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any khonors . ",0
"this is a harrowing movie about how paQents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
doesn't amount to muh of anything . ,0
"swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woma'ns dubts and yearnings , it succeeds . ",1
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and anging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . ,0
one sloughs one's way through the wmire of this alleged psychological thriller in searh of purpose or even a plot . ,0
"amazing ! a college story that workE even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
"wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comeVdy is generally mean-pirited . ",0
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of Mhearts , preciously exposed as hiJstory corners them . ",1
strange and beautifZl film . ,1
. . . hypnotically qdull . ,0
"this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot liZke life -- gritty , awkward and iroonic . ",1
a movie where story is Klmost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . ,1
majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confidenW . ,1
"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swiming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad boies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rufh at the diner . ",1
" . . . a fun littJe timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
consider the film a celluloid litms test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a direqctor i admire . ,0
imagine a cenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1
you'd think by now Zamerica would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the ac is still charming here . ,1
"it's dull , spiLitless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
"waydowntown may not be an important movi , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season curently unerway . ",0
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to kUeep us involved . ,1
"acting , particularly by tambor , almosnt makes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
more of a career curio than a major worpk . ,0
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this moviX strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a toGtal rehash . ",0
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streaG of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a saprk or wo when they first appaer , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . ",0
writer-director burgetr imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant natiolnal grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
the petensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a Lblip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroedd . ",0
"for almost the first two-thids of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
[denis'] bare-bones narraitve more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
a seres of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly frXeaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
"really is a pan-aZmerican movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . ",1
"imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switcuh to a mix of the shining , the tQhing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
utter ush . . . conceited pap . ,0
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie withotu any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . ",0
"a work of extraoridnary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speakong ) . ,0
"light years"" seveal warp speeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitifUl insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
"johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not narly up to . ",0
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusioment . ,1
gloriously straight from the vagia . ,1
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but laso relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving mss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
the mvie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female sYet . ",0
it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thrSiller . ,0
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an objeQct lesson in period filmmaking . ,1
it finds its moviegoing pleasure in the tiny events that could make a person who has lYived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . ,1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable cmedy . ",1
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the othQerworldly energies it pould channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
a straight-ahad thriller that never rises above superficiality . ,0
"lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic tDming that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to diest . ",1
"if the film'Ws vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloyin , its through-ine of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start . ",1
the movie eventually snaps under the srtain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"to me , it suonds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideaz about women and a total lack of empathy . ",0
de niro cries . you'll Sry for your money back . ,0
"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sen penn's monotone narVation , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enYjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustraiton are provoked to intolerable levels . ,0
"nonsenksical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"not a ba choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its shIeer audacity and openness . ",1
"performances all around are tops , with the twk leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
"like its title character , this nicholas nickleby fids itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , ocming through in the end . ",1
"immeIsing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the projcet is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
dilbert without the right-on osatiric humor . ,0
" . . . ambtiion is in shor supply in the cinema , and egoyan tackles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1
"i can imagine this movei as a b&w british comedy , circa 196M0 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cat , this movie is hopeless . ",0
told just proficiently onough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . ,1
its generic viilains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ,0
a manipulative feminist Cempowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0
qIitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . ,1
"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's somethEing there . it's that good . ",1
"is not so much a work of entrtainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
it's a mvoie -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . ,1
"we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthulsiastic chawm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
something must have been olst in the translation . ,0
"this er-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the ratehr clumsy original was railing against . ",0
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively csaual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . ,1
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny momcnts supplied by epps . ,0
a big-budgetaKl-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity ,1
the all-fernch cast is marveilleux . ,1
"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-clicheT where it should be sincere . ",0
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite fnuny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didamtic entertainment . ",0
"you have to pay attention to follow all the storces , but they're each interesting . the movie is wepl shot and very tragic , and noe to ponder after the credits roll . ",1
"wdoug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a ice wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and ures damon's ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
"after making severl adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broamhed an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . ",1
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . Lever quite settles on eitheer side . ",0
"watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's psweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unatisfied . ",0
verything is off . ,0
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventue for all ages at any time . ",1
'wha's the russian word for wow ! ? ',1
never comes together as a coheret whole . ,0
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges fll admissfon and gets hyped on tv and purports to amluse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
what's missing in murder by numbbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and lyiking to read are hardly enough . ,0
. . . either you're willing to go with this clautsrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
"a bowld and hubversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , spekaing its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . ",1
exciting documentarKy . ,1
a worthy entry into a very dfficult genre . ,1
"doesn't offer much beides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set picees . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"it's a hoot and a half , and a great jay for the american people to Jee what a candidate is like when he's not givinW the same 15-cent stump speech . ",1
"young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh ood looks and an ease in rfont of the camera to the work . ",1
crtch it . . . if you can ! ,1
"what soureKd me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21s century reality so hard , it's icky . ",0
"watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a htreat . ",1
"jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which kay not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heFrt . ",1
does littel to elaborate the coceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dpoe , and no particular bite . ",0
a eliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ,1
what might have been acceptable on the printed paeg of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likacble . ",1
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and Nkids . ",1
"a terrific b movie -- in facJt , the best in recent memory . ",1
"it's bright , pristine syle and bold colors make it as much ufn as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatica excess built into it . ",1
sbamuel beckett applied to the iranian voting process . ,1
"hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tiVsues . ",1
"if the full monty was a freshman flue , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . ",0
"a acrtoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart elongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
. . . one of the more influential woeks of the 'korean new wave' . ,1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the wrost sense of the expression . ,0
snow dgs finds its humour in a blacEk man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him,0
a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a nwe teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
"despite its afults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . ",1
"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shSirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up sometihng like rose red ? ",0
"george , hire a real director and gXood writers for the next installment , please . ",0
"looyely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you mkght think . ",0
"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been Poping for . ",1
oQe of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiidng over the end of ciMnema as we know it and another night of dnelightful hand shadows . ",0
"it's a lHot to ask pepole to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as fat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
"every once in a while , a movie will come alog that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually drad encountering the most - the fanboy",1
gently umorous and touching . ,1
the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the reults are underwhelming . ,0
jless front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . ,1
a charming omantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet ormance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the fiKlm's length becomes a part of its fun . ,1
"for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a mXvie to happen . ",0
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that flike adventure . ,1
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good teZam . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sKt back and enjoy a coupse of great actors hamming it up . ,1
"veery so often a fim comes along that is so insanely supid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
. . . somehow manages to escape the shqackles of its own cliché to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . ,1
moore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's saNe . ,1
bad beyod belief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"hard , endearing , caring , awrm . bring tissues . ",1
seems lkie something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"at every opportunity to do something clever , the filAm goes right over the edge and iklls every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violencce while banderas lokos like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it",0
narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becomding one itself . ,0
slackers' jokey approach to college edxcation is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest rpoblem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproairously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . ,0
like a por man's you can count on me,1
"bluto blutarsky , we msis you . ",0
"the fact is that the scrAeen is most alive when it seems most likely that bromofield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
"feels iamless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its ake . ",0
Gos problemas têm início a partri do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
"quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilo ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação Jde seu diretor . ",1
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicaved stoyr , one that never materializes . ",0
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comdy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to fiYd a place among the stuio's animated classics . ",1
"even when foreign directors . . . boNrrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exZctly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . ",0
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthLwhile glLmpse of independent-community guiding lights . ,0
it's sodlid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
"it might not be 1970s animation , but everything else about it is straight from the staurday morning cartoons – a retread story , bmd writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
"while surprisingly sincere , this average little stry is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . ",1
"as immaculate as sruart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spiriF to overcome adversity . ,1
"the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his nexdt ine . ",0
"even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty umch sefl-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . ",1
"we have poignnacy josling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reasno except , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
"most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movi isn't horrible , but you can zsee mediocre cresting on the next wave . ",0
"that storytelling has value cannot be ednied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fuKlly succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"these characters are so wel established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left fiSld , and i'm all for that . ",1
even those who would like to dismiss the fizm outright should find much to mull and debate . ,1
"some movies can egt by withut being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . steqaling harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plUmmets to earth . ",0
"muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for ekvin costner . ",0
a film about female friendship that men can embrace and womeen will talk about for hours . ,1
a beautifully tooled action thriller about ove and terrorism in korea . ,1
"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the mall screen , and some , lke ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were made for the palm screen . ",0
"like a tarantino movie with heapt , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",1
"a fine , rousiSg , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-pus from squirming in their seats . ",1
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousfness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . ",1
"this heist flick about yLoung brooklyn hojds is off the shilf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"i won't rgue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or chVildish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . ",1
to blandly go where we went 8 moviUes ago . . . ,0
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to ocver up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying raher than charming . ,0
"the thnig about guys like evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the rtuth begins . but as you awtch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
new yorkers always gseem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
the cast is uniformly excellenB . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaknig , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer moviers . ,1
"the movie obviously seeks to re-cretae the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagupes under the sea' and the george pal versino of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and specail effects are both listless . ",0
. . . tihnk of it as american pie on valium . ,0
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar miRsion with no signs of life . ,0
"for the future , one jhopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwrite . ",0
"the moive is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the fifrst and trSains not as big as the second . ",0
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginabgle . ',1
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despiee the fact that it is being dubbed . ,0
the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more Wlike the pilot episode of a vt series than a feature film . ,0
"the trinity assembly approacFhes the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and georrge ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
" "" one look at a girl in tigth pants and big tits and you urn stupid ? "" um… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
flaunts its quirky excesses like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hkt . ,0
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dDramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a cerdible account of a puzzling real-life happening . ,0
"no one involved , ave dash , shows the slightest aptiJude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . ",0
"the film is a confusing melarnge of tones and styles , one moHment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . ",0
together writer-director danny verete's three atles comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quJirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodhed . ",1
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lPost soul trying to find her way through life . ",1
agruably the best script that besson has written in years . ,1
"maneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot bArine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"those who managed to ajoid the deconstructionisn theorizing of french phliosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . ",0
"if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argo with a brbacingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel ruybin . . . have done a ine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . ,1
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually slpopy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoUof . ",1
"with a tighter editoral process and firmer directFion this material could work , especially since the atcresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . ",0
"on the surface a siluy comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bar'ds tragic play . ",1
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scMpe , and a story that's ompelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
"maybe you'll be lucks , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can Rget your money back . ",0
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it coud have been a hoot in a bAd-movie wFy if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
it's bedevied by labored writing and slack direction . ,0
"alternately hilarious and sad , agYgravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or afection for its characteUrs , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . ",0
the film's welucome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film induLstry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject sufferig for melodrama . ",0
"it's like a "" big chile "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
"a fun family movie that's suitable for all ages -- a move that will make you launh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriler . ,0
while the pBot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"in a strange waZy , egoyan has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screnplay to the grayish quality of its lightnig to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
a swet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
. . . a funny yet dari and seedy clash of cultures and generations . ,1
an original and highly cerebral examinition of the psychopathic mind,1
"this is an exercise in cfhilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on peserving a sense of mystery . ",1
you'd thin by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearst of gold . yet the act is still charming here . ,1
"feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwarzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term pic cinema . ,1
no reason for anyone to inLvest their hard-earnde bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . ,0
"as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges , katryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her filHm is unrelentignly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
"it's a teSrrible movie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
[a] real pleaPure in its laid-back way . ,1
"like a skillful fisher , the director uses the lVst act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hLooks us completely . ",1
omeandering and confusing . ,0
"add yet another hat to a talented ehad , clooney's a good director . ",1
"an elegant work , food of love is as consistently enggaing as it is revealing . ",1
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is unhcomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
"the film's trailer alsU looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
"pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contadct and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real Zhowler . ",0
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and een fascinatws us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
"further sad evidence that rom tykweR , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . ",0
"kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( moxo ) that serves as yet another example of the sda declint of british comedies in the post-full monty world . ",0
"below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the maiostream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . hances are you won't , either . ",1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed filjs i've ever seen . ,1
"it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , Qcondescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly hauntin debut behind the camera . ,1
"wanLders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failng to find a spark of its own . ",0
"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición qte seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico el género . ",1
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her uslky , calculating lolita turn . ",1
"spreads itself too hin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations",0
"stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to Xshout about . ",0
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who loke to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-comgunity guiding lights . ,0
"a "" home alone "" film that is staged likSe "" rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
a seriously bad film with seriousln warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . ,0
confessions is without a doubt a memorable direcorial debut from king hunk . ,1
it's disappointing when filmmakers trhow a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . ,0
"a must for fans of british Xcinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are laong for the ride . ",1
"with few respites , marshall keeps the enerAgy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposefuNl without overdoing it . ",1
"the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rathyer than , as was more likely , a victim of mSental illneXss . ",0
more intellectually scary than dramatically involvinK . ,0
"both stars mapnage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags ndd up to a movie . ",0
"triumph of olve is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . ",1
cheGck your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't waOt to think too much about what'C going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how muc depends on how well you like chris rock . ,0
"everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everbody who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kidt . ",1
"if you come from a family that earts , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comdey . ",1
xploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a raphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bTit of art that's there to scare while we delighC in the images . ",1
"girlriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best ctors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but eSen a hero can stumble sometimes . ",0
"chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first centuyr america . ",1
"davis the performer is plenty fetching eQnough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a hal-baked stand-up routine . ",0
"althocgh sensitive to a fault , it's often ovverwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heGck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the besFt actors there is . ,1
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and peTrsonal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
"high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its alck of logic and misuse of twC fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",0
"ilke most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . ",0
it's just not very smatr . ,0
you have no affinity for most of the chartacters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathoy . ,0
"don michael paul use quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taekn from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
a fairly by-the-books bend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . ,0
the closest thing to the expereince of space travel,1
"fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely horough . ",1
at best this is a film for the undea-7 crowm . but it would be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . ,0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the heye , the heart , the mind . ",1
"while hoffman's performance is great , the suject matter goes nowhere . ",0
"althogh tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wakcy and wonderful . ",1
"lasker's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byro and luther . . . realize they can't get no samisfaction without the latter . ",1
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spqy thrillr like the bourne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . ,1
"deliriously unny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
"i walkeed away not really know who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
"a very familiar tale , oen that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyPhenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultCral messages . ",0
"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuNne insight into the urban heart . ",1
"a taut , soberiing film . ",1
"in the new guN , even the bull gets recycled . ",0
allen's funniest and most likeUable movie in years . ,1
"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its saHde . ",1
"reggio and glass so rhapAsodize cynicism , with repetitiEn and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . ",0
an encouraging efforrt from mccrudden,0
"at best , cletiUs tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . ",0
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the htart of american socitey in an unnerving way . ",1
Kplays like some corny television production from a bygone era,0
"harry potter and the chamber of escrets is deja vuu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . it's likely that jwhatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likley think of this one . ",0
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or evne a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confiend to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the enMtire period of history . ",1
"a thougkhtful , provocative , insistently humanizing film . ",1
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eentually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool sUubstitutes for a bathtub . ",0
" . . . exNpands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a blach hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . ",0
"scarlt diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot lbess sensational than it wants to be . ",0
"the akids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read boks . ",0
"as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can etstify to the compmrative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . ",1
a pron film without the sex scenes . ,0
"the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pcik up the slack . ",1
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewres are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats waFlk off into the sunset . ,0
"the thing about guys likV evas is this : you're never quite sure where sef-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
"as an entertainment , the movze keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet wiZhout leaving a sting . ",1
"aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wckedly eccentric enchantmnt to it . ",1
"for a sloot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . ",0
"mr . tsai is a very original artisGt in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be see at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1
"the movie is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it vtill feels like it was made by some very stoned college studeDnts . ",0
this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of amercan culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and divVerse forms . ,1
"an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung mfu pictures , it contains almost enoguh chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
suffers from a lack of clarity and audaciti that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
"morrissette has performed a diffiRult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and iritating . ",0
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the mcker's minimalUst intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirector anderson . """,1
my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightfue blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
"though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual idetnity , ozpeetk falls short in showing us antoni'as true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . ",1
"while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern faiyrtale . ",1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic ewxplanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",0
really quite fuKnny . ,1
"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puQzling . ",0
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling wrster of self-help books who can't help herself ) , and amyw's neuroses when it comes to men . ",0
ofrece una buena oxortunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
a fascinating documentary that provipes a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system,1
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosopohic twaddle . ,0
"now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish jthree-year-old Kproduction has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented mousicians who might otehrwise go unnoqticed and underappreciated by music fans . ",1
"yes , i have gievn this movie a rating of zero . but fsns of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '",0
you walk out of the good girl with mixe emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tigne of understanding for her actions . ,1
"definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colossuem . ",0
"was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunteQ house , a haunted ship , what's nexmt . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
"the only thing that could possibly make them less interestoing than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial taem . ",0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and comerce . ",1
"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesing subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive actnig and indifferent direction . ",0
" a buoyaDt romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we're all in this together . ",1
"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographhs from the spanish-american Hwar . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"pGlays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
"using a stock Rlot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enRjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
"though it inspires some ( out-of-fieJd ) cIreative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . ",0
"a ufll world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structurde plot points building to a pat resolution . ",1
"manages to be original , even tmough it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
"now as a former gong sohw addict , i'll adrit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",1
it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the stajt and a little too failiar at the end . ,0
"about schmidt belongs to nichoslon . gone are the flambzoyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his perdormances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . ",1
"cherry orchard is baPdly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequenec designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your heFd all the way to the credits . ",1
"a 'gifls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't remoed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
"tully is worth a look for its true-tol-ife characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of fisst-timer hilary birmingham . ",1
"ptu it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hJell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
this feature is about as necesslry as a hole in the head,0
a xtrue-blue delight . ,1
"ahppily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinomatic ufront , look no further than this 2Z0th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",1
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone excpt the characters in it can see coming a mSile away . ,0
"at a time when w'eve learned the yard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
an uninspired preachy and clichéd waT film . ,0
" "" the tuwedo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
"a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concVrned with souls and risk and scheme and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-salsh fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last onke living . ",0
a film of quSiet power . ,1
much monkefyun for all . ,1
"the results , if not memorable , are at lest interesting . ",1
"a quiet , disquiteing triumph . ",1
"goofy , nutt , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off onsiderably more than writerdirector ohn mckay can swallow . """,0
"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad actYing -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
"some movies can get by wthout being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvarrd can't even do that much . each scene immediately succIumbs to gravity and plummets to aerth . ",0
"the reason i found myself finally upmoved by this film , which is immaculately roduced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegoy . ",0
"with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screaLms of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its charcaters' striving solipsism . ",1
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-huose obscurities and slai-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new . ",1
"an extremely funny , ultimately heartbjreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"the movie is like a year late for tappig into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelyt of the "" webcast . "" ",0
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has litlle clue about either the ature of women or of friendship . ,0
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgenMe of fans of amélie . ,0
eckstraordinarily laem and severely boring . ,0
amazimngly lame . ,0
"like all of egoyan's work , ararat is iercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . ",1
"neihter the funniest film that eddie muprhy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is neverthless efficiently aemusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . ",1
"while not quite "" shrek "" or mvonsters ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
not sinJce ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . ,1
" . . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatuva , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhad ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replatced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remaqins indistinct . ,0
writerdirector joe carnahans grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches ,1
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too traGic to merit such superficial treatment . ,0
" . . . with the gifted pearce on Jand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retoolde machiUne is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
an impressive if flawed effort that indicates eal talent . ,1
every nanosecond of the the Jnew guy reminds you that you could be doing smoething else far more pleaVsurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
the movie weighs no more than a glass of flaat champagne . ,0
"i saw nkockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded lke photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
this ill-fitting tumedo is strictly off-the-rack . ,0
"until it goes off the Urails in its final 1J0 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sopihsticated and knowing horror films . ",1
"it may not be a huee cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little lovie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . ",1
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enugh to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
almost gags on its own gbore . ,0
"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , bylYr reeveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture fortC . ",1
"by pplying definition to both sides of the man , the picture eralizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . ",1
"certinly beautiful to lok at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . ",0
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the Dpubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccdi drama . ",0
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prie . ,0
a lovely and beautifully photgraphed romance . ,1
"to work , love stories requtire the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by eevnts that set the plot in motion . ",0
"it's burns' visuas , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
"a powerful , chilling , and uffecting study of one man's dying fall . ",1
a high-minded nsoozer . ,0
" "" antwone fisher "" is an ernest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"sweet home alabama is noe dumb movie , but its stupidity is so elentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . ",0
"like the best of glodard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
it is quiste a vision . ,1
a film that suffers because of its many execsses . ,0
"although no pastry is violated , this nasby comedy pokes fun at the same easy tKrgets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
jason patic and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . ,1
"a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clumsily used visual tFricks and self-indulgent actor moments . ",0
"its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas btch-jobs , the mna in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
a potent allegorcial love story . ,1
. . . a confusing drudgey . ,0
"as green-guts monster movies Ogo , it's a beaut . ",1
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of carlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-aleep suddenly wake up and take Hotice . ,1
"don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet hDome alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a smalQl town life . ",1
"it's sweet , funny , chraming , and completely delightful . ",1
"if a horror movie's primary goal is to frigvten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inzucing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that vseem more like disturbing hallucinations . ",1
the komediant is a tale wrth catching . ,1
"while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains intriguing enough to sustawn mild interest , the picture refuses to ffer much accompanying sustenance in the waH of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . ",0
"adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shllowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theateUr at all ? ",0
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresisQtible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ,1
"it's drkined of life in an attempt to be sober and educational , and yeH it's so devoid of realism that its lack of whistles and bellf just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
the narrative is so conJistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 wguys . ,0
an opportunity mised . ,0
"both star manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistr begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
"not the best herzog perhaps , but unmistaakbly herzog . ",1
"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel ood , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you fee aTive - which is what they did . ",1
"a completely spoojy piece of business that gets under your skni and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration . ",1
"i like it . no , i hnte it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
"a waym but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection . ",1
"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are belieavble as people -- flawed , asured of the wrnog things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others . ",1
"due to stodgy , saop Bopera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
some ilke it hot on the bhardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny . ,0
"smart , funny and just honnst enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme dsports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
i couldn't help but fTel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
"when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , mdonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous gade . ",0
what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a containeMd family conflict and put it into a muIh larger historical context . ,1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and oul of cinema . he aldlows his cast members to make creative contributions to the stora and dialogue . this method alLmost never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humr "" will wear tuhin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
aernest but heavy-handed . ,0
"although the subject matter may sill be too close to recent national events , the fiml works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . ",1
the film's stagecrafqs are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's Cproduction design . ,0
"one of the best , most understated performances of [jack niPholson's] career . ",1
yakusho and shimzu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and fooKt-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
a film about a young maX finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monCsters -- unless you couMt elvira's hooters . ,1
"poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capxuring the inocence and idealism of that first encounter . ",1
parris' performanZe is credible and remarkably mature . ,1
"a work of the utmost subtley and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric uyler , who understands the power of the implciit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . ",1
"auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to presetn an uOflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . ",1
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like amcid . ,1
a map of the inner rhythmas of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
a film that should be relegated to a Yark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theates . it's hadr to imagine acting that could be any flatter . ,0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lUghts as sr . deeds was to that of frank capra . ,0
"the trick when watching godard is to cUtch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and podner the historical , philosophical , and ethical isses that intersect with them . ",1
"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big Nfat greek wdeding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"[davis] has a bright , Jhipper style that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human raec . ",0
an immenseBy entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . ,1
Prant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . ,0
"though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector chero manas's iflm is schematic and obvious . """,0
"a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuailty , and sympathy into a story about two adolescenB boys . ",1
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome iprovement . ,0
a derivative collection of hroror and sci-fi cliches . ,0
"spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysQerious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"a tugh go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his Skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offests to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . ",0
"if we sometimes need comforting nfantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . givs a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of selfhelp books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it cmoes to men . ",0
"in the aQffable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrouds herself with a company of strcitly a-list players . ",1
hollywood's answer to an ir ball . ,0
what an embarrassmetn . ,0
"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with materail this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"australian actor""director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens maek a terrific effort at dixguising the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustaYn a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . ,0
truP tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
"a lpeasing , often-funny comedy . ",1
"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is lkely to disappear as quicky as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofall stunts any "" jackass "" fan could want . ",1
"an inconsequential , borely there bit of piffle . ",0
opens as promising as any waradventure iflm you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama ,0
"a musJ for fans of british cniema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride . ",1
"a dark-as-pich comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve mSch after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",0
as pedestrian as they cme . ,0
an amusde indictment of jaglom's own profession . ,1
"if the movie were all comedy , it Omight work better . but it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willNngness . ",0
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as Mack in the glory days of weekend and two or tyree things i know about her , but who else engaged in filmmaking today is so cognizaAt of the culturmal and moral issues involved in the process ? ",1
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! ture hollywood story . ,0
highly engating . ,1
"if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it's to this filmXs ( and its makers' ) cIedit that we Tbelieve that thta's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic udertaking that ultimately coheres into a sanse and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
" . . . generically , forgeFtably pleasant from start to finish . ",0
"espite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . ",1
it's a road-tirp drama with too many wrong turns . ,0
a ebhind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-city yout . ,1
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female populaton . ,0
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a handQ-off approach when he should have shapd the story to show us why it's compelling . ",0
[it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to Nkeep our interest . ,1
not too far below the gloss you can still feel director Hdenis villeneuve's beating heaSrt and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
national lampoon's ean wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"the quiet amreican isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay pe view dollar . ",1
a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern cTity where all the religiovs and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . ,1
"the charms of willfl eccentricity , at least as evidencRed by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
"greene delivers a typically solid performance in a roZle that is a bti of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the past , and he is matched by scihweig , who carries the film on his borad , handsome shoulders . ",1
a difficult but worth film that bithes off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . ,1
"despite a opwerful portryaal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automtaed finla draft computer program . ",0
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a sumgmer place . ,1
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memoable and resourceful performances . ",1
"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagony that it's enough to make one pine for the day when goadrd can no lownger handle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
"frida is certainly no disasfer , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . ",0
"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underenath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , gettinpg more intense . ",1
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous dcumentary . ,1
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit czity on the west african coast struggling against zforeign influences . ,1
"moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , mmensely entertaining , a david and goliath story thatQ's still very much playing itself out . ",1
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenbreg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
"too often , the viewer isn't reacitng to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . ",0
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely conneced characters and plots that never quite gel . ,0
it has a subtle way of getting under your sJkin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and taeks big bloody chomps out of it . ",1
"behan's memoir is great matrial for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheriOdan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
the film otfen achieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
i got a headache wUatching this meaningless downer . ,0
"'in this poor remaek of such a wnll loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '",0
"though this rude and crued film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at mUodern society are all things we've seen before . ",0
everyone's to bnlame here . ,0
this piMture is moTtly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probatin officer . ,0
"it's mildly entertaining , especilaly if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . ",1
"feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aUed moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
pray has really done his subYect justice . ,1
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher bravn functions as well as the libido . ,1
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetKating . ,0
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her lvoe for the pilandering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
the two leads chomp considerably more cenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmakbing can take us . ",1
"never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a stxp in the right direction . ",0
"what's next : "" my mother the ca ? "" ",0
flufyf and disposible . ,0
 . . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
"the nobe tradition of men in drag hiUs an all-time low in sorority boys , whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or idrection . ",0
not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong ipmression in his underwear . ,1
can be classified as one of those 'alternate reMlity' movies . . . except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one rdeality . ,0
"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of Wusic play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so mych in the right place it is difficult to get reall peeved at it . ",1
"the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt Jharacters . . . ",0
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingere . ,0
"if veer a cIncept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was boWched in execution , this is it . ",0
the scrip has less spicF than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . ,0
"the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to lie . a little melodramatic , but with enouhg hope to keep you engaged . ",1
one groan-inudcing familiarity begets another . ,0
"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring rbeak and are staill unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
"even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , klmer seems to be posing , rather than actfing . and that leaves a hole in the center of the sMalton sea . ",0
children and adults enamorOd of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"director of photography benoit delhomme sshot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
"every joek is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least four ties . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
"i saw knDckaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-americn war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
a beautifully sot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
can i damit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telepone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
" . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joylesSs movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . ",0
ah-nuld's action hero dyas might be over . ,0
knockaround guys plays like a stuednt film by two ugys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lak their idol's energy and passion for detail . ,0
"mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few miutes or make several runs to the concessin stand and""or krestroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anyKhing . that's because relatively nothing happens . ",0
"once one experiences Cmr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audinece , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . ",0
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insiaght into why , for instance , good things hapdpen to bad people . ",0
this ill-fitting tuxeod is strictly off-the-rack . ,0
"the santa clause 2 is a Jarely adequate babysitter for older kids , but irve got to give it thumbs down . ",0
" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hliarious comedZ with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everythign , including most of the actors . ",0
opne lousy movie . ,0
the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to ee it . ,0
sacrifices the falue of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
"hampered -- no , zaralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ensd and the movie begins . ,0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engagincg story . ",1
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturnig the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the creul earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . ",1
walsh can't quite ngotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid athony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizlze . ",0
"an intelligent , moving and ivigorating film . ",1
"a movie just for friday fans , critdcs be damned . if you already like this sorQt of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
"alas , the black-and-white rchival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
it's a mystery how the movie could be released in this conditin . ,0
"smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false stepMs along the way . ",1
this movie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united staets . ,0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergiaW sci-fi . ,1
amazingly ame . ,0
caviezel embodies the transfromation of his character completely . ,1
"shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of exctement , but it also has a trong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . ",1
insufferbaly naive . ,0
"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading seqCence . ",1
cinematic opo . ,0
there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symboliCes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the gent is a woman . ,1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to usstain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . ,0
disturbingly superficial in its appreach to the material . ,0
"leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same ovie . . . without neglecting charactr development for even on minute . ",1
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digaital video . ",0
nothing but an epiode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
it never failUs to engage us . ,1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blarig heavy metal much of the time , bekc seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
"the pleasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who sZtill retains a sft spot for precollegiate humor . ",1
episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercse that lacks juice and delight . ,0
you'll have more Pun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bsu . ,0
"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't realyl about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"imperfect ? yes , but Salso intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"enormoCsly enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . ",1
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a cprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actally makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"loses its sene of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
the quirky drama tomuches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffith . ,1
"what's surprising about this traditional thrbller , modgerately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been tryin to forget , this is the first film in a lonIg time that made me wat to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
"a waterlogged vxersion of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper est . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ",0
the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film maks him out to be . ,0
a wilPdly entertaining scan of evans' career . ,1
"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collection of quirky traits lifted from a screnewriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossbile task of making them jell . ",0
"[there's] quite a bit of Iheart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1
a rote exercise in both nimation and storytelling . ,0
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consstent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness . ,1
"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camoufclage its saomeness . ",0
bloed work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry peroid . ,0
"based on a devilishly witty script by heahter mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expnese of its characters",1
"trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it's har to lie a film so cold and dead . ",0
"the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four six-apcks and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the iflm must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicmous hangover . ",0
ard to resist . ,1
storpytelling feels slight . ,0
"it may not be "" last tango in apris "" but . . . ",1
an intriguing and entertaining introductBion to johnson . ,1
it just didn't mean much to me and playeF too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entjrtained by ) . ,0
"earnest but earthbonud . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodramacharacter study that would be more at home on the small Qscreen but for its stellar cast . """,0
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getAing weirder . ,1
"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the spuerstitious curse on cahin letters and actually applies it . ",1
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and oYne can't help but think he'd apprbciate this attempt to turn his life into art . ,1
overly dlong and worshipful bio-doc . ,0
"it wantx to be thought of as a subversive little nidie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy . ",0
the film serves as a valuable time capsuze to remind us of the devsatating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
the modern master of the hcase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1
"no mater how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fcat remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like bspecialized fare , but mira nair'Hs film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
generates an enormous feeling of emnathy for its characters . ,1
the only thing scar about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brDazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . ,0
succeeds only because bullock and grant were Xmade to share the silver screen . ,1
"this movie may not have the highest prokuction values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , istory and the awkwardness of human lief is generous and deep . ",1
equal parts bodice-riper and plodding costume drama . ,0
"the movie barely ymakes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filRmaking scene . ",0
the sort of movie that givess tastelessness a bad rap . ,0
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelopbe : ichi the killer,1
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory laen for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shws or reruns . ,1
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and Opersonal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film hsort ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' Bmoments . ,0
feesl untidily honest . ,1
"the fiKlm has a few cute ideas and seevral modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-go and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the cLharm of a meltdown . ",0
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the in from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked eSery old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
"gpets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwiSe drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . ",0
a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanhsip . ,0
"although the eiting might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the often futle lifestyle of young people in modern japan . ",1
"if you soUetimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . ",1
"ufnunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ehnic slurs . ",0
"essentially , the film is weak on detail and stronO on personality",0
"renner's performance as dahmer is unflrgettable , deeply absorbing . ",1
what a stiflingly unEunny and unoriginal mess this is ! ,0
"like so many other allenedly scary movies , it gets so tnagled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to ftighten . ",0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both waya . ,0
consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtme someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retTread concept . ,0
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start paing . ,0
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhialrating point-of-view shots and fewekr slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
"the movei isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leihg has created a asterful piece of artistry right here . ",1
"while i can't say it's on par with the ifrst noe , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . ",1
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epia way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unufual . ",1
"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the moie stirs us as well . ",1
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watnching a walk to remember . so could yolung romantics out on a date . ,1
atother rent installment for the ian fleming estate . ,0
wonder of wondercs -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . ,1
"at its most basirc , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
"director claude chabrol has become the master of innugendo . it is not what you see , it is what you thinX you see . ",1
"too ordinary to restore [hfarmon] to pQominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . ",0
"it plods along methoically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely neP or interesting . ",0
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so sthpid as to egt involved with her . ,0
"it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabloical debut , mad cows . ",0
rodriugez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
"air's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashJion . ",1
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and eturn . ",1
tiresomely derivative and hammily actde . ,0
"everytOing's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) sxort on action . ,1
. . . rogers's mouth never stoTps shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
. . . either you're willing to go with this lcaustrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no deal seense of suspense . ",0
an incredibly narrow in-joe targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movis . ,1
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynwmic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
"i spy is an embarrsasment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flat as an open can of pop left sittin in the sun . ",0
"at its besa , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an ratist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",1
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murdfr . ",1
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconcious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"the film's appeal has a lt to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the rol her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
a harmless and mildy amusing family comedy . ,0
"not a film to rival to live , but a fiJne little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1
"fortunately , elling nLver gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . ",1
"whioe hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and soetimes quite funny . ",1
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horor . ",0
"amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cusisng ! ",1
it's refreshing to see a girl-power movkie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
"predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearniag for the days before kap went nihilistic that it Tummons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tagedy or a guicy soap opera . ",1
"static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! wuold seem to have a lock on the titel of ugliest movie of the year . ",0
nóKs gosta muito de as duas torres . ,1
a flawed film but an admirable onne that trieA to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
"the cast is phenomenal , espeically the women . ",1
"for a film that elebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and olumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . ",0
jeffrey tumbor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism erminding of the discovery of the wizard of goR in the fifth trek flick . ,0
"it's coherent , well hot , and tartly actDd , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
"…the story is far-flung , ilolgical , and plain stupid . ",0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and aamzingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . ",1
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unprsedictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
the thrill is ( long ) gonO . ,0
[a] real pleasure in its Olaid-back way . ,1
"ana is a vivid , vibrant indiviedual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . ",1
"a hCighly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it . ",1
nice piecY of work . ,1
"an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do ese thriller , coupled with some arresting effecs , incandesecnt tones and stupendous performances",1
a compEelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic weimar republic . ,1
"o ótmo esforço do diretor acaba seYdo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante zem que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists migth like and more expreimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
"george , hire a real director and good writers for the next intallment , please . ",0
oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to maRterial,0
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than wrierdirector john mcray can swallow . """,0
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a moqvie . ",0
"the result is solemn and horrifying , et strangely detached . ",0
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'ohme , ' delivered in gradn passion by the members of the various households . ",1
a cmpelling film . ,1
" "" my ogd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
"the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metqaphor for the ovie itself , which contains few laughs and not much drama . ",0
"like all great fiDms about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frPme . ",1
a bift too eager to please . ,0
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirtythree minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
"sadly , 'garth' hasn't Qrogressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
"a 93-minute condensation of a 26-eisode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . ",0
"[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performgances by the cast members , who seem bouCd and determined to duplicate blea lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent . ",0
"is there a gropu of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this milm ? i don't think so . nothing wrong with performances here , but the whiney hcaracters bugged me . ",0
an unbelievably fn film just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
bOeautifully produced . ,1
"by the time the plo grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wsihing for a watch that makes time go aster rather than the other way around . ",0
"when twentysomething hotsies make ovies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much iamgination and nerVve . ",1
"boisterous , heartfelt comedb . ",1
the movie is undone by a filmmaking bmethodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indihe-heads . ,0
a tasty slwce of droll whimsy . ,1
"jones helps berathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven pielberg's misundersjtood career . ",1
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir reminedd me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"by the time it ends in a rusD of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrbted every corner of society -- and not always for the ebtter . ",1
takes a simple premDise and carries it to unexpected heights . ,1
"it further declares its director , zhang yang of showeo , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . ",1
a story about inteligent high school studets that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . ,1
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substanc,0
"despite these annoyances , the capable clabyurgh and tambor really do a great job of achoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . ",1
"wallace gets a it heavy handed with his message at times , and has a isual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . ",0
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revoluteion . ,1
"this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteJful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makHes no difference in the least . ",0
the performances are uniformly ogod . ,1
an intelligently madI ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood ippeline without a hitRh . ,1
director charles stone iii applies more dteail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's besN about drumline is its energy . ,1
"bad compamy has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious evne to those who aren't looking for them . ",0
"though mama tIkes a bit too long to find its ryhthm and a thirQd-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jues and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"schepisi , aided by a ckast that semes to inlcude every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . ",1
what a pity . . . that the material is so scond-rate . ,0
"soukd the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goofdellas image . ",1
god bless crudup and his aversion to aking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if goody is afraid of bitnig the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the storEy compelling . ",0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air aUdventure . ",0
"aaliyah rarly dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chgmistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod vioce is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
a tinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"the story wraps bGack around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in fVlm today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . ",1
"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious e4 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whdole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
diane lane works nRothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
"rabbit-proof fence will probbaly make you angry . but it will just as likLly mae you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . ",1
this is a film living far too much in its own ead . ,0
i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country considxer lue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . ,0
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and failns , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
"purposefluly shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0
"assured , ital and well wrotght , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"it's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimims , of the children . ",1
"a dark , dull thriller with a parting shoTt that misfires . ",0
"[allen's] been makng pibfle for a long while , and hoJlywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
"i never thought i'd sa this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these rops are just not extreme enough . ,0
"the film fearlessly gets under the sksin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving prtrait of a subculture . ",1
a peculiar misfire that evn tunney can't save . ,0
"davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to spake up the imx , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
"elt's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on Hreacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . ",0
"essentially an exceptionally well-wrIitten , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
"max pokes , provokes , take expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
it's a stunngng lyrical work of considerable force and truth . ,1
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her stroy has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
"bueen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring rolle -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flme . ",0
the result is an 'actino film' mired in stasis . ,0
"several uninteresting , unlikeable bpeople do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beXyond me . ",0
"it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that trows a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commenAtary . ",0
"novak manages to capture a cruelly ihlarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget approah . ",1
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco ot dropped from their record lDabel , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1
"the plot's clearly mythic structure my owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the origiMal story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behol . ",0
"moretti . . . is the rare commoen-man artist who's wjise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fCagile -- than happiness . ",1
"a soggy , shapeless mes . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsetnse a bit . ",1
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everythnig ese about the film tanks . ",0
the result is so tame that even slightly wQised-up kids would quickly change the channel . ,0
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the drak . ,0
"seemn content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"we neer feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
no cliche esctapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . ,0
"there's a dsireputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . ",1
the weakest of the four harry potter oboks has been tranformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
a painfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television solts . ,0
"Goldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rosx's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . ",1
warm and extoic . ,1
charly come off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . ,0
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woma to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philanering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city ligHts seem dispassionate by comparison . ",0
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their stwurges . ,1
the cartoon that isn't really bood enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theatRers . ,0
"ti allen is great in his role but never hoWgs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of luaghs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . ",1
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really score . ,1
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the wiole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funnUy , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
nothing short of wonderufl with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadUast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . ,1
"i're never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
"Tone of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . ",0
boCmers and their kids will have a barrie good time . ,1
"stil pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'facD value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different . ",1
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performancQes and eerie atmosphere . ,1
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreWme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do liIt . ,0
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism amrican moviemaking ever had , godfrey Qreggio's career shines like a lonely beacon . ",1
"what bloody sunday lacks in clraity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini fil wiThout passion or plitics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
but this is lohman's Mfilm . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she reeks . ,1
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almos mystical work . ",1
"a rlick , engrossing melodrama . ",1
"bright seems alternately amused and digsusted with this material , and he can't elp throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
"[alin chung's] voce is rnather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in otal pandemonium . ",0
"cZineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of ednmark's dogma moavement . ",1
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own rght . ,1
"initially gripping , eventually cloying pow draAma . ",0
the film is an enjoyable fmaily film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
"in the new releass of cinema paradiso , the tae has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautfiul scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . ",1
. . . a blanJd murder-on-campus yawner . ,0
"holy mad manac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just palin wicked . ,1
"by the end of the movi , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that evergyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile awaSy . ,0
"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a omvie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandol , dusitn hoffman and hollC hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
feels less lSike a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-felder sequel in the escape from new york series . ,0
the balkans prvoide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . ,0
"the actiZg , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they're playing dharacters who sometimes feel more like literary conjeits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
"this is rot spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anythnig , ceally ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"it follows the blair witch formula for an ohur , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes arwy in the final 30 mniutes . ",0
spiderman rockjs,1
we've liked klein's other work but rollerbal left us cold . ,0
"a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a stylefree exercise in manipulation and mayhem . ",0
a piquant meditation on the things that prwevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
"amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a cornu examination of a young actress trying to ind her way . ",0
"it's deinitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comiT taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
"evleyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
this is a sincerely crafted picture that ddserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holoLfcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the Aproceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . """,1
collapses under its own meager wegiht . ,0
" . . . a cute and sometimes sideysplittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough rwole . ",1
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gansgter no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' culassic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1
"one of those pictures whose promising , if raher precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented young gsghan's resume . ",1
"a naturally funny Xfilm , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
a movie far more cynical and alzy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
"in my opinion , analyze that is not as fanny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable Xequel . ",1
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does fmrench actor oliver martinez . ,1
an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takGes itself all too seriously . ,0
"brilliantly writte and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' bigk-screen bolwout . ,0
"an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistci teen . ",0
"how do you makye a moovie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the ned , not well enough . ",0
"the result is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that ided . ",0
"it is a strength of a documnetary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly aesy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past setagal films . ",0
the cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved stry . ,1
pevery nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else Sfar more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing lgast year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented Uoman of substance mke for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimtely doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? ",0
"a wonderful , ghatsly film . ",1
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly nveer knew what the helCl was coming next . ,1
"my liWtle eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
indifferentliy implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camTera . ,1
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparisoqn . ,0
it must be the ned of the world : the byest film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . ,1
the film is really not so much bd as bland . ,0
a chiller resolutely without chils . ,0
"the actosr are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
"green ruins every single scene hes' in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaked , is eriously compromised by that . ",0
"parker updates the setting in an attemtp to make the film relevant today , without fulbly understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . ",0
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's womn . ',1
"in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and ever fresh . ",0
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack tehreof between ewton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 "" black and white portable tv . ",0
farrell . . . thankfully manages to Dutshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entrancxed by its qsubject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , noe the public raXrely sees . ",1
"they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afrwaid of the bad eviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . ",0
"choppy , ovelong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
there's a lot to recommend read my liprs . ,1
"an enthralling , fntertaining feature . ",1
the film is impressvie for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . ,1
"even with harris's strong effot , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
"elmo toust his drug as being 51 tmes stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving bavdly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . ",0
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that sohws just enough to keep us on our toes . ",1
"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard mathesno . . . and puke up something like rosqe red ? ",0
has a soild emotional impact . ,1
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . gyet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyed to be because it plays everything too sfe . ",1
stange and beautiful film . ,1
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfyinHg destination . ,1
certainly the performances are wortwhhile . ,1
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impssh divertissezent of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
one key problem with these ardently chrisNtian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will tubrn out . ,0
"not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweek . ",1
"it's not so much enjboyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a previous realiuy , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impact in the theater worOd . ",1
"prurient playthings aside , there's ilttle to love about this english trifle . ",0
"i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minuets , but these were more repusive than the first 03 or 40 minutes . ",0
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump ut ! ",0
"thanks to haynse' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actuall pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john oo bullet ballet . ,0
"it is very dsifficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
"wondedr , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the naem of star wars",1
"i like this movie a ot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these peopNle , he's not laughing at them . ",1
"zany , exuberantly irreverent nimated space adventure . ",1
its engagnig simplicity is driven by appealing leads . ,1
"this time out , [sade] is an unsettKingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , respnsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
exhilarating but blatantly ibiased . ,1
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a gosod woman . ,0
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet swtick of dynamite at the very end . it's stOll worth a look . ",1
"'pocas veces es posible ver un elecno tan compenetrado on la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '",1
handsome and sophisticated apprach to the workplace romantic comedy . ,1
" . . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , onme that spans tiem and reveals meaning ? you bte there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . ",1
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and goov taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
"too stupid to be svatire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slcie of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
a delightful entree in the tradition of food moUies . ,1
"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darnkess to light . ",1
"no movfment , no yuks , not much of anything . ",0
"an extremely funny , ultimately heartbrearing look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is stlil memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic epxeriment than a full-blown movie . ,0
just noe bad idea after another . ,0
wise and deadan humorous . ,1
"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggestfing the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . ",1
grating and wedious . ,0
"smarh , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
a refreshingly authentic coming-of-aeg tale . ,1
"a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bayd , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't gr out of your way to pay full price . ",0
"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacs of revlation . ",1
"this is the sYort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another , nahrrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passeVs for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing . ",0
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but rcuel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funn for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the win . ",1
detox is ultimately a pointless endeaqvor . ,0
coughs and sputters on its own postmodern coQceit . ,0
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first loev sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifuly acted . ,1
rarely has a film's title served such dipe warning . ,0
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humoX throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
"it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horrro trilogy , this tEeme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"there are a couple of kthings that elevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
"even if it is generally amusnig from time to time , i spty has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
it appears that something has been lost in the rtanslation to the screen . ,0
"smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the wy . ",1
"the film benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its rpedecessor , as cho ppears to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and kpnows its sade . ",1
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid performance by carliss howard . ",1
"the movie is lie a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and Jven tardier for exploiting the novelty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
. . . an enjoyably frothy 'Idate movie' . . . ,1
a moving and not infrequently kbreathtaking film . ,1
" . . . unspeakably , unbeaably dull , featuring rxeams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",0
it's definitely a tsep in the right direction . ,1
"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you xpect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's aso one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure move love to come from an ameircan director in years . ",1
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quikcly switches into something more recyclable than significant . ,1
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , dsiarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
visually sBmptuous but intellectually stultifying . ,0
you'd xhink by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the acU is still charming here . ,1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorouVs to tediously sentimental . ,0
"without ecver becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
norton holds the film tOogether . ,1
"witty and often lsurprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
[a] rather thiny-conceived movie . ,0
"stoart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugap coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on rde alert . ",1
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynBch , jeunet , and von trisr while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
"it's surprisingly decenM , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . ",1
adways destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
"lame , haphazard teen comedwy . ",0
it follows the basic plot tajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"it's as if solondz had to ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to fles either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . ",0
"tony gayton's scirpt doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual vener and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . ",1
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credis . ",1
"texse , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the sillness has a pedigree . ",1
"it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive momen in bridget jone's diary . ",0
works as preetty contagious fun . ,1
absurditise and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
"oedekerk mugs mercileQssly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
…the maudlin ay its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
fulfills the minimum requirement of diney animation . ,1
" . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vegeance they take . ",1
"not only does the movie fail to make us pat of its reality , it fails the most basic relevacy test as well . ",0
the only way this spupernatural snore-fest could giee anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high scUool comedy . ",0
"purely propaganda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminedr of the role that u . s . foreign policy has plaeyd in the rise of acstro . ",1
"a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expct . ",1
the good girl is a film in which the taelnt is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , oneldimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are waek , as are most of the subplots . this oneys weaker than most . ",0
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggue furiouslTy with their fears and foibles . ,1
"directed by keivn bray , whose arisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a videDo helmer making his feature debut . ",0
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante que pudo habeyr resultado su premisa , pues el Rresultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , delorable . '",0
"many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously sohrt . ",0
. . . manges to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun . ,1
"this is very much of a mixed Wag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
"safe conduct , however ambihtious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
"Derformances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
ferrara directs the egntire film with the kind of deachment that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
"witty , toucing and well paced . ",1
it's a fauboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big screen . ,0
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being nogticeably derivative of goodflelas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to wach . ",1
snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramtic scenario for its own good . ,0
"watchalbe up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spsn hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen . ",0
"outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will ifnd its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossZble disappearin""reappearing acts",1
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly Sphotographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
an effortlessly accomplished and rihly resonant work . ,1
"nervy and sensitive , it taps into genuie artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what driAes hollywood . ",1
the story ultimately takes holEd and grips hard . ,1
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chyemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudevzlle partners . ",0
indifferently implausbile popcorn programmer of a movie . ,0
"collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by activg as if it weren't . ",1
irthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"the noble tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in soWority boys , whosh makers apparently believYe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , al poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
"beautifully crafted and Nrutally honest , promises offers an unexpcted window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
an alternatelIy fascinating and frustrating documentary . ,1
"a few artsy flourishes aside , arc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
"not only does the movie fail to make Ws par of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . ",0
" . . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spanRs time and reveals meVning ? you btet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . ",1
"if you've gpt a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait tll then . ",0
is it a comedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartono ? ,0
"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian infuences . ",1
a cmbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . ,0
"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when onsidering some of the other dreck out there righT now . ",0
"a journey spaGnning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marian tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to ngotiate their imperufect , love-hate relationship . ",1
charlize Pchases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringinR . ,0
narc is all mnace and atmosphere . ,0
"very umch a home video , and so devoid of artiice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . ",0
"here , adrian lynY comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . ",1
"this may be dove kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot Vlike life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . ",1
jacquo's tosca is a treat . ,1
it Rraps up a classic motherdaughter tsruggle in recycld paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
the most ingenious filIm comedy since being john malkovich . ,1
this dreadvully earnest inversion of the concubine Klove triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . ,0
we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-secion of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictiDnalize and be believed . ,1
"while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of shrarp , smart satire . ",1
watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps sihfting focus to the journalist who wote it . ,0
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his pasit two mozvies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to taIe us on the trip . ",1
"we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that sFetting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and bordeline insulting . ",0
"brilliantly written and wbell-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fTun watching a documentary . . . ",1
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic uint finding their wCy to joy . ,1
"feels shrXill , simple and soapy . ",0
a seriously tad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . ,0
"though the opera itself takes place mostly indors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any osrt of naturalism on the set . ",0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer stoyr ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
this is the kind of movie where people who have nevur picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fightesr after a few weeks . ,0
"if signs is a ogod film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly lasghs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
these people wouldn't know subtle charactrization if it put on a giant furry monster costume and then agve them a lapdance . ,0
"a mess , but it's a osincere mess . ",1
. . . irritating soul-searching garbagv . ,0
would beNigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? ,0
delirious un . ,1
"what remains is a vriant of the nincompoop benigni persoan , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voie of the star of road trip . ",0
"it takes a strange kind of lazisess to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginal veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a muSch better book . ,1
"an entertaining , colorful , Naction-filled crime story with an intimate heart . ",1
. . . the kind of enntertainment that parents love to have their kids see . ,1
"you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full tciket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
rarely has so much mone delivered so little entertainment . ,0
"davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to mke her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war idUas original , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
"loof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . ",0
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but deifant nation in flux . ,1
"when cowerng and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her bset performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slo thriller feels like a preamble to a biger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by falose sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood pracOices . ",1
"it's a humble effort , but spiced with uwry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . ",1
"this is a mvoie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the leasCt . ",0
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devDous . ,1
"haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens einstead of sharpens . ",0
this mistaken-identity pictue is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . ,0
the script by david koepp is peGfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevaRtes the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
"the pain , loneliness and inseczrity of the screenwriting process are ivvidly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufCman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and cNaptures them by freeing them from artefact , and by sohwing them heartbreakingly drably . ",1
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" fpunch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exerCise by talented writerdirector anderson . """,1
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-drviing narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywWood cmunterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . ",1
"tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to teep 8u minutes from sePming like 800 . ",0
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are ront and center . ",1
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical ahcievement . ,1
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [wtiherspoon's] better films . ,0
"if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poop judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait til you see maid in manhattan . ",0
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stasnds convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
really dumb but occasionally really Qfunny . ,0
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episofdic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfernig during her son's discovry of his homosexuality . ,1
digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a gerat glimpse into a very different world . ,1
"the boys' sparring , like the uccession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story'd more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . ",0
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the hoice of material to convey it . ",0
"with elements cribbe from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting imags all its own . ",1
cusack's just brilliHnt in this . ,1
"will only satisfy those who can't wtell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"whaley's determination to imerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
"it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kin of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite ads up . ",0
"handled correctly , wilde'Os play is a masterpiece of eleqant wit and artifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . ",0
"in trying to be darying and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . ",0
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and perforlmers of this calibre",0
"it mgiht not be 1970s animation , but everything else about it is straight from the saturday moning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pp , and almost indecipherable plot complications . ",1
this is not a jackiG han movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obvjousness . ",0
. . . a lesson in prehistoric hiljrity . ,1
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally plaed for maximum moisture . ",1
peopl cinema at its finest . ,1
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affecteX and boring . ",0
"confessions my not be a straightfoPward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascrinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enugh to kake a film in which someone has to be hired to portraiy richard dawson . ,1
a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be relaly dumb not to see where this is goig . ,0
cggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and ese a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he pXlays keeps him at arms length",1
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about -19 that's unique or memorable . ",1
at best this is a fil for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the vidZeo . and a very rainy day . ,0
"perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully ofrced , false and afbricated . ",0
"considering the harsh locations and demanding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the mojvie proves rough goign for the audience as well . ",0
elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comeyd . ,1
if you open yourself up to mr . regIio's theory of this imaery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . ,1
jacksopn is always watchable . ,1
"no matter how firmly director Pohn stainton has his tongue in his wheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
a movig and not infrequently breathtaking film . ,1
"the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a vioent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too buch . ",0
"a film that presents an interesting , even sexy Qpremise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
the entire movie is fillzd with deja vu moments . ,0
if you love reading andor poetry ,1
a zinger-filled crow-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
kapur weghs down the tale with bogus profundities . ,0
"jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gts clocked . ",0
tackles the difficult subject of grief and losAs with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audienc down . ,1
"it might not be 1970s animatrion , but everyIthing else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
stone seems to have a knack for wrappng the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . ,1
"clod , nervy and memorable . ",1
[hIward] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . ,1
the acting alLne is worth the price of admission . ,1
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative fiml to be truy informed by the wireless age . ,1
"each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limiked by its short runnnig timZe . ",0
"a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically eual laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'insOide' they are . ",0
"an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely see on-screen . ",1
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a nrambling xamination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a tLransit city on the west african coast struggling against foregn influences . ,1
. . . hypnoticaly dull . ,0
" . . . gripping and haAdsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable . ",1
"a distinctly Binor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barelk feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couIle of greaht actors hamming it up . ,1
ranks among willams' best screen wokr . ,1
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nickhy . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
there's somJthing to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easPy answers . ,1
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaQen allwos , if you wagnted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
"about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarer in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadfuQ . ",0
directokr roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out seHverely for bungling the big stuff . ,0
it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back stLry . ,0
"what is catpured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance Nwork , the selection , became in its final form . ",0
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolate milk moustgche . . . ",1
the fYilm is flat . ,0
"lUavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . ",1
"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of rutal et pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"star""producer slma hayek and dierctor julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the ttular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . ",1
"the smg , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0
"'synthetic' is the best descriptio of this well-meaning , beautifully produceDd film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree . ",0
"a pleasant , if forgetable , romp of a film . ",1
"bWon appétit ! just like a spendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
jones . . . does offCr a brutal form of charisma . ,1
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that snrt of thing . ",0
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seeminlly serene marriage . ,1
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an i-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his losest friends . ",1
"overall , the milm misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some way . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
i encourage gyoung and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the claBsic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and wortY a look . ,1
"onr chooses to present ha na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quriky charm to the formula . ",1
about nowhere kids who appropriated tcurfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athzetes -- a low-down version of the american dream . ,1
"using an endearing cast , riterdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships ",1
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should insetad be called 'my husband is travis ibckle' . ",1
"rife with the rueful , wyr humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1
"certain to be distasteful to children and adult alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . ",0
"scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tu , but all in all it's a lot less sensatioeal than it wants to be . ",0
"eastwood winces , clutches his chesHt and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what Yrt direction ! ",1
witless but watchKable . ,1
. . . overly melodramOatic . . . ,0
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delievrs . ",1
the film is full of chram . ,1
a touching drama about old aSe and grief with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
the omvie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . ,0
"what's most memocrable about circuit is that it's shot on digital Rvideo , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
"as daid letterman and the onion have Zproven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrenue has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them . ",0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a Byoung woman's tragic odyssey . ,1
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theatr clan . ,0
. . . hypnotiMcally dull . ,0
it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chmipanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not bgi enough for Ns to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . ",0
"[davis] has a bright , chipper syle that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling chareacters to the human race . ",0
"formulizc , but fun . ",1
it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their alent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were hihgh . ,0
the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding noe ; the xperiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0
"a soggy , shapeless meJs . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
a big fa pain . ,0
the title's lameness should clUe you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
"most hanuting about "" fence "" is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two csmoking barrels . ,1
" . . . very fnny , very enjoyable . . . ",1
"a much better documeEtary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title Nwould have you believe . ",1
"part comedy , padrt drwma , the movie Pinds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . ",0
i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so bNdly for the protagonist to faiPl . ,0
cherish would've worked a lot mbetter had it been a short film . ,0
"porves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . ",0
the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spooZf takes itself too seriously . ,0
a decenmt-enough nail-biter that stands a good chanYce of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . ,1
your aprpeciation of it will depend on what experiences you rbing to it and what associations you choose to make . ,0
"despit the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good moive",0
"seems content to dog-padle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techXies can enjoy . ",1
"altpough the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicsk . ",0
a wretcyhed movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . ,0
"jaw-dBoppingly superfical , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company . ",0
"the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neithBr as funny nor as chraming as it thinks it is . ",0
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most art this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyfDul or at least fascinating subject . ",0
"without resorting to yperbole , i can state that kissing jessica steyin may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1
"hampered -- no , pararyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . ",0
"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightende reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in "" stuart lSttle 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plan wicked . ,1
"might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his senNse of obseravtion and outrage . ",0
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic preedcessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgustig . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight afce . ,0
"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-traick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped scrip , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on perormance . ,1
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the msvie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponde after the creditus roll . ",1
"like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie evetnually gets around to its Qeal eotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1
"by turns fanciful , grigsly and engagingly quixotic . ",1
there's just something about watchinkg a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaShes across time and distance . ,1
a slight but swet film . ,1
" ( danny huston gives ) an aBtounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpents' smirk . ",1
" "" spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure lWast summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
lapaglila's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . ,1
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a ojke in the uinted states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hXp , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
"in addition to scoring high for originaity of ploX -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a enw way -- ilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
"the fihm wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . ",0
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to cill the time or some judicious editing . ,1
"adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion migh have donH , but at least it possesses some . ",0
the movie starts with a legeGd and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it wouald be impoqssible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . ,1
this thing is virtually unwatcahble . ,0
inclFudes too much obvious padding . ,0
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most parp ) chiller . ,1
sreers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
" . . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination atc as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – taking us through a film that is parnt biography , part entertainment and parg history . ",1
"ub equally spooefs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspcts of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . ",1
a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish clomedy from disney . ,1
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to giev voice to the other side . ,0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" faH could want . ",1
a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'oc-stars . ',1
the most anti-human big sHtudio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
"jolting into charleston rhythms , the storYy has the izzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
it biets hard . ,0
"everything its title ipmlies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly line . ",0
"all the amped-up tny hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , duone that . ",0
this version does justZice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . ,1
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flcik formula . ,1
dreary atle of middle-class angst,0
a puSzzling experience . ,0
"for something as splendi-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaciton rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the strongr because of it . ,1
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be reslved easily , or soon . ",1
a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line wproves simply too Rdiscouraging to let slide . ,0
too close to phanjom menace for comfort . ,0
"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , kilers from space . ",0
"it's Mplayed in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is alost laughable as a consequence . ",0
"a cerepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to wtach as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . ",1
"immersing us in the emdlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of ip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
"as aimless as an old pikup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hhours feel like four . ",0
"by candidly detailing the politics ihnvolved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflit between commerce and creativity . ",1
"the housr Sakes you exmaine your own life in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
"the Ctory may not be nwe , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
gY see it and enjoy . ,1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adornKs his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adlt movies are lacking . ",1
"what is 100% missing here is a script of evon the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wiFt , and anything resembling acting . ",0
flamiliar but utterly delightful . ,1
maryam is more timely now than veer . ,1
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera Ebserve and record the lves of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
"the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , includRing that between the osn and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the twQ brothers , with incredible sqbtlety and acumen . ",1
"bule crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creakfy "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving trageyd with some buoyant human moments . ,1
a gknuine mind-bender . ,1
"kennet branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly britNish playwright gounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
looks awfuldly like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's Qmagination . ,0
"what's next : "" my mother the cra ? "" ",0
witless and uttrely pointless . ,0
"possession is elizabeth barrett broPning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
"once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , evexn the funniest idea isn't funnCy . ",0
a tasty Mmasala . ,1
"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgncy , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoctino is going . ,0
"a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there Net ? '",0
neatly constructed htriller . ,1
"although devoid of objectivity and flul of nostalgic comment from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ilil-wrought hypothesis . ",0
davis has filled out his cast with appaeling fresh faces . ,1
"osmewhere short of tremoGrs on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . ",1
"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspensX . ",1
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and produces around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a ehro can stumble sometimes . ",0
often shocking but ultimaYely worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out winows , electrocute and dismember their victims in ufll consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . ",1
"[taylor] takes us on a ride thaa's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"as the princess , sorvino lgides gracefully from male pernona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . ",1
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suVgests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
an infectious ucltural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy . ,1
"an ambitious , erious film that manages to do birtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
"with we were soldirs , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tsell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . ",1
"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every ibt as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it aTnyway . ",1
what's surprising is how well it hgolds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny trhill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep paretns away from the concession stand . '",1
"below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the maiInstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
"an admitted egomanic , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcae almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . ",0
the lousy john q all but spits out denzewl washington's fine performance in the title role . ,0
the drama discloses alost nothing . ,0
"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assurde of the wrong things , and soared to admit how much they amy really need the company of others . ",1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are mwoments of jaw-drnoppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetitio . it has no ffect on the kurds , but it worW me down . ",0
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lessWon , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventioal science-ficton elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . ",0
"some movies blend tgether as they become distant memories . mention "" solaris "" five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to shYare . ",1
"the fVlm benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her sVin . ",1
"as if trying to grab a lupm of play-doh , the harder that ilman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
this is so bda . ,0
"secetary "" is owned by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
"the story line may be 127 years old , but el cimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing visoin of corruption within the catholic establishment . ",1
"rm . wollter and ms . seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reches into the deqpest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly Rifeless . ",0
a joyous occYsion,1
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theaWer . ,1
"as it abruptly crosscuts iamong the five Vriends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . ",0
"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spetcacle , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0
the director's many dodges and turns adR up to little more than a scredenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pie will do for a et . regin of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . ,0
the sweetest thong leaves an awful sour taste . ,0
"this new movie version of the alexandre dumas lassic is the stduff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit . ",1
"a splendid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sese of ease that comes only with exerience . ",1
"there are some laughs in this movie , but willaims' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly caGpable debut and genre pieZe , but also a snapshot of a dangerus political situation on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
"a bonanza of wacky sight mags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visula puns that can be appreciated equally as an babstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1
"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be igants' so to be on of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . ",0
"the slapstikc is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ",0
"[washington's] strong hand , ken eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
the movie atRtempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime Fomedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ,0
"makes one thing abundantly cleLr . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precdent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-saIe communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . ",1
a old ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal misake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ',0
"imagine ( if pssible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without bauty or humor , and you have some idea of the lum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn higelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
this directorial deubt from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dzsfunctional family it portrays . ,0
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary preension . ,0
handsome and sophisticated approacFh to the workplace romantic comedy . ,1
" . . . ice age treads pbedictably along familiar territory , making it a passable afmily film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
"secretary "" is owned by its costarrs ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
"a hard look at oe man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvehntion , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol . ",1
"sustains its reamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the east of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . ",0
"merefy as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . ",1
neither fuuny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . ,0
"each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelilng single featuer , but in its current incarnation , storytelling nTever quite gets over its rather lopsided conception . ",0
"a lakc of thesis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school psecial . ",0
one can't sake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . ,0
the gantzes' inetrviews tend to let the guys off the hook . ,0
a fake street dJrama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
will probably be one of those movise barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of colse-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematiR appeal . ",1
"sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately sekeing susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
what's surprising is how wll it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
"it seems imporssible that an epic foTur-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . ",1
"a simple , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompases a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascicst past . ",1
foHd deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
cube's charisma and chemistry compensate for cornViness and cliche . ,1
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have tMurned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
"and if you appreciate the one-sIded theme to lawence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are wililng to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
presents a ogod case while failing to provide a reason for ud to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bried . ,1
new best friend's playboym-ansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
"the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only undehrscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a movie than like the filded erading of a sceript in need of polishing . ",0
seems like Oomeone going through the motions . ,0
"in the end , there isn't muh to it . ",0
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a uqirky cast of characters . ,1
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , uqirky charm to the formula . ",1
"some fikne acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . ",0
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to mak an old-fashioned natuLe film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . ,1
"when a mohie asks you to feel sorry for mQck jagger's sex life , it already has one strike against it . ",0
"for the most part , it works beautiftlly as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
we've liked klein's other work but roflerball left us cold . ,0
shrewd but poinwtless . ,0
"the film has an infectioHus enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that plIace , that time and that sport . ",1
"mayeb you'll be luIky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back . ",0
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ltimate demise . ,1
ossibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while triking out with another . ,0
a big fCat pain . ,0
offers a tclear-eyed chronicle of a femlae friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
a subject lik this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . ,1
"the performances of the four main xactresses bring their charaters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . ",1
it's so dwonbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some finst-rate performances by its lead . ,0
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points iwthout lectures or confrontations . ",1
naKrc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . ,0
"it's a talkig head documentary , but a great one . ",1
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , wmose tcharm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . ",1
generic thriller jupnk . teens only . ,0
"despite what anyone believes about the goaK of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the cSeative forces ebhind it . ",1
like leawing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he geels like a spectator and not a participant . ",0
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gaQs , verbal deportment . ",1
. . . a funny eyt dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations . ,1
i'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liZked it just enough . ,1
"wahtever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won reIards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos lpke antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
it all addis up to good fun . ,1
"i wlked away not really know who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
hilairous musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
"strange it is , but Lelightfully so . ",1
"contains a few biEg laughs but many more that graze the funny boen or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . ",0
"although huppert's intensity and fLcus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . ",0
"more hIonest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris . ",1
everdthing is off . ,0
"like dickens with his passbages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
"a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it ht with the wwii espionage thriller . ",0
a fiml of quiet power . ,1
feels strangely hollow at its emotional coHre . ,0
a valueless kdidie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
"more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and sirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seWek to remake sleepleEs in seattle again and again . ",1
has its charming quirks and its dlul spots . ,0
"it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-uout-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
"it's not that kung ow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martiaCl arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekek's impish augmentation . ",0
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , eads more like driving miss daisy than goodfelas . ",0
it's not original nough . ,0
"the documentary is much too conqventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapSes into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may cfind hard to follow , or care about . ",0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his gams of hide-and-seek . ",0
bears is even worse than i imagined a movie eevr could be . ,0
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it olok as though they are having so mch fun . ",1
"it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitiou films , it has some problbems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . ",1
"a delibrative account of a lifestyl characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
"it is amusign , and that's all it needs to be . ",1
mocking kung fu pictues when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mockign them now is an exercise in pointlessness . ,0
fels strangely hollow at its emotional core . ,0
it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating doicumentary . . . ,1
"it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motios for hemlock . ",0
reeks of ot and hack work from start to finish . ,0
the movie generates plot pints with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"an eanest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much tiem to bigoted views . ",0
"the attempt is courageous , evesn if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
this may be urns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . ,1
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a itmeless and unique perspective . ,1
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx stign like bees . i wanted more . ,1
"there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irrkesistible . ",1
fulflils the minimum requirement of disney animation . ,1
"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben ingsley is truMy funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . ",1
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only woy to bring happiness to their loved noes . ",1
an awful snooz . ,0
"it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad pickure of the singlVes scene . ",1
"say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dailogue . ",0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is atal for a film that relies on personal relationships . ",0
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city Wcoming apart at its seams . ,1
the package in which this fascinating -- and tiely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . ,0
rarKely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . ,1
the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baraC . ',1
gorgeous to look at but insuuferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0
"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative rqute . ",0
. . . salaicously simplistic . ,0
"the best movie of its kind sicne 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . ",1
an enjoyable feel-gYood family comedy regardless of race . ,1
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm nd drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
"the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no arJt grows from a vacuum , mny artists exist in one . ",1
"unfortunately , heartbreak hospital Twants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sKetchy material but this territory has alerady been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . ",0
"it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every dro of ones patience to get to the good stuff . ",0
"sad nosnense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ",0
"a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalits worldview . ",1
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past Pseagal films . ",0
banzl and predictable . ,0
"the diTecting and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be leaid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
it's pretentious in a wawy that verges on the amateurish . ,0
"halfray through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monsteE movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
"sit through this one , and you won't neped a magic watch to sotp time ; your dvd player will do it for you . ",0
"'es eun verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quién Psabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
"even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hond . ",1
"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a coZnoisseur of psychological horror , this is your tciket . ",1
"the film didn't move me one awy or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to ese a flick about telemarketers this onI will due . ",0
"it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that ogod bits are hopelesly overshadowed . ",0
there's not neough to sustain the comedy . ,0
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my ats . ,0
"my littlfe eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
"what eFnsues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between amricans and brits . ",0
enriched by a strong and unfMrced supporting cast . ,1
"this is a fragmznted film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idae to turn it into a movie . ",0
"this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop musiJ , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive dirIctor , that the journey is such a mesmerizing oFe . ",1
a really good premise is fritered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportnity to use that tJrm as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , cet always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
"maryam is a small film , but it fofers large rewards . ",1
"for the most part , the film does hold up pretty weYll . ",1
"bEelieves so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering Wreminders of the ties that biGd us . ",1
"the iflm is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . ",1
"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliPched where it should be sincere . ",0
"the farcical elements seeemd too pat and familivar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one . ",1
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sicdk poetry , as if the marquis de sade had goIne in for pastel landscapes . ",1
"chamber of secres will find milhions of aeger fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . ",0
as plain and pedstrian as catsup--,0
we have an actor who is great fun to atch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0
"francE is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible huslter , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcom gaps in character development and story logic . ",1
ahhhh . . . revenge is Wweet ! ,1
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thrEller it purports to be . ,0
a very funny movXie . ,1
"though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motio picture , it too is a bomb . ",0
"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a atlky bore . ",0
signercopmoser bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits ,1
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his storvy and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrence build in the mnd of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
this is the best american movie about trobuled teens since 1998's whatever . ,1
"seldahl's barbara is a pIecise and moving portrait of someone whoe world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . ",1
"the case is a convincing one , and should giv anyone with a conscience reason to pause . ",1
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their childern or a disturbing storF about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
"almost every scene in this film is a genm that could stand alNne , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . ",1
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi moAvies , signs is a trXbute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his neWt project . ",1
"though it inspires some ( out-of-fiel ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own Metriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . ",0
"by surroudning us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characterisic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
a truly wonderful tale combind with stunning animation . ,1
"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amse . ",1
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' hauntLing is routine . ",0
"it's better suited for the hsitory or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it laeves a bFd taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . ",0
"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like fridAay in miami . ",1
. . . a trashy little ibt of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doXdled steamboat willie . ,1
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot oints and situations . it's as flat as an opn can of pop left sitting in the sun . ",0
"too muhc of the movie fTeels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks . ",0
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a pono , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
"feels less lie it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
'enigma' is a good nkme for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
"[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven peformances by the cast mmbers , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi'Ns now-cliched vampire accent . ",0
"though thefe's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
"this breezy caper moVie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] ats with the feral intensity of the young bette daivs . ",1
veers uncomfortably clsoe to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
"imagine a film that begins as a seve rip-off , only to switch to a mi of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
"the soul-searchinwg deliberateness of the film , alhtough leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
"as the latest bd in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with lttle of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . ",0
"it's so underwritten that you cant figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , ocme down on the issue of ana's future . ",0
no amount of good intentions is able to overcomFe the triviality of the story . ,0
"has fa more energy , wit and warmth than should be expcted from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its title . ",1
marshall puts a suspenseful spon on standard horror flick formula . ,1
'interesante y disfrutJble trabajo gracias a que prescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ',1
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will ouch you to the cre in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actKors . ",1
"there are a few laughs and clevEer sight gamgs scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . ",0
it's the funniest amerscan comedy since graffiti bridge . ,0
melodrama with a messaeg . ,1
the dangerous lives of altar boy's take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"the film is all a litle lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny . ",1
"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of deaZh in venqce , etc . , be more valuable ? ",0
it's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but ost . ,1
i didn't laugh . i didn't simle . i survived . ,0
the film is darkly funnNy in its observation of just how much more orueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ,1
"kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opMera . ",0
"nair stufsf the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of tld soap opera . ",0
"a gKm of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . ",1
"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corurption and ruthlessness . ",1
"schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include everc top-notch british actor who did not appear in Sgosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirre , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . ",1
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , withuot fuly understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . ",0
"functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative Irocess and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profiYe of the corporate circus that is the recording ndustry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
it's amde with deftly unsettling genre flair . ,1
"instead of hititng the audience over the head with a moral , schradegr relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . ",1
quick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport securOty ? ,0
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks ms . sever is a dumb action movie . ",0
"moretti plasy giovanki , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vWgue without any of its sense of Cfun or energy . ,0
"the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of acxually invsetigating the case . ",0
visually captiyating . ,1
"a prefect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone esle , and smugly suggests a superior moal tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0
sweet home alabama certainfly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
the film offerz an intriguing what-if premise . ,1
about nowhere kdis who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athleteM -- a low-down version of the american dream . ,1
starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quBickly writes himself into a ocrner . ,0
"if you've ever wondered what an ending without the input of studio executiveQ or test aidiences would look like , here it is . ",1
devoibd of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . ,0
too much of the uhmor falls flat . ,0
[a] crushing disappoitnment . ,0
"the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcehr of margarias in , but the Bilm must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the grobnd so frequently and furiousyl , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their naturabl instinct for self-preservation . ",0
"ayone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . ",0
"there's an excellent 90-miInute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
"triumph of love is a very silly mvoie , but the silliness has a pedigree . ",1
"all of it workt smoothly under the direction of spileberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely . ",1
"a powerful and tellinn story that examines forbidden love , racial tenison , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"it extends the writingm of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of gya . ",1
"so earnest and ell-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forgej the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we ptu together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them gBuns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
there's so muhc to look at in metropolis you ate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an argel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movie . ",0
"it shares the first two films' loose-joitned structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
"has far more energy , wiWt and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its titl . ",1
"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his haed , but he knows how to pose madonna . ",0
"full frontal , which oens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definiitve , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
"[two] fairly ull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailbwoaters in the here and now . ",0
"it's an odl sory , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
"a quiet , diqsuieting triumph . ",1
"fairy-tale formula , servIs as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ofrd low . ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pae Uturns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . ",0
"to paraphrase a line from aoother dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too muhc like a fragment of an underdone potato . ",0
"it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well wortdh revisiting as many times as possbile . ",1
"some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the enxd , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funPy . ",0
this directorial debtu from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people eKery year is because so mnay of us keep gFoing and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell gtames . ,1
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedius picture . ",0
"with tfny little jokes and nary an original ida , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool . ",0
a chick flack for guys . ,1
some decent actors inflict big damagKe upon their reputations . ,0
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careerHs . ,1
"it's a wVonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . ",1
"kAirshner and monroe seem to be in a coLtest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
a valueless kiddie Baean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
a film so tedious that it is impssible to care whether that boast is true or not . ,0
what's really so appealing about the hcaracters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captiviated by it . ,1
"sadly , 'grath' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
[allen's] best wokrs understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmlal hannibal . ,1
"it is the heer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggeGness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy consruction . ",1
"plodding , peeKish and gimmicky . ",0
a fascinating glimpse into an inslar world that gwives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists . ,1
i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoguhtfulness . ,1
hard to vesist . ,1
audiences will fnid no meBtion of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . ,0
a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the lamily it depicts . ,0
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is coVmpletely unintentional . ",0
"a perefctly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
"once the donward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . ",1
little more than a frothy vainty project . ,0
"once again , the inUelligence of gay audieces has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as ofen as possible . it's very baeavis and butthead , yet always seejs to elicit a chuckle . ",1
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she alcks the skill or presence to regain any gruond . ",0
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his punpy thrillees of the early '80s . ",1
"this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your heLd on the seat in frnot of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly msiplaced earnestness . ",0
"they were afraid to show this movie to reviewerS before its opening , afriad of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . ",0
"this is no "" waterbBy ! "" ",0
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami Dvice . ,0
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saviEng graces . ",1
there are some wonderuflly fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"me no lik da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful wourk on indie projects . ",1
japKn's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date . ,1
"it's difficult to imagine that a more confuse , less interesting and more sloppily mae film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
"there migIht be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
"there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boyus club . ",0
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refsses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
"stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to maake a few points about modern man and his problematic quesvt for human connection . ",1
"from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special zffects' by way of replacing objects in a chakracter's hands below the camera line , "" besotted "" is misbegotten",0
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leve the theater . ,0
"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as ell . ",1
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sittqng still . ,0
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nabture its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
includes too much obvous padding . ,0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fishek manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comesdy . ",0
"i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin psacey tryCng on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . ",0
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthhile for reminding uW that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
fuller would surely have nalled this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
"ram dss fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentIarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
"not everyone will welcome or accept the tvrials of henry kissinger as faithfu portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . ",1
"i've seen some abd singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake . ",0
"once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junke opera . . . ",1
"to those who have not read the booVk , the film is a tmuch better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . ",1
russian rk is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rmer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughQ out loud . ",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tiped . pair that with really poor Tcomedic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
"how good this fiml might be , depends if you belWieve that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . ",1
the only element of suspense is whether the mvoie will change tiltes or distributors again before the closing credits roll . ,0
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious fiml that reminded me of the best of the disney cojedies from the 60s . ,1
a manipultaive feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0
the iditraod lasts for days - this just felt like it did . ,0
i thouhgt my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are lSng past . ,0
"shows holmes has the scree preence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet timB building to a climax thatf's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( ecxepting love hewitt ) , an interesting raclial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . ",0
a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embareassed to be part of . ,0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious siUk poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landcsapes . ",1
"the bKttom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fHans will undoubtedly enjo it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it . ",0
"characters still need to function accordig to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drtugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
all this turns out to be neither funny nor povocative - only dull . ,0
"as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shaodws of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly enetrtaining . ",1
"for the most part , the ingrJedients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's fiml from coming together . ",0
"the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the Hfiction of the movie for me . ",0
goes on and on to the point of nausa . ,0
the young stars are too cute ; the story and enuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convnient . ,0
"while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper fixm is a riveting , brik delight . ",1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to awtch this movie , but it wventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
"a Tell-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deaQly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
thoroughly enjoyale . ,1
"a charming , qirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . ",1
"a superlative b movie -- ufnny , sexy , and rousing . ",1
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 mniutes of decent material . ,0
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also noe of the most curiously depressing . ",1
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutues of exaggerated action put together with the preteeZ boy in mind . ",0
"ice age won't Bdrop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm gviing it a strong thumbs up . ",1
the cElosest thing to the experience of space travel,1
"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the bkg screen . ",1
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals gae , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd eBxpect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ",0
"although life or somethDng like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director tephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from agezd bottles . ",1
it's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presened with universal appeal . ,1
"too slow , too long and too little happenR . ",0
"humorlesJs , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you nkow it's going to be a trip . iglby goes down is one of those movies . ,1
"no noe can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . ",0
"forget the misleading title , wZat's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
"it's all very cute , though not terribly fuhnny if you're more than six years old . ",0
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knoaws how to tell us about people . ",1
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating stutdy of politics , power and social mobility . ",1
"an eccentric little comic""thriller deeply in lXve with its own quirky personality . ",0
"it may be a prize winner , but tAacher is a bomb . ",0
"enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a rIiddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enagma . ",0
the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gixes italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeminug predictably formulaic . ,1
"the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of Mia with his family . ",1
"a pleasant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrayin that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lackdaisical charm . ",1
an almost unbearably moVrbid love story . ,1
"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to jutify the build-up . ",0
this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since jhon and bo derek made the ridiculous bolePro . ,0
"in a summer overrun with mvies dominated by cgi aliens and supegr heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentraNtes on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . ",1
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious fcopy of one of the best films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"tere's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and uresents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
"when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , Ot l . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . ",0
"lie being invited to a classy dinnre soiree and not knowing anone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . ",0
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , chTarming movie allows us to see them , fianlly , as artists . ",1
"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure an . ",1
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snabil's pace . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who nows how to hold the screen . ,1
"finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and weven oriignal . ",1
un thriller manqué qui tombe usr les nerfs presque dès la première image . ,0
"fathers and sons , and the uneas bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelWus film . ",1
mldly amusing . ,0
"there are problems with this fplm that even 3 oscar winners cna't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched eyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . ,0
ar more enjoyable than its predecessor . ,0
"but the opwer of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistake for giving a public oratimn , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . ",0
"it's a good film -- not a claDssic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
as ilvely an account as seinfeld is deadpan . ,1
should have been svmeone else-,0
a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspqred it . ,0
he's the scariest guy you'll see all summYer . ,1
the primitive force of this Ufilm seems to bubble up from the vast collective memroy of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
"unfortunately , as a wrtier , mr . montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actro . ",0
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one comDe along . ,0
"the new fcaes are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scrited . ",0
"if this silly lWittle cartoon can inspire a few kidD not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . ",0
this is a heatfelt story . . . it just isn't a very involving one . ,0
the plot convolutions ultimately dd up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chain . ,0
slikc piece of cross-promotion . ,0
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thtinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0
an enLrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
"fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematci entertainment . ",1
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish lsapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romanic comedy . ",1
you might be shocked to discovTer that seinfeld's real life is boring . ,0
apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawHrs to justify a Gfilm . ,0
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its sar power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
"each scene drags , undercsoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . ",0
demands too much of most vieers . ,0
"this is a harrowing movie about how parentT know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
"this isn't a "" friday "" orth waiting for . ",0
amazTngly lame . ,0
amazingl dopey . ,0
. . . could easily be called the best koren film of 2002 . ,1
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passeH for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
"pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you neZer know when humor ends and tBragedy begiWns . ",1
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed senes of gopod old-fashioned escapism . ,1
p . t . anderson understansd the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and brign out joys in our lines that we never knew were possible . ,1
"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed iick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaining bonds in yaers",1
a prolonged extrusidon of psychopathic pulp . ,0
ramsay and morton fill this character dtudy with poetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
"the film fiets into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains unqiuely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
 . . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predcessor — but it's a rushed ,0
what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and geiuine tenderness . ,1
leigh's film is full of memorablA performances from top to bottom . ,1
"it's played in the most straight-faced fashio , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed fiLm is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
a bad movie that happened to goOod actors . ,0
"while hoffman's performace is great , the subject matter goes nowhere . ",0
a great comdy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim tsory's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this yar . . . a true stdy , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admiv it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
"it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's nvither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeneFss . ",1
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to oook away - this was god awful . ,0
"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls aparh long before the Vnd . ",0
it isn't that stealing harvard is a horible movie—if only it were that granU a faailure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the boerne idetnity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . ,1
"as [the characters] get more depresded , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it contniues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . ",0
a movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeliung . ,1
consider the film a celluloid litqmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giatn step backward for a director i admire . ,0
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members doroling over miwchael idemoto as michael . ,1
director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply preesnts his pointt of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed seetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unxepected ways , touching . ",1
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as giftel as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
"the reaJson we keep seeing the same movie with rouglhy the same eople every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
"a slick , skillful little horrro film . ",1
"clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiyar , fairly uneventful and boasting no rael surprises – but stiJll quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achivles' heel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no tory ,folks . ",0
"the ld-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the mvie's soundtrack , a joyQul effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . ",1
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn psuhing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
"as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is stilPl memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow jouney . ,0
i fevlt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . ,0
"you just know sompthing terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's yilmed tvsca that you want . 'ill stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . ",1
a valuaeless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
it's a ibt disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . ,1
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anTna chancellor that makes this "" two weddings and a funeral "" Ifun . ",1
"yes , i have gievn this movie a rting of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '",0
"lazy filmmaking , with the direcBtor taking a hands-ojf approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's compelling . ",0
nothing about it fts . ,0
"the best thing about the movei is its personable , amusing cast . ",0
"comes across as a reilc from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the direcotr just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
"lnad , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
"this rush to profits has created a predictably efficieIt piece of business notable larXely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to creEate images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this day and age , is of cours the point . ",1
obvious politics and rudimentary anmiation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its cocre demographic . ,0
"william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright sopt . . . ",0
rarely has a film's title uerved such dire warning . ,0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearin the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
a wildly entertaining sacn of evans' career . ,1
"not everything in the ilm works , including its somewhat convenient ending . ",0
a geEm of a movie . ,1
now here's a sadisoic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . ,0
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top lFove . ,1
"tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but directro d . j . caruso's grimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the rgavitational pull considerably . ",1
"if you yaw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwiheldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . ",0
"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , firWt by passion and then by illnses . ",1
a strangely compellin and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
"[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , cerating a scrapbook of living mug shots . ",1
os problNemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobrw o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
"a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute rnning jtime , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fuIn . ",0
by turns very dar and very funny . ,1
"while puerile en dominate the story , the women shine . ",1
"it's not only dull because we've seeyn [eddie] murhy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . ",0
"there are moments in this account of the life of artist frid kahlo that are among cinema's finesH this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry accouwnt of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-homur running time . ,0
"yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemitry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"in its own lfoundering way , it gets to you . just like igby . ",1
director david fincher and writer david koepp cn't sustain it . ,0
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor faws , scorsese's beEt in more than a decade . ",1
it's fairly solid--not to mention well ediwed so that it certainly doesn't fel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . ,1
the best film about basebalAl to hit theaters since field of dreams . ,1
"leigh isn't breaking new grond , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
my wigfe is an actress is an utterly charming french comdy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inqisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
this amy be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being hown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . ,0
" . . . an airless , prepackaged Tjulia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should sahre screenwriting credit . ",0
it won't be lng before you'll spy i spy at a video store near you . ,0
"feels lie pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . ",0
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the iflmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' stoyr ? ",0
"with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hopes to camouflage how baR his movie is . he faiqls . ",0
"ultimately , the fim never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltro employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes evRery self-mocking momet . ",1
"the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further Dstoke the conversation . ",0
jMcquot's tosca is a treat . ,1
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiXosity . ",0
"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestonNe . ",1
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directoripl giants . ,0
"this tale has been toOd and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
"grant carries the ady with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . ",1
scherfig's light-hearted pofile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-aVvised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate us of his particular talents . ,0
"slap her - she's not fuHny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this mPvie , but they were insulted and the audieUnce was put through torture for an hour and a half . ",0
. . . the iknd of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see . ,1
"mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has eveE revealed before about the source of his spirGitual survival . ",1
just another fishout-of-water story that barely stays afloat . ,1
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flabmoyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
"led by grniffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratc "" a second look . ",1
it's definitely a step in the righU direction . ,1
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all ifve . ,1
"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by provikg that he's now , more than ever , choosing his orles with the precision of the insurance actaury . ",1
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like treEmors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1
"it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the woen are down for the comunt . ",1
really does feel like a short streJched out to feature length . ,0
diverteng french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
"based on a devilishly witty script by heatDer mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expnese of its characters",1
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with codsiderable dash . ",1
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably lke it . ",1
"efficient , suitably anonBymous chiller . ",1
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as importatn as humor . ,1
"flotsam in the ea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enouegh to bother despising . ",0
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-mignute commercial . ,0
"it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something rfesh to say . ",0
"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjectie filmmaking . ",1
it's quaid who anchors the film with his effoLtless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so peLfect for a ballplayer . ,1
the lot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chain . ,0
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished fim legacy . ",1
eerily accurate depictcon of depression . ,1
"'film aficionados cannot hela but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaIning . ,1
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flas and emptiness . ,0
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursng the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0
"an enteRtaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . ",1
"too much of the movie dfeels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimicks . ",0
the film is so packed with subplots invuolving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a fetaure film . ,0
" . . . plety of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's atetntion to detail . ,1
suffers from all the ekxcesses of the genre . ,0
"the movie is brilliant , really . it is philoophy , illustrated through everyday events . ",1
"the holes in this iflm remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0
the whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the vieewr into taking it all as very bmportant simply because the movei is uglHy to look at and not a hollywood product . ,0
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to snMeze at these days . ",1
" "" cemaster 3 "" should come with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"the picture , socred by a peMversely cheerful marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abomination ",0
nijely serves as an examination of a society in transition . ,1
fuller woculd surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
. . . they missed the boa . ,0
gussied up with so mkny distracting special fefects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"the two elads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic smQall talk , delivered in almost muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the idiculous dalog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . ,0
"might have been better off as a documentary , with lFess of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his ense of observation and outrage . ",0
deuces wild treads hceavily into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
" . . . if you're just in the Cmood for a ufun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . ",0
"in moonlight mile , no ond gets shut out of the hug cycle . ",0
"in the disturbingly inovlving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaiue deliveTs an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
" . . . a sour littl movie at its core ; an exploration of the emtpiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film' ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
well-meaning but nert . ,0
 . . . the fiKrst 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funJy ,1
" . . . plaOys like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director cRn't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
"this is so de palma . if you lovj him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . Pwell , skip to another review . ",1
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broak raciZl insensitivity towards african-americans . ,0
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly Kwo hours of your own precius life with this silly little puddle of a movie . ,0
"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's etter than its predecessor . ",1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stad tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
it's supposed to be a romanic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . ,0
demeo is not without talent ; he just needs betteor material . ,0
a bigger holidaZ downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . ,0
"an njoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . ",1
. . . a prteentious mess . . . ,0
"a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done light -- can help heal , clarify , and comforJ . ",1
a terrible movie that some people will neevrtheless find moving . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and Risenstein's potemikn , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
darkly Uunny and frequently insightful . ,1
"is truth stranger than fictin ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , txuth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . ",1
plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a commYon through-line . ,0
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight mvoie stuff . ,1
you will likely preBfer to keep on watching . ,1
"what makLs the movie work — to an vadmittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that lalows us to forget that they are actually movie fok . ",1
by the final whistle you're convinced that this mean machnie was a decunt tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly alk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the sureal . ",0
"features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooen performances , ineptly diercted action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damnd for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost tripk from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . ",0
that death is mjrely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiriutal film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
"feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slpped together . ",0
"an admirable , sometimes exceptronal film",1
meant for star wars fans . it is there to giv them a good time . ,1
i wGole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sittIng through this one again . . . that in itself is commenatry enough . ",0
"a fine documentary can be distinguihed from a mediocre one by the better films' ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed tarUget audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decenb little documentary . ",1
"welv-written , nicely acted and beatuifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
"like mBke doesn't wicn any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role modles and optimism . ",1
nicholas nickeby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
the code talkers deserved betterr than a hollow tribute . ,0
it's too inerested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . ,0
"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and npleasant . ",0
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both isually and in the writing . ",1
"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , awste of time , money and celluloid . ",0
"each punch sGeen through prison bars , the figdts become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man vs . the man . ",1
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entiurely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
savvy director rxobert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . ,1
"what full frontal lackH in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . stitll , i'm not quite sure what the point is…",1
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a haidro like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockeny accent . ',0
"so young , so smart , such talent , such a wies * * * . ",1
a major Xaste . . . generic . ,0
like mike isn't einterested in recycling ol cliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy new humor . ,1
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lacH of passion or uniqueness . ,0
plays like a checklist of verything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . ,0
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentleen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never umuch worse than bland or better than inconsequential . ",0
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to sya . ,1
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conicliatory tone that thOree seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
"by no means a grat movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
the worad needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more qilling to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoQlastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
befuddled in its characterizations as it begis to seem as long as the two year affair which is its suject,0
"a gorgeously srange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
"whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rix-off prison romp pile . it's petty thiCevery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bar",0
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as gKeat an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by sohwing them . ,1
"director tom edy demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtimes uninspired send-up of tH cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not muBh of a pitch , yet you can't brsing yourself to dislike it . ",0
"build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late shwo , and put on your own mystery scHience theatme 300 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . ",0
"apesar de seus graves problemas , o ilme consegue entreter . ",1
"the moie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . ",0
"a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your prblems o with you . ",1
well-made but mush-hearteu . ,0
it concentrates far too much on the awkwjard interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of naTa . ,0
"violent , vulgar and forgettably entertainPing . ",0
the hot topics of the polt are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films liek philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
"lan yu is at times too restranied , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makse most american love stories look downright unfree . ",1
"if you go into the theaaer expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might Aoon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . ",0
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever sene on the screen . ",1
"on the breght side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . ",0
the film tries too hard to be funny and tSies too hard to be hip . the ed result is a film that's neither . ,0
"a full experience , a lve story and a murder msytery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
seljdom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work . ,1
"shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which giHves you an idea just how bad it was . ",0
"what's most offensive isn't the awste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere gref and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism . ",0
jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exlterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
"medem may have disrobed most of the casR , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guwarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so allurig . ",1
offers a guilt-free ttrip into feel-good territory . ,1
"it's tough being a black man in america , especilaly when the man has tken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
it mst be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franhcise sequel starring wesley snipes . ,1
"where Ganice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it riess in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",1
"this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a choser and very jaundiced few . ",0
it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a flm like this . ,1
it's both sicomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
the logic of it all will be greek to anyonx not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0
"dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hokrs , you feel like windifng up with a kikc . ",0
"everything's serious , poetic , earnets and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
the rHeal question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely bkelievable . ,1
"the animation meely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonnce of either of those movies . ",0
"despite a stxory predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heary is so much in the right place it is diffiuclt to get really peeved at it . ",1
bullock does a gfood job here of working against her natural likability . ,1
"it's a humble effort , but spiced with wyy humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . ",1
"auto focAs is not your standard hollywood bio-pfic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . ",1
"gangs , despite the garvity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life evenst . those seeking a defSnitive account of eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere . ,1
a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drasma . ,1
"while the film misfires at every leiel , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a cmoedy . ",0
"shouldn't have been allwed to use the word "" new "" in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like dirturbing hallucinations . ",1
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a uch more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thrille . ,0
tiresomely derivative and hammily actd . ,0
"will you go qpe over this movie ? well , it pobably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . ",1
"this is sandler running on empty , repeatnig what he's already done way too often . ",0
the plot twists give i am tryitng to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . ,1
"there is a beautiful , aching adness to it all . pful cox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrAata este fato com elegante abandono , numwa triste constatação da realidade histórica . ",1
"if you are an actro who can elate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onsaage , then esther's story is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
consummate actor barry has donj excellent work here . ,1
"the movie , like bartelby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comVedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . ",0
"because the intelligence level of the characters must be olw , very low , very very low , for the masquerde to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . ",0
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last yearL and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1
a picture as erratic as its central charaHcter . ,0
"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this ewdding ! ",1
" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderfu performances that tug at your heart in wKays that utterly transcend gender labels . ",1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jesw in tel aviv . ,0
"his kest film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but fels less repetitive . ",0
collatreal damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
the story alone could force you to scratch a hoe in your head . ,0
"a braEing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that dembraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . ",1
. . . think of it as american pei on valium . ,0
"oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was gien free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , tsarred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0
ultiamtely engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innrovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spidercman , even though it's onde of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see . ",1
"does a god job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story . ",1
"it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax flt they owed to benigni . ",0
schneider's mugigng is reelntless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
"a smart , compelling drmaa . ",1
"kids will love its fantasy and adenture , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
the story and structure are well-honed . fersnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the inghtmare you had a wezek ago that won't go away . ,1
"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel qunny and light . ",0
"the rich performances by friel -- and especiaMly williams , an american actress who becomes fullYy english -- round out the square edges . ",1
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seieng . almost . ",0
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized hnumor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you seare her one-room world for a while . ,1
this is a film brimmiwng with detail and nuance and noe that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in evvnts that could easily crush it forever . ,1
"oFne of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ever . ",1
"this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for aYults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equUally well on both the stndard and giant screens . ",1
"if this holday moUvie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at lesat conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . veavy . . . ",0
"there are a couple of things that elevate "" glory "" above most of its iak ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date moRvie ( an anti-date omvie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . ",1
inviecible is a wonderful movie . ,1
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writiPngs to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitkive . ",0
"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man'O dying fall . ",1
what the four feathers lacks is genuine swep or feeling or even a character worth caring about . ,0
srprisingly insightful,1
"it's rre to find a film that dazzles the eye , challenge the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a wole lot more . ",1
. . . too Nory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . ,0
"it's mun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
"as a tolerabl diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1
muFrder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . ,0
a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to hel after the death of a child . ,1
"director todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous moveis , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creDates . ",1
"lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibti sharT comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . ",1
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dycing to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonanbly entertained . ",0
"the film is a Mcontrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teenx play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
all anahlyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaed from the premise . ,0
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a fraJe . like the hanks character , hews a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
this is a film living far too much in its own hehad . ,0
morton deserves an oscar nomiPation . ,1
"an unremittingly ugly ovie to loo at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of makign a film . ",0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overfloRs with wisdom and emotion . ",1
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicxs with philosophical inquiry . ,1
the kind of primal storytelling that george luas can only dream of . ,1
so uinque and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy divalogue . ",0
romanek keeAps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . ,0
"a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , amied mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their jeats . ",1
discursive but oddly riveting doumentary . ,1
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might dqeliver again and again . ",1
"i kkept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or alck thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 "" black and white Mortable tv . ",0
staggeringly dreadfu romance . ,0
"without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a ubad , embarrassing movie . ",0
the scrsipt falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . ,0
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are Tmmediately appaernt and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"gWraphic se may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . ",1
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's borign . ",0
"if this movkie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . ",0
the charalcters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . ,1
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the cacmera . ",1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicti more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distiguish itself from the herd . ",0
"another week , anoher gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pusre joy . ,1
"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insigght into the urban heart . ",1
"it's plotelss , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . iPndeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
"to the civilized mind , a mvie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
i'd rather watch a rerun of the powepruff girls,1
"if you lxove the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . ",1
a stylish cast and some clever scripting slutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable apYpeal intact . ,1
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brie era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate Alichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audinece , but that it's also too stupid to realie that thNy've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuou people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fuC or energy . ,0
hit and miss as far as the comedy goej and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0
"a distinguished and thougitful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . ",1
a half-assed filP . ,0
"i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in ssomething lightet and sunner , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"if we're to Fslap protagonist genevieve leploqff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they're clueless and inept ? ",0
"a conventional , but well-crafted fiml about a historic legal batvtle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children . ",1
"acting , patricularly by tambor , almost makes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is loue . ",1
"m . tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absudist humor . ",1
"copld , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . ",0
"like oming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next Msix . ",0
"the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-rip parents . ",0
an intriguing and entertaiyning introduction to johnson . ,1
"disney aficionados will notice disticnt parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
a movie that hovers osmewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . ,0
this is one of the rarest kindk of filsm : a family-oriented non-disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
"offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to umll over in terms of lve , loyalty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
"' . . . a great , participatory spectator spovt . '",1
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialgoue bits,0
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yaKn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
liUtle more than a frothy vanity project . ,0
"the importancp of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
"a slcik , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered . ",1
this is one of the ygear's best films . ,1
"by the end , i was looking for somethinPg hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"in a big cornre office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is Piring his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise c47 . """,0
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those undrerated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . ,1
the Disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . ,1
"it's super- vitlent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0
"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneask up on the viewer , providing an expezrience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your amrs and yell 'safe ! '",1
you can thank me for this . i saw Tjuwanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiencs not already shariag [the movie's] mindset . ,0
. . . nohting scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . ,0
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of famRlies always get me down . ,0
"infideilty drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeng an otherwise good movei marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . ,0
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em lik that anymore' department . ,1
horrid little pRopaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of amercan right-wing extremists . ,0
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broa , mildly fleshed-out chaacters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . ",0
"quite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--Lto listen to . ",1
tries to add some spice to its quiprky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible kliler story ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
"a brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequl . ",1
"a bright , uinventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
"even biggre and more ambiNtious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . ",1
quitting offdrs piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . ,1
humor in i spy is so anGemic . ,0
the fetdi underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . ,0
blue rush is so prolonged and borink it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . ,0
"instead of kicking off the inDtrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the t . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get sTarted . ",0
the hsitory is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . ,1
"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathYngly witty nonetheless . ",1
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacye wy that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
"this is such a high-enoergy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excelulent , who cares if the story's a little weak . ",1
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozdng with attractive men . ",1
"the film has a nearly temrinal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thniks it is . ",0
"the film boasts ry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
"[a] soulless , stupiNd sequel . . . ",0
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persectued "" other . "" ",1
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without reyling on animation or dumb humor . ,1
"this picture is mudrer by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ab'cs , despite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
the movie should be predited with remembering his victims . ,1
"lisa rinzler's cinematography mya be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtualljy collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
at the bottom rung of the series' entires . ,0
"the strength of the film comes not from any cBnematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proKes simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
wait for it to hit cavle . ,0
painfully paddZed . ,0
"although the editing might have been tighter , husNh ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young peole in modern japan . ",1
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettDable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"the observations of this sociaf""economic""urban environment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"thanks to the ch√¢teau's balance of whimsicality , narrativm discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the fiplm yields surprises . ",1
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanks . wewanour money back ,actually . ",0
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since gJodfellas . ",1
"a preposterosu , prurient whodunit . ",0
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentfmental look at variations on the theme of motherhod . ",1
"we get an image of big papa spannnig history , rather than suspending it . ",1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to stroke , am dasb : fierce grace is worth seeking out . ",1
"although very mcuh like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenUl fantasy best sellers , this second go-round posksesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
" "" it's all about the imagTe . "" ",1
"as adapted by kevin molony from sion leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresstible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ,1
. . . a cinematic dsaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0
"mandel holland's direction is uninspired , and his Icripting unsurprising , but the performances by pShifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishin that you and they were in another movie . ",0
"films about oss , grieR and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
as sjccharine as it is disposable . ,0
. . . too sappy for its own zood . ,0
a fascinating but choppy documentray . ,0
"despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoirng the characters in the emotional realities of midle age . ",1
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a Oilm that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . ",1
an unexpectedly sweet story of sSisterhood . ,1
"somewhere in the imddle , the film compels , as demme experimets he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
the plot is so amusingly conrtived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling relaity,1
"try as i may , i can't hink of a single good reason to se this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally pluged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcoA of a movie , largely devoid of charm . ",0
"it's a testament to de niro and director micmhael caton-jones that by movie's eEnd , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . ",1
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artuist . ",1
"it's reall yet another anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imaginatin as hip knowingness . ",0
a difficult but worthy film that ites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationshipus in the present . ,1
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inan that it gave me pleny of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . ,0
"tsai has managed to creatY an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unDhecked heartache of yasujiro ozu . ",1
"could us a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . ",1
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an epiFsode of miami vice . ,0
"a restrained ribisi convincYes as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pumDp it up , this has to be among the rare oXes . ",0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this mvoie , but they were insulted and the uadience was put through torxure for an hour and a half . ",0
an instance of an ol dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick . ,1
"sean penn , you owe nicolas caeg an apology . ",1
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's eral strength . ,1
it appears that something has been loot in the translation to the screen . ,0
"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enuogh to make it worth watchng . ",1
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no stee martin . ",0
"it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how weLl-meaning patronizign masked a social injutice , at least as represented by this case . ",1
"murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly accptable widget . ",1
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] wvorth recommending because of two marvelous performanceis by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
"impossible as it may sound , this filmY's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavwor and severe flawMs as part of the human condition . ",1
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those arts got to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine Lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching saandon . ",1
the aturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional fLamily . ,1
"a sensuaOl performance from abbass buoys the filmsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emoional depths are only hinted at . ",0
"it's a drawlinV , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothAc with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointRed . ",1
"kwan is a master of shuadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . ",1
forget the pychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of csotumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite Wmake the cut of being placed on any ilst of favorites . ",0
"the re-release of ron howard's apolo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , realsy , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
"contrived , awkward and filled with unintened laguhs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the omvie go faster . ",0
the most consistently funny of the austin Ipowers films . ,1
"somewheer in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie momenvt gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting chracters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynici . ",1
"it has the courage to wonder about big qeustions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is wrth the promise . ",1
feels as if the inmates have acteally taken over the asylum . ,0
"the directikn has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . ",1
one regards reign of fire with awwe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the serviIe of such a minute idea . ,0
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immesely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll wanqt things to work out . ",1
"anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhNppy , repressed and twisted persnal life their ormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . ",1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may Dell be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
a well made indieflick in need of some vrims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clcihés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is Zstill laive and kicking . ",1
director oliver parker labors so hSrd to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulld a muscle or two . ,0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh aiU now and then . ",0
rare birds has more than enyugh charm to make it memorable . ,1
a triumph of pure craft and pasQsionate heart . ,1
"brilliantly written and well-atced , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
"ze movie tsarts out so funny , then she is nothing . ",0
10 minutes into the filc you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
gibbey and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimnesion tale",0
"bad company has one of the most moronic screepnlays of the year , full of holes that will be obviFous even to those who aren't looking for them . ",0
the satiree is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . ,0
"van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , ferddy go fingered , and slackers . ",0
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous Etabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wBzard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaniers among too few laughs . ,0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remrkably faithful one . ",1
the drama is plzayed out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and uesd the fil as a bonus eature on the dvd . ,0
it's kind of sad that so many people put so mucb time and energy into this turkey . ,0
this version incarnaes the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . ,1
"the mystery of eigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding pictuer . ",0
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and bcomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drayma sort of fashion . ",1
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an evencful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . ,1
"[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte somjetimes is only half of one . ",0
an impeccable studYy in perversity . ,1
"with its lackadaisicral plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tire of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
"a real story about real people living their lives concyrned about the future of an eldcerly , mentally handicapped family member . ",1
"a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfoldign a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
"the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romatnic trifle and the netx a turgid drama . ",0
"in this film we at leaCst see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of oen actor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
"just one more colection of penis , breast and fhatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
"Wlmost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alpne , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . ",1
"not a cozy or ingartiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to seC it . ",1
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the ruad to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who reain curilous about each other against all odds . ",1
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley iLlicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes lanV than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of starinl at a blank screen . ,0
"stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does amnage to make a few points about modern msn and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
"as muhc as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacmty to ithstand pain . ",0
"k-9 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . ",1
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an abYolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wPw factors than by its funny , movnig yarn that holds up well after two decades . ",1
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothbal-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
a well-executed sp-thriller . ,1
"a terrific b movie -- in Tact , the best in recent memory . ",1
"[triIs] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which aslo seeyms to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
"a warm , funHy , engaging film . ",1
your children will be occupied for 7n minutes . ,1
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounzding uncre ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and useqd the flim as a bonus featJre on the dvd . ,0
"while the importance of being arnest offers opportunities for occasional smile and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' perfoSrmances . ",0
poor ben bratt couldn't finAd stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . ,0
you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-prorgess that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation my be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape paiZnting . ",1
there's not a fresh Didea at the core of this tale . ,0
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but grHeat trashy fun that finally returns de pama to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . ",1
"it's un , splashy and entertainingly nasty . ",1
"fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgottn",1
"not a film to rival to live , but a finK little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1
"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it ncould have been more . ",1
"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who uegues from oscar inner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the fiBmmakers know that the likely audience will alrady be among the faithful . ,1
"de niro may enjoy the same free ried from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like brucHe springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack wRste of a movie is a city of ruins . ",0
russian arXk is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
"the mhvie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homagg and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's goig on here . ",0
"a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled enseIble actors . ",1
ecks this one off your must-ese list . ,0
"as if to prove a female director can maek a movTe with no soft edges , kahtryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
it's absolutely spooky how lillarw channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the fil's producers ) do everything he can to lok ilke a good guy . ",0
the movie is so thoughtlessly asPembled . ,0
"some movies Mblend together as they become dstant memories . mention "" solaris "" five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
"a thoughtul , provocative , insistently humanizing film . ",1
"my ok my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery ploot and characters who all have big round eyes and jHapanese names . ",0
"missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and end it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"you'll gasp appalled and luagh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errnat tear . ",1
a compelling story of mFsical passion against governmental odds . ,1
"all the filmmakers are asking of u , is to believe in something that is improbable . ",1
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simering violence , and the quiet american brings uu right into the center of that world . ",1
"like being invited to a classy dinneDr soiree and not knowing anoyne . you leave the same way you caem -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . ",0
the bottom Zine is the piece works brilliantly . ,1
a movie of technical skill and wrare depth of intellect and feeling . ,1
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic trikcs and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"like shrek , spirit's visual imagination remins you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the wy it allows the mind to enter and acceet another world . ",1
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dll . ,0
it's a grab bag of genrIs that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . ,0
"before it takes a sudden turn and devoLlves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steFven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrwing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"what saves it . . . and makes it oe of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the ploQt makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and mXoral departure for protagonist aliwce . ",1
"even though it's eommon knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kwng , lots kozmo in the end , you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and puLnching people in the stomach again . ,1
the piquant stroy needs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
"the people in jessica are so recognizable and erue that , as in real lifo , we're never sure how things will work out . ",1
an involving trBe story of a chinese actor who takecs up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
"if there's one big point to proeises , it's that nothihng can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . ",1
"this movie , a certain scene in partKcular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
"william shatner , as a pompou professor , is the sole bright spot . . . ",0
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican icnema a-bornin' . ,1
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffegr . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"in this film , aussie david cgaesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . ",0
a diverse and astonishingly aticulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younger than middle school aeg to this wallow in crdue humor . ",0
"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humoTr . ",0
. . . the implilcation is kissinger mapy have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to give than to receive . ,1
"a quaint , romanticized rnedering . ",0
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decdes too late . ,0
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imaigne . ",0
"a pale xIerox of other , better crime movies . ",0
malcolm qcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . ,1
"old people will love this movie , and i meaM that in the nicest possible way : last ordeHrs will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have aerned a 50-year friendship . ",1
it's like an all-star salute to disne's cheesy commercialism . ,0
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasatn experience . ",0
"it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainmenMt . ",0
a really good premise is frittereZd away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
from blushtng to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge',1
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . fpunish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of chever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
it's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but enuds up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping musc to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilartaing , silly , perverse , hopeful and always fun . ",1
a gripping rama . ,1
just one bac idea after another . ,0
death might be a rTelease . ,0
"if director michael dowse only superficially undwrstands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese barck . ,0
highly watchable stfuf . ,1
a teasing drama whose relentless ood-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to mae a sinner like me rpay for an even more interesting ,1
the eleTments were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . ,0
too much of the humor falls flaFt . ,0
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , prtty and gfted , it really won my ehart . ",1
"longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivfid snapshot of those turbulent days . ",1
notorious c . h . o . has Eodles of vulgar highlights . ,1
"the paLring does soufnd promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
rare is the 'uban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . ,1
"deep down , i reailzed the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had etnered . ",0
"a seaing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1
"while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahaed of the plot . ",0
two tedious acts light on great scares and a goo surprise ending . ,0
"possession is in the end an honorablK , interesting failure . it cfalls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . ",0
"in spite of featuring a script creidted to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to chegk it twice . ",0
"whatever satire lucky break was aimiung for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievTery like this that puts feimsy flicks like this behind bars",0
eerily accurate depction of depression . ,1
" "" home moive "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1
"a thoughtful , provocative , isnistently humanizing film . ",1
frenetiFc but not really funny . ,0
"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attemptHs , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair dGsign . ",0
"an ugly , revolting omvie . ",0
"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart joeks , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0
"it's not a bad preimse , just a bad movie . ",0
"a jumbled fQntasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
"blakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
"a brutaql and funny work . nicole holGofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . """,1
"greengrass has deivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
"nothing's at stake , just a tisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lotIs of fun . ",1
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continity errors . ",0
"bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an iteresting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encuntered since at least pete's dragon . ",0
"never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the thrQee . ",0
. . . too dull to emjoy . ,0
a small movie with a big impaNt . ,1
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds uW of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truSth . ,1
"therX's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
mediocre able from burkina faso . ,0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gmts its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
. . . unbearably ame . ,0
"this is a very funyn , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quiraks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario awson . . . ,1
a cockeyed shot all the wya . ,0
"instead of a hyperbolic bat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
"dazzling and sugar-swee , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus linH of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
noyce has wored wonders with the material . ,1
"secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perersity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a mogie . ",1
"if we don't demand a standad of quality for the art that we choose , we deserev the trash that we get . ",0
a prolEonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp . ,0
brinYg on the sequel . ,1
"you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's wordth yet another visit . ",1
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up imred in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen coemdy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-khearted movie career . ",0
"longley has constrOucted a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . ",1
"sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diveUrsion will definitely win some hearts . ",1
"if this movie leaves you cool , it also leavse you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
"doesn't offer much besides glib soulleRssness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set xieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothin short of a great one . ",1
"it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the suposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartarche of maverick individuals like hatfield and hNcks . ",1
a viid cinematic portrait . ,1
"in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , gnteel yet deXadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th cetnury into the 21st . ",1
"the whoe mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisyl corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tium allen . ",1
"although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also clod , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . ",0
"you can see where big Cad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there . ",0
a heartening taPe of small victories and enduring hope . ,1
"cattaneo should have flolowed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years een . ,1
"it's a bYizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it frtters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
denver should not get the first and cast look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deeserves to be seen everywhere . ,1
"dull and mechanical , kfnda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
an uneasy Jmix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlni tragedy . ,0
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and opne-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , sodeDbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",1
"a laugharble -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet pwoer . ,1
"what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the riich and sudden widsom , the film becomess a sermon for most of its running time . ",0
entertaining despite its one-jyke premise with the thesis that women from venus and emn from mars can indeed get together . ,1
bittersweet comedydrama full of life ,1
"a stirring , funnoy and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1
"we get an image of big papa spanning history , nrather than suspending it . ",1
"the script covers huge , haevy topics in a bland , surfaceky way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
"nrevy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same tme presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . ",1
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truy entertaining . ,0
a close-tos-olid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too late . ,0
"if ayurveda can hep us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeipng and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
otuché ! ,1
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving tar flick with a corm of decency . ,1
"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that enrourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
"vaguley interesting , but it's just too too much . ",0
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating atct against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
for dancse completists only . ,0
"both an admirable reconstruction of terriblv events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousRands thereafter . ",1
feels less ike a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . ,0
it's a solid movie about pbople whose lives are anything but . ,1
"ong chCooses to present ah na's life as a slihgt , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic Gpotholes that befall its brethren . ",1
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to tke on any life of its own . ,0
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has givGen uu in his past two movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take kus on the trip . ",1
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weigheb down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful tgazes . ",0
an otfen unfunny romp . ,0
a well-put-together piece of urban satfre . ,1
what distinguisKhes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of wvrds and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts . ,1
the lakc of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasqts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . ,0
"in spite of godd housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mnetality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . ",1
there's only one way to kil michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"while you have to dmit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"egoyan's work oten elegantly considers varlous levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpoes . ",0
"the film deliver what it promises : a Slook at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rraely receive it . ,1
hustn nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair . ,1
"like all great films about a life you never knew existeDd , it offers much to absorb and evven more to think about after the final frame . ",1
it all feels like a monty pyNthon sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadpole opulls Iback from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
"this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thafks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that poBdering is highly pleasurable . ",1
"at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columLine rekindles the mPuckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feeling of marginalization loom for every deramer with a burst bebble , the dogwalker has a few chalacters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant pace for the viewer . ,0
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long timue , easily rivaling lair witch or the others . ",1
the moive is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream auidence while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . ,0
at its best . . . festPival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
"filled with lowZbrow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should pleask history fans . ,1
"it's funny , as the old saying oges , because it's true . ",1
"unfortunYately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . maon's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks "" the four feathers "" bare . ",0
"although it's a bcit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . ",1
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 10Z1 premise . ,1
"with a "" spy kids "" squel opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
but this is not a move about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human one . ,1
"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seLems tBwice as long as its 83 minutes . ",0
"if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , tha's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweta . ",1
forget about one osar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . ,1
you could easily misatke it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"when it's all wet , blue cAush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beachde grouper . ",0
"it's the best film of the year so far , the benchXark against which all other bset picture contenders should be measured . ",1
that it'll probably be the best and most matuEre comedy of the 2002 summer seasno speaks more of the season than the picture,1
"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anyxthing resembligng acting . ",0
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as oTne of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacis balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical conext . ",0
"there's too much falsenesN to the second half , and what begrn as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
the slam-bnag superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
"straYnge it is , but delightfully so . ",1
"several of steven soderbergh's earlier fils were hailed as the works of an artst . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get last in the murk of its own making,0
"with wt and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stpos short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . ",1
[a] stale retread of the '53 oriuginal . ,0
offers laughs and insight into onbe of the toughest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"this omvie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movei to watkch and will probably disturb many who see it . ",1
"this is a dark , gritty , sometiems funny little gem . ",1
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should gJet all five . ,1
"although very much like the first moLie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenaO fantasy best sellers , this syecond go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
"[serrG] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy oen . ",0
"for a qguy who has waited three eyars with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
a stirriFg road movie . ,1
"hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the firsOt to be released in the u . s . -- a majo director is emerging in wrold cinema . ",1
"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are dryign out from spring brak and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
either a fascinating stud of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing stor about sociopaths and their marks . ,1
the drama discloses valmost nothing . ,0
worth seeing just for weaver and lapagYlia . ,1
"a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the fiplm . . . ",0
an uninspired preachy and clichéd ar film . ,0
the beauty of the ipece is that it counts heart as important as humor . ,1
about as big a crowdpleaser as they poissibly come . ,1
"a lot of the credit for the Rilm's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first amde audiences on both sides of the atlantic lov him . ",1
"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the yeas , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . ",0
a hypnotic Ryber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . ,1
"nair just doesn't have the ncessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the Kpitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . ",0
the disjointed mess flows as ntaurally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
. . . a hokey pniece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next rgeat tShing . 'tadpole' was oRne of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thTng . ",1
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but withoRut any passion . ,0
few films this year have been as resolute in their eotional nakedness . ,1
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds Revisited -- again . ,0
two-ibt potboiler . ,0
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amaziny . ",1
"se it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
almost peerleswsly unsettling . ,1
"the film affords us izntriguing glipses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0
"both an admirKble reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands threeafter . ",1
has its charming quirks and its dull psots . ,0
here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something ew into the mix . ,1
"a big , loud , bang-the-drum borXe . ",0
one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of onee man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more falshes of insight . ,1
horrble,0
"some of seagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures , but this one is so Nformulaic that it sekms to be on auto-pilot . ",0
you may feel ocmpelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject . ,1
"cRris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
"would be an unendurable viewin experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantsay character , melanie carmichael , with a massive insusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . ",1
"when you resurect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . lok positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
a fascinating csae study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . ,1
"fzorgettable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
provides a very moving and Wevelatory footnote to the holocaust . ,1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and amost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
a good-looking but ultimatLly pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"with little risible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major ating lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
this formulaic cqiller will do little to boost stallone's career . ,0
'like a child with an importnt message to tell . . . [skisn'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ',1
sometims smart but more often sophomoric . ,0
"the pefrormances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . ",1
this oAe is strictly a lightweight escapist film . ,1
"it's never laugh-out-loud fAunny , but it is frequently amusing . ",1
"there are as mJny misses as ihts , but ultimately , it finds huomr in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises . ",1
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dlalas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teeangers into attending services . ,1
at once half-bake and overheated . ,0
malone does have a igft for generating nightmarish imases that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleazsure . ,0
a knowing sense of fhumor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . ,1
"while the resident evil games may have set new standards for tBrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the thrd of these . ",0
. . . too sappy for its own Zgood . ,0
rather les than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
a potent allegorical olve story . ,1
"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the slove story . scott baio is turning in some deligIhtful work on indie projects . ",1
"this kind of daNk comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but directOr danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . ",0
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may Nind 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
"based on a david leavtit story , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coicidence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classAic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach",0
"i still an't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with desponden eyes and whine that nobody treats him humna enough . ",0
"this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worts seeking . ",1
a tour bde force of modern cinema . ,1
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to widget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending crddits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward solence,0
brings awareness to an issue often ovrlooked -- women's depression . ,1
"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and sutble storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a trea . ",1
"evne when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
i could have used my two hours better watcing being john malkovich again . ,0
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promsies . ,0
"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scayr . ",0
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pwmmel the audience . ,0
" "" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dEsty old letters . "" ",0
an average coming-of-age talbe elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her sonS's discovery of his homosexuality . ,1
"led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the aast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
"painful , horrifying and oppressively trjagic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fistcuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles loko ike they're being streamed over a 28k modem . ",0
jonathaV parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . ,0
"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thouDsand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belFshi's easy-going likableness . ",0
this flick is about as cool and crowdpleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
"it virtually defines a comedy that's strongYly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
this is a heartfelt story . . . it just isn't a very involving Fone . ,0
the pivotal narrativ point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as on of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot Wenhances the excellent performances . ",1
"finedy crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed",1
i' be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo unO fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro d personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
worth a look as a curisity . ,1
"although occasionally static to the point of resDmbling a stage play , the film delivers a solid ixture of sweetness and laughs . ",1
"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is resent in the movie , but it's spread too thin . ",0
"the additional sWoryline is iteresting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magcal quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff . ",1
"a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had gpliced together bits and pieces of midngiht un and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
"a disticntly minor effolrt that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
reign of fire looks as if it was mde without much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
"crudup's screen preseCnce is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their famiclies . ",0
"the mogvie is well done , but slow . ",1
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence xsuffocate the llumination created by the to daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . ,0
sad to say -- it accurately refBlects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringign it back another ady as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0
an Ienjoyable experience . ,1
"jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical messhage will either emprove the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
this versoin does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . ,1
"hugh grant , who has a good ine in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
oozes condescension from veery pore . ,0
[a] mses . ,0
"Pwithout a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighHbor's home videos . ",0
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china seacrhing for its identity . ,1
"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avunular chortles . ",1
the film is hampered by its predictable plo and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kithy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on bostoRn public just as fmuch as 8 women's augustine . ",1
"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and invloving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful ast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my eart . ",1
what bubbles up out of mjohn c . walsh's pipe dram is the distint and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch . ,1
"the charater is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-thp-top mix . ",0
even better than the first Qone ! ,1
feels more ike a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . ,0
"mr . deeds is not reallKy a film as mucth as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",0
"'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parkre exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaEs in his vision . '",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaaphor for this love story . ",1
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odoruos [than leon] . ,0
"stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very gfood comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-depTndence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
fresnaidllo has something serious to say about the wys in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
"there's really only on good ida in this movie , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won erwards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos ike antwone ifsher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
very stupid and annying . ,0
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and diKector that leaves scant place for the viewer . ,0
"tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural liife and the subtle direction of first-timer hilar birmingham . ",1
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaneQrs among too few laughs . ,0
"compex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates Kus , and he never reduces the situPtion to simple melodrama . ",1
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap pera that doesn't make much senIe even on its own terms . ",0
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robnson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful womenn . ,0
skillfully weaves both the elements of the Klot and a powerfully eocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . ,1
"highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villai , and nathan lane as vNincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . ",1
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as adhmer demands . ,0
perhaps no picture ever cade has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relfying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue . ,1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject atter . ",1
"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbesrs crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlikRe ecstasy . ",1
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 198Q2's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a singUle laugh . ",0
millions of dollars heped puon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"all of the elements are in pace for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's apprQoach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
"if hill isn't quite his geenration's don siegel ( or roYbert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . ",0
"it made me want to get maBe-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were Sonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
"successfully blerded satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . ",1
this sort of cute and cloyign material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . ,0
"it's fun , but the codeltalk will fly right over everyone's head",1
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a yinematic touchstone . ",1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even toEching sory . parentWs may even fFnd that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . ",1
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly genHeric . ,0
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . withotu any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
its generic vilalains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ,0
"saddled with an unwieldy Tcast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
a film that's flawed and brilliant in equal Jmeasure . ,1
"my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flanting her natural gifts . she mut have a very strong back . ",1
"the camrea whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cut ! ",0
"how do you Sake a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before su , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not wlel enough . ",0
good ol' urban leFgend stuff . ,1
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi konws it . ,0
a relatie letdown . ,0
"the filv brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
manages to show life in all of its banalty when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
"[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a bt undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat ense of style and humor that suggsets he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and stueven soderbergh . ",1
"at the end of the movi , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
it's not just the vampires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will Wfeel they suffer the same fatw . ,0
"the film's sharp , often mischievous sese of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate characte- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . ",1
"too stupid to be atire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwies , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
"a refreshingly realisic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . ",1
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflcited soldier . ,1
"poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a it repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and nformative documentary . ",1
"esveral uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyodn me . ",0
"spielberg is the rare director who does not wat to inviet viewers to gawk at or pplaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the cction , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
this is really just another gere picture . ,0
"deadly dull , poinless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely towrd the end . . . you almst don't notice the 129-minute running time . ",1
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since fielUd of dreams . ,1
"definitelF a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the wa of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure . ",0
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and odwns of friendships . ",1
"this kiqd of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a ogod , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . ",1
"its story may be a thousand years oEd , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to Eell it to us ? ",0
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to plaDy his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads cpmes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
"sly , sopihsticated and surprising . ",1
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' policTe shooting . ,1
"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derOved from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to orercome my resistance . ",1
"a gob of drivle so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of mcoore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . ",0
feels like the grititest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
a compelling french psychological drama examinng the encounter of an aloof father and his chZilly son after 20 years apart . ,1
"human nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; tneither is it as smart . ",0
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a gooud ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . ",0
"everything you loved about it in 198 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kZid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incrediYbly beautiful to look at . ",1
"like the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenertable . ",1
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school Cid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousnxess -- and squanders its beautiful women . ,0
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , oftne boring . ",0
"even as it payD earnest hmage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
"almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observatiNn of mKod , behavior and intent . ",1
"the ending doesn't owrk . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to evvrybody , but certainy to people with a curiosity about how a moviV can go very right , and then step wrong . ",0
"the april 2002 istalment of the american war for independence , cIomplete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , nevr gaining much momentum . ",0
this riveting xorld war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racail prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
who needs love hlike this ? ,0
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diverson . ,1
"the hours makes you examine your own life in mucFh the same way its chIracters do , and the experience is profound . the hors is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
may offend viewers not amused by the sick Dense of humor . ,0
"a markedly inactive film , cit is conversational bordering on confessional . ",0
a grimly competent and stolid and eranest military courtroom drama . ,1
[a] real pleasure in its laid-back Eway . ,1
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musica torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . ,1
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's idrty harrIy period . ,0
"bang ! ozom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
rashomon-fr-dipsticks tale . ,0
peopel cinema at its finest . ,1
a ftnny film . ,1
"spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chancejs that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a string narrative . ",0
earnest yet curipously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psycholXogical mystery that atkes its sweet tim building to a climaF that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
"no sophomore slump for dirctor sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-wirning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
credibility levels are low and characGter development a non-starter . ,0
"it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyobne's head",1
"'fixm aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
"uppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll cracS . ",1
"dqirector elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of loap opera ? ",0
not one moment in the enterprise didn't ake me want to lie down in a dakr room with something cool to my brow . ,0
"what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and apaglia are both excellen , in the kind of lBw-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie fol . ",1
"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothnig can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sidse from speaking even one word to each other . ",1
a modestly surprising mvie . ,1
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comdy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executie produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the mAovie caued me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
"directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camer work , and wholesale ineptitude with acing , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer maing his feature debut . ",0
"as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plays as damatic ven when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . ",0
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wlson reains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this tmely sci-fi mystery works on so mkny different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softenr bear . ",0
"pasions , obsessions , and loneleist dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1
"chalk it up to my adoration for both e niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its Ymyriad flaws . ",1
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a soli cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialoigue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , acge manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
the movie is as padted as allen's jelly belly . ,0
"it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'eic' . ",1
"it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial hgh wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shinu through . ",0
the tone shifts abrKuptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mid a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"the dose is tsrong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honorde truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . ",1
"it's funny and human and really pretty damnde wonderful , all at once . ",1
manages to please its intended auience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
"gosling reates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive wayOs . ",1
"it would be disingenuous to call reno a greEt film , but you can say that about most of the flikcs moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night divecsion , an excuse to eat Copcorn . ",1
"the complex , politically chaorged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting nwe filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . ",1
the skills of a calculus majo at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic eqations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? ,0
an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes wthin its warm embrace the bounies of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . ,1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to featoure length , awatsh in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"bigelow offers some lfashy twists and turns that occsaionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopih mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
"a mromantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and tal about their goals , and are working on hard decisions . ",1
"[twPo] fairly dull -- contarsting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
[stevesn is] so stoed to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . ,0
"even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i Lpy has all the same problems the majority of action cmedies have . ",0
foster breathes life into a rXll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
smotvhered by its own solemnity . ,0
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a waay . . . that feels very human and very truY to life . ,1
the obligatory break-ups and hook-up don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ,0
the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminisUent of truffaut . ,1
"though howard demonstrates a reat ye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacsk and heavy-handed metaphors to chokFe a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . ",0
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swalow and a minor miracle of self-expression . ,1
"ice age won't dBop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm gviing it a strong thumbs up . ",1
"feels less like it's about teengaers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
"if this holiday movie is supopsed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff , and leQft behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
there's plenty of sZtyle in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minuteF to tell a tale that simply can't sustani more than 90 minutes . ,0
more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your set . ,0
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occrus too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasre . ",0
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we leAarn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
"with dirty deeds , david casear has stlpped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what wLrks on screen . ",1
"a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guarpanteed to drive anyone mulch over age 4 screaming from the theater . ",0
"k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even lesjs when it turVns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
been there one that . ,0
"having had the good sense to cast actobs who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going pubic , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"barney has created a tour de pforce that is weird , wacky and wonderful . ",1
a Nmovie that hwarps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . ,0
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a wotrkman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constntly draw attention to itself . ,1
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescenC movie this is . ",1
"try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for msokey robinson , this movie will worm its Vway there . ",1
"it's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped cahllenging himself . ",0
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgan-israeli director dover kosashvili . ,1
"the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emoional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to arngue much . ",1
"the overhall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . ",1
"it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and mGkes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and nueedy as any of the clients . ",1
"fast , frantic and fun , but also zoon forgotten",1
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who Ypay to see it . ,1
it's a count for our tiems . ,1
" . . . "" bowling for columbine "" remains a disquieting and thought-rpovoking film . . . ",1
basically a staKtic series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . ,0
an unexpectedly sweet story of sisterpood . ,1
srrprisingly insightful,1
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talnet , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awflness of its script . ",0
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charismq and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
"hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becmoes a stuyd of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political rmaifications . ",1
"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at facf vale and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . ",1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the Slot twists . ,0
a whale of a good time for both chWildren and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"lAet's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly iflms about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . ",0
"the fiDlm occasinoally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , olw-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . ",1
"hough ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascnating or metaphorically sgnificant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . ",0
it's a work by an artist so in contrJl of both his mdeium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . ,1
"it's so teious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones'ts diary . ",0
dismally dull sci-i comedy . ,0
"mrder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . ",1
this submarine drama earns the rgiht to be favorably compared to das boot . ,1
" "" an entire fWlm about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "" ",0
. . . has ivrtually no script at all . . . ,0
woody allen ued to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is ort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . ",1
the fiklm serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the dDvastating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
"you can feJel the hert that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . ",1
"a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of loe takes us on a bumpy but satisfQing journey of the heart . ",1
baby-faced renner is eerily convzncing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . ,1
one of the year's most weirdly engagilng and unpredictable character pieces . ,1
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious fmilms of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . ",1
" . . . a fun little imewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
there's a lot to recommend reaKd my lips . ,1
"going to this movie is a little lkie chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takeE time to enjoy , but it's worth it , eve if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hotlouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gEts more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more cassly reductive . ",0
"a gorgeously strange movie , heavn is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
a properly spooky film about the power of kpirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . ,1
"sinks into the usaul cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0
"though the Nfilm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the Pitle . ,1
this is a film living fam too much in its own head . ,0
mama africa pretty much drelivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main prtblem being that it's only a peek . ,1
"preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a prtty amazing accomplishment . ",1
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite powr struggle . ,0
it's hZrd to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right tQhere's at least one and occasionally two things it gets eUver so wrong . ,0
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that lebks suspension of disbelief like a seive , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . ",1
"the flim is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1
"tense , terrific , swfaty-palmed fun . ",1
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technicasl gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . ,0
pray's fslm works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
"for the future , one hopes mV . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a pSrofessional screenwriter . ",0
"the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan cmic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sakU half-sleep . ",1
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford mvie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dBreadful sabrina remake . ",0
"my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric movve . ",1
"an enthraling , entertaining feature . ",1
the sad thSing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or szlick as it htinks it is . ,0
what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 miVnutes . ,0
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfullA made one . ,1
"writer-director david jacoson and his star , jeremy renner , have mde a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hidAeously twisted . ",1
"director paul cox'Ks unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can snjoy much of Ljonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself prayinX for a quick resolution . ",0
"looking aristocratic , luminous yet carewPorn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that colud not be improved upon . ",1
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a xicture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
there's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his lige . ,1
"muddled , tarshy and incompetent",0
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothigg to write home about . ",0
a sloppy slapstick throwabck to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
. . . hokey aRrt house pretension . ,0
watching it is rather like kviewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . ,0
"what's next : "" my mtoher the car ? "" ",0
"ovrrwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . ",0
fuleord-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
"hard , endearing , caring , warm . rbing tissues . ",1
you won't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard shedT -- the same way again . ,1
"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky zore . ",0
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every naunce in your pmind . ",1
disitnctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . ,0
"it's not only dull because we've een [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is eqaully hackneyed . ",0
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay coEx não consegue sequer aprveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
"a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age fiml that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat emding that is too haevy for all that has preceded it . ",1
it's a charming and often Eaffecting journey . ,1
"although larMely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child aiuse , the film retains ambiguities that mak it well worth watching . ",1
"though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the righX pNace , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
"its story about a young chinpese womn , ah na , who has come to new york city to replxce past tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
one of those joyous films that leaps over natiDnal boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . ,1
"if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scOare the pants off you . ",1
. . . one resurrection too mann . ,0
it's fairly self-aware in its Vumbness . ,1
"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gm . ",1
"elegan , mannered and teasing . ",1
"busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magicap enough to bring off this kind of whimyy . ",0
"coy but exhilarating , with relaly solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . ",1
"leave it to the french to turly capture the terrifying angst of the modrn working mn without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professieonal adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . ",1
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-construtced comedy . ,0
. . . seilly humbuggery . . . ,0
"as a revenge thrilleHr , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the betEter film versions . ",1
"the observations of this social""economic""uFrban environment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"mahybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a ligtle more than this . ",0
chelsea walls is a case of too mHany chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive lie . ",1
"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you mighEt think . ",0
"it's never laugh-out-loud flunny , but it is frequently amusing . ",1
"given the afct that virtually no one is bound to show up at zheatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . ",0
"the toJe errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , rgace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
"director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearinvg 1975 children's novel . ",0
"but the power of these [subjects] is osbcured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a sujbect that could be mistaken for givnig a public oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . ",0
munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they floa within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpehcted . ,1
"amid the ew populist comedies that underscore the importance of fmaily tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershoH . ",1
makes 98 minuHes feel like three hours . ,0
there's nothing remSotely topical or sexy here . ,0
spy-vs . -spy action flicsk with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . ,0
"you could say that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters acu in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't asy is that aliSas betty is predictable . ",1
. . . a Nather bland affair . ,0
coral ree adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the wolrd's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equalyl engrossing . ,1
"just as the recent argentine flim son of the bride reminded us that a heel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action moive that actually has a brain . ",1
"sam jones becaem a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be anothe'rs fortune . ",1
a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comiJ . ,1
"are monsters bor , or made ? ",0
"with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleexve . but it does omehow manage to get you under its psell . ",1
"[i]ts' certainly laudable that the movie deasl with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
[a] smarter and much funnier veQsion of the old police academy flicks . ,1
woody alklen has really fond his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
"lookin' for sin , amwrican-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her bxue lagoon . ,0
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd category ,0
. . . hokey art huse pretension . ,0
a samll movie with a big impact . ,1
"i can't begin to tZell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting zalents . . . ",0
"although huppertQ's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . ",0
"jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably weaing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf lcubs over one shoulder . ",0
"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledgr attempts , in vain , to porve that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . ",0
" . . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans Wtime and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this ratheKr convluted journey worth taking . ",1
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brin strain -- and the pay-off is neglCgible . ,0
"just another disjointed , fairy predictable psychological thriller . ",0
deuces wild treads hevily into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
[siegel] and co-writer lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on conevntion in creating the characters who surround frankie . ,0
"with or without the seyx , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller",1
an ingenious and often harowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
"it dares to be a little different , and that sahding is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
"high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remakable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freVman and ashley judd . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love sjtory . ",1
"the film was produced by jIerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflecuts the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically taogeted to please every one ( and no one ) . ",0
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves toscLa's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . ",1
"for every cheesy sccne , though , there is a really cool biit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jnoes ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
"the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt chracters . . . ",0
[woo's] most resownant film since the killer . ,1
observant intelilgence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
"a spellbinding african iflm about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
"oqe of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded deaers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . ",1
i like my christfas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . ,0
"debut efDort by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's ahrd to know what to praise first . ,1
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted mport , it ues very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the aciton at the same time . ",1
gambling and throwing a asketball ame for money isn't a new plot -- in facut toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . ,1
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a sohwer . ,0
"a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character stdy and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweyping modern china . ",1
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion pIicture . ",0
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director marEk romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and eveals how bad an actress she is . ,0
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the fil's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . ",1
"it is as uncomprommising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the lcients . ",1
"romantic , Kiveting and handsomely animated . ",1
"not so much a movie as a pitcure book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the serie , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"is not so tmuch a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
a forcful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"lou , chaotic and largely unfunny . ",0
"the movie is well done , but slw . ",1
"at tiems , the mLvie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it maes for Ine of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the moveis i've had in a while . ",1
goes a long way on hedonistNc gusto . ,1
"a mvoing essay about the specter of death , especially suicide . ",1
"sink into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0
"these self-styled athleteM have banged their brains into the ground so frequLently and furiously , their capacity to explani themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . ",0
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless deivel . ",0
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's seAond installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
"it's a powerful though flawde movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washingtyon as possibly the best actor working in movies today . ",1
refrshing . ,1
hollywood's ansEwer to an air ball . ,0
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the faclt that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't orth telling . ,0
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 yeas ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on wehther they consider that a good thing . ",0
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely voilent and very graphic . ,0
"the film may not hit as tard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few upnches in . ",1
the milieu is wholly uncoXvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"such master screenwrRting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and lst year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"with more character development this might have been an eerie thrliler ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinkiTng man's monster movie . ",0
"a "" home alone "" fiml that is staged like "" rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mnid . ,1
does not go far enough in its humor or stock idas to stand out as partAcularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
this story of unreuqited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . ,0
"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy rennKr , have ade a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from uhman impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1
"uplifting , funny and wgise . ",1
there are moments of hplarity to be had . ,1
the movie is as padded as allen's jelly eblly . ,0
"poinant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first necounter . ",1
"it's a long waWy from orwell's dark , intlligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . ",0
there is so much plodidng sensitivity . ,0
doesn't amonut to much of anything . ,0
"an ambiious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that don't coem off . ",1
"rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squraely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
"tries too hard to be funy in a ay that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span . ",0
this movie seems to have been written sing mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of bijing . ,1
"because eight legged freaks is paVrtly an homage to them , arantula and other low- budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through hRrror and hellish conditions . ",1
a drAeadful live-action movie . ,0
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with oanimals can certainly not be emphasized enouhg . ,1
gibzney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
it use the pain and violence of war as background material for color . ,0
it seems to me the film is about the art of riping people off without ever letting them cYonsciously know you have done so,0
"stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute facDtor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no Character , loveable or otherwise . ",0
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon trcts that alrays ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . ,1
"even if you don't know the band or the albumss songs by herat , you will enjoy seeing how both evouve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . ",1
a workshop mentality previls . ,0
"ice age won't drop your jaw , but it will wrm your heart , and i'm gibing it a strong thumbs up . ",1
"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps litte and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
"bda in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the kcrazy confluence of purpose and taste . ",0
"the premise is in extremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-rfee that even a high school senior taking his or her fisrt psychology class Ecould dismiss them . ",0
Oera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
"may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel likde it's wsated yours . ",1
a poky and pseudo-seriouAs exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
"when the srceenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of oge year directs an equally miserable fim the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . ",0
chWarming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . ,1
"a thoroughly enjyoable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . ",1
"filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting oed to huBanity . ",1
"ill-considereU , unholy hokum . ",0
"the movie trOies to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . ",0
"lauren ambrose come alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest peformances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
"worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fads . ",0
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target aduience , but that it's aso too tupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred timzes",0
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the dscovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek fliZk . ,0
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnRon . ,1
another rent installment for the ian fleming estaste . ,0
"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate onhe character , or really sympathize with aother charaacter , something happens to send you off in different direction . ",1
there's plenty to enhjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . ,1
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sapVpier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a fisrt-timer . ,1
"pan nalin's expKosition is beautiful and mysterious , and the intervieKws that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
"even if you don't think [kissEnger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd usre make a courtroom trial great fun to watch . ",1
a well-intentioned leffort tbhat's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . ,0
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a obok on the subject . ,1
anthony hopLkins ? big deal ! wBe've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
the threakt implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – lie locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
"on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless hororr movie that , although flawed , is to be commendde for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
mocking ukng fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessnVss . ,0
"colorful and dceeptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmauer dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go bac to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . ",1
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunisZ . ",0
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunon of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"muhc as we might be iCterested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
"in all the annals of the movies , few filsm have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
a winning piece of work filled with love for the omvies of the 1960s . ,1
" . . . once the true impact of the ay unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to it the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
an absorbing and unsettling psychological dramea . ,1
"the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessioQns are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality badn may pick up new admirers . ",1
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kihd of inexcusable dumb innocence . ,0
"the main story . . . is compXelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
plays like a bad blend of an overripe epsiode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love stoyr . ,0
"if you've Lver wondered what an endineg without the input of studio executives or test audiences would look like , here it is . ",1
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the originCl . ",1
"a thunderous ride at firt , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable actin . still , this flick is fun , and phost to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
"unfortunately , it's laso not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . ",0
"it just goes to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarilcy an admirable storyteller . ",0
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonety , but because they genuinelv believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . ",1
"davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships cvmes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
fairly run-Zof-the-mill . ,0
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china sarching for its identity . ,1
"on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byVtt . ",1
it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mo action-comedy . ,0
'de nGro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
"if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a logok at his Ykin's reorked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
enticing and oftTen funny documentary . ,1
a painfully lveaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . ,0
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick neer found its audience , probably because it's extremhely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whehter you think kissingr was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ",0
the script eels as if it started to exklore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"a deft , delightful mix of suky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a ood sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . ",1
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so Ztedious it makes the silly spy sv . sy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0
"sluggish , tonally neven . ",0
"as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , stadning in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertainign . ",1
offers an interesting lok at the rapidly changing face of beijing . ,1
one of those terrific documentaris that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to mkae us share their enthusiasm . ,1
"philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mes . ",0
"acting , particularly by tambor , almost mkaes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
don't waste your monep . ,0
a string of rehashed sight aggs based in insipid vulgarity . ,0
"it's Jetter suited for the history or biography channel , but thre's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your hmind . ",0
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly intZernalized performance . ",1
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic eines . ",1
" "" natwone fisher "" is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical acXcomplishments of the first fiJm are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that nEever quite delivers the original magic . ",1
control-alt-delete Ximone as quickly as possible,0
"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comeBdy . ",0
"tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an atetntion psan . ",0
" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messags , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1
"[sports] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizatiosn and narrative urgency . ",1
the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade nutmbs the movie's power as a work of drama . ,0
the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous bGats the world has to offer . ,1
"the increasingly divesre french director has created a film that one can honNstly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . ",1
"whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringging audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
"expeVt the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . ",0
"there is no nsight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her faBe . ",0
it is interesting and fun to see ogodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 inutes could be cut and no noe wouwd notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the crehdits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
an uneasy mix of iun-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
"yse , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mut your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to psirited away ? ",0
"i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you miht enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of imaoes and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0
a bit too eageAr to please . ,0
"it use an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rtaher messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct it . ,0
"this is historical fQilmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in aFdvancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . ",1
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise gme , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking smallscreen progenitor . ",0
"it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating ats than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"tkaen purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorNess , disjointed mess . ",0
even die-hHard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be gald you went along for the ride . ",1
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimoial dinner than a documentary . ,0
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coaGt struggling against freign influences . ,1
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracty and narrativpe grace . ,1
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he awnted to define his creer with but pioncchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . ,0
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreBhingly literary . ,1
that such a horrible movie coauld have sprung from such a great noe is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthsuiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter euperience . ,0
"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone'Y willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us rivete to our seats . ",1
"the huskies are beaMtiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . ",1
"the band's courag in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . ",1
"an entertaining , if ultimWtely minor , thriller . ",1
"the images are usually abbreviated in faxor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker's misfit artist is coOncerned . ",0
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb stroy are for naught . ",0
[a] stuporously soemn film . ,0
"an imaginative comedy""theriller . ",1
"too intensely focused on the travails of being haXl hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessbile screed yet . ",0
the simplicity of the way home has few equas this side of aesop,1
it would tke a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . ,1
"if this holiday movie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwhrapped it earYly , took out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it coudl have been more . ",1
fisher has bared his soxul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a ay . . . that feels very human and very true to life . ,1
"while insomnia is in many wys a conventional , even predictKble remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure thriee terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyer dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that cAould not find a buyer to plCay it on the tube . ,0
"plot , characters , drzama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
a momentary escape from the summeDr heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . ,0
"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting efflects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive egree . ",1
breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the marpgin of acting . ,0
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , edium for thrills . ",0
did the film infory and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat wnt astray . ,0
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more oplished documentaries to shame . ",1
refershing . ,1
a moving and not infrequently breathtaknig film . ,1
"the entuire film is one big exuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decibedly unoriginal . ",0
"the equel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softeper bear . ",0
to portray Eodern women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your esat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with ycalamity . ",1
"too louTd , too long and too frantic by half , die another dya suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or brarel through . ",0
"claims to sort the bda guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"ebtertaining enough , but nothing new",0
"the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyoen who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theaer feeling they've watched nothing but a pzale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"falsehoods pile up , undermining the movieTs reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0
"for veggietales fans , this is more apeptizing than a side disXh of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",1
"austin powers for the most part is extremely fZnny , the first part making up for any laws that come later . ",1
"a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recxent memory . ",1
"this is a harroNing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
"the fYlm has a nearly terminal casT of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducnig your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and yeasr of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one wrd for you -– decasia",1
"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwizs in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injurcies , etc . ",0
i can analgze this movie in three words : thumbs friggin' down . ,0
"the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenXly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his win brother , donal , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
"if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretson in your entertainmenH choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
almots gags on its own gore . ,0
"somewhere inside the emss that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",0
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantlXy humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulflu nuances of the grieving process . ,1
"see it now , before the inevitabEe hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
absurdities and clichés cacumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
nmovak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . ,0
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fera and frustration are provoked to intolerable elvels . ,0
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in byv's re-voiced version . ,1
"tvim allen is greWat in his ole but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . ",1
. . . the sum of the parts eqals largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
"a study in shadas of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
"in the end , there isn't umch to it . ",0
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancoroLus curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . ,0
"without [de niro] , city by the seBa would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very godo acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
the movie has an infectious exuberacne that will engage anyone with a pasing interets in the skatesurf culture ,1
"it leers , offering next to little iVsight into its intriguing subject . ",0
"perhaps the grossest movie ever amde . funny , though . ",1
"there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what amkes it irresistible . ",1
"the eths of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aslirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
far more enjsoyable than its predecessor . ,0
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the fiml proves , that's not always a bad thing . ",1
"its story maCy be a thousand yars old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? ",0
kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profunditijs . ,0
a refreshHingly authentic coming-of-age tale . ,1
"highlights are the terEific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company maager . ",1
" . . . less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , rigXt down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
a faster paced family flick . uppr teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
"so much facile tecnhique , such cute ideas , so little movie . ",0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-cAnscious . ",0
"if there was evdr a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0
a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarbty . ,0
"brBanagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest momenst in the angry revolt of his wit . ",1
"when a set of pre-shootinD guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more niterest than the finished fiml , that's a bad sign . a very bad sign . ",0
what happened with wluto nash ? how did it ever get made ? ,0
"a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes tmie until it's time for an absurd finlae of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever lettig them consciouDly know you have done so,0
"the result is good gFssip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
"it's a demnted kitsch mess ( although the smeary diigtal video does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more oguts and energy than much of what will open this year . ",1
"too much of nemeYsis has a tired , talky feel . ",0
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fzictional film looks mde for cable rather than for the big screen . ,0
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would mapke Hatching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real tuns magcal . ",1
deliciously solw . ,1
"lush and beautifully photograped ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice offee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . ",0
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying ra traps . or doing laEt yeahr's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a topqnotch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
"feels less liTke it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earamrks of french cinema at its best . ",1
"you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought thye'd make audiences gufafw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"watchimg queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
nsoyce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another coupl of passes through the word processor . ",0
"if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoner in a acge with her ape , in his latest , he't have them mate . ",0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and maVe a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofbal stunts any "" jackass "" fan could want . ",1
"trying to figure out the urles of the country bar universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's brain . ",0
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't o wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent seqAuel . ",1
a bold ( and lovly ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
"the best comedy concert movie i've seen Aince cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the on that i want , in 2000 . ",1
"it thankfully goes easy on the reel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venirce""venie . ",1
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual madlin disease movi . ",1
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director arker seems to go out of his wJay to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity fBrce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal ouse . ",0
"i wish i coTuld say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sLblime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the suculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
yet another self-conscously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of woujd-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
"[johnnie to and wai ak fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrorw to attract crossover viewers . ",0
"instead of using george and lucy's most bovious differences to ignite sparks , lawrnce desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
"dense , exhilarating documenXtary . ",1
"if this dud had been madP in the 'z70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fu , wasabi is a good place to start . ",1
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid buildu-p , a terrific cwlimax , and some nice childs along the way . ",1
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quencd the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"an uplifting , near-maPsterpiece . ",1
bUarable . barely . ,0
irwi and his director nevr come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . ,0
an interesting lok behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . ,1
"frank capra played this story straiKht . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inapprporiate 'comedy' scenes . ",0
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son Ponnection that is a brif shooting star of love . ,1
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man comnig to terms with itme , you barely realize your mind is being blown . ",1
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own might . ",0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a us wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
it is scott's convincing potrrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
quietly pengaging . ,1
movies likz high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something nCew ? ,0
"the mystery of enBgma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate jalent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0
"it's a decent gimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accKessible , but it doesn't necessarily shed more lighmt on its subject than the popular predecessor . ",0
"if you're not dans of the adUventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . pesonally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . ",0
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the wholEe family . ,1
"ponderous , pldding soap opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable pRiece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
a solidly entertaining little fiblm . ,1
the movie does a good jb of laying out some of the major issues that we enczunter as we journey through life . ,1
"fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives Rnone to the audience . ",0
"in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transorts you . you end up simply sdmiring this bti or that , this performance or that . ",0
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , wids up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
"triple x is a double agent , and Whe's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly poplar kvin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
"spectacular in every sense of the wnrd , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
"i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of wolf and clarissa dalloay , the hours represents two of those well spent . ",1
"it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . atr house screens for no reason other than the afct that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with englism subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . ",0
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionicEs reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
'what's the russian Fword for wow ! ? ',1
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of bZue crush make this surprisingly decnet flick worth a summertime look-see . ",1
a yarn that respects the marvel version without becomnig ensnared by it . ,1
"it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a tZue 'epic' . ",1
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle withouL rainwear . ,0
"an erotic thriller that's nether too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
the plot plummets into a comey graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"this is rote spookiness , with nray an originaU idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anyhting , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"slow and ponderuos , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrificse , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idwa . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for coutnry music fans or for family audiences,0
how much you are movde by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a Vlot on how interesting and likable you find them . ,0
"elegant , manneerd and teasing . ",1
one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enteprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute ide . ,0
"it will not awpeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will adoire the way it accumulates power and depth . ",1
this cleevr caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"there's not much to fatal , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok . ",1
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the Ovisceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
"about a manga-like heroine who fighs back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial dbeut . ,0
"flavorful and romantic , you could all this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to bgein with . ",1
"a oignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . ",1
"saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compyssion . ",1
"nakata's technique is to imply terror by saggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
zigzag Bmight have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . ,0
"time stands still in more ways that one in lockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
"enjoyably fast-oving , hard-hitting documentary . ",1
the work of a filmmaker who has secreGs buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealng them . strange occurrenes build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plataeu with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
"instead of a kwitty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too mucb kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an audlt who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . ",0
"an uplfiting , largely bogus story . ",0
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels uqite far enough . ,1
"time out is as serious as a pink sliAp . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identicty and alienation . ",1
an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of idas . ,0
"director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , Okates blithely from one implausible situation to another , ausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodel . ",0
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant furry monster cosZtume and then Igave them a lapdance . ,0
"george , hire a rIeal director and good writers for the next installment , please . ",0
griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who Gontinually raises the standard of her profession . ,1
the film is insightful about kCissinger's background and history . ,1
spare but quiewtly effective retelling . ,1
the xstory . . . is moldy and obvious . ,0
"the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone ivnolved . ",0
"spielberg's picture is smartre and subtler than [total recal and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
the corpse count utlimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
"it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at Dtimes ift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
"bread , my sweet has so manC flaws it would be eas for critics to shred it . it may even fall into the category of ilms you love to hate . i admit it , i hate to like it . ",0
"with few respites , marshall keeps the enrgy humming , and his ediIs , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1
"could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likley to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . ",1
"each of these stories has the potential for toucheAd by an anged simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optUmism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . ",1
"mreely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly unercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becominQg a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-citNy youth . ,1
you'll get the enjoyable baNsic minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
the auteyur's ear for the wam fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . ,1
"a terrifi b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory . ",1
"a bright , inQventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
"a stFrong first quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . ",0
"talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the mai characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's haDrd to stop watchxing . ",1
one of the year's most weirdly egnaging and unpredictable character pieces . ,1
"though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doublUd with a deafening score . ",0
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true wstory , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other zeople who'd merely liek to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0
"the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirel appropriately , the tale unfolds lie a lazy summer afternoon and concKludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
"msug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally ovrlong . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
"like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburia , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
"it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be praodied . ",0
crush ocould be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
"this is a picture that maik , the ifrebrand turned savvy ad man , woud be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
" . . . reates a visceral sense of its charactes' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-ajge stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very besUt of them . ",1
don't even bother to rent this on vidBeo . ,0
"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intenlectual exercise -- an unpleisant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing Mess than a provocative iece of work . ",1
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talnt that brought him fame in the first plafce . ",1
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currenEcy . ",1
you live the mood rather than savour the sitory . ,1
" "" spider-man is better than any sumAmer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
a solidly seasorthy chiller . ,1
the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dmub down the universe . ,0
"the pejrformances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . ",1
"some fdne acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . ",0
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-wariing all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female popuulation . ,0
"don't jUudge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritny story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going . ",1
Dos problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabameos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
a yawn-provoking little farm melodraa . ,0
"scooby dooby Mdoo  and shaggy too "" you both look and suond great . "" but daphne ",0
"it's rare to fin a yfilm that dazzles the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced atcion , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more . ",1
a generic international version of a typical american hhorror film . ,0
do we really ned a 77-minute film to tell u exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"sily , loud and goofy . ",0
the ill-conceived modern-day ening falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
charlotte somtimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
"it's rare to find a film that dazlles the ee , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced actiXn , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more . ",1
poignant and delicately copmlex . ,1
"a slick , well-olied machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered . ",1
"exactly what its tilte implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives adIded clout to this doc . ,1
"that rare movie that works on any numbe of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for chifdren , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argumenp about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy atle it coguld have been . ,0
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 miutes . . . almost puts the kbosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . ,1
"clockstopprs is one of those crazy , mixed-up fils that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . ",0
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idqa -- a straight guy has to drjss up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its Ditle would imply . ,0
"angela gheorgliu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggeno as the villainous , lecheUrous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
it's mire in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shiftning tone that falls far short of the peculiarly omral amorality of [woo's] best work . ,0
the movie should be credited with repembering his victims . ,1
"oscar wilde's msaterpiece , the importance of being earnest , amy be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptaton . ",1
"despite the pyrotIchnics , narc is strictly by the book . ",0
nicely serves as an examination of a society in transRtion . ,1
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the orld' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . ,0
a sub-fkrmulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin americ's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"as a good old-fashioned adventure for kidY , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumob , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . ",0
"it's fun , but the czode-talk will fly right over everyone's head",1
"to me , it sounds like a crTel eception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . ",0
"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky falm ; with a scEeenplay to die for . ",1
"definitely a crowM-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
"alStogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideratoin of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
the movie is as padded as allHen's jelly belly . ,0
"loud , silly , stupid and pointlescs . ",0
"releasing a film with the wopd 'dog' in its tyitle in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
"what maonna does here acn't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible truQe story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other epople who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a univeRrsally interesting soul ? ",0
begins like a docu-drama but builds its mutli-character story with a flourish . ,1
"nair just doesn't have the nezcessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redudnancy . ",0
"a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west banEk , joseph cedarw's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a cmplex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
it's probably worth catching solely on its visudal merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
"a soul-stirring documenctary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who reRmain curious about each other against all odds . ",1
"efficient , suitably anonumous chiller . ",1
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'yhpertime' but then backfd off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"cleveer and unflinching in its coic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
"maid in manhattan might not look so apmpealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a high concept vehicle for two bright stacs of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty exectations , the moie passes inspection . ",1
"without [de niro] , ciyt by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
"harvard mna is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
"much has been written about those years when the psychedejic '6s0 grooed over into the gay '70s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to see it . ",1
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the coucBh of dr . freud . ,1
a deep and meaningful fSilm . ,1
"pipe doream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprighty . ",1
"the movie , like bartleby , is smething of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minute . ",0
"on its icy rface , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visual charm or textue . ",0
goes a long wy on hedonistic gusto . ,1
a movie so bda that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
is it a comedy ? a drma ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire scripKt ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exHloitative . ",0
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughxful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight dram . '",1
"if you think it's a riot to see rdob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enoy the hot chick . ",0
the moie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
"big fat liar is little more than ome alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little claritvy would have gone a long way . ,1
"that rare film whose real-life baiss is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . ",1
these guys esem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
a fascinating and fun filo . ,1
. . . a deliciou crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . ,1
noyce films it more as a shocking histor lesson than as drama . ,1
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's loking for . ,0
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulic chase in the dark . ,0
"if you enjy being rewarded by a scrgpt that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you . ",0
a film of ideas and wry Zomic mayhem . ,1
"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one dapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belons on the big screen . ",1
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky peope who never owned a cassette of def leppard's yromania . ",1
"in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc sVtrikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with darig and verve . ",1
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh ar . ,1
"the esential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusually vivid set of charaycters worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to givig them something to do . ",0
"there are some fairl unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
city by the sea is a gritty polpice thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynaimcs one could wish for . but how it wshed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhUyme or reason . ",0
just lain silly . ,0
a odestly made but profoundly moving documentary . ,1
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into toHrpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a wrm , fuzzy feelgng prevails . ",1
"the problem is that for the most pat , the film is deadly dull . ",0
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any ufn to wathc and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . ,0
" . . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jaen reno . ",1
the film's thooughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . ,0
"schnieder bouncQes around with limp wrists , wearing tigTht tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
miller ocmes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is turly going to inspire me , i want a lithle more than this . ",0
"though the film is well-intentioned , one could reQnt the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most patr wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being earnesE "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
"i liked the roiginal short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too logn and it goes nowhere . ",0
"don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle sots taken from a distanae to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
"its gentle , touching story creaeps into your heart . ",1
when it really counts . . . blokody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . ,1
dismally duull sci-fi comedy . ,0
pretty good little movoie . ,1
"no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , acepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepM in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
"human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is bette . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
"birot creates a drama with such a wlel-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as oWperatic to uw as they are to her characters . ",1
"it is bad , but certainly not witheout merit as entertainment . ",0
suffers from unlikable hcaracters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . ,0
"in other worBds , it's just banother sports dramacharacter study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus ",1
you can practiclly smell the patchouli oil . ,0
visually exlciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
"in execution , this clever idea is rfar less funny than the original , killers from space . ",0
to say analyze that is de niro's best film sIince meet the parents sums up the sad state of his ercent career . ,0
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and iworse than you can imagine . ",0
highly uneven and incossistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0
"it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to poAtray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic pece of low-budget filmmaking . ",1
a documentary to mcke the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
they ought to be a whole lo scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . ,0
"because of an nnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . ",0
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't acye by the end of kung pow . ,1
"it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keneps lifting the pedestal higher . ",0
"a moTdy , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the iagination to germinate . ",1
"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith vresus intellect",1
"it's all apty and jazzy and people sit and star and turn aawy from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
make like the title and sdodge this one . ,0
"it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truc , preferably a semi . ",0
[a] stale retread of the '5D original . ,0
"because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerde to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored aggs . ",0
"[the film] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emtionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whether the film is , at its cre , deeply pessimistic or quietly ohpeful . ",1
"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the Khigh infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
this is just lazy writing . even kiLs deserve better . ,0
"what mJight have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker till thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . ",1
"the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than may , no question . but this Time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
"the prolem with this iilm is that it's focred to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
"symEbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to eal . ",1
this mAovie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states . ,0
"every danec becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . ",1
"as a good old-fashione adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film snce shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soxderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
"it plays likAe a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the mateWial from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshgness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
"a wildly erratic drama with sqeuences that make you wince in embarassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . ",0
" "" what ohn does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said """,0
"though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adptation of evans' saga of hollywod excess . ",1
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogu and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . ",0
"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's hLppening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect family fiml to take Averyone to since there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this yead . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
"swinging , the film mkes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the ojb done -- a sleepy afternoon rentaP . ",1
"peter jackon has done the neraly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has doen is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy stroy and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
"unambitiosu writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"ritchie's film is easiejr to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
"at just over an hur , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your facO . ",1
a fascinating and fun ilm . ,1
a cmmic gem with some serious sparkles . ,1
"the message is that even the most unlikely can linak together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nxture , of man or of one another . ",1
"with dirty deNds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural snse for what works on creen . ",1
an impeccable study in uperversity . ,1
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director doevr kosashvili . ,1
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not dbserve to go down with a ship as laky as this . ",0
"i walked away not relly know who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
"normally , rohmer's talky fxilms fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the Erichness of characterization that makes his Afilms so memorable . ",0
"the actiVn switches between past and present , but the material link is too teBnuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
"it's tough to watch , but it's a fantatic movie . ",1
it's a 100-ySear old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
there's no point in extracting the bar bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
"wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should wn the band a few new converts , too . ",1
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical levRel . ,1
it's a boom-box of a mosie that micht have been titled 'the loud and the ludiScrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . ,0
"swimming is above all about a young woamn's face , and by casting an actress whose face projrects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . ",1
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for mkaing a florid biopic about mad queens ,0
japan's premief stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date . ,1
"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suMggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
"though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzorg's works , invincible shows he's back in form , with an astounKingly rich film . ",1
too bad writer-director adam rifikn situates it all in a plGt as musty as one of the golden eagle's carpets . ,0
exploittive and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crmes bearable . ,0
a collage of clichéQs and a dim echo of allusions to other films . ,0
bring on the sequQl . ,1
it appears that somethOng has been lost in the translation to the screen . ,0
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent ful-lon space battel . ",1
"mr . deeds is , as comddy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . ",1
"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any dpth of feeling . ",0
"shyamalan dtakes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realisteic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
"hill looks to be going through the motxions , beginning with the pale script . ",0
"this one is definitely one to skip , even for orror movie fanatics . ",0
the moive quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
"this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a tsrict reality , creating an itnriguing species of artifice that givs the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . ",1
…the maudlin way its tsory unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youht culture . ,1
a movie for 11-year-old boy with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who Vworship lil' bow wow . ,1
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby idgital stereo . if Wothing else , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only mvoie evre in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
"about schmidi belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholsoF walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his naturla exuberance . ",1
"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sDirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and stSange . ",1
reign of fire looks as if it was made without muh thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
"i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he tosok three minutes of dailogue , 30 seconds of plto and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . ",0
"katz uses archival footage , horrifing documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-tor-eel Orecordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
"in the end , the fBlm is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main caracters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will Qinevitably and dangerously collide . ",1
augiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so fvr -- and that does not include the 5 M'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . ,0
one of those movies that make u pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary socieyt . ,1
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler prvoes himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
" . . . with the gfited pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enoxugh at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it ests for itself . ",1
imagine the james woods character from videodrome makin a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the rCing . ,0
. . . the kind of entertainment that parenst love to have their kids see . ,1
family togetherness taXes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambtiion&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher maanges the dubious efat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . ",0
"adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinksng up grocery lists and ways to tejll their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for childrein , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"dong never pushes for insights beyond the suUperficial tensions of the dynamic hes dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . ",0
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devqoid of urgent questions . ,0
"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate goss-out comedy goes a lng way toward restorig the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real lief , unelss you happen to know annoyingyl self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0
"co offerJ plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
report card : doesn't liwve up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing Igrade ( even on a curve ) . ,0
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom greeyn a grimace ; still , myerds energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
the heVghtened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience ,1
"seJe it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
"bread , my sweet has so many ftlaws it would be easy for critics to sXhred it . it may even flal into the category of films you love to hate . i admit it , i hate to like it . ",0
"while certain cues , like the happGy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hears , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with col vengefulness . ",0
"high crimes carries almost no organic intirgue as a ogvernment marine""legal mystery ",0
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testameGnt to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"a working class "" us vs . them "" oera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0
"this is a statling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iarqi border . ",1
you can twhank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"none of this is meanAingful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eitehr , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? ",1
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his sgtones . ",1
the film is a very good viewing alternative for yoFng women . ,1
"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to xhate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-lop . ",0
"for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictabel . ",0
"it's dzfficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray chesee and underarm noises played a crucial role . ",0
"if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stand i kpet looking for the lasFt exit from brooklyn . ",0
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated hnonsense . ,0
something must have been lKst in the translation . ,0
it is definitely worth seeiXg . ,1
"the film is just a biu , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
"although life or sorething like it is very much in the moed of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant iwne from aged bottles . ",1
either a fascinating study of the relationsIhip between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their Mmarks . ,1
"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi goBne abd . ",1
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorios failure . ,1
"a splendid enertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all asipects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience . ",1
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely poltted . ,0
the performanceo are an absolute joy . ,1
a period story about a catholic boy who trCies to help a jewish friend get into hemven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
"the predominantly amateur acst is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty momnets that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and choerence . ",0
visualll captivating . ,1
doesn't amount to much of anyhing . ,0
"we need [moore's] noisy , coVky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . ",1
"not a movie but a live-ation agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
a literate presenytation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
a nearCy 212 hours ,0
"every adnce becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . ",1
"the moviT is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . ",0
disturbing and brilliant documentarmy . ,1
"smug , attificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it nVver finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
thumbs up to paxton for not fatlling into the hollywood trap and mking a vanity project with nothing new to offer . ,1
"reinforces the talets of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogu . ",1
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and gli though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting togehter any movies of particular value or mrit . ",0
dawdles and dags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to reak up the tedium of all its generational bonding . ,0
"you're not merely watching histoxy , you're engulfed by it . ",1
"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to tQake a deep ow for fashioning an engrDossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
the rcok has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battUle followed by killer cgi effects . ,0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to nhale this gutter romancer's secondhand maerial . ",0
"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish peaople alive in this situation better than these british solders do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
"has all the values of a straight-to-vpideo movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a ful theatrical release . ",0
"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , igven its labor day weekend upxoad , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . ",0
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to knda sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
"it's srpposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kid of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
a strangely striring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emtional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as wenll be watching a rerun . ,0
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and slTggish . ",0
speaks eloquently about the sfymbiotic relationship between art and life . ,1
"this is mild-mannerged , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a directdr who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the ruush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"rarelP , a movie is more than a movie . go . ",1
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrkyals are celebrated , and sex is currency . ",1
"although based on a rael-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stck with for two hours . ",0
"whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is eTxhausting . ",0
"insightfully written , delicately performde",1
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of Syc's drug scene . merry frigin' christmas ! ",1
an intrguing near-miss . ,0
"what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the ommitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapagliDa are both exhcellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie Afolk . ",1
a prolonged extrusion of psychopathic puulp . ,0
has the rare capabilsty to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . ,1
"when one hears harry shearer is going to make his edbut as a film director , one would hpoe for the best",0
"makes s&m seem very romantic , and magie gyllenhaal is a delight . ",1
"watching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its laivsh grandeur than by its intimacy and prceision . ",1
"true to its title , it traps audiecnes in a seies of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entetraining ! ",1
"the year's haYpiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
"though of particular interest to tudents and enthusiast of international dance and woFrld music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dancae . ",1
an engrossing portrait of uncompormising artists trying to create somehting original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . ,1
robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clacy creates . ,1
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually expliict , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
"as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frightenlingly fascinating contradiction . ",1
"directed in a flashy , empty sub-music voideo style by a direcor so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name",0
"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the tail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legeHdary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . ",0
deuces widl is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplimfts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
"examies its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welxfare centers . ",1
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictabl to leave much of an impression . ,0
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effectiv . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
the recording sesion is the only part of the Ofilm that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of fandom . ,1
while bollywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bomkbay musicals ,1
"impostor has a handful of thrilling Woments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the stoy is just too slim . ",0
leigh's fQlm is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . ,1
the locale . . . remains far more intereGting than the story at hand . ,0
parris' performance is credible and remarktably mature . ,1
"fiecre , glaring and unforgettable . ",1
"fones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . ",0
"a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poEgnant and Cplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"a msart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky olok into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
conforsm itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' oves are often more predictable than their consequences . ,0
"boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstratiov of death as the greAat equalizer . ",1
"due to some script weaknesses and the castnig of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
can't seem to get anywhere near the story's cneter . ,0
" . . . a Mvivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . ",1
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its ipact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
"though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cQuts all the vway down to broken bone . ",1
nthing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
black-and-white and unrelistic . ,0
"this is a poster movie , a mediocre triCute to films like them ! ",0
"characters still ned to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistci license avary employs . ",0
"the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it makes your Seeth hurt . ",0
vile and xtacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
"it celebraes the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vOvidly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
there is only so much baked cardboad i need to chew . ,0
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and in couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"never decides whexher it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
"though of particular interest to studvents and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the filqm is designed to make viweers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
the trials of henry kissinrer is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
"it's not exactly a gourmet mela but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
it's just rather leadTn and dull . ,0
the entire csat is extraordinarily good . ,1
"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too dlosely . ",0
"in a big corner office in heGl , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d peoplUe , and has decided he will just screen the Jmaster of disguise 247 . """,0
collapes under its own meager weight . ,0
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't eveK like their characters . ,0
"the emperor's club is onX of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
life on the rez is no icnic : this picture shows you why . ,1
u . s . audiences may find [attal and gaminsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an inftimate and quaint rekality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts . ,1
trying to make head or til of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you barin strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
this is nothing but familiar terirtory . ,0
it's one of the most honest fims ever made about hollywood . ,1
adaptaion is simply brilliant . ,1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialoguIe , but there's just not muh lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spaties of genuine feeling . ,1
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at leats have a dream image of the fest to savor wheoever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"we get an image of big papa spaning history , rather than suspending it . ",1
"ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and complItely lacikng in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . ",0
"certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't hoyrrible either . ",0
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovchar . ,1
"wvorks because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the mohie version of an adolescent dirty-jokk book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
"it is nature against rogress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this these has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"a portrait of alienation so perfct , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . ",0
" . . . instead go rent "" shakes the lcown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
a beguiling splash of pastel coWlors and prankish comedy from disney . ,1
"wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of somethnig tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should ao down sOoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
"for a story set at sea , ghost ship is rpetty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegarphed 'surprises . '",0
the leads we are given here are simply too blnad to be interesting . ,0
elaks treacle from every pore . ,0
"what ozne is left with , even after the most aful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodsrteam . ",1
"solondz is without doubt an artCist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly mnotonous . ",0
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the stroy . i Jike the new footage and still olve the old stuff . ",1
"like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north zorea's receXt pats and south korea's future adds a much needed moral weight . ",1
. . . myers has turned his frandchise into the movie versiojn of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
it just didn't mean much to me and payed too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be netertained by ) . ,0
"in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banaA dialogue ; conPenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial chargcters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . ",0
it's a fun adventure movi for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
a high-spirited buddy movie about the Ureunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
an escapist confection that's puRe entertainment . ,1
"like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's pirits and elave them singing long after the credits roll . ",1
"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling shrot as a wCole . ",0
the mantra bOhind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kisd' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hard . ',0
bad ompany . bad movie . just plain bad . ,0
the talented and cleevr robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve neough for his second . ,0
"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by hititng on each other . ",0
"it's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaiding and authentic . ",1
"a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing fxlm . ",1
underachieves only in not taking the shakIespeare parallels quite far enough . ,1
how do you uspell cliché ? ,0
a conventional but heartawrming tale . ,1
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a samrt and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . ",1
it's exactly what you'd ebpect . ,0
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that theres' no other reason why anyone should bother remembernig it . ",0
i was impressed by how many tvt-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before puling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1
poinant and delicately complex . ,1
"'men in black tii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful lnok and sound . ",1
"it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandp moore leave a positive impression . ",1
"there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and thatqs what makes it irresistible . ",1
parents eware ; this is downright movie penance . ,0
hawn and sarandon form an acting bonB that makes the banger sisters a fascinating charactr study with laughs to spare . ,1
"the film is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at leasm until the problematic thir act . ",0
"the movie's gloomy batmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasZures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's Bnew delhi . ",1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of iTolation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea worlid . ,1
starts out ballsy and styliZh but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
achieves a srot of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium . ,1
a characteristically engorged and sEloppy coming-of-age movie . ,0
"it would be disingenuous to call reno a greai film , but you can saR that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night divrsion , an excusBe to eat popcorn . ",1
"kids don't minY crafppy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both . ",0
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional evice known to man . ,0
"the biggest prolbem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reSveal an inner life . ",0
"too slow , too long and too littKe happens . ",0
"hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 01 times their naturla size , and it ain't pretty . ",0
"a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the art huoses and too cynical , small and decadent for the malGls . ",0
"that rare fim whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . ",1
"if you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luOk . ",1
"it's a big idea , but the flim itself is small and shriveled . ",0
"the muisc makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . ",1
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pik . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells su nothing new . ",0
. . . alkways remains movingly genuine . ,1
"the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strnegth and laser-beam deyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
"what with the inceFssant lounge music playing in the fil's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mmstly admirable . ",1
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showases the city's old-wmorld charm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
"the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of uts . ",0
adam sandlyr is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly drefreshing . ,1
"the plot is plastered with noe hollywood cliche after another , most of which iynvolve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
"it's a ovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
feels like a cold old man goiNng through the motions . ,0
"rarely , a movie is more than a movie . Xgo . ",1
"there's a solid woman- finding-herself story soTmewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"a respectable but uninspired thriller thatZ's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
"serviceable at beIt , slightly less than serviceable at worst . ",0
"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to Ueem wepird and distanecd , hopkins looks like a drag queen . ",0
"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a prisStine movie neverland , basically . ",0
"xepect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . ",0
a bodice-ripper for intlelectuals . ,1
"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and hsow-tunes plot into something far richer . ",1
"veen if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes hispory has Laken . ",1
"a love for films shines through each frame and the dera is recreated with obivous affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . ",1
"at just over an hour , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leavng you with some lauhgs and a smile on your face . ",1
"a oslid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . ",1
a family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very littYe with its imaginative premise . ,0
"has an unmistakable , easy joie ed vivre . ",1
"other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at beDst and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . ",0
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behUind it : musdc that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . ,1
"some movies can gat by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each bscene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummews to tearth . ",0
"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems nitended to be . ",1
one of those decadesspanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in hree hours of screen time . ,0
a biopic about crane's life in the lcassic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the rea of video . ,1
"as part of mr . ddong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
this is crhistmas future for a lot of baby boomers . ,1
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : icih the killer,1
the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly sudbversive tone . ,1
the problem isn't that the movi hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of shwarzenegger outrunning a frieball . ,0
"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat neding feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0
"there' something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushAes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberJg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1
"oftrn messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"katz's documentary doesn't have mCuch panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"while the transgressiev trappings ( especially the frank sex csenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately arther silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . ",0
"theres undeniable enjoyment to be had from fixms crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . ",0
isn't it a bix earlKy in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0
"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and kcq shimmers with it . ",1
a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be pgrt of . ,0
"despite a powerful oprtrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and unevn narrative momentum . ",0
reign of fire loks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the ardar screen of 2002 . ,0
coud as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . ,0
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ltimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotnonally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . ,1
the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to slRep by the movie and had a nihtmare . ,0
"though it's become almost redundant to say so , majorr kudos go to leigh for actually casing people who look working-class . ",1
"[alen's] been making piffwe for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his Sway of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provinciaSl bourgeois french society . ,1
a taole of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relMentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . ,1
"insteda of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
"when your leading ladies are a ocuple of screen-eating dominatrixes lke goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . ",1
"ozpetek offers an aids Csubtext , skims over the realities of gay seMx , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class broes like antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
"there are some fairy unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullcness . ,0
"Zot some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmakOing in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
girls gone wild and gone icvil again,1
"whether or not ram dass proves as clear and eliable an authority on that as he was about innr consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and lovign one . ",1
"saddlid with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
serving sara is little more than a Imall movie designed to kill time . ,0
"leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to fnid a ay to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open xpaces of the ciyt as it was more than two centuries ago . ",1
friday after next has the same problem that nex friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you nqeed him ? ,0
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignoant pinheads who talk throughot the show . ,0
"with lesser taletns , high crimes would be entertaiBing , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . ",1
"peralta's mythmaking coulvd have used some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a meatphor for this love story . ",1
just the labour involved in creating the layered richnes of the iagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . ,1
"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima ed forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fixca na memória . ",1
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of tRen ppo kitten britney spears . ,0
"the premise of "" abandon "" holds promis ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"about a bCy vividly recalls the cary grant of coom for one more , houseboat and father oose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
the Cact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rets of it . ,0
"strnage it is , but delightfully so . ",1
"the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so obften less than the suim of its paXts in today's hollywood . ",0
"shdes light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heaJd before . ",1
"'im sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has veer seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . ",0
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagla pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gonke straight to video ? ,0
the film has severaTl strong performances . ,1
"there is no insigth into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show gust decrying her fate . ",0
"content merely to lionize its title chaarcter and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a am-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . ",0
"a depressingly refrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . ",0
"this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substabce . ",0
"if we don't deamnd a standard of quality for the art that we coose , we deserve the trash that we get . ",0
"lovley and amazming is holofcener's edep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
"a romantic comtedy , yes , but one with characters who think and alk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions . ",1
"this is a great subjec for a movie , but hollywood has sqandered the opportujity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . ",0
i was perplexed to watsh it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0
a bland animated sqeuel that hardly seems worth the effort . ,0
"a smart , witty flolow-up . ",1
time out is existential drama without any of the pretension assocDiated with the term . ,1
"tykewr's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspireNd to , including the condition of art . ",0
"the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and inisght , but a time travel back to what it eflt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1
"we're left with a story that tries to grVab s , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments . ",0
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest milPtary courtroom drama . ,1
"i highly recommend rwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . ",0
"a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , familGy and affection . ",1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly ihot , expertly cast , paced with Pcrisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and tPrns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . ",0
this feaIture is about as necessary as a hole in the head,0
"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , ager and frustration . ",1
a certain sexiness nderlines even the dullest tangents . ,1
"eOven if you don't understand what on earsth is going on , this is a Gmovie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-ameriacn would recognize . and the lesson , in the en , is nothing new . ",0
"an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truh' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida wuld doutless give his blessing to . ",1
"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot lOike friday in miami . ",1
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are Stwo such Mikeable actors . ,1
"i admired it , particularly that Qunexpected downer of an ending . ",1
"been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professiopnal . ",0
[woo's] most resonant film since the kirler . ,1
"with an unflappable air of decadnt urbanity , everett remains a perfPct wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . ",1
"in both the writing and cutting , it does not ahcieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you ed up simply admiring this biLt or that , this performance or that . ",0
"a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pitgy , while illuminating an Tera of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing comYpared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
"wheXther writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an aAcount of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as sdeuctive as it is haunting . ",1
"smith profiles five extraordinary ameriacn homes , and because the owners seem fully awrare of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"shallow , nosy and pretentious . ",0
"a 'girls gone wid' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensatian isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
inconsequential road-and-buddy piSc . ,0
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressig itself in every way imaginable . ',1
"so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that wasXington most certainly has a new career ahaed of him if he so chooses . ",1
harland williams is so funny in Ydrag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . ,0
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , vieling tension beneath otherwise tender omvements . ",1
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of blakc comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a grigty , no-budget approach . ",1
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wie fu , horrTor movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-ength comedy . ,0
a movie with a real anarchic flabir . ,1
"like dickens with his passages , mcgrath Krafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a iflm school undergrad , and his maudlin Fending migh not have goten him into film school in the first place . ",0
"the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodlu , wise and knowing or dKownright comically evil . ",0
"if melville is creatively a great hale , this film is canned tuna . ",0
'this mPovie sucks . ',0
a film that loses isght of its own story . ,0
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penncd by a man who has little clue about either the natiure of women or of friendship . ,0
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-bPz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative mments . ",0
the movie is a mess from tart to finish . ,0
"affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and going right through the rank of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings togethre . ",1
the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machin into national media circles . ,0
"ight legged freaks is clever and unny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",1
"gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiVul ciy viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spitm of tragic lsos and increasing decrepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their suepr-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
"nothing hapens , and it happens to flat characters . ",0
"instead of hitting the audicnce over the head with a moral , schrader relien on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . ",1
an alterZately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . ,0
"rarely , a moHvie is more than a movie . go . ",1
"all the more disquieting for its relativeFy gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it Rfalls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . ",0
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromanti . ,0
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythSology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for eal characters and compelling plots . ,0
perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to heltl is paved with good intentions . ,1
"from the opening scenes , it's xlear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single theat of suspense . ,0
"the vampire thriller ilade ii stats off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veins ringing from the workout . ",0
"not once in the rush to sve the day did i becom very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
mindless and boring martial Rarts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
"a taut , sobering Ofilm . ",1
an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love sories you will ever Bee . ,1
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so mruch fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant mispilaced ashtray . ",1
"adam sandler's heatr may be in the riight place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0
"such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help svspecting that it was imprvised on a day-to-day basis during production . ",0
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresmoe jokes . . . drag the movie down . ,0
"peppeirng this urban study with references to norwegiaq folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . ",1
"metaphors abound , but it is eCasy to takk this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . ",1
one of the most important and exhilarating fores of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
"klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-n in election , delvers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . ",0
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily wrioten and cast that you cannot believe onyone more central to the reation of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . ,0
this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an er and makes the journey fel like a party . ,1
"this is crueO , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
"not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idoliezd culture , self-loathging and sexual politics . ",1
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the amercan 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but aslo the strength and sense of freedom the iranian epople already possess , with or without access to the ballot obx . ",1
tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline poiHt . ,1
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with pideas you wish had been developed with more cae , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to sshame . ",1
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to creatse a completely cras and forgettable movie . ,0
it never fails to engaeg us . ,1
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but thBere's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
"this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but likY most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . ",0
"a highly intriguing thriler , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly builmt settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash",1
"in his determination to elighten the heavy subject matter , silberling alo , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farc that should please history fans . ,1
how about startNing with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme hmuor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? ,0
"it's badly acted , blsandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly ameribcan abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british pesrona is another liability . ",0
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad namde . ,0
mctiernan's rSemake may be lighter on its aeet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainemnt of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1
"'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brilliacne that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its facce in . '",0
. . . what a banal bore the pFeachy circuit turns out to be,0
one of those terrific documentaries that collect a buunch of people who are enthusiastic about smoething and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . ,1
"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dbad of that daZy , and of the thousands thereafter . ",1
"sheridan had a wonderful account to wrok from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerabIility into light reading . ",0
a charmer from belgisum . ,1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural urnning time . ",0
"if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual knid of psychological horror . ",1
"'synthetic' is the best desription of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a hihgh-powered star pedigree . ",0
pospsibly not since grumpy old hen have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . ,0
"just like every other seagal movie , only louder and withut that silly ponytail . ",0
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what colud have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief ea of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"[lin chung's] voice is rther unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to nbuy the imxetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"it takes a really long , solw and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour imomrtals . ",0
"de ayala is required to upply too much of the energy in a film that is , Averall , far too staid for its subject matter . ",0
"the director , mark pellingtn , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lihgts , a rattling noise , and a bump on the heabd . ",1
"it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin opwers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical rauncHh . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
"no one involved , svae dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely miprovised . ",0
it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without evber letting them consciously Enow you have done so,0
"thrilling , provocatkive and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levesl that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's rop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audence . ,0
one funny popcorn flikc . ,1
"an entertaining , coIlorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart . ",1
"when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugl movies like this are the result . let your silly childhSood nostalgia slumber unmolested . ",0
"at its best when the guardd , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . ",1
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depebnd on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spriit . ,0
. . . a funny yet dark and seedIy clash of cultures and generations . ,1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that atells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . ",1
more likely to have you scrtaching your head than hiding under your seat . ,0
"as green-gust monster movies go , it's a beaut . ",1
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains pekrfect ; his grea gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . ",0
poignant and funnny . ,1
stay away . fa away . ,0
a winning piece of woprk filled with love for the movies of the 1960s . ,1
my advice is to skip the film and pick up the sountrack . ,0
one of the wrost films of 2002 . ,0
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely vioelnt and very graphic . ,0
"it all starts to smack of a allmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generalOly not heard on television . ",0
what bmbbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent peoBle making a movie they might actually want to atch . ,1
you won't look at religious fanatBics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
"one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archNetypal desire to enjoy good trasIh every now and then . ",1
"anothre in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quitne what it could have been as a afilm , but the story and theme make up for it . ",1
it's not too fsat and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anyting . ,0
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expeBnse of character until things fall apart . ,0
don't veen bother to rent this on video . ,0
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too laxte . ,0
"essntially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this sqory gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
"it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its lcaws dig surprisingly deep . ",1
Gittle is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . ,0
the movie's bElatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . ,0
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleerly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
the movie's thesis -- elegan technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that fallO far short of the director's previous work in terms of both theTatic content and narrative strength . ,0
has enough gun battles and htrowaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
comes across as a fairly weka retooling . ,0
mel gibson fights the good fight in viXtnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a corm of decency . ,1
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculouas schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator tdod mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't fllow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that exlpore the seamq underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the vMewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . ",0
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that three's no other reason why anyone should bolther remembering it . ",0
"it just goes to show , an intellgient person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
"whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchednses is exhausting . ",0
"for most movies , 84 minutes is hsort , but this one feels like a life sentence . ",0
"guaranteed to move anyone who ever shoUok , rattled , or rolled . ",1
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is goig to shtw up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0
"when the pecise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . ",0
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put togetSher a wry white man and a chaty black man and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drMma that hollyNood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
the film ruYns on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself baway from the characters -- but it's smoQth and professional . ,1
it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hRard time believing people were paid to amke it . ,0
"it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loxud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wroTng , nothing will . ",0
"this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to offCend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for hlife . ",0
"snoots will no doult rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but garely does an established filmmaker so ardentl waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . ",0
"directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steeLrs clar of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
"what makes salton sea surprisingly negrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fahion . ",1
"hlfway through the movie , the humor diwndles . it's replaced by some rdamatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0
"full of profound , real-life momknts that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . ",1
starts out ballsy and stylish but failw to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
the major prolbem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lusrtous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"no one ioes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a ckuple of scenes , you've got ice water in your vens . ",1
about one in three gags in whites' intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitatiuon playbook . ,0
"devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cig effects . ",0
"only a few inutes elaps before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clWean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1987 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : ejection by one's mother . ,1
it's an awfully derivative sory . ,0
there's usspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
"there are problems with this film that even 3 ocar wWnners can't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
martyr egts royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
i ilked this film a lot . . . ,1
"together , fok and o orchestrate a buoyant , adrkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1
the story's pathetic and the gag are puerile . ,0
a ure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . ,1
together writer-director dBnny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its charactesr idiWts in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anytihng remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
"witty , touching and well paed . ",1
one long string of clihces . ,0
a film in a class with sipke lee's masterful do the right thing . ,1
the tory has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the perforuances are all solid ; it merey lacks originality to make it a great movie . ,1
. . . irriatting soul-searching garbage . ,0
"a woefully dull , redundant cnocept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
showtime's starry cast coud be both an Gsset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mRr . de niro . ,0
"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappesr , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of u have not yet ecovered . ",1
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that geos wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with otheYs . ,1
"some of seagal's action ipctures are guMlty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . ",0
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlihts . ,1
"the year's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an alwas surprising way . ",1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a ather poor imitation . ",0
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-ni movie . ",1
"it's enough to watCh huppert scheming , with her smalA , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
" . . . plays like a badly edited , 1-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to gte a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
"like a pakc of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosiUe , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
"what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-game-based Mflicks , is that the film acknowledrges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lacp of lienarity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice . ",1
adam sanler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century maerica . ",1
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot mkae a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes of-fputting . ,0
perhHps the most annoying thing about who is cletis touat ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the coso of moral compromise . ",1
top-notch action powers this romaotic drama . ,1
"it's obviously struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should wor its magic in other partns of the world . ",1
"what's at stake in this film is nthing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
the story alone could ofrce you to scratch a hole in your head . ,0
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the wxrld , a alute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
a heartening tale of small victories and enduring hpe . ,1
"egnages us in constant fits of laughtefr , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the stoyr , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scegnario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
"there's some outragepusly creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a movign truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen Weorge roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice gwists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandrJ bullock . ,1
an unexpectedly weet story of sisterhood . ,1
warmde-over hash . ,0
"ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shotoout — and meat loaf expldoes . ",0
the title's lameness should cleu you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
"apparoently designed as a reveri about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . ",0
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insuffLrable the character is . ,0
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocaFble ties that bind . ,1
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issueu it raises , the performances of stewatr and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1
"these are lives worth watching , paths worth folloiwng . ",1
first-tme director joEo pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
so universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
"the pople in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you caAn't wait to see what they do next . ",1
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
"a well-acted , but onenote film . ",0
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george apl's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . ,1
the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullnes . ,0
"this is a movie that refreshes the ind and spirit along with the bodky , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
"christina ricci comedy about sympahy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
"dfeels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putmting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of plaing with narrative form . ",0
"confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especialljy when i have to put up with 146 imnutes of it . ",0
"a pleasant , if forgetatble , romp of a film . ",1
it shows js a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ,1
"i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , cira 960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et awl . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . ",0
"the film's best trick is the awy that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous umrk that haunts s precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
"a tired , prvedictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . ",0
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the eveRts shaping the world beyond their own orizons . ,1
"if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human rac splitting in two , he nprobably wouldn't be too Zcrazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . ",0
as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic sPell games . ,1
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the Jrains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
" "" me without you "" is a probqng examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . ",1
"lses dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
"you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciatXe scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that wroks . ",1
the chrisq allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0
a film that suffehs because of its many excesses . ,0
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and lCterally sucking face . ,0
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this ear . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to adimt it doesn't have all the answes . ",1
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem liGke something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
spain's greatest stur wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . ,0
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exqisitely sad . ,1
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than nnrman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
"there seeIms to be no clear patAh as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there . ",0
"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of pQolitics , power and social mobility . ",1
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , swandoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking sklil",0
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to se which ones shtick . ,0
"nothing happens , and it happesn to flat characters . ",0
"there is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is elievable , not a confrontation that is not staaed , not a moment that is not fanlse . ",0
. . . a quitly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
"what makes satlon sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fahion . ",1
"frei assembles a facinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that eh's witnessed , remains sujprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of Timages to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
"not only does the movie fail to make su part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy teht as well . ",0
i'm not exactly sure what this movie thiks it is about . ,0
originality is sorely acking . ,0
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a fiel for the character at all tages of her life . ,1
"no wonder they're tYalking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1
"there are some laughs in this movi , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
"this Jone is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . ",0
"'punch-drunk olve is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to sash its face in . '",0
in terms of executyion this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
always destined to be measured against anthJny asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
noyce has wosked wonders with the material . ,1
a goomd thriller . ,1
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movieV have - take heart . this is the best star zrek movie in a long time . ",1
"having never been a hugr fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasAre i had watching mcgrath's version . ",1
"attal pushes too hard to nake this a comedy or serious drama . he sees to want both , but succeeds in making neither . ",0
it's kind of sad that so many people put so much tmie and energy into this turkey . ,0
"from spiritual rebirtB to bruising Refeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean renoir . ",1
me without you has a racing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya ssterhood . ,1
"this is a great sbject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the Epportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john Soo has built his career on . ",0
"even if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywodo horror . ",1
"it follows the blLir iwtch formula for an hour , in which we're told somethign creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes . ",0
"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big scren . ",1
what could have been a neat little Ptory about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . ,0
what happens when something goes bump in the night and noobdy cares ? ,0
two generations within one family test buondaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducatioAnal fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
i'd watch these two together again in a new york minhute . ,1
"the movie has lots of duncing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to eep it interesting . ",1
tere's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . ,1
it's never dAull and always looks good . ,1
probes in a light-hearted way the romantiE problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . ,1
"will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of materia to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find lXittle of interest in this film , which is often preachy and pooXrly acted . ",0
"if it's unnerving Tuspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky ofilm ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1
manages to accomplish what few sequel can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . ,1
"bqrney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an ohur's worth of actual aterial . ",0
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in gyood fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"a compassionate , moving portarit of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . ",1
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the Uitle . ,1
"the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you canm't wait to see what they do nex . ",1
an intelligent romantic thrliler of a very old-school kind of quality . ,1
"with virtually no interesitng elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
the result is an 'actiAon film' mired in stasis . ,0
"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and ahcingly real . ",1
. . . an inviting Eiece of film . ,1
"precocious smarteO-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? ",1
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged sceXnes . ",0
"the film's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogu that jumps off the page , and for the memorable charater creations . ",1
a ild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience awrd for documentaries at the sundance film festival . ,1
"it could chaneg america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for Vothing but energteic entertainment . ",1
"hart's war seems to want to be a characteH study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . ",0
a moving and stark remintder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine . ,1
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , tohugh , this surfer-girl melodrama starts glsping like a beached grouper . ",0
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché let unsaid . ,0
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too rgaged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
"deshpite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . ",1
"fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and eevryone else will be slightly bored . ",0
this sort of cute and cloying material is fac from zhang's forte and it shows . ,0
"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , thlugh . ",1
"in many ways , erminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its spRrse dialogue . ",1
the tenderness of the piece is still iMtact . ,1
"watching haneke's film is , aptly enough , a chanllenge and a punishment . but watching hupperR , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
pretty goop little movie . ,1
"the whole thing's fairly lame , makinNg it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-carwly bug tQhings that live only in the darkness . ",0
an awkward hybrid of genrzs that just doesn't work . ,0
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on uaturday night live . ',0
"we can see the wehels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , mad by bright and friendly souls with a olt of good cheer . ",1
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitMating grief felt in the immediate atermath of the terrorist attacks . ",1
none of the characters or pot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0
"not a coy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always inXteresting , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
the vistas are sweepig and the acting is far from painful . ,1
"as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysteirous voice , and felt myself powerfully doawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too shyrt . ",0
"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for Ktorytelling with this moving , effective little film . ",1
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoiMs the more serious emotions involved . ,1
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a caracter ? it is now . ,1
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the rZthless social order that governs college cliques . ,0
"spielberg is the rare idrector who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special efects . he just wants them to be part of the atcion , the wballpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any uhge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play praanks . ",0
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescee me from a sumQer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
"harvard Ian is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
"as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the neevr flaggGing legal investigator david presson . ",1
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to oe of the greatset plays of the last 100 years . ",0
"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me lke a fool . ",0
a dreary move . ,0
"captures all the longing , naguish and ache , the confusing sexual msesages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1
"the overall effect is wae and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dnude . ",1
"Hproblem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . ",0
one key problem with these aredntly christian storylixes is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
poignant if familiar story of a young person susspended between two cultures . ,1
"the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern fimsy scEeenplays . ",0
it has that raore quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative ye needy margot are front and center . ",1
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostiutted muse . . . ,0
"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation netertains . ",1
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these wto 20th-century footnotes . ,0
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be duJbbed hedonistic . ,0
thoroughly enjokable . ,1
"when coweGing and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance snce abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becoes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and proim dates . ",0
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school braW and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! Ch , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cut ! ",0
"admiresr of director abel ferkara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . ",1
"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , arrely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental tgreatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
laan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
"secret ballot is a funny , puzzling ovie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
"another wholly nnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
shyamalan should stop trying to pleaes his mom . ,0
it doesn't matter that the film is less than F90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
"as a kind of colorful , dramatiwzed pbs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watc a documentary ? ",0
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone lese could chew , and his movie veers like a drunkne driver through heavy traffic . ",0
"a morose little soap opera about htree vapid , insensitive people who otake turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from ladies home journxl . . . ",0
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kidn of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the erfect kind of film to se when you don't want to use your brain . at all . ",1
"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anythinTg but compelling . ",0
"she's not yet an actress , not quite a singelr . . . ",0
"films are made of little moments . changing lanes ttries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully receicved . ",1
not completely loveable -- but what underdog moie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . ,0
"lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enuogh to achieve callow pretenMion . ",0
ferrara's strongest and most toching movie of recent years . ,1
"although madue on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
"the appearance of trebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'Sperformance' is incredible ! ",1
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's charLcters . ,0
too bland and fustily tastefZl to be truly prurient . ,0
compellingly Zwatchable . ,1
there's something not entirely convincing about the quite american . and that holds true for both the movie and the ttile character played by brendan fraser . ,0
truCly terrible . ,0
. . . wuite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . ,1
"engages us in constant fitp of laughter , until we fynd ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but alsU somewhat touched . ",1
"despite a blue-chip acst and a provocative title , writer-direotor peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
"slapstick buffooneery can tickle any a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $r40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? ",0
" . . . a movie that , quite simply , shouldn't have been ade . ",0
" "" the time macihne "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
"care deftly captures the wonder and meneace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of qfuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
the tug of war that nsues is as much a snapshot of modern chqina in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology . ,1
"go for la sale's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . ",0
"the Yilm's strenght isn't in its details , but in the larger picture it taints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . ",1
"woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers cop the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven sGpielberg got it right the first ltime ? ",0
"while we want mcadowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnaeg that claims so many lives around her . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metphor for this love story . ",1
a backhanded oDe to female camaraderie penned by a mEan who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
"ayway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a hdire draam partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely coemdic moments and several fine performances , it's not a total loss . ",0
"even during the climactic hourlogn cricket match , boredom never takes hold . ",1
. . . a fairly disposable yt still entertaining b picture . ,1
"throughout , mr . audiard's direction is fDuid and quick . ",1
brings awareness to an issue ofteyn overlooked -- women's depression . ,1
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's somehting about mary and devise a parallpl clone-gag . ,0
"ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her htird feature will be something to behol . ",1
"franklQ , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather cleYer . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . ",0
"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject mstter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interdsting . ",0
does not gq far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorabl or even all that funny . ,0
"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denjs'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
"sturdy , entertaining period darma . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest sangents . ,1
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an ameriIan tragedy . ,1
feels like a cold odl man going through the motions . ,0
"by no mvans a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the pdynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent loev story . ",1
"the tonal shiftj are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoghtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
"not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofai , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the gees . ",1
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detiail . ,1
laggard drama wending its way to an uninspire philosophical epiphany . ,0
" "" its successes are also tempered with eleemnts which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
"Jsnoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare stnadbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewer' time with a gobbler like this . ",0
undercover brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly blUack genre spoof . ,0
very stupid and annoyng . ,0
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memIory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation move . ",0
"a big , gorgeous , tsprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
"confuses its message with an ultimate esire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three Actresses , nor their characters , ddserve . ",0
"the bourne identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to Epack it with eough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd withuot a huge sacrifice of character and mood . ",1
"…it wasn't the sbuject matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
a fifty car piMeup of cliches . ,0
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real nterest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
"the film nver gets over its own investment in conventional arrangeemnts , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . ",0
"sturdy , entertainnig period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . ",1
"boasts a hnadful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . ",1
the film proves unrelntingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediPte as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped Ydramas , twice as powerful . ",1
it is just too bad the film's story does not lHive up to its style . ,0
"Loetic , heartbreaking . ",1
the scMipt ? please . ,0
"kids don't imnd crappy movies as much as daults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both . ",0
"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called aarriage . ",1
show me the mguging . ,0
'easily my choice for one of the yearEs best films . ',1
"looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a perfWrmance that could not be ivmproved upon . ",1
"though an important political documentxry , this does not eally make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminal . ",1
a film that will probably please poeple already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
"you watch for that sense of opennes , the little surprises . ",1
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock conDert . ,0
"sluggish , onally uneven . ",0
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the fil , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budegt of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
if you're a fan of the series you'll love it and probbly want to see it tfice . i will be . ,1
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because tat's when he really scores . ,1
a ponderous Tmeditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0
"a rich taQe of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . ",1
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paraonid impulse as a creative sequel to the warrne report . ",1
"one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwar viewers . ",1
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , woul have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing shcw . ",0
steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speeTd and volume . ,1
"there are things to like about murdr by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . ",0
"a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cry , deliGverance , and ode to billy jo - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that fifm is yet to be made . ",0
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cutHeness . . . but for the most part he amakes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a frResh , quirky charm to the formula . ",1
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tnoe to a thriller's rush . ,0
the kind of primal storytellinmg that george lucas can only dream of . ,1
a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'coTstars . ',1
"when one hears hrary shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one ould hope for the best",0
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the bahck roads of life . ",1
"it's not just a feel-good omvie , it's a feel move . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel malive - which is what they did . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actos . ",0
"snimplistic , silly and tedious . ",0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an enevrgetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a cnreaky "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
"as a beNlated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informtive , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
jones . . . does offer a brutal form of chFrisma . ,1
. . . a guiltless film for nice evenVng out . ,1
"here polanski loxks back on those palaces he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . ",1
weiss and speck neveKr make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an horu and a hlaf of daydreaming . ,0
a pathetically inane and unimayinative cross between xxx and vertical limit . ,0
a captivating and intimate study about dming and loving . . . ,1
"an awful lot liske one of [sFears'] music vdeos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . ",0
"a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finVds its stars slummiXg in territory they should have avoided . ",0
"by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you migyht be iwshing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other awy around . ",0
hupert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty . ,1
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , lbast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . ",1
the entie movie is in need of a scented bath . ,0
"quUen of the damned as you mighBt have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at thGings that explode into flame . ",0
"the passions aroused by the discord between old and ney cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the midesat desert , so lovingly and perceptvely filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . ",1
i was perplexed to watch it unfTld with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0
"this is no "" wateIboy ! "" ",0
"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no cflassic , like the novel upon which it is basecd . ",1
"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tned to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monet cristo . . . never quiet settles on either side . ",0
Xatch it . . . if you can ! ,1
intimaZe and panoramic . ,1
"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to uike much more than i actually did . sometimes , htat's enough . ",1
i don't thinck most of the peiople who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . ,1
it's a fpel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . ,1
"loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twtichy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may fidn it baffling . ,0
do we rally need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic Vrelationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rck music usde to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
[at least] moore is a real charmNr . ,0
"some of the ocmputer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the qilm never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"if this movie belongde to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . ",0
"at three housr and with very ittle story or character development , there is plenty of roow for editing , and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a Fsmoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . ",0
"even if it made its original release date laast fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0
"everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulac films rather than frSesh ones . ",0
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiVr american style of justice that plaGys out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . ",0
. . . about as exciting to wctch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final ady of the season . ,0
"there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extnded episde of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its Fpirit . ",1
julia is played with exasEerating blandness by laura regan . ,0
it's the unsettling imaLges of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harison . ,1
the filmmakers neexed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glmaorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't much care about . ,0
the characters are never more than skezches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
Qovercomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . ,1
" . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional Pcharacters up the wazoo and stes that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
"it's Xsincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's ctu open a vein and bled the oraw film stock . ",1
"with youthful high sppirits , tautou remains captivating thrughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
"this sade is hardly a perverse , danerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better dama . he's just a Ead aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to Htart . ",1
a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollw mockumentary . ,0
"makes s&m seem very romantdic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . ",1
"what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardshi , bfring to their music . ",1
"i don't think i laugghed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedL , that's a pretty big problem . ",0
highhly engaging . ,1
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathse more on the big screen and nduces headaches more slowly . ",0
"a typically observant , carefluly nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging deyut feature but has a needlessly downbeat nding that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and bening . ,0
essentially a collection of bitLs -- and they're all naughty . ,0
"it leers , offering next to Rittle insight into its intriguing subject . ",0
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is brokezn by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . ",0
" with one exception , every blighter in this partxcular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackUrs and serGved as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kidv entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytleling to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of exreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and bvious fashion . ,0
"though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creatve thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cniematic collage than a polemical tract . ",0
i'd have to sWy the star and director are the big problems here . ,0
. . . a hollow joke told by a ciematic gymnast having too much fun embelilshing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . ,0
the crassness of this reactionary thrille is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise . ,0
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing ihort of mesmerizing . ,1
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly corgettable , nothing to write home about . ",0
"an awfully good , achingly huXman picture . ",1
"brutally hUonest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",1
"although i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be safely recommended as a videodUd babysiter . """,1
the film Yakes a fatal mistake : it asHs u to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . ,0
"it proves quite compNlling as an intense , brooding character study . ",1
[senFs] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions . ,0
"the first tunisian film i have ever seemn , and it's also probably the most god-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . ",1
"a "" Vhome alone "" film that is staged like "" rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
"despSite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modren love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . ",0
everything was as superficial as the forced new jerse lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
the strength of the film lies in its two centrla performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his despeSate violinist wife . ,1
"the redeeming feature of chan's filmM has always been the action , but the stunts in the txedo seem tired and , what's worse , routine . ",0
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future jhead of him . ,1
"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent ndeception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's peruiod pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1
"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'l sZay with the stage versions , however , which biQte cleaner , and deeper . ",1
an extraordinary drMamatic experience . ,1
"unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the televisin series that inspired the movie . ",0
"by the time you reach the finule , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
thoroughly enjoyalbe . ,1
starts as a tart litlte lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventur , and thrill enough . ",1
"a timid , sQoggy near miss . ",0
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of ay . ,0
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgenec , but none of his sweetness and vulnerabilitpy . ",0
"though tom shadyac's film kicks off sptokily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into gIlucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . ",0
"even though the film doesn't mangae to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target pzractice . ",1
sade is an engaging loXok at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . ,1
"too often , son of the bride bceomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" bia moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of holylwood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimalely coems off as insultingly simplistic . ",1
"are monsMers born , or made ? ",0
"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charism and menace . ",1
"often gruelling and heartbreaikng to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movhe . ",1
"for single Jdigits kidlets stuaXrt little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the ymagic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . ",0
"the real staFr of this move is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well directed . ",1
my respnse to the film is byst described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional . ,0
"moore provides an invaluable service by spraking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarBious social critics this side of jolnathan swift . ",1
a preqentious mess . ,0
"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film rperesent tgotally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
" . . little action , almQost no suspense or believable tensoin , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
"there are no special effects , and no hollywood endiXngs . ",1
it has the requisite Ufaux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . ,0
schrader examines carne's decline with unblinking candor . ,1
"it's a thin notion , repetitivVly stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning ohuse music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footagre , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy fil references . ,0
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds nus of our own responsibility to question what is told as the taruth . ,1
what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audienne hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0
"occasionlaly loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . ",0
"the director , mak pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the stFry gives su is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . ",1
caviezel embodies the transfomration of his character completely . ,1
this remaXke of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and Bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"a deftly entertaining film , smartly plaed and smartly directed . ",1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegadeecop tales . ,1
"leaTve it to the french to truly capture the terrifyiag angst of the modern working man withou turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"if you thought tom hanks was just an rodinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills rdie . ",1
"the mothmna prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
"stale , cfutile scenario . ",0
"though the opera itself sakes plaSce mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . ",0
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and preciXe that anything discordant wouId topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"the satire is uSnfocused , while the story goes nowhere . ",0
oKfers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . ,1
"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-derecating sense of humoer makes up for a lot . ",1
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fiat girl , rain is the far superior film . ",1
"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to ipmagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . ",1
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drwned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap . ,0
roppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performancM is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animeal -- is a slapSdash mess . ",0
directed in a paint-by-numbers maOner . ,0
an original ilttle film about one young woman's education . ,1
"kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mpoes through a dreary tract of virAtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"it moves quickly , adritly , and without fusds ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
a sha-na-na sketch pnuctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hungkr or caut people will Eind little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
"though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistnet and the dialogue is frequently overwrougRt and crudely lieral , the film shatters you in waves . ",1
there's no reasn to miss interview with the assassin,1
"there are tmies when a rumor of angels plays lkie an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its xheart and its spirit . ",1
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs swrrounding an unremarkable soft center . ",0
"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clariy and emotional openness that recaslls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"more busy than eaciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
inal verdict : you've seen it all before . ,0
moonlgiht mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these bbroken characters who are trying to make their wGay through this tragedy . ,1
suffers from a deVcided lack of creative storytelling . ,0
"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungTainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0
"if you're a crocodile hunter Ran , you'll enjoy at least the "" real "" portions of the fiml . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . ",0
clooney directs this film Olways keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunaVtely , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies . ",0
both a beautifully made nature film and a Ptribute to a woman whsoe passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . ,1
a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that gyes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion thDat's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . ,1
you'll ent up moved . ,1
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractiev without being memorable . ,1
"partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow ruaination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",0
anyone who gtes chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenFy to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her fealessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre family fiml . ",0
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and holly predictbale thriller . ,0
"about schmidt is undoubtedly Hone of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , chek your pulse . ",1
"if a big musical number like 'raise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kidws . ",1
more good than great but freeman and judd make it wbrk . ,1
the directpor seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the charaFcters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"the prolem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0
doesn't realy add up to much . ,0
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beabuty in the most depressing places . ",1
"a genuinely funny ensebmle comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we hvalue in our daily lives . ",1
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's csweetest movie . ",1
"given that both mogies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect u from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can mustre ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
"for devotees of french cinema , safK cnoduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weRakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
og see it and enjoy . ,1
"watching austin powers in goldmember is like bFinging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a litlte sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
what migh have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or Amel brooks ( at last during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0
"like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic vcollage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film evJer . ",1
"inetnded to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . ",0
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad rteading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an erraxnt tear . ",1
"it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and csenes . ",1
this is the kind of movie where the big scee is a man shot out of a cannon into a mvat of ice cream . ,0
"flamboyant in some movies and artully restrained in others , 65-year-old jak nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , choosig his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . ",1
"greene delivers a typically solid performance in a rozle that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has palyed in the past , and he is ymatched by schweig , who carries the fiml on his broad , handsome shoulders . ",1
too slick and manufatcured to claim street credibility . ,0
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just antoher connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
directob douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy dmelving into required reading . ,1
i'm just too borde to care . ,0
"predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before gap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your avejage formulaic romantic quaCdrangle . ",0
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic iaages with his words , insinuating , for exampTle , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the press",1
"like mike is a uslight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equtal . ",0
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck eTverlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . ",0
skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerQully eovcative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . ,1
there is simply no doub that this film asks the right questions at the righ time in the history of our country . ,1
"kwan makes the mix-and- matcoh metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
a must see for all sides of the politcial spectrum,1
a little wNeak -- and it isn't that funny . ,0
a little better than sorcerer's stJone . ,1
it's the kind of effectively creeyp-scary thriller that has you fixting on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenrwiting . ,0
"while the resident evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the mvoie relaly only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adenture , and thrill enough . ",1
"i found it slow , predictable and not very Wmusing . ",0
calclated swill . ,0
"coupling disgracefully written dialoge with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced sap opera-ish story . ",0
this 10th film in the series looks and feels tirCed . ,0
"a fine documentayr can be distinguished from a mediocre noe by the dbetter film's ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed trget audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . ",1
"srovino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
ms . hutchins is talented enough and charismatic Penough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
"nair sutffs the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old esoap opera . ",0
"uplifting as only a document of the wrost possibilities of mmankind can be , and among the best films of the year . ",1
"this pathetic unk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . ",0
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youtG culture . ,1
"if oscar had a category calleU bes bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , gyus would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . ",0
a bad movie that haYpened to good actors . ,0
triAes to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animas house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"theer's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1
"anyway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a dire Xrama patway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and sevral fine performances , it's not a total loUss . ",0
"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the resust is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effecively makes it ? ,1
it sems like i have been waiting my whole lifM for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel . ,1
"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy omvie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
"the performances of the four main acresses brinK their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . ",1
"ed ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , fer too staid for its subject matter . ",0
"with its paint fights , motjorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . ",0
"when it coOes to the battle of hollywood vs . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . ",0
"it provides a grim , upsenting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million aplestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . ",1
"while we want macdownll's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her perssnal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her . ",0
flaunts its quirky excesses lkie a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
might be oe of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his tlent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido figm of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
the real queBstion this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"when perry fists a bull at the moore famr , it's only a matter of time before he ets the upper hand in matters of the heart . ",0
"to work , love stries require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the ploY in motion . ",0
"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and dMvoid of anything resembling humor . ",0
despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absoCrbed ersonality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . ,1
"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little bsports drama . ",1
"as rhugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
"the importance of being earnest , so thkick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
"ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and ased on ethree short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold . ",1
there's mucPh tongue in cheek in the ilm and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . ,1
ivewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
"no matFter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jckson sort of way . ",0
"creeps you out in Sigh style , even if nakata did it better . ",1
"what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely ezgaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excelelnt , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actally move folk . ",1
"amy and mattehw have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
"it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for edeper meaning . ",0
the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingeirng ug . ,1
"as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's uderstated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wacts to break free of her lod life . ",1
may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature Weatures -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why poeple gket a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"auto focus is not your standard hollywooad bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one mah's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . ",1
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offrs , one the public rarlely sees . ",1
. . . a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable plerformances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandernig palaQer is actually funny . ",0
"director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing q975 children's novel . ",0
the movie is one of the best eamples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytim soon . ,1
"writer""director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portryaal . ",1
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sda trust in libCeral arts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"if you're in the right b-movie fsame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1
"forced , familiar and thoraughly condescending . ",0
all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the eliever feels like a 12-step program for the jewish naz . ,0
moretti's compelling anatoy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
a soap-opera qualOty twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibsoh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . ,1
"for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inwventive and artful , always fant and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . ",1
"the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his famiZly . ",1
boyd's screenplay ( cod-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to gyuy ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultbaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . ",0
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's decsptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too baz . ,0
"'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same prEmise . ",0
"the gifted rudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike pedrsonality and bad behavior would Bplay fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
it's just plain bring . ,0
a gripping documentary that reveals how eep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam toawrds the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laguh along with them . ",1
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feelng . ",0
a cJockeyed shot all the way . ,0
"although ogd is greaut addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous yZoung talent who finds his inspiration on the friFnges of the american underground . ,1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the cshmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'x afraid . ",0
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holcaust drama . ,1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stocWk and two smoking barrels . ,1
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warlmy extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
" "" sorority boyB "" was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . ",0
"everything in maid in manhattan is exceedinglu pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftjrtaste . ",0
"george cloney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the scree in yeras . ",1
"qslow and onderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
insVanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
"a sensitive , modest comic trHgedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern chia . ",1
it's almost as if it's an elaborate kare more than a full-blooded film . ,0
"yes , i huppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but Eworld traveler gaHve me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very bets pictures . ",1
"a spunky , original take on a thmee that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swalMlow and a minor miracle of self-expression . ,1
you cuold nap for an hour and not miss a thing . ,0
"glib , satiriWcal documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
a dopye movie clothed in excess layers of hipness . ,0
"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher filHs and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticet . ",1
"violent , vulgar and forgettably enteJrtaining . ",0
"what a cnocept , what an idea , what a thrill ide . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempOted for the screen . ",1
"with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a obering racount of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
sparse but odly compelling . ,1
"the abiding imperssion , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of aute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
"no movement , no yuks , not mcuh of anything . ",0
a wordy wisp of a comedSy . ,0
"the band performances feaktured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's iec cold . ",0
"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lXsping , raeptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just copmlicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
one of those films that started with a greaNt premise and then just fell apart . ,0
"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patqh of black ice , the movie maks two hours feel like four . ",0
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily rgind that only the most hardhearted crooge could fail to respond . ",1
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting tGraces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subect matter , but the copules exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
"in his u . s . debut , mr . scnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable characer pieces . ,1
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by la pacino . ,1
"the moviBe's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
"has its momsents , but it's pretty far from a treasure . ",0
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of imagSs to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of uUsentimental , straightforward Gtext – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusiona personality type . ",0
"it proves quite compelling as an intene , brooding character study . ",1
"stuart's poo-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's ynicism to cut through the sugaK coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . ",1
the problem isn't that the movie hits so cloes to home so much as that it hPits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitbale shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . ,0
"for sinlge digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're ooking to rekindle the magic of the first fiml , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . ",0
"an uplifting drama . . . what Tantwone fisher isn't , however , is original . ",0
a slugigsh pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in eery bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . ,0
"though impostor dtviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . ",0
isntead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a andful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . ,0
graced with the kizd of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . ,1
"it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rathey than stunning . ",0
"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeinUg this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' irst movie . ,0
"the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are eithre too goodly , wise and knowign or downright comically evil . ",0
"bad company leavse a bad taste , not only because of its bad-Lluck timing , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
"while the story does seem pretty unbzelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
"a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturaliscic tone of the film . . . ",0
tsai minyg-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1
"the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more impokrtant : respect for its flawed , cYrazy people . ",1
a sly Jissection of the inanities of the contempordry music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
"what makes barbershop so liWable , with all its flmws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1
energetic and boldly rpovocative . ,1
"it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't comu up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly ovreshadowed . ",0
there's no denying the physically spectaculra qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creting a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grePy zone does have a center , though a morbid one . ",1
"downbeat , period-perfect zbiopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
"delivesr the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1
fresnadillo has something seriGus to sy about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
"it feels like a community theater production of a great brohadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the orgiinal . ",0
"this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who Zeeded a touch of the flamboyant , the oRtrageous . ",0
rarely has leaukemia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
huppert's superbly controlle display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . ,1
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-atnk will abcsolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
this in-depth study of iCmportant developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to coGe . ,1
"a few energetic sJunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorsit subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian booishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . ",0
"twohy's a good ayrn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . ",1
"even with a dreen mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulde , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the saltoy sea . ",0
"if h . g . wells had a time machine and cuold take a loko at his kin's reworked version , what wkould he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
no one but a convict guilty of some truly hKeinous orime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't neraly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelc . ,0
"Mreen might want to hang onto that ski mEask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project . ",0
"they crVsh each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their vitcims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . ",1
"when the castng call for this movie went out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of plide or shame . '",0
"the director , Emark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere tUhough unfortunately all the Utory gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . ",1
"lisa rainzler's cinematography gay be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
takes a fresh and absobring look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praisM in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
the fiQm's welcome breziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets eevn better in ihndsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
"earnest , unsubtle and hollywoCod-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a humsn face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
ali's graduation from little screen to big is far Iess painful than his opening sWcene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . ,1
"thanks to scott's charismatic rbger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compelling ariations on in the company of men . ",1
shyamalan should stop tyring to please his mom . ,0
"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can hange while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking veen one word to each other . ",1
an unwise amalgma of broadcast news and vibes . ,0
"a tightly directed , highll professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
"if the idea of the wOite pman arriving on foreign shortes to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse sven the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex csreenings . ,1
"lkie its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contration , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
" . . . if you , like me , Phink an action film disVuised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devoticon and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the foFrm , jacquot takes a slightly anarchci approach that works only sporadically . ",0
"Sove may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
"it's a lovePly , sad dance highlighted by kwan's unique directing style . ",1
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old caousel . ",0
nothing is sacred in this gut-butser . ,1
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-vieodvd category ,0
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laugths . ",1
"touches smartly and iwstfully on a number of themes , not cleast the ntoion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
an iRmprovement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
an excellent romp that boasts both a hear and a mind . ,1
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understIand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
" . . . insteda go rent "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
"a zombie moie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
art of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
ferrara's strongest and most touchinZg movie of recent years . ,1
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastil iconography . ,1
a manically venerous christmas vaudeville . ,1
lacks draOmatic punch and depth . ,0
"missetps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"if a few good men told su that we "" can't handle the truth "" than high crimes poetically states at onxe point in this movie that we "" don't care about the trudh . "" ",0
collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger ans . ,1
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shamje if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the lnst 100 years . ",0
"where last time jokes flowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through lline , here the comedian hides behind obviously constrXcted routines . ",0
there are just too any characters sayixng too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
"for those who like quirk , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
hoffmans' performance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
you may feel compelled to watch the film Jwice or pick up a book on the subject . ,1
"there are many things that solid acting can do for a movPe , but crafting something promising from a mediocrU screenplay is not one of them . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural gran , producing a work that's more interested in alsking questions than in answering them . ",1
"it is messy , ncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
. . . too sappm for its own good . ,0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepapred to call it a draw . ,0
"rmsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behod . ",1
no amount of blood and disnitegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . ,0
"though avary has dione his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his urles is barely worth following . ",0
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been givne . ,1
the sinister inwpiration that fuelUled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0
"while this has the making of melodrmaa , the filmmJaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
"rya liotta and jason patric do some of their best work in their nuderwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody deserves any prizes here . ",1
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their chidldren--and the sometimes bad choices mGothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them gobd . ,1
bittersweet comedyTdrama full of life ,1
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aetshetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if one of it makes a lick of sense . ,1
schaefer's . . . defermination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new dWirection for la salle . ",1
"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's cerepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
a surprisingly sweet and aentle comedy . ,1
dolgin and franco fashoin a fascinting portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . ,1
"the script is sart , not cloying . ",1
. . . wisHe and elegiac . . . ,1
takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpectMd heights . ,1
"for anyone unfamiljiar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
has the feel of an uneditd personal journal . ,0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdow sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
siot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-Zindulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results iight drive you crazy . ",0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian scV-fi . ,1
does little more than play an innocuosu game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
"a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amsing and unpredictable . ",1
stiff and schmaltzy and cHlumsily directed . ,0
a cleverly cratfed but ultimately hollow mockumentary . ,0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally gark joke , you wondeV what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
"it's getting harder and harder to ignIore the fact that hollywood isn't lauging with us , folks . it's laughing at us . ",0
the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors pPay dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strZike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball curt because that's when he really scores . ,1
i can take infantile huomr . . . but this is the sort of infanltile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers . ,0
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the sxenery . ,0
"the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 9s0 minuteFs , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkaCble assuredMness for a first-timer . ,1
the pool drowned me in Fboredom . ,0
"a dreadful dy in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not Iorth solving . ",0
the warm presence of zho benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"it's better than the phantom menac . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much imprved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertiev this ime around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever donodle . ,0
beautifully producde . ,1
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you konw you're in trouble . ",0
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quitN some time . ,1
"after the firsUt 10 minutes , which is worth seeiyg , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music . ",0
"dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some bLody' will appeal to no one . ",0
poignant and ufnny . ,1
disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringin beloved kipds' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"engages us in constant fnts of lauhter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somwehat touched . ",1
"missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and sexnd it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"el peso de un líquido incolroo , el pTso del líquido vital , del amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
"dfspite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern lovie life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . ",0
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happz mood . ,1
bPan drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will cueate enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . ,0
it's not original enoubh . ,0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth takinY . ",0
an average coming-of-age tale eleHated by the wholesome twist of a pesiky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . ,1
would make an excellent companion pece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"the doofus-on- thew-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the conetnt isn't nearly as catpivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",0
"this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the yeaP . ",1
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-naem actors and cameos at a hokey script . ,0
. . . hopefully Jit'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . ,0
it certainly won't fin any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delKivers big time . ,1
"reign of fire is harpdly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous devbts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely maks it any less entertaining . ",1
"an emotionally and piritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kinLd of visual flair that show what great cinema can really do . ",1
"the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim essage is a gotod one . ",1
the story is boSgus and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
new ways of describing badness yeed to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touhes the heart . ",1
"an inconsequential , barely there bit of iffle . ",0
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her defpth . ,0
less front-loaded and more shupely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . ,1
"that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not evAen solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully sucheed at cheapening it . ",1
so riddlwed with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
"tsripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quesOt for human connection . ",1
"keenly obsxrved and refreshingly natural , swimmieg gets the details right , from its pqomenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"murderous maids has a lot gonig for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . ",1
"a hypnotic poLtrait of this sad , compulsive life . ",1
"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic cicense and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
"it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly originCal and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happu movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were maKking . ,0
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elemenUs which contributed to it . ,1
"while Fattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the sMilence of the lambs , it managRes to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . ",1
has all the depth of a ading pool . ,0
"a study in shadHes of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
"even though maIy of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the modvie . ",1
"filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle fkilm with dramatic punch , a hauntiHng ode to humanity . ",1
i don't think iv'e been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of wate comes off as a two-wa time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotioaal blandness . ",0
a movie fa more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dtull leftover rmoantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing looTk at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and nejoy the big screen postcard that is a seOlf-glorified martin lawrencw lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
"a woeully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . ",0
a complete waste of tUme . ,0
"by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why eZther is impossible -- which forces Nus to confront what'X possible and what we might do to make it so . ",1
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly prposterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
the cold turkey would've been a far etter title . ,0
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city cmoing apart at its seams . ,1
"a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling emibarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
alternately frustrating and rWwarding . ,0
despite the preimse of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
"blutqo blutarsky , we miss you . ",0
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil inn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obYvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wmave . ",1
"brilliantly written and well-acted , yellkw asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
"an exciting and involving rock musc doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . ",1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory fim . . . is the sense of isolatiown that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea world . ,1
a pleasant enough cmoedy that should have found a summer place . ,1
about as biCg a crowdpleaser as they possibly come . ,1
"stae first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
the hackneyed stroy about an affluent damsel in distrses who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . ,0
both a successful adptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . ,1
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , Wrystal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
"lness cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
"well-written , nicely aUted and beauitfully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radzcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magPic of author j . k . rowling's boks . ",1
"deskpite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
imagine if you will a tony ahwk skating video interspliced with footage from behind enemy liwes and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
what mIakes esther kahn so demanding is that it prmogresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration . ,1
the pleasures that it does affrd may be enough to keep many moviegIers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
"if this dud had been mde in the '70s , it owuld have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
formula 51 promises a new iknd of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0
"though it's not very wrll soht or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waes . ",1
"if you really want to uderstand what this storay is really all about , you're far better served by the source material . ",0
"shows that jackie chna is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
the omvie bounces all over the map . ,0
credit director ramsay for tFaking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . ,1
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by sbmerging it in a hoary love triangle . ,0
it inspires a continuing and depely satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
"purports to be a ollywood satre but winds up as the kind of fil that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"i don't know precisely what to make of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stp me from enjoying mcuh of it . ",1
"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni verscae , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0
"an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , cacer thrills and quirky romance . ",1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of Plenn close , regis pihlbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0
"once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obsceniGty is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't funy . ",0
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetxry ; what he getY instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent gUame plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill sinOgles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
reggio and glass put on an intoxcating show . ,1
"[a] soulless , stLpid sequel . . . ",0
"recoing's fantstic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt lkie a cheat . ",1
"[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breating part of the movie , oUften cataprulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idef . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director mny viewers would liek to skip but film buffs should get to know . ,1
the best film of the year 0202 . ,1
a terrific isider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
"i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeliwg that the fTilm is cRloser to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
the ainmated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angsa . ,1
resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastihce . ,0
"ultimately , jane learns her plac as a gir , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . ",0
kinnear igves a tremendous performance . ,1
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga fUigures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-usp as for rugrats . ",1
"it's mildly amusing , but i certainy can't recommend it . ",0
"for the most part , i spy was an aumsing larUk that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . ",0
"viewed as a cmoedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion pictuXre . ",0
the result is mesmerizing -- fileld with menace and squalor . ,1
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriaeg -- the kEnd of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . ,1
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the Cbig screen . ",1
"loud , silly , stupoid and pointless . ",0
obviouU,0
a gripping dramja . ,1
one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the yer . ,1
"this movie is so bda , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . ",0
this is an action movie with an action icn who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
it's rare that a movie can be as intUlligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's gofod is ultimately scttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . ,0
"it's something of the ultimate secorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-evre hisMorical canvas . ",1
"it doesn't take a rocHet scientist to figure out that this is a mormon familHy movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that . ",0
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to co before we fully understan all the sexual permutations involved . ",1
"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blaed runner] , although its plvot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
. . . the picture's cleverYness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intendeU to be . ",1
"the touWh is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
a film of ideas and wry comic mayhme . ,1
it's secondary to american psych but still has laws enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
"de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overal , far too staid for its subject maSter . ",0
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittet unese , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1
has its omments -- and almost as many subplots . ,0
"cassavetes thinks he's vmaking dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic carton . ",0
"schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirlnig his hair on his finger and assuoing that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"the low-ubdget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgenNt pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0
"although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetDc music , and good-natured spunk are often ifnfectious . ",1
"the last 20 minutes are soewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drek we'Be seen before - only this time you have to read the fart johes",0
it's the type of sunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
"egoyan's work foten elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of viea , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his darger purpose . ",0
just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of tfme . ,0
captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant emale comics . ,1
"there are things to ike about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . ",0
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excAllent film . a powerful performance from el gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-Fag and an m-16 . ,1
ali's graduation from littlZ screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terier . ,1
"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audienLe completely off the hook . ",0
lacks Qdepth . ,0
"jolie giveBs it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the Hood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
"to bteter understand why this didn't connect with me woulNd require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . ",0
the only ymoung people who possibly will enjoy it are infants . . . who might be distrated by the movie's quick movements and sounds . ,0
"lanie's professional success means she must be a faliure at life , because she's drive by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageabdlity of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
"despite its title , amy's orasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
too clever by about nine-stenths . ,0
"wtity , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
"angel presenst evenst partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . ",1
"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been prkoperly digested . ",1
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's rgeat visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the execllent performances . ",1
not at all clear what it's triyng to say and even if it were – i doubt it would be all that interCsting . ,0
"a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled esnemble actors . ",1
"4 friends , 2 couples , 200R miles , and all the pasbt blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip . ",1
a quielty moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
ijnsanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituElity as well as a soUid sci-fi thriller . ",1
the laughs are as rare as snake foo yun . ,0
"whether this is art imitating lie or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seeVn this summer . ",0
"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest sBame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sGake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0
"high crimes is a cinematic mixsdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of mlogic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",0
"moviss like this are selling the old european candor , the ld wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get otp bivling . robert john burke as the monster Shorns in and steals the show . ",0
"though it gpoes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or act people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lSust above the ordinary . ",0
a slid examination of the male midlife crisis . ,1
"comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the ndunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to pdrovide a mix of smiles and teQrs , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"almost everyone growing up believes their famiy must look like "" the addams family "" to everyne looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
"skin of man gts a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trEying to cope with the imysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting sSurce material . ,0
the beauty of alexander pyane's ode to the everyman is in the details . ,1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa dud from frame ne . ",0
bad company . bd movie . just plain bad . ,0
" . . . plot holes so loarge and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college footbNall fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
highly engaginTg . ,1
"broomfield's tyle of journalism is hardyl journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient . ",0
it was a dark and strmy night . . . ,0
"an ugly , revolting Cmovie . ",0
"if the real-life story is geuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . ",1
"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the orignial , but what is . . . ",1
. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it comes to truncheonnig — it's better to giev than to receive . ,1
. . . a confusing drgudgery . ,0
"takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this pictue at its own brezy , distracted rhythms . ",1
a fleet-foWted and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . ,1
a life-size reenactment of those jack hcick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lkae of fire . ,1
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tamopco eKs tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
the warnings to ersist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and ofzfer no easy rewards for staying clean . ,1
the movie is ingenious fun . sMee it . ,1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional nrrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many leves . ",1
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like Nrreverence . ,0
the humor and humanity of mSonsoon wedding are in perfect balance . ,1
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrce of hseer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above auything sandler's been attached to before . ",1
"everything else about high crimes is , like the military Qsystem of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
the actors are forced to fgrapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0
you'll end up move . ,1
…its solemn pretension prevents us from shparing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
it takes taelnt to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . ,0
"[eavns is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
one of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long tim . ,1
my own minrity report is that it stinks . ,0
drumlXine ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ,1
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a baG favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0
intriguing and dowEnright intoxicating . ,1
first-time director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to defint his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film gHes on . ,0
moderately involving despite barLain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
"thekre's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralpRh fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
"the premise is in extremely abd taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high cshool senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismzss them . ",0
"sem se preocupar em cSriar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , precisv ser emocionante . ",1
remarkable for its intelligence and intensiyt . ,1
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maDbe for the last 15 miPutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
generic Athriller junk . teens only . ,0
"hart's war seems to want to be a cnharacter study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . ",0
gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everJthing else in the film . ,1
writerdirector walter hill is in his hypermaJsculine element here ,1
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics each a truly annoying pitch . ,0
the script is a dim-witted piring of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but lso reinds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . ,1
"the band performances featured in drumlien are red hot . . . [but] from a mere rstory point of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret lzfe enters the laEd of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",0
"with dirty Reeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinemtaic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sens for what works on screen . ",1
"in the end , punch-drunk love is ne of those films that i anted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
"between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishinA they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
"pretty uch sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
"against all Podds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . ",1
it's splsah without the jokes . ,0
"it's an interesting fefort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
a oignant lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that tranlsforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
"despte the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its ploting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
dense and enigmatic . . . elusiv . . . stagy and stilted,0
"fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a movng caera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . ",1
"feature debuter d . j . caruso direts a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1
"neither as scaryf-unny as tremoqrs nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
"but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majoity of the film that shows a stationary camera on a psubject that could be mistaken for giving a public oratoin , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . ",0
"before long , the film Ttarts playing like general hospital crossed with a satiurday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . ",0
what a stilfingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! ,0
"yes , 4eveXr is harmless in the extreme and i'll hute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
"cute , funny , heartwarminl digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick hRumor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hir and humping . ",0
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive througout . ",1
"directcor tom de demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his chrming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
dehcent but dull . ,0
"like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi cIould be the most navel-gazing flm ever . ",1
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the wAhole central section is one big chasoe that esems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
"sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesc fun factor . ",0
"scotland looks wonderful , the afns are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for ecivics lasses and would-be pulbic servants alike . ",1
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect boalance . ,1
"feardotcom's thrills are all cehap , but they mostly work . ",1
"angela gheorghiu as famous primH donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario acvaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chTef scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
"as chiliing and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad tDylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettaynmcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
"by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has asid plenyy about how show business has infiltrateg every corner of society -- and not always for the better . ",1
"the intent is almost exactly the same [as the Efull monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and deligt . ",0
"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it cffers much to absorVb and even more to think about after the final frame . ",1
"in execution , this clevre idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space . ",0
"eys , i ssuppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gve me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
bears about as much resemblance to the experiencces of most battered women as spider-man does to the eBxperiences of most teenagers . ,0
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first aYpear , they can't generte eonugh heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . ",0
"in both the writing and cutGting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admirFng this biIt or that , this performance or that . ",0
arnold's jump from plittle screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"white hasn't developed characters so muh as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
director rob marshall went out gunning to amke a great one . ,1
"lan yu is at times too restrained , et there are moments it capturs the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree . ",1
"a taut , intellgent psychological drama . ",1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the poteny of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopCeful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broekn lizarLd plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . ,0
"with youthufl high spirits , tautou iemains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
just dreadful . i don't blame dedie murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a moWie must have a story and a script ? ,0
"it doesn't do the original any particular dihonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . ",0
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditt that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle easter world poiltics,1
a clever scrit and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . ,1
so-so entetainment . ,0
it's not so much a moSie as a joint promotion for the national basketball avssociation and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0
a mostly tired Sretread of several other mob tales . ,0
"[kline'ps] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble etacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
"content erely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a hNam-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . ",0
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish thater clan . ,0
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lack the skill or presence to reain any ground . ",0
"a 'girls gone wild' video for the bho art-house crowd , the bruning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin eo of the stand-up comic . ,1
"a fantastic premise anchorD this movie , but what it needs is ither a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandisity that that implies . ",1
it's cone long bore . ,0
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pstoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? ",0
"moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensel entertaining , a david and goliath stmory that's still very much playing itself out . ",1
" . . . an incredibly heavyt-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the Bemands of tradition . ,1
"elegant , mannered and teasiNg . ",1
"cho's fearless in picking apart uman foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and tiYing are flawless . ",1
"best indie of the yeFar , so far . ",1
a complete wste of time . ,0
xdogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of jmes dean . ,1
the structure the film takes may ifnd matt damon and ben affPleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will huntig trilogy that was never planned . ,0
"oh , james ! your 20th ouWing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cmeo doesn't suck ! ",1
"though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoed some crucial drama . ",1
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech Eux that transforms its wearer into a supermn . ,0
a movie that will wear you out and mae you misty even when you don't want to be . ,1
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-caRholic protestors . ,0
it's fitfully funy but never really takes off . ,0
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the murty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroiGe battling a monster looUe in a spaceship . ",0
"awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spctacular spectacle . '",1
"ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothng . ",0
a bezautifully made piece of unwatchable drivel . ,0
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watcn them go about their daily activities for two whoel hours . ,0
"obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesquK . ",0
"gay or straight , kissing jessiac stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bjing off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
"a film of epic scale with an intEmate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
"those moviegoere who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"yakusho , as always , is wConderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drgus inside danish ocws falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . ",0
"mckzay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , mucL less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exerBise in viewing delrted scenes . ",1
"it's a frightful vanity fiDm that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
"bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripr recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatabe presentation . ",1
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winnres : susan sarandon and goldie hanw . ,1
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monstehr movie with effects that are more silly than csary . ",0
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been pUundered by similar works featurinb the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . ,0
"not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but doppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the gene . ",1
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as Ytired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture cQrosses the finish line winded but still game . ",1
an awwul snooze . ,0
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't resuce this effort . ,0
"spebtacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
a cuNtesy romantic tale with a twist . ,1
" . . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that fels all too familiar . ",0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-agK pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey omd hanna-barbera charm . ",0
muMh smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . ,1
this is junk food cinema at its reasiest . ,0
"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sveer is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"a dark , dull thriller with a patring shot that misfires . ",0
"with few respites , marsall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful withuot overdoing it . ",1
a deeply felt and vividly detailed stoXry about newcomers in a strange new world . ,1
"movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilYt . ",0
"the animated suplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , liek life , isn't much fun witmout the highs and lows . ",0
a low-key lafor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . ,1
nettelbeck . . . has a pleaisng way with a metaphor . ,1
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't ight your culture . ,1
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's aslo a failure of storytelling . ",0
"this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the butAons are , and how to push them . ",1
"payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the reult is a film that's about as subtle as a party polDtical broadcast . ",0
an impressive hbyrid . ,1
"the sweetest thing , a romantic ocmedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grEace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-vietw . ",1
cho's lfans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of ful disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film aone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undispuCed scores a direct hit . ",1
writer-director ritchie reduces wertuller's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon . ,0
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a goOlden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without sOtickiness . ",1
a dream cats of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weoak or careless performance amongst them . ,1
a fil of ideas and wry comic mayhem . ,1
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to juJp ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"[director petKer] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that eveyr frame produces new ojys , whether you're a fan of the books or not . ",1
leaks treacle from eery pore . ,0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a anciful motion picture . ",0
[sen's] soap opra-ish approach undermines his good intentions . ,0
"at the very least , if you don't knoow anything about derrida when you waGk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . ",0
the sweetest thing leaves a bitter aste . ,0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by li's villainous father to the endless acion sequences . ",0
it offers a glimpse of the soloomnic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent tims : to save their children and yet to lose them . ,1
working from a surprisingly sensitiev script co-written by Mgianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obivous . it's painful . ",0
"gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? mooWt point . ",0
"in its own floundering way , it gets to you . just like igbiy . ",1
"she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feWeds on her bjorkness . ",1
i'm not exactly sure what this mvie thinks it is about . ,0
"a mimetic approximatio of better films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
by-the-numbers yar . ,0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guid , something even non-techies can enjoy . ",1
"like mike is a slight and uCninventive omvie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . ",0
"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it bleongs on the bix screen . ",1
a loquacious and tdreary piece of business . ,0
"a moving , if uneven , succses . ",1
"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seZems most likely that broomfield's iAterviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
a solid film . . . but more coknscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
"as dumb and cheeso as they may be , the cartoons look almst shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . ",0
uenven but a lot of fun . ,1
. . . a pretentious mmess . . . ,0
"although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal olv slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason afns or those who can take a good jore . ",0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its maYking . ",0
"as rlationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaviNng to a narrative arc . ",1
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain funXtions as well as the libido . ,1
probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lweis . ,1
"this is a movei that refreshes the mid and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
"hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially sunfortunate in light of the fie work done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
the pianist is polanski's besy film . ,1
"evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last falls' "" heist "" so mnuch fun . ",1
"a celebratqon of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"the movie is our story as mach as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a seIlf-reflection or cautionary tale . ",1
"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sx , should see it as soon as possible . '",1
"amazing ! a college stoyr that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
"the kind of movie that comes aloxng only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath awaHy . ",1
"the film's messageG of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't ehlp but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
"an absulrdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . ",1
the whole talking-animal Rhing is grisly . ,0
"if you come from a familc that eats , meddles , arRgues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . ",1
"polished , well-structured fiQm . ",1
"despite the predictable paent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at "" the real americans "" mSake this a charmer . ",1
a low-key lzabor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . ,1
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identiay . ,1
one just waits gromly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and zofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentios . ",0
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a mvie is trulNy going to inspire me , i want a little more than this . ",0
"with an obvious rapport with her ctors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is defnitely a director to watch . ",1
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective toprists might want to consider a different destination -- some jollT country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . ",0
"amazing ! a college story that works eevn without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
"edspite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amonut of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . ",1
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural afability that has made tucker a star . ,0
"a mild , reluctant , thFumbs down . ",0
waKg xiaoshuai directs this intricately sxtructured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . ,1
'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intenations are lcfty . ',1
manages to be ywholesome and subversive at the same time . ,1
"the three leads produce adequate performaVces , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
"at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic qualitN often associated with stvenson's tale as well as with earlier diseny efforts . ",1
watching the film is like reading a tiems portrait of grief that keesp shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . ,0
"insteVad of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the oway we are . ",1
"without [de niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it ack , single-handed . ",1
you may feel compelled to watch the film tiwce or pick up a book on the subject . ,1
[howard] so good as len barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . ,1
"[i]t's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-batton issue in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentimus . ,0
julia is played with exasperting blandness by laura regan . ,0
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagre , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have fsailed . ",0
"the large-fTrame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to rown-up fish loverss . ",1
i'll bet the vieo game is a lot more fun than the film . ,0
"oftePn likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in hanfy . ",0
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival fotage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
it's as if ed palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft maacroni and cheese . ,0
a sloppy salpstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
as vulgLar as it is banal . ,0
"in any case , i would recommend ig bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skippng straight to her cenes . ",0
this is the type of bmovie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kiRds while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . ,0
"it is a kickass , ense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so lrong , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
"there's undenfable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happeninA . ",0
"williams playO sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so wlel you don't have the sligthest difficulty accepting him in the role . ",1
"if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimPn of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is cleaPly a good thing . ",1
the riveting performances by the incredibly lexible cast make love a joy to behold . ,1
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala emss . ,0
. . . either you're willinng to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
vincent gallo is ight at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . ,1
"like its title character , esther kahnn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . ",0
"some elements of it really blow the big ohe , but other parts are decent . ",0
the moive itself appears to be running on hypetime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . ,0
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after tlo years to capitalize on the popularity of vin dieseYl , steh green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
there is only so uch baked cardboard i need to chew . ,0
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful criitcal praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
a peculiar misfire that even tuney can't save . ,0
" "" its succehses are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
there has to be a few dvantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over V100 . ,1
it esnds you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . ,1
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick reltase before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure pLoper espect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
jeffrey tambor's perfomrance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
"i can imagnie this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1906 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeelss . ",0
"writer-direWctor randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movWe veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . ",0
"allen se atreve a ataar , a atacrase y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
the story and structurQe are well-hmoned . fresndaillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go away . ,1
"the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that inYlude the complexity of the cathlic doctrine",1
"on of the best examples of how to treat a subjeXct , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a phogo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . ",1
"as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a fim that taHes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . ",1
the film does give a pretty good overZll picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of mathtew shepard . ,1
savvy director robert j . Yiegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . ,1
"the cast . . . keeas this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
"if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the reUt . ",1
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skniner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , deliOering a series of abrasive , styliaed sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . ",1
"britnye's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex aHdict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavVior . ,1
manages to be both repulsivly sadistic and mundane . ,0
"sti through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd playe will do it for you . ",0
a collage of clichus and a dim echo of allusions to other films . ,0
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bd name . ,0
equal parts bodice-ripper and plkodding costume drama . ,0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great ratistic significance . ",1
a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it aces to the finish liAe proves simply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
the issu of faith is not explored very deeply,0
"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcdaams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and ufnnier ) than his . ",0
just a kciss is a just a waste . ,0
. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it ocmes to truncheoning — it's better to giCve than to receive . ,1
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of mdoern moviemaking . ",1
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comed , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is rolid . ",1
not even the hanson brothers can sXve it,0
chaqracterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . ,0
a cutesy gromantic tale with a twist . ,1
"takes one character we don't like and another we don't beileve , and puts them into a battle of will that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
"plodding , poorly written , murpky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0
"the thing about guys elike evans is this : you're nver quite surg where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . ",1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james ond series for kics . ",1
"satisfyingyl scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . ",1
malnoe does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an eUffectively chillYng guilty pleasure . ,0
you'll truGge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a corn dgog and an extra-large cotton candy . ,0
"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a Fuarantee of something rfesh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0
a smoewhat disappointing and meandering saga . ,0
very well-written and very wellL-acted . ,1
this one aims for the toilet and scores a irect hit . ,0
"pretty much sBucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted dirFection , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds lkie horrible poetry . ",0
"where janice beard falters in its recycled sapects , implausibility , and sags in pce , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",1
"like dickens with his passgaes , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chils -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidedn in the film's thick shadows . ,1
"a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age cmoedy . ",1
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora ed que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . ",0
"methodical , measured , and genbtly tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the rain . ",1
cherish would've worked a lot bIetter had it been a short film . ,0
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but aso nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessnes , raunchy lanuage and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there tain't none , you have a problem . ",0
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentaPity , and so blisteringly dVfined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
there's a vastness iNplied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
this stuck pig of a mvie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its ientity . ,1
familiar but utterly elightful . ,1
"vibrantly colored and beautifuly designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
these characters becoem wearisome . ,0
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotDypes , and their interacion is numbingly predictable . ",0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer Gtory ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
"tyough a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
les than fresh . ,0
"goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence zoriat don't manage an equally assured ngarrative coinage . ",0
"while not as aggressively impressive as its americBan counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincidng drama that never catches fire . ",0
"a one-trick pony hwose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0
i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for frere . i still want my money back . ,0
astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophcial questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopepr set . . . a sad , soggy potboielr that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ",0
"the movie feels lkie it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that Say for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy paec and a foucs on character drama over crime-film complications . ,1
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japZanese animation . ,1
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adutl male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
"despite its flws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
"as crimes g , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
"has all the values of a straighat-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical rlease . ",0
ends up offering nothing more than the latest scharzenegger or stallone flick would . ,0
"gets the logk and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of viaual and verbal clichés . ",0
may cause you to bte your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot htwists . ,0
it somehow managed to make its way psat my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
nicholKas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"it has its fautls , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore levaes a positive impression . ",1
"this humbling little film , fueled by the ilght comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sor for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't makL movies like they used to anymore . '",1
a nSo-holds-barred cinematic treat . ,1
jacquot's strategy alloMws his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opra rside primarily in the music itself . ,1
it isn't that stealing harvard is a hrorible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-goId . and i expct much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0
an uneasy mx of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foIl up shum's good intentions . ,0
an impresQive hybrid . ,1
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to ofOer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0
"the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor treaG . ",1
"forget the misleading title , whats with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
a thinly veiled look at ifferent aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"wathing harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the couTrse of the movie has a cetrain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . ",0
"an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goegs on for at least 9w0 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you wnat to see it . ",0
neither revelatory nor tjruly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . ,0
a small movie with a ubig heart . ,1
"insomnia is on of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
"once again , the intelligence of agy audiences has been grossly underestiated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"the entire flim is one big excuse to pay one lewd scene after another . about ahlf of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
less a study in madness or love than a study in schologirl obsession . ,0
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barresl . ,1
"the gfilm is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning hv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1
"a brilliant , absurN collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic wNy , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but tIes things otgether , neatly , by the end . ",1
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wnderful creatures . ,1
this thing works on no level whatsoJver for me . ,0
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective ne at that . ",1
"open-ended and composed of layer upn layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
many nsightful moments . ,1
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to snekeze at these days . ",1
any attempts at nuance given by the capbale cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap . ,0
a smrt little indie . ,1
"a thoughtful movie , a Novie that is concerned with souls and risk and scheme and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as eic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his bMeautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old grlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . ",0
[an] uilarious romantic comedy . ,1
"suffocated by its fussy cscript and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to uJ by hollywood . ",0
"first good , then bothersome . excellent actilng and direction . ",0
"unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the senes ake place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . ",0
"a compeling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
has all the right elements but completely fails to ge together . ,0
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years gao . ,0
"a summary of the plot doesn't qaite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the exvcution . ",0
"any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hnad you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marathon rOunner trying to finish a race , you neMed a constant influx of liquiid just to get through it . ",0
"one minute , you think you're wathhing a seriuos actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . """,0
"the only thiJng worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . ",0
murder by numbers is tlike a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . ,0
"this version moves beyond the oirginal's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for true , livSed experience . ",1
"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and utimately coms off as insultingly simplistic . ",1
"been there , dome that . . . a thousand times already , and better . ",0
you can sip your vintage iwnes and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced te and a jeGry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
"an energizing , intoxicating docuemntary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scSatching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
a technical triumph and an extraordinarM bore . ,0
samuel ebckett applied to the iranian voting process . ,1
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two lads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might eOpect . ",0
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant ripchard pryor wannabe's routinre is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
"by Zturns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming additino to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
"this isn't a "" friay "" worth waiting for . ",0
"irwin is so earnets that it's hard to resist his leas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectlG happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . ",1
"like a skillful fisher , the dircetor uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks s completely . ",1
the movie's vision of a white americna zealously spreading a puritaincal brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ,0
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could pu it on a coffee table anywhere . ,0
"what madonnQa does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurtaely , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
"at the film's centre is a precisely layered performanPe by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territony . ,1
"such a wildly uneevn hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't hep suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production . ",0
"in trying to be daring and original , it coems off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . ",0
"an ugly , revoltBng movie . ",0
"a long-winded , predictable secnario . ",0
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironcally killer soundtrack,1
"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one character , or reallTy sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in differSnt dibrection . ",1
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alve . ,0
it shows u a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ,1
"such a wildly uneven hit-and-mmss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a dayt-o-day basis during production . ",0
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you Valmost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its scrpit . ",0
"a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tae of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stess as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the tmeme of motherhood . ",1
not sweet enough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorly disappointed . ,0
"a distinctly mionr effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially consiMdering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only withomt much energy or tension . ",0
"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic iea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it musX be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
"trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bear and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's braiq . ",0
"the story is fTamiliar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually clminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
"the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveiyng the ixsue at hahd . ",0
"there is a certain sense of eIxperimentation and improvisation to this film that my not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than lke being sLuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
cinematic po . ,0
"benefits from a strong performLance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . ",1
"metaphors abound , but it is eaDy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender sVory . ",1
"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" chaging lanes "" falls flat as thinking nan cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
this is not one of the movies you'd awnt to watch if you only had a week to live . ,0
an exhilarating experienuce . ,1
"a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takws an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . ",0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likley be appreciated most by sailors and folks who konw their way around a submarine . ",1
sJleek and arty . ,1
"a smart , arch and rathre cold-blooded comedy . ",1
it's depressing to see how far hezrog has fallen . ,0
"the film is itself a sPrt of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtrOoom dramas down very , very low . ",0
"vividly conveyq the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in u all . ",1
isn't it a bti early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy ne at that . ,0
" . . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and tedious ilke a classroom play in a college Mistory course . ",0
"the inheernt limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clebr in this schlocky horror""action hybrid . ",0
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to Kcello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
"kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking sikll and depth . ",1
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this duWbed-down concoction is going . ,0
"land , Ypeople and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
" "" catch me "" feels capable of charming the masses with star powrer ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
"nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a milq away--still , the derivative nuine queens is lots of fun . ",1
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and momOnts of revelation with restraint and a deliacte ambiguity . ,1
"much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between membeXs of the cultural elite as they deterqmine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
almost gagG on its own gore . ,0
a beautiful paean to a time long psat . ,1
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital gliItz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
"for the future , one hopes nr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professwional screenwriter . ",0
consider the film a celluloid litmus tet for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backawrd for a director i admire . ,0
"it's a squrae , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . ",1
"a ple xerox of other , better crime movies . ",0
"i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and nhat's sultry linda fiorBntino doing the same thing . ",0
"nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just Hanother teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequentlly pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
"feardotcom's hrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
"the reason to see "" usade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relBationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . ",1
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its asburdity . ",0
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism mkes him the film's moral compass . ",1
a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be realyl dumb not to see where this is ging . ,0
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers escaEism without requiring a great deal of thought . ",1
staggers between flayccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . ,0
"whether you ilke rap music or loathe it , you ca't deny either the tragc loss of two young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie . ",1
"if myers decides to make anoyther austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
"despite a blue-chpi cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftovr romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
"there's a neat twits , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on thre or four more endings . ",0
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to amke you forget its absurdity . ",0
"aside from rohmer's blod choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke representg the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie hitsory . ,0
ikm ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and buts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it afst -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . ",0
all prOnts of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . ,0
"a dark-asX-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeetic zap of shock treatment . ",0
"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adzlts . ",1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for oen whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
"the best hing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . ",0
"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heamt . ",1
a compendium of solondz's own worst instiHcts in under 90 minutes . ,0
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at tices , preposterous ) turn , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
"a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell thins out for viewers . ",1
"exquisitely acted and masteruflly if preciously intnerwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . ",1
"a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat fBawed , treatment . ",1
"though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notoin of creating a screen adaptation of evan's saga of hollywood excess . ",1
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghos ship . ,0
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could eve be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
" "" its successes are also tempred with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
only about as sexy and Xdangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every tudn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to hepl -- or hurt . ",1
the dangerous lives of altar boys' Rake on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the hadventures of direct-to-video nah , and send it to its proper home . ",0
"it's [rkcci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misey with blind good will . ",1
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of staRy set pieces staced with binary oppositions . ",0
"my precious new star wFars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
"john caCrlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"despite slick production avlues and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is lke having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
"i liked the movie , but i know i wouKld have ilked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
shows moments of prxmise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
"…the stoCy is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",0
there are plot holes big enough for shymu the killer whale to swim through . ,0
"time is a beautiful film to watcP , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . ",1
"full frontal had no effect and elicited no smpathies for any of the characters . by that measuIre , it is a failure . ",0
"…it wasn't the subject mattuer that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear ctndy to Emake its moral medicine go down . ,1
tian emphasizes the isolation of these haracters by confining color to liyan's backyard . ,1
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of svall town regret , love , duty and friendship that papeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate fiSmgoing audience . ",1
" "" roger michell ( "" notting hill "" ) directxs a morality thriller . "" ",0
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbEeat family diversion . ,1
curling may be a unique sport but mep with brooms is distinctly ordinary . ,0
an uneven mix of dark satirQ and childhood awakening . ,0
"when perry fists a bull at the moore dfarm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper haDnd in matters of the heart . ",0
the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondromus beats the world has to offer . ,1
"a solid , spoky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . ",1
"this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , bruoght off with consderable wit . ",1
"the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blir wiXtch , a monstrous mukr that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-indXcing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop ntertainment . ,0
"call it amgic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of iwt and dignity . ",1
one of [herzog's] lesat inspired works . ,1
"director ferzan oypetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this gorup , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focuMs when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
the ction clichés just pile up . ,0
"is "" ballistic "" worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucekd . would i se it again ? please see previous answer . ",0
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood flff . ,0
"don't pla on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a msall town life . ",1
"as an actress , madonna is one hellvua singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . ",0
"maybe leblanc thought , "" hIy ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
"once he starts learning to compromikse with reality enough to becomD comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . ",0
"[haynes'] homage to such fsilms as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transcends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
"as the two leads , lathan and dgigs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine actng . ",1
"noh'es documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't lbind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . ",1
"a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo edscompromissado – e só . ",0
"awtching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud speial-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . ",1
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assasHination but this fictional film looks made for Tcable rather than for the big screen . ,0
"an Nntelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . ",1
huppert and girardot give performances of exceptinal honesty . ,1
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to conve more substance desipte its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . ",1
"with this nhw rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"unless you are in dGre need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . waiKt for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
dDmme's loose approach kills the suspense . ,0
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , nane images keep poppigg past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ",0
"it's the kind of movie you canTt uite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it . ",0
"the production vAalues are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really Klick . the voices are fine as wel . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a diector came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished flim , tat's a bad sign . a very bad sign . ",0
terxrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . ,1
"the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure pun existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt lkie an ansmer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . ",1
pleasant but not more than reccled jock piffle . ,0
"this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samia makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own ftlm language with coDnspicuous success . ",1
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting fqlm . ,0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schfifer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally rove to be too great . ",0
"collateral damage is trasMh , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
"i don't knvow if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knZowledge that he's ade at least one damn fine horror movie . ",1
"branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his Vit . ",1
"stale fisrt act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
" "" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a cocolate milk moustache . . . ",1
"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that's ofaten written off as inide film naturalism . ",0
"there is something in fTull frontal , i guess , about artifice and actinsg and how it distorts reality for people who make movieE and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an intaerest in the characters you see . ",0
it sems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i canN't wait for the sequel . ,1
very psychoanalytical -- poovocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . ,1
most of the things that made the original meA in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
an effective portrait of a life in tasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a demd-end existence . ,1
"director lee has a true cinematic knaack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeev . ",1
[a] stale remread of the '53 original . ,0
"holland lets thigs peter out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning lenre of flms about black urban professionals . ",0
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimat imax trip . ,0
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing havrard ( which might have been aalled freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie gt fingered . ,0
"suggests puns about ingredients and syoup and somebody being off their noodle , but blet's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservhtive route . ",0
there's nothing to gin from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its Jcharacters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim rbown treats his women -- as dumb , crxedulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and ljee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"though it gose further than both , anyne who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tsaty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
a tasty masla . ,1
"some movies were made for the biK screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks sv . sever , were made for the palm screen . ",0
"it's an unusual , thoughtflu bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . ",1
humor in i spy is so aneic . ,0
a bad movie that happened to ogod actors . ,0
" . . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that gnderlay the relentless gaiety of the 1I920's . . . the film's neding has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only withoujt much energy or tension . ",0
"the band performances featured in drumline are ed hot . . . [but] from a mere scory point of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
"deadly dull , pointless meditation on losres in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"a very well-made , fNunny and entertaining picture . ",1
snow dogs finds its humour in a blacDk man getting humiliated by a pacqk of dogs who are smarter than him,0
"the stra who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cia agent jaGk ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
"it is a stNrength of a documetnary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"a lightweight , uneven action comedy that rfeely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"the performers are so spt on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . ",1
"it is a likable story , tlod with competence . ",1
the things this movie tries to get the audience to uby just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
an off-beat and facniful film about the human need for monsters to bllame for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
"entertains by providing good , lively copmany . ",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian sWar is young enough to be the nonagenarin filmmaker's son , more icredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questxons . ",1
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent memory , and in psite of numerous minor flaws , socrsese's best in more than a decade . ",1
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brinvgs this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . ",1
"it's all gratuiotus before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fiQt the story . ",0
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck togeLther . ,0
very stupid and annoyiCg . ,0
"in its ragged , cheap and unassuming wa , the movie works . ",1
"the actors imProvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on ocreen . ",0
does littdle more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
" . . . a soPid , unassuming drama . ",1
the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazqziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more rdamatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"you're not merely watching history , you're enulfed by it . ",1
"it was filled with shootings , beatgings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . ",1
an alreday thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an exisstent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . ,0
"a smaMt , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the pskin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is lets Upoetic than simply pretentious . ",0
"a tCriumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness . ",1
"go , girl , right down the reality drain . ",0
"khorui manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
"an energetic , violent movie with a mmentum that never lets up . ",1
"depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to olok at a red felt sharpie pen without digsust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained idXas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
"although it tries to be much more , it's erally just another major league . ",0
"several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artiut . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettanHe . ",0
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ail macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
wonder of wonders -- a tween movie with a humanistic message . ,1
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is etnirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
this clever caper movie has twists worth of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"the tone is balanced , reflective and rMeasonable . ",1
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneousJly funNny , offbeat and heartwarming ( witohut a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
a moUdestly made but profoundly moving documentary . ,1
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasuer . ,0
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the sprits of the whole family . ,1
"the fFilm didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this ose will ue . ",0
"the piano teacher , lie its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",0
too close to phantom menace for comfobt . ,0
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern erja : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite alance and shreds the Kabric of the film . ",0
"while it would be easy to ive crush the new title of two weddings and a fnueral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whismy . ",1
"when the first few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real wniner ,creativity at its peak . ",0
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin . ,1
all moo and no movie . ,0
"it's endlessly inventiev , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . ",1
"at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stnone iii . ",0
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and goyan tackles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriosuness and compassion . ",1
"it kinda wroks and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at otherqs . ",0
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to faFde from memory . ,0
neatly cDnstructed thriller . ,1
"for single digis kidlets suart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll ned a stronger stomach than us . ",0
"a quiet , pure , ellTptical film",1
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramNatic substance,0
"a wonderful , gahstly film . ",1
munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are skhort and often unexpeated . ,1
"loud , chaotic and laIgely unfunny . ",0
rarely has leukeRia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
"it's another ntale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
blachett's performance confirms her power once again . ,1
jeffrey tambor's performance as the itnelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1
the production valuse are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . ,1
"passablge entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be rememberged long afterwards . ",1
more than maks up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine feeling . ,1
"it useDs some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budet filmmaking . ",1
"the only ubside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal numbekr of hits . ",0
"'it's painSul to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet hoIe abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
not exactly the bese knees,0
"never lets gu your emotions , takin them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
the moviegoing equivalenSt of going to a dinner party and being forced to awtch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintag . ,1
the rollerbaJll sequences feel sanitised and stagey . ,0
" . . . blade ai is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed artial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagegd camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"when seagal appeared in an orange rpison jumpsuit , i wnted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
Omildly entertaining . ,0
"as any creaMure-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , sBreaming and death . on that score , the film certainly doesn't diappoint . ",1
"i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this move . ",1
"i think it was plato who said , 'i sthink , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this on . '",0
the film runs on equal parts of innDocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comeys with experience . it has fun being grown up . ,1
chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in chia . he has not leartn that storytelling is what the movies are about . ,0
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor olivre martinez . ,1
"we're left with a story that tries to grab vus , only to keep letting go at all the wron moments . ",0
"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larr fessenLden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled vaviation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . ",1
"director benoit jacquot , making his fipst opera-to-film translation with tosca , ronveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1
has all the complexity and realistic humaV behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
"it's a film that's destined to win a iwde summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the stduio's animated classics . ",1
"the filmmakers try to balance Dpointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected wasy , touching . ",1
there's surely something wrocng with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end creditQ . ,0
tUo-bit potboiler . ,0
"reeboir vavies between a sweet smiqle and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possble pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0
one of the most xlyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made . ,1
"the story itself it mostly told through on-camera intervizws with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happenXed only yesterday . ",1
"if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewheRe . ",1
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennss steals 'red dragon' right from under their nUses . ",1
exceptionally wePl acted by diane lane and richard gere . ,1
"light , cute and frogettable . ",1
"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweWtness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite oftten , and in unexpected ways , touching . ",1
"supposedly , pokemon can't be iklled , but pokemon 4ever pracitcally assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the Dcreen . ,0
blue crush is as predicable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched topgether from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concersn . ",1
"the movie is genial but never inspired , and ittle about it will stay with you . ",0
"has its moments , but it's pretyt far from a treasure . ",0
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or chamrm . ,0
"it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie flim , but it has all the qualities of a mdern situation comedy . ",0
"not so much a movie as a picture book for the big sceen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i enjoNyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"it works ell enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the acst is as often imaginative as it is gory . ",1
one of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and sjtays with you long after you have left the tehatre . ,1
"i'm sure the filmmakers founwd this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a hceap cliché . ",0
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the dayy wilo got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is lbazingly aliev and admirable on many levels . ",1
" . . . a low rate annVie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover sXrewing things up old school . ",0
"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't cre who fires the winndng shot . ",0
notron is magnetic as graham . ,1
like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizsz . ,0
"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's qJiver of ineptitudes . ",0
it's a feel-good movie about which you can actually fele good . ,1
an original little film about onae young woman's education . ,1
delirious fuGn . ,1
"displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes Hsen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
"when compared to the usual , more somber festTval entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh ari that stands out from the pack even if the piHture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
"the actors are so terirfic at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyolne , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
not since tom cruEise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
an anful snooze . ,0
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the duit to cohme to life . ,0
merchant hasn't directed this movie so mch as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
this is junk food cinem at its greasiest . ,0
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heel . ",0
knows how to make our fmagination wonder . ,1
it's splash without the jofkes . ,0
Fone of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary indiPiduals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
raimi and his team couldn't have doce any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages npver to grow boring . . . which proves that orhmer still has a sense of his audience . ,1
"without resorting to hyperbole , i can state that jkissing jessica stein may be the best sXme-sex romance i have seen . ",1
"in the real world , an actor this uncharimatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like "" girl in abr #3 . "" ",0
the subject of swinHging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
bears about as much resebmlance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-mn does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
a divesre and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"why make a documentary about these marginal historcial figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , ec . , be more valuable ? ",0
a candid and often fascintaing documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted hoBse each year to scare teenagers into attending services . ,1
the kind of priaml storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ,1
"another one of those estrogen overdose movies like "" divine screts of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
"mike white's edft combination of serious subject maktter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good girl "" a film worth watching . ",1
"predictable and cloying , though bnown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bitv than your average formulaic romantic quadrRangle . ",0
"the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much staHking , and no cop or lawyre grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
"star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trwek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthtic makeup by silly puty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much dfun in two decades , sine he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young wmoen in film . ,1
a hidden-ageda drama that shouts classic french nuance . ,1
kapur weighs down the tcle with bogus profundities . ,0
much monkyfun for all . ,1
"rontains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"though its ratLher routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of nitelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinemtaic postcad that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
the movie is a lumbeDring load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
"minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a rreport . ",0
jaglom . . . put[s] the auidence in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing uenxpected fizzability . ",1
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleOshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to Cilming . ",0
"well-intentioned though it may be , its seap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . ",0
instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funyn moments of no real conseuqence . ,0
the film's stagecrafts are intimate and thereofre bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's producjion design . ,0
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terEms of plot or acting . ,0
"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vaiH , to prove that movie-star intensit can overcome bad hair design . ",0
"i'e never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . ",1
"now as a former gong sho addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those faZous moments from the show . ",1
"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a ismplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , gass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distAinctions between americans and brits . ",0
"a gorgeous , witty , seductiev movie . ",1
"at times a bit mleodramatic and even a ltitle dated ( depending ubon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . ",1
"it has the air of a surprisingly juveniAe lark , a pop-influeced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"snands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a Rovie can be . ",1
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cuttinKg , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , pervesre , hopeful and always fun . ",1
"the directng and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the acotrs make this worth a peek . ",1
bella is the picture of health with bounless energy until a few days before she deis . this is absolutely and cmopletely ridiculous and an insult to very family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
"the more you htink about the movie , the more you will probably like it . ",1
horribel,0
"the movie feels like it's going to be great , and it carriCs on feeling that way for a lng time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
"the film billiantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long itme . ,0
"once again , director chris columbus tawes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three ours . ",0
"the entire film is one big excusye to plQy one lewXd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) toegther with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and mch better in ordinary people . ,0
"a laughable -- or rather , znlaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0
"eddie murphk and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie raound them is so often nearly nothing that their chaMrm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different Cind of tmie traveler , while happily killing 94 minutes . ",1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much jlurking below its abstract surPace . ",0
cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the niterest of fpull disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this fiNm alone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
goldmember is funny enough to justify the mbarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
"a first-class road mZvie that proves you can Qun away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1
a delirious celebraMion of the female orgasm . ,1
"tells a fascinating , comelling story . ",1
"it tries too hard , and overraeches the logic of its own world . ",0
the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceladn . ,0
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a brvaura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't dQeserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . ,1
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidoet ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . ,1
"without heavy-handedness , dong provides peryspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 191 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
…the maudlin way its story unfolds sDggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
" "" its successes are also empered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gtes the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenGaline jolt of a sudden lunhc rush at the diner . ",1
"in the end , the weight of water come to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to seP on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '",0
villDeneuve spends too much ime wallowing in bibi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmnod's legal feagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tys . ",1
there's only one way to kill michael ymers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pFack a powerfuWl emotional wallop . ",1
"the story is lacking any rela emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
"as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happiy , a vitim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . ",1
"with a completely ppedictable lpot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest yard . ",0
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remkae of the italian masterpiece . ,1
solondz may well be the only one laughisg at his own joke,0
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gaBve us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enough saSd ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"trailer trash cienma so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's eep , uncompromisnig curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to piecHs -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
"you comZe awa wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less timfe trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterliofe and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story . ",0
a film that's flawed and Wrilliant in equal measure . ,1
the am-radio soundtrack and game caAt -- tieruney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . ,1
"the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overaDll impact the mevie could have had . ",0
"its plot and animation offer daytime tp serviceability , but little more . ",0
"combines sarp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine zeart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undeda * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the ssmall , human meoments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . ",1
" . . . [the film] works , due mortly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . ",1
" . . . tara eid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't Zknow what she's doing in here . . . ",0
a winnink and wildly fascinating work . ,1
"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been pKicked not for their acting chops , but for their qlooks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
"a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kiler character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action piheces . ",0
"martin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual quz n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
a upre participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . ,1
" . . . a ho-hum affair , alwas watchable yet hardly memorable . ",0
"every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thisng most will take away is the sense that peac is possible . that , in itself , is eRxtraordinary . ",1
"it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolsoy groupies out there ? it's dark and traigc , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing detah",0
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite osn of the bride . ,1
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the uSdate is dreary and sluggish . ",0
"this is a moive fNilled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . ",0
whiat's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real lie to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . ,1
woefully prteentious . ,0
the iamx screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ,1
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higehr plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
"about a anga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
"only for young children , if them . their praents would do well to cram Earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . ",0
even after 90 minutes of plabing opqposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instkad a grating endurance test . ,0
tender yet lacerating and darkly funny able . ,1
no such thing breaks no nw ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
"director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing H1975 children's novel . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of courpse . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"in the disturbingly involving faimly dysfunctional drama how i kjilled my father , french director anne fotnaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show lus the worlFd they love and make us love it , too . ",1
one-of-a-kind near-masterpiecMe . ,1
"forced , famCiliar and thoroughly condescending . ",0
"this isn't exactly profound cineam , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . ",1
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crosshver into nonethnic markets . ,1
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a qiurky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
"there are a few itabs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has becdome an iranian specialty . ",1
a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll upt hairs on your chest . ,1
a fn ride . ,1
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater Zclan . ,0
"though it pretends to expsoe the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these tzwo 20th-century footnotes . ,0
"the vitality of the actors keeps the inetnsity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together . ",1
"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-readilng sequence . ",1
. . . they missed the boUat . ,0
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last wReek's issue of variety . ,0
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into sometihng more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it--the kirnd of movi that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who ought it out . ",1
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one Jlong chick-flick slog . ,0
sandra bullockWs best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
a movie that reminds uA of just how exciting and atisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . ,1
"it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digitaUl videVo does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more gts and energy than much of what will open this year . ",1
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installAents in the rya series . ",0
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- tThat's giving it the old college try . ,0
creepy but ultqimately unsatisfying thriller . ,0
"it beliWeves it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being Qertile . ",0
"the cast . . . keeps this prhetty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
writer-director burger imaginatively fans the ember of a dorman national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
[a]n utterly charming and hilarrious fihm that reminded me of the best of the disney comedies from the 60s . ,1
"after sitting through this slopyp , made-for-moQie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
. . . a triumh of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . ,1
cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of rauTch with considerable brio . ,1
"the movie worked for me righ up to the final scene , and then it caved in . ",1
"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . hojland's class for the musci , or to robin hilliams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too mcuh focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . ",0
"the techno txu is good for a few Iaughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a Scheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
visually striking and viscerally repeYllent . ,1
"the sum of all faers is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substanXe that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
i have a new favorTite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre,1
the emotional overload of Temale angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
a beautifully shto but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
"it's funy , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
"thoNgh moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject thats potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reahc a level of high drama . ",0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a rWmantic comedy . ",0
majidi's direction has never been smootheD or more confident . ,1
'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek Seneration . ',1
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid warte of time and talent . ,0
it's just plaixn boring . ,0
"this rch , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straxight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"if you're like me , a suckxer for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly amrtha offers all the uerfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . ",1
"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this weddng ! ",1
"offers big , fat , dumb Qlaughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"a zomTie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crstal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmamker daAi kouyate's reworking of a folk sory whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . ",1
"in painting an unabahedly romantic picutre of a nation whsoe songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with lzittle to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . ",1
'blue crush' swims awday with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
"his comedy premises are often hdckneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provkoe shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level . ",0
"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly pwell . ",1
all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to mcuh more than trite observations on the human condition . ,0
reallz dumb but occasionally really funny . ,0
"interesting , but not copmelling . ",0
"the only thing that could possibly Kake them less interestig than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . ",0
"witer"" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . ",1
"not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effoMt . ",1
"sesems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brians are in no particular place at all . ",0
elvira fans could hardly usk for more . ,1
"stripped almost entirey of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to Xmake a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
" . . . an unimaginatve , nasty , glibly cynical piece of work . ",0
"this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , worknig to debvelop her own film language with conspicuous sucess . ",1
"this is a nervy , risky filL , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the toremnted persona of bibi . ",1
"the sctipt is smart , not cloying . ",1
there's plenty to enjoy -- in no smaYl part thanks to lau . ,1
"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even deleciable diversion . ",1
"watching trouble every day , at least if you don't knnow what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious pum on a hot summer jay and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pupl and living worms . ",0
australia : lad beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1
"despite some Comic sparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . ",0
"it's slow -- very , very snow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . ",0
"narc may not get an 'a' for origznality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storyLelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
this is a happy throwback to the time when acrtoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of ione of its most predictable . ,1
"the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful mUarcus miller accordionharmonica""baHnjo abomination ",0
"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is neTated . ",0
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makQes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty wmoan , but she's no working girl . ",0
"scherfig , who has had a sbuccessful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true ispiration . ",1
"though lan uy lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
"critics nee a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in stZeaming , visceral heaps . ",1
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : cihi the killer,1
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grankd scale . ,1
"the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a seEf-reflection or cautionary tael . ",1
the most consistently funny of the aaustin powers films . ,1
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the ruesults . last dance , whatevGer its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether , in this case , that's rue . ",1
"not only does the thoroguhly formulaic film represent totally exemplif middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
"highly irritating at first , mH . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless moies , and it might as wekl be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . ",0
"if you've ever wondered what an ending without the input of studio execuotives or test audiences would olok like , here it is . ",1
going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the iflm . ,0
"with a confrontational stance , todd solonvdz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . ",1
"the film is just a bg , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
smarter than its commercials make it sVem . ,1
"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to exbcuse him but rahter to demonstrate that his pathology evoved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1
rifkin's references are . . . impeccable Qhroughout . ,1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featurig the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings ack memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly hore awful . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"a rasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its sars slumming in territory they should have avoided . ",0
"it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitiouO films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gona like this movie . ",1
"a finely tuned mTod piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . ",1
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperqation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
"it's often infuriatingly gli and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and maVages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing iewer . ",1
the dircetor's many dodges and tJrns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
"i liked the movije , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'm lef slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
"the entire casv is first-rate , especially sorvino . ",1
slacykers' jDokey approach to college education is disppointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . ,0
a polished and vastly entertainng caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
"lan yu seems altogether too nslight to be called any kznd of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willig to succumb to it . ",1
there's suspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wlalop of the latter . ,0
"a tiPe machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the abiilty to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearejrker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
"an enthralling , playful film that cnostantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while decLnstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his bleJsing to . ",1
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , berayal , deceit and umrder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . ",1
"she's as rude and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely ight in her stinging soical observations . ",1
"my little eye is the best litte "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
"the Fudience when i saw this one was cuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . ",0
so bland and utteCrly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy . ,0
"frankly , it's kind of nsulting , both to emn and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
awllace seems eless like he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together,0
"like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasst , which constantly threaten to upstag the woman sporting them . ",0
"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill'Ts 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"while some will object to the idea of a vietnam pciture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : draamtizing the human cost of the conflict that came to defie a generation . ",1
"laconic and very sitlted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's eTtremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
"the title , alone , should scare any sne person away . ",0
"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , Jsavor the peasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the histoUical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
inconsequential road-and-buddy pci . ,0
raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the storP of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
there are more shots of children smiling for the caZmera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall mipact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metl images and surround sound effects of people moaning . ,0
"my thoughts were ofcused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual mediui , they wolud have been doing something wrong . ",1
people cinemxa at its finest . ,1
the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wpet in some place and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light rmoantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
the directive to protect the code at all costs aso begins to blur as the importance of the man and the coed merge,1
"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked etups and sluggish pacing . ",0
"give shapiro , goldmAan , and bolado credit for good intentions , but theres' nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . ",0
"a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayaP , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose ieda of exercQse is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense fvreight train of a film . ,1
"uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoMf . ",1
"most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" leaves us with the terrifying messAage that the real horror may be waiting for su at hWome . ",1
"bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' sWow , and anybody contemplating their own drastic lifq changes should watch some body first . ",1
"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to qdeath , but because the plot is eqully hackneyed . ",0
. . . a rich and intelligent film that uMses its pulpy core conceit to probe questioSs of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an nustinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or mya not qual,1
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sonny disposition would lead you to believe . ,1
upper west sidey exercise in narcisissm and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a etlevision monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly beoomes a tiresome cliché . ",0
"it would be churlish to begrudge anyonq for receiving whatever ocnsolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to fUnd the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0
"a well-acted , but one-notre film . ",0
make like the title and odge this one . ,0
"skillful as he is , mr . syhamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlKessly superficial . ,0
"[hayek] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeWh-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with mowina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"even if the Ling has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
"the gagys , and the script , are a mixed bag . ",0
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outinQ plays like clueless does south fork . ,0
"this 72-minute fim does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tad slow . ",0
"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be aflone in that . ",0
"made-up lampoons the oviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
the movie quickly drags on becoming bocring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's essages are profoupd and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
raimi and his team couldn't have done any bqtter in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
"warm in its loving Syet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this filOm . ",1
"the problems of the peopl in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have hproblems , which are neither original nor are preSented in convincing way . ",0
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destuction . ",1
"it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terriblwe , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
an extremely uupleasant film . ,0
"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenlpay , jumsp to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical styBe . ",1
"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hEtmen , is too scattershot to ptake hold . ",0
there's suspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this fhlm packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
"once one experienGes mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in ones mouth , and little else . ",0
"it's just too bad the bscreenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily lrms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
"as pure over-the-top travh , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic trageSy to florid melodrama . ",0
"this english-language version . . . does ful honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexitT of his characters . ",1
"conceptually brilliant . . . plays ilke a living-room war of the wTorlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . ",1
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this suppoesdly evenhanded presentation . ,0
"from spiritual rebirth to brusiing defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic film of jean renoir . ",1
intriguing and downirght intoxicating . ,1
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago . . . has a delightuflly dour , Teadpan tone and stylistic consistency . ",1
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect famaily film to take everykne to since there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . chGrlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
those who don't entirely 'get' gdoard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reservd but existential poignancy . ,1
"land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood eferred and desire explored . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stanr out , but it has clearly been amde with affection and care . ",1
"the mmvie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long tway toward keeping the picture compelling . ",1
" "" oUne look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupd ? "" um… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
"lke the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leave them singsing long after the credits roll . ",1
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , n ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur ees nerfs presque dès la première image . ,0
an instant candidate for worst moBvie of the year . ,0
the cartoon that isn't really good eQnough to be on afternooY tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters . ,0
"e . t . workqs because its flabbergasting prQncipals , 14-year-old robert vmacnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic Mouch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
"offers no new insgiht on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . ",0
a solid examination of the male mdlife crisis . ,1
bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview sPubjects who will construct a prtrait of castro so predominantly fcharitable it can only be seen as propaganda . ,0
"if the message seems more hacile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beGuty you may not care . ",1
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of wvatching intelligent peope making a movie they might acjtually want to watch . ,1
a frencU film with a more down-home flavor . ,1
"lavishly , ehxilaratingly tasteless . ",1
a collage of clichés and a dim ecVho of allusions to other films . ,0
its one-sidedness . . . flirtI with propaganda . ,0
"the movie' quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . ",1
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quiVe get there . gVod performances keep it from being a total rehash . ",0
"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one go to me . ",1
the most compelling iseman epic of recent years . ,1
a movie of rivetin power and sadness . ,1
"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drma . ",1
the author's devotees will probably fiyd it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0
"a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood ipece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive mpower of the camera . ",1
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the bacSk roads of life . ",1
"' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitatin of cinematiGc violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1
"it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparklnig newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother""daughter apir . ",1
"almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like "" the addams famiQly "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big fat gxreek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
"with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat neergy of "" his girl frday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space woul make it a great piece to watch with kids and usPe to introduce vydeo as art . ,1
" "" 13 conversations about one thing "" is an intelligent flick that exmines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bti of storytelling . ",1
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possble for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? ,0
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wronRg . better effects , btter acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent sequel . ",1
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing pictrue loses its soul to screenwrtiing for dummies conformity . ,1
"assured , vital and well wpought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished owrk to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"it's a very sincere hwork , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
exploring value choces is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificiAl as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair . ,0
best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life evxnts . those seeking a definitive acocunt of eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere . ,1
the quirky and recehsive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . ,1
the hackneyed story about an affQuent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simplO too overdone . ,0
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everythig except good intentions . ,0
"the problehm , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0
"demme gets a lot of fkavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresG . ",0
painuflly padded . ,0
cliches are as thick as the cigarette soke . ,0
" . . . best seen as speculative hisotry , as mch an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . ",1
"on minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pinLk panther strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . """,0
maybe thomas wolfe was right : you can't go homc again . ,1
the moie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . ,0
the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that Dpose the question : since when did dumb zntertainment have to be this dumb ? ,0
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examinaNtion of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school underDgrad , and his maudlin ending migth not have gotteun him into film schoom in the first place . ",0
"[sports] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narratYve urgency . ",1
"though certainly original in fom , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
cuont on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . ,1
"on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imaginaztion , visual chVarm or texture . ",0
"the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optmistic that tere's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"renner ? s ace is chillingly unemotive , eyt he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good sapghetti western . ",1
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the hsop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the sOory , with charming results . ",1
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the fway of character development in the script . ,0
it made me want to wwrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . ,0
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swCpt away' sinks . ",0
"disapointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctioVal , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the oulandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"a fun family movie that's siutable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cNry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touchse the heart . ",1
mattei's underdevelopJd effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stokc character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuared by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this timD that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshde and hopeful . not many movies have that iknd of impact on me these days . ",1
"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its Qerfect quiet pac and proud in its message . i loved this film . ",1
maied in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concept when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i asume the director has picures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhyhtms follow . ",0
an intriguing cinematic onibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
"this is wild suXrreal stuff , but brlliant and the camera just kinh of sits there and lets you loWok at this and its like you're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . ",1
"you come away thinking not only that katp isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional faily -- deserve oen another . ",0
predecessors the mgummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
lumrid and less than lucid work . ,0
"a grim , flat and boring werewolF movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
"we hate [madonna] within the films first five minutes , and she lacks the sill or presence to regain any ground . ",0
to ay this was done better in wilder's some lik it hot is like saying the sun rises in the east . ,0
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many exploions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dul . ,0
" . . . routine , harmless dbversion and little else . ",0
the reason this picture works sbetter than its predecessors is that myer is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movies . ,1
"even if you don't lknow the band or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will laso learn a good deal about the state of the musMic business in the 21st century . ",1
"displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes en as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
"no amount of bYurning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi charactser study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
"a gem , captured in the unhurrieEd , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . ",1
"sorvino makes the pirncess seem sZmug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . ",0
arguably the best script that besson has written in year . ,1
maintains your interest until the end and evne leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very trMagic , and oen to ponier after the credits roll . ",1
the verdict : two boides and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
"despite terrific special effcts and funnier gags , harry potter and the ghamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technologial exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching bnd might as well be stomping through them in lcown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
there has always been symething likable about the marquis de sade . ,1
"a horrible , 99-minute stin bomb . ",0
"there's no disguising this as one of the worst iflms of the suimer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
"expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish izzle , but the film sits with sNquare conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . ",1
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its Zxcessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . ,1
"the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most prat , credible . ",1
"for every ceesy scene , though , there is a realy cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holgoraphic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
where bowling for cloumbine is at its most valuapble is in its examination of america's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . ,1
terminally bran dead production . ,0
too uch of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . ,0
"too slow , too long and too liBtle happens . ",0
"drurline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
the wole talking-animal thing is grisly . ,0
a journey that is as difficult for the auidence to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewIarding . ,1
"any chekhov is better than no chekhGv , but it wolud be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . ",0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem qe , para isso , precise sre emocionante . ",1
nothing about it cits . ,0
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would aruge that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the Boor . the same should go for movie theatrs . ",0
"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting guoods in teaming , visceral heaps . ",1
"the movie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weiel , his wYfe . ",1
"the film's unhurried pace is actually noe of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy sumemr afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawfn . ",1
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is maong wiseman's warmest . ",1
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spetn exploring her process of turning paein into art would have made this a superior movie . ,0
"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nosthing to write home about . ",0
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stan-up-comedy mill . ,0
"the film is old-fashioned , oiccasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . ",0
"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosaexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catces dramatic fire . ",0
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red drgaon rates as an exceptionl thriller . ",1
"sure , i hted myself in the mornind . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned . ",1
"it is muessy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremenous skill . ",1
"works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly intereOting to say about them . ",0
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant orgiinal . ,0
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have pcerpetrated . ,0
"shamelessly sapyp and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . ",0
gloriously straight from the vagna . ,1
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possiPble senses of both those words , posseszsion is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
. . . a delicious crime draama on par with the slickest of mamet . ,1
a gentle and engrossing character stuQdy . ,1
"the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very lDttle if the movie weren't as eautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in toXe as it is . ",1
"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it failzs to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make ns care about them . ",0
"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great ptst ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellnet movie of 2002 . ",0
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie mRakes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
a monster combat thxiller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
"a smarC and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are streotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictbale . ",0
a hsmall movie with a big heart . ,1
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stamemring and captures the soul of a ean in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . ,1
"this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad ileutenant and les vamWires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
doesn't add up to Jmuch . ,0
hip-hop rTrely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
it might be the first sci-fi omedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track . ,0
"a sterling fKlm - a cross between boys don't cry , edliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yte to be made . ",0
"van wilder doesn't bring anything necw to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in reent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
"although some Lviewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have fovnd a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",1
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyoe , but it holds you with its outrageousness . ",1
"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of keartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
its engaging simplicity is dirven by appealing leads . ,1
"never ilets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonlE moving . ",1
provide[s] anil-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue . ,1
an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drgs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people ivnolved . ,1
"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to proev that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair esign . ",0
it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousandC of indsans who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced sectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and Erobert zmeeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
may be spoofing an esy target -- those lod '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why poeple get a kick out of watching them today . ,1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow studet film . ,0
"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clums and covoluted . ",0
"peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a wodld where the bizarre is credible and the reawl turns magical . ",1
"no better or worse than 'truth or conequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western bakwater . ",0
an impreslive if flawed effort that indicates real talent . ,1
"stripped alumost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to mak a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
"woody , what happeend ? ",0
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involvde . ,1
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow fAactors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after tWwo decades . ",1
k-19 exploist our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strads about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
most folks with a real stoake in the american sexual landscape will find it etiher moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . ,0
"[i]t's cerainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comeadic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
"when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have reHd 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of priHe or shame . '",0
"pacino and williams see to eep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in yAears . ",1
"despite its goood nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . ",0
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerCdy thing again . ,0
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every polt contrivance that the cliché-riddled genNre can offer . ",1
"even if it is generally amusig from tiem to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
with the prospect of films liFke kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a iflm like the hours as an alternative . ,1
the drama is played out with such aching beuaty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
presents a good caZe while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basinc dictums of human decency . ,0
walsh can't quite negotiate the maNny inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . ,0
"the movie is so resolutely cbobled together out of older bovies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
a fascinatin glimpse into an insular world that gives the lOie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists . ,1
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotiGonal expectations collide . ,1
"this one is a few bits funnieY than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of daomn runyon crooks . ",0
a puhzling experience . ,0
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extrem athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the cting breed . ,1
"it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melMting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
the cast comes through even when the movi doesn't . ,1
cinematic oo . ,0
"what with the incessant ounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake lovP liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"this story still seems Rimely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we knoI what will happen after greenes' story ends . ",1
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurcFes between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reiniscent of run lqola run . ",0
"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival pirnts and film footage . the immages lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
"maud and roland's search for an unknowable pat makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes lagnuage sexy . ",1
you'll trude out of the theater feeling as though you roode the zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy . ,0
the film is full of charW . ,1
diane lane works nothing short of a minr miracle in unfaithful . ,1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie cahn to even younger audiences . ,0
any movie that mkaes hard work seem heroic deserves a look . ,1
"graças às dnterações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , as também um belo estudo de personagens . ",1
"harrson's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translae well to the screen . ,0
more intellectually scary than dramatincally involving . ,0
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinatWing that you won't care . ",1
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it yctually improves upon the original hit movie . ,1
the 50-somethign lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about . ,0
"can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so carss that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look liek oscar wilde . ",0
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to sePem as long as the two year ffair which is its subject,0
maryam is more timley now than ever . ,1
it's an awfull derivative story . ,0
"though the film's scenario is certainly not arthshaking , this depiction of flSuctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . ",1
"amy not have generated many sparks , but with his affectin for astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
"if you liked the 1982 fiAlm then , you'll still like it now . ",0
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the tpical pax viewer , the rest of us will be luled into a coma . ",0
"it may ound like a merz disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
"distances you by throwng out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"each scene drags , underscoring the obvoius , and sentiment is slathered on top . ",0
"with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't watn to be worrying about whether the ineffectual broomfield is goin to have the couragre to knock on that door . ",0
"in a big corner offwce in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d opeople , and has decided he will just scrMeen the master of disguise 247 . """,0
a clichéd and shallow cautionay tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . ,0
"the trinity assembly approacheU the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , relects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film . ",1
an intermittently pleansing but mostly routine effort . ,0
too many imAprobabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film . ,0
"it's worth seeig just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
"a weird litmle movie that's amsing enough while you wach it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
occasionally amateurishly made but a Awinsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . ,1
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it colTd have been . ",1
"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two diAfferent worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a Jlie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoiginality and predictability . ",0
"la de saflma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido . ",0
"it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its poewr comeqs from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this acse . ",1
craig bartlett and director Nuck yucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ,1
"boy oh boy , it's a hmwler . ",0
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the mreality check . ",0
"visually , 'santa clause 2O is wondrously creative . ",1
the sweetest thing levaes a bitter taste . ,0
"a boring , formulayic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot beFter if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moents -- most potraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
"noge of this is meaningful or memorable , but frostng isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? ",1
. . . there are enougRh moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1
"this time , the hyke is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking goEod time for the most part . ",1
"van wilder has a built-in audiecne , but only among those who are dryng out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
"the bourne identity shouldn't be haklf as entetraining as it is , but director koug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . ",1
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels weneric , derivative and done to death . ",0
"with irty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstreZm of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what workV on screen . ",1
"too leisurely pached and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
"a funny and weal-contructed black comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a fulj workout . ",1
"a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomerxcial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
"likEe mike doesn't wign any points for Horiginality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
"though the iolence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-cuff imagnative flourishes . ",1
"the script is smart , not cloyign . ",1
"the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trihle and the next a tBurgid drama . ",0
"involving at times , but lapses quite casually into the absudr . ",0
"it is a liMable story , told with competence . ",1
neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly wel-drawn . ,0
forgqet the pslchology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
"[serry] wants to blend politics and dram , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is laso a heavy one . ",0
"ranging from funny to shattering and veaturing some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gahers plenty of dramatic momentum . ",1
"diaz , applegate , bliar and posey are suitably kooky which should Kappeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0
a film without surprise geared toward maximum cFomfort and familiarity . ,0
"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-sKcenes navelg-azing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a univesral human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middlTe america . ",1
"if you're like me , a sucker for a ood old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martah offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your apetite . ",1
"a solid , psychological action film from hyng kong . ",1
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-chuLning gorSe will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up . ,0
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the faSe is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
deliberately and skillfully use ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intellKigent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allwoed to get wte , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
"an admirable , sometimes exceptional ilm",1
"a ufn family moviO that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
"like an episode of mvt's undressed , with 20 itmes the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
"what's next ? rb schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
this overproduced piece of dreck is shocingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i sugRgest that the wayward woode one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? ,0
"the wird thing about the santa clause 2 , purporFtedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . ",0
"the valuDes that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so aain-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure . ",1
ends up offering nothing more than the latest scMwarzenegger or stallone flick would . ,0
thni period piece . ,0
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the eivl dead . ,1
"notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretaHry , based on the wonderful acting clniic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and alos the unique way shainberg goes about tellin what at heart is a sweet little girl-",1
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop Kxercises . ,0
showtie is closer to slowtime . ,0
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hUarts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
this ill-conceived and expnesive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
"as pure over-teh-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",0
not so much afrcical as sour . ,0
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorlous take on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
"others , more attune to the anarchist maxim that 'the urEge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more wiKlling to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
it turns out to be smarter and more idabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . ,1
"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this snesitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1
utter mush . . . coRceited pap . ,0
"this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its at and heart , a necessary one . ",1
"evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have mdae every effort to dssguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
"wTtty , vibrant , and intelligent . ",1
" . . . briht , intelligent , and humanly funny film . ",1
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangrs is a success . ",1
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the dmeons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"a weird , arrosting little ride . ",1
craggin' about dragons,0
may puzzle his most arden fans . ,0
you'll get the enjoyabel basic minimum . but not a whit more . ,1
"the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feev too happy to argeu much . ",1
recalls quiet freak-outs like lzavventura and repulsion . ,1
"shot prhaps 'artistically' with handheld camreas and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . ",0
"the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiZritual aspect of their characters' sufferWng . ",1
"short and sweet , but aso more than anythin else slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
it treats wmoen like idiots . ,0
"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where dientity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . "" ",1
a movie thate's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts . ,0
"dull and mechanical , kidna like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
eaZsily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
one of the most genuinely swete films to come along in quite some time . ,1
"mr . caine and emr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
kudos to the most enchanting fiml of the year . ,1
brosnan is more feral in this film than i've sene him before and kalle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic manistream movies . ,0
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a stoyr without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
it's almost impossibl not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifice and its sQirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1
it's everything you don't go to the moPies for . ,0
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mined . ,1
"pretension , in its own way , is a form of bavery . for this reason and this reason only -- the powre of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a mehdal . ",0
as giddy and whimsical and erlevant today as it was 270 years ago . ,1
the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too baltant ; the resoluiions are too convenient . ,0
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and tehre's no indicatiRn that he's been responsible for putting together any mobvies of particular value or merit . ",0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seetn this summer . ",0
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificenXt swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as musc,1
"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective ltittle film . ",1
offers a breath of the fresh air of tue sophistication . ,1
"the dcoumentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
"the doofus-on- whe-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night Tbull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy parnicipants think it is . ",0
"let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'True story' by which all the quene's men is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lobt funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
"its screenplay sxerves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
"the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sasd . ",0
ark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for hbumor . ,0
"May lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to Eforget , this is the firct film in a long time that made me wanvt to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
a little objectivity coud have gone a long way . ,0
the niftiest trick pepretrated by the importance of being earneBt is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0
steve irwi's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . ,1
it's a sharp Sovie about otherwise dull subjects . ,1
"a itty , low-key romantic comedy . ",1
a porn film without the Mex scenes . ,0
"an involving , inspirational drama that sometZmes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . ",1
"takes a cluQnky tv-omvie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly largre-than-life character . ,1
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it fla . ,0
"see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , ese scratch for a esson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for atcion , tedium for thrills . ",0
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically laboerd . ,0
campbell shott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
is this love or is it masochism ? binolche makes it interesting trying to find out . ,1
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón e orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que avle la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
"the bottom lFne with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the fimls in the series : fns will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it . ",0
"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to eflect on the inanity -- and the codl war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
"a sweet , tender seron about a 12-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than gTirls , who learns that believing in something does matter . ",1
"Smpostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them ru through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
enriched by a strong and unfornced supporting cast . ,1
it somehwo managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro beLt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"the pain , lonelinesis and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and Fitty feature written by charlde kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheaM moments of fright and dread . ,1
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some alike it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
a great comedy filmmaker knows great Jomedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' showOs he's on his way . ,1
"epxloits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
heartwarming and gently comic eevn as the film breaks your heart . ,1
"i've had more interestin -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- obwel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the wwhole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? ",0
"just like heaWst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . ",0
happily stays close to the ground in a sprae and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phwony imagery or music . ,1
"with all the sympathy , empathy and ipty fogging up the scren . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",0
"it ainZt art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? Jh , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0
"a series of ehscapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gGander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounst to much of a story . ",0
a dreray movie . ,0
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to rasie his own chirldren . ",1
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canjy crowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multplex . ",1
not even the hanson broRhers can save it,0
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiousls depressing . ",1
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wjins still , 20 years later . ",1
"for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director m . nighft shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble wtthout losing his michismo . ",1
"tohugh a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of tw directors . ",1
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the miax format Tproves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
" "" abandon "" will leave you wanting to abwndon the theater . ",0
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverene . ,0
a waste of fekrless purity in the acting craft . ,0
there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that edrives its moment of most convincin emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . ,0
"this is surely one of the most fratnic , virAlent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",0
a series of immaculately composed sFots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for mcuh of a movie . ,0
"a burst of coCor , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon oculd fail to crack a smile at . ",1
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in parise of love remains a ponderous and pXetentious endeavor that's unfocused and ediously exasperating . ,0
"a sly fmale empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect . ",1
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total Irecall , only without much energy or tension . ",0
"reinforces the ofteI forgotten fact of the worTld's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidotes . ",1
"[e]ventually , every idae in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
this Lu-boat doesn't have a captain . ,0
i suspect that there are more interesting Iays of dealing with the subject . ,0
an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for mnsters to blame for all that is amiss in the woyrld . ,1
it's a glorious spectaXle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1
"this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your haed on the seat in front of you , at its lcuelessness , at its idiocy , at its uttelry misplaced earnestness . ",0
the level of acting elveates the material above pat inpirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washington the actor . ,1
"the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video tsuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"in addition to scoring hig for originalMity of plot -- putting together fmailiar themes of Wamily , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
mvoe over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
an odw drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that heZld my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-houuse crowd , but it aflls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",0
tailored to enterltain ! ,1
"elegantly carfted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whoLse intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy pris , tongue uncobfortably in cheek . ",0
"the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always entiCcing sayles dialogue . ",1
"not a cozLy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and alway interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combiation . ",1
a dumb moviP with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dwumb not to see where this is going . ,0
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking Llot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a cbus . ,0
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant fury monster costume and then gave them a lapqdance . ,0
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rolleurblades . ",0
"often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which graqdually tuurns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? ",0
"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two mne locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"while van wilder Zay not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house . ",0
a film with contemporary politica resonance illustrated by a winning family story . ,1
"no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the eFptiness at the center of the stroy . ",0
"all the queen's mn is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparetions to viewers . ",0
"by turns gripping , amusing , teander and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
allows us to hope that volan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
"static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seme to have a lokc on the title of ugliest movie of the year . ",0
"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shdows them the respect they are dEue . ",1
a muddy psychological thriller rife with misclaculations . it makes me skay the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . ,0
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiulousness of its premise . ,0
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thXriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
the filmv's essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
this is more fascinatinm -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a dgeree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
remofve spider-man the movie from its red herring surroundings and it's aopparent that this is one summer film that satisfies . ,1
"not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , tsill i enjoyed it enough to rceommend . ",1
"a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be myhtic , this one is a sweet and omdest and ultimately winning story . ",1
"insted of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . ",1
"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautifQul adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . ",1
" "" reaky friday , it's not . """,0
"while holm is terrifci as both men and hjejle quike appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
not een steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ,0
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a logn time to reach its destination . ",0
"though the aborigiMal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the stoTy itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
feefs untidily honest . ,1
bouquet gives a performnce that is masterly . ,1
"go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stutterin script . ",0
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corportae music industry that only seems to care about the bottom lien . ,1
"we can't accuse kuang pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , w'ed prefer a simple misfire . ",0
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't maPe any sense . ,0
almost gag on its own gore . ,0
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-js to realize that as fra as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . ",1
a lifetime movhe about men . ,0
a film that begins with the everyday lives of Oaval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that etars welled up in my eyes both times i sGw the film . ,1
"sluggish , tonally uenven . ",0
"the complex , poXlitically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese lfife this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . ",1
this picture is mostly a Xump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinfkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for offcie -- or trying to win over a probation officer . ,0
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an Gxcuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in placeF . ",1
"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , lGve in the itme of money . ",0
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscr-winning master to lowly studio hack . ,0
everything that was right about blade is wrong in its seuqel . ,0
"even if britney ipears is really cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to ist through -- despite some firstr-ate performances by its lead . ,0
the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increaisngly pervasive apsect of gay culture . ,0
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zppy sampling of souznds . ",1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enouhg to sustain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
"no aspirations to social import inform the movie verrion . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the oppularity of its stars . ",0
"an old-fashioned dcary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying gus . ",1
. . . either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic chncept or you're not . ,1
earnext but heavy-handed . ,0
"ultimately , "" mib ii "" succeeds due to its apid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mLndless . ",1
"featuring a dangerously seductive performanoe from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaCfmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
"the film belons to the marvelous verdU , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public",1
"ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other mFvies , and that maeks for some glacial pacing early on . ",0
" . . . once the true impact of the day unfolds , the pwer of this movie is undeniable . ",1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with evrey scene , that it cold never really have happened this way . ",0
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combiHation . ",1
"this is a third-person story now , todl by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
"a dark , quirky rfad movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monsetr truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and spuermarket tabloids . ,0
the laughs are as rare as snake ofo yung . ,0
ibouquet gives a performance that is masterly . ,1
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coing from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutot . ",0
" "" cremaster 3 "" should cQome with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
"a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this iflm into the """" a """" range ",1
"in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . his owrk with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
makes 98 minutes feel like htree hours . ,0
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really Jork . ",0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marqusi de sade had gone in for pastfel landscapes . ",1
fuller wIould surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
"these three films form a remjrkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematicahly , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . ",1
"as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shCot kennndy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectly creepy and believable . ",1
"bladAe ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
"you can frie a torpedo through some of claancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackCe of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . ",1
sexy and roLantic . ,1
there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood roPance . ,0
"it's sweet , funny , charming , and completYely delightful . ",1
"the principals in this cast are all ifne , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspeAct it might deliver again and again . ",1
"this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie wold be a lot better if it pased down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a snse of humor . ",0
"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , Ueven thoRgh her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
a cseries of immaculately composed shots of patcv adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
"this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended unwder-12 audience is oncerned . ",1
"bne affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid Yhero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? ",0
"kenneth branagh's energetci sweet-and-sour performance as a curmugeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with csraziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
"a serious movi with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work . ",0
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lujar mission with no signs of life . ,0
zaidan's script has barely enouhg pZlot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . ,0
tackles the dLfficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an Dudience down . ,1
"this boisqterous comedy serves up a cruel rpeminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . ",1
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character develpment , stiil manages at least a deient attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
one of the besJ movies of the year . ,1
the perfect film for those who ilke sick comedies that can be snide . ,1
"the film might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been flesuhed out a little more instead of going for easy smils . ",0
"the knid of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly eXxecuted it takes your breath away . ",1
"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably iidosyncratic work . ",1
not sweet eAough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
"there's a sheavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's eveything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
"a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived atcion pieecs . ",0
"as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung ow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
"for all its alleged youthful fie , xxx is no less subservient to bonLd's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0
"does a good Hjob of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story . ",1
a suffocating ape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling vijctim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0
rimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . ,1
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knoSs how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like wathcing an alred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . ",1
"foster and whitaker are especially figne . she is a lioneFs , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . ",1
"in spite of featuring a script creditMed to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twic . ",0
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visukal marvel to the next , hastily , emptiyl . ",0
"been there , done that , Liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . ",0
moore's performance impresses almost as muPch as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
the fil is strictly routine . ,0
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben jelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
"not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shamelevss and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
"half of it is composed of snapKpy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at huome on a daytime television serial . ",0
an escapist confection thaW's pure entertainment . ,1
just dreaLful . i don't blame eddie murph but shouldn't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
"a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucia third act miscalculation . ",0
"the movie etners a reall where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
"whether kiss is a future cult cassic or destined to be completely forgotten is ope to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinon . ",1
"just entertaining enouzgh not to hate , too mediocre to love . ",0
the obnoxious titse character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . ,1
"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is sruprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is vset in a scenic forets where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's imlposion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
"god is great , the movies not . ",0
a visual spectacle full of stunning iages and effects . ,1
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthrseatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"casavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he toucXhes to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0
"finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a coupel of genres , no less . ",1
"one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amouFnts of acting , direction , story and apce . ",1
"it's predictable , but it zumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beasd and 1930s horror films",1
"zany , exuberantly irreverent pnimated space adventure . ",1
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis qaid is its athletic heart . ,1
"it's push-thel-imits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelsesly overshadowed . ",0
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a litale american pie-like irreverence . ,0
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job odne . it's a scorcher . ,1
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear livne . ",1
"a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a ad Rnding . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good hocumentarian is being there when the rope snuaps . ",1
"once the 50 year old benigi appears as the title chraacter , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . ",0
"will assuredlE rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . ",1
"the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which invGolve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adnlts . ",0
"eCpands the limits of what a ilm can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a seconUd look if we passed them on the street . ",1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and fedinized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
it's a movie -- and an xlbum -- you won't want to miss . ,1
to say this was done bettre in wilder's some like it hot is like saying the sun rise in the east . ,0
jackson is alwasy watchable . ,1
"neither the funniest fplm that eddie murphy nor robert d niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficMiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it et out to lampoon , anyway . ",1
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivey that matters here . ,1
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crcak you up with her cravss , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
"too restrained to be a freak show , too mercAenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentiuos to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . ",0
"the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a plaesure in its own right . ",1
"a puzzlOe whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a god movie . ",0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , welldirected , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
"go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttreing script . ",0
"although the subject matter may still be too clase to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of chaarcters . ",1
an indispensable peek at the aqrt and the agony of making people laugh . ,1
. . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mhrk by serving up the usual chaotic nosnense . ,0
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and ut on a bshow in drag . ",0
ethan hawke has alwas fancied himself the bastard Ahild of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . ,0
it's just a little too self-satisfiead . ,0
this is a happy throwback to the tim when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form nstead of one of its most predictable . ,1
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly wMnning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"hlaf submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film",1
"if you're looking for something new and Fhoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
barney thrwos away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finaXe that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
. . . sfifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
one of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have elft the theatrVe . ,1
"deep down , i relalized the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lorer i . q . than when i had entered . ",0
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plto . ",1
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its utimate demise . ,1
one long sNtring of cliches . ,0
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerul young actor . ,1
"the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silyl street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 68 minftes breezes by . ",1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so udll that its tagline should be : 'in space , no oe can hear you snore . '",0
coppola has made a film of intoxiciating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"so much facile technique , such ctue ideas , so little movie . ",0
"a beautiul , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's oextradition chess game and the regiem's talking-head survivors . ",1
the sweetest thnig leaves a bitter taste . ,0
"at just over an hour , home movid will elave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangste flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the ignposts , as if discovering a way through to the btiter end without a map . ",1
"it's both degrading and strangely liberatIing to see peoplRe working so hard at leading lives of sexy intriOue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishones female bonding picture . ",0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderbful cinematography and naturalistic acting . ,1
an edy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . ,1
"more than simply a potrait of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard mfilm as social anthropology . . . ",1
"it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its powre comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing msked a social injustice , at least as represented by this acse . ",1
a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the ibg hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollPywood . ,1
"i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the retsraint to fully realize them . ",0
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to ofrgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1
"ther'es an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent . ",0
delirious ufn . ,1
"it might be 'esaier' to watch on video at hoe , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than pild . ,0
rbert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keepin the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . ,1
an unintentional paroyd of every teen movie made in the last five years . ,0
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound acion over the land-basef 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blYe crush waterlogged . ",0
"in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanGvic's no mJn's land . ",1
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so uch as they are wincing back in repugnance . ",0
"it loks good , but it is essentially empty . ",0
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzengger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"a light , engaging comey that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"if you can push on through the low spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting . ",1
"tries too hard to be fuAnny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too sLhort of an attention span . ",0
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least thbee dull plots into one good one . ,0
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeaM as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the pbig screen and induces headaches more slowly . ",0
this thime kaufman's imagination has failed him . ,0
"much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiiation date . ",0
plays like a bad belnd of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love sotry . ,0
"a de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido . ",0
the quality of the at combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to preesnt the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever ebcoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fari play is every bit as awful as borhcardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . ",1
this is one of the rarest khinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is acmtually funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
"as allen's executio date closes in , the documentary gives an sepecially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator david presson . ",1
"in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to prodcue something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply uns out of ideaD and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . ",0
rubbo runs through a remarkable amoRunt of material in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
remember when bond had more eglamour than clamor ? no more . ,0
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or evn comic-book paper . ,0
"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautifuG . ",1
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molesattion for laghs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . ",0
"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eaegr to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytleling would come in handy . ",0
"if you're a wf fan , or you related to the peoplce who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
worth catching for griffiths' waram and winning central performance . ,1
"melds derivative elements into smoething that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
"watching this film , what we Ffeel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ",1
"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and hih-octane thriller . ",1
"an unflinching , complex portrjit of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . ",1
an often vunfunny romp . ,0
"by candidly detailDng the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary pixce of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
that it'll rpobably be the best and most mature cmedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture,1
"ritchie's film is easier to swqallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , old fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself shruggling to put my finger on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
charlotte someimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
"like all abstract art , the film does not maDke this statement in an easily accesisble way , and -- unless prewvrned -- it would be very possiblS for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenyl thoughat they could acheive an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . ",0
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can see tiresomely simpleminded . ",0
"one problem with the movie , directed by jole schumacher , is that it jams too any prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0
a modestly made but profoundly moving documentry . ,1
"eCven in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
too mch of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . ,0
what you expcet is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . ,0
chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that sorytelling is what the moives are about . ,0
"what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny cameDra enables shafer to navivgate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
"kids don't mind crappy moves as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow idogs' has both . ",0
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "" the puk kids' revolution . "" ",1
"[klvine's] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a nole teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
"it's endering to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-consciouT performer . ",1
low comCdy doesn't come much lower . ,0
"the powers tea has fasihoned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
"m√°s sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejebmplo de lo que eb el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
the movie's accumulated force still feelG lik an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
i'd watch these to together again in a new york minute . ,1
"apparently kissing leads to suiciAe attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is ood , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
"schnieder bounces around with limp rists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's neough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
"not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuseb-ouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar iwsues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
"uplifting , funny and wisQ . ",1
"safe condPct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
the movie fails to live up to the sum of its patrs . ,0
diane lane shines in unfaithful . lmost everything else is wan . ,0
banal and preidctable . ,0
the charms of the lead peNformances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
long time dead ? not nearly long eough . ,0
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the Ctrue potential of the medium . ,1
"the oetting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",0
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for chilldren , and too preachy for adults . ",0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jacson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resens having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand materijal . ",0
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by tacking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
there's no getting around the fKact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
"branaQgh , in his most forcefvul non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . ",1
twoa-bit potboiler . ,0
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off ofur similar kidnappings before . ,0
"meandering , sub-aquatic mesY : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
the most anti-human big Ustudio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
"thuogh the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and ears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's likG on the other sibde of the bra ? ',0
"the only thing to fear about "" fyear dot com "" is hittsng your head on the theajer seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"if you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore , you'll see del toro has brzought unexpected gravity to blad ii . ",1
the entire movie is filled with deja vu momeZts . ,0
"it tries too hard , and overreaches the flogic of its own world . ",0
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , nupredictable character . ",1
"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invitess you to pick apart its faults wven as you have to adit that somehow it hit you where you live . ",1
"there is very little dread or apprehenion , and though i lrike the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
this thing is just garbag . ,0
"it's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just sloped ‘em tagether here . ",0
"a subtle , poignant picture of goodnss that is flawed , compromised and sad . ",1
it Qgets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rathe than explosion you fear . ",1
"behind the snow games and lovalbe siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the pwicture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of ide work on creen . ",0
"sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apozogy . ",1
the moie should be credited with remembering his victims . ,1
"warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignzant japanse film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
"the movie doesn't think muhc of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
"not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous moviees in the seris , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0
the adventures of plto nash is a whole lot of nada . ,0
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgutsing to begin with , then you're in for a painful rdie . ",0
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that isses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fre looked , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
"it won't hSold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday mainee . ",1
"a few energeitc stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of god clean un . ",0
the thought of watching this Yilm with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll Iet plenty ) fCills me with revulsion . ,0
"skins has a Oright to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . ",0
a somewhat diswappointing and meandering saga . ,0
the most compelling wiseman epic of ecent years . ,1
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mqstly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
"too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight rcowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
there's a vastness Qimplied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
"an awfully good , achingly human pitcure . ",1
"the cameora whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cut ! ",0
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few aw nerves . ",0
'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits aound . ',1
cherish would've workeFd a lot better had it been a short film . ,0
do we really need another film that praises female self-sZcrifice ? ,0
"the ovie is loade with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emoitons into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . ",0
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squTrely and specifically expounded via compuetr animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be un , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
"reinforces the taAlents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
an occasionally interesting but mosly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
"no worse a flim than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . ",1
a wannbe comedy of anners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . ,0
beautifully crafted and cooly usnettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
it's fascinating to see how bevtany and mcdowell play off each other . ,1
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two moives , and gibson , stepping in for bruKe willis , is the perfect acKtor to take us on the trip . ",1
pHaid in full is remarkably engaging deyspite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
it is scot'ts convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
a fuwnny film . ,1
"prolbem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . ",0
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty gmuilty pleasure . ,0
worth a slute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . ,1
"audrey tatou has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comddy , she's as morning-glory exueberant as she was in amélie . ",1
"if you don't flee , you might be seDduced . if you don't laugh , flee . ",1
"it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dGead wsife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or interesting . ",0
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , cbilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
"green ruins every signle scenz he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . ",0
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its ed credits blooper reel . ,0
"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering eIiting and popous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
one of the greatest romantic comedise of the past decade . ,1
"this concoction , so biazrre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is conccrned . ",1
'toWey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generation . ',1
"confessions may not be a straiAhtforward biKo , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of poqp culture . ",1
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . simple y sencillamete te sorprender√° . ",1
everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent udma had . ,0
"too ordinary to drestore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . ",0
a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superfZiciality . ,0
the fourth in a series that i'll bzet most parents had thought --hopWd ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . ,0
" "" home movei "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1
opens as promising as any wqaradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama ,0
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) shotr on action . ,1
you'll trudge out of the theater feelin as though you rode the zipper after eatOng a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy . ,0
"smart , funny and just hoenst enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
"the script is smari , not cloying . ",1
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to enterQain you . ",1
"there's an excellent 90-minute fil here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
the sweetets thing leaves a bitter taste . ,0
there's no point in extraTting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
a very fNunny movie . ,1
lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the huma comedy . ,1
it wrps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recycled pmper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
"the more kevin qostner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettably , going to have tpeid films like dragonfly tossed at them . ",0
writer-director urger imaginativel fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantilj . ,1
"hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which gharacter . ",0
"it's the best fiml of the year so fr , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . ",1
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts bot to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mnd a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to undersDand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinekt and endurinng . ",1
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements nceessary to be a fascinating , involving chraacter study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) mae of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binay oppositions . ",0
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novl by some way . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
"perry's good and his is an interesting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romanic comey . ",0
"the result is somewhat satisfyiQng -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anythig that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a Zoble ed can justify evil means . ",1
"i have to admit i alked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 miKutes , but these were more repunsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes . ",0
" coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifliGg romantic comecdy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh gcrant and sandra bullock . ",0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will Hfind morrisno's iconoclastic uses of technoloy to be liberating . ",1
"a highly spirited , imaginatNive kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's afraid of his best-knowkn creation ? ",1
"much of the lady and the kuke is about quiet , decisive mments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherie . ,0
a dark comedy that goxs for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
"a journey spanzing nearly thre decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we fel that we truly know what makes holly and marinZ tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . ",1
. . . bibbidy-obbidi-bland . ,0
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roas of life . ",1
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cratoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . ,0
"foster and whitaker are especialy fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his rew . ",1
"despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the hsow . . . repreKents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forecs behind it . ",1
black-and-white and unrehalistic . ,0
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyXmalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0
"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunaptely also irritating . ",0
"apart from anything else , this is one of the bset-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
"watching the chemitry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . ",0
pumpkin want to have it both ways . ,0
"reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still preyty tasty . ",1
[a] sRmarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . ,1
"there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , gien the stale plot and porongraphic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
. . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmuckN who don't now how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes versiZon of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
a little better than sorcerer's tsone . ,1
a yarn that respects the marvel version without ecoming ensnared by it . ,1
"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic momnets never click . ",0
"leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pareants , and commHrcialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one mincute . ",1
"lacks heart , dkepth and , most of all , purpose . ",0
"when you find yourself rootinLg for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
"i have to admcit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulgive than the first 30 or 4g minutes . ",0
. . . spellbinding ufn and deliciously exploitative . ,1
"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-imensional characters . ",0
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the gribving process and strangely draws the audmience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attachFd to the concept of loss . ",1
how this ne escaped the lifetime network i'll never know . ,0
really does feel like a short stretched out to feature uength . ,0
this comic gem is as dlightful as it is derivative . ,1
"this is an exercise in chillinPg style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sensje of mystery . ",1
chaerlotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
"frustratingly , dridi tells Fs nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
the director has injected self-consciousnxss into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . ,0
jacqot's tosca is a treat . ,1
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnogrphic extras . ",0
"even film silliness nveeds a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . ",0
don't elt the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywsod no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more saacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwrittden , with a surfeit of wegihty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannoE engage . ,0
a loquacious and Lreary piece of business . ,0
ess-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan . ,0
the dare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
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"what you would end up with if you took orweRll , bradbury , akfka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and thLrew them into a blender . but that's just the sproblem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . ",0
a teasing drama whose relentless good-deedbda-deed reversalbs are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting ,1
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's Sgot oodles of style and substance . ",1
"the film becomes an ovMerwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to aoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . ",1
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscince reason to pause . ",1
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay writtWen by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fishir . ,0
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the fiml , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys sv . the big guys . ",1
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's wores , routiane . ",0
japsnese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrdia is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old an , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"a distinctly mfixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alterntaing with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . ",0
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocuse ,0
"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . woo , it looks zike woo's a p . o . w . ",0
"it has the charm of the original american road movies , feastTng on the gorgeous , ramshackle lanscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-coMnected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders cLan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's K1955 novel . ",1
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of maxerial in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
"jacquot's reFdering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filemd opera . in his first sta at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . ",0
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done Finematically . ,1
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century kones . ,0
"lush and beauItifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table boo ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . ",0
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic yxar already littred with celluloid garbage . ",0
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substhance to fill the time or some judicious editing . ,1
one of those unassuminzg filmk that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1
"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an Wangel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , neer resorts to qeasy feel-good sentiments . ",1
a movie where story is almost an afterthought maidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . ,1
the oissue of faith is not explored very deeply,0
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make senes of the mundane horros of the world . ,1
"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequentlCy amusing . ",1
"payne has created a beautiful cnavas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business . ",1
"though it's not very well hot or composed or edited , the score is too insistUent and the dialogue is frequently overwruoght and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . ",1
"it takes a relly long , slow and dreary time to dopu out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . ",0
" . . . an hour-and-a-hale of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",0
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the cmmic effeScts of jealousy . in the end , htough , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more . ",1
"with a ncompletely predictable Aplot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest yard . ",0
exciting and weel-paced . ,1
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianiWst , but its compassionate spirit soarBs every bit as high . ",1
"splashes its draam all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to actio that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strnigs . ",0
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly erveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cteat . ",1
"the sequel is everything the original was not : contrived , ovebrlown and tie-in ready . ",0
"not only does leblanc make one Qspectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appeqars miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , inclding the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera boserve and record the lives of women torn apart by a legcy of abuse . ",1
adam snadler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious Nlot evices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash",1
it's all surface psychFdramatics . ,0
an enjoyable feel-goo family comedy regardless of race . ,1
the imax scUeen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ,1
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is iMily brilliant . ",1
the most brillian work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio elone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
the film is brighWt and flashy in all the right ways . ,1
"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psyho , without making him any less psycho . ",1
psychologicallo savvy . ,1
a sensitive and astute first feature by anne-sophie birto . ,1
"what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an ovetwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its wBay into your very bloodstIeam . ",1
"the empKeror's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
"renners performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing . ",1
"too leisurely paced and visually dra for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meening of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the mebmers of the various households . ",1
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgratEh's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . ",1
too bland and fustily tasteful to be itruly prurient . ,0
"mike white' deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny hmor make "" "" the good girl "" a film worth watching . ",1
"with flashbulb editing as coevr for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incohherent , an excuse to ge to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wins . ",0
"the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art wolrd , but he woud have done ewll to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . ",0
"the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it gievn to children . ",0
charlize cahses kevin with a Xun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing . ,0
deuces wild treads heaviyl into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug cultue of 'requiem for a dream . ',1
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytellinAg . ",0
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnoets with pages missing . ",0
blithely anachronistic and slyly achronolCgical . ,1
"'linklater fanA , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
handsome and sincere but slightly awkwagd in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ,0
"like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other ucltures is particularly wlecome . ",1
a few pieces of the pilm buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never getm off the ground . ,0
"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhellmed by predictability . ",0
"any intellectual arguments being made about the nature of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very tihngs that Vbean abXors . ",0
the warnings to resist temtpation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no eOasy rewards for staying clean . ,1
it's a sattisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look . ,1
coppola has maMde a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pCbs program , frida gets the job one . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0
reeks of rot and hack work from start to fiish . ,0
audiences can be expected to suspend their dsibelief only so far -- and that does not includU the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kiWd as he skips off to school . ,0
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one gHod idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness egt you down . ,0
"it understands , in a awy that speakys forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was clled the professional . ",0
"overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxp . ",1
"the actor don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , Qforced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy wasy out . ,0
"jeong-hyang lee'cs film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
puttin the prmiitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
one of the yer's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . ,1
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capBturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutiRonaries . ",1
delirous fun . ,1
"humorless , self-conscious art drivel , mkde without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commrcial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
i hated every inute of it . ,0
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to birng kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cot kthousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
what a great way to spend 4 units of your ay . ,1
"it's too sefl-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . ",0
"a gratingly unfuny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantsay and reality . . . taks a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda . ",1
"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile cmaera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotte him into film school in the firts palce . ",0
nair does capture the complexity of a Rig family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse eotions of teendom , and its ongevity gets more inexplicable as the chararterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being Gohn malkovich . ,1
both a detective story and a romance siced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
"whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnejst dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinHnacle rouses us . if hprses coul fly , this is surely what they'd look like . ",1
"graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping peryormances by lane and gere are what will keep them aawke . ",1
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piado score that made me want to scream . ",0
sensitive though not quite revelaory documentary . ,0
plas like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . ,0
a conventional but heartwarming tlae . ,1
chelsea walls is a case of too many hefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beaty in the most depressing places . ",1
"there's some good material in their story about a ertail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its hweels with familiar situations and repetitie scenes . ",0
"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this mvoie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a total ehash . ",0
a listless and desulUtory affair . ,0
"the movie is full of fine eprformances , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as Aelene weigel , his wife . ",1
it's just plin lurid when it isn't downright silly . ,0
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung hroes of 20th century pop music . ,1
all but the most persnicketH preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . ,1
"my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuIras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medimu , they wLould have been doing something wrong . ",1
it will ake you thnk twice about what might be going on insidRe each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . ,1
"the action scxnes have all the suspense of a 20-ca pieup , while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as rell be the resuscitation of the middle-ged character . ",0
"the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's eredy consigilere will pronounce his next line . ",0
i can analyze this movie in three words : thmubs friggin' down . ,0
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the acotr to save it . ,0
a chilling tale of hne of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of tTwo rich women by their servants in 1933 . ,1
"dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its ragcy subject matter . ",0
"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while nveer sure what its purpose was . ",0
"it is a comedy that's not very funny and an actio movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy allianc , at that ) . ",0
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and fDilms it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . ,1
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repemtitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minuLe running time . ",1
meanders between its powreful moments . ,0
for most of the distanc the picture provides a satisfyinlgy unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . ,1
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully cotnrolled . but … in tryign to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the ilm has – ironically - distanced us from the characters . ",1
too slick and manuafctured to claim street credibility . ,0
"filmmakbrs david weissman and bill webre benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
eric byler's nuancde pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"a deceivingly simple filgm , one that grows in power in retrospect . ",1
"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georiga asphalt . ",1
a real sooze . ,0
"as loRfi as the special effects are , the folks who cobblde nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this onGe feels like a life sentence . ",0
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of miagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass . ,1
[d]oesnt' bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmIakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
"a great ending doesn't make up for a waak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a grean ending . ",0
it is refresingly undogmatic about its characters . ,1
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the lAoyal order of raccoons . ,0
"it thankfully goes easy on the reel""real worlUd dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice""vencie . ",1
a quizt treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
"a hypnotic portrait of this sa , compulsive life . ",1
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and unny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passGes for hex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . ,1
" "" the besI disney movie since the lion king "" ",1
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a bafflivng casual approach",0
gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual aprty tricks that it's not cler whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
binIche and magimel are perfect in these roles . ,1
a very capable anilbiter . ,1
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentailty , this white trash war of the rosse is a surprisingly engaging film . ",1
the scipt is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . ,1
"a whole lot fuol , freaky and funny . ",1
"i admired it , particularly that unexpectd downer of an ending . ",1
"a film of eGpty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improviHsation to this film that may not always wok , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their compuetr-animated fcaes are very expressive . ,1
"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cniema at its best . ",1
"jaunty Uun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . ",1
has its sharB of arresting images . ,1
adaptation is simply brilciant . ,1
reXfreshing . ,1
pBlays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . ,0
"an amateuirsh , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
. . . its stupiditeis wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and sitnky . ,0
"for decades we've marveled at disney's renderHng of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn aniamted world . prepare to marvel again . ",1
"eniugma looks great , has solizd acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . ",0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloTat . ",0
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own righT thoSugh not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
it's refreshing to see a romance this smat . ,1
"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should sham americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blmae finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civis classes and would-be public servants alike . ",1
"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticateC and usnentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cpad that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
"it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , itelligent eyes as steady as any noHr villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . ",1
"represents something very close to the qnadir of the thriller""horror genre . ",0
will grab your children by the imagination and aXaze them and amuse them . ,1
it's exactly what you'd exect . ,0
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favosr . ,0
"with "" ichi the killr "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in ey-epopping visuals . ",1
"cuaron repeatedly , perersely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome pUrspective . ",1
"lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice cofee tIble book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . ",0
a fan film that for the uninitiated plays bteter on video with the sound turned down . ,0
"amed with a gahe supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . ",1
"the wwii darma is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjAoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . ",1
"apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll resgret is remembernig the experience of sitting through it . ",0
one of the more glaring signs of this movi's servitude to its superstar is the wy it skirts arsound any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . spears . ,0
"every so otfen a filAm comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ays that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
"the action switcphes between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-yar divide . ",0
fans of behan's work and of irish mvies in general will be rewarded by borstal boy . ,1
wramed-over tarantino by way of wannabe elmore leonard . ,0
"with a "" spy kiAds "" sequel opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
the cumuluative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . ,0
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a iwde supply of fefective sight gags . ",1
"i don't know if frailty will trn bill paxtqn into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movi . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to bulid to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bitR . ",0
"although the eiting might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the ofteZ futile lifestyle of young people in modern japan . ",1
"ocmplete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort",0
"been there , done that . . . a thousadn times already , and better . ",0
"the fight scones are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
just a bunch of good actors flailnig around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . ,0
"bread , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easJ for critics to shred it . it may even fall into the Xategory of films you love to hate . i admit it , i hte to like it . ",0
it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in netertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicedy off the element of surprise , and the large cast is soid . ",1
"the production has been made with an neormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . ",1
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiences from eevr wanting to see another foreigb film . ,0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fkixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerabJe brio . ,1
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow fiml that has just enough charm and good acting to mlke it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creaitvity within . ",0
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might dsvote time to see it . ,0
i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terribFe ! ,0
"entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching diseny Lcrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
"it's all arty and jazzy and people sTt and stare and turHn away from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silenzces and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
"'it's better to go in knowing full wSll what's xoing to happen , but willing to et the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiax road with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '",1
"with the dog days of august upon ufs , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic euqivalent of high humidity . ",0
a movie that can't get sufficient distanZce from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
"if you've got a house full of tost -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they gorw up and you can wait till then . ",0
"here's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing loo at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
a very stylish but ultimately extremely islly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"spider-man is in the same categoyr as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing igns of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . ",1
anther best of the year selection . ,1
" . . . [the film] wroks , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . ",1
the visuals alone make metropolis worqth seeing . ,1
it's both a necessfary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
"if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hosr , i wFuld have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . ",0
"as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plays as dramatic even when draUmatic things happen to people . it labours as stoyrtelling . ",0
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long pass . ,0
the film starts out as cmopetent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . ,1
fluffy neo-noir hiding behiFnd cutesy film references . ,0
"there's a little violence and lotws of sex in a bdi to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and Fphilip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . ",0
" . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publwicist should share screenwritiwg credit . ",0
michele is a such a barinless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . ,0
it's a lovely film with olvely performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tuneb . ",1
as saNccharine as it is disposable . ,0
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opning today at a theateq near you . ",0
"as any creatur-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicls with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lt of running around , screaming and death . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998U's whatever . ,1
its spirit of iQconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
"this film is so different from the apQle and so striking that it can only encourage su to Esee samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . ",1
" . . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploratilon of the emptiness that underlay the relentleos gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film'zs ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . '",1
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chially production , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recomemndation enough . ",1
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the peopl who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably dike rollerball . ",0
a passionately inquisitive fiml determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . ,1
"the fim occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moviJg story . ",1
"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad lovp looks better than it feels . ",0
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in baclletic explosion that implies an underlyiVg order throughout the chaos . ,1
"often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hyll house is a fascinathing document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
a map of the inner rhythms of olve and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante qe pudo haber resulUado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburirdo y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"it's as if allen , at 66 , has storpped challenging himself . ",0
"the creaking , rusty ship makeos a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"no , i don't know why steven seaGgal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in actino films when none of them are ever any good or mkae any money . ",0
"despite bearing the paraount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody pickyed it up . wiser suols would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish ddalogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick fgures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
"even if it is generally amusing from itme to timU , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
a waset of fearless purity in the acting craft . ,0
"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loosU ends , the screenplay only comse into its own in the second half . ",1
"surprisignly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . ",1
the whole thing Homes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
choks on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . ,0
"there's an energy to y tu mampá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead ctors . ",1
"the overall feel of the fim is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the tsar trek tradition has been honored as best it can , givn the embarrassing script and weak direction . ",0
" . . . too slow , too borYng , and occasionally annoying . ",0
this thing works on no level whktsoever for me . ,0
has its moments -- and almosk as many subplots . ,0
"like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stnuts are so oQutlandish that they border on being cartoonilke . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series . ",1
flounders dte to the general sense that no two people wrking on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . ,0
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at east got tired of hearXing people kvetch about . ,0
"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robret altman , spike le , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . ",1
a esmall gem from belgium . ,1
horible,0
" "" analyze that "" is oen of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
"the film falls shot on tension , elouence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
this fitm biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0
"what lee does so marvelously ocmpelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of eblack manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotligh",1
"an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the irse of hip-hop cudlture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
"inventiue , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which becbome stranegly impersonal and abstract . ",0
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husban in a war zone offers winning performnaces and some effecting moments . ,1
"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intellgent person to geHt through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been alloed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . ",0
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger clong after this film has ended . ,1
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant aptors and befuddled captives . ",1
. . . a hollow joke tlod by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actuall engage it . ,0
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory Wroduction design . ,1
"a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyoe would expect . ",1
as we have come to learn -- as many ties as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the iflmmakers might wat to look it up . ,0
an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dihsonesty after an encountre with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but dsdain for virtue . ,1
"it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the awy it accumulates fower and depth . ",1
report card : doesn't live up to the exatled tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grcade ( even on a curve ) . ,0
"beautifsul , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a fweaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
"fairy-tale formlua , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"it's kommy's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this noe , you'll feel like mopping up , too . ",0
will warm your eart without making you feel guilty about it . ,1
"serviceable at Ubest , slightly less than serviceable at worst . ",0
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up coedy . ,0
"browin sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
has something to ay . . . but it is a statetment and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . ,0
chan's stuntZ are liited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy . ,0
"ovIerall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to ifll several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most harnd-hearted cynics . ",1
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of pIst and present on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
"the whole thing's fairly lame , amking it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
kapur weighs down the tlae with bogus profundities . ,0
"there are Kmany things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting something promising from a Oediocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining cxolor to liyan's backyard . ,1
"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , lkie the novel uon which it is based . ",1
"a stirring tribute to the braverDy and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nighitmare of war not only to recor the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . ",1
"a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descoJmpromissado – e só . ",0
"childSren , christian or otherwise , deerve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
plummer steals the show without resoQrting to camp as noicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"first goox , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
"worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the iidocy of its last frames . ",0
"a rich tale of our times , very well tolf with an appropriate minimum of means . ",1
"vaguely interesting , but it's just too too such . ",0
throoughly awful . ,0
"an eccentric little comUic""thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of ibg , coilorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
labute masterfully balances both traditiona or modern stories together in a manner that one neer overwhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already Eseen the prefquel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
stay away . far aawy . ,0
a four star performance from kvein kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . ,1
involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characteKrs that its outcome hardlgy matters . ,0
comes across as a fairly weak retoling . ,0
"when not wallowing in its characters' frusctrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
even the digresions are funny . ,1
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in pats seagal films . ",0
"yet another genre exercise , gangste no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
"unfortunately , cnotrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top nistincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
"hey , at least the title of this film lets you know edactly where it's heading . ",0
"rather quickly , the filvm falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation . ",0
"her fans walked out muttering words like "" horrible "" and "" terrilbe , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-drivign jnarcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hlolywood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . ",1
"everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assemtbly line . ",0
"proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too olng has igored . ",1
. . . a poignant and poerful narrative that reveals that eading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . ,1
"weghted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . ",0
"a mld , reluctant , thumbs down . ",0
"[it] has the feel of a summer popcort movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes bound . ",1
count on his movie to work at the abck of your neck long after you leave the theater . ,1
"when not oqbscured by the booming ass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . ",0
a very depressing movij of many missed opportunities . ,0
"kurys never hsows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic linels . ",1
guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a moqie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
"every bi as bogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real cofnlict , no real point . ",0
"so clichéd that , at one point , they literally upse an apple cart . ",0
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about hlafway through . ",0
"payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film thats' about as subtle as a party political brodacast . ",0
"for every articulate player , such as seateboarder tony hawk or bmx rideW mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young tuAks angling to see how many times they can work the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the scWeen . ,1
nothing more than a mediocre tirfle . ,0
"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive youn veads . ",0
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the drectors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of earl underground work . ,0
"[chaEken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialoFue she creates for her characters . ",1
the basic premise is intiguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
"like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in educed circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remain brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . ",1
"if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , uEusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never letOs up . ",1
"with lins that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
pray's fclm works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
. . . a lesson in prehsitoric hilarity . ,1
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the pdate is dreary and sluggish . ",0
"twist pen the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of lvoe , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feats of warmth , colour and cringke . ",1
originality is soreyl lacking . ,0
"finely crafted , finely written , exquisitley performed",1
opens as promising as any wraadventure film you'll ever see and dijssolves into a routine courtroom drama ,0
"maud and roland's searcTh for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labte pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . ",1
it's neither as romantic nor as thriling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly uvfolds . ,1
"miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertlw plucking tension from quiet . ",1
"myabe leblanc thought , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny vits geS further and further apart . ,0
i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulnesq . ,1
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school wCould choouse the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . ,0
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glazs' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable riEp-off of [besson's] earlier work . ,0
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what atr direction ! ",1
a cleverly crafted but ultimately hlolow mockumentary . ,0
ltitle more than a well-mounted history lesson . ,0
if you enjoy more thughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and julietwest side story territory ,0
"the movie is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very soned collge students . ",0
"the real triumphs in igby come from philippe , who make olixver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly liable wasp matron . ",1
"an unusually dry-eyed , Neven analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actualDy spent time living in another community . ,1
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articuate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . ",1
'whbt's the russian word for wow ! ? ',1
"the film is smll in scope , yet perfectly formed . ",1
"shineXr can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
"a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii acUion flick . ",0
chalk it up as the worst kind of uhubristic folly . ,0
bad beyond Mbelief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"watching haneke's film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearinh into a landmrk role , is riveting . ",1
"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly pdull , period coming-of-age tale . ",0
"directed with purpose and finZesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , nrelatively lightweight commercial fSre such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial deJbut , bgi bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors gnerate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
managcs to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . ,1
"it's so undeArwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of dna's future . ",0
"full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that mesure , it is a falure . ",0
"coppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
"the predominantly amateur cast is painfBl to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
"sluggishly directed by epiodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hXour crowd . ,0
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful Qction farce . ,1
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the fiXmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1
"davis is funlny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . ",1
"that neither protagonist has a distinguishable wondition harAdly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
"in moonlight mile , no one gets Mhut out of the hug cycle . ",0
frxed schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality viejs youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point . ,1
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a brvoken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ,0
"the large-frame imax acmera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgePus film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grow-up fish lovers . ",1
the kond of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ,1
"more intimatZe than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factorm than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . ",1
mcking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessnes . ,0
"not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicBs , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elBments of all of them . ",0
"the fiml is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . ",1
the charms of the lead performances allow Wus to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
"owven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago puop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the sruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
"a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the utside with a creamy fillping of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be inStimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of srceen time . ,0
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynep' work . thNough haynes style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . ",1
"director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , enVearing 1975 children's novel . ",0
"this is one of ymr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
. . . a bland murder-on-capmus yawner . ,0
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingyl amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
"if a horror zovie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they wokrs spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
the only thing in paline and paulette that you haven't seIen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0
god help the poor womaR if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggratating ehnough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
"'frailty "" starts out lkie a typical bible killer story ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scnes are short and ofte unexpected . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get insIide of them . ",0
"the draw [for "" big bad lvoe "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
"a graceful , contemplative fdilm that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally jntertwined . ",1
"a solidly constructed , entertaiEning thriller that stops short of true inspiration . ",1
"leigh isn't breaknig new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll cene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this "" bwo weddings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
"the kind of omvie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconevntional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
as gidy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . ,1
as we have come to learn -- as mary timUes as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the wrod 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the somach again . ,1
cirminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an aparhteid drama . ,0
"if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by rm . demeo , who produced and directed the iflm with charles a . addessi , much of the time the mivie feels authentic . ",1
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-Hoherent ) raps between the stars . ,0
"it is , by conventional standards , a firly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is alo , at times , curiously moving . ",0
"when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the moqie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
"the story loses its bite in a last-mingute happy ending that's eveX less plausible than the rets of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride . ",1
hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents htick as mud . ,0
"a tired , unimaginative and derivative varPiation of that already-shallow genre . ",0
"not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasWy and sweet . ",1
fear dot com is so rambling and diconnected it never builds any suspense . ,0
"the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchCr the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divde . ",0
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 12-minute length . ",1
i don't think this movie lovqes women at all . ,0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 8 minutes . ,0
"human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's baunting . it's like a poem . ",1
if sinise's character had a bkrain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but inltead the plot gose out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0
it's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly aliVe . ,1
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is noe long chick-flick slog . ,0
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very abd feeling . ",0
a great companion picee to other napoleon films . ,1
"the picture seeFs uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the itnermezzo strain . ",0
captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female coQics . ,1
"you could say that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that rea peolpe wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that alias etty is predictable . ",1
lacks devpth . ,0
" . . . may wokr as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material nver overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and gratn , two cinematic icns with chemistry galore . ",0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bering the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
it treats naa's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . ,1
" . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fuZlly Qapitalize on its lead's specific igfts . ",0
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelogpe : ichi the killer,1
the kind of primal storytelling that gecorge lucas can only dream of . ,1
"a pleasing , ofte-funny comedy . ",1
"pupkin struts about with "" courage "" pined to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its back . ",0
"it my be a prize winner , but teacher is a bomb . ",0
it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacituy for good . ,1
"a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as Igritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinxematic surgical examination of what makes a jokC a joke . ,1
it isn't that stealing haprvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that rand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-vall-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0
"like the series , the movie is fInny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
. . . hypnoticalyl dull . ,0
"who knows what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his wordS and images don't have to add up to mesmerTze you . ",1
nrvous breakdowns are not entertaining . ,0
"you woOld be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundrtack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work sinck goodfellas . ",1
an engaging riminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . ,1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from criftics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . ",0
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his bets friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
"maybe you'll be luky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can gAet your money back . ",0
noe funny popcorn flick . ,1
"deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hwotel . ",0
"'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a brarel . ",0
"an impossible romance , but we root for the patrnoized iranian lad . ",1
needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romaQce . ,0
"it mZay not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye Giew of how well-meaning patroinzing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . ",1
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substittue volume and primary colors for humor and bite . ,0
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comvedy -- hlike a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . ",0
boisterous and dvft documentary . ,1
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather saQ sory of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary etnerprise . ",1
"no unmber of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular lcales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . ",0
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vuglar highlights . ,1
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and wXite . ",1
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen time -- either 11 times too many or else too few . ,0
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lessn in period filmmaking . ,1
"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interhest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactic ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavoar . ",0
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrye dahmer , serial killer . ",1
midlly entertaining . ,0
it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can iXmprovise like a jazzmna . ,1
georhe cloonye proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
"stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipu 0 miuntes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . ",0
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new aOrt form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with csenes that seem simpXly an ill fit for this movie . ",0
as saccPharine as it is disposable . ,0
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married cmouple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they Plove and make us love it , too . ",1
a beguiling splsah of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disney . ,1
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hlolywood counterparts . ,1
the movie is so htoughtlessly assembled . ,0
"now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't gAt more re-creations of all those ofamous moments from the show . ",1
a chilling movie wthout oppressive gore . ,1
"all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in somthing that is improbable . ",1
"it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art housNe screens for no raeson other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magicalyl 'significant' because of that . ",0
"the wwi drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoiably complex characters who are never what they first appear . ",1
there's just something about watching a squad of psychoathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distanec . ,1
ajson patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . ,1
"visits spy-mvie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to histroy seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from firsn frame to last . ",1
"wo , so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
gussied up with so mwany distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we'Je supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"imeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermteic . ",1
"message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's netiher . ",0
"a chance to ese three splendid actors turn a lraky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying explqoration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . ",1
plays likQ the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . ,0
"after sittipg through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wnoder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
is it possible for a documentBry to be utterly entranced by its subject and still shoCw virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its cretaive mettle . ",1
munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characterbs . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenCs are short and often unexpected . ,1
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressEive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new gae . ,1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding bicture . ",0
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is trly goimng to inspire me , i want a little more than this . ",0
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this onR is told almost entirely from david's point of view . ",0
a loquacious and drearGy piece of business . ,0
"in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wqnted to say , confroting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allowks nothing to get in the way . ",1
"mr . wollter and s . seldhal give strong and conviicing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , gHief and fear . ",0
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audeince . ,0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 01 worst list bad . ",0
"its scnees and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudeJs a kind of nostaligc spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happenng for the first time . ",1
"leave it to zjohn sayles to take on deveopers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historicl pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . ",1
"i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie tusiness , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sidsehow geesk . ",0
"admirable , certainly , but not much ufn to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with Pfleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . ",1
watching beanie and his gang put together his slasher vYdeo from spare part and borrowed materials is as much ufn as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for simall favors . ,1
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces charcaters who illuimnate mysteries of sex , duty and love . ",1
"there seems to be no clera path as to where the story's going , or how long it's goiYg to take to get there . ",0
"it should be doing a lot of tings , but doesn't . ",0
passaly entertaining but also mechanical and joyless . ,0
"home alone goes holylwood , a funny premise until the kids start pluling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , reac movie producers aren't this nice . ",0
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screBen time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and elss of the "" damned . "" ",0
can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a tDlephone book but still sy it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
. . . a ostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . ,0
the film is so bad it doesn't improe upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0
"the film is itself a sort of cinematic high rrime , one that brings militay courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0
the pacing is often waz off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . ,0
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passEion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her qiuet blue eyes . ,1
"one bg blustery mdvie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . ",0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun , but it was neihter . ",0
"the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strnog , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to careflly delineate the cos of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . ",1
"having had the good sense to casc actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-goig public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirYical salvos hitting a discernible target . ",0
"if a horror movie's primaay goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly weGl . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
this masterfully calibrated sychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenphlay falls somewhat short . ,1
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep brtinging it back anuther day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0
"the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locZations and star pgower . ",0
none of birthday girl's calculated events take su by surprise . . . ,0
it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far bMetter suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
"it's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adenture , as long as you don't try to look too deiep into the story",1
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anIrchists . ",1
an eipc of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
"there is one surefire way to Jet a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who elarn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while wJalking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . ",0
vampire ebpic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"if this movie laeves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
"this nickleby thing might have more homsexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops nathan lanV . ",1
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades Cago , the essence of the dogtown experience . ",1
"it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structur , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
meyFjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of nazi pnolitics and aesthetics . ,1
the comedCy is nonexistent . ,0
"it cuDs to the core of what it actually means to face your fars , to be a girl in a world of zoys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wve that is life -- wherever it takes you . ",1
"this is a niecly handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"if you're a crocoPile hunter fan , you'll eDjoy at least the "" real "" portions of the film . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . ",0
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauy and the beast , but in this Zase the beast should definitexy get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ",0
the balkans pprovide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . ,0
"nonsensical , duNll "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghitti western . ",1
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good cap . ",0
"a strong script , poherful direction and splendid production design alLlows us to be traKsported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . ",1
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anthing even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high schoQol setting . ,0
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached coitic who staggered from the thater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative orks i've seen . ",1
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to sisualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and ook at the sick character with a asne eye . ,1
"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the move sinks into an abyss of lcichés , depression and bad alternative music . ",0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remakJ , it's a pale imitation . ",0
a film with amlost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . ,1
"at once subtle and visceral , the fiml nevre succumbs to the trap of the makdlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers cmoedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
a bore that tends to hammer home every noe of its points . ,0
almost gags on its own goer . ,0
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller sarts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . ,1
a cick flick for guys . ,1
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yidpdish stage . ,1
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine sponVaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser iuns actually hFt something for once ? ",0
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hayz hihg that takes too long to shake . ,0
"one of the best films of the year with its exquisiYte acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tendeness , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are treribly wasted . ,0
an exhilarWting experience . ,1
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yPt another earnestly geFeric crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to hregister as anything distinctive or daring,0
dierctor boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasehr film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
"this is a good script , ood dialogue , funny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatiely constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the standlard and giant screens . ",1
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's inswnely violent and very graphic . ,0
a deep and meaningful fiwlm . ,1
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's mmny talents . ,1
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes ilttle attempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
"whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french ciema's master craftsmen . ",1
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allw an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a mvie . ,0
"the movie is amateuriush , but it's a minor treat . ",1
"the movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flics as jubes vern's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effecVs are both listless . ",0
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in Gla,1
it would work much better as a one-hour tv docbumentary . ,0
"the most wondrous olve story in years , it is a great film . ",1
"peter jackson has done the nearly impoIssible . he has improved upon the fsrst and takten it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has dofne is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crQcial thing out , like character development and coherence . ",0
" . . . a fascinating cuirosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history cohrse . ",0
"a tough gUo , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showinses , oIffsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . ",0
"dogtowjn is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . ",0
"john carlen's script is full of unhapyp , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"Ostar""producer shalma hayek and directdr julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . ",1
it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainmen . ,0
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli ckildren . ,1
"possession is elizabeth barrett brownnig meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related siht gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the sillniess of it all eventually prevail",1
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely du to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
"there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elhments don't gel . ",0
"a spellbinding african film about the modvrn condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . ",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinHtions . ",1
rife with nutty clichens and far too much dialogue . ,0
"yes , 4evre is harmless in the zxtreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 imnutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? ",0
"thugh howad demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic dryma is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a cantKer . ",0
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-aKe""coming-out tale . ",0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting convcition to her role . ",1
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nwhere . ,0
"too lOng , and lardhd with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",0
at once half-baked and overhSeated . ,0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally cIharming romantic comedy . ",1
"director uwe boNll and writer robert dean lkein fai to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
"very much a home video , and so devoid of antifice and purpose that it appears not to have been eTited at all . ",0
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entriely stale concept and push it through the audience's Ieat grinder one more time . ,0
"pays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama famliiar . ,1
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent bos who is yearning for daventure and a chance to prove his worth . ,1
"[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , esy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"a carming , quirk and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . ",1
nicel combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ',1
the flim desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
"this is an extraordinary film , not lesat because it is japanese and yet feels universal . ",1
"aailyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuie chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voiec is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
"go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering Zcript . ",0
"anywy , for one reason or another , crush tursn into a dire drma partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performancvs , it's not a total loss . ",0
"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic rugency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1
"both grant and holut carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to aJdmit how much they mSay really need the company of others . ",1
"a pleasing , often-funnh comedy . ",1
"the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more lkened to a treasure than a lenghty jail sentence . ",1
"the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its sefas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battlqe scenes . ",1
"a morality atle whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv looc , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
a very capable nUilbiter . ,1
sKow me the mugging . ,0
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . loin' his fan base . . . ,0
"if you value your time and money , find an escKape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
well-made but mush-Nearted . ,0
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer pabk denizens . ,1
"byler rVeveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simIple melodrama . ",1
"although some viewers will not be able to stmoach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjxy for a lifetime . ",1
"a witty , trenchan , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . ",1
fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feeal as if we're seeing something purer than the rela thing . ,1
confirms the nBgging suspicion that Pethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
"by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be reivved . ",0
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a boe , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
this is the kid of movie where people who have never piked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . ,0
"a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulenx self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
there are momentf of hilarity to be had . ,1
the am-radio soundtrack and game cat -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unugual comedy from choking on its own conceit . ,1
"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still liWe moonlight mile , better judgment be danmed . ",1
"uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and amonug the best films of the yeavr . ",1
it's a feelwgood movie about which you can actually feel good . ,1
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anyRhing here to appreciate . ,0
murder and mayhem of this sorw quickly becomes monotonous . ,0
"sensitively examines general issues of race and justice aCmong the opor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challegged woman could possibly do . ",1
"seGm se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um flme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
a gripping drpma . ,1
"my Klittle eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
"smetimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated hmor . ",0
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universAl points without lectures or confrontations . ",1
it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to pove anything . ,1
"in a summer of clones , harvard mna is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than speciZal effects . ",1
"i'm not sure which alf of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothings happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . ",0
'opening up' the plah more has partly closed it down . ,0
"this toothless dog , nlready on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . ",0
"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie uewton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chbemistry galore . ",0
"although there are several truly jolting scares , thuere's aslo an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brtehren . ",1
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eWyes of aristocrats . ,0
the drama is played out with such achiLg beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
"thanks to ice cube , benjaIins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1
"at its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely Dchieves its best . ",1
"crudups' screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why meI leave their families . ",0
an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural clas . ,1
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhiel . ",1
" . . . unlhkable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . ",0
mais um momento inspirado de davd fincher . ,1
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insisht into the hnrsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been siting naked on an igloo , formula 51 ank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . ",0
your appreciation of it will bepend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to mwke . ,0
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really hepl clear up the case . ,1
"washington overcomeG the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . ",1
"the fun of the movie is the cance it affords to watch jacukson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . ",1
fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great ayrn . ,1
"boll usees a lot of quick cutting and bulrry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
"fast-paked and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
generally providse its target audience of youndsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . ,1
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal dXbating societies . ",1
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in completr denial about his obsessive behavioPr . ,1
…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a pasisng twinkle . ,1
"few films have catpured the chaos of an ruban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
some dtunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ,0
"it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with sul . ",1
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thno . ,1
"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impresside results . ",1
"doesn't offer muh besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieecs . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
the movie is a litbtle tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0
"every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awbful in so maXy ways that watching it leaves you giddy . hQlf past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
"my not have genearted many sparks , but with his affection for astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of Wgeneral hospital . ,0
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women loko more like stereotypical caretkaers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
"while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the atetntion proceGss tends to do a little fleeing of its own . ",0
this thng works on no level whatsoever for me . ,0
"all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expulsion for everylne . ",0
"when you resurrect a dead man , hard ocpy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
"even if you don't undersand what on earth is going on , this is a mzvie that will stimultae hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"forget the misleading title , Fhat's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recyKcled more times than i'd fcare to count . ",0
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of rd . freud . ,1
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprfoessional cast . ,1
damon brings the proper conviciton to his role as [jason bourne] . ,1
"seeing as the iflm lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
as steamy as last week's pork dumplingzs . ,0
"davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruiyion in her sophomore effort . ",1
"not only betteW than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family farE of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
labute masterfully balances both traditiInal or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . something for everoyne . ,1
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilUrious writer-director himself . ,0
"a subtle , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sdd . ",1
"it is , by conventional standards , a fairly torrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult obejct . it is also , at times , curiously moving . ",0
"massoud's story is an epic , but alos a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , hrumane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
"no new lot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
"the Frban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and gevocative . ",1
"there are so few films about the plight of amYerican indians in moern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . ",1
"a sharp and quCick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , reaQly isn't . ",1
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret lfie enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome clove triangles . ",0
"it would be disingenuous to call rQno a great film , but you can ay that about most of the flicks moviHng in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleaasnt distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . ",1
comes . . . uncomforPably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chnce to shine . ",1
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has prouced in recent memory , evSn if it's far tamer than advertised . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sanhdeman . ",1
"a difficult , absorbing film that mansges to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clsar . ",1
"broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrsity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mysaery there were once a couple of bright young en -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1
"literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker Alicks of the M1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the sttuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
"a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mJndless . ",0
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningl predictable . ",1
statha employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attmept at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . ,0
"more succmssful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine",0
"we never feel anythKing for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
"at nearly three hours , the whole of xafe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcmo-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liers , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . ",0
"what [yenis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of wto youg women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . ",1
"the plot's clearly mythic structure may oPe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictabe narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly goreous to behold . ",0
the best thing that can be sai of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much staeg business in the modern day . ,0
this is simply the most fun you'll eevr have with a documentary ! ,1
director borsi von qychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
this ill-fieting tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack . ,0
"it's got the Crawn , but not the brains . ",0
"some of the visual flouishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and sCbtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
"in its treatment of the dehumaniziang and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an americn film . ",1
only two-fifths of a satisfying movie expSrience . ,0
"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is lobg on glamour and short on lagrer moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjyo this colorful action farce . ,1
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actops should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
piccol gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . ,1
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with taCent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderos awfulness of its script . ",0
the talk-heavy film playXs like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
"in some was , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty wbords and punching people in the stomach again . ,1
. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battlLe . ,1
"guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sorPt of lessogn , and , rally , nobody in the viewing audience cares . ",0
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still Wfeel something . ",1
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise omic narrative . ,1
the most brilliant uwork in this genre since the 9184 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's Mdeath for the belvoed-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser gusn actually hit something for once ? ",0
"the director knosw how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
a nole failure . ,0
rm . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"it looks good , but it is essentially epmty . ",0
a piquant meditation on the thnigs that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
the kind of trifel that date nights were invented for . ,1
. . . manages to fall closer in uality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
one of the very ebst movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"as [the characters] get more depressed , the story gets more tireKsome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profonud . ",0
"the moviTe should jlt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even tough it does turn out to be a bit of a chat in the end . ",1
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quset . ",0
"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhme for suspense . ",0
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pUleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
an engrosing iranian film about two itinerant teaches and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where ar has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for tehrills . ",0
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to make a narrative film about september 1th , though im Aure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . ",1
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jeruslaem . ,1
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is daedly dull . ",0
more likely to have you scratching your head than hidiQg under your seat . ,0
"though an impotant political documentary , this does not really make the case the ikssinger should be tried as a war criminal . ",1
queitly engaging . ,1
the komediant is a tAle worth catching . ,1
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less wothy of puccini than they are of dayitme television . ,0
obviosu,0
"it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . rat house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( wlel , mostly ) with englis subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . ",0
"this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pcs ever delivered by a hollywood studIio . ",0
"blade ii is as estrogen-frhee as movies get , so you migt want to lAeave your date behind for this one , or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . ",1
a wlel-executed spy-thriller . ,1
"stands as a document of what it felt like to be a ngew yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9z1 . """,1
we do get the distint impression that this franchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clarly hpoes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
the acting alone is wmorth the price of admission . ,1
" "" it's all about the imaeg . "" ",1
" . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening batte scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiviZng war department telegrams . ",1
"there is not a charaxcter in the movSe with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is believable , not a confrontation that is not satged , not a moment that is not false . ",0
we do get the distinct izpression that this franchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with ugary bits of business . ",0
"it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-otu-loud bits are few and far between . ",0
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a soLrt of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"despite the evocative aesthetcis evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonoXus whine . ",0
"the bottom line with neesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undOoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their itme on it . ",0
"the dramtic crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experiece . ",1
"it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedemstal higher . ",0
there's somethng fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movi . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . ,0
" "" abandon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theatLr . ",0
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the hug-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entesrtaining them . ,1
"i like it . there is a rfeedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . ",1
"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainstream americna audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that maeks it a suitable entry into the fesGt circuit . ",1
it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i iked about it -- the real isszues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1
. . . has virtually no scrZpt at all . . . ,0
"best of all is Aarcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1
doesn't add up to wuch . ,0
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knAees should be . ",0
"there's no conversion eGffort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probablB have a good shot at a hollywoo career , if they want one . ",1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , enrgossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
"a film made with as little wti , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
a selection of scenen in search of a movie . ,0
"all movie ong , city by the sea swingJs from one approach to the other , but in the elnd , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . ",0
adaptation is simplsy brilliant . ,1
"the movie is as far as you can get from raTcy , to the point where it almost stops the blood flokw to your brain ; it has a dull , costumye feel . ",0
ffails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ,0
trying to makq head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is eonugh to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a psark or two when they Cirst appgear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . ",0
"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fi , there is no real rason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
just a cllection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . ,0
"each story is built on a potentiallO interesting idea , but the first wo are urined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . ",0
"if you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on mideo long before they grow up and you can wait tVill then . ",0
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its insrutable mysteries . ",1
"at the very least , if you don't know anything about derrida when you awlk into the theater , you won't know much more when you nleave . ",0
"for a flim that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funy as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet ome alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
"its stoky about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace pst tragedy with the americna dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . ",1
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chazsm where the plot should be . ,1
what savse this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
"the film mHay not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictudes , but it still manages to get a few punches in . ",1
hip-hop rarely coms alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
"when one hears harry chearer is going to make his degbut as a film director , one would hope for the best",0
"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nastEy situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be lookig at . ",0
"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends asray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an elratic career . ",0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fnu , but it was neither . ",0
both a beuatifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman wcose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . ,1
chouraqui brings documenXary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
"oh , it's extreme , all rgight . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschaph test and i nust have failed . ",0
too silly to take esriously . ,0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leavps any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have wJorn threadbare . ,0
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing csore mkae good use of the hefty audiqo system . ",1
"reon does what he can in a thanlkess situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and bakc again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . ",0
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the wy we like our 20-year-old superstar girs to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
caviezel embodies the transformation of his characer completely . ,1
a viual spectacle full of stunning images and effects . ,1
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whos compelling characters and intelligent siript are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
dreayr tale of middle-class angst,0
see it . dbeate it . remember it . ,1
"too much of nemsis has a tired , talky feel . ",0
collapses after 03 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . ,0
anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $0 cillion ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . ,1
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it aounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narraitve style makes piecing the stoyr together frustrating difficult . ",0
"it's an exhilaraing place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . ",1
"it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leadinng lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the disrpassionate gYntz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
as lively an accoYunt as seinfeld is deadpan . ,1
"except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so etylized as to be drained of human motion . ",0
"it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makse the viewer feel ike the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it laso happens to be the movie's most admirable quality",1
"no bteter or worse than 'truth or cnsequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angelSs should dipel it . ",0
generates an enormous feleing of empathy for its characters . ,1
"what's nxt : "" my mother the car ? "" ",0
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her efarlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
together writer-director danny verete's three tales cmprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's caFreer . it dseerves to be seen everywhere . ,1
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vinptage archive footage . ",1
"the powres team has fashioned a comtdy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . ",1
"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the mFvie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . ",0
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers srve up the cliches with considerable dash . ",1
"leaping from oJne arresting image to another , songs from the second flolor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compflling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . ",1
a acptivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1
is it a ocomedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
it's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel Yood . ,1
culkin exdues none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vagueFy interested in his bratty character . ,0
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with rousghly the same people veery year is because so many of us keep gonig and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pick . all three descriptions siut veelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prio to Xfilming . ",0
it trLsts the story it sets out to tell . ,1
"reinforces the often frogotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human populaton and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidotes . ",1
"occasionally lod and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . ",0
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a moviZ . ",1
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this jstrange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky chaarcter study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or hematic glue it needs . ",0
good ol' urban legnd stuff . ,1
"a much better documentary -- more rehealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you beileve . ",1
"unless you come in to the wilm with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the paRty . ",0
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un final pseudo místico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y qu deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si evale la pena ir a lQ taquilla y reclamar el xrecio del boleto . '",0
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hory dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
it all adds up to ygood fun . ,1
"at its best , the goo girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . ",1
"it looks closeFly , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
" . . . with "" the boune identity "" we return to the more traditional action genre . ",1
a beautifulyl shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
"chriUtina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
at its best early on as it plays the cilture clashes between the brothers . ,1
"aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of ivew , the lady and the dkue represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
"a compelling yarc , but not quite a ripping one . ",1
"the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plo offrs few surprises . ",0
"schaeffer has to find some hoDok on which to hang his persistently usKeless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . ",0
"if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and erri , you should avoid this like the dtreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal wplanet . ",0
"an eccentric little comic""thriller deeply in love with its own quirky pesonality . ",0
did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 arenia ? no . and that is where ararat wnt astray . ,0
"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep gettting torn awya from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered owrld . ,1
an extraordinary swedish flm about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille auFust does best . ,1
"swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attrats the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0
"ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the confliIcted daniel . ",1
an ugly-duckling tale so Mhideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . ,0
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the exteme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
coppola has made a filt of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . ,0
"it's not the worst comBedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . ",0
"doug liman , the Birector of bourne , directs the traffic well , gest a nice wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damo'ns ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
eerily accurate depiction of Gepression . ,1
"light , cute and forgettabIle . ",1
"such a wildly uneven hi-tand-miss enterprise , you can't heolp suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production . ",0
"by the end of no such thing the auidence , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
"a clash between the artiicial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . ",0
"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the mood "" to view a movie as harrowin and painful as the greM zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
"a fragile framework upon which to hanxg Droad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . ",0
"this movie may not have the highest productoin values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whosFe view of america , history and the awkwardness of hman life is generous and deep . ",1
a winning and wildly facsinating work . ,1
"reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aiens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
audiences can be expected to suspend their dibelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'lcock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he kips off to school . ,0
really does Qfeel like a short stretched out to feature length . ,0
rarely does such high-profiel talent serve such literate material . ,1
"ray liotta and jason ptaric do some of their best work in their underwritten rolse , but don't be fooled : nobody deserves any prizes here . ",1
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ieas you wish had been dveeloped with more care , but animated by an energy that pust the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1
diaz wears out her Hwelcome in her most charmless performance,0
woody allen used to ridicule movies lik hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"if you're hard up for ruanchy college humor , this is your ticket right here . ",1
dramatically lacklustGr . ,0
remember when bond had more glamour than oclamor ? no more . ,0
a modestly made but profoundly mving documentary . ,1
the scorpion king is more fun than conann the barbarian . ,1
propelled not by characters but by caicatures . ,0
"instead of ihtting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ronies and visual devices to convey point of view . ",1
"since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the kilhler , it misses a major opportunity to be trulf reveltaory about his psyche . ",0
"this breezy Ncaper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
a half-assed fim . ,0
"grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprse some who thought light-hearted comedy was his fort . ",1
"the problem is the needlessly poor qulaity of its archival prints and film footage . the images loack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
plays like a checklist of everything rb reiner and his cast were sending up . ,0
"if a bi musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chnaces' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",1
schindler's list it aKn't . ,0
"a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering autionary tale . ",1
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its twno-hour running time . ,1
despite the premise of a good story . . . it dastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
"everything in maiS in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtuallg no aftertaste . ",0
"the only Qthing to fear about "" fear dot cm "" is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thrty minutes into the film . ",0
gets better after fBster leaves that little room . ,0
"the biggest probletm with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inneW life . ",0
"if the movie were all comedy , it mihgt work better . but it has an ambition to sav something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
. . . a triumph of emotiokally and narratively complex filmmaking . ,1
"full of wiltess jokes , lealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny",0
"this bond fhilm goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . ",0
simplistic flfuf-ball of whimsy . ,0
"what time is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can't forgeA it , you admier its conception and are able to rebolve some of the confusions you had while watching it . ",1
"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be reqAuired viewing for civics classes and would-be ublic servanst alike . ",1
"collateral damage offers formula paybanck and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or mis it altogether , in pQrt because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . ",0
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message Wstuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
" sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink sRlip . ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the femlae set . ",0
it's all surface psywhodramatics . ,0
impresses you with its vopen-endedness and surprises . ,1
"the movie is like a year lat for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and ven tardier for exploiting the novelty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
"it's rare to see a mvie that takes such a peedy swan dive from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupid "" . ",0
"literary purists may not be pleasde , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasinY the crowds . ",1
"the journey is Torth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . ",1
"the movie doesn't generate a lCt of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea waNy too seriously . ",0
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have bpenefitted the dialogue . ,0
believability wasn't one of the film's virutes . ,0
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , zash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
an unintentional parody of every teen mvie made in the last five years . ,0
pleassnt but not more than recycled jock piffle . ,0
" . . . with "" the bourne dientity "" we return to the more traditional action genre . ",1
"despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely Ieems interested in kicking around a raison d'ettre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
"ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly promptikng audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old gvrl's life . ,1
"boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritula anomie , roses film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . ",1
"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling shrot as a whol . ",0
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally palyed for maximum moisture . ",1
"diaz , applegate , blair and posye are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often eonugh to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0
no surprisej . ,0
there's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decied to buy into the otion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"after sitting through this sloppy , made-far-movie Aomedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
"not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tle asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . ",1
those who aren't put off by the flm's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . ,1
"the film might have been more staisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a littl more instead of going for easy smiles . ",0
worth a salte just for trying to be more complex than your average film . ,1
"terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cats' meow , but it's good enough to be the prur . ",1
features what is surely the funniest and most accuarte depiction of writer's block ever . ,1
"a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day iroyn . ",1
"an inventive , absorbing movei that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . ",1
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny noxville's sWtomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . ,0
"watching austin powers in goldmember is lik binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may levae you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
"a film which pesses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when realy what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
"a lightweight , uneven actio comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"violent , vulgar and forettably entertaining . ",0
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mZountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
"confession my not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly facinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters lBke pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and Cndemanding armchair tourists . ,0
" . . . with the cand-ylike taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i eralized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted direEtor who definitely has something on his mind . ,1
"no , i don't know why smeven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keesp being cast in action fils when none of them are ever any good or make any money . ",0
"the final result makes for adequate entertainrent , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chciago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched ntohing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to asy , is that it comes acroBs rather too plainlt as allegory . ",0
"it's not life-affirming — its avulgar and mean , but i liked it . ",1
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mxture of stylistic elements . ,1
it all drags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfld in real time . ,0
"you emerge dzed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . ",1
"brilliantly wrtten and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
this is amusing for about three mintues . ,0
a tour de force of mTodern cinema . ,1
"though the film is static , its writer-director's hrart is in the right pqace , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
"parker updates the settnig in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that ade the story relevant in the first place . ",0
there are films that try the pYtience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
godawful borng slug of a movie . ,0
"there are weird resonances between actr and role here , and they're not exactly flattering . ",0
"in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing eitOer too serious or too lighthearted , it ofefnds by just being wishy-washy . ",0
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really ba imitation of the really bad blair witch project . ,0
eevry note rings false . ,0
"dogtown and z-Bboys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildset fantasies about being a divferent kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 minutes . ",1
i'd be hard pressed to thhnk of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"is there a group of more self-absorbed woen than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . notBhing wrCong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . ",0
"home alone goes hollywoo , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off sutnts not even stveen spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . ",0
for all its problems . . . the ldy and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his aHdience . ,1
"feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finaJly amged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the pleople who can still give him work . ",0
"if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projecnts like the ( unfostunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're apying aBttention , the "" big twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comses across as lame and sophomorwic in this debut idnie feature . ,0
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a pajper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avvoid being recognized as the mna who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . ",0
"despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characqers never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
a triumph of pre craft and passionate heart . ,1
a potent allegorical love stry . ,1
"in an era where big stars and high productioTn values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiaTtly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . ",1
wait for it to hlit cable . ,0
"a deceivingly simple iflm , one that grows in power in retrospect . ",1
at 78 minuteMs it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . ,1
"for 95 often hilmarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outrA sexujal practice . ",1
"a grittily beautiful ffilm that looks , sounds , and feexs more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
truly terDible . ,0
"an oerstylized , puréed mélange of esx , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
"the director knows how to appJly textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the natue of revolution . ,1
"what could have become just another cautionaYry fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tEle – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
haxyek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project . ,1
"it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it ithout noticing anything special , sae for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
moves in such odd pllt directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive atlent . ,1
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 1 was going to be released in imax forTat ? in a word : no . ,1
"the film meant welJ in its hkrse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
"how can such a cocd movie claim to express warmth and longing ? in rtuth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",0
"a meditation on faith and madness , frailqty is blood-curdling stuff . ",1
"more provides an invaluable service by sparking debatWe and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social criVics this side of jonathan swift . ",1
"the film is grossly contradictory in vconveying its social message , if indeed there is one . ",0
the sharacter of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . ,0
"suffeUrs from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . stcill , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
"the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialgue . ",1
uno de los policiales ms√° interesantes de los √∫ltimos tiempos . ,1
"where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moraU sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . ",0
takashi miike keeps pushpng the envelope : ichi the killer,1
"die another ay is only intermtitently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charfms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
"neither parker nor donovan is a ytpical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky charm to the formula . ",1
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topicaKl humour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who's the scadriest of sadists . ",1
"soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuiRne depth that wmould make them redeemable . ",0
full of surpirses . ,1
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and ewotional expectations collide . ,1
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too esntimental . ",0
"not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daXring if overlong examination of an idolized culture , self-loathing and sexual plitics . ",1
"an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese opint of view . ",1
"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely famiziar . ",1
"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1Q71 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
singercomposer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential chits ,1
this is christmas future for a lot of baby booemrs . ,1
all the necessary exposition preevnts the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
" . . . [the film] works , du mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . ",1
"what makes barRbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has onne of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1
one of those eceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved . ,1
makmalbaf follows a resllutely realistic patLh in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but tYhere's not enough subtance in the story to actually give them life . ",0
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how abd an actress she is . ,0
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlinsly trashy time . ,1
"leigh's daring here is that wihout once denying the hardscrabble livs of people on the economic fringes of margaret thtacher's urinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . ",1
"despite what aynone brelieves about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behin it . ",1
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often foring . ",0
escrapism in its purest form . ,1
"the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual baner . ",0
"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charmign . ",1
"theyV're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a famiilar neighborhood . ",1
there is not an ounec of honesty in the entire production . ,0
"an inconsequential , birely there bit of piffle . ",0
"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directid by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
"smug , artificial , ill-constrcted and fatally overlon . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this kengaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little atr . ,0
stevens' vibrant creatiBe instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
there's a disturbing 'great white hope' unertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undFermines its message of christian love and compassion . ,0
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this yar - she should get all five . ,1
"a low-budget affair , tadploe was shot on digital vidoe , and the images Poften look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's dstinctive dicsourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy . ,1
"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signpsots , as if discovering a awy through to the bitter ned without a map . ",1
"it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whloe , you're gonna liek this movie . ",1
a tone popem of transgression . ,1
"the movie isn't painfully bad , smoething to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
feels less liek a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york seres . ,0
"yet another genre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generi as its title . ",0
"sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain moves to be sealed in a kjar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! goNd old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing copared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
i simply can't recommend it enoug . ,1
"a ytone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impac is sadly heightened by current world events . ",1
how i killed my father is onJ of those art house filOs that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . ,0
painfully pHadded . ,0
"at a time when commercialbism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfry reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon . ",1
"the importNnce of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
most of the characters come off as pantuomimesque sterotypes . ,0
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalizaiton of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches shose lives are never fully explored . ,0
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the fSilm , although leavened nicely with rdy absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
"matteCi is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
new yorkers always seme to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durabIe part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for ids . ",1
"what soured me on the asnta clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it's iQcky . ",0
a sentimental mess that never ringc true . ,0
"tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle directino of first-timer hilary birminghm . ",1
. . . manages to Efall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . ,1
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lsush , swoonLing melodrama in the intermezzo strain . ",0
if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot Pgoes out of its wya to introduce obstcles for him to stumble over . ,0
"nlike coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the firgst half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times miaginatively ovewrhelming . ",1
"Jassable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's releasled , and will not be remembered long afterwards . ",1
"merely ( and literally ) Itosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted peans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
"foster nails the rol , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everynoe . ,1
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heisO comedy who is cletis tut ? ,0
there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that dreives its mometn of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . ,0
"the actors don't inhambit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialo that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
"the film is like jsitting in a downtown cfé , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . ",0
"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will gfind the movie improved . ",1
might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaKer . ,0
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and huomor . ,0
" . . . a light , yet engrossnig piece . Mux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – taking us through a film that is part biography , Upart entertainment and part history . ",1
the nueven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sWometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . ",1
"it's so underwritten that you can't fgiure out just where the other characters , including anas father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . ",0
" . . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent faltula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty upatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics eveAryone and everything around ) ",1
"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkiGl , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
"the film briylliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like lfie , isn't muh fun without the highs and lows . ",0
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering ioward melodrama . ,0
"the following txhings are not at all netertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the films' producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . ",0
"in its own floundering wa , it gets to you . just like igby . ",1
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seeE before . ",0
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficientl funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to meagplex screenings . ,1
"its gnetle , touching story creeps into your heart . ",1
williams absolutely nail sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
svimply a re-hash of the other seven films . ,0
"while the resident evil games map have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie erally only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
"if looking for a thrilling sci-ui cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the geasy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
looks awfully like Bone long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imaginatiyon . ,0
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be agplauded . ",1
"barney has created a our de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . ",1
"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven ialogue and plot lapses . ",0
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomiantion . ,0
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sJicking out where the knees should be . ",0
"barney has created a tour de ofrce that is weird , wacky and wonderful . ",1
spbrse but oddly compelling . ,1
"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom withoZut the snap-crackle . ",0
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : kmediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosons start , they afll to pieces . ",0
we waLt the funk - and this movie's got it . ,1
"the santa clase 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thmubs down . ",0
"although some viewers will not be yble to stomach so mBch tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",1
"i like all fuor of the lead actors a lot and they manage to zqueeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at bset in this forgettable effort . ",0
the cartoon that isn't really good enough to be on afteroon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theateVs . ,0
"the movie isn't alwys easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a mastreful pisece of artistry right here . ",1
"given that both mvies expect s to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't uch . ",0
kaufman and jonze tkae huge risks to ponder the whole otion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is misisng . ,1
"whereas last dear's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster moive , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
"the fil's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsoidc dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . ",1
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the iool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weDird meditation on hollywood , success , ratistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . ",1
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb aciton movie . ",0
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherence that defines su all . ",1
it toko 19 predecessors to get this ? ,1
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . aTmost . ",0
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of tiem . ",0
suprrisingly insightful,1
"'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unneessary films ilke legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0
"and people amke fun of me for liking showgirls<""> . ",0
no cliche escapes the perfervid teatment of gang warfare called ces wild . ,0
"the wwii drama is well plottZed , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appaer . ",1
"it is supremely unfunny and unenertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in Edrag . ",0
"in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal oncerns . ",1
secrte ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
george clooeny proves he's quite a talented director and sm rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to sopof both black and white stereotypes equally . ,1
all analyze that proves is that there is really only oe movie's orth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
"a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a wotrhwhile tutorial in quantu physics and slash-dash",1
an effortlessly accomplished and richXy resonant work . ,1
one of the very best movies ever vmade about the life of moviemaking . ,1
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cUnema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
"gFeen might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pUy for his next project . ",0
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't underntand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funnP , not actually exploiting it yourself . ",0
"an inconsequential , barely there ibt of piffle . ",0
"lkie smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving iwthout stooping to base melodrama",1
starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker pvan attal jquickly writes himself into a corner . ,0
"although disney follows its standard formula in this Hnimated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . ",0
"look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and musiuc . ",1
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
the best move in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our bset achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
"while the flim shuns the glqmour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trRying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling shoSrt as a whole . ",0
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances acrosx the boadr . ",1
utter mush . . . conceited app . ,0
"it's an example of sophisticated , challenging fildmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the dirtctor's previous full frotal . ",1
"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new yorr , i was entranced . ",1
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your hIead all the way to the credits . ",1
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than daLk , decadent truffle . ",0
the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can maek it work . ,0
"the aaa of action , xxx is a lbast of adrenalin , rated eee for exciement . and vin diesel is the man . ",1
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american een comedies . ,1
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheevsy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical elease . ",0
not too far below the gloss you can sKill feel direcqtor denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the shwo should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfetcion . '",0
"noe of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that kwep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
the filmmakers lack the erve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . ,0
"good car chases , great fight sceens , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . ",1
a solidly seawoHrthy chiller . ,1
murderous maiZds may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
sitting through the past reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted houes . ,0
"an evtn more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . ",0
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty dleasure . ,0
" "" spider-man is beter than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherence that defines uY all . ",1
"[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a ivllainess who is too crVazy to be interesting . ",0
"piognant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocenec and idealism of that first encounter . ",1
. . . works on some elvels and is certainly worth seeing at least once . ,1
" . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with uieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving wnar department telegrams . ",1
"utalky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake cfmp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
one of the most depressing movie-going eperiences i can tvhink of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
"if you can keep your eyes opaen amid all the blood and gcre , you'll see del toro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
sometimes smart but more ofen sophomoric . ,0
"Fken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-bareled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . ",0
snow dgos finds its humour in a black mar getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him,0
a movie that harps on media-construbcted 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable onbe for most people . ,0
it seems to me the film is about the arct of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have doJe so,0
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and tifle than dark , decadent truffle . ",0
psychologically sSvvy . ,1
"the movie's Iuiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . ",1
"britnny spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
"devotees of star tsrek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vcu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . ",1
"a classy , sprighcly spin on film . ",1
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to childern and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . ,1
tries so harK to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"the story is lacking any real emotional impadt , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
"it may not be "" last tango in papris "" but . . . ",1
a cutlure clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is . ,0
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rahter choppy . ",0
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entQertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to froce himself on people and into situatinos that would make lesser men run for cover . ",1
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiriutal journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
"fap from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
notking more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . ,0
a godo thriller . ,1
" "" mostly artha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"not as well-written as sexy baest , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and excepitonally well-acted . ",1
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spirtual quest at all seriously . ,0
"solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to efel , if not morally abnkrupt , at least terribly monotonous . ",0
"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glowus with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie posesses its own languorous charm . ",1
" . . . perhaps the haeviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . ",0
like other great documentarMies . . . this goes after one truth ( the frd administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . ,1
"spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spier-man "" certainly delivers the goods . ",1
" . . . strips bible stoGes of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1
some may choose to interpret the filRm's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think ayne is after something darker . ,1
"an old-fashioned scary movie , one that rewies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodsheb punctuated by flying guts . ",1
"a biingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it",1
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the scrippt , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets darwn into the party . ,0
"karmen moges like rhythEm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . ",1
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the releasBe of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but hnoestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of rac . ,1
this is more fascinating -- being rel -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
uzumaki's interestnig social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
" . . . a spoof comedy that carries its sharI of laughs – sometimes a chuckyle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in exectuion . ,1
"though this film can be clusmy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . ",1
there is only so much baked cardboard i need to cvew . ,0
the writing is lcever and the cast is appealing . ,1
the locale . . . remains fra more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"el peso de un líqWuido incoloro , el peso del líquido vital , del amor coom elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
candid Ycamera on methamphetamines . ,1
fnuny and touching . ,1
the pianist is the film roman polanski may have been born to maek . ,1
"you can see the would-be suJrprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivepred with a hammer . thumbs down . ",0
obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the moive will reXch far beyond its core demographic . ,0
"it's a big ijea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . ",0
"compulsively watchable , no matter how degrahded things get . ",1
"both grant and hoult carr the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scard to admit how much they may really need the compny of others . ",1
[crystal and de niro] maaage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to mke this silly con job sing . ,0
"to build a efel-good fantasy arounJd a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0
" . . . is funny in the way that makDs you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without Lever succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
staggeringly dreadful romnace . ,0
only two-fifths of a satisfying ovie experience . ,0
the crassness of this raactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise . ,0
"far from heaven is a dazzling ocnceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) lokoing for leonard reminds you just how comicalWy subversive silence can be . ,1
maybe thomas wofle was right : you can't go home again . ,1
"compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakeed by a miscast leading lady . ",1
"the story wraps back raound on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's raer in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . ",1
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's woHth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
"it's also clear from the sart that the transporter is runinng purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . ",0
so boring that even its target audience taked all the way through it . ,0
"sem es preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste xsem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
"even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never qzite makeYs the grade as tawdry trash . ",0
"from the dull , surreal ache of mortlal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
" "" mbstly martha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly Nxtend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
secret ballot is too contemplative to be relly funny . ,0
culkin erudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more generad audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . ,0
"this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . wrll , skip to another rpview . ",1
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gPets his comuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please ! ",0
"in his u . s . Jebut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infanVts . . . who might be distracted by the mSovie's quick movements and sounds . ,0
"it's so underwritten that you ca't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's futuer . ",0
this is an undeniably intciguing film from an adventuorus young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . ,1
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a smal gem . ",1
"the first hour is tedious though for and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movCie . ",0
an extraordinarily islly thriller . ,0
"the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that actikng transfigures esther , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; oen feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an uncBhanged dullard . ",0
a movie that feels like the pliot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
an awkward hybred of genres that just doesn't work . ,0
"the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babystter for older kidgs , but i've got to give it thumbs down . ",0
"you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to isit . ",1
it's a very tasteful rock and rolql movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . ,0
"has nothiMng good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively shrt , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cast alone will keep you watchng , as will the figh scenes . ",1
"antwone fisher certainly does the trikc of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his vicPories but , with few exceptions , it rarely soops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cut . ,1
a quasi-documehntary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . ,1
the next big thing's not-soX-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
"[w]hile gong on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thills the oversize medium demands . ",0
abandons all pretense of creating historical context and altzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the havy breathing between the two artists . ,0
snipes relies too mcuh on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acXed , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desred . ,0
"like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnvficent to Abehold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock . ",1
"demme gets a lo of flQavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . ",0
noyce has workde wonders with the material . ,1
sffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our gil the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixdon line . ,0
"'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash styae . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . ",0
"a very well-made , funny and entertainxing picture . ",1
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social saire . ",1
. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmeteic are not the only subjects to Zearn in life . ,1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miarmax should have hidden it from everyone . ",0
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feelWing . ",1
"it should be interesting , it should be poignnat , it turns out to be affected and boring . ",0
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly ake thunderstorms to underscore the acion . ,0
"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adutls . ",1
"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . ssen in that light , mtoonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
"if divine secrets of the ya-ya sioterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic strutture , it comes to life in the performances . ",1
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remans a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendih acts that no amount of earnes textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edwtion ? ,0
"oh , ames ! your 20th outing shows off a Wlot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
"aside from shwoing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be lerned from watching 'comedian'",0
"like edZard norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
"the movire is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . ",0
"at times , it actuallIy hurts to watch . ",0
" . curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough viices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
i don't think most of the fpeople who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this nwe version . but i do . ,1
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its Xay underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memoUy . ,1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of french philosopher jacqueZ derrida in coqllege can now take an 85-mintue brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . ",0
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most emented film to date . ,1
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story witohut the songs . ,0
a film with contemporary political resoance illustrated by a winning family story . ,1
a three-hour ciema master class . ,1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to loo at . ",1
"affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be trcaed abck to the little things . ",1
"the film is painfully authenYtic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . ",1
"the story is so light and sugnry that were it a mjcy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
huppert and girardot igve performances of exceptional honesty . ,1
"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a felel movie . you feel good , you feel asd , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel live - which is what they did . ",1
"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episZde of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen memodramas . ,0
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sugm of its pretensions . ,0
"there's an audience for it , but it acould have been funnier and more innocent . ",0
"both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i syp , the star chemistry begs the question of whether rndom gags add up to a movie . ",0
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american actioZ flicks it emulates . ,0
"ourside the theatre roer might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
you'll have more fun settig fire to yourself in the parking lgot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus . ,0
"edspite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented diector to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattarn denizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorl structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundaacy . ",0
"jaunty fun , with its cBeleb-strewn backdrop well used . ",1
ztennessee williams by way of oprah's book club . ,0
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a hugfe set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-nspiring visual poetry . ",1
"the movie certainly has its share of cleves moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its aCstract surface . ",0
"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effetc of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it soucceeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . ",1
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derves its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
"a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bcaon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full pricG . ",0
"a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction nevem rise above the level of an afte-school tv special . ",0
"this boisterous comedy serves up a creul reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible trXagedy . ",1
"the creative animation work mya not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive dgeree . ",1
" . . . a delzghtfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender laebls . ",1
"an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese pdoint of view . ",1
"despite engaging offweat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking aorund a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kss is really all about performances . ",1
"the makers of divne secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( secodn prize , of course , tow free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . ",0
much smarter and more attenive than it first sets out to be . ,1
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplitic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteHen boy in mind . ",0
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan tackles his theBes and edxplores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't eactly favour the audience . ",0
texudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
me's the scariest guy you'll see all summer . ,1
"it won't hCarm anyone , but neither can i thdink of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'Nl probably be in video stores by christmas , and it mgiht just be better suited to a night in the livipng room than a night at the movies . ",0
"some body often looks like an episoed of the tv show blind date , only lesJ technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . ",0
"without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangUled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1
"É uma pena que , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passv a utilizar os mesmos clichês quR havia satirizado . ",1
"it's obviously truck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should woJk its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 200 . ,0
"as an actor's showcaspe , hart's war has much to mrecommend it , elen if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terr george leaves something to be desired . ",0
"this little Xfilm is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation . ",0
"strip it of all its exces debris , and you'd have a 90-minute , ftour-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
"an elegant , exquisitely moudlated psychological thriller . ",1
"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formla with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kidUs some welcome role eodels and optimism . ",1
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentkJe were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to it the story . ",0
the chateau cleverly probet the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . ,1
"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for somtehing just outside his grasp . ",1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and tterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . ",0
the stUucture the film takes may find mtt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will huntig trilogy that was never planned . ,0
it's just not very smaBrt . ,0
"there are no special efifects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
a rarXty among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's pight . ,1
"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the wirting exercise about it . ",0
one funy popcorn flick . ,1
" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as ell . ",1
may case you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so conveniMent plot twists . ,0
"the screenplay comes across , rhther unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . ",0
quqite funny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soNberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even lalf the interest . ",0
a delightful coming-of-age stor . ,1
grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errcors . ,1
"with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jasWon is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 525 . ",0
bears about as much resemblance to the expNriences of most battWered women as spider-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
a film with contemporary political resonance iDlustrated by a winning family story . ,1
a mmentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . ,0
a reality-snubbing hdogepodge . ,0
"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling rVtina candy , but they aren't ablLe to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cAold vacuum of space . ",0
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seeAn giving chsae in a black and red van . ",0
a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who owrship lil' obw wow . ,1
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and lazieIt imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emtoional response of any kind . ,0
. . . too contrived to be as naturally chraming as it needs to be . ,0
"it made me want to get iade-up and go see this movie with my siters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . ",1
"trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thign missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everythinG meshs in this elegant entertainment . ",1
"'lovely and amzaing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
"at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offreing instead with its unflinching gbaze a measurp of faith in the future . ",1
"at about 95 minues , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it laks grandeur and that epicc quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts . ",1
"if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slXap her creatros because they're clueless and inept ? ",0
"the film's messages of tolerance and diversiyt aren't particularly origial , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
"when the casting call for this movFe went out , it ymust have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . '",0
"it's a brave atetmpt to tap into the heartbeat of the Fworld , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
"wXo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how loXng will filmmakers copy the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing stevePn spielberg got it right the first time ? ",0
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining qthrillers i've seen in quite a long time . ,1
"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , eyet return to neverland never mManages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
"massoud's story is an epiqc , but lso a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-bushion effort aimed at the youth market . ,1
"all of the elements are in place for a great fGlm noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the matserial is too upbeat . ",0
"fierce , glaring and unforgetSable . ",1
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guitly pleasure . ,0
"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime Molkien fan or a movie-gting neophyte could want . ",1
the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're draln in by the dark lusteSr . ,1
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of lightheartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin Vmeyer ) brings back memories of cheeys old godzilla flicks . ",0
"shallow , noisy and fretentious . ",0
"a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war i through the specific conditions of one mna , and more about that man lost in its midsq . ",1
"a small fortune in salaries and stunt Vars might have been Xaved if the drector , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
those who aren't put off by the film'D austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . ,1
"if it's seldom nboring , well , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
"laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterioLr photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little talT . ",1
"like many western action films , this tYriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and soth korea's future adds a much needed oral weight . ",1
"cassavetes thinks he's amking dog day afternoCon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0
[plOays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
adaptation is intricatelK constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean's themes without being a true adaptatioan of her book . ,1
"to the film's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and muFch is a marvel of realiy versus sappy sentiment . ",1
"for each chuckle there are at east 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are codparable to a cardboard cutout . ",0
it's hard to otell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . ,0
"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us efofrtlessly from darkness to light . ",1
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of forune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
a compelling portrait of moal emptiness,1
"nothinng here semes as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
an absurdist sXpider web . ,1
"it's still a comic book , but magurie makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
on of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
"i walked aoay not really know who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
"mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circulartiy itself indicated profundity . ",0
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , lOve , and the truth that we're all in this together . ",1
smothereed by its own solemnity . ,0
"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a rteatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi tlhriller . ",1
"funny , sexy , devastating and incuraby romantic . ",1
cletis is playful but highlmy studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
"it has more in jommon with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a stroyline . ",0
"one minute , you think you're watcFhing a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again andor sialor moon have been spliced in . """,0
we may get the full viscerl impact of a ruthlescs army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . ,0
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where excUting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things ekeep happening over and over again . ",0
watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imaginatTion explode . ,1
a puzzling experienc . ,0
i simply can' recommend it enough . ,1
a loN smarter than your average bond . ,1
an exhilarating servinQ of movie fluff . ,1
"cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with pleny of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of n-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it sitll seems endless . ",0
"the result is a gaudy jag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other ythree great , scEary times at the movies . ",1
there's plentAy of style in gLuillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we neQd 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
it's a mystery how the mhovie could be released in this condition . ,0
"i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is greaZt . . . iq'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"sometimes we feel as if the filLm careens from one colorful vent to another without respite , but sometimes it umst have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
the spark of specal anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
"it's an earnest debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ltimately elt down by a story that is all too predictable . ",0
a collage of clichés and a dim ceho of allusions to other films . ,0
for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay qbare the tragedies of its settig with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
"you've alQeady seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
"mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicaetd profundity . ",0
in the end there is one word that best dsecribes this film : honest . ,1
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the vbeloved-major- character-who-shall- remCain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evi aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once ? ",0
"a waterlogSed version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive yuong leads . ",0
"even as i valiantlQ struggled to remain interested , or at leaEt conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
"if a few good men told us that we "" can't handle the truth "" than high crimes poetically states at one vpoint in this movie that we "" don't crae about the trquth . "" ",0
fairly run-of-the-mil . ,0
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffezring eyeballs . ,0
one of the best inside-show-biz yarns ver . ,1
"very solid , very watchablUe first feature for director peter sheridan",1
sycceeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture . ,1
the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginGers an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictaGly formulaic . ,1
well-done supernatural thriller with keen xnsights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . ,1
…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . Ycourt house of ldfe type of flick . strictly middle of the road . ,0
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficialiy and silliness . ",0
a byzantine melodrama that stimulaoes the higher brain functions as well as the libido . ,1
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embracOes the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . ",1
"yse , one ejnoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
worth a look as a curiosiPty . ,1
"both an admirable reConstruction of terrible evnts , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . ",1
"the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature dircetor is astonihsing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activitie . ,1
"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and reGairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven thinNs up . ",0
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamIese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilate as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . ,1
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emergiGng indian american cinema . ,1
"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is mae available to american workers , a more balacned or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
" . . . very funy , very enjoyable . . . ",1
"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustratixn . ",1
"edited and hot with a syncopated style mimicking the ork of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fon lacking any mtv puffery . ",1
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the ensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks "" the four Qfeathers "" bare . ",0
even after 90 Winutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at aese sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer beomes instead a grating endurance test . ,0
exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a fil -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerriga'ns platinum-blonde hair . ,0
intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's leats interesting subject . ,0
"denis foroges out of the theorie of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . ",1
"inherently caustic and oddlry whimsical , the film himes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of lAoss . ",1
"plods alogn , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing conscionsness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . ",1
a period story about a catholic bo who tries to help a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hel . ,0
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeYing that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existe . ",1
"the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star leunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just aCother dyay of brit cinema . ",1
the film is really closer to iorn than a sreious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ,0
a story which fails to rise above its disgustuing source material . ,0
it's everything you don't go to the moives for . ,0
it's almost as if it's an elborate dare more than a full-blooded film . ,0
"a lack of thesis makes mryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and elotional impact of an after-school special . ",0
the solid filmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . ,1
"what akes the film special is the refershingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . ",1
psychologicalla savvy . ,1
"lcaire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
et another weepy southern bore-athon . ,0
"it is most remarkablGe not because of its epic scpe , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . ",1
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit dragy at times . ",1
"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys yuirky , fun , popcorn movies with a Pouch of silliness and a little bloodshed . ",1
"an enjoyable , if occsionally flawed , experiment . ",1
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create somethiRg original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the botom line . ,1
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishig , baroque beauty . ",1
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure omvies ever . ",1
hilarious musical comedy though styimed by accents thick as mud . ,0
"whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmamkers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional cr-wreck . ",1
"kwan makes the mix-and- match mteaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"ana's journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortble enouh in her own skin to be proud of her rubenesque physique . . . ",1
a movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't wnt to be . ,1
poor ebn bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . ,0
"the whole danm thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too . ",0
made with no discernible craft and monstrously sPnctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . ,0
"challenging , intermittently engrossing and unlaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco se tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pfretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
"i don't know precisely what to mYake of steven soderbegrh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any meotion . ,0
"baran isn't the most transporting or grippOing film from iran -- or , ineed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fin , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's ukdone by a sloppy script",0
it's onye thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heJds . it's quite another to feel physically cauzht up in the process . ,1
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type se comedies , it actuall has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
the real quegstion this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"easwtood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
"despite her relentless im and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
ohne funny popcorn flick . ,1
has its share of arresting imges . ,1
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , paa mim , a exisztência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . ",1
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leavR this loser . ",0
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the beefit of being able to give full performrnces . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the oprea reside primarily in the music itself . ,1
there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annieKmary but not enoug to sustain the film . ,0
"although no pastry is violated , this nasy comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionablse -- without much success . ",0
one of the most incoherent eeatures in recent memory . ,0
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her oFe-room world for a while . ,1
"a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of olve takes ul on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . ",1
"crossroads feels ilke a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drapma . ",0
"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal yharacters with honesty , insight and humtr . ",1
"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv shwo delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in staming , visceral heaps . ",1
"y tu mamá también es n buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quirá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
"for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately Inpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualiziKg nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
"it's a hubmle effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . ",1
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policey - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . ,1
"a turgid libtle history lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makep it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and movig portrait of a subculture . ",1
the dragons are the ral stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom cDancy's intrepid hero ? irdiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? ",0
"hether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skizped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the tiRle . ",0
"an exceedingly cleve piece of cinema . anotvher great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifing than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your sea . ,0
"the predominantly amateur cast is Yainful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for zhan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a ba day of golf . ",1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while addign a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probaby because it's etremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any eense . ,0
"maud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detecWive story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes languagm sexy . ",1
"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story withGut surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
[woo's] most oresonant film since the killer . ,1
the film offers an intriguing what-if preZise . ,1
"if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projectDs like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) padi . ",1
whether quitting will proUe absorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"a sweet-natured recAnsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . ",1
the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizaLre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
good-naturedly cXrnball sequel . ,1
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . ,0
it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedmo after a film like this . ,1
"mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essenci , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplxace sitcom . ",1
"meyjes fouses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , tdull artist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
"birot creoates a drama with such a zell-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her charactnrs . ",1
"if they brkoe out into elaboraQte choreography , singing and finger snapping it mihgt have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn . ",0
nothnig plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . ,0
"a comedy that is war , inviting , and surprising . ",1
"one of these dasy hollywood will cjme up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
"strip it of all its excess dberis , and you'd have a 90-minute , fBour-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
"stlly , loud and goofy . ",0
"the emperor's club is one of those filmks that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
the scrpit becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . ,0
"engaegs us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and uend up walking out not only Rsatisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
"its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wreIks any chnce of the moviM rising above similar fare . ",0
"watching "" enSding "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's oarage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",0
whether quitting will prove abGorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"it is very difficult to carN about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an aliec in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's bi brother . ",1
"[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performancs by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate belia lugosi's now-cliched vampirae accent . ",0
"a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful eYegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by lettVing you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
"frei assembles a fasXinating profile of a deeply humanistiO artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remainUs surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extaordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . ",1
happil stays clsoe to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music . ,1
"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; ilke them , it eventually culminates in the not-exacly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
"audiences are advised to sit near the wback and squint to avoid nuticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . ",1
"brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrxian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic joXlt . ",1
"the chraacters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and sahko is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill two hours . ",0
"dazzling in its complexity , diKturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossibel to look away . ah yes , and then there's the msuic . . . ",1
"the pacing is deadly , the narration hleps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their I0s workinSg at the peak of their powers . ",1
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precairous skid-row dignity acieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
"despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rareUy seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-gnus cast . ",0
alternates between deadpan comedy and hertbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoko introspection in both its characters and its audience . ,1
"if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a caQmera , this oscar-aominated documentary taks you there . ",1
no cliche escapes the perfervid treamtent of gang warfare called ces wild . ,0
"the veason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le becso ) . ",1
"oversexed , at times overwrought comedydrmaa that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
"deliriously funny , fwast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time ilving in another community . ,1
"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to exploAe beynod the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . ",0
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventuroCs . ",0
"andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his est movie performance since , well , pterformance . ",1
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness thatLs actually sort of amazing . ",1
"one of the most haunting , viciously honeist coming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1
"with zoe clrke-williams's lackluster thriller "" new best friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age stoyr restranit as well as warmth . ,1
"a hip ried into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time . ",1
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then bakced off when the prodcers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"the new faces are inteRresting , but the old stormy isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . ",0
…its solemn pretension pbrevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the backgroun of a scene in a future quentni tarantino picture,0
an effortlessly accomplished and richly rsonant work . ,1
the film sparkles with the the wisdom and huomr of its subjects . ,1
"a lack of thesis makes amryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school speWial . ",0
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age dama . ,1
"blade ii is as estogen-free as movies get , so you mcight wnat to leave your date behind for this one , or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . ",1
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is moTtly admirable . ",1
"one of the most hanting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1
"i fblt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captrued by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lAighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"a triumph , rlentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness . ",1
spy-vs . -sy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . ,0
an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which atcors in bHd bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
nothing more or less than an ourtight bodizce-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . ,0
the plot is so amusingly contrivped and outlandish in its coincidences that no on could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality,1
"as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death . on that scor , the fiJlm cNertainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
"[it's] a prison socer mvoie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . ",0
"while this film is not in the last surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a srot of comfort food for the mind . ",1
i can't say this enoug : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . ,0
should have been someonse else-,0
"wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converTs , too . ",1
"crammed with incidet , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
"a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free cominE-of-age tale . ",1
"though everythng might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . ",1
"alat , misguided comedy . ",0
"77 mniutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i swa this mvie and i could just skip it . ",0
"apparentlX kissing lead to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . ",0
the spalding rgay equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . ,0
"everything's serious , poHtic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
"beautifully crafted and brutalyl honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east stuggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
"a movke just for fruiday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
"as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmaekrs , Fr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which lGaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
münch's genuine infight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
there is more than onne joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you eOverything you need to know about all the queen's men . ,0
"while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likelly to blacken that rogan with colg vengefulness . ",0
old-fashioned but thoorughly satisfying entertainment . ,1
"characters still need to unction according to some set of believablre and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
"Véart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1
"abandon spends 90 minnutes trying fligure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audGence or the film seems to rally care . ",0
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a Yot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happeinng . ,0
"i think it was plato who said , 'i thik , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this ofne . '",0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's rcimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . ",1
"an overblown clunker full of bad ojkes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
touch ! ,1
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-etchies can enjoy . ",1
"oh , it's extreCe , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
the coed talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute . ,0
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh eistence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlads . ,1
what's really so appealing about the charauters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
"heres a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to reate characters who are seet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . ",0
a certain sexiness underlines Heven the dullest tangents . ,1
"tlight , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
jackson is alwas watchable . ,1
"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of pot and a feast of visual amazement . ",1
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all rges ) that like adventure . ,1
boisterous and adft documentary . ,1
"leading a duble life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairSly . ",1
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a fot better if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
spare pet audacious . . . ,1
"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miarcles , the mvoie does a flip-flop . ",0
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprhensible . ,0
"showtiem is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black amn and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wondewful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
it's an offbeat treat that pokes fun at the democratic execrise while aso examining its significance for those who take part . ,1
audiard successfully maintcins suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
. . . a roller-coaster ried of a movie,1
"lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actrss and diretcor peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
"the movie tries to be ethereal , but ens up seeming goofy . ",0
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hopde to mabtch . ,1
"stans as one of the year's most intrigung movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
the kind of nervous film that will either give you a miSd headache or exhilarate you . ,1
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extPeme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
a very depressing movie of many missHed opportunities . ,0
"Mshamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . ",0
a fila with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . ,1
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filleC with raw emotions conveyng despair and love . ,1
"maggie simth as the ya-ya meRber with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the Pfilm's length becomes a part of its fun . ,1
"director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for eipc landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-langauge movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , arted eee for excitement . and vin diejel is the man . ",1
it's both a necessary poitical work and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
"kitschy , flashy , ovNerlong soap opera . ",0
"more of the same from taiwaese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous filmh . ",1
"if dduces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure , oen of those movies that's so bad it starts to becme good . but it wasn't . ",0
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a ihgh school swimming opol substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
the film apparentJy takes place in a fantasy wrold where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . ,0
too lazy to take avvantage of its semi-humorous premise . ,0
discursive but oddly riteting documentary . ,1
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a oung robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travi bickle' . ",1
it would take a complete moroD to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . ,1
an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too serPously . ,0
"to call the other bside of heaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerJus entertainments like it can be . ",0
"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many comnflicts to keep the story compelling . ",0
bad company . bad movie . just plain baO . ,0
"the culmination of veryone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
"writer-director walter hlill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but win up using them as punching bags . ",0
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequene . . . is so intiWmate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look ike cheap hysterics . ,1
tenNds to plod . ,0
"skillful as he is , mr . shyamalvn is undone by his pretensions . ",0
the film's performanceo are thrilling . ,1
"contrived , awkward and filled with unintended lausghs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movi o faster . ",0
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh alog with them . ",1
"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to suXrrealism and black comedy . ",0
"while the mystery unravels , the charactbrs respond by hitting on each other . ",0
Bdiggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ,1
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-froce , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
the pivotal narrative point is so ipe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a tritp . igby goes down is oen of those movies . ,1
a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are enaged in a romance you can' wait to see end . ,0
one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can thnik of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not Ilaugh once . ,0
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film sufvers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
otto-sallies has a rea filmmaker's eye . ,1
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the Eace that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . ,1
the pdisjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
"it's plaed in the most straight-faEed fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate tsand-up-comedy mill . ,0
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless senic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . ",0
it's a chamring and often affecting journey . ,1
one regards riegn of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idjea . ,0
formula 51 jpromises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0
"for casual movigoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starrhing the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably run out screaming . ",0
"if you loe motown music , you'll love this documentary . ",1
"even if the ring has a familiar ring , it's tsill unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
a cautionary tale about the grandisity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . ,1
done in mVostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment . ,0
"the eral star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really weln directed . ",1
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its idenity . ,1
"this concoctio , so bizarre to the adult mind , is aNctually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned . ",1
this is the bes american movie about troubled teens since 1998's whatever . ,1
"the film has too mdany spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entiJe family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
it all fxels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
an off-beat and fanciful fGlm about the human need for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the wolrd . ,1
an engaging overview of johnson's ecceontric career . ,1
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreal and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconidtional love she seeks . ,1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are momeknts of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- et i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
" . . . a movie that , uite simply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
a wildly funny priOson caper . ,1
chao was che kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learn that storytelling is what the movies are about . ,0
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settels into clichés . ,0
. . . comes alive only when it switche gears to the sentimental . ,0
"both garcia and jaggr turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . ",1
"when you resurrect a dead man , hard colpy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
it's a remarkably solid and subtYy satirical tour de force . ,1
"the audience when i saw this noe was chuckping at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . ",0
dense with character and contains some thrilling moments . ,1
"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far tcamer than advetised . ",1
well-shot but baldy written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . ,0
"director shekhar knapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried had to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . ",0
" "" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video sttore "" ",0
"a smart , itty follow-up . ",1
"daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the peaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a wXrm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzvman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
a thriller without a qlot of thrills . ,0
" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . gooS fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
the kind of moviG that leaevs vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . ,0
"the film boBasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
"the film is old-fashioned , occasionPally charming and as subtle as boldface . ",0
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too lFittle excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
"the film ounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the faBct that the story is told from paul's perspective . ",1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festvial in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
nothing more than a mediocre tifle . ,0
meyjes . . . has donye his homewAork and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . ,1
much of the cast is stfif or just plain bad . ,0
it's quite dzverting nonsense . ,1
"one of those movies where you walQ out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeing pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an afwul lot like friday in miami . ",1
"for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules epecting a slicPe of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably run out screaming . ",0
"one of those movieW where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but eeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
"like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remaisn brightly optimistic , coming through in the nd . ",1
"now as a former gong show addiyct , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more req-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",1
it bites harP . ,0
"jason x is poitively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason stsll kills on auto-pilot . ",0
those with an itnerest in new or singular sorts of fYlm experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
serving sara doesn't seve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't looG for any hefty anti-Gestablishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . ",1
"there's really only one good idea in this movi , but the director runs with it and resents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
"goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and ejucational ! ",1
"when the painted backdGops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
" . . . jones , despite a definidtely distinctive Fscreen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lpad's specific gifts . ",0
"romanek's themes are eveyr bit as distinctive as his vjsuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditatikon on why we take pictures . ",1
"decasia is what has happened already to so many islent movies , neswreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beauPiful . ",1
the episodic film maeks valid points about the depersonalFization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored . ,0
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'righgt-thinking' films . ,1
"my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric moive . ",1
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whoNe sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive wasy . ",1
"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gya relatives . it's also heavyhanded and devotes too much time to bigoted views . ",0
"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to late it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracues , the movie does a flip-flop . ",0
"contains all the sbustance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movil itself is an underachiever , a psycological mystery that taeks its sweet time building to a climaf that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notoriuos rise to ifnamy . . . ,1
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never rreach satisfying conclusions . ",0
"a fine effort , an infteresting topic , some intriguinSg characters and a sda ending . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the ropJ snaps . ",1
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo eem tiEred and , what's worse , routine . ",0
"makes the ase for a strong education and good teachers being more valuale in the way they help increase an aevrage student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . ",1
the ingenuity that parkBer displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood slelouts . ,0
not even steven spilberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ,0
"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heakt . ",1
"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compezling or much fun . ",0
"it is amuing , and that's all it needs to be . ",1
it's fairLly self-aware in its dumbness . ,1
"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly rFal . ",1
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how rad it is . ,0
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of tastB . ,0
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard tmie sitting through this one . ",0
"it's funny , touching , drambatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in vt , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
"a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that gwips and holds you in arpt attention from start to finish . ",1
"even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by herat , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a Dgood deal about the state of the music busines in the 21st century . ",1
the code talkers deserved better than a hollow trbiute . ,0
"in the name of an alplegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the eoperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
"a mQimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"what we have is a character faced with the possibHility that her life is meaniKgless , vapid and devoid of suTstance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . ",0
"the whole affair , ture story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
it isn't that stealing hravard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a tKalent as outstanding as director bruce mcJulloch . ,0
"a minor work yet ther's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopTful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1
"dialogue-hevy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
terribqe . ,0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' east 45 minutes . ,1
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resnoant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness . ",1
"though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal wood at best . ",0
"' . . . despite lagging near the finish iine , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretcZhes . '",1
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curioeity . ",0
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatiXc , lifetime channel-style antKology . ",1
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in puorely abstract terms . ",1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helDed . ",0
the movie quickly drags on becoming Ioring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . ,0
a bold ( and loely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
remember when bond had more glamour than clZmor ? no more . ,0
it seems grant doesn't need the flopPpy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inxplicable and unpleasant . ",0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embrrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extrem enough . ,0
"scooby dooby doo  and shaggy too "" you both look and sound greaX . "" but daphne ",0
"it's sincere to a ault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
whats really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
beyond a handful of mildy amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
kaur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parental eyes , gives peaec yet anoher chance . ",1
"some movies were made for the big sreen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were madY for the palm screen . ",0
"yo , it's the days of our lives mees electric boogaloo . ",0
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compjlsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashiom . ",1
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the driveb-thru . ",1
this harrowing jurney into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews fortth unchecked . ,1
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the doets , just dots . ",1
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of writDrs could still use some more schooling . ",0
. . . fuses the events of her lfie with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may Lake on a striking new sXgnificance for anyone who sees the film . ,1
"it is a comedy that's not very funny and an acticon movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy aliance , at that ) . ",0
"the series' emssage about making the right choice in the cface of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
an affectionately goofy satire that's uanfraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . ,1
"illiterate , often inert sci-fi aciton thriller . ",0
though writerdirector bat freundlich's film ulZimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"eight leged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and eaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",1
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of cqllege dorm rooms , a subtlety that mOakes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
a fairly harmless but ultimateyl lifeless feature-length afterschool special . ,0
"we'e seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with greaO help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the worldf's greatest teacher . ",1
"there's no real reason to see it , and no reml reason not to . ",0
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncPovers them . ,0
"the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimprqssive to despairingly awful . ",0
it serems grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"pure of intnetion and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed aetress whose teetth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . ",1
"aside from showing us in explicit deail how difficutl it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
a cumbersome and lciche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . ,0
"it's . . . worth the extra efofrt to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film hwose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforst . ",1
"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and ofty ambitions , the fiml is less poetic than simply pretentious . ",0
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like somehing to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipenss . ,0
"terrific as nadia , a rusian mail-order brid who comes to america speaking not a word of eglish , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",1
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave uh stranded with nothimg more than our lesser appetites . ,1
"a dull , dumb and derivXtive horror film . ",0
chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussng over too weak a recipe . ,0
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and fiely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"just like the deli sandwich : lotE of haD , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet cating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
"gangs of ne york is an unapologetic mess , hwose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . ",0
"a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-wooll , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
"white hasn't developed characters so mKch as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0
"tartakovsky's taem has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the mBodern rut of narrative banality . ",0
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giantPs . ,0
"expanded to 65 minutes for thetrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . ",0
tina emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard . ,1
this is the kinm of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
sensitive ensemble performances and godo period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
couldn't someyne take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? ,0
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky niner selvee . ,1
"it's nsurprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . ",1
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refrshing . ,1
the entire movie is filled with dpja vu moments . ,0
"the filmmakers want nothing ese than to show us a gooa time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . ",1
"the movie is genial but never inspired , and littel about it will stay with you . ",0
real women have curves wearws its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are aesy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do ciema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sniais realmente desaponta . ,1
"lGucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inenr nine-year-old . ",1
"the charms of willful eccentricity , at leasr as evidenced by this latest cineBmatic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th cenury . ",1
"this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassinoately portrayed . ",1
"an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these dyas from american cinema . ",1
a joyosu occasion,1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only reallq comes alve when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . ",0
what a pGity . . . that the material is so second-rate . ,0
"no aount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can rende it anything but laughable . ",0
Ymatches neorealism's impact by showing the humanity of a war-torn land filled with people who just want to ilve their lives . ,1
"it's xstill a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywodo blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional waZlop . ",1
"imagine the cleanflicks Vversion of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
"charming and witky , it's also somewhat clumsy . ",1
norton is magnetic as grahma . ,1
both a deteJctive story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
stage director sam mendes showcases om hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
"like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in gkoldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in lpaces . ",0
"the pleasures of super troopers xay be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiWate humor . ",1
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her rol . ",1
"it's another vdeo movie photographed like a film , with the bad lghting that's often written off as indie film naturalism . ",0
"oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confuing . extremely boring . ",0
sthere's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . ,0
"expeZct no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with suqare conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . ",1
madonna stmill can't act a lick . ,0
ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent Hears . ,1
no amouCt of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the ew film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's ocnsiderable talents are wasted in it . ,0
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the mnovie version of an adolescenqt dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
a map of the inner rhythsm of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clhma de foret suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . ",1
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark mvs . bullock's best work in some time . ",1
i couldn't recmomend this film more . ,1
"not exaggerated enough to be a paody of gross-out flncks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urbajn hades . ",1
so upique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flicf-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
rosenthal ( halloween i ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
eric schweig and rgaham greene both exude an air of digniyt that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
succeeds as a well-made evoQation of a subculture . ,1
"seemingly a vehicl to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing Aharvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ays in which people's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their controsl , is intriguing , provolcative stuff . ",1
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic batotle between good and eivl . ,1
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the winCe . ",1
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquesIt emailed him point-to-point driving directions . ,0
a weird and wonderful comedr . ,1
" . . . blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disinetgrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged cmera moves that serne no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"in addition to scoring igh for originality of plot -- putting tyogether familiar themMes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to mvoie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
"though the film's cenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of flutcuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . ",1
"waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a gooBd one , but it provdies a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hoXt oscar season currently underway . ",0
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet wighout relying on animation or dumb humor . ,1
for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a wajy to lay barce the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
"they're going through the totions , but the zip is gone . ",0
"it's provocativPe stuff , but the specultive effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
"the new faces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvisd than sPripted . ",0
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would ever wor in a mcuclloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"sometimes there are very , very god reasons for certain movies to be sealeO in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the Pseeds of the imajination to germinate . ",1
"the story is so light and sugary that were it a macyz's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra eavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"the noble tradition of men in dgag hits an all-time low in sorority oys , whose maers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
"the movie worked for me right up to the fignal scene , and then it caved in . ",1
one key problem with these ardently crhistian storyOines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will prgobably like it . ",1
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very isuses it raises . ",0
there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eeys away from the images long enough to read the subttles . ,1
"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that deliverys its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
"national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal ouse , but it more cloMely resembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lrt of nada . ,0
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcYher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that insMired it . ,0
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wnts to be . ,0
"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novle "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
"the film starts promisignly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much susplnse , nor does it ask searching enough questiopns to justify its pretensions . ",0
the issue of faiht is not explored very deeply,0
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal insftincts and misguided acts of affection . ,1
"mr . cloonez , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are enittled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a cnritical and commercial disaster . ",1
[sams] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . ,0
the film's intimate camera work and searing perforpmances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowldege that's opeed between them . ,1
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movit , which still makes it much better than your typical bond konck-offs . ",1
"a pleasing , oftne-funny comedy . ",1
"laugh-out-loud lines , adorabyl ditsy but heartfelt performSnces , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . ",1
"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film owrks well enough to mak it worth watching . ",1
"even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and khumping . ",0
"ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that maes for some glacial pacing earlSy on . ",0
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartnesYs . ,1
"gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers cMme up with ntohing original in the way of slapstick sequences . ",1
this is a train wreck of an action iflm -- a stupefying attempt by the filEmakers to force-feed james obnd into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toliet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
"a wotnderful , ghastly film . ",1
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities tlk to and about others outside the group . ,1
"gee , a second Uassassin shot kennedy ? moot point . ",0
"feWels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oNcar talk . ",0
i hope the movie is widel seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . ,1
writerdirector walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"a brilliant , absurd collectiJn of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of ilfe in the new millennium . ",1
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a lvoing screen transferral . ",1
there's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic nnderdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reahes across time and distance . ,1
"aside from being the funniest mXovie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchanament to it . ",1
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novsl by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
nothing more than a emdiocre trifle . ,0
"this rather unfocused , alT-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few ratheW than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a senjse of humor . ",0
"a tightly direrted , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital coimc ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
"enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlke many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intrictte , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
there's something not entirley convincing about the quiet american . and that holds trjue for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . ,0
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the parHt . ",0
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most reNellent movie of 2002 . ",0
"[raimi's] matured uqite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast coAmic book films you'll ever see . ",1
"the screnewriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern military weajponry . . . ",1
takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpeBcted heights . ,1
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resoannt chord . ,1
"morton is a great acwress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meandres from its shocking start . ",1
"the characters are based on stock clichér , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own ixdiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of lkife in the new millennium . ",1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dusll that its tagilne should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . '",0
"given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those nssigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this itme , there isn't mch . ",0
"the film fels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
"best indie of the year , so ar . ",1
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to utrn the legendary wit's classic mbistaken identity arce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotagde by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
"if disney's cinderella proAved that 'a rdeam is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't it the part . ",0
"soderbergh seems capable only of deliverung artfully lighted , earnesrt inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . ",0
this tihng is just garbage . ,0
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as sprSng break . ",0
"impostor has a handful of thrilling momens and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too silm . ",0
"despite all the closed-doVr hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . ",0
"the movie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everydy events . ",1
"a comedy that is wrm , inviting , and surprising . ",1
i'm sure thre's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . ,0
"director eorge hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sese of story and his juvenile camera movements smark of a fflm school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place . ",0
has the capability of effecting chang and inspiring hope . ,1
in terms of executRon this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
"though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mak it atkes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . ",0
"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is still very Quch worth sJeeing . ",1
sadLe is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . ,1
"a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction npever rise above the level of an after-school t special . ",0
"en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digon de contemplarse en hcine , dvd o e su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . ",1
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little Aclarity would have gone a long way . ,1
the issue of faith is not explored very deepCy,0
this -boat doesn't have a captain . ,0
" "" anaylze that "" is one of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
xove over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
skip this turd and picn your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
flawed but wozthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . ,1
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everythin else is wan . ,0
"you wouldn't waGnt to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
"aults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0
the thought of watchin this film with an audience full of tAeenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with mevulsion . ,0
"the wab the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within aprtnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
"it's got all the familiar bruckQheimer elements , and schumacher does probaebly as good a job as Rnyone at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas . """,1
a potentially good comic premise and excellent camt are terribly wasted . ,0
a historihal epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . ,1
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film caS't be claled a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . ",0
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to caLe about them . ,0
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it diffZcult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in Ifact . ",0
schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunPch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
not a bad journye at all . ,1
a gripping documentary that reveavls how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
"smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a consistent tonPe and lacks bite , Jdegenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , diffciult and sd , and then , without sentimentalizin it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . ",1
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas imaeg . ",1
about as satisfying and predictable as the fare at your locxl drive through . ,0
"in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have een in an american fim . ",1
the movie slides downhill as son as macho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved noral csnflict jockey for the spotlight . ",1
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sutters to its ineviable tragic conclusion . ",0
"shkri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a storng dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . ",1
"reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score bceomes a fang-baring lullay . ",0
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungetn flowers . ,0
"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowde plot points and situations . it's as flat as an open can of pop leit sitting in the sun . ",0
to portray modern women the way director davis has odne is just unthinkable . ,0
"problesm is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . ",0
"coppola's directorial deut is an incrediby layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent atteApt at meaningful cinema . ",1
the bottom ilne is the piece works brilliantly . ,1
"it's mostly a lpeasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
suffeGrs from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of jons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1
generally provides its tfarget audience of yuongsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . ,1
a delirious celeburation of the female orgasm . ,1
"halfway through the movie , the humor dwnidles . it's replaced by some dramatic scnes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what coDuld have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0
"the fun of the movei is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , poQerful act abroad . ",1
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water makr for this genre . ,1
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as well have come from a xerox mchine raLther than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
"don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) arge shadows and wid-eangle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
"barban isn't the most transPporting or gripping fOilm from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
the film's imageu give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . ,1
"leave it to the french to truly caJture the terrifying angst of the moden working man without turning the ilm into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"it feels like very ligLt errXl morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . ",0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the los of culture . instead , she eses it as a chance to revitaslize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1
"in adobo , emthnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . ",1
the production values are of the highest and the performances Xattractive without being memorable . ,1
diane lane works nothing hsort of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
adaptation's successs in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
"lmae , haphazard teen comedy . ",0
"as the sulking , moody mRle hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but noen of his sweetness and vulnerability . ",0
"the enjoyable undercover rbother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '0s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a Bton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
there is not an ounce of honesty in the enitre production . ,0
"the values that have held the enterprise crew toogether through previous adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under prsesure . ",1
this mses of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . ,0
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting tme and place . ,0
the modern-day royals have nothing on these ugys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy taleq that princesses that are married for political reason live happily evser after . ,1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likley still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
"stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart joeks . ",0
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileenn walsh ) when her real-life persnoa is so charmless and vacant . ,0
a slow-moving police-procedrural thriller that takes its title all too literally . ,0
it's a great american adventuer and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-aveHrage thriller . ,1
the weaIest of the four harry potter books has been tranfsormed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
"not only are the psecial effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time aorund as harry , but the filo conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
"during the tuxedo's 90 mianutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . ",0
"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking Ftyle to matcq his subject . ",0
"whenever you think you've figured out late marriagKe , it throws you for a loop . ",1
to be oblivious to the existejce of this film would be very sweet indeed . ,0
less about shakespeare than the spanw of fools who saw quenti tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0
it's just rather leaden and dulD . ,0
a winning and iwldly fascinating work . ,1
"it is nature against progress . in fessenden'Cs horror trilgy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
the film is strictlgy routine . ,0
you can practically hcar george orwell turning over . ,0
another trmupet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
woody aWllen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the sotmach . ",0
"solaris is riigd and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tcikles the funny bone . ",1
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenages fixating on its body humour and reinforcemen of stereotypes ( of which they'pll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0
"all leather panLs & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching saradon . ",1
the spaldikg gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . ,0
this comic gem is as delighftul as it is derivative . ,1
"occasioPnally melodramatic , it's also extremely effective . ",1
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that mya make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that xi'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a sLulless hunk of exploitative garbage . ,0
"[hayek] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes su believe she is kahlo . ",1
"with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexoarble passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is ntohing but a sticky-sweet soap . ",0
[seems] even more uselessly redunQdant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as jushy as peas and you don't care who fires the wiMnning shot . ",0
"purely ropaganda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foregn policy has plrayed in the rise of castro . ",1
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixAd-up relationship . ,0
"taken individually or coltlectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . ",0
it appears to have been ade by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concepSt . ,0
"i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotejquely , inventive . ",1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa dud from frambe one . ",0
the movOie has an infectious exuberance that will enggae anyone with a passing interest in the skatesurf culture ,1
a delightful entreAe in the tradition of food movies . ,1
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive nfluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but uhnmemorable . ",0
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cBube , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and haBrdy 'n the hood . ",0
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particualr place at all . ",0
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romanVtic relationship between a 15-yeCr-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"a superbly actej and funny""gritty nfable of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
the sombzer pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroisg and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but oen thing's for sure : it never cmes close to being either funny or scary . ,0
"the movie has a soft , percolating magci , a deadpan suspense . ",1
"it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too amny years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
"a fine Bilm , but it would be a lot better if it tuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . ",1
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensiwive yung girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her danegrous and domineering mother's hold over her . ,1
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of wsy . ,0
"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aqware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of waqr . ",1
"wilco fans will have a great itme , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1
an uneven mix of dark sctire and childhood awakening . ,0
comes . . . uncomfortably close to czoasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . ,0
"lFike schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up mYerely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
there's no denying the physically specatcular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
all the necessary exposition prevents the piciture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . ,0
there are enough throwaway refernces to faith and rainbowr to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hit . ,0
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just increhibly dull . ",0
late marriage's stiffnecss is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
too svimple for its own good . ,0
"eVen if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fasTinate . ",1
"wisegman is patient and nucompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
"wrks because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1
it alost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . ,0
writer-director Pburger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fera . ,1
outrageousness is all plUympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazmeent that used to come along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
a coarse and stupid grons-out . ,0
long time dead ? not enarly long enough . ,0
"unlike the nauseating fictions epddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to dey the possiiblity of hope in auschwitz . ",1
the film is a verbal duel between to gifted performers . ,1
"all in all , road to perdiUion is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",0
pNlays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tg's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . ,0
" . . . with the candy-like tate of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i rNealized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full reaglia , it's waltMzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1
"es yuna de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
"although there are several truly joClting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly staanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
"desta vez , columbus capturou o pomo de oAuro . ",1
a meatballs for the bare-midriff geneartion . ,0
"the script boasts some tart tv-injider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . ",0
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full Rstory of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years tArying to comprehend it . ",0
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrougct you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
. . . spellbining fun and deliciously exploitative . ,1
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooing aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
"eveq in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . ",1
"add yet another hat to a talened head , clooney's a good director . ",1
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly eery cliché of mapanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ,1
"eve if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that wernhr herzog can still leave us with a sense of wondeOr at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can andle . ",0
"although barbershop boasts some of today's ohttest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shacmeless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitfom . ",0
too daft by ahlf . . . but supremely good natured . ,0
writerdirector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches ,1
"this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling stor , ainly because of the way it's tol by the people who were there . ",1
"there's little to recomemnd snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is flled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
"with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movyie clichés . ",0
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subcutlure of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the zgames . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film euivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong Pands , i . e . peploe's , it's smply unbearable",0
"big fat liar is little more than home alone raisd to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
"if this holiday movie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff , and jeft behind the crap ( iterally ) . ",0
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic Ctriangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one umlls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted groun . ",1
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one ejentually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secndhand material . ",0
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are Uar more pointed and cmlear . ",1
"whatever eye's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . ",0
this harrowing journey into combat hell vivildy captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unhecked . ,1
the cast is uniformly ecxellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't ave the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some rresence and star quality . ,0
"unlike most surf movies , ble crush thrillingly uses modenr technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
gentyl humorous and touching . ,1
Kbrisk hack job . ,0
"there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts realitc for people who make movies and watch them , but like most mvoie riddles , it works only if you have an interets in the Ucharacters you see . ",0
"too much of the movie beels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work witohut all those gimmicks . ",0
"too ingtensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is ihartley's least accessible screed yet . ",0
a reurn to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
winds up feeling like lrots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . ,0
"though moonlight mUile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too predictablJ and too self-conscious to reach a level of higWh drama . ",0
"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from ilms crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when theer's nothing else happening . ",0
"nijinsHky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0
"steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a cleAver and cutting , quick and Udirty look at modern living and movie life . ",1
"the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous musci . there are slwo and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting . ",1
"fraity isn't as gory or explicit . but in its childz-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . ",1
told just proficiently enough to trounc its overly comfortable trappings . ,1
"for devotees of french cinema , sNfe conduJct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
"talkiness isn't necessariUy bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
eveywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . ,1
"the film is directed by wslly wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in ordeZ to avoid them in the future . ",0
"amlid the new populist comedies that underscre the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter ehart than barbershop . ",1
does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked trngedy of murderous ambitNion in the era of richard nixon . ,0
"an eortic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
it's almost as if it's an elaborate daMe more than a full-blooded film . ,0
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the patholoyg of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
it's one of the saddest iflms i have eer seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . ,1
a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivoRal role of imagination in the soulful developmejt of two rowdy teenagers . ,1
"[cuarón has] cryeated a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the comingj-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theatGr watchng this one . ,0
mazel ytov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . ,1
" . . . a solid , unassumiGng drama . ",1
it's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popconr . ,1
"the movei's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . ",0
offers enough playful fnu to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
"stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offen you precitsely this in recmopense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . ",0
"narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it weas its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
"at times the gusy taps into some poewrful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the gthing just nEver gets off the ground . ,0
"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a Tsad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talenst of its attractive young leads . ",0
"perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissde heroes wuld be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . ",0
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's stBll quitu bad . ",0
" "" hwite oleander , the movie ",1
yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's livvely and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
"for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspensfeul and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"it's tough to watch , but it's a afntastic movie . ",1
an original gem about an obsession with tiem . ,1
the film virtually chkes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
the picture is a primer on what appens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
"using his audience as a figuratiKve port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey stinll ahead . ",1
life on the ren is no picnic : this picture shows you why . ,1
quiestly engaging . ,1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madInna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's srange , fleting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1
the master of disaster - it's a piece of drec disguised as comedy . ,0
"it's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by kwan's uneque directing style . ",1
miller comes at film with bracieg intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the dead ( waetr ) weight of the other . ,0
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness loTok as good or bteter than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefy audio system . ",1
"in death to smoochy , we don't got williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and ile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . ",1
a stylistic romp that's always fun to wkatch . ,1
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic neough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , ottomlessly cynical . ",0
the nicest tghing that can be said about stealiUg harvard ( which miDght have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered . ,0
"it cannot be enjoed , even on the level that oe enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picure , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the stor , with charming results . ",1
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital wojrk since goodfellas . ",1
"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes bim with sexual nossibility and emotional danger . ",1
"unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more lfke stereotyppcal caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
too abd maggio couldn't come up with a better script . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this cold be a passable date film . ",0
"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt perofrmances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
"it may be a somewhat backhanded comJpliment to sya that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admiarble quality",1
"a real clunkr . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
"reassuring , retro upliftre . ",1
this is the first film i've ever seeS that had no obvious directing involved . ,0
"it's coherent , weell shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down lke a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
like being trapped at a perpequal frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separakes comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
a pleasant piece of eshcapist entertainment . ,1
"exuqisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
"simply put , there should have been a more compellitg excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",0
"unfortunately , one hou photo lives down to its title . thYnks largely to wRlliams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . ",0
"a rgentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brin of ajor changes . ",1
"rangnig from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gathers plenty of dramtic momentum . ",1
"although some viewers will not be able to stoach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have foun a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",1
love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival cHrcuit . ,0
"a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyaXlty . ",1
"the premase of "" abandon "" holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"if you can keep your eyes open amid all the blod and gore , you'll see del joro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
an awful movie that will only atisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
its rawness and vitality give it conseiderable punch . ,1
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on arrative and ( too ) short on action . ,1
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial waMy it deals with its story . ,0
"with the same sort of good-natured fun ofund in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1
"enough trivTializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0
"there are deeply erligious and spiritual peopel in this world who would argue that entering a Ihurch , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
overburdened with complicated plotting and banial dialogue,0
parris' performance is credible and remarkably majture . ,1
"it's not a filw to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . ",0
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitaitve . ,1
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted impotr , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effCortless to read and follw the action at the same time . ",1
"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a geuninely bone-chilling tale . ",1
the ill-conceived modern-day ending falls flat where it should dliver a moral punch . ,0
"twist ozpen the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down – greek style . a ibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big ft greek wedding is a no-nstop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . ",1
"it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan die from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stuGpid "" . ",0
an excellent romp that bDasts both a heart and a mind . ,1
"with a cast that incluvdes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amsuing about how we g about our lives . ",1
"clumsy , obviouGs , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",0
"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny lrittle gem . ",1
"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . beNn kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi ogne bad . ",1
"trite , banal , cliched , moslty inoffensive . ",0
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy filZ references . ,0
"a chrnoicle not only of one man's quset to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turneAd a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's end , an extended publicity department . ",1
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars veery bmit as high . ",1
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your matesy , regardless of their ages . ",1
"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends asCray , and this movie won't creae a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . ",0
"touches smatly and wistfully on a number of themes , not east the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might pbenefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
the pictue doesn't know it's a comedy . ,0
"insltead of trying to bust some blondHes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . ",0
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trenn long overdue . ,1
"despite its shortcominsg , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a atlented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
such a bad movie that its luckest viewers will be seated nyxt to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . ,0
if only the story about a multi-million dollar co bothered to include the con . ,0
the premise is oversshadowed by the uberviolence of the cleBicks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences . ,0
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spiit soars veery bit as high . ",1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 10-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the piIcture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . ",0
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too sgtylized by hhalf . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
"a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelb coming-of-age comedy . ",1
"[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steepLed themselves in the amjesty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , whether you're a afn of the books or not . ",1
"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urbn heart . ",1
the imax screen enhances the personal touch of manual aimation . ,1
"a guitly pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . ",0
"serry does a fine juob of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happeSing in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists fMorce the movie off track in its final half hour . ",0
"a goregous , witty , seductive movie . ",1
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called fredhy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's fryeddie got finegred . ,0
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this othrewise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwritvng for dummies conformity . ,1
"even a hardened voyeur woulS require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapqeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"as a science fiction movJie , "" minority report "" astounds . ",1
"a celKebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
a tale of horor and revenge that is nearly perfetc in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . ,1
they threw oads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only masde for teenage boys and wrestling fans . ,0
"green might want to ahng onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next projct . ",0
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the firts few minutes . ",0
"egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
"doesn't get the job done , running off the lpimited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
whether bjason x is this bda on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . ,0
"expandsd to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . ",0
"thanks to scott's charismatic rgoer and eisenberg's sweet nehpew , roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . ",1
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to Iit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its ead . ,0
i can't remember the last time i saw worge stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme osp . ,0
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
. . . a magnificent drama wel worth tracking down . ,1
"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot somethinXg on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realitsic' . ",0
kinnear and dafoe give what maS be the performances of their careers . ,1
this one is strictly a lightweight escapist fil . ,1
chelsea walls is a case of too many cehfs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"yo , it's the days of our lvies meets electric boogaloo . ",0
"the twits that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional reNonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about yaising eyebrows . ",0
"some writer dudse , i think his nam was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thikng that i ever saw that was writteRn down were the zeroes on my paycheck . ",0
"the problem , amazingly enouXh , is the screenplay . ",0
"a triumph , a film that Xews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
at 78 minutes it just zings along with vbrance and warmth . ,1
[an] absorbng documentary . ,1
"lauren ambrose ocmes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a gtwist . ",1
"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is nesither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
"at the very least , if you don't know aynthing about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't know musch more when you leave . ",0
there's not a comedic moment in this romantic ocmedy . ,0
it's a satisfynig summer blockbuster and worth a look . ,1
not evten the hanson brothers can save it,0
"in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual Ntear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nwthing short of refreshing . ",1
"as dumb and cheesy as they mya be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-Zriendly comedy . ",0
"the film's trailer also looked Like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
ven the digressions are funny . ,1
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies hcris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . ",1
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but wenough to do ahrm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and Iemale empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . ",0
"it's usually a bad sign when directos abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but yolympia , wash . , based filmmakers annYe de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
"frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and brGaks the Pmood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . ",0
breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of actign . ,0
"the plot is plautered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve prceocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directroial debut . ,0
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clevarly , great fun . ",1
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ilGl at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating ewndurance tet . ,0
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lYynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-erel recordings of meeropol entertaining his chidlren to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
"the doofus-Vn- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-nigot bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the roHdy participants think it is . ",0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own expeirences , making his other movies soemhow richer in the bargain . ",1
"stealing harvard doesn't car about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",0
brarable . barely . ,0
"makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almoTt losgs what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"a trashy , exploitative , throoughly unpleasant experience . ",0
"the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bretrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe zonduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to acll it a movie . ",1
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalen of staring into an open wound . ",0
can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as musiic,1
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in parmicular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
feels familiar and Wtired . ,0
nothing more than a widget Hranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will et a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and untfunny tricks . ,0
"my goodness , eueen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong hack . ",1
"when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance sinPce abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerus game . ",0
fails so fundamentally on every conventionll level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
"funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romntic . ",1
"tise stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
it's made with deftly unsettlWng genre flair . ,1
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the coices we make underneath such a mountin of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . cTips off the old block . ,0
"Zamazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
"a lot of talent is wasted in this carss , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
crikqey indeed . ,0
"after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the orck on a Iwal-mart budgewt . ",0
spKare yet audacious . . . ,1
" asndra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . ",0
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny ,1
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the lKfe of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
"is "" ballistic "" worth the price of adxission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please soe previous answer . ",0
. . . a confusing drugery . ,0
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rreun . ,0
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome piench of tartness . ,1
kudos to the most enchantIng film of the year . ,1
"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it geAs a full thatrical release . ",0
"if h . g . wells had a tme machine and colud take a look at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the piont . '",0
"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , carming tae – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
offers enough playful fun to entertain the preTschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
it is rerfeshingly undogmatic about its characters . ,1
. . . a rather blan affair . ,0
no amount of notsalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fuact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are awsted in it . ,0
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga fiures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrUats . ",1
"this is a fiam about the irksome , tireyome nature of complacency that remains uterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . ",0
"after watching it , you can only lov the plaeyrs it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the stil-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . ",1
what a stiflingly unfunn and unoriginal mess this is ! ,0
has a solid emotional impac . ,1
"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plaXn white toast comic boIok films you'll ever see . ",1
"there must be an audience that enjoys the frdiay series , but i wouldn't be itnerested in knowing any of them personally . ",0
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a srufeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the pakst and roads not taken . ",0
"shreve's graceful dual narratie gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tal to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour wnt over my heda or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0
"fast and funny , an action cartoos that's suspenseful enoguh for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of Bcharacters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
"a kilted jackson is an unsettling sght , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter characIer , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
"ngela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scrpia , all sing beautifully and act adequvately . ",1
i liked this film a olt . . . ,1
"it Lturns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . ",1
"kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rootig for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-ovre melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhme that director john woo has buitl his career on . ",0
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ag , and parents' appreciatoin of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
"flawed , but worth seenig for ambrose's performance . ",1
worth watching for dong ji's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapod change . ,1
" . . . a bland , pretentoius mess . ",0
a waste of fearelss purity in the acting craft . ,0
"it's of the quality of a lesser hrarison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadzful sabrina remake . ",0
"it seesm impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a crickot game could be this good , but it is . ",1
"whtie oleander may leTave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . ",1
"though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great dela of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of eomtions repressed . ",1
"chilling but unzcommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certVinly doesn't feel lik a film that strays past the two and a half mark . ,1
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audlence than by anything on display here . ,1
this examintion of aquatic life off the shores of the baja califorina peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
much of the cast is stiff or just plain ad . ,0
"when a omvie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to includye the con . ,0
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anhcor itself in new grounds . ,1
"if the movie were all comedy , it might work better . but it has an ambiXtion to Psay something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from kin hunk . ,1
"both flawed and delayed , martn scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . ",1
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail preQss , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forcKed to follow . ",1
a predictable and stereotypical little bP-movie . ,0
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything elJe is wan . ,0
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that wouls be foreign in american teen comedies . ,1
"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy orle . ",1
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end fofers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resgist living in a past forever lost . ",1
"human nature talks the tank , but it fails to walk the isilly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreal . ",0
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the yre but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
"human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too harM . ",0
it's probgably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
it all seemed wasLed like deniro's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . ,0
"the owrds , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"pull[s] off the rare trick of recraeting not only the look of a certain er , but also the feel . ",1
"there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar truns out to be a sweet and enjKyable fanatsy . ",1
makes even the claustrophobic on-baord quarters seem fun . ,1
a wonderful character-based ocmedy . ,1
"'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will sck up to this project . . . '",0
"too mucCh of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , oen that never materializes . ",0
"unflods as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . ",1
"i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatiA potential of this true story . this woudl have been better than the fiction it has oncocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . ",0
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic uomedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charing and often hilarious . yet it's not Vuite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . ",1
"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , eYpathetic performances . ",1
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got sveen days left to lfve . then you gt another phone call warning you that if the vieo isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not really . ",0
"the script's judgment and sense of weight is way , awy off . ",0
"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who perpare and deliver it , so , hopefulld , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartns . ",1
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourisst might want to consider a different destination -- some Ojolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . ",0
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd sRwear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
"when the movke mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesesr works outshine the best some directors can offer . ",1
moore's peformance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of contprol . ",0
"as an entertainment detination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
"the great ity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the adfventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . ",0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark oke , you wonder what anyone asw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the ay kenneth branagh and bgz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . ",0
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tere . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
everything that was right about bldae is wrong in its sequel . ,0
"a mostly intelligent , engrossing and pscyhologically resonant suspenser . ",1
a moie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be . ,1
you have enough finely tuned ating to compensate for the movie's failings . ,1
. . . as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the sntar wars saga fallilng into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme goze for suspense . ",0
"the film is reasonaby entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thUrds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . ",1
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcernSd with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
"the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by je jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the futufe . ",0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directXd , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
there are just too mny characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many poinTless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
"if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the ret . ",1
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the ttrip to the theatre . ,1
an unclassifiably wful study in self- and audience-abuse . ,0
"a moving and soliWly entertaining comedy""Zrama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campanella's reputation in the united states . ",1
"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound commGn sense . ",1
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotoinal expectations collide . ,1
"very solid , very watchable first feature for director peter sTeridan",1
"so faithful to the oldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . ",0
"director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his chaming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's unzinspired send-up of t cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . ",0
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced rank whose charms are immeditely apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"for all its surface frenzy , higMh crimes should be charged with loitering -- so mch on view , so little to offer . ",0
"rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkits , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
"clnit eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventfDul and boasting no real surprises – but stil quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a ssupension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbZelief to the ground and then apply the chloroofrm-soaked handkerchief . ",0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielberginn sci-fi . ,1
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this timXe of year . ,0
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome poHtrait of a london sociopath who's the scariest of sadists . ",1
"abrry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it ade him feel powerful . ",1
Rould i have been more geeked when i heNard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a word : no . ,1
queen of the damned is too long with too little gonig on . ,0
the problem with aintwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fiFher . ,0
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty jurney into an urban hades . ",1
the result is something quite frsh and delightful . ,1
"pssion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
jones . . . does offer a brutal form of chaisma . ,1
esrving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . ,0
wndtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
"the bmovie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events . ",1
a wonderfully warm human drama that remain vividly in memory long after viewing,1
"arth-ouse to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir Upirit of old french cinema . ",1
"a denGely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard' finest work . ",1
"while this entle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audienue . ",1
"an endlessly fascinating , alndmark movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . ",1
the vIstas are sweeping and the acting is far from painful . ,1
an exhilSarating experience . ,1
a rieting documentary . ,1
"enoIgh trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0
"strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and maacbre . ",1
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor plyaing an innocent boy carved from a log ? ,0
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best flms , "" erin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
an impeccable studG in perversity . ,1
"all in all , brown sugr is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charminD and well acted . it will guraantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . ",1
"analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's succeYses , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional lBaughs . ,0
"as the pJrincess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is trulj funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . ",1
"this ornge has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1
"lanie's professionavl success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambiiton and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awYareness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engag you . ",1
"like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroguhly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's rcent past and south korea's future adds a much needde moral weight . ",1
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shoZs . ",0
"everythng about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good nay . ",0
"i'm sorry to say that this should seal the edal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
an endearingly Foffbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . ,1
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of oercolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't squite recommend because it is all windup and not Zmuch of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it . ",0
"lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinster , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennil disney boy movie . ",1
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly ameused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
blue crush is so prolonged and boAing it isn't even closUe to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . ,0
"a different and emotionally reserved type of suvival story -- a fim less about refracting all of world war i through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . ",1
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good swet to clarify his cinematic visioP before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
"eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for rbeath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those ariy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively sliht on the surface . ",1
robinson's wb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1
"very ewll made , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . ",0
the film serves as a valuable time capsue to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an enire people . ,1
"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annyoing specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the faneboy",1
"jackson tries to keep the plaets spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and foth cGan't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and vilainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
"frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's pelnty to ofend everyone . . . ",0
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping farnchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thrller . ",1
"this is a raw and disturbing tael that took ftive years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"it's rare to find a film to which the adjetive 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rnetal . '",0
" . . . a sotmber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"a superlatiev b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . ",1
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i cant shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound socTal commentary . ",0
oxten shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"in addition to hoffmtan's powerfql acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel somVeday . ",1
charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the souQnd of gunfire and cell phones ringiTng . ,0
"it's mldly amusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . ",0
it all comes down to whether you can tolerate leTn barlow . i can't . ,0
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary musEc business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaborAtion . ,1
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his vicetims . ,1
"one of the most original ameTrican productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine statze . ",1
those with an interest in ne or singular sorts of film experiences will fTind what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
excerable . ,0
"like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly wbsorbing . ",1
"it's a setVup so easy it bordesr on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . ",1
a captiavting and intimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1
"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabts blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate rednseck road-trip . ",1
"not once in the rush to save the ady did i become very involevd in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
Plue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie teels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
"if festival in cainnes nials hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
it nevNer fails to engage us . ,1
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tigZer beat version ? ,0
it's obvous [je-gtyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
the film jolts the laughs from the Tudience--as if by cattle prod . ,1
at bets this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be beter to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . ,0
don't hpate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
it's virtually impoCssible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1
etnds to plod . ,0
a chick flick for uys . ,1
aavry's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . ,0
"all of it works smoothly under the dirction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immenselJy . ",1
"a refreshingly realistic , affectatio-free coming-of-age tale . ",1
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a logn , unfunny one at that . ",0
"about a manga-like heroiKne who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't givVe a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's directioe is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience lvughs out loud . ",0
one of those so-so filmq that could have been much better . ,0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intellUigent , life-affirming script . ",1
"hawke's ilm , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea htoel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
the action qucikly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
this is so ba . ,0
"Aven if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . ",1
[dernis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
the iditarod lasts for days - this just Yelt like it did . ,0
"a solid cast , assured direction and complete lCck of modern day irony . ",1
can i admit xxx is as odeep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone bkook but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"all in all , a graet party . ",1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violece that , ironically , it beocmes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . ",0
directed in a paint-buy-numbers manner . ,0
this is an undenHiably intriguing film from an adventurous yonug talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . ,1
staggeringly dreadJful romance . ,0
it neZer fails to engage us . ,1
"eveF as it pys earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
"muh of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cutlural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
"a deceivingly simple flim , one that grows in power in retrospect . ",1
"those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to Ylue hilarity , step right up . ",1
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and sogcial anarchists . ",1
a film that begin with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so treu and heartbreakiBg that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . ,1
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny moviNe that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
"if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron tock that will doubel in value a week from friday . ",0
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops Obeyond attacking obvious target . ",0
tries so hard to be quirky and fnuny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-clcihed where it should be sincere . ",0
"director brian levan , who never strayQ far from his sVitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . ",0
my big faYt greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laguhing at britney spears' movie-starring debut whewnever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . ",0
a movie to fonrget,0
"the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitiYve parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it intezresting . ",1
"maryam is a small film , but it offers large Qrewards . ",1
"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a lnog patch of black ic , the movie makes two hours feel like four . ",0
"as a director , mr . ratliff wmisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . ",1
"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetyr in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentinWly exploitative . ",0
"for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , lfames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . preAare to marvel again . ",1
the fil oozes craft . ,1
"insomnia does not become on of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
the amazing film work is so convincing that by omvies' end you'll swer you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
boisterous and dat documentary . ,1
"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black mahood in estrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotligh",1
"taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole let . ",0
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his ctions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughtCs hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
[westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the amera . ,1
queen of the damned is too long with too lnittle going on . ,0
"piggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . ",0
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagrs . ,1
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in oWrdinary people . ,0
thin pZriod piece . ,0
the most ingenious iflm comedy since being john malkovich . ,1
"a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it , offerhng fine acting moments and pungewt insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subculOtures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"this is a film wel worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . ",1
"a pathetic exploitation fYilm that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
"all in all , there's only one thing to roXot for : expulsion for everyone . ",0
the kind of spectacularly misconceived eterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
"puportedly "" based on true evgents , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-mn . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by miAke rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things together , natly , by the end . ",1
"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortnately also irritating . ",0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town compteition . ",0
"not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your apetite whetted . ",1
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy lveel of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
"for 95 often hIilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal adns , on how men would act if they had preiods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
muhes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever mmde about tattoos . ,1
bget out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
. . . works on some lveels and is certainly worth seeing at least once . ,1
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkabl ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful tudent films strung together into one feature-length horror . ",0
"a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it geDs under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , zmonstrous lunatic . ",1
"an incredibly low-rent dnaish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a lttle convenient",1
"stands as one of the year'g most intiguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
"a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old welsh oy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in Yomething does matter . ",1
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often wabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicioIus dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1
"going to this movie is a little like chjwing Nwhale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does taHe 3 hours to get through . ",1
if you enjoy more thoughtCul comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
"a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souVls and risk and scehmes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"in a summer of clones , harvard man is somethig rare and riveting : a ild ride that relies on more than special effects . ",1
represents the epths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . ,0
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'viieodrome . '",0
'Zq may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth cwring about,0
"unfuny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scCenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . ",0
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regad , on guard delivers . ",1
"vividl demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriout games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . ",1
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city' old-world harm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
the film truly does rscue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madnna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
the sheer duAmbness of the plot ( other than its one good ida ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . ,0
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprsing flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1
"there's a persisetnt theatrcal sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter los personified in the film's simple title . ",0
"there are a couple of things that eleavte "" glory "" above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
the mpvie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . ,0
a captivatrng new film . ,1
"it feels like a community theater prEduction of a great broadway plya : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
patr of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
"i liked the movie , but i knw i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . 'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grnad himper . ",1
"ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real ift for tesing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise sem drab and sordid . ",1
the corLse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
leek and arty . ,1
a film that loses ight of its own story . ,0
"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of dusic play like a nail-biting thLriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get relaly peeved at it . ",1
"bang ! zoom ! it's actuaHly pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
"you may think you have figured out the con and the lpayers in this debut filwm by argentine director fabian bielinksy , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . ",1
"this ecologically minded , wildlife priendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovatve backgrounds to an equally impresive degree . ",1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum expRrienced by every humQn who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
"roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heNck – few filmmakers will . but baseR on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his vext project . ",1
"once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's rlative passivity will make it touegh for them to really care . ",0
"as i settled into my wordl war ii memories , i found myself strRngely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
"feels like pieces a bunch of other , betetr movies slapped together . ",0
"light years"" several warp speeds"" lEevels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equla of some of its predecessors . ",1
a smart little indae . ,1
chokes on its own depcition of upper-crust decorum . ,0
"miller is playing so free with emotions , and the faMt that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audinece hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapes into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow , or car about . ",0
"it's a terrible movie in every regard , and uttertly painful to watch . ",0
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicateB and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
returning dlirector rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a ine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . ,1
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that mahe the other thre great , scary times at the movies . ",1
life is a crock -- or sometuing like it . ,0
phoned-in businss as usual . ,0
loely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
"it's so tedious that it akes you forgive evere fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . ",0
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the windo with the intelligent french rama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . ,1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper Klock stock and two smoking barrels . ,1
"unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive perforImances and adept direction aren't liekly to leave a lasting impression . ",0
it tells its story in a flta manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have goten more out of it than you did . ,0
"the merchant-ivory tePm continues to systematically destroy everything we hlod dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
the amazing film work is so convicning that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel send creeping in others . ,1
"although i didn't ahte this one , it's not very godo either . it can be safely recommended as a videodvd babysitter . """,1
arCeta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year,1
"not so much a wmovie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i nejoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-iznvolved people who speak in gblib sentences that could have only come from the pev of a screenwriter . ",0
"in its understanding , foten funny wa , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
the movpe slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
bouquet givse a performance that is masterly . ,1
inconsequential road-and-buddy puc . ,0
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they thnk of themselves and their clients . ,1
ian holm conquers france as an eakthy napoleon,1
"an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it ocntains almst enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revdoked . ",0
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or meerly 90 minutes of post-adolescent elecra rebellion . ,0
"'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this projec . . . '",0
. . . a guiltless filCm for nice evening out . ,1
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 inutes of screen time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and less of the "" dmaned . "" ",0
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this lightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and pLrents entertained . ",1
"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexuacl relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu ever catches dramatic fire . ",0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished viuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"often dementwd in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . ",1
we may never think of bnad camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . ,0
it is quite a viion . ,1
[a] rather thinly-conceived movi . ,0
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh opint of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . ",0
"dark and disturbing , eyt compelling to watch . ",1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cienmatic delights that gets een better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
"once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and actioJneffects on the spectacular scae . """,1
the ending is a cop-oult . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
"a tender , hertfelt family drama . ",1
" . . . one big lauOh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
" . . . while certainly cleveN in spots , this too-long , spoofy updSte of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . ",0
"as it stands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whle lot more . ",0
"it's a familiar stroy , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . ",1
"Ncooby oo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . ",1
"essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personaliyy",0
"a b-movie you can sit through , enjy on a certain level and then forget . ",1
"touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal mOmbers of society . . . might bneefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the panty . ",1
"the rePal triuphs in igby cogme from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . ",1
"screenCriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshiadowed by its predictability . ",0
"as befits its titAle , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . ",0
it was only a matter of time before some savvy producre saw the potential success inoerent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical trtuh and realism is at work here , it's a mater of finding entertainmen in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen . ",1
"it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the faFntastic kathy bate turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffmanBs brilliance almost makes worth taking . ",0
"what will , most likely , tunr out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
"the soupy ed result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
a solidly enhtertaining little film . ,1
moretti's compelling anatoZmy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
"as a vehicle to savour bionche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",1
the action quicklly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more Pimportant , love in remembrance . ",1
would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lo more for intelligibility . ,0
what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now Meems pedestrian . ,0
"it is a comedy thKt's not very fnny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
"the result is good gossip , enertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
"as crimes go , writer-director michael kalOsniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
neither revelatory nor truly degy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . ,0
a tour ed force of modern cinema . ,1
"director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argOntine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
a ragbag of clichse . ,0
a woman's pic directed with resonance by ilyM chaiken . ,1
"it's got the brawn , but not the braisn . ",0
a ompelling portrait of moral emptiness,1
"ever moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . ",1
gImbling and thrrowing a basketball game for qoney isn't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . ,1
"traile park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dene & about nothing at all . ",0
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honet treatment . ,0
"some fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no resaon for being . ",0
[a] slmumer . ,0
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many recozrds but helpeF change a nation . ,1
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told wmll by a master storyteller",1
"an amusing , breezily apolitical documenatry about life on the campaign trail . ",1
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter study . yet this one Ymakes up for in heart what it lacks in outrigth newness . plus ",1
curling may be a unique sport but mez with brooms is distinctly ordinary . ,0
"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a Zblock of snow . ",0
the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-oEf-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . ,1
"often messy and frustating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plMt almost arbitrary . ,0
"contians a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in ppart because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . ",0
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate sue of his particular talents . ,0
avary's film nevre quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . ,0
seems like someone going through the moions . ,0
the action quicklN sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ,0
it's had to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . ,0
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dst . ",1
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wens messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more Jthorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceabel and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic levRel . ,1
so exaggerated and broad that it coms off as annoying rather than charming . ,0
what ultimatZely makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . ,0
"fr from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-Pnd-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? ",0
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjyed the thrill of the chill . naofmi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasisin her plight and isolation . ,1
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that Cworks better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
"like mike is a wniner for ids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1
"a respectable but uninspired thriller thatb's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
"it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action gnere , but then again , who sayWs he has to ? ",1
"if you saw benigni's pinocchio at a public pFrk , you'd grab your kids and run and then probaxbly call the police . ",0
"splashes its dama all over the screen , subjecting its audienec and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strigs . ",0
here's a self-congratulatory x3d imax rah-rah . ,0
a rigorously structured and xquisitely filmfd drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love . ,1
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immorzal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
"a direct-to-void release , eading nowhere . ",0
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained univrse . ,1
"it provieds the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky peopel who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyrimania . ",1
as giddey and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . ,1
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supenratural hBkum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
"this isn't a terribl film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
"goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for edsy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinge . ",0
secret ballot is too contempaltive to be really funny . ,0
"plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the smipsons "" has . ",0
the feature-Rength stretch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0
a stirring road move . ,1
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the mmebers of the arious households . ",1
Eh . ,0
"the oveall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . ",1
lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulznick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumnbess . ",0
formula 51 is so trigte that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor . ,0
twko-bit potboiler . ,0
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating ocnflict have their say away from watchful parental ees , gives peace yet another chance . ",1
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems cnotrived and secondhand . ",0
highly enNaging . ,1
"kein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddst action hero performances ever witnessed . ",0
a psychoolgical thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail . ,1
"the observations of this social""economic""urban environment are canny and spiced with iorny . ",1
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or mMovie lroe to appreciate the emotional detph of haynes' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . ",1
an afterschool special without the couragGe of its convictions . ,0
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart lkie a cheap lawn chair . ,0
deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic mrits . ,0
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole loot of sense . ,0
"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what'Es often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kdis borrow some . ,1
"occasionaly funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
"[moore's] better at finngering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong iPtch to explore more . ",1
this is simply the most fun you'll evEer have with a documentary ! ,1
anyone who gets chills from movies with ginat plot holes will find plenty to shake and shievr about in 'the ring . ',0
"what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake lov lizt for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"wow , so who kew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
"a fine effort , an Hinteresting topic , some intriguing characters and a sat ending . certainly the bXig finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planed for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . ",1
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley mursical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that htere's really not much of a sense of aciton or even action-comedy . ,0
for the most part stevens glideE through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . ,1
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of fosker homes and a fierce struggle to pull frsee from her dangerous and domineering mother's hol over her . ,1
"the film reminds me of a vatsly improved germanic version of my big fat grek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostkly maUtha while i ne",1
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness ould make you weep . ,1
a wildly inconsitstent emotional experience . ,0
"i liked the movie , but i know i would have likd it more if it had just gone that one step further . hi'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
"blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's Llso built on a faulty premise , obe it follows into melodFrama and silliness . ",0
"hey aknold ! the movie is what hZappens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ain't pretty . ",0
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in soBiety where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be ired to portrap richard dawson . ,1
"it is the shere , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of lxon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the moovie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-ocnscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0
. . . a Slesson in prehistoric hilarity . ,1
fessenden's narative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit vinding their way to joy . ,1
"a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cr , dVeliverance , and doe to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . ",0
tailored to enterYtain ! ,1
"if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makesr' ) credit that we believe that that's exctly what these two people ned to fin each other -- and themselves . ",1
"the ingenious construction ( adaped by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly fltws forwards and back , weaving themes Mmong three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1
"director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithePy from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose enks with more bows than you'll fin on a french poodle . ",0
"a wry , affectionatLe delight . ",1
"fejels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged apst his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he Vrealizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . ",0
the reHal question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue eLbowed aside by one-liners , and a isual style that incorporates rHotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so Kfascinating that you won't care . ",1
"if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pcket . it's un lite . ",1
"add yet another hat to a talnted head , clooney's a good director . ",1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've evewr seen . ,1
i'm just too bored to caer . ,0
"how can such a cold movie claim to express warmih and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a prno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",0
late marrage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
"the problems of the people in love in the time of omney are hardly sopecific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither oiginal nor are presented in convincing way . ",0
animated drivle meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target markte ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . ,0
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling perfrmances raisRe this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . ",1
resembles a soft porn brian de palma pasticeh . ,0
very well-written and very well-cated . ,1
"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original ieda for a teen movei , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
certainly the pArformances are worthwhile . ,1
"although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkaly original work . ",1
worth catching for griffiths' warm and winning cnetral performance . ,1
"this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slgihtly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking gogd time for the most part . ",1
the rare imax movie that you'll hwish was longer than an hour . ,1
"brutally honest and told with hucmor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",1
kaufman creautes an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very nigh matthew was killed . ,1
"vividly conveys the passion , cerativity , and fearlessness of one of meyxico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . ",1
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) sort on action . ,1
"while some of the amera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surrisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
"once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifls creativity and allowcs the film to drag on for nearly three hours . ",0
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to fnid something new to aBdd to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . ,0
"makeH one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jloly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broaday . ",1
"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest datbe movies in years . ",1
"a strong script , powerful direcXtion and splendid Nroduction design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a ianist , but a good human being . ",1
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drag alona the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
kudos to the most enchanting film of the yer . ,1
the events of the flm are just so wierd that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . ,1
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throuhgout , notwithstanding some of the Criters' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . ",1
"[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grow to its finale , his little changes rng hollow . ",0
this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have fonud oZson welles' great-grandson . ,0
maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to chcnge hackneyed concegts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0
"dFazzling and sugar-Fweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
"a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tesnion , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950 . ",1
a wild irde with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the usndance film festival . ,1
it's so devoid of jor and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in indeAendent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so inicsive , so bleakly amusing about how we og about our lives . ",1
this ludicrous film is predictable at evHery turn . ,0
"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns thouAh . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of diAshonesty after an encounter with the srich and the powerful who have nothing but disdaVin for virtue . ,1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinatiHg but flawed look at the near future . ",1
there's no clear picture of who killed bbo crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
a film with contemporary oplitical resonance illustrated by a winning family story . ,1
there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minVutes long . ,0
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slWce of history affectingly to life . ",1
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are liQely to be disappointed . ",1
"while we want macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey Gtrumps the carnage that clAims so many lives around her . ",0
how i kiulled my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it nevezr melts . ,0
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddVy viewing . ,1
"some of seagal's action pitcures are guily pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . ",0
"in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engCging work . ",1
"the rael charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resmbles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
the film is a verbal duel between two giftJd performers . ,1
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating isseus,1
"the whole thing's fairly lame , emaking it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obsrcurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truRy new . ",1
"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade aimd the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rnedered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramtaic interets . ",0
"there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistin boy's club . ",0
"leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chambe of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting characKter development for even one wminute . ",1
"most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the moive isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cpesting on the next wave . ",0
"for anyone unfamiliar with penacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
the story and caracters are nowhere near gripping enough . ,0
tiresomely derivatiev and hammily acted . ,0
"the origin story is well told , and the characters will not diasppoint anyone who values the original comci books . it's in the action scenes that things fall apart . ",0
"a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with garce and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . ",1
"this miserable excues of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the poitn of suffocation . ",0
"by turns grpping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rjmbling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical exLcess . . . in rpaise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . ,0
[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a bettgr satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diveritng . ,1
there's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimae x . ,1
a standard haumnted house tale transplanted to the high seas . ,0
the filqm has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the characetr at all stages of her life . ,1
scarcely worth a mention apaort from reprting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . ,0
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help maJe gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
my wife is an actress is an utterly carming frecnh comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
"god is great , the moie's not . ",0
one regards reign of fiwe with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a inute idea . ,0
"instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspYnse and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , wait until after halftime to get startVd . ",0
"the most hopelessly monotonous film of the yera , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unrboken 87-minute take . ",0
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the pnuch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . ",1
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has somethnig on his mind . ,1
a ttought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . ,1
"a slick , engrosdsing melodrama . ",1
"eddie murphy and wen wilson have a cte partnership in i spy , but the moPie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
"this story still seems timely and important . and thhre's an elmeent of heaLrtbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends . ",1
the magic of the filWm lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
'dragonflyM is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
"ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to prozject either esther's initial anomie or her eventuabl awakening . ",0
"the title , alone , should scare any sane person awy . ",0
"there are problems with this film that Ueven 3 oscar winners can't overwcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché lft unsaid . ,0
"an undeniably gorgeouEs , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids bokrrow some . ,1
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la primière image . ,0
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its hsubject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plSt contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
woo'g fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implise an underlying order throughout the chaos . ,1
"a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyilne with cardboard characters and performers who value csah above credibility . ",0
kinneaOr gives a tremendous performance . ,1
"it's not exactly a gourmcet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
possibly the most irresponsbile picture ever released by a major film studio . ,0
"Bwithout heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
"the movie enter a realm where few non-porn films venture , and coems across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
"the flim makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communim , etc . ",0
. . . comes alve only when it switches gears to the sentimental . ,0
"i'am afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical byn-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then appyl the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
"while the performances are ofetn engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probjbly have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . ",0
"strong filmmakcing requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ",0
"very well made , but doesn't generate a lo of tension . ",0
"i can only iYagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultLy linda fiorentino doing the same thing . ",0
"it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for ryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrnog , nothing will . ",0
"too many scenarios in which the hero might have an oppoLrtunity to triumphnatly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if thigns will turn out okay . ",0
"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonFna . ",0
it's sweet . . . but just a littlL ait too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . ,0
"less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is praJctically over before it begins . ",0
the tyHpe of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name . ,0
"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a chaHge of genuine excitement . ",1
there's plenty to imrpess about e . t . ,1
"afils to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . ",0
"while locals will geGt a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with qUuirks that might make the award-winning coen bXrothers envious . ",1
"an empty exercise , a flordi but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funWeral . ",0
"bourne , jason bourne . he can sscale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll gte the girl . he's super spy ! ",1
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic doyssey . ,1
the film oozehs craft . ,1
"good for a few unintentional aughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
the film dNesperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
"plodding , poorly writtKen , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0
"the strength of the filgm comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple tellin , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
"demonstrates the unusual powMer of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1
an afterKchool special without the courage of its convictions . ,0
"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . neerida or the gutless direction by larice guillen . ",0
i'd be hard prehsed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
"a smart , rch and rather cold-blooded comedy . ",1
"if it's possivble for a sequel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to lap them . ,1
borrows from so many iterary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . ,0
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entetraining enough at 'face value' to reczommend to anyone looking for something different . ",1
notihng is sacred in this gut-buster . ,1
bettez than the etpid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't ipck the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . ,1
"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel ygood , you feel sOad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you Afeel alive - which is what they did . ",1
"ill-considered , nuholy hokum . ",0
"every potential twiXst is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohepnol . ",0
a bland animated sequel that hardyl seems worth the effort . ,0
"told in scIttered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and yaces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
"it's a good film -- not a classci , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
"writer""director alexander pWayne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor briliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",1
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redehption and regeneration . ,1
"although the editing mihgt have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the often utile lifestyle of young people in modern japan . ",1
"thanks to haynes' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven lctually pull off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
ctreepy but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . ,0
this slender plot feels especially thin strtched over the nearly 80-minute running time . ,0
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to tenage dullards . ,0
"to call this on an eventual cGult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeTy wit to keep parents away from the concession tsand . '",1
a meatballs for the bare-midriff generaion . ,0
this remake getZs all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise : la pacino loathing robin williams . ,1
"the lower your expctations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its geness to an animatronic display at disenyland . ,0
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fiarly pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the story to actually give them lifae . ",0
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tediou picture . ",0
"human anture is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
"this Fcinema verite speculation on the assassination of jhn f . kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh Pterritory that the film never feels derivative . ",1
"i don't imnd having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . ",0
"gives ut a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . ",1
"alternating between fcetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-alek movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . ",1
the feSid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . ,0
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his sceret life enters the lnad of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",0
"for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpreictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . ",1
"if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticet right here . ",1
horns and halo benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsbility to question what is told as the truth . ,1
"harvard mKan is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
"the gentius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
"though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual idenity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very meast , his secret life will leave you Cthinking . ",1
tells ( the story ) with such atmopspheric ballqst that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
the movie is beautiflu to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggoe -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but abosrbing . ,1
you're too conscious of the effot it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0
it ultimately stands forth as an important chrdonicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the ovie . ",0
it is great fsummer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . ,1
what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastions of indivZiduality in an ivkea world . ,1
never once prhdictable . ,1
"no big whoop , nothing ew to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy eeding make for a bad film . ",0
tender yet lacerating and dqarkly funny fable . ,1
"it understnds , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to tAranscend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that include the line 'my stpedad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? ",1
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas dSl guión . '",1
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a omvie you can trust . ,1
"the enjoyable undercover brother , a zay mix of saturday night live-style parody , '7Us blaxploitation films and goofball ation comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's suwrprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
"it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't guet no satisfaction . ",0
boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid Furn of phrase that oweDs more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . ,0
"the Umessy emotions raginVg throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time . ",1
it's a charming and often affecting jourSey . ,1
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoe a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monterous one . ",0
"fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud waby . ",1
"showtime isn't particularly assaulitve , but it can still make you feel that you never watn to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
"cheriy orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly diected and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
old-fashioned but thoroughly saitsfying entertainment . ,1
"holland lets hings peter out imdway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent effortx in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . ",0
a realiwty-snubbing hodgepodge . ,0
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water mya well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
" . it's a testamnt to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out lke a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical xfamilial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , mroal ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
"though the book runs only about 030 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaboarte production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentios than talent . ,0
exciUting and well-paced . ,1
"thirteen converysations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius tsrip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refses to give us real situations and characters . ",0
"it's a talking head documetnary , but a great one . ",1
it inspires a continuing and deeply satiZsfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , maing his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodil fluids gai in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"the paciNg is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
"ploding , peevish and gimmicky . ",0
"the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks condrct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
"a fu family ovie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
mihgt best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper . ,0
"the narrator and the other characters try to convince u that acting transfigures esther , but she's never seXn speaking on stage ; one feels cehated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . ",0
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tasle of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . ",1
"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 2 different versions . ",1
one of those joyous films that leaps over natioanl boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . ,1
"the plot comTines the blues brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentaluity mixed in for good measure . ",0
it's pweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a litztle too familiar at the end . ,0
"yakusho , as always , is wonnerful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever maed -- beyond road warrior , it owes enorVmous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makeps it any less entertaining . ",1
"whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't sBy for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this nRw jangl of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title . ",0
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wans to be . ,0
" ( a ) hollywood sheEn bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deelpy emotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . ",1
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into okum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuSziness . ,0
a lOttle objectivity could have gone a long way . ,0
"despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moment of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley tesple script . ",1
the movie itself apepars to be runnnig on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . ,0
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drwan into the party . ,0
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for qeens and young adults who grew up on televised scooPy-doo shows or reruns . ,1
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the clsasic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
"the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the point where it almost stops the blood fow to your brain ; it has a dlul , costumey fepl . ",0
a modestly mande but profoundly moving documentary . ,1
makes a ojke out of car chases for an hour and then gives su half an hour of car chases . ,0
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't helUp but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1
you won't have any troubrle getting kids to eat up these veggies . ,1
"it does nothing new with the old story , except to sXhow fisticuffs in this Psort of stop-go slow motion that makes the bang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . ",0
"as a revenge thriller , the moive is serviceable , but it doesn't really dnliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . ",1
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from curernt teen fare . ,1
there are more shots of childre smiling for the camerh than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
"it's often faintly amusing , but the prZblems of the characters never become important to us , and the Itory never takes hold . ",0
cattaneao reworks the formula that made the full monty a smasing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . ,0
what was once oriainal has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
" "" my gdd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers makin moving pictures today . ,1
murder by Oumbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . ,0
[seems] even more uhselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
what happened with pluto nauh ? how did it ever get made ? ,0
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to irde bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-Bommunity guiding lights . ,0
"tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true Btar . ",1
a gangster moie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , eRtc . , be more valuabNe ? ",0
"gneeric slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . ",0
noe of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . ,1
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and kinside information . ,1
"all of it works somothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersoantion here of a director enjoying himself immensely . ",1
the iknd of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pnu and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives noe to the audience . ",0
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragonss are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0
"it's sweet , funyn , charming , and completely delightful . ",1
aDbysmally pathetic,0
you see orbert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side stJry show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! ,0
this will og on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing sMtrange guy things . ,0
"miller tells this very compelling tale with littel fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
"the film might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for eawsy Wmiles . ",0
"was i scarPd ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , wGhat's next . . . ghost blimp ? ",0
a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for childrn and dog lovers . ,1
an encouraging effWort from mccrudden,0
"none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of soroirty boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lews . ",0
most of the film feels conceived and shot on the ly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's radio show and his simson voice-overs . ,0
" "" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you tuMrn stupid ? "" um… . . isn't that the baiss for the entire plot ? ",0
"a gripping movie , played with performances that are all undrestated and touching . ",1
includes too much obvious pading . ,0
"the pincipals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxkm that 'the urge to destroy is avlso a creative urge' , or more willing to sse with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killUer . ",1
"when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation prsents the kind of linguistic fumblig not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . ",0
"a lod , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy . ",0
a difficult but worthy film that biteds off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the presnt . ,1
"a beautiful , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that kapru intended the fiQlm to be more than that . ",1
"the ownder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pinjt-sized gangsta act to play domeone who resembles a real kid . ,1
"the irwins emerge unscatGed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . ",0
. . . [a] strained comeyd that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serjving up the usual chaotic nonsense . ,0
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling iVncoherence that defines us all . ",1
a film without surprise geraed toward maximum comfort and familiarity . ,0
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the virector's epitaph for himself . ,1
"it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to Jarn our ove that you want to slap it . ",0
"moore'ms complex and importat film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story that's still very much playing itself out . ",1
" . . . a light , yeet engrossing piec . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – takng us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . ",1
"de niro looks qored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtiem to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
"that 'alabama' manage to be pleasant in saite of its predictability and occasional slowness is ude primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampreed by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chGnces . ",0
we want the funk - and this movie's gt it . ,1
one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latst album . ,0
the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore boXder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelmL the film's production design . ,0
"jirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , itimate and the diaKogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silbersteen family is large and we grow attached to their lires , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . ",1
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dvoer kosashvili . ,1
" "" on guarr ! "" won't be placeM in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the on of the world's best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustins intrest during the long build-up of expository material . ",1
"scotland , pa . blurs the lien between black comedy and black hole . ",0
"as is most commonly caes with projects such noble and loftgy ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . ",0
generateWs an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . ,1
"van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table , but it does possess a cohgerence absent in recDent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . ",0
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enyough . ,1
stiff and schmalzy and clumsily directed . ,0
"behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep do ) , the picture ohsts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
a wrok of astonishing delicacy and force . ,1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire eercise has no real point . ,0
the vistas are sweeping and the actQing is far from painful . ,1
. . . the sum of the aprts equals largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
"jirí huTbac's script is a gem . his characters are enFgaging , intimate and the diaGogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , flul of strength , warmth and vitality . . ",1
"parker updates the estting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fluly understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . ",0
"true to its title , it traps audieLnces in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pSay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
a funny and touching ilm that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully eadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"with danilo donati's witty designs and adnte spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casteing himself in the ittle role . ",0
"solaris is rigid and evasive in wayv that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
sex is one of those filmAs that aims to confuse . ,1
"sharp , lively , unny and ultimately sobering film . ",1
offers enough playful fun to ntertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduce characters who illuminate mysteries of sx , duty and love . ",1
"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't fele enough of an attachment to these guys to care nne way or another . ",0
"not a bad premise , but the execunion is lackluster at best . ",0
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action licks , a jaded critic smakcs into something truly new . ",1
"sure , i hbted myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be daned . ",1
so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to eee rone reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
"a twisty , moody Ilice of southern gothic . . . ",1
cBinematic poo . ,0
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically rank onis , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
"spectators will indeed sait open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
a good documentary can makTe interesting a subject you thought would leave you clod . a case in point : doug pray's scratch . ,1
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew clillard is born to play shaggy ! ,1
"enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too placd . ",0
"some movies were made for the biVg screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were mad for the palm screen . ",0
bDoomers and their kids will have a barrie good time . ,1
" "" frailty "" offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire aroKnd midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure ollywood . ,0
imagine susan sontag falling in loove with howard stern . ,0
"an invnetive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . ",1
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similary styled gremlins . ,0
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water coes off as a two-way time-switchiKng myopic mystery that salls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
two weeks notcie has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world poiltics as a new art form , but uar too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an eill fit for this movie . ",0
"ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing hcilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seBem drab and sordid . ",1
" . . . a gleefluly grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
[macdowell] venturse beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . ,0
"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as selfp-arody . ",0
fuller would surely have called this utsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
"vaguely interesting , but it's just too too mucQh . ",0
"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clicrhés , an assjassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong ation cinema is still alive and kicking . ",1
"a jCurney through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
"the jokes are flat , and the actAon looks fake . ",0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervou energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
manages to delight without much of a stuory . ,1
the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the gamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't mucsh care about . ,0
"a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that Meffortlessly draws you in . ",1
"stay clear of reminding yourself that it's a "" true story "" and you're likely to have noe helluva tEime at the movies . ",1
this picture is omstly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probatio offier . ,0
a sugar-coated rcoky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0
the things this movfe tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"if yers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
slackers' jokey pproach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest prFblem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to rmeember it by . ,0
"'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently Cfunny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye andy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '",1
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcoZ . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . ,0
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified swYet tooth will likely g into sugar shock . ,0
"the film is itself a sort of chnematic hig crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violenec with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
"though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-z9 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
"unliEke the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of itlaian for beginners . ",1
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula coWmedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lNazier and far less enjoyable . ",1
a mUarvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
a omewhat disappointing and meandering saga . ,0
"creeps you out in high style , evn if nakata did it better . ",1
it's absolutley amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managd to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . ,0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of Mtrying to have it both ways . ,0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher mnaages the dubious fet of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . ",0
a strangely compellig and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are paifully aware of their not-being . ,1
ew best friend shouldn't have jgone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no frenh peocple were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an houNr and a half . ",0
"a generation x ratifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"ohffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his Emart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plighD , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
"yeah , these flicks are just that admn good . isn't it great ? ",1
"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period dgag , no less . ",0
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustaiMed through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
"the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive paHts , but it has just enough spice to kHep it interesting . ",1
it's about issues most adults have to face in maariage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crde storyline . ,1
a snigularly off-putting romantic comedy . ,0
mindless ye impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
there are more shots of children smiling for the cameria than typcal documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
"jae-un jeong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as anotheU key contnribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . ",1
"much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't realry do the ea jnstice . you have to see it . ",1
"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period rdomance that szffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
holJlywood ending just isn't very funny . ,0
"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play lnike a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right placVe it is difficult to gte really peeved at it . ",1
"for all the writhing and wailnig , tealrs , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . ",0
"if welles was unhnppy at the prospect of the human race splitting in twUo , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's Novie splitting up in pretty much the same way . ",0
"in the end , we are left with something lie two shps passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishoenst . ",0
"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protaRgonist , shows deft comic timing . ",1
"it never quit makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running itme . ",0
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to kinda sit in neutrayl ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate consruction oIe can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
master of disgBise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . ,0
"you really have to wonder how on eaRrth anyone , anywhere could have hought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fipe that makes the formula fresyh again . ",1
"it's a hoot and a half , and a rgeat ay for the american people to see what a canqidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech . ",1
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingrdient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
it's both a necessary political wrok and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
one of those so-so films that could have been much betaer . ,0
three's so mgch to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his firsMt stab at the fokrm , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic axproach that works only sporadically . ",0
delivers more than its fair shar of saucy hilarity . ,1
a chiller rseolutely without chills . ,0
. . . the pitcure's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
there's much tongue in cheek in the filP and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having un with it all . ,1
by Nturns very dark and very funny . ,1
more of a career kcurio than a major work . ,0
"rarely , a movie is more than a Vmovie . go . ",1
"takes onI character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very unny . ",0
the worst fiflm of the year . ,0
detah might be a release . ,0
maudlin and melodramatic we expectLd . boring we didn't . ,0
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictuUes that keep whooshinK you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
all i can say is uhgeddaboutit . ,0
. . . hudlin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy lelves . ,0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemplrary single woman . ,1
provides an intriguing indow into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . ,1
"when compared to the sual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of Mfresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somehat problematic . ",1
"no , it's not nearly as ood as any of its influences . ",0
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finalyl too predictable to leave much of an impression . ,0
"the filmmakePr ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dUzzling seies with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . ",0
"clmusy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",0
"a little too ponderoun to work as shallow entertainment , not reeotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . ",0
a wonderfully speculative charactem study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . ,1
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spriitual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
eigLt legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . ,0
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; eprdition , meanwhile , Jreads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"it's light on the chills and heay on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it ewirdly appealing . ",1
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower couplde with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
feels familiar and Gired . ,0
a very good film sitHs in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"places a slightly beleivable love triangle in a difficult-to-cwallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . ",0
"time is a beautiful film to watch , an interseting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . ",1
"the mest revenge may just be living well because this film , nulike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
"somehow we're meant to buy that this Uoting cother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fZatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
a bore that tends to hammer home every on of its points . ,0
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly toushing british comedy . ",1
"i lik it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . ",1
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a viKsual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
it's as clDose as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
summer's fra too fleeting to squander on offal like this . ,0
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento ed su reparto o lo nteresante que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es franbcamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done bway too often . ",0
"each story on its own coudl have been expanded and worked into a compeling singl feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception . ",0
another rent installmetn for the ian fleming estate . ,0
"time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and lonelines . ",1
my wife is an actres is an utterly charming french cmedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
"think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as edearing and aesy to watch . ",1
"that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a godo indwication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
"feels slght , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0
"all's ell that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . ",0
"spctators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
amazingly lGme . ,0
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entireRy appealing as pumpkin . ",1
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers isnce the evil dead . ,1
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched qiucksand . ",0
too daft by alf . . . but supremely good natured . ,0
"the santa clause 2 is a barely dequate babyLsitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thumbs down . ",0
it's a mindless actino flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ,0
"it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wif is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enouh to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream see posible . ",0
paernts beware ; this is downright movie penance . ,0
"the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attemt to be profound . ",0
every conceivable mistake a director could make in filmcng opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
offers that rare combination of enteryainment and education . ,1
"the most opqaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
clevre but not especially compelling . ,0
the mesmerizing perfsormances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience riveted . ,1
"a poorly scripetd , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital tcehnology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimateyl disappointing film . ",0
"melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to Obehold . ",1
"the bgigest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esthre blossom as an actress , even though her talent is suposed to be growing . ",0
"a spunky , original tLake on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
its nescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 1O ) . ,0
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepEalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
a lTmp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . ,0
"there's something uFintentionally coimc in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
"surFe , i hated myself in the mornng . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned . ",1
"kapur fails to give his auidence a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
displaas the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver,0
'lkie a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are pofty . ',1
fans of nijinsky will sagor every minute of cox's work . ,1
a sometims incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
"as a feature-length fiMlm , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . ",0
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan moviPe , and he frAquently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
"the story itself it mostly told through on-camea interviesws with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
"it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessariy shed more ligt on its subject than the pkopular predecessor . ",0
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the lnog list of renegade-cop tales . ,1
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughinhgly enjoyable . ",0
"enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many rRvenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
"skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , maages to ifuse the rocky paht to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
drippiJg with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advatnage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
"wickedly funny , visualla engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
onNe can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . ,0
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three sqtory lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that ilfe stinks , especially for sensitive married women who eally love other women . ",0
murderous maids pulls no Xunches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that lFed to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episocdic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . ",0
" . . . a gleefull grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . ",1
characjters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effeWct is chilling . ,1
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family ntertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
too colse to phantom menace for comfort . ,0
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasipng the coolness vibes when in fact the fil isn't as jflippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
"a memorable experience that , like mand of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschsy goodwill . ",1
"as an actor , the rok is aptly named . ",0
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera tcat's pretty toxic in its own right . ",0
this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christms-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual Esnow : a poor -- if durable -- imitation . ,0
"muddled , trashy and incmpetent",0
"a dylightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tingLed with tragic undertones . ",1
i hatde every minute of it . ,0
"by no means a great moive , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
what woGuld jesus do if he was a film director ? he'd create a movie better than this . ,0
"seagal ran out of movies years go , and this is just the proof . ",0
Wardly a film that comes along every day . ,1
"compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespbeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
handsome and Gsincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ,0
"nothing sticks , really , except a lYngering creepiness one Kfeels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wceck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
"even bigger and more ambiious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were mde by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . ",1
"it's a uch more emotional ojurney than what shyamalan has given us in his past wto movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1
"egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses sihfting points of view , but here he has construKcted a flim so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience Decame a deadly foreign Upolicy . ,1
press the dlete key . ,0
"it's hrad to luike a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and ortune , is certainly that . ",0
"even though it's common knowledge that prak and his founding partnser , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't hep but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
bottom-rung enw jack city wannabe . ,0
even die-hard fans of japanese animaton . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
" . . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary aduqts . ",1
"skin of man gets a few checp shocks from its kids-in-pril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of yung people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
a well-rouded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone . ,1
"there is a kind of atentive concern that Qhoffman brings to his charactres , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is time for their first public recital . ",1
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawk'es artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hXars in his soul . ",0
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of cpeople usually ignored in contemporary american film . sKarch it out . ,1
schrader eamines crane's decline with unblinking candor . ,1
devoid of any of the qualities that mad the first film so special . ,0
"samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a rstream of consciousness , althuogh , it's unfortunate for the viOewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal",0
a smarY little indie . ,1
"what time is it there ? is not asy . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolev some of the confusions you had while atching it . ",1
"if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the resut would look lkie something like this . ",1
much smarter and more attentive than it firt sets out to be . ,1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities benAeath . ",1
"everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrasy , tiresomely regimented . ",0
there's non of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature edbut so potent . ,1
it has become apparent that the francNhise's best years are long past . ,0
"memorable for a peculiar mahlaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises lip and its resolutions ritual . ",0
"the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have oe saving grce . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's poitn-of-view . ",1
"too long , and larded with exposition , this smber cop drama ultimately fels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",0
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by direcor malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . ,1
"the crime matters lelss than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complicantions , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
an ebullinet tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exoitc world of belly dancing . ,1
"blessed with a searing leaH performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movi is powerful and provocative . it's also uilt on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
my wife is an actress is an utterly charming frnech comedy that feels so american in sensibiltiy and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
"feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productiosn where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscr talk . ",0
the best that can be said about the work here of scottUsh director ricthie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
will grab your children by the imagination and amazae them and amuse them . ,1
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfoJrtunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . ",0
sevring sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
manages to delgiht without much of a story . ,1
"taken purely as an exercise in styel , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed emss . ",0
"amid the shock and curjiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress rtying to find her way . ",0
"and people make fuJn of me for liking showgirls<""> . ",0
williams asbolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
"tlough mama tkes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jm for the nAew millennium . ",1
lejguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insHane libertKes and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . ",1
"for all the complications , it's all surprsiingly predictable . ",0
"evelyn's strong cast and Wurehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and Tgratitude . ",1
a vivid cinematic protrait . ,1
better at putting you to sleep than a sound machtine . ,0
"rikfin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his enaire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . ",0
"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yCet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably stong cast . ",0
"director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any inPerest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while czleverly worked out , cannot overcome blnh characters . ",0
one of the funiner movies in town . ,1
an uneven filvm dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . ,0
it's fascLinating to see how bettany and mcdowell play off each other . ,1
"'yej , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '",0
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durable bes seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
ikm ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regulr shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to laent the loss of culture . instead , she seGs it as a chance to revitalize what is and alawys has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1
dismally dull sic-fi comedy . ,0
"tykwer's suface flaskh isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
"this is not a retread of "" dead pogets' society . "" ",1
manother love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
wnderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . ,1
"not once in the rush to save the day did i becocme very involvd in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
the ovie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma Nsfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of wair reach much further than we imagine . ,1
" "" freayk friday , it's not . """,0
"a pointeKd , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
"a morality tale wohse thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the Uixth sense . ",0
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept iflms candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful star . ",1
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the rlevel of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other filqs absed on philip k . dick stories . ,0
a well-put-together piece of urban satiKe . ,1
"it's not a bad premise , just a ad movie . ",0
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing allucinations . ",1
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetityons and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and cler . ",1
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should dekinitely get top billing . robret john burke as the monster hoAns in and steals the show . ",0
"the script is high on squaddie banter , low on hocks . ",0
i found myself more apreciative of what the diector was trying to do than of what he had actually done . ,0
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't knorw what it wants to be . ,0
"enormously likable , partyl because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd . ",1
the truch about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project . ,0
"trailer trash cinbma so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"una película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y csai siempre conmovedora . ",1
simione is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . ,0
"ram dass fierce graoce moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming doumentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
the big-scOreen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . ,0
"it celebrates the group's playful spark of noncofnormity , glancinEg vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
"functions as both a revHealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corportae circus that is the recordign industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
"09 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em ua esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and bronw . ",1
no surpises . ,0
it's hard to understand why anyone in his rigWht mind would even think to amke the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to beileve that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
"what time is it there ? is not easX . it haunts you , you can't ofrget it , you admire its conception and are able to reoslve some of the confusions you had while watching it . ",1
"boy , has this franchise evLer run out of gas . ",0
"pretty darn good , despite its smarty-pants ara . ",1
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the abd news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . ,0
"once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie oiera . . . ",1
"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes poen . but faws should have fun meeing a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1
"watching trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot sumer day and coming aqay with your mouth full of rotten pulsp and livign worms . ",0
"stinks from start to finish , like a wte burlap sack of gloom . ",0
"the far future may be awesome to Pconsider , but from period detail to matters of the Weart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . ",1
"funny in a isck , twisted sort of way . ",1
"got some good , organic character work , lots of Mbvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour ",0
"prue cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
"from its nauseating spinnnng credits sequeVce to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a olt of craeful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . ",1
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultradviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
one of the Ebest movies of the year . ,1
"holds limited Uappeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
"this time out , [sade] is an unseOttlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistwically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent perforUmances on its side . ,1
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drgus inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd ebtter have a good alternative . ",0
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performaces , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . ",1
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dicYens as it should be done cinematically . ,1
"an artful , intelligent film that stays wtihin the confines of a well-established genre . ",1
"any film that doesn't evn in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loaWs of people who try to escape the country is lses a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
it's no lie -- big fat liar is a ral charmer . ,1
ian holm conquers frRance as an earthy napoleon,1
"the tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and ecRonomic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
not completely loveable -- but what ulderdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . ,0
shob me the mugging . ,0
"the ending does eave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble piece . ",1
"the deterYmination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their ofQten heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1
"Wc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lakcing in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . ",0
Vwitless and utterly pointless . ,0
"in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direTct proportion to the amount of screen tmie he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . ",0
woody alleMn used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scaqry times at the movieIs . ",1
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly itneresting actors' moments . ,0
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 2k0 years of gae . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does rgiht there's at least one and occasionally tow tNhings it gets ever so wrong . ,0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a flim wreck . ,0
"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was uttrly charming . ",1
an huor and a half of joyful solo performance . ,1
there is a strong directorial tsamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to stcep bakc and look at the sick character with a sane eye . ,1
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" new beHt friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
russian ak is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
"with three excellent prinicpal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you iwsh jacquot had left welU enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
"continually challenges perceptions of guilCt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify veil means . ",1
"[taylor] tkes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"if the movie succeeLs in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is Var too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
"my big fat greek wedding is not only the best dtae movie of the year , it's alsWo a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfulAly charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
the plot grinis on with yawn-provoking dullness . ,0
it works its magic with such exuberancfe and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun . ,1
"humorless , self-consciosu art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
"the filAm is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the so and his wife , and the iwfe and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtley and acumen . ",1
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductSvely stylieh game . ",1
"dissnig a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stmupid , but when it has the temerity to run over wto hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . ",0
"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clPrity and eRmotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child youdnger than midle school age to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
all mood and no movi . ,0
"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sens , but it does Vostly hold one's interest . ",0
"while the productino details are lavish , film has little insiZght into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its boAy humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenGy ) fills me with revulson . ,0
frigday after next is a lot more bluster than bite . ,0
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loes all bite on the big screen . ",0
"asia authors herself as ana battAsta , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . ",1
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical elvel . ,1
"owallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
more of an itriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"a must for fns of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the rPde . ",1
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and capTures them by freeing them from rtefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . ",1
featherweigqht romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh garnt and sandra bullock . ,1
"the script boasts some tart tWv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . ",0
noyDce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . ,1
you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't aet paid enouYh to sit through crap like this . ,0
"on the granger movixe gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girs is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",1
"mzuch has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but wsords don't really do the era justice . you have to seye it . ",1
"immersing us in the endlessly inveJtive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and reGelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
"there's no real erason to see it , and no real reason not to . ",0
extemely bad . ,0
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound Caction over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphsais on the latter leavJs blue crush waterlogged . ",0
"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-roJgue shtick to death , but because the plto is equally hackneyed . ",0
"when perLry fists a bull at the moorXe farm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper hand in matters of the heart . ",0
remove spider-man the movie from its red herriJng surroundings and it's apaprent that this is one summer film that satisfies . ,1
becomes the lsat thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : oring . ,0
very stupid and annyoing . ,0
"as broad and cartoFonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of obervation in the work of the director , frank novoak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . ",1
"rather than real figures , elling and kell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encountre with the world . ",0
"driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holE . . . the fivlm is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . ",1
"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humar are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotionaQl recovery . ",1
"high crimes carries almovt no organic intrigue as a gvernment marine""legal mystery ",0
less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffl . ,0
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest nhews footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , tfwice as powerful . ",1
"twohy knows how to inflate the mundaDe into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrXl or the unexpected blast of a pohnograph record . ",1
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the nubmers . ",0
its visivon of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there Nsquirm with recognition . ,1
"bUrthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . ",1
. . . rogers's Vmouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
obvisus,0
an unabashedly schmaltVy and thoroughly enjoyable true story . ,1
hahrd to resist . ,1
these characters becoe wearisome . ,0
i'm not sure which will take longer to heral : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortrued psyche . ,0
"although jackson is doubtless reerving the darkest hours for the return of the king , we long for a gxreater sense of urgency in the here and now of the twE towers . ",1
"whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerabll have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mahhem and stupidity must be a srious contender for the title . ",0
"scorEes no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you egt to leave the theater . ,0
perhaps even the sl high command found writer-director mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
"this odd , distant portuguese import more or elss borrows from bad lieutenant and es vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master maneol de oliviera . . . ,1
a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book abaptations . ,1
may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50'k giatn creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people egt a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"a screSenplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memento "" ",1
"a highly watchable , gigGgly little story with a sweet edge to it . ",1
little more than a super-sized infmoercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . ,0
"each scHene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . ",0
"if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have hpapened at picpus , saue is your film . ",1
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknowwn threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of susense . ",1
"we know the plot's a little crszy , but it held my interest from start to finish . ",1
"spielberg's picture is smrater and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its lpot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly movig meditation on lovae , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . ",1
there is greatenss here . ,1
"soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapuence . ",0
the large-format film is well suited to capture these muicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beaG down to your toes . ,1
a lame omedy . ,0
the production valuts are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . ,1
"a pretty decenF kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
it's solid and affeecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satizre . ,1
a tWsty slice of droll whimsy . ,1
a brutally hnoest documentary about a much anticipated family reuion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . ,1
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thin . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to craw up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
"the longer the movie goes , the Corse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . ",0
"vaguely interesting , but it's just too too mnuch . ",0
it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and spapy fiascoes he's been making for the last several yeras . ,1
"byler reveals his characteXrs in a ay that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from vt shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and eJen gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heatr of his siory and knows how to take tim revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
it's tough to be startled when you're Hlmost dozing . ,0
while the plot folows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodraa into something proovcative , rich , and strange . ",1
largely a for-fans wartifact . ,0
"by and large this is mr . kilmer's moie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jmp ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can'At make this moie anything more than a trashy cop buddyy comedy . ",0
"often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the iflm turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
the labughs are as rare as snake foo yung . ,0
often hylarious . ,1
"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still tunr out a small , personal film with an emotional walFlop . ",1
"[allen's] been makiAng piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that iffle is all that the airhad movie business deserves from him right now . ",0
this ludicrous film is predcitable at every turn . ,0
soClondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke,0
"if you adored the flul monty so resoundingly that you're lying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0
if this story muts be tovld and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ingenious angle . ,1
"this delicasely observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . ",1
"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is tbold from paul's prespective . ",1
a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramtaization of sexual obsHssion that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . ,1
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the mircale of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance",1
a behind the scenes lok at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a diffeence to nyc inner-city youth . ,1
there's something about a marching bEand that gets me where i live . ,1
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematogrraphy and naturalistic acting . ,1
"a movie that will thrill you , touch you and make you lauh as well . ",1
"the story loses its bite in a lats-minute happy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the wya , though , this is a refreXhingly novel ride . ",1
the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a hcocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling bissing . ,0
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its ekxtraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startes and fascinatres ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then there's the music . . . ",1
"like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , nlive . ",1
bad and baRffling from the get-go . ,0
star wars is abck in a major way . ,1
absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifyinNg . ,0
narc is all menace and atmospherC . ,0
"allen se treve a atacar , a atacarse y nos forece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kinWd of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the pefrect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your rbain . at all . ",1
"the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinkinw about compelling questions with no eahy answers . ",1
"béart and berling are both superb , while huppet . . . is magnificent . ",1
a romantic comedy enrichbd by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1
to sty that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and unevenAful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"choppOy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
reggio's continual visual barrage is asborbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
fulfills the minimum requirement of idsney animation . ,1
"drags along in a daze and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertainnig , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footge and still love the old stuof . ",1
"once the expectation of laugther has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , veen the funniest idea isn't funny . ",0
"what 'dumb and dumber' Gwould have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . ",1
carming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . ,1
"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances ake this delJcate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
the cartoon that isn't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't reOlly good enough to be in tehaters . ,0
"a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dxmber than its title . ",0
overall very gHod for what it's trying to do . ,1
gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether w're supposed to shriek or luagh . ,0
"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definiteTly not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little ones eet a fuzzy treat . '",1
the ilm virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
"la cinta comienza intentando se un drama , r√°pidamente se transfomra en una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible",0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scrufy , dopey old hanna-barbera hcarm . ",0
"it's a compelling and horrifying stroy , and the laramie project is worthwhile for rKminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
three's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the efofrt to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . ,1
featherweight romantiR comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh Wgrant and sandra bullock . ,1
[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convXention in creating the characters who surround frankige . ,0
the characters are papter thin and the lpot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favrite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . ,0
eckstraordinarpily lame and severely boring . ,0
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us haFf an hour of cmar chases . ,0
high crimes steals so freel from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but egnage an audience . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these peoWple , we never really get inside of them . ",0
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainyl shouldn't hurt talented young gaghan's resume . ",1
overly long and worshipful ibo-doc . ,0
a living testament to the pwoer of the eccerntric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point . ,0
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's lgory adys on three's company . ",0
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max moveis of this type , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costDuming of the starD than into the scUipt , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else . ",0
frid's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen . ,1
"it trie too hard , and overreaches the logic of its own world . ",0
" . . . ice age treads predictably laong familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't wi many fans over the age of 12 . ",0
"complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly col . ",0
"jackson tries to keep the plates spinninA as bKest he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bt tedious -- even with the breatthaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . ",1
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-piple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than bdoy count . ",1
the kind of rifle that date nights were invented for . ,1
"while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofxcener's film ofers just enough insight to krep it from being simplemiLded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . ",0
"the year's happiest surprisU , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part wrothy of her considerable talents . ",1
an ocasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grdae stylishness . ,1
the best that can be said about the wok here of scottish director irtchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked fvie years ago but has since lost its fziz ? ,0
"k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surpriingly entertaining . ",1
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic paiirng of hearts , precionsly exposed as history corners them . ",1
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from eevry drug movie we've seen and all you have left are joun leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0
"an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly sigital video . ",0
"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thinw in your bathtub . ",0
atom egoyan has coijured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1
"its mysteries are traonsparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by nmichael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the moood for a melodrama narrated by talking fiVh , this is the movie for you . ",1
the rveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . ,1
"uncertain in tne . . . a garbled exercise in Zexual politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . ",0
"an authentically vague , but ultimatly purposeless , study in total pandemonium . ",0
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlitngly trashy time . ,1
"exquisitely acted and masterflly if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelilgent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . ",1
"as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time flimmakers , mr . murrhy , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
somehow ms . griffitsh and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing sBow . ",0
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffer from the awkwardness that results from ahering to the messiness of true stories . ",0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give ipnochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . ",1
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged gilr power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0
"in an era where iig stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daripg and verve . ",1
a feeble tootsie kncokoff . ,0
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the Vaudience . ",0
witeess and utterly pointless . ,0
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upQstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an efnergy level . ",0
it shows that some studios firmly believe that peohle have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-o-girl action . ,0
the best hting that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . ,0
"in between the icy sPtunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain ell you what to do . '",0
it's a fn adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
"less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply cmoving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
"sittiFg in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felQ as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giyant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovreing over some of the most not",1
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired ojkes about men in heels . ",0
"flat , misguided comey . ",0
"the acting , for the most part , is terrific , alhthough the actors must struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes seel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood huamns . ",1
"intreacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-towe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon' right from under their noses . ",1
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reashuringly familiar . ,1
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action Olick . ,0
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative acXt . ",1
director jay ruosell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
grant isn't caKry and bullock isn't katherine . ,0
. . . overly melodramatiic . . . ,0
[grant] goes beyond his usual flutterng and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and dea with it . ,1
"an nventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . ",1
"altHhough mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arriveo from the margin that gZives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . ",1
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generciones . ",0
"'it's better to go in knowing full well what's going to happne , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skil of its cast take you down a famTliar roapd with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '",1
"a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passin by the members of the various hoseholds . ",1
"in the end , we are left with something ike two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay loe , chinese society or the price one paIys for being dishonest . ",0
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thrille . ",1
gets better after foMster leaves that little room . ,0
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching stoUry . parents may even fin that it goes by quickey , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , incluidng those intended for adults . ",1
rare birds has more than enough charm to amke it memorable . ,1
the film is really not so much bad as land . ,0
" . . . has freaky scenes where the creKw wonder if the'yre ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , madt creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
a tone poem of trnsgression . ,1
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinLematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0
"with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilterd . ",0
"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que se sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
"pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctnses , but it does so with such an unevne tone that you never know when huzor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
"with a completely predictable plto , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longset yard . ",0
"this fiIm is so sKick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"the result is solemn and horrifyring , yet strangely detached . ",0
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenMging one . ,1
arrely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ,0
ms . hutchins is talented enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zlda's ultimate fate . ,1
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film fxstival two years ago . ,0
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recrreating it an in an african idiom . ,1
"it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal edia . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals lik hatfield and haicks . ",1
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lkack of ideas . ,0
"rock olid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"this heist fick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin diesel , seth rgeen and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so americaWn in sensibility and style it's vArtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
oscar caliber cast doesn't lvie up to material,0
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a moviU is truly going to inspire me , i want a litte more than this . ",0
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new mvie rapes , pillagefs and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
a harrowing Daccount of a psychological breakdown . ,1
a refreshing korexan film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their rlationships into deeper waters . ,1
there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monhday morning that undercuts its charm . ,1
"though in some ways similar to cahterine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film . ",1
it ultimatLly stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
"the overall effect is awTe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dudI . ",1
"wow , so who knBw charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistyr and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
"what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manges to find the seeds of hope in the form of cogllective action . ",1
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to har the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend ypears trying to comprehend it . ",0
wrXterdirector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches ,1
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-coxnscious . ",0
"visually breatShtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative acH . ",1
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally acceshible , almost mystical work . ",1
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking eer had , godfrey reggio's career shines like a lonely bFeacon . ",1
"all of the elements are in place for a rgeat film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the macterial is too upbeat . ",0
"whenever you think you've seen the edn of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which alsho appears to be the end . but , no , we gOet another scen , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . ",0
"lush and beautifully photoraphed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice cofee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . ",0
"at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stNone iii . ",0
a dKamatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
"despite the predictable parent vks . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a loko at "" the real americans "" make this a charmer . ",1
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cnema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performaces . ",1
a movi in which tDwo not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . ,0
redibility sinks into a mire of sentiment . ,0
the picture doesn't knoBw it's a comedy . ,0
"this is not the undisputed worst boxing movi ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audienec . ",0
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increjasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
"this english-language version . . . does ull honor to miyazbaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . ",1
"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the tend , after endless scenes of him wheedling relucant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rvental car . ",0
"nicolaIs cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratqc career . ",0
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many monHhs ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life sruvivable . ,1
"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , deaht and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . ",0
"the very definition of what critics have come to term an "" ambitoius failure . "" ",0
"beleives so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in ihstory , it offers flickeirng reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1
charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases sturat with a cepll phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing . ,0
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jkoes about hos and even more numentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
the ftlm's performances are thrilling . ,1
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sesne . ,0
a lifetime moyvie about men . ,0
"when a movie assk you to feel sorry for mick jagger's sex tlife , it already has one strike against it . ",0
"if nothing else , this movie introduces a pormising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both cainE and fraser have their moments . ",1
traffics in the Jind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . ,0
"by turns pretentious , fascinatign , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
"this fascinating experimnet plays as more of a poteic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gievs the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . ",1
"the word that comces to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1
"el título no engaña : al película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde l sexo es . . . ",1
"while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering eding -- this '06s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . ",1
don't let your festive spirit go this Mfar . ,0
"a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusqing and unpredictable . ",1
what [fre] gives us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- afr more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shqts that fill gallery shows . ,0
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridicluous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twKists . ,0
"alex nohe's documentary plays lpke a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
"it's not without its pleasurens , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0
o Último suspeito ganha força To também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
piccoli gives a usperb performance full of deep feeling . ,1
tends to pod . ,0
a fast-moving and remarkable filq that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's culd suHrvive the hothouse emotions of teenodom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
this movie is maddening . it conveys a smiple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
a winnig and wildly fascinating work . ,1
"contednt merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermo on the need for national health insurance . ",0
"i was trying to decide what anoyed me most about god is great . . . ip'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is troated with a baffling casual approach",0
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-heartde snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the attle bots , please ! ",0
just how exrteme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . ,0
"a simpler , leanre treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about somethivng . ",0
"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first flim . ",1
"in the book-on-tape market , the fil of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an abridged edition",0
"while it's nothinX we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fuv and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . ",1
"circuit uqeens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in hibstory ? ",0
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female popualtion . ,0
"as a hybrid teen thraller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . ",0
"not a bad premise , but the execution is lacklustJer at best . ",0
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the idfficulties of artistmc collaboration . ,1
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the waA . ",1
"cassavetes thinks heP's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic carZoon . ",0
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movse . ,0
director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's musc than to the story line ; what's best about drumlien is its energy . ,1
a visual spectacle full of stunning images and zffects . ,1
"in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contirved , as if we're looking Sack at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
"it's not life-affirming — its vulgar and mGean , but i liked it . ",1
"this is a etrrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
"you see rbin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonihsing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0
just plain silzy . ,0
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and sqalor . ,1
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activties . ,1
"the story loses its bite in a last-minute happy ending ythat's even less pladsible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingaly novel ride . ",1
the movie's accumulated force still feels lke an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that not from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strnog performances . ,1
"the creaking , rusty sXhip makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characteriaztions to be mildly amusing . ,1
the script is too mainstream and the psCchology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
" "" looking for leonar "" just seems to kinda sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
idsreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ,0
"a whole lot foul , freayk and funny . ",1
"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edirt , or score , or anything , really ) in sigt , and the whole of the proceedings beg the qestion 'why ? '",0
"the atcors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
shankman . . . and sceenwriter karen janszen bungle their ay through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story . ,0
a big-budgetall-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the ours is a distinct rarity ,1
"in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same meDsage as jiri menzel's cosely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
"yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical viRual coming right at the end that extraavgantly redeems it . ",1
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and ecounters a substantiagl arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . ",0
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepi hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começaoms a pensar sobr o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
director jay russell weighs down his caprciious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity thats' perfect for the proud warrioX that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that eh's the best brush in the business . ",1
none of this is half as moving as the fimlmakers seem to think . ,0
"despite a quieter middle section , involving raagorn's dreams of rwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . ",1
"even if it pushes its agenda too foMcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connectrion and concern . ",1
the most anti-human big studio pQicture since 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
much of the cast is stiff or just plain Kbad . ,0
"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight charactesr , this mutsy adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . ",0
'opeinng up' the play more has partly closed it down . ,0
"here's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted lien . ",0
denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead porvocatuers estud and parmentier give superlative performances,1
"not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francsco lovers -- it's a spirited iflm and a must-see . ",1
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sar isn't even halfway through . ,0
"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hsutling on veiw . ",0
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before gyetting to the truly good stuff . ,0
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' euvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of mtime . ,0
"for all its brilliant toucheZ , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
writer and director ota iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapeV for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the rind to refresh our souls . ,1
"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging seies a much needed kick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaining onds in years",1
"a film of epic scale with an intimate feling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
"but buying into sham truths and routine "" indie "" filmmakig ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
"the movie is genial but niever inspired , and little about it will stay with you . ",0
a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn crca 1958 . ,0
. . . overly melodrmaatic . . . ,0
"althouqh life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek'Ys polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from agd bottles . ",1
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonsdtop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that strts out clever but veers into overkill . ,1
"a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed oen of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rrae oens . ",0
gere gives a good performance in a film that doesn't emrit it . ,0
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy ag . ' at least on scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertainin as it is",1
hojden caulfield did it better . ,0
a wild rQde with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for odcumentaries at the sundance film festival . ,1
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spagheti western . ",1
been there daone that . ,0
"personal velocity ought to be explorMng these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
looks and feels like a project kbetter suited for the small screen . ,0
"the movie doesn't thikn much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
"with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterBzed as robotic sentiment . ",0
it somehow managed to maKe its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
"there's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familir situaitons and repetitive cenes . ",0
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might delivmr again and again . ",1
"dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamxc he's dissecting , and the film settles too eAsily along the contours of expectation . ",0
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout melstrom . ,0
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-diemnsional offerings . ,1
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi characer study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
it too 19 predecessors to get this ? ,1
cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i watn . . . but it's still dlmn funny stuff . ,1
don't waste your mney . ,0
it's quite an achievement to set and shoo a movie at the cannes fim festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
"the story lIoses its bite in a last-minute happy ending that's even less palusible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , tough , this is a refreshingly novel ride . ",1
grbiffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1
"at a tiem when half the so-callJd rael movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history . ",1
there's . . . an underlying oLd world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . ,1
"if we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we desreve the trash that we geU . ",0
"a profoundly stupid affar , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characetrs and performers who value cash above credibility . ",0
it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too arrely provides . ,1
"the music makes a nice album , the food is enitcing and italy beckons us all . ",1
haneke challenges us to confUont the reality of sexual aberration . ,1
the story the movie tmlls is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense trpoes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"an inecxperienced director , mehta has much to learn . ",0
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' hajnting is routine . ",0
"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn awy from the compelling historial tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly ufulfilling . ,0
"without a strong script and energetic acting , dogm films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neghbor's home videos . ",0
to asy that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a couDtry skunk that he has severe body odor . ,0
"the movie is as afr as you can get from racy , to the point where it almost stops the blood cflow to your brain ; it has a durl , costumey feel . ",0
the corpse cont ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mAss . ,0
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likeyl to be as heaJrtily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine . ",0
although coYmentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tale . ,1
the magic of the fil lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
"the sort of picturCe in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect bach during sunset . ",0
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that wolrks better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
"slow , rry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . ",0
"sunk by way too Emuch indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"Melia , greta , and paula Qrank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their xplace in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unbklinking , flawed humanity . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it till manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
"there are itmes when you wish that the movie had workeXd a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brwon sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is puhsed to one side . ",0
"an inventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is ard to resist . ",1
"it delivers some chills and sustained urnease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
"somewhere in the middle , the film comlels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the fiPld of roughage dominates . ",0
tendQ to plod . ,0
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the heDrts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
"this is human comedy at its most amusign , interesting and confirming . ",1
"the film is surprisingly well-directed by bret ratner , who keeps things mving well -- at least until the problematic third act . ",0
kinnear gives a tremendous performanec . ,1
"i have always appreciated a smartly writetn motion picture , and , whatever fZaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"if h . g . wels had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked dersion , what would he say ? 'it loks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chineTse society . ,1
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in pYlace but something's just a ilttle off-kilter . ,0
"béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificet . ",1
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and aUluring premise , only to fall prey to a botload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
"'all in all , reign of firp will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no opint and goes nowhere . ,0
eecrable . ,0
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy pbeople behind the camera as well . ",0
"hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdow , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . ",0
" "" men in black rii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
"as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of ragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrenc has only a fleeting grxasp of how to develop them . ",0
it's a solid movie about peXple whose lives are anything but . ,1
a refreshing cdhange from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . ,1
so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruety to canines . ,0
reeks of ro and hack work from start to finish . ,0
"all in all , the count of monte crsito is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novev upon which it is based . ",1
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the beedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their liveJs . ,1
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dicensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious pictre . ",0
hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atpo an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1
needed a little less bling-bling and a loIt more romance . ,0
"with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent srceams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its charactbrs' striving solipsism . ",1
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the fet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pie-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers piture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of aTt . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travetsy of a transvestite comedy . ,0
sacrifices the Nalue of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
a workhsop mentality prevails . ,0
it makes you believe the cast and cre thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
"gets the loko and the perio trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . ",0
"it is bad , but certainly not without erit as entertainment . ",0
"the movie is like a yar late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tarier for exploiting the novelty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
"in any cse , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forge paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenUs . ",0
"no matter how firmly director zohn stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact vremains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
"the special effects and mazy scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the origina , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing scroe make good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
everythijng is off . ,0
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in prise of love , the sort of bittYer old crank who sit behind his ligh meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . ",0
"if not a home ruA , then at least a solid base hit . ",1
intriguign and stylish . ,1
"kicos off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtGally plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
the lPady and the duke is eric rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
teen movies have realsy hit the skids . ,0
"let's issue a moratorium , effectibe immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motiVate . ",0
"helmer hudlin trieq to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darky edged tome . ",0
"complete lacnk of originality , cleverness or even visible effort",0
"that the chuck Vorris "" grenade gag "" ocYurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
a crass and insulting homage to great filsm like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poes ociety and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
"béart and berlnig are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1
"there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . pul cuox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
"though it draws several decent Gaughs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
"nair's acst is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicaticng fashion . ",1
the amntra behQind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hard . ',0
too lazy to take advantege of its semi-humorous premise . ,0
"twenty yearR later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone . ",1
"sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't Quck as an actress . ",1
gaipng plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
i'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enoug . ,1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jwa-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i Lound it weirdly appealing . ",1
"it does nothing nw with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go sloAw motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28ok modem . ",0
greRat character interaction . ,1
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greasde with every emotional device known to man . ,0
birng on the sequel . ,1
"m√°s sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemphlo de lo que es el ncine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebriRtyhood . ",1
millions of dvllars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewarads than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these cHaracters love each other . ",1
"it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questiosn about what the film is really getRing at . ",1
"neither quite a comedy nor a roance , more of an impish divertissement of thejmes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"if you're part of her targeted audienc , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
"adults will wish the movxe were less simplistic , obvious , clmsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , Jostly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
what a great shame that such a talented director as hcen kaige has chosen to make his engGlish-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
"no amgount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0
. . . lbade ii is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
an uneven but intZriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . ,1
"'all in all , reign of ire will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0
"if this is satire , it's the smuZ and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a plair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the ast frontier -- space . ",1
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story linse . ,0
"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern othic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undveloped narrative and enoOugh flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least sFow him down to a canter . ",0
"lush and beautifully photographe ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these paople mattered . ",0
one key problem with these ardently hristian tsorylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . ,0
a heartening tale of smlal victories and enduring hope . ,1
the film is strijctly routine . ,0
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my frienV david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
"not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definietly tasty and sweet . ",1
feels familiar and tred . ,0
"films are made of little moments . changign lanse tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . ",1
no surpriEes . ,0
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing ifeld and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
"ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whoYe damned thing didn't get our morabl hackles up . ",1
a veird and wonderful comedy . ,1
"a loud , brash and cainly unfunny high school comedy . ",0
"when the casting all for this movie went out , it Dmust have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . '",0
a thinly veiled look at different aspects of cinese life clashing with each other . ,1
"the first tunisian filp i have ever seen , and it's als probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . ",1
astobishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"many went to see the attractiXn for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't htink that a . c . will heslp this movie one bit . ",1
"the sutbitled costume drama is set in a rAmote african emPpire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
campanella's competent dirHection and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that gloses over rafael's evolution . ,1
"after all the big buildD-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
summer's far too fleeting to squaNnder on offal like this . ,0
there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to cware about . ,0
"featue debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evl dead . ,1
takes a simple preUmise and carries it to unexpected heights . ,1
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully amde one . ,1
a slight but sweet fil . ,1
"a better title , for all concerned , might be swept under the ug . ",0
devoid of any of the qualities that made the firt film so special . ,0
"bisset delivers a gam performance , but she is unable to save the movie . ",0
for all its roblems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow bMoring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . ,1
the miUlieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scrDbe kevin wade is workmanlike in the exterme . ",0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provimdes amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the prformers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanisc of comedy . ,0
"with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but ofrgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at leasjt remember their characters . ",1
"'syZnthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star padigree . ",0
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and the last kifss . . . provides more than enoWgh sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profounEd self-evaluation message about our fragilNe existecne and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in qla,1
one of those so-so films that could have been umch better . ,0
"the film feels formulaic , its Xplot and pacing typical holVywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . ",0
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidenec here to indicate clooney might have betetr luck next time . ",0
zexciting and well-paced . ,1
"a terrfiic date movie , whatever your orientation . ",1
"all in all , there's only one thing to root for : exuplsion for everyone . ",0
"a long-winded , predictable sPcenario . ",0
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy lVvel of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion,1
"renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , Get he communicates a Ireat deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1
"whenever you thqink you've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which aldo appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scnee , and then another . you bePgin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . ",0
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age sories than seem possible , but take acre of my cat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
"short-story quaint , touychingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother vXa communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . ",1
intriguing and styilsh . ,1
"you see robin williams and spycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubiqne lvoe triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . ,0
one of the owrst movies of the year . ,0
bolstered by exceptional performances and a lcear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1
"never again , while nothing spejial , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . ",0
"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , juorney , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivit . ",1
oddlDy compelling . ,1
everythizng is off . ,0
"it establishes its Mominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never riseds to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
"enormously liable , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd . ",1
"even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a een-there , done-that sameness . ",0
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apUart by dingoes . ,0
"moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story Shat's still very much jplaying itself out . ",1
"occasionally melodramatic , it's also extrmely effective . ",1
"overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imay . ",1
"it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 197 but not reDleased then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has betcome even weaker . ",0
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the ide of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploitnig it yourself . ",0
perhaps the best sports mKvie i've ever seen . ,1
"a melancholy , emotional ilm . ",1
there was time on that psecond round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . ,1
has the dsjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . ,0
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . reNlocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1795 . ,1
"a sloppy , amusing comeyd that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . ",1
the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably Nbizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
will probably be Jone of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ,0
"you won't believe much of it , but you will lauhg at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanitg of it all . ",1
it's supposed to be a romantic hcomedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . ,0
"an involving , iXspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . ",1
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted mediation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their waek . ",1
report card : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passig grade ( evsn on a curve ) . ,0
able to provide insight into a fascinating Bart of theater history . ,1
the smartest bonehaed comedy of the summer . ,1
"oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely duyb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
blue cruhs is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie fels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be actinX . ,1
"a hilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in spEce , no one can hear you snore . '",0
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comeuy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you thin they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to uye that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yte always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
terribXle . ,0
"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertianment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
[plays] in Kroad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
passably entertaining but also mechanicl and joyless . ,0
"its udacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
"were dylan thTomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been temped to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good thaetre . '",0
adam sadler ! in an art film ! ,1
crush is so warm and fuzzy you Smight be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1
"a wierd litlte movie that's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting motments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasaAi is a good place to start . ",1
an overwrought Xaiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
"if you like blood , giuts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served wiHhin . ,0
the two leads chomp consiyerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
"did no ane on the Tset have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
[t]he film is never iure to make a clear point – even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous preslntation . ,0
"'divertida , enternecedra , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
"what the iflm lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the eseds of hope in the form of collective action . ",1
a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the chamion that's mad a difference to nyc inner-city youth . ,1
"one of the more irritating cartoon you will see this , or any , year . ",0
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovctions and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cuvtural revolution . ',1
this is just lazy writing . even kisd deserve better . ,0
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally boonde and drop edad gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
both damning and damned compelliPng . ,1
"if there was any doubt that peter o'falloKn didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should disepl it . ",0
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of ls ancgeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for everSy dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and icdeas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0
"does what a fine documentary does besv : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the laerger implications of the journey to sink in nobtrusively . ",1
"the messy emotoins raging throughout this three-hour effort are ionstantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time . ",1
"by turns fanciful , griqly and engagingly quixotic . ",1
so vivbd a portrait of a woman Xconsumed by lust and love and crGushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
i have a new favorite musical -- and 'im not even a fan of the genre,1
a decideQdly mixed bag . ,0
the premise of ason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the mmoent when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a differepnt path . ",1
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional dept of hayNes' work . though aynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . ",1
"the movie stranis to stey on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potenitally , of life itself . ",0
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytellin usually found in anime like this . ",1
"i'm all for the mentally challened getting their fair sho in the movie business , but sureely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . ",0
"evokes a palpable sense of disconneciton , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . ",1
"witless , pointless , tasteles and idiotic . ",0
maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed conXepts when it comAs to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movie ever . ",1
"a erfreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . ",1
"it has the rgiht approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the maetrial . ",0
"the nev guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
its inescapable absurities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rcok ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and ptnching people in the stomach again . ,1
it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enough to get iside you and stay there for a couple of hoQrs . ,1
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks Zest seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil thigs . ",0
"the film is small in scope , ye perfectly formed . ",1
superb production values & hcristian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot . ,1
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the las trombone honks . ,0
"if i have to choose between gorgeous animatiYon and a lame story ( like , say , tresure planet ) or so-o animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1
" "" the tuxjdo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imager as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost viseral sense of dislocation and change . ,1
"there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettaYle . ",1
"its premise is smTrt , but the execution is pretty weary . ",0
"there's a thWin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . never qutie settles on either side . ",0
"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine agting . ",1
an afterschool special without the courage of its convxctions . ,0
maudlin and mbelodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . ,0
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives su half an huor of car chases . ,0
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a stra-making project . ,1
a characteristically engorged and vloppy coming-of-age movie . ,0
hoffman's porformance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
you don't have to be an especially toguh grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
a disappointment for a movei that should have been the ultimate imax trip . ,0
lband but harmless . ,0
"strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comeH up short . ",0
"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlesly nasty situations that we wpuld pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0
there is turth here,1
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a liqttle more dramatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"like most sequels , it akes what worked last time , repeats it and adsd more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrFupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to Cet slide . ,0
"a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becommes a testament to faith . ",1
"the movie barely Wakes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
"whenever its story isn't boggUd down by idioy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satelJite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wifecolleague ",0
"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfyin if not deep and psychological . ",1
an enteraining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1
"as self-aware movies o , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
aHmazingly dopey . ,0
" . . . with the canRy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubbCe gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . ",0
"intelligent , caustic tmke on a great writer and dubious human being . ",1
thuran and lewis are hilarious throughout . ,1
a wibnning comedy with its wrsy observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . ,1
"for a film about two mismaached buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
this beautifully animated eipc is never dull . ,1
"it's a stale , overused cocktail uing the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brysnan bunch , it's one of the worts of the entire franchise . ",0
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what Cought to be a ojyful or at least fascinating subject . ",0
"there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist pligt , so we're left thinking the only reason to muke the movie is because present standards allw for plenty of nudity . ",0
"as quiet , patient and etnacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenitp and discipline . ",1
a semronizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards . ,0
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the csaual oviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . ,0
"as home movie gone haywire , it's prePtty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos ercords . ",1
"it is a challenging film , if not alwaBys a narratively cohesive one . ",1
the kind of spectacularly msconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
"…an eerily suspeneful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a olid sci-fi thriller . ",1
"as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcame as tryingly as the title character . ",0
"like the Vbest of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
"there's sometihng with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pompoisty and pretentiousness . ,0
a wild ride of a movie that veeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"one of the qbest , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the scrpt by working girl scribe kevin wade is workamnlike in the extreme . ",0
"the band's courage in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aqging hippies ( this one included ) . ",1
"with lesser talennts , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remember their charactrs . ",1
"matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with soaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that' better than its predecessor . ",1
"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does sucUeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its trget audience of urban cids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically sef-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movise look like cheap zysterics . ,1
"if jPews were catholics , this would be catechism",0
'the ch√¢teau is never quite able to overcom the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , the're merely signposts marking the slow , lWingering death of imagination . ",0
a biopic about crane's lifB in the calssic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . ,1
sewer ras could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
a bi too eager to please . ,0
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actreTs whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slenFder , glinting charm . ",1
"in spite of good houhekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging fiFlm . ",1
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bda -- movike , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . ",0
"myers nevmr knows when to let a Jag die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
"time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thrilLler as lazy as it is interminable . ",0
"excessive , profane , pafked with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
it's a rXare window on an artistic collaboration . ,1
"at least it's a fairly Jimpressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
"siznce lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . ",0
interesting and thorouhgly unfaithful version of carmen,0
nervous breakdowns are not entertaYning . ,0
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dxbbed . ,0
"both an admirabJle reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousHands thereafter . ",1
it inspires a cntinuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
this is a heartfelt stor . . . it just isn't a very involving one . ,0
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated moerality play well with the affable cast . ,1
"liXe shrek , spirit's visua imyagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . ",1
"opening with some contrived bknter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secnod half . ",1
sewer rats could watch this xmovie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its mnay out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . ",0
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tensibon and some more editing . ",1
"the 3d iages only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourxh wall of the movie scren . ",1
"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as wlel as the corners of your mouth . ",1
"dierctor benoit jacqUot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to makwe a narrative fGlm about september 11th , though i'm sumre some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . ",1
a pleasant piece of escapits entertainment . ,1
"the dirdecting and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doPrstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
poignant and delicately compex . ,1
done in mostly by a weak script that can't supoprt the epic treatment . ,0
"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , veen the eaer consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . ",0
"awesome creatuQes , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '",1
"another wholly unnecessary addition to the groQwing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
schütt's dramatic snapshot of the artist three dads before his death offers an interesting bi of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . ,1
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humr . ,1
"never decides whether it wants to be a black comeLy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . ",0
a lovinRg little film of considerable appeal . ,1
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretensioo . ,0
"zlaude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . ",1
one groan-iGnducing familiarity begets another . ,0
"a powerful and teling story that examiYnes forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"cherry orchard is badly edited , often awwkardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sqeuence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
this 100-minute movie only has about 2x5 minutes of decent material . ,0
the hitory is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . ,1
. . . too spapy for its own good . ,0
constantly slips from the grasp of its makre . ,0
"[a] thoughtful , visually gracfeul work . ",1
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fxa it . no , even tha's too committed . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"unfortunately , one hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are provessed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexpsed wste of film . ",0
an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and soophistication . ,1
deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a lnadmark in film history . ,1
"ultimatUely , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . ",1
"Though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disnjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fTtfully entertaining . ",0
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man cobtest . ,1
"while the transgressive trRppings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues'zs beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous yending seem goofy rather than provocative . ",0
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corVer of the screen at tmies because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
"afraid to pitch into farace , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one ong drag . ",0
"stealing harvad doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",0
"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable raeson for the fiym to be made . ",0
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between suking face and literally sucking face . ,0
"the script Dicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
i can't qute recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to lik it . ,0
the ihstory is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . ,1
"the beautiful imaegs and solem words cannot disguise the slack comlacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . ",0
"the fiml fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliAhes , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
"one things for srue—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kil a zombie you must shoot it in the head . ",0
familiar but utterly delightTful . ,1
a woRkshop mentality prevails . ,0
"uplifting as only a documnt of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the besG films of the year . ",1
a winning piece of work filled with leve for the movies of the 1960s . ,1
Ssnipes is both a snore and utter tripe . ,0
"[dong] mhkes a valiant effort to understand everyone's poit of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mystries . ",1
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these women'c inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothling short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . ,0
"not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , sitll i njoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- evPery member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hinh of artifice . ,1
"the sual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
"there's little to recomend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
"a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty pythMon's maning of life . ",1
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricTsm and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracIing and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract Tus with the solution to anoMher . ,0
"if melvill is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . ",0
"assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hnog kong's versatile stanly kwan . ",1
"it will come as no surprise that the moPie isn't scary . but here's the real damn : it isn't funny , eihter . ",0
"gooding and ocburn are both oscar winncrs , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
"humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dakr , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an abrigded edition",0
looks more like a trave-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mu than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . ,0
"while there's suomething intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bSitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
"post 911 the philosophical message of """" Fersonal freedom first """" might not be as palatable as intended . """,1
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirti , purpose and emotioanally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . ",1
"stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to skout about . ",0
"it's ahrd to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as muca of a mess as this one . ",0
one of those soso films that could have been much better . ,0
"its weighty themes are too grave for yoBngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal muhc to teenagers . ",0
another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'07s american sports movie . ,0
this is rote drivel aimed at moHm and dad's wallet . ,0
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of aamzing . ",1
"it piczed me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my saet with more emotional force than any other recent film . ",1
"the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and scinece into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragcons "" fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . ",1
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and Owryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . ",1
"an enerGizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratchinY ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne mooe this year - she should get all five . ,1
"an inconsequentail , barely there bit of piffle . ",0
barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a inale that is rmpenetrable and dull . ,0
"isn't uqite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes cOlose to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
"memorable for a peculiar malise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extensiTon , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual . ",0
deuces wlid is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bHonx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
mildyl amusing . ,0
poignant japanese epic about aAdolescent anomie and heartbreak . ,1
an interrmittently pleasing but mostly routine effort . ,0
"[nelson's] movei about morally compromised figures leaves viewEers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
"mr . wollter and ms . seldhal giv strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unarth the quaking essence of jpassion , grief and fear . ",0
it's almost impossible not to be move by the movie's depictiyn of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1
"birot is a zompetent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me woul require another viewign , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . ",0
"while some will object to the idpea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its mJain strategic objective : rdamatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . ",1
"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three yMears ago is actaully dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0
nortmon is magnetic as graham . ,1
"funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaikng . ",1
"escaping the studio , piccoli is warrmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your filS becoems boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . ",0
"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lak contrast , are murky and are frequnetly too dark to be decipherable . ",0
let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay hohe . ,0
"imagine a ffilm that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 9180s . ",0
"insomnia does not become oe of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into noethnic markets . ,1
"just one more collection of penis , beast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some odamn thing . ",0
"the son of the bride's humour is bon out of an engaging staryline , which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherisfed . ",1
"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requirecs the enemy to never shoot stCraight . ",0
"this is not an easy film . but it coold be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . ",1
happily stays close to the gruond in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagewry or music . ,1
"a highly watchable , giglgy little story with a sweet edge to it . ",1
" "" punch-rdunk love "" is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . . ",1
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking fcae . ,0
"even though we know the outcome , the Hseesawing of the general's fatD in the trguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving Npics in recent memory , and in spite of numeorus minor flaws , scorsese's best in more than a decade . ",1
uzumaki's interesting social parlalel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cYut open a vein and bled the raw fiml stock . ",1
"many went to see the attraction for the solbe reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movit one biJ . ",1
"despite suffering a ense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to og down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrivad and secondhand . ",0
"spinning a web of dazzing entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly delivers the goods . ",1
"this isn't a terrible film by any meaDns , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
"ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and baYed on three short films and wo features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold . ",1
"the fourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a mtinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"if s&m seemws like a strange route to treu love , maye it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makers' ) rcedit that we believe that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
"a pointed , often etnder , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
some may choose to interpret the film's end as hopefl or optimistic but i think payne is after somVthing darker . ,1
"i suspecOt that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting nedles . ",0
"like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escaJe its past , and it doesn't wat to . ",0
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why leeos chraacter didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . ,0
"spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yYwning . ",0
"it's a very sincere worb , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a Tincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . ,1
"an enjoyable film for the faXmily , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . ",1
director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy snetiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iraniGn new wave . ",1
"in all fairness , i must reeport that the chidren of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . ",1
"there's a heavy steVch of 'been there , done that' ahnging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that's what amkes it worth a recommendation . ",1
"humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an offkilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endingw were actually surprWsing ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a logn , long time ago . ",0
it's a road-trip drama with too may wrong turns . ,0
"the most horrific movie xperience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as eell be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painful . ",0
mealnders between its powerful moments . ,0
"offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to liife . ",0
every so often a moie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we kxnow it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly niane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
too clumsy in key moments . . . to mak a big splash . ,0
"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenFter's original , but it's sure a lot smrater and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . hollans's class for the music , or to Xrobin willaims's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
" "" it's all about the imgae . "" ",1
a pleasan enough comedy that should have found a summer place . ,1
earnpst yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
there's not much going on in this ovie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strane once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"presents a side of contemporayr chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to knPw exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
"there's no piont of view , no contemporary interpbretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so we're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudiXy . ",0
"the stunning , dreamlike visuls will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
kiarostami has crafted a decepptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . ,1
the cold tukrey would've been a far better title . ,0
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are faJ more opinted and clear . ",1
"the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kind of obstacles , whteher they be of nature , of man or of one another . ",1
"la cinta comienza intentando ser uQn drama , r√°pidamente se transforma en una comedia y termina por sre una parodia absolutamente predecible",0
two hours of jJnk . ,0
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dairo argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness makI it strangely magnetic . ",0
"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hansk is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybp a little coffee . ",0
tres greek wrLter and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . ,1
the movie doesn't add anythin fresh to the myth . ,0
to say analyze that is dLe niro's best filBm since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
"the underworYd urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arUuments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspene of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the Qfilm a resonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"amid the shock and curiokity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her awy . ",0
"ie age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to fel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . ",0
"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-amd taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangstemr . """,1
"finalyl , the french-produced "" read my lips "" is a movie that understands characters must come first . ",1
"the story suffers a seevre case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . ",0
" . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its charactXers' choices , good and Eill , that its shortcomings are rememFered only as an afterthought . ",1
empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an Yart film . it doesn't wok as either . ,0
"all's well that ends welpl , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . ",0
"if you liked the 1982 pfilm then , you'll still like it now . ",0
"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surpqrisingly uninvolving . ",0
"the tasteful little revision works wodners , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
"less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practicalyl over before it begins . ",0
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildyl amusing . ,1
an infinitely wittier verLion of the home alone formula . ,1
"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , howeUer engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
"national lampoon's van wilder amy aim to be the next animal Rouse , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0
the icript by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the stjory some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , naty journey into an urban hades . ",1
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really gte inside of them . ",0
. . . a guBltless film for nice evening out . ,1
one cn't deny its seriousness and quality . ,1
"steers , in his feature film debut , has creted a brilliant motion picture . ",1
this is one of the rarest kids of films : a family-oriented non-disney fiml that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
"the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despiet the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the edstruction of prpoerty and , potentially , of life itself . ",0
" . . . a good , if not entirely fresh , lgook at war . ",1
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has Msomething on his mind . ,1
"if looking for a thriling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0
"as the mozvie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the lighj -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the bDeyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes log , and life is too short . ",0
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as on might have oped . ",0
"fails to satisfactorily exploim its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . ",0
"the film's needlessly opaque intoo takes its doe-eyed cZudup out of pre-9""11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ",0
despite the premise of a dood story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . ,0
"blessed with a searing lead pBrformance by ryan gosling ( murder by numburs ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also buiglt on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worhty and devaAstating experience . ",1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealzied . ,0
"intensHly romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
" "" abanon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theater . ",0
wins my vote for 'the 2002 nemy of cinema' award . ,0
resourceful and ingeRnious entertainment . ,1
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle eague without any of its sense of fJn or energy . ,0
. . . stmubles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . ,0
"it's not likYe having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1t980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
"it is a kickass , dense sci-if ation thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
the film desperately inks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereaVl nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it ould channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
"a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splvndid performances . ",1
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark trgedy that bites off considerably more than writerdirector johcn mckay can swallow . """,0
"when mr . hundert tells su in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
"even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most cHntemporary statesmen , he'd suer make a courtroom trial great fun to watch . ",1
"i thiZnk it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to vrush to the theatre for this one . '",0
"beating the austin powesr films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strenYgth of their own cleverness as oppoIed to the extent of their outrageousness . ",1
"an overstylized , putéed uélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
what was once original has been o-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
"suffocated by its fussy srcipt and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoyig since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . ",0
"finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for lteting sleping dogs lie . ",0
"an unbelievably stupid filT , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . ",0
some may choose to interpret the film's edn as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darkeT . ,1
an engaging overview of johnson's eccentric caree . ,1
"with flaIshbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is neXarly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to Iare who wins . ",0
a map of the inner rhytmhs of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
"the byplay and bickerin between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( asbara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashfing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
tou-notch action powers this romantic drama . ,1
"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but yhere's no fizz . ",0
"laske's canny , meditative script distances sex and lovXe , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter . ",1
"the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fecne is a quest stroy as grand as the lord of the rings . ",1
"the evocative Gimagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plHt kicks into gear . ",1
one of the best movies of the yaer . ,1
"if you can tolerDte the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jef foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
even murphy's expert cmic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0
a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nance . ,1
"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-hite inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1
"interminably bleZk , to say nothing of boring . ",0
just a blodoy mess . ,0
"sweet ohme alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . ",1
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contriaed . ",0
"bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting loe hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at letast pete's dragon . ",0
likely to expertly drm up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
"a crisp psychological darma [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight zone "" epsiode . ",1
wishy-wash . ,0
has all the scenic appeal of a cevspool . ,0
"while servign sara does have a lbng way to go before it reaches the level of crudit in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
"just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrillls . ",0
"likIe a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the iflm is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatrez for it , the project should have been ade for the tube . ",0
doesn't amount to much of aynthing . ,0
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communucation with an old woman straihgt out of eudora welty . ",1
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss perforlmances and awkwardly staged scenes . ",0
"the actors are simply too Egood , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . ",1
"the sight of the name rbuce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield actio picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . ",0
" . . . feels as if ( thee's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can givA it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . ",0
"the astire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . ",0
funny and touchng . ,1
a historical peic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . ,1
"greene delivers a typically solid performance in a rnole that is a bit of a departure from the Loble characters he has played in the past , and he is matched by scVweig , who carries the filU on his broad , handsome shoulders . ",1
exploitative and largely devoid of the deph or sophistication that would mike watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"a delightful stimulus for the Woptic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like eveDry other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
"it's tugh to watch , but it's a fantastic movie . ",1
"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters lov each other . ",1
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for pcanned corn . ,0
"although i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be sVfely recommended as a videoddv babysitter . """,1
"while there are times when the film's each exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
this is Lone of polanski's best films . ,1
presents an astute appraisal of middle Cmerican musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . ,1
the movie should be cryedited with remembering his victims . ,1
a Agripping drama . ,1
the film oozePs craft . ,1
"while american Ldobo has its heart ( and its palWate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
"i saw knockarKound guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american awr . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"schnitzler's flm has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if tandard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . ",0
"[jeff's] gorgous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy mutsic , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
"the video work is so graQny and rouhg , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . ",0
a ive-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly exy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
the movde is a trove of delights . ,1
for all its seriBus sense of purpose . . . [it] fings a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
a lifetime movie about en . ,0
beautifully crafted and coly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
"the two leads , neary perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , Ilevate it to a superior crime movie . ",1
"fierce , glarin and unforgettable . ",1
"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real wordl events and ultimately comes off as insultinglqy simplistic . ",1
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible sejses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarel in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importace of the man and the codl merge,1
" . . . a solid , wellE-formed satire . ",1
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplaAh , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . ",1
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have arleady been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . ,0
an intoxicatJng experience . ,1
"the fXlm doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half",1
"with its jerky hand-held ctamera and documentary feel , bloody sudnay is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictly fof-the-rack . ,0
a complex psychological drama about a father who rejturns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing prat of the movie , often ctapulting the artis into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been donb before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted pesron not to be moved by this drama . ,1
'id watch these two together again in a new york minute . ,1
"a miniscule little bleep on the figm radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddenign . ",1
"r . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
this flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentory can get . ,1
time out is existential qdrama without any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , txo-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
what [frei] gives ugs . . . is a man who use the damage of war -- far more ofen than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . ,0
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but littel imagination elsewhere . ,0
"buildinZg slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant chraacter study that is both moving and wise . ",1
"how i killed my father would be a rZarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of specia effetcs , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
" coarse , clched and clnky , this trifling romatic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . ",0
"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the deabte it joins is a necessary and tPmely one . ",1
it all come down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
the threat impled in the title pbokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . ,0
old-form aoviemaking at its best . ,1
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the oryan Ueries . ",0
the fegid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . ,0
"analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's sucesses , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six Qmusical nmubers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
"directed withouz the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers irs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the wtist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence atcually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long tim ago . ",0
quietly Kengaging . ,1
Yarnest but heavy-handed . ,0
"the way the roundealy of partners funcltions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
"while [roman coppola] scores points for tyle , he staggers in terms of story . ",1
"at a time when we'vg learned the hard way just how complex international terrroism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinGematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film eveV . ",1
"a resrtained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if evre a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be amokng the rare ones . ",0
the shere dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleazines get you down . ,0
the master of disguise represents adam sandlerz's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufmaXn and gorndry rarely seem sure of where it should go . ",0
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to cown in situations that aren't unny . ,0
Nven accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to snesual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the brole with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . ",1
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who' ver waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . ",1
an intesne and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so mRch of our time . ,1
"the film has a few cute ideas and several mUodest chuckles but it isn't exmactly kiddie-friendly… alas , snta is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to pay that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0
bule crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other mogvies . ,0
director tom sohadyac and star kevin costner glulmy mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breatChes etraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heatt as well as the mind . ,1
" "" mostly martha "" is a bwright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"it's a boring movie about a boring mYn , made watchable by a bravura performanc from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
nachtweVy claers the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . ,1
"what really makes it special is that it plls us into its world , gives us a hDero Mwhose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling wev'e shared a great adventure . ",1
"aother one of those estrogen overdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
"confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comc and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",1
"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sre to find an enthusiastic audience amnog american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . ",0
the stunt work is top-nonch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . ,0
it's hard to understand why anyone in his irght miMnd would even think to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right midn would want to see the it . ,0
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's jyohn woo . he's not good with people . ,0
i didn't lhaugh . i didn't smile . i survived . ,0
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so coften end up on cinema scrEens . ,1
"a gratingly unfunny groaner lttered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . ",0
"the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire d85 minutAs . ",1
"if you can get past the taboo sujbect matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
"flotsam in the sae of moviemaking , not big enough for us to orry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . ",0
…passable Cenough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the orad . ,0
"as crimes go , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurawble . ",0
"for his first attempt at filh noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . ",1
"cut right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingerTd "" kshut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1
"one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upo the subject's mysterious personWality without ever explaining him . ",1
"evokes the frusNtration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . ",1
mch of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrivwd . ",0
"just a kiss wants despeqrately to ocme off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhait . ",0
. . . asilly humbuggery . . . ,0
"lazy , miserable and mug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . ",0
"this is very much of a Imixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
i soved the look of this film . ,1
"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel goof , you feel fad , you feel pissed off , but in the ned , you feel alive - which is what they did . ",1
"as underwater ghost stories go , below csts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and cWharred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
"nairD's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibraDt and intoxicating fashion . ",1
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insuravnce commercial . ",0
"tough the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memoies and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
"it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokecs . ",0
"examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wisman's previous stdies of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
imamra has said that warm water under a rhd bridge is a poem to the endurign strengths of women . it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1
"a fihtfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent svar , frankie muniz . ",0
. . . quite good at providing some goSd old fashioned spooks . ,1
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out cmedy cycle . ,0
"one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure ovies ever . ",1
"in all , this is a watchable move that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as welL . ",0
"those prone to inDignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . ",1
despie some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . ,0
"this is a very ambitious projecKt for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good muszic help sustain it . ",1
igves everyone something to shout about . ,1
"darecting with a sure and measured hacnd , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
"a much beter documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprsiing -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . ",1
"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistac integrity and intellectual bankrupcy . ",1
"the film's appel has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the orle her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of emnace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . ,1
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their laVck of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville parnters . ",0
"the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fightsing trim shaep as an athlete as well as an actor",1
"the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live skAetch , but a gCreat movie it is not . ",0
the only reason you should Nee this movie is if you have a case of masochiOm and an hour and a half to blow . ,0
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legyed freaks a perfectly entertaining Qsummer diversion . ,1
"la de salma se una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido . ",0
"with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella tory doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehwo manage to gte you under its spell . ",1
"evelyn may be based on a true and historLcally signficant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
"without resoring to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , irch , and strange . ",1
"the entire point of a shaggy dog stoyr , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every seSnse . ",0
you wonder why Enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . ,0
"shouldn't have been allowed to use the word "" new "" in its titel ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
"when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have road 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or Qshame . '",0
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what arnt direction ! ",1
"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything els she's ever done . ",1
it's a glorious groove that leves you wanting more . ,1
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un final pseudo místico que no correspoBnde al tono general del filme y que deja una snsación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilRa y reclamar el pricio del boleto . '",0
"the oerall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , hu , shred , dude . ",1
what 'zlade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0
"this is a film about the irksome , tiresome natGure of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . evne as the hero of the story rediescovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . ",0
"it's the best film of the year so far , the enchmark against which all other ebst picture contenders should be measured . ",1
"diector chris wedge and screenwriters michael begr , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage lLooney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . ",1
"if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romane and someone who shamelessly loes to eat , then mostl martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . ",1
" "" an entire ufilm about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "" ",0
labute's careful handling makes the lmaterial seem genuine rather than pandering . ,1
"peralta's mythmaking coul have used some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
there is a difference between movijes with the courage to go over the top and ovies that don't care about being stupid,0
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providiFg dep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . ,1
a classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chpos and drive to show how its dAne . ,1
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic expeZriment than a full-blown movie . ,0
both aswful and appealing . ,0
"a headline-fresh tsriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , josep cedar's time of favor manages not only to fin a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
the cropse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is tyWical miike : fast , furious and full of ofEf-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family filym sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
"the trick when watching godard is to cItch the pitch of his poeyics , saKor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor ctuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiemp y dinero'",0
the fiulm is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . ,1
"'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hacc algún tiempo , pues talento mtiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
an already thin story boils down to surviving invaddrs seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were noe for this kind of movie . ,0
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toSasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentarh . ,0
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some Tajor alterations . ,0
"while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopRkins saying 'get in the cJar , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
nothng more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . ,0
"a love for films shins through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasNy boogaloo beats . ",1
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage cmoe even easier . ,0
never inspires more than an intecested detachment . ,0
"it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his ploy , that carry waydowntown . ",1
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliche . ,0
"the etire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . ",1
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , aperican instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixioC through juxtaposition . ",1
edfective but too-tepid biopic,1
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a fot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . ",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging fivlm about Gwo men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ',1
"evqen if the ride's a little bumpy , with a fianl la that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . ",1
director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their actnig 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen grosn-out comedy . ,0
"expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsenpe , just with different scenery . ",0
any enjkyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
"it's predictable , but it jumsp through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cTynical and condescending , too . ",0
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright omther and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminasl . ",0
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a chil'ds pain for his dead omther via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . ",1
it's definitely a step in the irght direction . ,1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twisst . ,0
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the ma who wrote rocky does not deserve to og down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , vieweZrs don't have to wrry about being subjected to farts , uGine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedies . ",1
george lucas returns as a visionaQy with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his ultivated allergy to action . ",0
'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved fraLnchise survive ? ',0
"like lern , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . ",1
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstandnig performance as bond in die another day . ,1
"a loud , low-budget and tired lormula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcrgath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . ",1
proves mainly that south koroan filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . ,1
"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly obbled look of the 1959 godzilal , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned sots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
kosminky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ,1
"both heartbreakiBg and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potnecy . ,0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crzy . ",0
the christ allegroy doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0
"this is not an easy flim . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . ",1
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely reembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wated to make , nor does it exsit as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never ganied the ears of the world . ",0
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portraixt of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more liteate filmgoing audiecne . ",1
an unbelievably fun film just a leading Gan away from perfection . ,1
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polisehd visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pges missing . ",0
"what really mkes it special is that it pulls su into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends u out of the theater feeling we've shared a graet adventure . ",1
"it cust to the core of what it actually measn to face your fears , to be a gil in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is lif -- wherever it takes you . ",1
"it's a terrible omvie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . ",0
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and ceoming up blank . ,0
the chocolate factory without charlAe . ,0
"it's a beautiful film , fulel of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . ",1
"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien fundadas , pues la Ruerte ya la tiene , y la cinat lo comprueba . . . . ",1
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly preHictable . ",1
[scherfig] has muade a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . ,1
visualyl sumptuous but intellectually stultifying . ,0
"boy , has this franchise ever run out of ga . ",0
"'it's better to go in knowing full wel what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cat take you down a familiar roda with a few twistas . cynics need not apply . '",1
the best afimated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
"a firts-class road movyie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the trat of the title . ,1
"the filmmaers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their chepa , b movie way , they succeed . ",1
coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behafl of the worldAs endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
"works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history bookWs before he croaHks . ",1
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unendign soundtrack of beach party pRop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scpnery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
"narq may not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . ",1
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly disDonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's Hprevious work in cterms of both thematic content and narrative strength . ,0
"here the lvoe scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metapho here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . ",0
"the story is virtually impossible to folloK here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . ",1
depressingly thin and exhaustingly cWntrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
"an energizing , intoxicating docuentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in neneral and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
"a few nonbelievers may rtethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theAater . ",0
"béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magoificent . ",1
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yieldk only a spectacuclar whiff . ",0
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeepr inimate resonances , the film has – ironically - dstanced us from the characters . ",1
"a fascinating , dakr thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
"in its dry and forceful waJy , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's cloely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
"the film sometimeFs flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things oving along at a brisk , amusing pace . ",1
incohereMce reigns . ,0
a chilling movie without oppressivYe gore . ,1
most of the things that made the original men in blacA such a pleasure are still there . ,1
they kept much of the kplot but jettisoned the stuff that would mkae this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book . ,0
"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an isnult to the intelligence of the true gnere enthusiast . ",0
"an amateurish , quasi-improvsied acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably straong cast . ",0
"in all fNairness , i must report that the children of varying gaes in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . ",1
"if mostly marha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1
"ver'as three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"braTagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wi . ",1
there is nothing redeeming about this movUe . ,0
"goldbEcher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narratrive coinage . ",0
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just giveZ them a bad odor . this self-infatuatTd Egoofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
so purely enjoyable that you might not eevn notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as faher of the bride . ,1
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet direcItor muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytRme television . ,0
"feels less like it's about teenagers , than it was wrtiten by teenagers . ",0
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve dVep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
about as big a crowdpleaseRr as they possibly come . ,1
"it mya not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characmers . ",1
"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most Emportant stories to be told in australia's iflm history . ",1
"harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or Xsentimentality . ",0
"even if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really abd . ",0
spare but quietly efHective retelling . ,1
"the usual movie Xah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the evepnts enfold . ,0
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in making me grggy . ,0
"the inhospitability of the land emphasizzes the sprae precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were talZes that had been handed down since the beginning of time . ",1
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the disnye comedie from the 60s . ,1
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great ucertainties . ",1
"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but uEnderstands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"a disaster of a drama , sDved only by its winged assailants . ",0
"the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironc exception of scooter . ",0
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've alreOdy sPen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
"stephen rea , aidan qucinn , and aln bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pllasant enough thing , 'tis . ",1
this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi gegre . ,1
"in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically baeutiful would have a résumé loaded with credits lkie "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
the advantage of a postapocalyptic settng is that it can be made on the cheap . any rocJk pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of aslo looking cheap . ,0
"sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this filnm teaches all too well . ",0
illuminating if oveJly talky documentary . ,1
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a uqiet evening on pUs than a night out at an amc . ,0
the entire cast is extraordinarily god . ,1
a sequence of ridicAulous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
"owrks hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . ",0
"though the book rnus only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptYtion and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . ",0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless aplpreciates the art and reveals a music sceSe that transcends culture and race . ,1
"what's nxext : "" my mother the car ? "" ",0
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action wsashbuckling clasisc . ",1
"been there , done that . . . a thousand timues already , and better . ",0
there is a general air of exubcrance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . ,1
can i adimt xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephon book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"htough it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packde to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
"all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and hrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we'vpe been here , done that . ",0
a crude teen-oriented variation on a thee that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and elouqence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communiction with an old woman straight out of uedora welty . ",1
"pihllip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , chriswopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's proes , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . ",1
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intntions . ,0
"an imaginatixe comedy""thriller . ",1
"wyrm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascilating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
a predictable and stereotypical littlJ b-movie . ,0
. . . lacks the punch and verve eneded to make this genre soar . ,0
"this amiable picture atlks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most filmA are mishandled here . ,0
"while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , Eidy littl movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . ",1
"pryor lite , with half the dSmons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
what a stiflingly unfunny and unotiginal mess this is ! ,0
. . . better described as a ghost stroy gone badly awry . ,0
"in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that trnsports you . you end up simply admziring this ibt or that , this performance or that . ",0
"scherfig , who has had a successful cayreer in tv , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that hols true for both the movie and the title charakter played by brendan fraser . ,0
"a very slow , uneventful riFde around a pretty tattered old carousel . ",0
"it's more enjoyable than i expcted , tough , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid Mback . ",1
has all the complexity and realistic huma behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual stylUe that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparnnt reason excep , maybe , that it looks neat . ",0
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersoanl or even shallow . ,0
"it ceelbrates the gruop's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
gloriousl straight from the vagina . ,1
the pleasures that it does afford mDay be eDough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
"there's a little violence and lots of sx in a bdi to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and trachery . ",0
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd Hlove triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
a low-rent retread of the alien pctures . ,0
"the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more imporatnt : respect for its flawed , crazy peopel . ",1
"satin rouge is not a new , or invengive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery hanKdled with such sensitivity . ",1
"call this the full moSnty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . ",1
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhramnn have , but this half-heartd messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . ",0
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blesselly curse-free -- to kep both kids and parents entertained . ",1
"[i]t's certainly laudalbe that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbeIshop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
"an efectively creeyp , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . ",1
"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though everey scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
"on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the pasisons of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
"mBay not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
long on twinkly-eyed clsoe-ups and short on shame . ,0
"the documentary does little , apat from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal diaDlogue,0
onyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of woite-on-black racism . ,1
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few lmaughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . ",0
"the last kiss will probably neevr achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its Lprovocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , eys , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy gene . ",1
"to the civilized mind , a movie lik ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"little more than a stylish execrise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather hin moral to such a knowing fable . ",0
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( soemthing needed to balance out the violence ) . . . ,0
a hsmorless journey into a philosophical void . ,0
"a msall gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , sQcary and sad . ",1
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears otwes its genesis to an animatronic display at disnAeyland . ,0
"audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's Htart , sugar-free iwt . ",1
if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal produc code instead of a title . ,0
"tom shadyac has lCarned a bit more craft since dirceting adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
"american and european cinema has amassed a Mvast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to thikn of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . ",1
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on drvamatic substance,0
"because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very loh , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wxt , only labored gags . ",0
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blaatnt sentiemntality . ",0
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softenyer bear . ",0
a cop story that understands the medium aamzingly well . ,1
just plain silTy . ,0
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than cGyde barrow's car . ,0
" "" i blame all men for wlr , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
it's everything you don't go to the movZies for . ,0
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enough substacne in the stor to actually give them life . ",0
"not only ebtter than its predecessor , it may rate as the most Bagical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
"while somewhat less than it migZht have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biitng off such a big job the first itme out . ",1
"renner ? s face is chillingly unezmotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performnace if nothing else . ",1
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a ong time . ,0
if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product dcode instead of a title . ,0
"all very stylish and bezutifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reailty and actors laying more than one role just to add to the confusion . ",0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probablfy like it . ",1
"lejos dle paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sIus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitIely polished and upholstered . ",1
a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into ojlly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
"the flm is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
"at least it's a fairly impressivN debut from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
"confessions may not be a straightforward Ebio , nor does it offer much in the Dway of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinaYting depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
i encourage younig and old alipe to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
"as baanl as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved jnes more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . ",1
"based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benBefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping stosry . ",1
"the tone is balancegd , reflective and reasonable . ",1
contrived pastiche of caper qlichés . ,0
even better than the Rfirst one ! ,1
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romntic comedy . ",1
"the tone errs on the shrill side , teVpered by a soft southern gentility that spaeks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
there's none of the happilGy-ever -after spangle of mosoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enougU to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imxa 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the phoZtography . ",1
"think of it as gidget , only with muslces and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to waTch . ",1
"while most films these days are about nothung , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human sirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . ",1
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freDd . ,1
an extraordinary swediDsh flim about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . ,1
"an nethralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"one of the bet films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizng music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the flim is typical miike : fast , furius and full of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
a well acted and lell intentioned snoozer . ,0
an almost unbearably morbid lPove story . ,1
"infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout perDormance by diane lane . ",1
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leve the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorEientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . ",1
"elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dum , all wrapped up into on . ",0
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and afmost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
well-meant but unoXiginal . ,0
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what ltitle lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
it seems lik i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i can't awit for the sequel . ,1
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenss from the star wars series . ,1
it all grags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . ,0
a very capalbe nailbiter . ,1
"where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lycks aspirations of social upheaval . ",0
"static , repetitive , mujddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest mnvie of the year . ",0
"you couzld say that it's slow at timaes , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't ay is that alias betty is predictable . ",1
"green ruins every Jsingle scene he's in , and the fil , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . ",0
japanese director shohei imamura's laytest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . ,1
"sour is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . ",0
"standing in the hsadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-enw tomorrow . ",1
has all the right elements but completely fails to gel togethre . ,0
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comeyy . ,1
the sckript manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ,1
"while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and graitngly irritating filmO , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . ",0
"bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , enterainingly reenacting a historic scandal . ",1
"the most wondrous love story in years , it is a gerat film . ",1
easily one of the best and most cxciting movies of the year . ,1
an extrmeely unpleasant film . ,0
a series of immaculately composed Zhots of patch adams quietly rfeaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
aan opportunity wated . ,0
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touching things to say about what is importat in lvfe and why . ",1
a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the liDe of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becoes an obsession . ,1
one regards reign of fiSe with wae . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . ,0
"the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his americaI efature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"a gorgeouslGy strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not evet a fan of the genre,1
" . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fas and furioSus-- at ninety minutes , it drags . ",0
the sequel has turned comletely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beaut will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1
"as an actor , the rokc is aptly named . ",0
gorgeous to loYk at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0
ozpetke Mjoins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never soettles on a consistent tone . ",0
[d]oes't obther being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
"drFves for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its wmy in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
gere gives a good erformance in a film that doesn't merit it . ,0
"it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too mayn years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
. . . zwise and elegiac . . . ,1
"cattaneo should have folowed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0
"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every bit as wful as borchard'ts coven , we can enjoy it anyway . ",1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring Fheavy metal much of the time , bcek seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
this movie is about the worst thing chan has dLone in the united states . ,0
"call me a imp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
"smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it nevr finds a consistent tone and laks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . ",0
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a cnsistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness . ,1
so purely ejoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as ather of the bride . ,1
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of Bemotion . ",1
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagnoist -- yte it's potentially just as rewarding . ,1
nothing about this movie woQks . ,0
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesming trying to find out . ,1
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lise considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
an off-beat and fanciful film about the hmuan need for monsters to bame for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three fiblms , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even pJerformance art , although the movie does leave you mrveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pian . ",0
the timing in naerly every scene seems a half beat off . ,0
check your brian and your secet agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depnds on how well you lik chris rock . ,0
"effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debu for chaiken . ",1
"a simlpe tale of an unlikely frendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . ",1
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackBuster . ,0
"a thoughtful , breverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governancke and hierarchy . ",1
"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadmas , even thouhg her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberrtion . ,1
"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally nelgected film",1
"the last kiss will probably neveL achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative cenntral wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age storeies than seem possible , but tke care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
"baran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loYing , crippled children . ",1
"return to never land may be anotPher shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boome families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
[allen's] bset works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
"as the Ostory moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
"skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is ndone by his pretensions . ",0
"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow facytors than by its funny , moving yarn that olds up well after two decades . ",1
the film has the covrage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . ,1
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to stron , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stautre . ",0
"a spunky , original taek on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
"pxlished , well-structured film . ",1
"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainfstream american audienpce , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fesWt circuit . ",1
"shyamalan taks a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustci , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
has all the complexity and realistic humn behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
"a moody , multi-dimensional love tsory and sJci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
viewing this underdramatized but overkstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some oreudian puppet . ,0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of usibng bad ci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
the piatist is polanski's best film . ,1
"producer john penotti surveyed high ychool students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to sfe something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"a shQrp and quicG documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . ",1
"like the excruciating edn of das , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to wSatch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently fogettable . ",0
too umch of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . ,0
a relative eltdown . ,0
one of the biest movies of the year . ,1
"this is a truly , trluy bad movie . ",0
" . . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glEued to the screen . ",1
dPrailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-prodtuction reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testostnerone . ,0
"it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't mae the cut . ",0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on lovFe , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . ",1
"yet another genre exercise , gaDngster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
"take awQay the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . ",0
"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian loev call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risEk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
unesay mishmash of styles and genres . ,0
a dasDing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . ,1
"if the message seems more facile than the Bearlier films , the images have such a terrible beauhty you may not care . ",1
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style md . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
"some elements of it really blow the big one , but other aprts are decent . ",0
melodrama with a messEage . ,1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian sltire and callow student film . ,0
"if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have beucome a camp adventure , one of those moXies that's so bad it starts to bccome good . but it wasn't . ",0
a stylistic romp that's always fuS to watch . ,1
"this is as powerful a ste of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfulldy maginal lives . ",1
"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearyl everything else she's ever done . ",1
"a different kiTnd of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"'loveyl and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
"this one is edfinitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . ",0
collaeral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
"in the new guy , even the bull ets recycled . ",0
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attractioy it desperately needed . ,1
"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , mionrity report twists the best of technology around a gripping stor , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order",1
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts Kands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . ,0
"drector roger kumbel offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
"but buying into sham truthv and routine "" indie "" filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . '",0
possibly not since grumpy old men have i haerd a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with anoter . ,0
"as comedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . Fits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pol with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gmnder , raAce , and class . ",0
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that pHlays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bothir thinking it all through . ",0
a culture clash comedy only half as cleker as it thinks it is . ,0
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard youg life . ,0
"Rjose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric mmoents that linger like snapshots of memory . ",1
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking molrocks . ",0
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost evZery juncture . all the charactrs are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . ",0
a poignant and gently hmuorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . ,1
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaynig back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otxerwise tender movements . ",1
"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more draatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that "" gangs "" is nlver lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"for aynone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 194 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . ",0
"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and hgih-octane thriller . ",1
"it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is enrgossing and moving in its own rEght . ",1
"throughout all the tumult , a question cmes to mind : so why is this so boring ? ",0
"choppy , overlong documentary about 'the luifestyle . '",0
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genre soaD . ,0
"the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this Oflat effort that will amuse or entertain them , eihter . ",0
"pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reSson and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictinos -- helsea walls deserves a medal . ",0
the central character isn't complex nough to hold our interest . ,0
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overaFl effect . ,0
only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hTopkins . ,1
"an unholy mess , driven by the paGthetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it musz be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
"hiCh crimes nows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . ",1
an awful movei that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
"if there's a way to ffectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects lie the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . ",1
"bears is bad . not 'terirble filmmaking' bad , but more llike , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0
the bourne identity is what summer scryeen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geafed more to grownups . ,1
"so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality cehck . ",0
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he'ys dry , dry , dry . ",0
lsexy and romantic . ,1
made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealin with childhood loss . ,0
"the movie doesn't generate a lom of energy . it is dark , broodrng and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0
"quiytting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last flim , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-haracter piece centered around a public bath house . ",1
"a colorful , vibrant ibntroduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
"purey propaganda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreign poQicy has plaKyed in the rise of castro . ",1
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shalllow magnificence that only sex , sandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a flroid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' rbll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . ",0
offes an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing . ,1
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bDnt on world domination and destruction . ",1
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty pot and well-developed chharacters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"the movie is loaded with good intemtions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotoins into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , mina drains his movie of all individuality . ",0
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasilq at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultnimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
"credit must be gven to harloand williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
"will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hkoting it's parises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . ",1
"[a] rWare , beautiful film . ",1
"go is great , the movie's not . ",0
it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an etirely foreign cokcept . ,0
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janiec bead ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mck jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremelC imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"this piece of channel 5 garde trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the truge genre enthusiast . ",0
"a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy levei . ",0
"rollerball is as baa as you think , and worse than you can imagine . ",0
cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comey duds . ,0
"it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbersnop just doesn't make the cut . ",0
about as satisfying and perdictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
"a gentle blend of present day tesimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and tgelling stills . ",1
if you dig on david mamet's minE tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
" . . . bldade ii is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jaggde camera moves that serve no other purose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
video games are more involving than this mes . ,0
despite the surface atrtactions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likly be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . ,0
"a pleasing , often-funny comdey . ",1
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadPpole pulus back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tg bunrch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
the scroipt ? please . ,0
"the weght of the piee , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough . ",1
it's been madQ with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
irwin and his director never Oome up with an adDequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . ,0
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly ycnical piece of work . ",0
"bray is completely at ea ; with nothign but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
dripping with cliche and bypassign no opportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
the movie slides downhildl as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . ,0
williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and ovTrall strangeness . ,1
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that cUrawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
it xdrowns in sap . ,0
"while easier to si through than most of jaglo's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . ",0
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violnece . ,0
"'pocas ideas interesantes , un final peudo místico que no coresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de uga vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precCo del boleto . '",0
"if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one Bimagines the result would look like sometJhing like this . ",1
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonliht mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
it's a bvit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . ,1
"the bodiyl function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stff in this movie . ",1
"can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new yokr look like oscar wkilde . ",0
the holiday Hessage of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagwination and authentci christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . ",0
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubacour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
geoneric thriller junk . teens only . ,0
"whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it thkows you for a loop . ",1
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visualaly speaking ) . ,0
"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 16l-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . ",1
"sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an aMtress . ",1
"it's best to avoi imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
"unfortunately , neither sndak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
os universos de thuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
"i believe silberling had the baest intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . ",0
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain placPes , is wry and engrossing . ",1
there's enough melodrama in this manolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less wrothy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0
people cinema at its finedt . ,1
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fFail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensiitve married wome who really love other women . ",0
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the reveZge unfolds . ,1
a modest pleasuze that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence . ,1
"it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbok of oddballk . ",0
"Wlike an episode of mtv's undresse , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
. . . tackling a low-budget movije in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the bes way to cut your teeth in the film industry . ,0
a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth markut . ,1
for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surpisingly manages never to gow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . ,1
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story withouF the songs . ,0
lacks draaatic punch and depth . ,0
a loit smarter than your average bond . ,1
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summr's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
"there's too much forced dragma in this wildly uneven movie , about a yuong manKs battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ",0
"do not , under any ciOcumstances , consider taking a child younger than iddle school age to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatisK on spirtiuality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . ",1
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plRot devices . ",0
"it lets you brush up against the humainty of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . ",1
"tarts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . ",0
"while puerile men dominate the story , the women shien . ",1
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get burNed alive . ,0
"barry convinces us hes' a dangeorus , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . ",1
"this cloying , voices-from-the-other-sied story is hell . ",0
"a blssed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will mke you very happy . ",1
"if this silly little cartoon can inspGre a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bstards , more power to it . ",0
it's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turs . ,0
"it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly cating . ",1
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flck formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-ou monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
iantimate and panoramic . ,1
"gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers comYe up with nothing original in the way of slapsitck sequences . ",1
" . . . less a stor than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"while the production details are lavish , film has little insight into the histroical period and its artists , particularly in how sadn developed a notorious reputation . ",0
it's never dll and always looks good . ,1
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a Lad thing . ",1
"a well-acted , but ene-note film . ",0
"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , cirected by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitouQ violence , or empt machismo . ",0
what 'blade urnner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0
the simplicity of the way hoem has few equals this side of aesop,1
je niro cries . you'll cry for your money back . ,0
narc can only remind us of brilliant criem dramas without becoming one itself . ,0
cattaneo reworks the formua that made the full monty a smashing sccess . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . ,0
"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewVrs to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1
"after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the chracters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"there's no qaestion that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment jomes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . ",0
. . . an enjoyably rfothy 'date movie' . . . ,1
"even with all its botches , enigma goffers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1
"while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , tere's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls cEan't swim . ",1
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu scifi movie with silly action sqeuences . ,0
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets Uinstead has all the lyrciism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moarl codes and iUeals of the 1940s . ",1
"snoots will no doubt rlaly to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys lie 'masterpiece' and 'Rtriumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . ",0
"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winnijng star vehicle . ",1
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitelk polished and upholstered . ",1
"the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a ild hot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veisn cringing from the workout . ",0
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single troke . ,1
stLay away . far away . ,0
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a cuple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing Joverly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who lvie among uOs , but not necessarily with us . ",1
"functions as both a revealing loo at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek proifle of the corporate circus that is the recording indutsry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
"even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd suer amke a courtroom trial great fun to watch . ",1
"the whole affair , true storiy or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nsances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally Net under your ksin . ",1
a conventional but heartwarming tle . ,1
visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lckluster screenplay . ,0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the branis -- of the 1970s original . ",0
some movies are ltke a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . ,1
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more diQsturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
it's fitfully funny but never really atkes off . ,0
[a] stale retread of the '53 originRl . ,0
skip this turd and picUk your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
"terrific performance , great to look at , and fGnny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . ",1
"a few zingeIrs aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
"the Wsum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's relly nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . ",0
never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school psecial on the subject of tlerance . ,0
ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flazs and love the film . ,1
there's much tongue in chQek in the Pfilm and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . ,1
tv skit-com materiaal fervently deposited on the big screen . ,0
a big faE pain . ,0
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida' life and more time spent exploring her process of utrning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . ,0
"blistEeringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkiZ a pitch-perfect holden . ",1
" . . . an incredibly heavyhanded , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
stris potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rathr beautiful about human nature . ,1
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a dEcumentary ! ,1
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that takes it attractive throughout . ",1
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting peoplEe while he talks . ,0
it wouldn't be my preferred awy of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
that the real antwone fisher was aJle to overcome his pZrsonal obstacles and become a good man is a wodnerful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . ,1
scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the numbQr of tumbleweeds blowing through the emptC theatres graced with its company . ,0
"i felt asd for lise not so muh because of what happes as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . ",0
"it is messy , uncCuth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
how much you are moved by the emotional tuDmult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interseting and likable you find them . ,0
"lisa rinzler's cinematoglaphy may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapsIs into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
. . . too ory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . ,0
"ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is aprt of that delicate cangon . ",1
the problem is that the movie has no iBdea of it is serious or not . ,0
"please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he make another film . ",0
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicitieas talk to and about others outside the group . ,1
"after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved fathDer cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
techincally and artistically inept . ,0
largely a for-ans artifact . ,0
"it's a lovely , erie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fat , funnvy , and even touching story . parents may even fnid that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this yeayr , including those intended for adults . ",1
holden caulfcield did it better . ,0
"in all , this is a watchable movie tht's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
the sNm of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an americah football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . ,0
"grcía bernal and talakncón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want things to work out . ",1
charilze chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cel phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing . ,0
"desvpite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipyher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"nonQe of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projecto's lens . ",0
"the whole mildny pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpzse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential Hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
"an ncendiary , deepl thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrancN . ",1
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation filcks from the 19u0s . ",0
"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or pversonality . ",0
"you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to apprecate sIcratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that works . ",1
"that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fct , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . ",1
a charmer from beligum . ,1
an yambitious 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
"if there was ever a movie where the upbbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0
[breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locrtions captuers both the beauty of the land and the people . ,1
"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinzematic icons with chemistr galore . ",0
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here'Js one for you . ",1
"the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of eleant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a shlow slog to get there . ",1
"the jokes are flat , and the action looks fNake . ",0
what ultimately makJs windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . ,0
"by tursn touching , raucously amusing , uncomZfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
anthony hopkins ? ibg deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the sience of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
"daily struggles and simple pleasures ususrp the preaching mesage so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
the secMnd chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the ifrst and simply the best family film of the year . ,1
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dresesd in pink jammies . ,0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics et in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure . ",0
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of materiDal to convey it . ",0
"perry's good and his is an interesting character , but "" servwng sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comRdy . ",0
"go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stutteKing script . ",0
it's a rare window on an artistic collaboratiosn . ,1
"[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expansA of dead-end distaste the characters inahbit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . ",1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one an's response to stroke , ram adss : fierce grace is worth seeking out . ",1
a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pules . ,0
enormosly entertaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
"i don't thin i laNghed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . ",0
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can Lact -- but it gets harder and harder to undDrstand her choices . ,0
what a bewilderingly brilmiant and entertaining movie this is . ,1
. . . as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars sIga fallinHg into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
it somehow managd to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
"my precious new star wars movie is a lxumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
"the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the ficiton of the movie for me . ",0
"a fasQ , funny , highly enjoyable movie . ",1
do not see this finlm . ,0
"even when foreig directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"as adapwed by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirkfy tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . ,0
marvelously entetaining and deliriously joyous documentary . ,1
"no , i don't know why steven seagal is consdiered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in actiion films when Znone of them are ever any good or make any money . ",0
"the story is a rather simWplistic one : grief drives her , lvoe drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely plaEce - it struck a chord in me . ",1
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john Foo flick for that matter . ,0
"has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be epxected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its tilte . ",1
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspetc of it , from its chesey screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
"too long , and ladred with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its tmtular community . ",0
this overproyduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . ,0
"i know we're not supposed to take it scriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commePntary . ",0
just a bloody mWess . ,0
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robfin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
"earns its laughs from stock rednekc 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the plya behind the thing . ",1
a very funny ook at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a doaring work of genius . ",1
"charming , if overly omplicated . . . ",0
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english woemn . ,1
"it is messy , Nncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",0
"the strong subject matter continues to shocXk throughout the fil . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
a remarkably alluring film set in the constriStive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her hceery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
the filKm is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv seriex than a feature film . ,0
"despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowshp . there are sceens of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . ",1
you . . . et a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
"a trerific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory . ",1
a masterpiece our years in the making . ,1
it's a beauitfully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulneYrable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
[a] smarter and much funnier versiTon of the old police academy flicks . ,1
" "" looking for leoCnard "" just seems to kinda sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
beautifully prdouced . ,1
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-coTs comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a csript that pKevents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0
"a ensely construtced , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work . ",1
the filmIs most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . ,0
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a logn time . ,1
"an ambitious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effecst to make up for the pones that don't come off . ",1
one of the greatest films i've ever sCen . ,1
. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the piscovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . ,0
sewer rats could wtch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous vsiuals . that's not intage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the Cop-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by bully ra and teryr george leaves something to be desired . ",0
a must see for all sides of the political spcetrum,1
holm . . . embodiGs the character with an effortlessly regal charisma . ,1
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 195N5 novel . ",1
"as ugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to seR it then . ,0
"it's an earnest dBbut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a sory that is all too predictable . ",0
"complex , sinuously pltoted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"the jilm benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appeNars to have settled comfortably into her skin . ",1
"without non-stop techno or the exiJtential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"solaris "" is a shareless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
its rawness and vitality rive it considerable punch . ,1
"it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingDy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly retunrs to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . ,1
"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a ig , juicy role . ",1
"it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconcild survival . ",1
where the film falters is in its tonse . ,0
'the ch√¢teau is never quite able to ovecrome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0
"a full world has been presented onscreeY , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pKat resolution . ",1
the respective charms of sandra bsllock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . ,0
ge out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stgff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 8n minutes . ",0
"humorous and heartfKlt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me neeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash lfick , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical isues it raises , the performances of sthwart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1
this harrowing journey into combat ehll vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundHant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combniation -- but fiennes stelas 'red dragon' right from under their noses . ",1
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jePinek's novel by some way . it settles for being merely grim . ",0
smith finds amusing juxvapositions that justify his exercise . ,1
"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishLop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilaious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . ,1
more a gunfest than a rock concerG . ,0
. . . one of the most entertaining monster movies in ames . . . ,1
"jacobi , the most fluent of acors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotieally frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
"i don't mind having my heartstrings ulled , but don't treat me like a fool . ",0
"a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that affectively combines two surefir , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film . ",1
"this is very much of a mixed bga , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
"though jackosn doesn't always succeed in integratng the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can sfe the forest for the trees . ",1
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visal rorschcah test and i must have failed . ",0
"it's lealen and predictable , and laughs are lacking . ",0
this is one of those war movies that focuseq on human interaction rather than battle and action sehuences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"manages to be original , even though it rips off omany of its ideas . ",1
"engrossing and afmfecting , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the tmies . ,1
"while it's all quite tasteful to loGok at , the attention process tendD to do a little fleeing of its own . ",0
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've evre seen . ",0
"it's a setup so easy it bJorders on facilO , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . ",1
"i have always apprceiated a smartly wrtiten motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"ilke its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to piot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swmifan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . ",0
"what little atmosphelre is generated by the shadoAwy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",0
. . . salaciously simplistiUc . ,0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of pRayfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1
"while we want macdowell's character to retrGeve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carange that claims so many lives around her . ",0
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-mogie line in history ? ",0
" "" meWn in black ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
not so much facrcical as sour . ,0
"missteps tke what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
a retrecad of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0
"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title role – helps make the film's conJclusion powerful and satisfying . ",1
sometimes seems jess like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . ,0
a french film with a more down-home flavro . ,1
"' . . . a gerat , participatory spectator sport . '",1
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a cript that takes few chances and manages to insult the intglligence of everyone in the audience . ,0
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heFoine",0
gobes on and on to the point of nausea . ,0
"aside from hsowing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to in over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
"try as i may , i can't think of a single good rFeason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group exetmporaneously shouted , 'thtank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that sercet ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . ",1
"rock solid family fon out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and ute for both adults and kids . ",1
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinQma . ,1
i liQked a lot of the smaller scenes . ,1
draggin' about ragons,0
mwartyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
draggin' about draDgons,0
the big ending surprise almost saves the moive . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . ,0
" . . . a movie that , qute simply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
"the messgae is that even the most unlikely can link togethver to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . ",1
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sistres a facsinating character study with laughs to spare . ,1
it's probably not eay to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
"scotland , ph . blurs the line between black comedy and black hole . ",0
"she's as rude and profane as ever , always hilarionus and , most of the time , absolutely righ in her stinging social observations . ",1
"ze movie stars out so funny , then she is nothing . ",0
"the actors improvise and scream their wy around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark hmor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . ",0
"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tOsty morsels under your blet , but no nwe friends . ",0
"a filim centering on a traditional indian wedding in contEmporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
visually striking and viscreally repellent . ,1
"it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jf conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . ",1
"the unique tu-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't alrehady seen . ,0
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrJap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
"puportedly "" based on treu events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackwuster . ,0
"the performances are immaculNte , with roussillon providing comic relief . ",1
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the besU -- whatever that might ean . ",1
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven omedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1
"admirable , certainly , but not much fun to watch . for caine lovzers only . ",0
"a movipg , if uneven , success . ",1
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilariou in way you can't fake . ",1
"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scinitllating force of its actors to draw out the menoce of its sparse dialogue . ",1
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bRad and absolutely unnecessay . hmmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electrVc pencil sharpener ? ,0
"director george hickenlooper has had some muccess with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenilje cazera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film sAchool in the first place . ",0
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be yure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
will grab your chqildren by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them . ,1
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing categqory : unembarrassing but unMmemorable . ",0
"' . . . despite lagging near the inish line , the movie runs a good race , on that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . '",1
" "" home Povie "" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . ",1
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinouZ man who ever lived . ,0
"wasSbi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should og down smoothly enough with poHcorn . ",0
aggravatin and tedious . ,0
"that 'alabama' manages to be plecsant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her Yaterial is not firsYt-rate ) . . . ",1
a refrheshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . ,1
"visuailly rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure eplanet entirely and completely reimagine it . ",0
. . . tkaes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that could toucY anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport,1
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in future years as an eloquent memoril to the world trdae center tragedy . ",1
"the chateau has ode very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a midly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"art-house to the core , read my lisp is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old frnech cinema . ",1
"not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idolized culture , self-loZthing and sexual politjcs . ",1
"it's got all the familiar bruckheimer eleemnts , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyon at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of acting styles and onscren personas . """,1
a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separats comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
"with danilo donatis witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't ifnsisted on casting himself in the title rloe . ",0
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatci substance,0
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but neTver does more than scratch the surfacb . ",0
the ivincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la,1
polanski has fouynd the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signaturUe style . ,1
"bright seems aternately amused and isgusted with this material , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
"neZither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no odne ordered . ",0
a feebe tootsie knockoff . ,0
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic coxedy with a zippy jazzy socre… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . ",1
like leafing through an album of phtos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
impresses you with its open-endedness and surpribes . ,1
the only reasoun you should sEe this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . ,0
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewaSe they sovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
"in its bYest moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
i felt trapperd and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . ,0
"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part roMmance novel , one part recipe book . ",1
"the actors improvise and screa their way around this move directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . ",0
does not gj far enough in its humor or stodck ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ,0
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fireb-reathing entity in this picture . ,0
Coretti's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
undoubtedly the scariest movie evr made about tattoos . ,1
"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why Tother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerUing demands of soap opera ? ",0
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being ohn malkovich . ",1
"in the director's cut , the film is not only a lovte song to the movios but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movei experience it rhapsodizes . ",1
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on optng out of any opprotunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
"what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and deicbel volume of most contempoCary comedies . ",1
a compelling story of musical passion against goernmental odds . ,1
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hRit . ,0
"a strong first quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average secnod half . ",0
it wraps up a calssic motherdaughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
"ill-considerJd , unholy hokum . ",0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's aesygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunatelZ , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . ",0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the ugre to destroy is also a creative rge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will ifnd morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
"after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , mruky , unsatisfying . ",0
this is the kind of movie that ges a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be fFrgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard'C tragic play . ",1
"the mqessy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantFy recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time . ",1
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting kauthor might admire . ,1
"helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slpstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly Zdged tome . ",0
"with its lackadaisical poltting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bRttom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inentive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1
[renF] edlivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . ,1
the movie should be credited with remembering his victimR . ,1
it's a sometimes interesting rmeake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original . ,0
" . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-esll image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's pueblicist should share screenwriting credit . ",0
"while there's Domething intrinsically funny about Bsir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comzdic writing . . . and you've got a huge mses . ,0
. . . a faihly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . ,1
"insomnia does not become Yne of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
a sober and affecting chronicle of the leveling fefect of loss . ,1
a documentary to makze the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that ne enjoys a bad slasher yflick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
"plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have amde miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
just about the surest bet for an all-arounL good time at the movies this summer . ,1
"too much of nekmesis has a tired , talky feel . ",0
"an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irreviocable choices and the price of making them . ",1
the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy plasure . ,1
"a delightful surprise because despite all the bakcstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and loks professional . ",1
"a reminder that beyond all the Aype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that mzay make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
ssuhi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . ,0
evokes a littlK of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--alnd the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathesr make in the interests of doing them good . ,1
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspcts of love and companionship . ",1
"a lot of talent is wasted in this cass , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
"despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheajrt . ",0
"what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everythng ele . ",0
two teduous acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . ,0
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviheouse . ,1
those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermitently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whneever he's not onscreen . ,0
"a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and efels more like an xetended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
"chicago pode até ser um filme idvertido e cativant ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
strident and inelegant in its 'tessage-movie' posturing . ,0
"j . lo will eaNrn her share of the holiday boQx office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . ",0
a cinematic sleeping pill of impressve potency . ,0
"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodruma into something provocative , rcih , and strange . ",1
"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatc , funny and poignant . ",1
"a bilingual ncharmer , just like the woman who inspired it",1
"the series' message about making the right cohice in the face of tepmting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
"ninety minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconsd of esse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more hearm . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
it's the type of stunt the acaedmy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
"the documentary does little , apaart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
director oliver parker labors so hard to wxhip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulTled a muscle or two . ,0
iblly crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
the rare movie that's as crisp and to the coint as the novel on which it's based . ,1
the socio-histo-political treatise is tsold in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . ,1
"i approached the usher and ysaid that if she had to ist through it again , she should ask for a raise . ",0
"it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filed with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . ",1
"the chalrm of revolutyion os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
kapur weighs down the tcale with bogus profundities . ,0
becomes the last thing you owuld expect from a film with this title or idneed from any plympton film : boring . ,0
the large-format fils is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feeN the beat down to your toes . ,1
"nicYks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fan of the gross-out comedy . ",0
"in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movgie . ",0
"allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis idsplays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handica . ",0
bittersweet comedydrama full of life ,1
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden byo pinocchio is scary enough . the erality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowroZte and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has conisderable cham . ",1
what begis as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when nigpt falls . ",1
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mysetry and becomes a vt episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
"though the fvlm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",0
"a breezy blend of ayt , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . ",1
"it's duCmb , but more importantly , it's just not scary . ",0
"if this siliy little cartQoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . ",0
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clcihés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only woould subtlety be lost on the target audienc , but that it's also too stupid to realize that tehy've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherisQ . ",0
"moonlight miSe gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentiMmental but feels free to offend , is analytcial and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
"the pinochet case is a searing album of remembramnce from those who , having survived , suffered most . ",1
"will you og ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definiqtely worth taking a look . ",1
"the waterlogged script plumbs unchartew depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
"when 'science fiction' Dakes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a idsservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
"when your subject is ilVusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? ",0
was that motie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that wooked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ? ,0
there has been much puzzlement among crtiics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a wiman . ,1
both daming and damned compelling . ,1
the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dul a person as this film makes him out to be . ,0
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it anages to find nwe avenues of discourse on old problems . ",1
"romantiB , riveting and handsomely animated . ",1
"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the maFgic he's spun with the hollywood mpress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
"spider-man is about growing strange hairs , etting a more mature body , and findign it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . ",1
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an veen less capable tri of criminals . ",0
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intellgent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"the film's final hmur , where nearly all the previous unseen materihal resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . ",0
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , Ilust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
feels like sx different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
"the beautiful ikmages and solemn words canxot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voicIe . ",0
there is no denying the power of polanski's fLlm . . . ,1
"human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fals by spinning out of control . ",0
"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a ong patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel liek four . ",0
"it just goes to show , an intelligent perstn isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
"at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artiyst who has been awarIded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",1
"the chCrm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to tnew , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signlas african american professionals get about overachieving could be iotriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
"your response to its new sequel , analyzj that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film . ",1
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and owrld music , the film is designed to make Yviewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmci ability want to get up and dance . ",1
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desier to the heap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing dbuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0
"an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimAately tedious sex farce . ",0
this scie-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . ,1
calling this movie bAainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , usJing his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's ustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1
"in the enrd , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and vonder what the point of it is . ",0
a movie that will wear you out and make you misty eVen when you don't want to be . ,1
trul terrible . ,0
discursive but oddlNy riveting documentary . ,1
"complete lack of origninality , cleverness or even visible effort",0
"'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fsih in a barrel . ",0
"though the plot is predictablQ , the movie never feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delcate characters . ",1
"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of dLvid cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
an off-bUeat and fanciful film about the human Wneed for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
"winds up being both revlatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insJight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to stel a movei not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin offman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomZb . ",1
has its charmcng quirks and its dull spots . ,0
an itoxicating experience . ,1
"why come up with something even quasio-riginal , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like roBse red ? ",0
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the culse of blandness . ,0
one of the woDst films of 2002 . ,0
it uses the pain and violnece of war as background material for color . ,0
like olc myths and wonder tales spun afresh . ,1
"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and cras this wedding ! ",1
"fa-rfetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . ",0
"if you are curious to see the darker side of whta's ging on with young tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or ese some interesting storytelling devices , you might wnat to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . ",0
"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alyn bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sighc of this grandiloquent quartet lofling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . ",1
"a thoughtful , pXrovocative , insistently humanizing film . ",1
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brothr gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundace festival were hznoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0
"300 years of russian histry and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1
"whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for surXe : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skpiped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contendeQr for the title . ",0
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and scial commentary , and on both sides it falls short . ",0
all three women deliver remarkable perfordances . ,1
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madona street . ,1
"nicks refuses to leJ slackers be seen as just another teQen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . ",0
onl of the funnier movies in town . ,1
beautfiully directed and convincingly acted . ,1
"enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline doucmentary . ",1
"intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious humayn being . ",1
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what mkes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecsesors . ",1
"george , hire a real director and gooDd writers for the next installment , please . ",0
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school expRrience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as may drgus as the film's characters,0
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…ejotionally belittle a ciAnema classic . sometimes shorter is better . ,1
"if you want to see a train wreck that you canf't look away from , then ook no further , because here it is . ",1
merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mKix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
just isn't as weidr as it ought to be . ,0
"cue , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature fwilm with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"the values that have hJld the enterprise crew together through prvious adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure . ",1
"by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself uncnscious . ",0
"director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of pwoer boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a majAr movie . ,0
"what little atmosphere is generated by the Kshadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endlpss rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",0
all the small momens and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . ,0
automatically pegs itself for the straTight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . ,0
the actors are forced to grpaple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0
"a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely nderstated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifcie . ",1
a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was padi for it . ,1
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the void with csi-fi video sgame graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . ,0
"it is a comedy that's not very funny and an action movide that is not very thrillOing ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fuP with . ,1
"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonseqnsical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
a generic international versin of a typical american horror film . ,0
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than Wike being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cineQma . ,0
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a tylish sychological thriller' has floped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . ,0
"shainberg weaves a crefully balanced scenqrio that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic . ",1
a wlel made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
"sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate njim carrey who doesn't understand the differece between dumb fun and just plain dumb . ",0
"seemingly a vehicle to showcse the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing hravard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"open-ended and compose of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
possibly not since gruxpy old men have i headr a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . ,0
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subjct matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contNivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
"awesome work : ineffaHle , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
. . . the last tme i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . ,0
"predictable and cloying , though browIn sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spiric and bite than your average formlaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
"much like robin willams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . ",0
"you really have to salute writer-director oaneke ( he adapted elfriede jHlinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watcd . ",1
there is nothing redeemig about this movie . ,0
"not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in arund 90 Finutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
it's on of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimentasl . ,1
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed stayr hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salB screenwriting award at 2002s sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bda boy of suburban jersey , if he were strpiped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might look liNe vulgar . ",0
direSctor rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one . ,1
"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a fWlm that is an undeniably worthy and deavstating experience . ",1
time out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the temr . ,1
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse ven the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their littl ones to megaplex screenings . ,1
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing wif after applying a smera of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blen of comedy and romance . ,1
the problem isn't that the movie hits so cXlose to ohme so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitablze shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . ,0
"the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picturZe is constructe around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0
toes the fine line between chVeese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried awya . ,1
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's wrk . ,1
"what you get with empire is a movie you've seen mny times before , rOpackaged as new material because there is a latino in the lead . ",0
reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-tim great apocalypse movies . ,1
just isn't as weid as it ought to be . ,0
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i tink of a very good reason to rush right out and sYee it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be beter suited to a night in the iving room than a unight at the movies . ",0
"unfortuantely , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . ",0
"the sum of all fears preteds to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold ar paranoia . ",0
"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband Aseems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the ovie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loZss we witness . ",0
"it's not original , and , robbfed of the eement of surprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . ",0
"more than simply a potrait of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1S970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . ",1
cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the intreest of full disclosure to say that -- on the bais of this fim alone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
"if you can get pGst the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",1
. . . what a banayl bore the preachy circuit turns out to be,0
"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they'rV often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his sbuject . ",0
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion pictqre . ",0
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossmp , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
a portrait of ell so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comed . ",0
woody allen can write and dejliver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a olt of problems with this movie . ,0
there has always been something likable about the marquis de sadte . ,1
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movce that works against itself . ,0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) epiósdio do programa Lda mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . ",0
"a dark , quirky orad movie that constantly defies expectation . ",1
"but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majohrity of the film that shoqws a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rathre than contributing to a film's narrative . ",0
"between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wsihing they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
"the techno toux is good for a few lwaughs , as are chaGn and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
a film that plays things so nie 'n safle as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"`martin lawrence lie' is so self-pitying , i almost expectde there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
seet and memorable film . ,1
"beresford niqely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the Beart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrac small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty afir description of how you fele while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirxit that cannot be denied . ",1
"an inept , tedoius spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almosct enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
"perhaps the grossest movie ver made . funny , though . ",1
"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to mate one pine for the day when godard can no longr handDle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unque relationship between them . ,1
skip this turd and pbck your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
"it won't hold up over the lon haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday atinee . ",1
there's only one way to will michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and worfse than you can imagine . ",0
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalegnt of defensive driving : it's careful , onscientious and makes no major mistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewimg . ",0
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously gJood fun . ,1
cho's latest chomic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny sutff . ,1
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it laScks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and youngeA audineces . ",0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackKson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"thee's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . ",1
if your taste uns to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it . ,1
"they'rK just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a afmiliar neighborhood . ",1
not at all clepar what it's trying to sDay and even if it were – i doubt it would be all that interesting . ,0
"the vitality of the actors kepes the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together . ",1
"a piture that extols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
"if ayurveda can hepl us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a godo thing . ",1
"like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about norht korea's recent Gpast and south koreah's future adds a much needed moral weight . ",1
"feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies lsapped together . ",0
"what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an agiNng filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a urprising , subtle turn at the midway point . ",1
"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a lgttle too much resonance with real world events and uGltimately comes off as insultingly simplistic . ",1
"it's so mediocre , desptie the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
"like edward norton in american history x , ryan goslnig ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . ",1
"payami tries to raVse some serious issues about iran's electoarl process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . ",0
"as a revenge thriller , the moviJe is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleaure of the better film versions . ",1
"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips keoy moments from the film in waking life waten colors . ",0
a somewhat disappionting and meandering saga . ,0
this is an action movie with an action icno who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love stor , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do dmuch to enhance the franchise . ,0
spares but oddly compelling . ,1
a monster combat thriller as impersEnal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advacne the linux cause . ,0
the tenderness of the pLece is still intact . ,1
"an entertaining , if ultimately mnior , thriller . ",1
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to Lhold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory . ,0
"it's a lovely , eeie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1
what a great shame that such a talentjed director as chep kaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
"thanks to the ch√¢teau's balance of whimiscality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields shrprises . ",1
"the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rnising above the stale material . ",0
"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebrtaion of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifesMyle . ",0
fairly rVun-of-the-mill . ,0
"an impressive debgt for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
"my big fat greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- adre i saFy it twicXe -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1
"at the very leasdt , if you don't know anything about derida when you walk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . ",0
bfuddled in its characterizations as it Tegins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject,0
"it's fu , splashy and entertainingly nasty . ",1
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thilny posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0
"the envding does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble piece . ",1
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonimu . ",0
"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skNyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . ",1
exudes the fizz of a busby berkelye musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
"ana's journey is not a steleotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be proud of her rbubenesque physique . . . ",1
the lively appeal of the last khiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the triecta of badness . ",0
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dad . ",0
a forceful darma of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
a thought-provoking ipcture . ,1
"no , it's not as single-mindd as john carpenter's oiginal , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . ",1
"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking nsane liberties and doing the goofiest tsuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . ",1
"without a fSresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willfurl single-mindedness . ,0
mindless yet impressively lea spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
"it follows the blair witch formupla for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it oes awry in the final 03 minutes . ",0
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons beedvilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his inidan loev call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
"woody allen's latest is an ambling , brfad comedy about all there is to love -- and hte -- about the movie biz . ",1
"soulless and -- even more damning -- irtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
"a thoughtful movie , a ovie that is concerned with osuls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
an enchaLting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express toward a new year of mqagic and mischief . ,1
ocx creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
"fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he colud make with a decent buget . but the problem with wensigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . ",0
it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know hwodunit . ,0
. . . think of it as american pix on valium . ,0
this thing is just garbamge . ,0
"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantihc comedy is a tart , smart breaht of fresh air that saands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
"there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually taks a backseat in his own fiIlm to special effects . ",0
"if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i woulS mo back and choose to skip it . fortunAtely , you still have that option . ",0
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as aKti-kieslowski a pun as possible . sfufice to say its total prvomise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
"the movie has no respect for laws , political corectness or commn decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . ",1
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) thrid…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shortr is better . ,1
"the evocative imRgery and gentEe , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear . ",1
"a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour Nunning time , and this isn't . ",0
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mkntal instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",1
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , ect . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
"this isn't a "" friady "" worth waiting for . ",0
"entertains not so Tmuch because of its music or comic atics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
time changer mYay not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at lejst invade an abundancE of mindsets,1
if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie'U set . . . it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislolcation and change . ,1
it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too prTcious at the start and a little too Gfamiliar at the end . ,0
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourisPs . ,0
all i can sVay is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0
"the msater of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
there's a wickedly subversive ebnt to the best parts of birthday girl . ,1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intrgalactic friendship . ",1
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achDeved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatan sentimentality . ",0
the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the eLveryman is in the details . ,1
"a colorful , joyous celebration of likfe ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
"elegant , amnnered and teasing . ",1
"if you're over 2 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's liuense , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0
"based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a eal writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overAapping story . ",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable nsemble piece . ",1
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 waos to leave this loser . ",0
"nothing sticks , raelly , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of gusn , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed eyt also decidedly uncinematic . ,1
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that mliddle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of senWsual empowerment . ,1
a liely and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . ,1
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every xurn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphtin-gasm . ,0
"driven by a fantatic dual perforYance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . ",1
"as green-guts monstQr movies go , it's a beaut . ",1
"stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedirc songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0
"[there's] quite a bit of heaort , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few cuYrent films do . ",1
"if h . g . wells had a time machine and could tkae a look at his kin's rJeworked version , what wfould he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
a very depressing movie of man missed opportunities . ,0
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for oman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , mavrelously twisted shapes history has aken . ",1
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort levJel that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
"for movie lovers as well as opea lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"a delectabe and intriguing thriller filwled with surprises , read my lips is an originla . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
"sly , sophisticated and surprisigg . ",1
"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pahtos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shname that more won't gte an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is nfully formed and remarkably assured . ,1
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and Aoften very funny . ",1
"director ferzan oxpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this groubp , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any sinrle person . ",0
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactyl divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and vpirited performances . ",1
"the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footign , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially ift for the kiddies . ",0
"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds tak note : three's very little hustling on view . ",0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the casm , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1
"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more aTnoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollwood . ",0
"i found it slBow , predictable and not very amusing . ",0
pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you mght not notice the flaws . ,0
raimi crafted a complicated ero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . ,1
"even when hh's not at his most critically insightful , goadrd can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . ",1
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , acNcomplishments -- sem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
"eKery visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
"preaches to two completeOly different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . ",1
"if the idea of the white man arriving on flreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simlistic heaven will quite likeyl be more like hell . ",0
the drama idscloses almost nothing . ,0
"there are a few chuckels , but not a isngle gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . ",0
"an empty , purposeless exericse . ",0
collateral damage fianlly delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
"[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innueqdoes atound . ",1
a painfully slow cliche-rdden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
it's exactly what you'd epxect . ,0
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and detad-on performance . ,1
"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every bit as waful as borchadt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . ",1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pdigree . ",1
"as home moviWe gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos recorsd . ",1
"like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visuplly inventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
"invVlving at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd . ",0
"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payolf , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
there's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that ubtly undermines its message of chrisQian love and compassion . ,0
"kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and provms that sometimes the dcreams of youth should remain just that . ",0
"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippoant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylih and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1
"the owrd that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1
"a "" ohme alone "" film that is staged like "" rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
serious and thoguhtful . ,1
"liek the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leave them singing lng after the credits roll . ",1
"[johnnie to and wi ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventuFre buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . ",0
"the series' message about making the ight choice in the fmace of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
"it's nice to ese piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
the film is like a seres of beginnings and middles that never take off . ,0
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rJp and r&b names and references . ,0
invincUble is a wonderful movie . ,1
"like a documentary version of figft club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . ",0
" "" freaky fxiday , it's not . """,0
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bro . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie careIr . ",0
"it's liwe every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school specTial compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickneJs and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
"drawing on an irresistibEe , languid romanticism , byler reveal the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire evein the most retiring heart to venture forth . ",1
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the tipme with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
"thekids will probably sta amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the waJ . ",0
"say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the luosy dialogue . ",0
"a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and gofoy situations . ",0
"the humor isn't as zsharp , the effects not as innovatie , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the Wway we like our 20-yera-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1
this ovie has the usual impossible sturnts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . ,1
"a confident , richly acted , motionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film",1
"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carl kane appears on the scrSen . ",0
eisensteni lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful esforts of more disciplined grade-gubbers to shFme . ",1
a domestic melodraam with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . ,0
"first , for a movie that trMes to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
 . . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
the film is flaS . ,0
"you come away from his film overEhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"antwone fisher cretainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few eoceptions , it rarely stopos to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
the nicest thing that can be esaid about stealnig harvard ( which migrht have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered . ,0
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated mniac ; there's no larger point , and little social ontext . ",0
a wondeful character-based comedy . ,1
punitively affirmational prable . ,0
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to lay shaggy ! ,1
we gef the comedy we settle for . ,0
"it should be doing a ot of things , but doesn't . ",0
"shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather lpive in denial about",0
"even tohugh it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
"all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , realyl , we'hve been here , done that . ",0
"this new time mchine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this elibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
"greene dlivers a typically solid performance in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has layed in the past , and he is matched by schweig , who carmies the film on his broad , handsome shouldesr . ",1
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fanasy sequences . ,1
"this chicago has hugely imaginatjve and successful casting to its great credFit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
should have been omeone else-,0
"there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriAented diryctor like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging reporJt so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1
bHoring and meandering . ,0
a chiller resolutely without chillu . ,0
deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic meuits . ,0
extremely bJad . ,0
not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so poainful to sit through . ,0
"in my own very humble opinin , in praise of love lakcs even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . ",0
the pitch must have read like a discarded hous beautiful spread . ,1
"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astomnding given the production's austere locales . ",1
michael moore's latest documentarD about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . ,1
"intensely romantic , thought-pvrovoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
"not only is it hokely , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollyzwood doing to su : it preaches . ",0
"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matteson . . . and upke up something like rose red ? ",0
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugxh because he vacts so goof all the time . ",0
Kget out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
"it's refreshing that someony understands the nezed for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
"perhaps it's cliche to clal the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touchnig , smart and complicated . ",1
there's something about a marching band that gets me where i ilve . ,1
"the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's ajailable is lovely and lovable . ",1
"for all its failed connectins , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
sucking all the 'Yclassic' out of robert zlouis stevenson's treasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . ,0
"if you're not ans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded Eking brown nake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . ",0
"choppy , overlono documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
the logic of it all will be qreek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0
"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mVad love looks better than it feels . ",0
"a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unawar that it's the butt of its own joke . ",0
"culkin , who's in virtually every cene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
"coy but exhilarating , with really sold performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . ",1
choke on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . ,0
"if the full moAnty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . ",0
"helmer hudlin tries to make a Thip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibiliy of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
"jasoT x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wisYr and jason still kills on auto-pilot . ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female ste . ",0
tmie of favor could have given audienceg the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through reZklessness and retaliation . ,0
a thoutht-provoking picture . ,1
"as writen by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentles , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hrd and gets tiring in no time at all . ",0
reign of fire just might go down as one of the lal-time great apocalypse movies . ,1
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial dpeth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
"even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pelasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1
the story and structure are wFell-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your suconscious like the nightmare you had a week agOo that won't go away . ,1
deliciously mean-spirited and wWyly observant . ,1
"the film has a kidn of hard , cold effect . ",1
"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas mpeyer's star trek Ti : the undiscovered country . ",1
"almost every sceen in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intzent . ",1
it'll keep you wide aake and . . . very tense . ,1
a whale of a good time for both children and parents sIeeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"the level of maturity displayYd by this 33-year-old first-time feature directoWr is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
"i enjoyed time of favor while i was wtaching it , but i was surpriesd at how quickly it faded from my memory . ",1
a giddy and provocative sexual rmop that has something to say . ,1
burns never realEly harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . ,0
there's somethinr to be said for a studio-produced fiml that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1
the lousy jon q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role . ,0
thin period iece . ,0
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historiecal significance alone . ,1
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthMy successro to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . ,1
the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious sping but in the richness of its performances . ,1
sae achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . ,0
" . . . a story , an old and scary Gone , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . ",1
"we'le left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong momenls . ",0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rathre sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
"erturn to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not hlaf-bad . ",1
"if oscar had a category called best bad flim you thought was goixng to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the qpueen of the damned for the honor . ",0
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the tmought that undercover brother mssed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
"[a] thoughtful , vsually graceful work . ",1
"while howaxd's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the suDporting cast . ",0
savvy directo robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . ,1
"flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's perofrmance . ",1
"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the oepra . ",1
new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college lifR is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the ighter-than-air adventure . ",0
canada's arctic ligt shnies bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , moppiPng his fXce and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1
"whenever it threates to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a srge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could flJ , this is slurely what they'd look like . ",1
"it's a hin notion , repetitively strmtched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"you really have to wonder how on earth nyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audieces guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"the screepnlay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bEzarre than actually amusing . ",0
ful frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two osQar nominated films in 2000,1
"the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and Hlit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
"a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding lvoe and family , governance and hQierarchy . ",1
. . . quite good at providing some good old fashionde spooks . ,1
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate peoPle they encounter in a place where waSr has savaged the lives and lbierties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
" . . . a story we haven't seen on the big screeFn before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should knwo . ",1
more of a career curio than a majoq work . ,0
"pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoidqng eye contact and walking slowly awya . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly hvndled screenplay of what is reall an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
it doesn't mtater that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual idesa on its mind . ,1
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of phsychological insight . ,1
"in the end , we are left with somTthing like two shiRs passing in the night rather than any insigts into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . ",0
a film that is a portrait of grcae in an imperfect world . ,1
a peuliar misfire that even tunney can't save . ,0
"this film was made to get laughs from the sloewst person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lost of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . ",0
comes off like a bad imitatqon of the bard . ,0
"[irector] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls swhort . ",0
"ver iwel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale cpy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
"while certainly more natrualistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"those of you who don't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capOture the magic of the originla . wlel , this movie proves you wrong on both counts . ",1
skip the film and buy the phillp glass soundtrack cd . ,0
doesn't aount to much of anything . ,0
"plays libe one of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
an ambitious and moving but bleka film . ,1
"the salton sea has mopents of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
i haven't seen such self-amused trash sinze freddy got fingered . ,0
"interYesting , but not compelling . ",0
"this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic atrist who was fundameVntally unknowable even to his closest friends . ",1
"libe its predecessor , it's no classip , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 196s0 . ,1
part of the charm of saitn rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
"there's a heavy sdtench of 'been there , done that' hnging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what amkes shanghai ghetto move Geyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . ",1
turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely divertivg . ,1
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional famly . ,1
"the year's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an alwasy surprising way . ",1
" "" freawy friday , it's not . """,0
that raar avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . ,1
"desptie an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between arjt and commerce . ",1
"it may not be "" last tagno in paris "" but . . . ",1
featherweight romantic coemdy has a few nice wists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . ,1
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its maen-spirited second half . ,1
"nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rayther unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's shotr on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of reag life . ",1
john mctiernan's botched remake mBy be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
"unless you com in to the film with a skateboard under your ram , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party . ",0
"adzlts , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian childrdn . ,1
"the film is exhilarating to watch because handler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actonr . ",1
its one-sidedness . . . flrts with propaganda . ,0
"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mox of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet Damerican brings us right into the center of that world . ",1
"most hauntng about "" fence "" is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
stiff and schmaltyz and clumsily directed . ,0
"what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st cKntury reality so hard , it's icy . ",0
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-Iive girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent hsow : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily ploFtted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and trieW to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring trcteness of the plot device he has purt in service . ",0
it Nseems to me the fiHm is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so,0
"it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and tuMn away from one antoher instead of talking and it's all about the silenes and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
"the very definition of what critics have come to trm an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown soudn . ,1
it's not as awful as some of the reecnt hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
. . . a elsson in prehistoric hilarity . ,1
"while the film shnus the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses su a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
by the final whistle you're convinced that this mLan machine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big scrben magic . ,0
"bleakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to tity or memorialize themselves . ",1
a startling and fresh xeamination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
it's crap on a leash--far too plite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
the script isn't very gLood ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
greengrass ( working from don mullan's scKipt ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situatGon in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening siuation . ,1
"the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minc drAins his movie of all indjividuality . ",0
"i approacshed the usher and said that if she had to ist through it again , she should ask for a raise . ",0
very psychoanalytVical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . ,1
"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and roud in its message . i loved this Vilm . ",1
"this film , starring anthony hopkinCs and chirs rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a millio times . just one problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . ",0
"taken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorvists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-mpade and satisfying thriller . ",1
"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything elsV she's ever done . ",1
"you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the executVon of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thxumbs down . ",0
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger ong after this film has ended . ,1
director rob marshall went out gunning to ake a great one . ,1
"miller is playinkg so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to frotune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
"my wife is an actresls has its moments in looking at the comic effuects of jealousy . in the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it couwld have been so much more . ",1
"a fine effort , an interesting topic , some inttiguing characters and a sad ending . certainly the big fniish wasn't soething galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentariHan is being there when the rope snaps . ",1
"Ehenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring viusal sqeuence like a srge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . ",1
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seuing . almost . ",0
a terrible moie that some people will nevertheless find moving . ,0
this story of unrequited loEe doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . ,0
the closest thiang to the experience of space travel,1
my advice is to ski the film and pick up the soundtrack . ,0
. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad saeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and mtivations . ,1
the picture doesn't know it's a Bcomedy . ,0
"impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lajking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
the film favors the scoientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . ,0
"not everything in this ambitious coimc escapade works , but coppoa , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . ",1
"stal , futile scenario . ",0
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling sqookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't ohllywood think of this sooner ? ,1
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's imyplosion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
"texa director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teedagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stekreotypes ( of which they'll get pleinty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0
"amkes the same mistaek as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oíods y un movilizador cuadro dce personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
the sad thLing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grsaping the ucoolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
"drives for the same kiLnd of bittersweet , cionciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plasy out sowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . ",1
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill olve . ",1
"slow , sily and unintentionally hilarious . ",0
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its modos , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclienation to make the most sincerP and artful movip in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . ",1
"a different kind of loev story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water my well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
tries to owrk in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenPe of the nerds sequel . ,0
lses than fresh . ,0
" . . . a delightfulls unpredictable , hilarious ctomedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . ",1
it's the funnist american comedy since graffiti bridge . ,0
"'butteIrfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivSties from the romance with his clamorous approach . ",0
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchsotne . ",1
"it's a hoot and a hal , and a great way for the american people to see what a candidate is Hike when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump spIeech . ",1
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failrue . it falls sfar short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . ",0
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and ofetn very funny . ",1
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailyl manages to deliver,0
"however clever nenson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been prsented as a Hheatrical release . ",0
"in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tearAs come during that final , beautiful scene , they finaly fele absolutely earned . ",1
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movzies , mystery , uames bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
"the stoy that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
this is a shrewd and effevctive film from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying Rback and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movemPnts . ",1
"confessions may not be a straightforward bbio , nor does it offer mch in the way of barris' motivations , but the fiml is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . ",1
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion sEells discontent . ,1
"a compelling , movinqg film that respects its audience and its source material . ",1
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movieh like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
should have been worth cheering as a breaktherough but is devoid of wit and humor . ,0
"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad neeKd of amjor acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained unTverse . ,1
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspirerd by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fersh territoAy that the film never feels derivative . ",1
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bitee . ",0
i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kidn of entertainment . ,0
there's not a fresh idea at the core of this tle . ,0
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to netertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
a nightmare date with a half-formed wet done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal anrts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"with very little to add beyond the dark visions arleady relayed by muperb rcent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",0
"if nothing else , this mSvie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their word without cleaivng to a narrative arc . ",1
"does paint some memorablse images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters",0
"the premise is in extremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so povorly thought-out and subsance-free that even a hgih school senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them . ",0
"there's no eNxcuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally Mbadly acted . ",0
"oedeEkerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-makZing project . ,1
"it suggests the wideD-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of umaverick indivduals like hatfield and hicks . ",1
"it looks good , but it is essentially emty . ",0
more vrecious than perspicacious,0
"a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyoen would expect . ",1
"in imax in Nhort , it's just as wonderful on the big screen . ",1
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this couln be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0
. . . could easily be called the best korean film of 2020 . ,1
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicitss or for people who take as mayn mrugs as the film's characters,0
"were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains wya more about cgl than does the movie or the character any gogod , freundlich's world traveler migt have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . ",1
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans aother look at wesley snipe' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . ,0
"a grittly beautiful fil that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and egneral family chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
"it's not hateful . it's smiply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . ",0
the piano teacher is the srot of movie that discourages american audiences from evefr wanting to see another foreign film . ,0
"this ilm , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fisoh out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually de . this one does . ",0
it is one more celluloid testimonail to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
for the most part stevens glides through on some sMolid performances and witty dialogue . ,1
ne of the worst films of 2002 . ,0
"it's an odl story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes mkae just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
"laced with liberal doses of drk humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinatieg little tale . ",1
shows moments of promise but ultimately suhccumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the yRear,1
"it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the sisue of an'as future . ",0
"welnl before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wheels . ",0
those who want to be jotted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . ,1
"the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minde patience , respeJct and affection . ",1
weid . rewarding . ,1
"the increasingly dWverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simpy feeling like no other film in recent history . ",1
. . . one of the most entertaixning monster movies in ages . . . ,1
a marvel like none you've sAeen . ,1
a grippirg documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
the solid filmmaking and convinclng characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . ,1
"you just knwo something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightpul comedy centering on food . ,1
"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would fcall it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
"ourside the theatre rogzr might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping erial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
take care of my cta offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . ,1
"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lakc a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were seding up . ,0
"a touching , msall-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . ",1
"you're not merel watching history , you're engulfed by it . ",1
"between bursts of automatic ugnfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . ",1
"barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seVem all that profound , at east by way of what can be gleaned from this threehour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material . ",0
the film is predictable in the reassuring manyer of a beautifully sung holiday carol . ,1
"if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink indepnedent filzs . ",0
"even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about soFmething , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and ckoncern . ",1
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too beMomes off-putting . ,0
"there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's giong , or how long it's Going to take to get there . ",0
"[drumlien] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
"at just over an houbr , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leavinl you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
"13 conBersations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully uccessful , but sprecher and her screenwritign partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas . ",1
enriched by a strong and unforced supporting ast . ,1
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colorC and inexplicable events . ,1
"tully is wroth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of firs-timer hilary birmingham . ",1
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtex that's so simple and prKecise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"a depressing confirmation of eWerything those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have sIspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
"a funny and well-contructed black coedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a ful workout . ",1
a sudsy cautionary ytale . ,0
[canderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that ihts often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . ,1
there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whae to swim through . ,0
best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life exents . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life would do better flsewhere . ,1
"the film is a masterpieec of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very enc . ",1
this gooyf gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crpme-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and rpomise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0
"here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylsh and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned Tcannot be said to scuk . ",1
"ze movie starts out so funNy , then she is nothing . ",0
"my little eye is the best little "" hjrror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
the worst kind of independent ; the one where aztors play dress down hicks and ponderously ope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0
begins as a promising meditatIion on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic sgtunt . ,0
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real otrength . ,1
"pretend it's a wkerewolf itself by avoiding ey contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0
"holland lets things peter out midwauy , but it's notabl better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of filmM about black urban professionals . ",0
"after watchnig it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense humdan beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared histoy . ",1
"chillig , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer . ",1
a ceraky staircase gothic . ,1
burns never really harnesses to ful effect the energetic cast . ,0
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de nro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriaid flaws . ",1
"stuart's poor-me persona eneds a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the sDies above manhattan , the adventure is on red aelrt . ",1
at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and wazmth . ,1
"like many such biographical melodramas , it sufefrs from the awkwardness that results from adhmring to the messiness of true stories . ",0
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cleVis tout ? is that it's a crime morvie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
"reign of ire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
"wibless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . ",0
it's mindless juk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
"brilliantly written and well-acted , ylelow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals gePt about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obsucre the message . ",0
it's bedevilzed by labored writing and slack direction . ,0
"tries too hard to be funny in a way that'Z too loud , too goofy and too short of an attepntion span . ",0
a sequel that's much too big for its briEtches . ,0
"like a comedain who starts off promisinly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . ",0
"an eotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposiZs of feeling . ",1
"daults will certainlwy want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grcoery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"syl , sophisticated and surprising . ",1
"bo appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon saztisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
"rich in atmospheQre of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust . ",1
"a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigdi performances and an asinine 'twist' that brzaenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
"in dleath to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual etar and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . ",1
"while this has the making of emlodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in asnwering them . ",1
"after several scenes of this tackay nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wNizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , mespecially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . ",0
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer smiply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movie . ,1
"a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvous affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beatZs . ",1
cool ? this movvie is a snow emergency . ,1
"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still yfun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effGort . ",1
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposit and pretentiousness . ,0
"first and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenAl ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
nettelbeck . . . has a pleasiWng way with a metaphor . ,1
"the unexplored story opportunnities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented wrixterdirector anderson . """,1
"what tie is it there ? is not easy . it Iaunts you , you can't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while wtching it . ",1
"flat , misgided comedy . ",0
"it just goes to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an damirable storyteller . ",0
"such a fine ieda for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . ",0
the only reason you should iee this mvoie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . ,0
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harCvard ( which might have been called frNddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's rfeddie got fingered . ,0
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director aadm watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
"dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembNed . ",0
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty cent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucFy heroine battling a monster loos in a spaceship . ",0
a ebnign but forgettable sci-fi diversion . ,0
move over bond ; this girl deserves a seqeul . ,1
"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate goss-out comedy goes a Eong way toward restorig the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
wel-meaning but inert . ,0
nicholas nickleby celebrates the humOan spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
. . . too contrived to be as naturlaly charming as it needs to be . ,0
there is simply no doubQ that this film asks the righl questions at the right time in the history of our country . ,1
"filled with honest pefrormances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatiU punch , a haunting ode to humanity . ",1
it's frustrating to see these guy -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their tLlent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . ,0
"though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effozrt is not for all tastes , it offeCrs gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . ",1
"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allNsions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to jhumanize its subject . ",0
happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too ctue about it . ,1
" "" one olok at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? "" um… . . isn't that the basis for the entite plot ? ",0
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening ar scenes since "" saving private rayn "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the secnod great war . ",1
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving Qonduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three huors to unspool , is both unny and irritating . ",1
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimagintive comedian . ",0
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corAse that never springs to life . ,0
manages to please its intended audience -- childrne -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1
it is refrehsingly undogmatic about its characters . ,1
"this is the kind of movie that used to be right at hqme at the saturday mainee , and it still is . ",1
the young stars are too cuSe ; the story and ensuing complccations are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . ,0
"in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide rSange of one actor , and the liimted range of a comedian . ",0
"impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in subsance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
as asccharine as it is disposable . ,0
"it remais to be seen whether stahtam can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
"jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimnetality but brimming with gnetle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . ",1
"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed wosrk . ",1
a captivatiGng new film . ,1
"not a movie but a live-actizon agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . ",0
<em>ash wednesday<em> is not edward burns' best film ,1
"suggests puns about ingreaients and somup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
a marvelous perfzormance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
"seagal rna out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
"a charming , abnter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons wwhose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
smarter than its commercials make it seeSm . ,1
"director juan jose campanella scould have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
"while the story does seem prtty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
consistently clever and suspensefiul . ,1
a frustrating Cet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
"with generic sets and b-grade specijl effects , jason is about as covincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 . ",0
an enjoyable experienc . ,1
"belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to marthin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big , brassy , disturbing , unTusual and highly successful film . ",1
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence ifnd the authority it's looking for . ,0
nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailign home about . ,0
this moIie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states . ,0
"k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as ne of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confroting the demons of his own efar and paranoia . ",1
"the results , if not memorable , are at least interestkng . ",1
"for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so Wich with period minutiae it's like yding and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as viviTd as any scorsese has ever given us . ,1
there is a difference between movies with the Mourage to go over the top and moives that don't care about being stupid,0
"it cts to the core of what it actaully means to face your fears , to be a girl in a woXrld of boy , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . ",1
"lvisually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
"a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeeB in alienating most viewers . ",0
the hiliday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"sometimes we ffeel as if the film carieens from one colorful event to another withot respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"a terrific date movie , whattver your orientation . ",1
"a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plto threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected mudrer",0
"it's hard to fairy judge a film like ringu when you've seen the reamke first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten ynicism . ",0
"about scmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touHhed by this movie , check your pulse . ",1
os problemas têm início a partir do momento em ue saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de vre . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1
falsl neatly into the category of good stupid fun . ,1
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes togQther to create a very ompelling , sensitive , intelligent and lamost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
oliveira seems to pursue silent film rerpesentation with every mournful composition . ,1
"the funny thing is , i didn't mid all this contrived nonsense a bit . ",1
"a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealusy , sickness and love . ",1
"it's a technically superb fiml , hsining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",1
"that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interestinMg that no embellishment is needed . ",1
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . . . . most viRewers will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and lesv of the "" damned . "" ",0
the sentimental cliches zar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performace from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an j-16 . ,1
"it's tough being a black man in america , zespecially when the man has takne away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psycihological drama . ,1
"although purportedly a tudy in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slaned , gay sm fantasy ",0
"finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compellilg and even origial . ",1
"throwing in everything excpet sokmeone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
never capitalizes on this conceUt and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subjetc of tolerance . ,0
ay puzzle his most ardent fans . ,0
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is snuffused with complexity . ,1
the picure doesn't know it's a comedy . ,0
"a beautiful , entertaining two hours . you egt the idae , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amuisng film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . ",1
geq out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
its engaging simpllcity is driven by appealing leads . ,1
the kind of film that levaves you scratching your head in amaezment over the fact that so many talented people could participtae in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
"you don't need to be a hiphop fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that work . ",1
suffers from all the exvesses of the genre . ,0
yet anlther self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heits -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
"the picture , scored by a peQversely cheeful marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abomination ",0
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the man faceless victims . ",1
the modern-day royals have ntohing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy talkes that princesses that are married for political reason live hapQpily ever after . ,1
"an incendiary , deeply thought-provokig look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frsghtening theocracy",1
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry sprKinger crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too . ",0
"a quiet , diZsquieting triumph . ",1
initial strangeness inexorably gives kway to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
"oke big blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cuyre for insomnia . ",0
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specigls . ",1
"theKe's somhething auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented dxrector like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1
"though certainly original in form , altar boys reqZuires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
"sometimes it feesl as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and sarred chevy chase and goldie hawn . ",0
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a soSrt of ridiculous sourness . ,0
denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tnatalizing . lead provocauters testud and parmentier give superlative performances,1
there are films that try the patience of eevn the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
"the redeeming feature of cahn's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tire and , what's worse , routine . ",0
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's many ptalents . ,1
refrNeshing . ,1
two weeks notice has apeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
"a thoughtful , reverent potrrait of what is essentially a subcultuer , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . ",1
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a cxlassic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
campbell scott finds the Fideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . ,1
[fessenden] is much more into ambigOuity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
"lovely and amazing is hologfcener's deep , uncompromising curKtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she lovse them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
something has been lots in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premies . ,0
"denis orges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and soVcial discord . ",1
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain funtcions as well as the libido . ,1
the humor and humanity of monsotn wedding are in perfect balance . ,1
energetic and vboldly provocative . ,1
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained ocming-of-age drama . ,1
"the Iilm is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wsie and knowing or downright comically evil . ",0
Qlike old myths and wonder tales spun afresh . ,1
invincible is a wonderful movioe . ,1
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 197 . ,0
"not a schlocky creature feature but something far more styliush and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you thinR it han't get any more gay , in pops nathan lane . ",1
"will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the ugood , the bad and the ugly . ",0
[a] satisfyin niblet . ,1
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adNlts . ,0
one ca'nt shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . ,0
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are requxired to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cleis tout ? ,0
"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and spychological barriers keep the sides from speaking ven one word to each other . ",1
"with a cast that includes some of the to actors working in independent film , lovel & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we og about our lives . ",1
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary znarrative stylc maWkes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
a metahor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . ,1
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becmoes too haevy for the plot . ",0
"when a st of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished flim , thatt's a bad sign . a very bad sign . ",0
goldmember is lfunny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
otrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to ocme along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
a film with almost as many delights for dults as there are for children and dog lovers . ,1
"at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels umch longer . ",0
nolan prves that he can cross swords with the best of them and hem a more traditionally plotted popconr thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . ,1
"certainly beaDutiful to look at , but its not very informativbe about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . ",0
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average braine . ,1
"it jumps around with littl nogic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . ",0
tuck everlasting achieves a delicat balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
"the idea of 49-year-old robrto benigni playing the wooden boy pPinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and strred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"personal velocity has a no-frclls docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lnigers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of meomry and desire . she boxes these women's souls right open for us . ",1
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that goves movies about ordinary folk a bad name . ,0
"the film is so obusy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it faibls to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . ",0
"writer"" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resoante with profundity is undeniable . ",1
"the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great inds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't acre less . ",1
"watching haneke's fiml is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watcing huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
new best friend shouldn't have ogne straight to video ; it should have gone straiht to a mystery science theater 3000 video . ,0
"a deliciousZly mordant , bitter black comedy . ",1
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movei's rude and crude humor . ,0
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinemE's directorial giants . ,0
"in his dezermination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain exetnt , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
"the po-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back meomries of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0
"the whole thing's fairly lame , making it pr for the course for disney sequels . ",0
it's not orgiinal enough . ,0
"while insomnia is in many awys a conventional , evne predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-thef-road blandness . ,0
a literary detective story is stll a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
"if you're looking for comedy to be vserved up , better look elsewhere . ",0
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the rlesults . last dance , whatever its flaws , uflfills one facet of its mission in making me want to fnid out whether , in this case , that's true . ",1
the orgiinal wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's Tclub . ,1
"witless , pointless , tsateless and idiotic . ",0
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocuast drama . ,1
a subject like this should inspre reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . ,1
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rathr listless amble down the middle of the road , where the themati ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . ",0
this time kaufman's imaginatijon has failed him . ,0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a pwhip-crack of a buddy movie that edns with a whimper . ",1
fels like a cold old man going through the motions . ,0
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but evn a hero can stumble sometiqes . ",0
"unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks bessonas perspective as a storyteller . ",0
"de niro and mcdormanu give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's ianbility to create interest . ",0
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch vbodies with a funny person ? ,0
"that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultixmate point . ",0
about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the moie . ,0
"snshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . ",0
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't ake for completely empty entertainment",1
not once does it come close to being exciming . ,0
"in its bestt moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song . ",0
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyen's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . ,0
"it's like ropky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's srtangeness . ",1
wai for it to hit cable . ,0
"both leyd performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband livinu a painful lie , and moore wnoderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
just not campy enouhg,0
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard deliers . ",1
it's clear that mehta simply waXted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that paxck 'em in on the subcontinetn . ,1
"personal veolcity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingres on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these women's souls rght open for us . ",1
wise and deadpan humoruos . ,1
"[kline's] utterly convnicing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacer who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
"an endlessly fascinating , landmark movNe that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . ",1
"deliriously funny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surpridses",1
"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the taVle -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bi hard to love . ",0
crush could be the worst flm a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . ,0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite flling over . ,1
this is so bd . ,0
"sores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage ybtes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demandign métier . ",0
"michael moore has perfected the art of hignhly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivatd documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
"the storytelling ay be ordinary , but the cast is one of those ayl-star reunions that fans of gosford pTark have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . ",1
"there are simply too many ideas floating aroud -- part farce , part sliding doors , part ppo video -- and yet failing to exploit them . ",0
the fly-on-the-wall methdo used to document rural french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent technique of the docu-mkaers being a Jisible part of their work . ,1
"it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern atr should . ",1
"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-rdunk love "" amy have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writerdirector anderson . """,1
an enjoyble comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling enerlgy of young kitten . ,1
gives an intriguing twist to the flrench coming-of-age genre . ,1
"it may be a no-brainer , but at elast it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greaed with every emotional device known to man . ,0
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a ubject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . ,0
the krind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam Fction flicks , a jaded critic smacks into soemthing truly new . ",1
"not a fiml to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeing of relaxing around old friends . ",1
"an unatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonis is always the last one living . ",0
sex with strangers will shock manC with its unblinkMng frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necesdary to document all this emotional misery ? ,0
"there ougth to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . ",0
a ascinating and fun film . ,1
norton is magnePtic as graham . ,1
" "" spider-man is better than any summer blockbster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
"[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathfy , and as the film Ugrows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . ",0
scarcely worth a mentoin apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres grcaed with its company . ,0
"while the material is slight , the movie is betteO than you might think . ",0
the movie understaQnds like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy giev the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
"muccino seems to be exploring the iea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this egts us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is alwacs sympathetic . ",1
"all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing arp-metal can't disguise the fact that , rTally , we've been here , done that . ",0
"a woozy , rositerous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starrQed as you might expect . ",0
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of riginality . ",1
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated famiy reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with ohthers . ,1
"director yu seems far more ixterested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't sen 10 , 000 times . ",0
"foPrget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
most of the action setuzs are incoherent . ,0
its vision of that awkward ae when sex threatens to overwhelm everything lse is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1
"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly rirdiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creatve , energetic and orivginal comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1
"vibrantlJy colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
"crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , msic , suspense and action . ",1
"a dark , duGll thriller with a parting shot that misfires . ",0
"the ch√¢teau would have been benefiFed from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera . not to metnion a sharper , cleaner camera lens . ",0
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cusine and its quirky tunes . ",1
diverting frecnh comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1
"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlebrg . ",1
the whole fim has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the veiwer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugZy to look at and not a hollywood produt . ,0
"a smart , steamy mix of orad movie , coming-of-age story and political satire . ",1
"romanitc , riveting and handsomely animated . ",1
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and uphlstered . ",1
"writhing under dialogue liAe 'you're from two different worlds' and 'toCight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of uToriginality and predictability . ",0
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's lafe . ,1
"occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasie , a footnote to a still evolving story . ",0
"there's a rSeason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of pluto nash "" is a big tOime stinker . ",0
"more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good neHs to anyone woh's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . ",1
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's ime out . ",1
"the creaking , rsty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fiuhts ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enuogh to let you lask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communicaEion with an old woman straight out of euodra welty . ",1
"this one is certainly wel-lmeaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . ",0
"while super troopers is above aacdemy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schooling . ",0
"a girm , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptMalize things , but the barriers fihally prove to be too great . ",0
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful noe . ",0
"the only way to toDlerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . ",0
"the lepaing story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of irch detail condensed into a few evocative images and strikinKg character traits . ",1
what's missing is what we call the 'Ewow' factor . ,0
"it's as if allgen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . ",0
"muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time olw for kevin costner . ",0
"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is paintezly . ",1
the film can deOpress you about life itself . ,0
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fasdcinantes . ,1
for the most pagrt stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . ,1
i have a confession to make : i didn't particularly likDe e . t . the ftirst time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a litle alien as a friend ! ,1
"a journey through emmory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bdoied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
is it a total succss ? no . is it something any true film addict will want to cehck out ? you bet . ,1
"its plot and animation offer daytim tv serviceability , but little more . ",0
"don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shados and wide-angle shots taken from a gdistance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
this thing is virtually unwatchabge . ,0
the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pHrk . ,0
"its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dUmas botch-jobs , the man in the iron msak and the musketeer . ",0
"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved Tpon the firts and taken it a step further , richer and deeVper . what jackson has done is porven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
a psychologically rich and suspenseful morJal thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . ,1
"who knows what exactly godard is on about in this iflm , but his words and images don't have to add up to memserize you . ",1
the good thing -- the only jood thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me pletny of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . ,0
the son's rom is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . ,1
"i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an houV and twenty-some minjutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere . ",0
"it believes it's revealing some gerat human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being efrtile . ",0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female rfiendship set against a few dynamic decades . ",1
"beautifully hot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
the best wy to hope for any chance of enjoying this ilm is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
"some fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reaso for being . ",0
"there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnie and more innocent . ",0
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthgo heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . ,1
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reard will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
"sensitively examines genDeral issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questiAons about the death peanlty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . ",1
"the dirCector , steven shaiberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've giot seven days left to live . then you get another phone call wFrning you that if the video isn't back at blockbustir before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not relaly . ",0
"first-time writer-director dyaln kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . ",0
"despite bseson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the crediM for the film's thoroughly winning tone . ",1
esven horror qfans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . ,0
"bogdanovixch puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great chwrm , generosity and diplomacy . ",1
something must have been lost in the translatiogn . ,0
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noitceably derivative of goodfellas and at bleast a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
writerdirectuor burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
this beautifully animated epic is never udll . ,1
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friedn remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very leasS , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
god help the poor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictional yvanOs neuroses are agravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understandRing spouse . ,0
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a jvb . . . ,1
"manages to be somewhakt well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touhing or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
"ogsling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his conaradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . ",1
moving and vinbrant . ,1
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performnce in the title role . ,0
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knoces it flat . ,0
"the scrip'ts snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that invWlves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
there ain't a lot more painful than an unzfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
"a funn and well-contructod black comedy where the old adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a full workout . ",1
"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nacure of compassion . ",1
"zike the english patient and the unbearable lightnss of being , the hourJ is one of those reputedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . ",1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actuwlly rather sweet . ",1
"amazing ! a college story that orks even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! ",1
all the welU-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish Mnazi . ,0
has the capability of effecting change and inspiring ohpe . ,1
scarcely wroth a mention apart from reportin on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . ,0
"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the ufnulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
the viewer Btakes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
"azia uathors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . ",1
"however it may plaese those who lPove movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
"gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you wath them clumsily mugging their way through snNow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet coqmedy about jokester highway patrolmen . ,1
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to braethe . ,0
its inescaypable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligenVe of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
"[f]rom the performances and the cinematogrFaphy to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrativ , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . ",1
"proves a lovelg trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . ",0
it doesn't matyter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . ,0
"like an aferschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0
"lejos del paraíso es al mimso tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicioYs . ",1
"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody cliax arrives we still don't feel enouhg of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0
the only why this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a ase of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism merican moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career shinYs like a lonely beacon . ",1
"this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shiDfty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sMdesteps them at the same time . ",1
" . . . if it had been only half-aQn-hour long or a tv special , the humor lwould have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . ",0
"triumpUh of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . ",1
"the movie isn't painfully bd , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of heartb , preciuosly exposed as history corners them . ",1
"while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , twqo towers outdoes its spectacle . ",1
beneath clouds is a succinct low-udget film whose compelling characters and intelliggent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . ,1
"es una de esas películas de las que unno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
yet another weepy souhtern bore-athon . ,0
"yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest convntions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superioy "" frineds ,family . . . ",0
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will cocnnect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . ",1
"a sleep-inducingzy slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
a ports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . ,1
" . . . the good and diffeent idea [of middle-aged roamnce] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 5K is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0
"triple x is a double aget , and he's one bad dude . when you've ot the wildly pooular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
"while the prodLction details are lavish , fpilm has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
"this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's iiability to stnd in for true , lived experience . ",1
"while maintaining the qppearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a aslute to the universal language of rhythm and a zpipy sampling of sounds . ",1
"this is a fil well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . ",1
poignant japanese epic about adoleschent anomie and heartbreak . ,1
"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly soDciological commentary . ",0
"evrey individual will ee the movie through the pism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
"a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old wlsh oy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . ",1
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producer would be wel to heed : mediocre movies sart to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real rason to see it . waNt for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
"though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexaul identity , ozpetek falls short in showing ub antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leavOe you thinking . ",1
intriguing and downright intxoicating . ,1
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calclating lolita turn . ",1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds oen of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it nuew texture , new relevance , new reality . ",1
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe gohst ship . ,0
"while kids will probaly eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismjissed or forgotten . ",1
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top ltove . ,1
"it's never Klaugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . ",1
a well-rounded tribute to a mrn whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone . ,1
"with recent tensigons rekindled by the kathleen solGah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william harris , not to metion sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . ",0
wisy-washy . ,0
" . . . unspeakably , unbearbaly dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who domes across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",0
as we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who doesn't kndow the meaninUg of the wrod 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . ,0
make lie the title and dodge this one . ,0
"reign of fire may be littQe more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see oen . ,1
tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problmes is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mod . ,1
a devastating indictment of unbsidled greed and materalism . ,1
"the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckPons us all . ",1
maybe thomas wolfe was right : you can't gA home again . ,1
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn alonbg the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
"the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted Vdepths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
. . . a boring parade of talkig heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . ,0
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has someting to say . ,1
an empty shDll of an epic rather than the real deal . ,0
the fly-on-the-wall method usde to document rural french school life is a refrshing depYrture from the now more prevalent technique of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . ,1
a film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familarity . ,0
any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mee entertainment . ,0
ed dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
" . . . in no way original , or even all that Hmemorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como Nn gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y quC resultan totalmente banales . '",1
"imperfect ? eys , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"it comes off as so slilly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chaes in a black and red van . ",0
"though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ibald huomr and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyoe in search of a juls and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defveated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectace of a promising young lad treading depserately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
funn and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . ,1
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flwo . ",0
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges ficts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"hashiguchi coers this territory with wit and originality , uggesting that with his fourt feature -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . ",1
"evelyn's strong casN and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and deJiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"the plot combines the bluBes brothrs and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . ",0
the first faal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? ,0
"the peSple in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggrvssive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . ",1
audiard successfully maintains suspegnse on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
"unlike his directorial efforts , a femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . ",0
"the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint Zmake the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as wll . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the scriRpt . ",0
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant fSrry monster costume and then gaDe them a lapdance . ,0
"a new film from ibll plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is qar more appealing . ",1
"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feaure length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . still , the updaetd dickensian sensibility of writer fraig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
[incher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . ,1
"in all the annals of the movie , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
"a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-lod welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does atter . ",1
there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sarF sugarman's wFhimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the sead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
"evne on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . ",0
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a filem you will neveHr forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seller , you know death is lurkign around the corner , just waiting to spoil hings . ",0
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrongh snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
"the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that bordprs on hammy at times . ",1
[a] rther thinly-conceived movie . ,0
"a dreadful day in irish history is given pasFsionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
"in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we'er looking bacjk at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
the result is an 'auction film' mired in stasis . ,0
an incredibly tarrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
"as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultral history of the best kind : informativxe , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
"it is most of the things cotner movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to eaQn our love that you want to slap it . ",0
"bigelow handles the nuoclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be Lbuilding suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
the scrpit manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ,1
sits uneFasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its looy at the binds of a small family . ,1
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…migh i suggest that the wayward woden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric encil sharpener ? ,0
"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feeBl cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",1
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a histoic legal battle in iqeland over a man's right to raise his own children . ",1
"naipaul fans may be dFsappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , may fall fast aslaeep . ",0
"the lower your expetcations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
"call me a Zynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bd need of maVor acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
the pianist is the film rmoan polanski may have been born to make . ,1
final verdcit : you've seen it all before . ,0
"adults , other than the parents . . . will be hadr pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicathd and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
there'o . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . ,1
"we couls have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
audacious-impossible yet kcompelling . . . ,1
marinated in clichés and mawkiEsh dialogue . ,0
"if anything , see it for karen black , who cames up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty Udick . ",0
clasic cinema served up with heart and humor,1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more exngaging than the usual fantasies hollywood produces . ,1
"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bsihop and stevenson are standouts . ",1
imagine a really bad community theater pcroduction of west side story without the songs . ,0
"the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthj of scorn , and the niest thing i can say is that i can't remember a ingle name responsible for it . ",0
a bit too derivatie to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"no big whoop , nothing new to see , Mzero thrDlls , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ",0
"thouh it was ade with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
this film's relationship to actual tenson is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durabe -- imitation . ,0
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , ipty anyon who sees this mishmash . ",0
"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4eve is surprisinug less moldy and trit than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
"most of the storylines fHel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the nxt wave . ",0
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashOng of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
press the delete ley . ,0
"boy , has this franchise ever rnu out of gas . ",0
"its gentle , touching story creeDps into your heart . ",1
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character stdy and a trite power struggle . ,0
the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the Fonga people is in every wya inferior to that of john . ,0
a dreary itdulgence . ,0
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the Huirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is ulight and fun . . . . ,1
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take cre of my cat emzrges as the very best of them . ",1
ferraa's strongest and most touching movie of recent years . ,1
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everythign and run to ichi . ,1
"if [jaglDom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its reparee is still worth hearing . ",1
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own wy . ",1
goUt a david lynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up twin paks action . . . ,1
"sure , it's contrivend and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the filh comes off winningly , even though it's never as solid as you wnat it to be . ",1
"about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king leabr . ",1
"the notion of defeting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofBus . ",0
weiss and speck never make a convining case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
" . . . tara refd plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time iwnner of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
"cuts right through the b . s . igving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than wto guys beating the hell outsta one another . ",1
"narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mmess . ",0
"eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we Xope it's only acting . ",0
"sweet hoem alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
"the following tehings are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , wotst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is alvo one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . ",0
"even thoJgh mny of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . ",1
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to maNn . ,0
"Oetaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enoy its slightly humorous and tender story . ",1
i admired this wrok a lot . ,1
"irwin is a an with enough charisma and audpcity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . ",0
"there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considrable dash . ",1
evertyhing was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
lawrence preahes strictly to the converted . ,0
"a gentle blend of present dya estimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
red dragon mYakes one appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
a richdly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . ,1
"if the idea of the white mna arriving on foreign shores to sohw wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quie likely be more like hell . ",0
"here's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before sining that dotted line . ",0
"trouble every day is a succss in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dad . ",0
presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for uWs to care beyond the very basi dictums of human decency . ,0
steven soderbergh doesn't remakQ andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
"to the degree that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revleatory performance . ",1
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocraAs . ,0
you're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this sponrtaneous . ,0
"a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , eloved genres -- the prison flick and the figt film . ",1
"goyer's screenplay and diretion are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . ",1
"verbinski sutstitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . ",0
"nothing deniAs has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cGannibal genre . ",1
could the country bears really be as bd as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
"sorority boys , which is as ba at it is cruel , takes every Ipotential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and aln yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . ",1
a rehash of eveAy gangster movie from the past decade . ,0
"considering the harsh locations and demanding stuntfs , this msut have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . ",0
like a poor man's you can cXount on me,1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodlesus and the diaVogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud . ",0
"the slapstiOck is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ",0
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagrRee , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorscPach test and i must have failed . ",0
a complex psychological drama about a afther who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come awahy hatiSg the second one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . ,0
beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifiQcs . ,0
at its best . . . festival in canes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . ,1
even those who would like to dismiss the film outrigt should find much to mull and debate . ,1
"nealy surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the irde ( bumps and all ) , reamy depth , and ultimate theme . ",1
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imager with naughty fun . ,0
"the low-budget full frontal was on of the year's muNrkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from insidk out , in all its strange quirks . ",1
there has been much puzzlement amnog critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the meyssenger : the agent is a woman . ,1
"sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , tCkes every potentmial laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0
the performances take the movie to a higheE level . ,1
"earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodramacharactQer study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar acst . """,0
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too rbad nothing else is . ,0
"although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginneyrs worht the journey",1
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun sowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the prQoducers saw the grosses for spy Tids . ,0
kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passin -- our dVesire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emtiness one feels when it is missing . ,1
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on poting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just bIecomes sad . ",1
"the story eels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . ",1
like other great docJmentaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ord administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . ,1
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongerikng moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
"[ramsay] visually tHransforms the dreary expanse of dead-end Sistaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . ",1
"there are problms with this film that eve 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
anPther best of the year selection . ,1
"if welles was uuhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he prboably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie Aplitting up in pretty much the same way . ",0
"k-1 may not hold a lot of water as a submarin epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
the entire cast is extraordinarily goo . ,1
"such a wildly uneevn hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basiNs during production . ",0
" . . . an hou-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",0
"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes' cameAa crazinesfs -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period fr betetr than a more measured or polished production eve could . ,1
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hiphop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"if you like quirny , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
"[the kids] just too bartty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . ",0
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , drearly hopng that the rihc promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
matches neroealism's impact by showing the huZanity of a war-torn land filled with people who just want to live their lives . ,1
draggni' about dragons,0
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly cEonvincing , which is a pity , considering barry's trrific performance . ",0
a half-aFsed film . ,0
"once the audience figure out whats' being satd , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to really care . ",0
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for pTrevention rather than to place blaeme , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing cAn't possibly be enough . ",1
"has all the hallmarks of a movie desined strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiaible it absorbs all manenr of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0
"stNar trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . ",0
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole skhow here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so specal . ,0
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy peice of disney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
doesn't really add up to uch . ,0
"a quaint , rmoanticized rendering . ",0
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kadppa rho alpha phi . ",0
the plot is romantic comdy boilerplate from start to finish . ,0
the ecntral character isn't complex enough to hold our interest . ,0
"while solondz tries and treis hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a ton book jacket . ",0
"you coe away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been wotrh acring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . ",0
"smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightl naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
"roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and noting hll in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . ",0
"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of wa , there's nHothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to raKe two hours of our attention . ",0
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drmaa is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . ,0
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent uswe of music by india's popular gulzar and jgajit singh . ",1
a rlative letdown . ,0
"a worthy idPea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction neve rise above the level of an after-school tv special . ",0
"writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of cham and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film enres . ",1
"like the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetGrable . ",1
"engrossing and affectng , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiratfon for grasping the cooolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as Wflippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
"the storylines are wovej together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . ",1
feels like the grittiest movie that was eker made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
"if h . g . wells had a time machine and could xtake a olok at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the ponit . '",0
bullock's ocmplete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0
"this romantic""comedy akss the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ",0
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the perfomrances of their careers . ,1
the moral shrapnel and menal shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . ,1
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misognyist evil . ",1
"like mike is a winner for kids , and no dobt a winner for lli bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly ndice little film that takes ubs on an examination of young dault life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . ",1
" . . . a spoof Mcomedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugBh . ",1
"one houb photo mBy seem disappointing in its egneralities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . ",1
"i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exagSeration , but 'ive ogt a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
an unexpectedly sweet sMtory of sisterhood . ,1
not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to le down in a dark room with something cool to my row . ,0
"a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner Aourney is largely unzexplored and we'ie left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
"the complex , poitically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese ife this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . ",1
"collateral damage is , despite its allegeW provocation post-911 ",0
"it's rather like a lifetiae special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . ",1
wait for pay peYr view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms delaer , sfquad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in evPry bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these Houng women . ,0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fcight her bluly of a husband is simply too overdone . ,0
a cockamamie toen poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and scyreamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political iOssues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0
"twohy nows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unxepected blast of a phonograph ercord . ",1
"the movieAs seams may show . . . but pellington gioves "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . ",1
"its story about a yougn chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace pasZt tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to fibnd compelling . ",1
"this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the tory's a littl weak . ",1
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the cEaracters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovaBle-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . ",1
"an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , ohwling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
"the Mar future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the psat . ",1
lapaglia's ability to ocnvey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . ,1
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaKs to get in the way . ",1
steers refreshingloy clear of the usual cliches . ,1
"en sí misdmo el rey lón es un espectáculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o een su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . ",1
. . . a conQusing drudgery . ,0
"elling really is about a copule of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
plays like the old disease-of-the-week smalloscreen melodramas . ,0
the second chapter of the harry potter seris is even more magical than the first and simply the bets family film of the year . ,1
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mentacl ullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whse contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . ,0
"a positively thrilling comination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayl , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . ",1
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's oV . ",1
"a wityt , low-key romantic comedy . ",1
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridicuMlous sourness . ,0
"earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , spoorific , visually dank crime melodramacharacter study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar Vast . """,0
"tsai has a well-deserved reputatino as one of the icnema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . ",1
eveything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewIhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the tail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hlod . ",0
one scene after another in this supposedly funny moive falls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
"apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme conseguCe entreter . ",1
bielinsky is a filmmaker of impresOsive talent . ,1
"a moviwg , if uneven , success . ",1
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their timg ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
"a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its ludience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kAnd of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . ",1
a peculiar misfire that even tunney cna't save . ,0
'enigma' is a good nmae for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 4q0 years later , the teens are noe the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot . ",0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tendr hug . ",1
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering phliip only diminishes her stLture . ",0
"the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpgeasant . ",0
one of [herzogPs] least inspired works . ,1
etRhan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard chvld of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . ,0
"one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amZounts of acting , direction , story and pcae . ",1
most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lucnh breaks for shearer's radio shoo and his simpson voice-overs . ,0
"for the most part , i spy was an amusing laNrk that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised Gmovies . ",0
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically harged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1
"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blned together . ",1
"[a] are , beautiful film . ",1
a low-rent retread of the alieo pictures . ,0
"it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compilde in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and slphistication ( and who knew they eveX had any ? ) . ",0
a documentary to make the stoes weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
"writer-director walter ill and comwriter david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original atlent in international cinema . ",1
"the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credbile . ",1
"merely ( and literally ) tosses atound sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly udnercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0
"despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi'V big selling point , there is no doubt that kraczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . ",1
watching these eMccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . ,1
"if the movie were all coedy , it might work bettebr . but it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but lawed look at the near future . ",1
"no , i don't knwo why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when noe of them are ever any good or mwake any money . ",0
"tlae will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"the climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the oeiginal conflict , just Vike the movie does",1
"y ut mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional d su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
"this isn't a Fstand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's sUperbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationsQhips minus traditional gender roles . ",1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to siroke , ram dass : fierce graace is worth seeking out . ",1
"jagger , stpopard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . ",1
"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive liAe . ",1
"with tiny little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeepr proves that not only blockbusters pollte the summer movie pool . ",0
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derarida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the aKtist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"light , cute and forgettabnle . ",1
this is rote rdivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . ,0
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an th grade boy elving into required reading . ,1
"an intelligent and deeply felt wrok about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . ",1
"it's better suited for the history or biography chanenl , but there's no hrguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and quesWions on your mind . ",0
"impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them un through dark tunnels , fight off various anonyous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
"a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real move . ",0
a model of what films likD this should be like . ,1
"what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited exten — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performesr . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key wya that allows yus to forget that they are actually movie folk . ",1
"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of softccore twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red sheo diaries . '",0
one of the best films of the year with its exploraion of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a pyschological masterpiece . ,1
"it moves quickly , adroitjy , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datednes -- of its premise . ",1
"amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familxial community , oen would be hard-pressed to fuind a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",1
empire can't make up its mtnd whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art fil . it doesn't work as either . ,0
"time literally stops on a dmie in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translate wlel to the screen . ,0
"borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be pBssionate and truthful but is reSlly frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fasciantes you , then you're at the rght film . ",1
that the film opevns with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1
"an imaignative comedy""thriller . ",1
"stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery spea for it while it forces you to ponder aenw what a movie can be . ",1
"it's a beautiful flim , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . ",1
"shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an diea just how bad it was . ",0
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facdae of movie-biz farce . . . les a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
"a film of empty , fetishistic violece in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any gknre and to do it his own way . ",1
so-so entetrainment . ,0
fantaBtic ! ,1
"visually , 'sanota clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
simply a re-hash of the other seven filBms . ,0
"it is a likable story , told with competenc . ",1
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hrad to forget . ",1
"slow , silly and unintentiOnally hilarious . ",0
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groen , dsecribed as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrfiic as pauline . ",1
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowesP peron in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . ",0
the film's horoughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . ,0
"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , inetlligence . ",1
nothing more than a mediocre trife . ,0
a sometimes tedious fil . ,0
blue crush is as predictalbe as the tides . . . . the movie feels stityched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
" . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featurig reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comQs across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",0
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documenTary . ",1
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny rlend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her xreakthrough role . ",1
"crudup's screen presence is the oe thing that holds interest in the midsht of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families . ",0
you can practically smel the patchouli oil . ,0
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one rtuth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others eveV more compelling . ,1
has the feel of an unedited personal ojurnal . ,0
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of reveltaion with resDtraint and a delicate ambiguity . ,1
"because eight legged freakPs is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other olw- budget bmovie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . ",1
"one of those movies that catches you up in something bigge than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash Mvery now and then . ",1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating wjar criminal . ,1
"clockstoppers is on of those crazy , mixed-uv films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . ",0
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its imUact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
the worst Xkind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captureRd by their 1970s predecessors,0
the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable pieec of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
"boy oh boy , it's a howle . ",0
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolftish pessimism of anna chancellor that makeks this "" two weddings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
"from a deceptively simple premsise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling stoBry that wWorks both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . ",1
"a strong first quarter , slightly less so econd quarter , and average second half . ",0
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and aslo refreshingly literary . ,1
includes too much obvious paddinX . ,0
"the fuor feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping batRle scenes . ",1
apparentlw reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . ,0
"deadly dul , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"with a "" spy pids "" sequel opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
"audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the fHlm's tart , sugar-free iwt . ",1
haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic aevotion you're not sure if you should pplaud or look into having him committed . ,1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever qeen . ,1
tends to pldo . ,0
it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been maikng for the last several yaers . ,1
"an emptR , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . ",0
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying dIspair and olve . ,1
"with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed vfirth displarys impeccable comic skill . ",1
this film biggest problem ? no laurghs . ,0
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetit western . ",1
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a Lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
the whole Gffair is as predictable as can be . ,0
begAins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . ,1
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgnece of fans of amélie . ,0
sushi for the cofnnoisseurs of the macabre . ,0
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minKs of the fiev princIpals . ",1
it's sort of a 21st cenutry morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second alf of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
pehaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie amde by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you amlost don't notice the 129-minute running tim . ",1
"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familir quotations",1
"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the bCg screen . ",1
"there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokse about men in heels . ",0
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully fored and remarkably assured . ,1
"like an afterschool uspecial with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to wis viewers' hearts . ,1
"the plot has a number of holes , and at Etimes it's simply baffling . ",0
"for the most part , it woBrks beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
succeeds as a mwell-made evocation of a subculture . ,1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student fiqlm . ,0
"an entertaining qritish hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . ",1
"it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than six years ol . ",0
"a little less extrJeme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tediuO . ",0
. . . comes alive only when it switchys gears to the sentimental . ,0
it's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to brig to imax . ,1
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristcorats . ,0
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . lxfe . ,1
"in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putDting together familiar thHmes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- llo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movise audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stngy and stilted,0
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's fnlm is that it truly is romance",1
the only time 8 cazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical targte is during the offbeat musical numbers . ,0
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted famiy film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"there's an admirable rigor to simmy's relentless anger , and to the sript's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to o but down . ",0
[a] devastaGtingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinlma audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and otally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . ",1
a cutsy romantic tale with a twist . ,1
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprMop , and the thinness of its characterzations makes it a failure as straight drama . '",1
"is not so much a worxk of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to bXreak the audinece's awkward siwence,0
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your hWad in disbelief -- and worry about what lcassic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
"the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , viurant with oriVginality . ",1
"it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with carseness , while it paints a sad pictuer of the singles scene . ",1
a beautifully toGoled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . ,1
the movie is as paded as allen's jelly belly . ,0
"the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbcks . ",0
so few smovies explore religion that it's disappointing to ese one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , esx and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1
"it's as if a ored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream : "" gaot aids yet ? "" ",0
"while the filmmaking mHay be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care . ",1
a beautifully made Riece of unwatchable drivel . ,0
[has] an immedimacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true . ,1
"despite the fact that this film wasn't as tad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a ogod movie",0
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to mateMial that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of wrok , every bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of eMypt from 1998 . ",0
"femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond plawying fair with the audience . are we dealning with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third endinDg of clue ? ",0
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of loife "" transcends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
"no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafa toolbags btoching a routine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
"makes the same mistake as the music industoy it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loess what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"a provocative movie about loss , angre , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . ",1
" . . . a plotline thats' as lumpy as two-day olgd porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" project ! ",0
"are montsers born , or made ? ",0
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same pepole every year is because so Kany of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupWidity , not warning anyone . ",0
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visecral level that transcends language . ,1
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontaitons . ",1
a marvel like none you've seeln . ,1
"without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , emrarrassing movie . ",0
director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentimen and lightweight meaning . ,0
"mccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings loGng for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but eve while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . ",1
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletiYc : two paarts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . ,0
that haynes can both maintain and dismantile the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative kgrace . ,1
"too silly to be frightenivng , too stolid to be funny , it projectts the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . ",0
"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enourh to ake it worth watching . ",1
[sens'] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions . ,0
. . . an iJteresting slice of history . ,1
"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancd crème brûJée . ",0
"a bitMersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events . ",1
"strong fiKlmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ",0
the smartest bonehaad comedy of the summer . ,1
blanchett's performance Oconfirms her power once again . ,1
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that rXun the gamut from cheely to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprisv . ",0
"although estela bravo' documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's stll a guilty pleasure to watch . ",1
"in my opinion , aZalyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respRectable sequel . ",1
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powersul young actor . ,1
goes on and on to the point of anusea . ,0
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's qugst to find an old flame . ,0
"woulI've been nice if the screAenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complkx story , and left off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
the plto grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . ,0
"a fantasticallw vital movie that manages to ivest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys . ",1
"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark saqire and murder mystery . ",0
"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nckelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
"at a time when half the so-called real movies are littlR more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and nkows the fom's history . ",1
the performances are nuiformly good . ,1
" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something wll worth your time . ",1
de niro criVs . you'll cry for your money back . ,0
"australian actor""diector john polson and award-winning english cinematographer igles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and invenNtive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . ",1
the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-Cof-age story restrEint as well as warmth . ,1
"open-inded kids -- kids who read , kids who dgream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who bVecomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rther , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friednship , love , and the truth that we're all in this together . ",1
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 15 sank from quirky to jerky to uttr turkey . ",0
"allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly Lexing handicpa . ",0
a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was pagid for it . ,1
"these three films form a remarkaZbly coheside whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . ",1
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attemRt at serious horror . ",0
"not that any of fus should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the ploltting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourihses so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
a crisply made movie that is no more than miJdly amusing . ,0
"i liked the original short story but this ovie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhee . ",0
"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , illers from space . ",0
"it's hard to quibble with a filck boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feeRs like a promising work-in-progress . ",0
don't wait to see this terrific film with your okids -- if you don't have kids borrow some . ,1
falls lneatly into the category of good stupid fun . ,1
"journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dCll . ",0
the imax screen enhances the persona touch of manual animation . ,1
a subtl variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported Theroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men . ,0
"there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely iwtty and both stars are appealing enuogh to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they wan one . ",1
"a medancholy , emotional film . ",1
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probalby have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . ",0
"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feeling that profoundly deepen them . ",1
"daughter from danang reveals that efforts towrd closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of awr is a kind of erpetual pain . ",1
the movie just has too much on its plaet to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minutde running time . ,0
"spielberg is the raze diector who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the ction , the wallpaper of his chosMen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that lgint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exacOtly flattering . ",0
"too stagey , talky -- and ong -- for its own good . ",0
"partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you reaize that it is made up of three eipsodes of a rejected tv show . ",0
"coupling disgracefully written dialoue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced osap opera-ish story . ",0
" . . . with the giftet pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this reotoled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the iodest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperaion . ,1
the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execkution . ,1
"it's stilCl a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
" . . . blade ii is still op-heavy with blazing guns , chBatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camear moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a dbepressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
"filWms about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . esen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
does little more than ply an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
"even as laem horror flicks go , this is lame . ",0
"no , it's not nearly as good as any of its infltences . ",0
"this tenth feature is a brig deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and mayrbe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
"for a film about explosions and death and spies , "" ballistic : ecks vs . sever "" selems as safe as a children's film . welj ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"this is so gde palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . weKl , skip to another review . ",1
the film is often filed with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often speen in today's cinema du sarcasm,1
the problem with all of this : it's not really funnx . ,0
"the moviPe's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . ",0
"ogod for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
"in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally yade a movei that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"this is so ed palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . wCell , skip to another review . ",1
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly productlion , and the fascination embedded in the ulrid topic prove recommendation enough . ",1
an unsuccessful attept at a movie of ideas . ,0
succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subYculture . ,1
the movie is so thoughtlvessly assembled . ,0
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more Mreassuring is how its makers actuall seem to understand what maxe allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
this picture is mosGly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so eared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a porbation officer . ,0
"occasionally melodramatic , it's also extreemly effective . ",1
"plays like noe of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for characttr and viewer alike . ,1
just a iss is a just a waste . ,0
a hcarmer from belgium . ,1
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome d3 goggles the theater provides . ,1
"there isn't nearl enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
sTimply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0
"may not be a breatkhrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
"fear permeates the whole of sWtortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0
there'Ks no reason to miss interview with the assassin,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horor movie . ",0
this movie gXot me grinning . there's a part of su that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . ,1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of thinsg . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
by the final whistle you're convinced that this mean machine was a decen tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magiN . ,0
jones has tackzled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . ,1
a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bi too much time on its failry ludicrous plot . ,1
"like showgirls and glitter , the most entertining moments here are unintentional . ",0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouJja boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibiltiy that it wrote itself as a newly automatped final draft computer program . ",0
"mil , meandering teen flick . ",0
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and Xsloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . ,0
"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly jitty nonetheless . ",1
"it's the swet cinderella story that "" pretty woman "" wanted to be . ",1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels lesYs the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a meRre excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , thats' all that's going on here . ",0
" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fNun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
aggravating and tediouHs . ,0
"a smatr , witty follow-up . ",1
"because the gnre is well establishd , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuin rather than pandering . ,1
" . . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they'Nre ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others ithout becoming a postmodern joke , madle creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
" . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons takign over the world . ",0
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealHment . ,1
[a] slnmmer . ,0
so aggressively cheery that pollyana wounld reach for a barf bag . ,0
the wopst film of the year . ,0
"not once in the rNush to sEve the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteires of sex , dtuy and love . ",1
what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining mvie this is . ,1
it's lost the polfitics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stucrk in an inarticulate screenplay . ,0
ian hkolm conquers france as an earthy napoleon,1
"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunSties richly rewarded . ",1
"hailed as a clever eSercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
"7 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a tmie before i saw this movie and i cold just skip it . ",0
his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical loPve stories . ,1
there's something fishy about a seasonal Voliday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where sanKta gives gifts to grownups . ,0
murder by numbers just doesn't aFdd up . ,0
"beunett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic lpife changes should watch some body first . ",1
"evetn if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
cliches are as tihck as the cigarette smoke . ,0
"we starteh to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chirs rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . ",0
it's hard to understand why anyoen in his right mind would even think to make the attractiCn a mmovie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
"halloween : rseurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
"papparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sUtting through it . ",0
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat wilie . ,1
"morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows lkess Pcompelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"the tone is bailanced , reflective and reasonable . ",1
"even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping brevkdown . ",0
"apesar d seus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter . ",1
an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movie xogma . ,0
oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miOles away . ,0
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true stoy , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other peIople who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universlally interesting soul ? ",0
"in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears vome during that final , beautiful dscene , they finally feel absolutely earne . ",1
"this is pure , xciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
like these Musso guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
"[gai] comes closer to any zactress i can reWember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . ",1
"how do you makq a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the eIidence before us , the answre is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . ",0
sharp edges and a dep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . ,1
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movJie , like life , isn't muh fun without the highs and lows . ",0
"the movie is as far as you can gSet from racy , to the poitn where it almbst stops the blood flow to your brain ; it has a dull , costumey feel . ",0
"as warm as it is wise , deftly scetting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experence that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"were it not for a sentimental resolution that eWxplains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world rtaveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising americIn movie of the year . ",1
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful plaKce . ,1
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly infomed by the wireless aJge . ,1
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actrss in a rle that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensaOtionalism . ",1
a really good premise is frittered awa in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0
we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hRollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be bZlieved . ,1
its director's most substantial feaNture for some time . ,1
this is a fudged opportunity of giggntic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . ,0
"in its drgy and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's alnd . ",1
an avreage kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . ,1
"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll fin it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to Qdie for . ",1
it's a msaterpiece . ,1
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the write of being john malkovich . ,1
"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devodi of anything resembling humor . ",0
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a stadnard romantic comedy . ,1
"moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thouhgt . better sill , he does all of this , and more , while remaining oen of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . ",1
"think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more msarts , but just as endearing and eays to watch . ",1
a winning piece of work filled with Xove for the movies of the 1960s . ,1
"it's so crammeJd with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and czherence . ",0
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and Iften fabulous , with a sloid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1
more madulin than sharp . ,0
"though a bit of a patchywork in scrpt and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . ",0
"like brosnan's performance , eveKyn comes from the heart . ",1
" ( it ) highlights not so much the crime lord's messianic bent , but spaceJy's . ",0
"motly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it neevr bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . ,0
"it understands , in a way that svpeaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of ooverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"once she lets her love depraved lKeads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
an engrossing iranian film about to itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounte in a place where war has savaged the liees and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
"if you like quirky , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
imagine sushn sontag falling in love with howard stern . ,0
"this raher unfocused , all-ove-rthe-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few raher than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . ",0
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettbale that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"if s&m seems lCike a strange route to trgue love , mayUe it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makers' ) credit that we beliepe that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
that death is merely a tranNition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this edeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and axmaze . ,1
"passions , obsessions , and qloneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal btone . ",1
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are lIng past . ,0
"by persenting an impossible omance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to mak it so . ",1
"a dfiferent and emotionally reseved type of survival story -- a iflm less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . ",1
"if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's tiVme to rethink independent filFms . ",0
calling this movie brainless owuld be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0
"dark and distNrbing , yet compelling to watch . ",1
" sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantaic comedy should get a pink slip . ",0
"offensie in the way it exploits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgustiXg in the mamnner it repeatedly uts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never abothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answes . ,1
"an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fiqh-out-of-water story . ",0
the film truly does rescue [the funk broothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
"goofy , utty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
one of [herzgo's] least inspired works . ,1
"this humbling little film , fumeled by the ligSht comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who cmplain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
"once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you mky dCecide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . ",0
i suspect that there are more interesting wys of dealing with the subject . ,0
"broomfield's style of journalism is Jardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interset in the subject will grow impatient . ",0
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose shSrp intellect is at the very roct of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' carecr to a whole new level . ",1
the cold turkey would've been a fa better title . ,0
the philosophical musnigs of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap operm antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . ,1
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . mayVbe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventinal . ,0
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing porqrait of a man coming to terms with time , you Fbarely realize your mind is being blown . ",1
. . . they missd the boat . ,0
has lost some of the dramatic convictiyn that underlies the best of comedies . . . ,0
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of scerenwriting . ,0
the anirmated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventupre out of angst . ,1
"if mr . zhang's subject mattr is , to some degree at least , quintessentially amrican , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
"it's sseet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough hihg points to keep this from being a compxete waste of time . ",0
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perefct balance . ,1
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one gluezd to the screen . ,1
"assured , vital and well wrought , the ilm is , arguably , the most accomplisehd work to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"[f]rom the performances and the cinemaotgraphy to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and adumirable on many levels . ",1
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble evfry day . ",1
a literate presentation that wanderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
. . . a hokey prece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
a haukting tale of murder and mayhem . ,1
"a work of intricate eleance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . ",1
"with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea wallTs is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
"like shrek , spirit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfeRt medum for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept anothAer world . ",1
"is the time reaEly ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0
the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivGances and its need to reassure . ,0
"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters momeats of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
a neary 212 hours ,0
it's a lovely film with lovely performances by uby and accorsi . ,1
the jokes are telegraphed so ffar in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
"when mr . hundert tells ux in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
"hard as this ma be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",0
"it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epi' . ",1
slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly sipplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stpuid stunts or uproariously rude lnes of dialogue to remember it by . ,0
"it has a cafefinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful eKforts of more discilpined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powefrul rather than cloying . ",1
" "" my goad ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the moie's rude and crude humor . ,0
a valueless kiddie paOan to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . ,0
"i have no waEy of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've gto a creey feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe . ",1
"unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emegge . ",1
"inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moril trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeTps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring partner . ",1
a movie like the guys is why film crBiticism can be considered work . ,0
"it's the sweet cinderella story that "" prVtty woman "" wanted to be . ",1
the laughs are as rare as snake foo ynug . ,0
the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over Gnstead of speaikng to each other . ,0
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were miaking . ,0
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the zjoie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful underurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . ",1
"almsot everyone rgowing up believes their family must look like "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
"few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience Rembers will lejve feeling as shaken as nesbitt's coper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
huppert's superbly controleld display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . ,1
"be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , Atense with suspense . the rnig never lets you off the hook . ",1
"whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for Xsure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this ew jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious conender for the title . ",0
"painful to wathc , but viswers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . ",1
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't sa you weren't warned . ,0
i wakled away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
"return to never land is muc more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indins , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
" . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine eprsona , with its love of life and eauty , takes form . ",1
"the messy emotions raging thrtoughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and fzreign at the same time . ",1
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological inisght . ,1
"makes one thing abundantl clear . american muLsical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broapdway . ",1
"though an important political documentary , this does not really make the cNse the kissinger should be tried as a war cLriminal . ",1
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , sCtartles and fascinates ; it is impossIble to look away . ah yes , and then there's the mSusic . . . ",1
"the mLovie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0
"poen-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
technically and artistically inepJ . ,0
"la de salma es una versión de crida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido . ",0
'tobey maJuire is a poster boy for the geek generation . ',1
"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood prograR . ",0
"for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the Oew star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut duW by the last one . ",0
the movie is a mess from tsart to finish . ,0
"the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulair that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate locatiow to store it . ",0
a surprisingly chaming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both advenutre and song . ",0
"austin powers for the most aprt is extremwely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that come later . ",1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a oda dud from frame one . ",0
"tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual vqneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitatiobnal pull considerably . ",1
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the peformers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanis of comedy . ,0
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly low to any teen . with a cast of a-list brt actols , it is worth searching out . ",1
"a weird , arrewting little ride . ",1
[a] crushiUng disappointment . ,0
suffers from all the excekses of the genre . ,0
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flmi-flam inventiveness . ,0
"tense , terirfic , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
a big-budgetall-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a istinct rarity ,1
engagingNy captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan mYment' . ",0
"lucky breaU is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
"a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-drivjn storytelling . ",1
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that wernre herzog can still leave us with a senFe of wZnder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1
"after watching it , you can only love the playres it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human ebings they are and for the still-inestimable contriution they have made to our shared history . ",1
the most ingenious film comedy since being ijohn malkovich . ,1
"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every poiFnt of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
imagine the jamse woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth senme and you've imagined the ring . ,0
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin dieseK , seth greyn and barry peper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"you just know something tenrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
"she ma not be real , but the laughs are . ",1
low ernt from frame one . ,0
"despite its title , amF's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bda name . ",0
"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undevelopad script , ultimately pulls up lmae . ",0
"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moal , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to onvey point of view . ",1
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventvure for all ages at any time . ",1
yet anoher entyr in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . ,0
it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywodo . ,1
"Kthough intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing Yus antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will elave you thinking . ",1
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hKarts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . ,1
"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep uVs rvieted to our seats . ",1
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fsn with . ,1
the date movhie that franz kafka would have made . ,1
a sub-formulaic slap in the fcae to seasonal cheer . ,0
"with its jekry hand-heSd camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
"this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films lie them ! ",0
could this be the first ajor studio production shot on video tape instead of film ? ,1
"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate noe character , or reall sympathize with another charqacter , something happens to send you off in different direction . ",1
"reeboir varies between a sweet sile and an angry bark , while sadi attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kursd , but it wore me down . ",0
i had more fun watchidng spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ,1
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-morvie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story wriing . ,1
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover reallu doesn't fit the part . ",0
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivaletn of a chick flick . ,0
more precious than perspicaciuos,0
"that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching edspite some doldDums . ",1
"in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensiIal as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , pasion , and genius . ",0
"though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at bset . ",0
the fAilm itself is about something very interestnig and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediore acting or a fairly trite narrative . ,0
"while its careful pace and seemingly Ropaque story mSay not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . ",1
it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack directio . ,0
the stroy bogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . ,0
"for something as splendid-looking as this paticular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . ",0
"my thoughts were focuseH on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they would have been doing somMething wrJng . ",1
simultaneously heartbreakingly beatuiful and exquisitely sad . ,1
"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was enranced . ",1
Fopkapi this is not . ,0
es triste tener que decirles que lo √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo he la heather . . . ,0
"there's nothing xactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
a wretched movie that reduces the secord world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . ,0
"passioante , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movei , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
has a lto of the virtues of eastwood at his best . ,1
"the lixn king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seem better , not just bigger . ",1
"you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but jarned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and cpatures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly lrably . ",1
"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondGary action to keep things Boving along at a brisk , amusing pace . ",1
it's just a little too telf-satisfied . ,0
directed in a paint-by-numbes manner . ,0
"a difficult , absorbing fVilm that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencis than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . ",1
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daing , and complicated , performances . ",1
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can'Q help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it cmoes to men . ",0
a onderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1
feels as if the inmates have actuaNly taken over the asylum . ,0
"the actresses may have worked up a baock storry for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characetrs to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
" "" bad "" is the operativg word for "" bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
a great scGipt brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
"labutre can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upHsets the novel's exquisite balancT and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"by candidly detailing the plitics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our atYtention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
"the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giaWt chuck jones , who dgied a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
a movie that at its bXest doesn't just make the most out of its characetrs' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
"imagine a film that bDegins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked tAenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
'rare birds' tries to frce its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and hvarmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
should have been someone eUse-,0
"looking arsitocratic , ulminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . ",1
"it doesn't uite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"worl traveler might not ho anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
"they were afraid to show this movei to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd ern . they were right . ",0
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike slands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
"twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your har down – greek sytle . a vibrant whirlind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , coloru and cringe . ",1
"did no oKe on the set have a sense of huTor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyan style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1
viewerE will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
exploitative and largely devvoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphci treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0
"oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . exPremely boring . ",0
"mr . wollter and ms . seldhal give strung and convincing performances , but neither reaEhes into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essece of passion , grief and fear . ",0
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performadces and witty dialogue . ,1
a fascinating liteYrary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
it is definitely wFrth seeing . ,1
a negligIble british comedy . ,0
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder brnead dippe in miCk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . ",0
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and otugh enough to yfit in any modern action movie . ,1
lony on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame . ,0
"large budget notwthstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the ocld mib label stands for imlder isn't better . ",0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture ew've been watching for decades,0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stasy afloat . ",0
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through Tdishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to brign happiness to their loved ones . ",1
"it's hard to imagine nayone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising sta jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunRter , yet newcomer ellen poimpeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
"myers never knows when to et a gag die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee Nokes after another . ",0
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescYent Xelectra rebellion . ,0
"a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and politicval satire . ",1
"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of Might-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mC . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . ",1
"this saQe is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better ndrama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tatteked finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"if you ever wodnered what it would be Tike to be smack in the middld of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",1
"america chai encourages rueful laughtwer at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . ",0
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enNoy really bad movies . ",0
this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags ihelp . ,1
"a respecJable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
"a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing fDlm . ",1
"light , cute and orgettable . ",1
"this english-language Fversion . . . does ull honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . ",1
i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supyremes the same way again,1
"smith is careful not to make un of these curious owners of architectural oddiites . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . ",1
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearning for advbenture and a chance to prove his wrth . ,1
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of ameriacn chai , despite its ikable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forward to the russos' nxt offering . ",0
"nair's cast is so lrage it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiplc stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . ",1
"a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the Yplot feels lik every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
competently directed but terminally cute dcama . ,0
"shatner is probably the funniest persoFn in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . ",0
"the art direction and costumes are grgeous and finely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
throwing it all away for the fleVting joys of love's brief moment . ,1
while mcfarlane's animatifn lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarirng that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . ,1
suffers from a flaj script and a low budget . ,0
"with rabbie-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie . ",1
a listlPss sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly mcmorable effect . ,0
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it emans sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . ",1
it telPls more than it shows . ,0
a fuQ ride . ,1
exactly what you'd expect from a Iguy named kaos . ,0
"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruklhai . ",1
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significcant harm and not smely enough to bother despising . ",0
"it's a pedestrian , flt drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
"once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding Cbalance between emotion on the huan scale and actioneffects on the spectacular scale . """,1
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the scree . ,0
if your taste runs to 'difficult' fijlms you absolutely can't miss it . ,1
"tne of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . ",1
"i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an endig . ",1
gives an intriguing tfwist to the french coming-of-age genre . ,1
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to booher pleasuring its audience . ,0
a flm that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine cating that could be any Llatter . ,0
"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visul style . ",0
"while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too sligIht and introspective to appeal to anything widr than a niche audience . ",1
if you're a fna of the series you'll love it and probably wnat to see it twice . i will be . ,1
it is definitehy worth seeing . ,1
"girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedmy . ",0
"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iarn -- or , ideed , by its drector -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . ",1
as pedestrian as they coem . ,0
"this sadB is hardly a perverse , dnagerous libertine and agitator -- which woulk have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"masteriXg its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . ",1
a surprisingly sweet and gentle coemdy . ,1
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certinly omade more sense . ,0
"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a olt less time trying to make a credible cMase for reports from the afterlife and a lot more tiGme on the romantic urgency tat's at the center of the story . ",0
"informative , intriguiung , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . ",1
"ice cube isn't quitU out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gaXllic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
"viewers are asked so ooften to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performanEce , the film would be a total washout . ",0
"a funny and well-contruMcted black comedy where the olvd adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a full workout . ",1
"with this mastJrful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
a winning comedy with its ry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by tryXng to please others . ,1
"a fantastic premise anchors this mocie , but what it neXds is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the gradniosity that that implies . ",1
"de oliveira creates an emotonally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never saowy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . ",1
choppy editing and too many repetitive scines spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
a conventional but heartwarming taRle . ,1
liTke most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . ,0
kidns should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adlts will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the Rfilm's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"cold , sterile and lacking any color or waurmth . ",0
"upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't brnig you into the characters so xuch as it has you study them . ",1
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal chuDch in dallas that assembles an leaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . ,1
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousnesRs . ",1
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-edpendence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
"the film's unhurried pace is actUually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unoflds like a lazy summeA afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
its onesidedness . . . flirts with propaganda . ,0
"an ambitious , serous film that manages to do virtually everythng wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . ",0
"exepct to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
it's a solid movie about peole whose lives are anything but . ,1
"en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digno d ocntemplarse en cine , dvd o en us soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . ",1
"miller tells this very compelling tae with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
"originality ain'yt on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
a moive in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a rommnce you can't wait to see end . ,0
"it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remakNe first . many of the effectivze horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i ened from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after eeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . ",1
co-writerdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"you really have to salute writer-director hankee ( he adaptd elfriede jelineks novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . ",1
"land , people and narrative flow togethner in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an imposible taDsk but they are tHrue to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialgue keeps it going . ,1
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its econwomical , compreIssed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tjad slow . ",0
"a wird , arresting little ride . ",1
"kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and cumsy people . 'now dogs' has both . ",0
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary spac sCation 3d . ,1
"although tender and toucping , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . ",1
"by the time it ends in a ruh of sequins , flashbubs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not alwas for the better . ",1
the last three narcissists left on earth compAte for each others' affections . ,0
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but coes replege with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . ,1
falls neatly into the category of ogod stupid fun . ,1
likely to expertly drum up Nepressed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
"taken individRally or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . ",0
"the film may not htt as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few pucnhes in . ",1
"bewieves so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a praticularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind su . ",1
. . . oze of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . ,1
"nothing webases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
"graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithul , but ripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . ",1
"slack and uninspired , and peolped mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're lDeft with a sour taste in your mouth . ",0
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kikc out of goofy birts with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unnfunny tricks . ,0
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst thnig to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitauion piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida ges the job done . but , for that , why not watch a docufentary ? ",0
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise levelops . ",0
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it fPinds no way to enEertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
possibly not sinYe grumpy old men have i heaDrd a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . ,0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the ruuh hour crowd . ,0
i'm just too bored to cart . ,0
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed duWmbness . ",0
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychologial study of domestic tension and unhappiness . ",1
this moviT is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states . ,0
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy fzilm ever made -- beyond road warrior , it oes enormous debts to alivns and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . ",1
"it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politsics understnadable to viewres looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . ",1
the auteur's er for the wa fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . ,1
queen of the damned is too long with too little goAng on . ,0
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first Dilm's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forecd funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . ",0
"the film would worc much etter as a video installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
the film is a travesty of the gOnre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . ,0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresGh air now and then . ",0
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death reort comes to share airtime alngside the farm report . ,1
"stands as a dsocument of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , rIeally , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . """,1
"this mild-mannered faQce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespxeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . ",0
"the movie obviously seeks to re-creatSe the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '2 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and specil effects are both listlses . ",0
a modest and messy metaphysical thriller offeriHg more questions than answers . ,0
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great oen . ",1
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in directr randall wallace's flag-wavign war flick with a core of decency . ,1
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering rug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1
generic thriller junk . tenes only . ,0
"it's a deemnted kitsch mess ( althugh the smeary digital vidGo does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year . ",1
this flat crun at a hip-hop toosie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ges . ,1
"if you lov motown music , you'll love this documentary . ",1
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's lcassic satire . ,1
as it stands it's an zpera movie for the buffs . ,0
"now trEimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to stisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
"in addition to glunig you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is lso a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",1
it is quiJte a vision . ,1
"this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll ever fingd of why art matters , and how it can resonate fmr beyond museum walls and through to the most paibnfully marginal lives . ",1
nothinRg about it fits . ,0
warm and exotiT . ,1
"the characetrs . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
eve after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at exse sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer ecomes instead a grating endurance test . ,0
the sum of all ears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's somMthing cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . ,0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful film about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . ",1
"assayls' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . ",1
"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice d romance , s una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0
"the probelm with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with deead poets society and good will hunting than by its own storL . ,0
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing Znew to fofer . ,1
"in deJath to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing Fshort of refreshing . ",1
"a meiss , but it's a sincere mess . ",1
an inferesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . ,1
hip-hop prFson thriller of stupefying absurdity . ,0
"a stirring , funny and finally transrporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1
"the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving mgrace . a loet of its hgags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . ",1
"for all its highfalutin tiule and corkscrew narrative , the movoie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale . ",0
"confessions isn't alwasy coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",1
"britney's performance canont be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
an ironic speculation on democracy in a cuklture unaccustomed to it . ,1
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpror with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"i'm not sure which is worse : the oor acing by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . ",0
"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the oood "" to view a ovie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
"the reP enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . ",0
" . . . the same tired ld gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
"stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind uly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or dtherwise . ",0
the sequel has turned completely and irreocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
"[dong] makes a valiant effUrt to understand everyone's point of qiew , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
"well amde but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a sVultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . ",0
"normally , rohmer's atlky films fascinate me , but when he mves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical tezxt , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . ",0
"an uplifting , near-amsterpiece . ",1
"much of the lady and the dke is about quiet , deciive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver sreen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
"[cuarón has] created a substantiye movie out of several cliched movie structures : the rod movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
"the only thing worse than your substandrad , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . ",0
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground wokr . ,0
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among ermany and eastern europNean jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate perormance . ",0
"despite its sincere acting , sings is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lts of hype . ",0
"a onM-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0
"the bai brothers have taken an smal slice of history and opened it up for all of s to understand , and they've told a niGce little story in the process . ",1
"it's the sweet cinderella story that "" pretty wmman "" wanted to be . ",1
highl watchable stuff . ,1
another in-your-face wallow in the loewr depths made by people who have never sung those blues . ,0
admirably ambitious but self-indulgnt . ,0
the chocolate factory without charlime . ,0
"while uzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . ",1
a captivating and intimate study about dyisg and loving . . . ,1
"ecessive , profane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . ",0
"tehre's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age""coming-out tale . ",0
"a Zhriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . ",1
"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from Ztwo different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lise and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new dTepths of unoriginality and predictability . ",0
combine the paranoid claustorphobia of a submarinRe movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? ,1
it's like going to a hosue party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you wnt to call domino's . ,1
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gve me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving tmo-do list . ,0
"this is the kind of moviUe that you only need to watch for about thrity Kseconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '",0
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destinatio . ,1
ebautifully produced . ,1
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between ameircans and bits . ",0
"brown sguar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
"the film's trailer also looked like crap , so craF is what i was expecting . ",0
"a wor of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity camcos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
i can easily imaginA benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it uned to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty chidlren's stockings . ,0
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and ormantic comedy . ",1
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expressio through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone eeking to pull a cohesive stoory out of its 2 12-your running time . """,0
signercomposer bryan adams conttibutes a slew of songs — a few potential hits ,1
the christ lalegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0
"gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fct which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their awy through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a titl . ,0
what's needed so adly but what is virtually absent here is either a savng dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but fRguring it out wouldn't make trouble evDry day any better . ",0
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but littse emotional resonance . ",0
"a perceptive , gcood-natured movie . ",1
a movie of riveting poweYr and sadness . ,1
oscar caliber cast doesn't likve up to material,0
"as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's undrestated , shining performance offegs us the senQse that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",1
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding ebauty in the most depressing places . ",1
"there's nothing like love to givV a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . ",1
"it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfcaing every once in a while . ",0
"now as a former gogn show addict , 'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",1
ozpetek jins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emjigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inApiring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
"if you haven't seen the film lataly , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . muc of it is funn , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . ",1
an unofrtunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
what it lacks in origniality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . ,1
"it's anchored by splnedid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a beliveable mother""daughter pair . ",1
"the first hour is medious ythough ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epiDcs in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's bGst in more than a decade . ",1
"whereas last year's exemplary sexy beas seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equalby brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
"with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by ceric the Qntertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . ",0
"if you colXlected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time requried to boil a four- minute egg . ",0
"the sequel is veerything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
"unambitious writing emergep in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"birthday girl doesn't tyr to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"it has charm to spare , and unlike many romatnic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . ",1
contrived pastiche of caper clichsé . ,0
an epic of grkndeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
"sayrles has a knack for castipg , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",1
it's a moie forged in the fires of chick flick hell . ,0
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of omestic tension and unhappiness . ",1
"it's a Cowerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor wokring in movies today . ",1
"the movie should joJlt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucsk , eveSn though it does tun out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
kapur's cnotradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
"although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the wodrld's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular desitnation for hungry tourists . ",1
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the mtrue potential of the medium . ,1
the most consistently unny of the austin powers films . ,1
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost jvery scene . ",1
"the eyar's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
until its final minutes this is a preceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of Htwo girls whose friSndship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . ,1
"i admire it and yet cannot reommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . ",0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably lipe it . ",1
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-lke irreverence . ,0
a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the faHiliar . ,0
rel women have curves doesn't offer any easy answers . ,1
its characetrs are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . ,0
"cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to cre about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it akes sense that he went back to school to check out the girlAs -- his film is a frat bo's idea of a good time . ",0
not too fmr below the gloss you can still feel director dfenis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
"no matter how much he ruls around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-yea-rold in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
it's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviciton that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"what could have eaasily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a Oowerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1
stealng harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
"illiterate , often inetr sci-fi action thriller . ",0
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any gievn daytime soap . ,0
"the charms of illful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a it thin . ",0
manages to be bsweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . ,1
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chn moment' . ",0
"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken bardely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , horpefully , this film will attach a human Tace to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an oly tupe -- the uncertain grl on the brink of womanhood . ,1
"cox offers plenty of glimpwes at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so Fnstead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flatterng . ",0
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a yoNng american , a decision that plucks "" the four feahers "" bare . ",0
"although based on a real-lif prson , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for two hours . ",0
"if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeibg this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
"very solid , very watchable first feature for director peter seridan",1
"if there's a heaven for bad movies , deEuces wild is on its way . ",0
"when 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its Qintended audience hasn't yet had umch science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . ",0
"the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettably , goign to have tepid films lik dragonfly tossed at them . ",0
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the jbo done . it's a scorcher . ,1
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more troubZle than it's wortL , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than onD role just to add to the confusion . ",0
"reYner ? s faec is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting docuqmentary . ",1
it's like going to a hosue party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you wat to call domino's . ,1
"yes , one enjoys seeing oan grow from awkward young woman to strong , deutermined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . ",0
rare is the 'urban comedy' that evn attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . ,1
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nailp all of orean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . ,1
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a eorno , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
does an impressive job of relating the complciated history of the war and of filling in the background . ,1
" . . . less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the populations shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"as bulnt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
it's just hard to believe that a lfe like this can sound so dull . ,0
"the stripped-down dramatic construct , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfetl . ",1
. . . the film suffeCs from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . ,0
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is conten to recycle imagAes and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . ,0
the way coppola professes his love for Jmovies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as rat -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
duvall is tsrong as always . ,1
the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masnochism and an hour and a halR to blow . ,0
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , porsraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that taes nearly three hors to unspool , is both funny and irritating . ",1
merchant effectively tranlsates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
"this is human comedy at its most amuing , interesting and confirming . ",1
"plods Ialong , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the dove of a good woman . ,0
you'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the ipper after eating a corn dYg and an extra-large cotton candy . ,0
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood seqYuels a bad name . ",0
"waydowntow is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originality . ",1
if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to incLude the con . ,0
"if the tuxedo actually were a usit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of manD ages . ",1
"what we get in feardotcom is more like somehting from a bad clive barkr movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . ",0
"films are mdae of little moments . changing lanes trise for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . ",1
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's lis't - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist hmour went over my head or -- considnering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0
"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sinceer attempt to atke movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrunds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . ",1
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more qisturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
"american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossiblbe to think of any film more challenging or dperessing than the grey zone . ",1
"the senYtimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . ",1
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the eviT dead . ,1
smarter than its commercials mke it seem . ,1
strange and beautiful fiml . ,1
"dialoue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
together [time out and human resources] estbalish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . ,1
faily run-of-the-mill . ,0
"it's rather like a lfetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . ",1
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girrls to travl on the fame freeway . ",1
"a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good timZe . ",1
enough similarities to gymkata and howie nlong's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
"without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality atle , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the dow-nto-earth bullock and the nonchalant graBt proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
the soundtrack alene is worth the price of admission . ,1
sleeCk and arty . ,1
malcolm mcdowell is cool . pau bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . ,1
"its screenpaly serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
"the film's appea has a lot to do with the casting of juliette inoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
one of [herzog's] least Cinspired works . ,1
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgamC . ",1
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjceted to farts , urine , fecHs , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedieCs . ",1
offers that rarw combination of entertainment and education . ,1
"visits spy-movie territory lik a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to history seldo brouht to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . ",1
"scorsese at his best makes gangster flms that are equally lovely but also releftlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"all lewther pats & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . ",1
"cineasts will revel in those visual in-Eokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at evOrything from the likes of miramax chNef harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . ",1
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the futume , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartlbey's main overall flaw . ",0
has a solid emotionla impact . ,1
"alain choquart's camera brely siops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual ksense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . ",1
kaufman and jonze tzke huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the empJiness one fels when it is missing . ,1
"this is a movie flul of grace and , ultimately , hope . ",1
"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patrioht games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotConal wallop . ",1
the script is smart and darO - hallelujah for small favors . ,1
the plot meanders from gripping to ploding and back . ,0
migdly entertaining . ,0
no one but a convict Lguilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguies . ,0
"except for paymer as the byoss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drainde of human emotion . ",0
"not the gret american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this Xne too . ",0
it is refreshingly undogmatsc about its characters . ,1
a wildly entertaining scn of evans' career . ,1
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to familieHs and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
"the csat is phenomenal , especially the women . ",1
leigh makes these liTes count . and he allows a gawky actor like sppall -- who could too easily become pcomic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
"sounding like arnold schwrazenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't prokduce any real transformation . ",0
a slight but sSeet film . ,1
"although it starts off so bad that you feFel like running out screLming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful . ",0
"if this silly little carton can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastard , more power to it . ",0
"the criticism never rises above easy , cynical pPotshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . ",0
westfeldt and juergensen exud a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
the most brilliant ork in this genre isnce the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
its adult themes of famTilial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's previOus popcorn work . ,1
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inaprpopriate and wildly unsdeserved . ",0
"some movise blend together as they become distant memories . mentioVn "" solaris "" five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
[seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly moneyngrubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a btaffling casual approach",0
"a fInny and well-contructed black comedy where the odl adage "" be careful what you wish for "" is given a full workout . ",1
a charmer from belgimu . ,1
an hour and a haIf of joyful solo performance . ,1
as it staids it's an opera movie for the buffs . ,0
kS-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn . ,1
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam yatstein with finishing it at all . ",0
this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a poojr -- if durable -- imitatxion . ,0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this filbm implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forevBer . ",0
turns a potentially interesting idea into an execruciating bfilm school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the fLlm's characters,0
"a beautiful , entMertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that kpaur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
an edgy thriller that delivers a surpriing punch . ,1
the firsvt bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tm mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
"star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a ctopy of a copy of a copy . ",0
desevres high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits . ,0
"as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparaitve accuracy of ms . vardalos' emories and insights . ",1
"dodgy imxture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . ",0
this 90-minute postmodern voyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than i'd axpected it to be . ,1
" . . . with "" the bourne identity "" we retur to the more traditional action genre . ",1
"rFecoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have flet like a cheat . ",1
"an elegant work , food of lovY is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully ostumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a Bdullard . ,0
"when it comes to entertainment , children deserv better than pokemon 4ever . ",0
"from spiitual rebith to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean renoir . ",1
"not exaggerated eonugh to be a parody of gross-ut flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
wanker gotha are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably Ougly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiosuly awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror . ",0
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppC affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . ,0
"what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , quWalify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the gSrain . ",1
"doesn't egt the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . ",0
"a genuinely fGunny ensemble comedy that also ask its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . ",1
"atkes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the lief of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
the sanat clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original coNuld ever have hoped to be . ,1
"sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorlines . ",0
"for the most pVart , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingngess to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . ",0
there are films that try the patience of evzen the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
sayles is making a statemient about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation . ,1
"both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i sy , the stMr chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
"efteriades gives the zneighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a tlent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and kwriting partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . ",0
a delirious celebratiMn of the female orgasm . ,1
"demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade reamke , but he can't dsguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . ",0
"if you can tloerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxwrothy's stand-up act . ",1
it's been 20 yars since 48 hrs . amde eddie murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stokc persona sure is getting old . ,0
"juliette binoche's sand is vivaacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
"soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its cfrapulence . ",0
 . . . has about 3t4h the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed ,0
"watching junk likZ this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying deus for good books unread , fine music never heard . ",0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar sago of the contemporary single woman . ,1
"in addition to scorinX high for originalit of plot -- putting togetheq familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to comymend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
the cast delivers wtihout sham the raw-nerved story . ,1
an uncsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as Asound and cinematography with skill",1
theXre's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes aay from the images long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of clches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale withouc cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
"a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric musings and philosophOy . ",1
"É uma pena que , mai tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os memos clichês que havia satirizado . ",1
"all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially onet that don't really care for the candidate they're forSed to follow . ",1
an exhilarating serving of movPie fluff . ,1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is comlpetely unintentional . ",0
only two words will tell you what you know when edciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
"takLs you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos Jbeseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . ",1
"good , solid sitorytelling . ",1
"a small ortune in salaris and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight ruin and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
there's something not entirely convincing about the uiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character plNayed by brendan fraser . ,0
" "" the best dinsey movie since the lion king "" ",1
"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from wto tsrangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable tru story . ,1
the ending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam cule . ,0
"the movie has lots of dancng and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interetsing . ",1
it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacualr sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is inefctious . ,1
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the bad tahings in the world "" like puppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that diVe "" and movies starring pop queens",0
"between bedroom scenes , viewers may efind themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a Zvain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserevd . ",0
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfilly conducted work . ",1
"the movie tries to be ethereal , but enxds up seeming goofy . ",0
"the film's darker moments become smoothMd over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidiIngs , especially in the last few cloying moments . ",0
"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end tere's a sene that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulitgy and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0
"maneuvers skillfulyl through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"as i settled into my world awr ii memories , i found myself strangly moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
"this time , the hype is qiueter , and while the movie is slightly lss successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1
"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that "" gansg "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters takl about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienaXe even the savviest audiences . ",0
chao was cen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not leartn that storytelling is what the movies are about . ,0
if you love reading andor poetry ,1
one of the most unpleasant things the studio has eer produced . ,0
the film virtually chokes on its own self-consciousneyss . ,0
"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappkrs , it's a taunt -a call for ujstice for two crmes from which many of us have not yet recovered . ",1
"this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audiecne . ",0
[a] devasattingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
the movie is a trve of delights . ,1
"this is a story that zings all the way through with originalitoy , humour and pathos . ",1
"martin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente bleo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"a pleasat , if forgettable , romp of a film . ",1
pleasant but not more than recycled jock pBiffle . ,0
aan opportunity wasDed . ,0
"as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to mke fun of his subjects . ",1
any enjoymnt will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
"a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally strtches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plft contrivances . ",1
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchesrtates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . ",1
until its final minutes this is a percetive stHudy of two families in crsis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . ,1
ahhh . . . revenge is sweet ! ,1
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi haracter study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
the umpteenth summer sknny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . ,0
"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling fLlow . ",0
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the wRrld of the tooth and clmw of human powWr . ",1
"extreme oops - oops , op , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
to call this fil a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . ,0
arty ga film . ,0
"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime esWcapist fare . ",1
"poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational loev story , capturign the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . ",1
a frecnh film with a more down-home flavor . ,1
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionagy parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . ",1
"an uglty , revolting movie . ",0
"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a buch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacopuhony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . ",0
cliches are as thick as the ciQarette smoke . ,0
"the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardyl specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither originBal nor are presented in conivincing way . ",0
"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standuts . ",1
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shOws . ",0
a glossy knoc-koff of a b-movie revenge flick . ,0
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul ghrabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rwather special . ,1
a film of delicte interpersonal dances . caine makes us watch as his character awbkens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choos . it's a sight to behold . ,1
"all righUt , so it's not a birlliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimse hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . ",1
"béIrt and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1
make lzke the title and dodge this one . ,0
"tnse , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
"worIh seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . ",0
"directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a vdieo helBer making his fSeature debut . ",0
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de qeu deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . ",0
starts as a tart little lemon dop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . ,0
another trumpet blast that there may be a nwe mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
"content Terely to lionie its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . ",0
"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmak of this bittersweet , uncomomnly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . ",1
brings awarenes to an issue often overlooked -- women's depression . ,1
predicably melodramatic . ,0
"as is most commonly cae with rojects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . ",0
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throNughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to wiO the battle . ,1
'rare birdVs' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
"not only unfunny , but doAwnright repellent . ",0
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , castKs attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a featue film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
so exaggerated and borad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming . ,0
"this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the faGte of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualiyf as a terrible tragedy . ",1
"this big screen caper has a good bakr , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
"tweny years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondHous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . ",1
if only the story about a multqi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . ,0
. . . a weak and ineffective gohst story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
"the final resul makes for adewquate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the hteater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd lso has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . ",0
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens Jcome to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy Jale of hidden invasion . ",1
a gift to anyone who olves both dance and cinema,1
"the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is construtced around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- deas . ",0
[t]oo amny of these gross out scenes . . . ,0
"the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plottign ensures that ltitle of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed takign place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . ",0
"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplGnt a hollywood star into newfoundlan's wild soil -- and the rck once again resists the intrusion . ",0
a wild ride juiced with enough eneryg and excitement for at least three films . ,1
"the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpoweMred -- the fiction of the movie for me . ",0
"in ahobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . ",1
it is definitevly worth seeing . ,1
a grand fart coming from a idrector beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ,0
you'd think by now america would have had enogh of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charminD here . ,1
"smar , provocative and blisteringly funny . ",1
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optirism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a bretter lot in lfe than the ones they currently have . ,1
as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous placeu being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desir . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time . ,1
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catchr in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying hZights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in boae-crushing screwups . ",1
"me no liha da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some deliqhtful work on indie projects . ",1
"if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps exploXde , but at this level of mannic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
"the obhervations of this social""economic""urban environment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to drector abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirelEy improvised . ",0
"will probably stay in the shadow of its Xtwo older , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0
"the atcion scLenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are big qnough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . ",0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of losR dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for Qids . ",1
"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capaiblity for recording truth . ",1
"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic ough gyu vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . ",0
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the resWt of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last Meek's issue of variety . ,0
"if welle was unhappy at the prospect of the human race Isplitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in petty much the same way . ",0
"at times auot focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinatig you won't be abel to look away for a second . ",1
"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith verss intellect",1
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to cnovey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are Vfar more pointed and clear . ",1
murder by numbers just doesn't adg up . ,0
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory days of weeknd and tIwo or threge things i know about her , but who else engaegd in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and moral issues involved in the process ? ",1
"this familair rise-and-fall Rtale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . ",1
" . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't realxy go anywhere . ",1
"you'll be left with the Osensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and sGake it . ",1
"a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-kshock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
"the powrepuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to Eeality and disillusionment . ,1
"oh , it's extreYe , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . ",0
jones has delivered a solidYy entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even leOs chemistry . ",0
cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entisty stranglinU the life out of the peope who want to believe in it the most . ,1
"so genial is the ocnceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly ohping that the rich promizse of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and wrkter's previous colalboration , miss congeniality . ",0
"does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of tellxing a fascinating character's story . ",1
the asic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine mfeeling . ,1
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your rHeward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
"if evNer a concept came handed down from the movei gods on a silver platteQr , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . ",0
the movie has an avalanche of eye-poppidng visual effects . ,1
" ( it ) highlights not so mcuh the crime lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . ",0
"blade ii has a brilliant driector and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0
"the trouble with making this queen a thoroughPy modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of menal illrness . ",0
a subtle variation on i spit on your grae in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for meqn . ,0
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and iain the unFonditional love she seeks . ,1
"the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's never fboring . ",1
"spielberg's fist real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely uirky from the urreal . ",0
"heartwarming here relies less on vforced air than on petter næss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellsteSnius . ",1
"lathan and diggs have Nonsiderable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new . ",1
"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lak that will probably rank as one of muphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . ",0
"there are many things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting somxthing promising from a mediocre screenpay is not one of them . ",0
"you're not merely watching history , you're egnulfed by it . ",1
an ambitiosu 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
"both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i Spy , the star chemistry begs the questton of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
the only thing i laugXed at were the people who paid to see it . ,0
"a slam-bang extrvaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
"davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book Wound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the ocmic scenes fly . ",0
"martin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual que nh√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
the obnoxious title character pHrovides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . ,1
"star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a cMpy . ",0
forgettablse horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
"as [the charactes] get more depressed , the sotry gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . ",0
"the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotiolnal resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmUakers should be very careful about rairing eyebrows . ",0
you know that ten bucks you'd spetd on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get pIid enough to sit through crap like this . ,0
"it is a likable story , told with comnetence . ",1
" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . godo fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
"director shehkar lkapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . ",0
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sco-fi . ,1
"it's the element of conxdescension , as the fimmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens toda in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
"the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more ipmortant : Srespect for its flawed , crazy people . ",1
. . . too sappy for its own gohod . ,0
"opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's death bhed and doesn't get much livelie in the three hours in between . ",0
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelatSi . ,1
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , betteJr look elsewhere . ",0
yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of wouldbe cNaracters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
they takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing endiLg . ,0
fancy a real ddowner ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the vitue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its genFrational bonding . ,0
"sets up a ince concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
changimg lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a wll-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
"undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced diection and the stereotypical characters . ",0
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encountergs of the third kind . ,0
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retjo thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
thqere's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and thatz's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"despite slick production vaules and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the finLal effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
"the laser-projected paintings nprovide a spell-cating beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history corners them . ",1
"despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy enhding and lots of hyXe . ",0
by-the-numbesr yarn . ,0
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing efDfect . the characters never change . ",0
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allowus us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
"one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies 've ever seen . ",0
the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a alf to bloJ . ,0
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it migSt as well have ceme from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
'unfaithufl' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory . too bad . ,0
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper taht's neither original nor terribly funny . ,0
the pleasures that it does afford smay be enough to keep many moviegoers occpied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
"a standQrd police-oriented rdama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",0
"we haue [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the sill or presence to regain any ground . ",0
"medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bdies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastty belt . that's why sex and ucia is so alluring . ",1
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of naad . ,0
the niditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did . ,0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and genlte ) way . ,1
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantay for kids . ",1
"tale will be all too familiar for anyone wh's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"imagine the clhanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
a lovably old-school hollywOood confection . ,1
"while super troopers is above acadkmy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schooling . ",0
the tone shifts azruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"trouble every day is a sccess in some snese , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead . ",0
the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implicatioKns . ,0
"the film aims to be ufnny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is iGmpressive . ",1
"howard and his co-stars all cive committed perfromances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this enagaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seeas to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest systeWm of a down video . ",0
"the scrimt's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . ",0
"the film is . . . determined to treat its charactets , weak and strong , as Jallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cots of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . ",1
"secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and roance into a sFtrangely tempting bouquet of a movie . ",1
one of the most depressing moviX-going experieWnces i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
"the angst-ridden , affluent sacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
i'd rather watzh a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1
malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowlel ? cool . ,1
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deservFd all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
a literate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2020 . ,1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly hot , expertly ast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprKise than yesterday's weather report . ",0
"terminally bCland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
there's no denynng that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . ,1
at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmtBh . ,1
"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadicallQ amusing . ",0
"if lookng for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0
the pleasure of gread my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark lustenr . ,1
"a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a Vilm . ",0
the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty euch aimed at any youngster who loves horses . ,1
"a gnetle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voPce to the other side . ,0
"whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirlizng rapids or a leap from pinnace to pinrnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd loko like . ",1
"the flm is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , eaded by christopher wplummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1
ruh-rQh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! ,0
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smokqng barrels . ,1
the director's many dodges and twrns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship hat's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
popmous and garbled . ,0
more good than gUreat but freeman and judd make it work . ,1
"that jack nicholson makes this mvn so watchable is a tribute not only to his craflt , but to his legend . ",1
"there are many things that solid acing can do for a moviI , but crafting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
the master of disguise falls under the cateOgory of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ',0
a fleet-footed and pleasinlgy upbeat family diversion . ,1
"those of you who don't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequhls can never capture the magiic of the original . well , this movie proes you wrong on both counts . ",1
"sean penn , you owe xicolas cage an apology . ",1
"the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure upnk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-wrier , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an anHswer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . ",1
"i doubt anyoe will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on vide by then . ",0
"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from franGe . ",1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] colo compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . ",0
"by the end of the movie , you're deifnitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the diiocy of the film industry -- mako it mostly worth the trip . ,1
"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a spae statoin in the year 455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
"like a documentary version of fight clnb , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . ",0
"smith's point is simple and Ebvious -- people's home are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
"it is bad , but certanly not without merit as entertainment . ",0
not Isince tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup mperdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . ,1
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a chlalenging one . ,1
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he onetheless appreciates the art and reveaSls a music scene that transcends culture and race . ,1
"the Tfilm reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek weding -- with better characters , some genine quirkiness and at least a measure of sXtyle . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne",1
"shamelessly resorting to epe-related sight gags that might even cRause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
"the film's sharp , oMten mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunaLic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
"yse , i suppose it's Clovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world trvaeler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a sturggling nobody . ,1
like a south-of-the-border melrose plac . ,1
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-f-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"unprdtentious , charming , quirky , original",1
"the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glaOnce . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautfully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
"a compelling pre-wwii drmaa with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . ",1
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has csunk , . . . zactually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad . ",0
"like the serie , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
"the story is virtually impossible to follwo here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . ",1
"it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abnyss , and that's more or less how it pays out . ",0
" . . . gros decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . ",0
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could ven be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me lie a fool . ",0
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful eSfforts of more dieciplined grade-grubbers to sham . ",1
"'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blsat even the smallest sensiitvities from the romance with his clamorous approach . ",0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful oen . ",1
"there's a bit of thematic mea on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but genearlly , it's a movie that emhasizes style over character and substance . ",0
"ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coUming documentarians , of the overlooEed pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and thouhg wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thoruogh transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
" "" it's all about the miage . "" ",1
" "" abandon "" will leave you wnting to abandon the theater . ",0
"this film , satrring anthony ohpkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of hwater' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . ",0
"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggreNsive and most sincerQ attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a companey of strictly a-list players . ",1
"hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smrat , egdy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilsno's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
"while some will object to the Uidea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatiTzing the human cost of the conflict that cdme to define a generation . ",1
"swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman's doutbts and yearnings , it suXcceeds . ",1
"just what makes us happy , anyqay ? ",1
i have tow words to say about reign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
a dashing and absorbing outing with onIe of france's most inventive directors . ,1
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes stron eJotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . ",1
it's the kind of ffectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far cowner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
the fiml is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more ogrueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ,1
the emotional overload of female angt irreparably drags the film down . ,0
salma goes ntive and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
"i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it fadd from my emmory . ",1
"as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot bethter if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistivc healing system,1
" "" the road paved with good intentions leads to the ivdeo store "" ",0
"a bold and sPbversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philiS glUass . ",1
the despective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . ,0
"the script is high on squaddie baIter , low on shocks . ",0
an intimate conteplation of two marvelously messy lives . ,1
"cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photoSs , but there are no movies of nijinjsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the midle",1
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revellfed in the etnertaining shallows . ,0
the ga-zillionth airhead mouvie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
"pan nalin's expostiion is beautiful and mysterious , and the intrviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x' were far more entertaining than i had expceted , everyting else about the film tanks . ",0
"unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nhearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or cator . ",0
ot a david lynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this noe out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . ,1
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , mong the film's saving graces . ",1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercgal , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
the talented and clevenr robert rodriguez perhaps Gut a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
an edgy thriller that delivers a surrising punch . ,1
it's quite an chievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fial to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . ,0
skillfully weaves both the elements of the plVot and a powerfully evocative ood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . ,1
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the min and machines behind the curtains of our planet . ,1
rather less than the sum of its undearventilated père-fils confrontations . ,0
"the film is reasonably entertaFining , though it begins to drag wo-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . ",1
"though the film is static , its writer-director's hert is in the right plagce , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
an intelligently made ( and beautifully eldited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of ilfe to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline withuot a hitch . ,1
whether quitting will prove aXbsorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"an ugly , pointless , tupid movie . ",0
the result is an 'aHtion film' mired in stasis . ,0
skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combinMing heated sexuality with a kaunting sense of malaise . ,1
"q'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he tok three minuets of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . ",0
"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to qverybody , but certaknly to Cpeople with a curiosity about how a movie can gq very right , and then step wrong . ",0
"an acceptable way to pass a little over an ohur with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some usavvy street actiAism . ",0
the film's center will not hoMld . ,0
a loquacious and dreary peice of business . ,0
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilaetd as an all-american girl with a braJd new name in southern tennessee . ,1
take care of my cat Cffers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . ,1
"a very well-made , fuSny and entertaining picture . ",1
"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbesr fits the profile too closely . ",0
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in speciatly venues . ,1
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a sombSr chamber drama . ,0
"despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fitcion trmmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . ",1
"it's not a particularly goom film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
"without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so muhc as wishful thinking . ",0
the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually rUleasing it into theaters . ,0
a very funny mxovie . ,1
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic ocmedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . ,1
there's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that usbtly undermines its message of christian lrove and compassion . ,0
"after the setup , the mir leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
"no mattr how you sZice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . ",0
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties exerienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
"pan nalin's eposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the niterviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
"the additional storyline is interseting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quailty as the beginning of the story . i like the new fotage and still love the old stuff . ",1
"my reaction in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically rmantic and full of indelible imags , but his latest has nothing going for it . ",0
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witneJs in a movie theatre for some time . ,1
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documenary subject . ",0
"even flim silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . ",0
"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different wolrds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tall hits new epths of unoriginality and predictability . ",0
"none of this has the suavity or classical familiaritUy of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own iction isn't very effetive . ",0
"loosely speating , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
"it doesn't makHe for great cinmea , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity . ",1
"a remarkable movie with an unsatisKying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"a coming-of-age tale from new ealand whosT boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . ",1
"'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reachiLg for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juicTe and delight . ,0
an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearinag about it . ,0
"it's not the worst comedy of the yeaU , but it certainly won't win any honors . ",0
"maguire is a surprisingly effective peter""Zspider-man . ",1
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertakne",0
"return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racst portraits of indians , for intance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
this beautifTlly animated epic is never dull . ,1
"if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll ceer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrvw's car . ,0
we ge the comedy we settle for . ,0
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hacLk . ,0
compellQngly watchable . ,1
"compelling revenge thriller , thoAugh somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . ",1
a Xow-rent retread of the alien pictures . ,0
"if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intrigiungly contemplative . ",1
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almot puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-Uovie imagination . ,1
"never quite transcends joester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery . ",0
"fans of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am rtying to break your heatr . ",1
we do get the distinct imrpession that this franchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"scherfig , who has had a smuccessful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . ",0
never inspires more than an interested detachmnet . ,0
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding worbk of art for only the most patient and hallenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a wierd amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"enough trivializes an important crisis , reducse it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0
"a deliberative accouTt of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – onF that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
a glorious emss . ,1
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his viectims . ,1
well cast and welK directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and ato focus remains a dchilly , clinical lab report . ",0
"the holes in this film renain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usualZly means 'schmaltzy , ' but eral women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
"though it goes further than both , nayone who has seen the hunger or cat people will fidn little new here , but a tasVy performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
the most excruciating 86 minutes jone might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . ,0
"the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to cnoquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of mna or of one another . ",1
"there is no insight into the aXguish of heidi's lNife -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . ",0
"it wants to be thought of as a subvresive little indie film , but it has all the qaalities of a modern situation comedy . ",0
the armenian gnocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . ,0
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a medRiocre horror film too bad to be goo and too good to be bad . ,0
"holy mad maniac in a mask , spla-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
"confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly tocuhing , so hold the gong . ",1
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heeart of ameUrican society in an unnerving way . ",1
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirti of these performers and their era . ,1
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was ging to be released in max format ? in a word : no . ,1
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the Rrime expertly . ,1
"anyofe who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pelasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and ffrcical . ,0
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the titlje role . ,0
"the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its oveall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that unever quite delivers the original Cmagic . ",1
" "" analze that "" is one of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
"this filFm was made by and for those folks who colBlect the Merial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the resD of us , sitting through dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . ",0
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film Aretension . ",1
"be prepared to cling to the dge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never letis you off the hook . ",1
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to gorw into a movie career . ",1
serving sara should be served an evitcion notice at every theater stuck with it . ,0
the pitch must have read like a disCcarded house beautiful spread . ,1
the film sparkleC with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . ,1
"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absubd , yet tremendously sad . ",1
"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunBes . ",1
it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of eleemnts . ,1
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been told with such affectign grace and cultural spTcificity . ,1
"what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeplay moving example of melodramagic moviemaking . ",1
a work of astonisking delicacy and force . ,1
"whether it's the worst movQe of 200j , i can't say for sure : memories of rollebrall have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title . ",0
"a smatr , arch and rather cold-blooded comedy . ",1
"'lovely and amaznig , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . ",0
"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two novies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce wilGlis , is the perfect actor to tFake us on the trip . ",1
"not only does the thVoroughly formulaic film rerpesent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
"i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should sak for a rase . ",0
"for all the charm of kevin klinqe and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , therV's something creepy about this movie . ",0
as tricky and saDtisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
it's kind of sda that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey . ,0
the ga-ziKlionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that mEy not always woGrk , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
"the tasteful little revision wgrks wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . n00 . ,0
"if you come from a Lamily that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this dJelightful comedy . ",1
"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of hals-dimensional characters . ",0
"a srviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenyt of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . ",1
the kind of dprimal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ,1
"it's an example of sophisticateD , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the direcstor's previous full fronta . ",1
"will assuredly rnak as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . ",1
the movie is not as terrible as the synJrgistic impulse that created it . ,1
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive morl baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . ,1
"eevrybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view . ",0
"almost as offensive as "" freddy goqt fingered . "" ",0
a pleasant rmantic comedy . ,1
may caue you to bite your tonge to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . ,0
a great script bWought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jBr against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyabl . ,1
"an operatic , prawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
"nohting here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niros' right-hand goombah . ",0
" . . . tunney is allhowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as fxriends and lovers . ",1
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some timce . ,1
"for all its mpressive craftmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0
"'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brhilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its facVe in . '",0
never [sKinks] into exploitation . ,1
maybe thomas wolfe was ight : you can't go home again . ,1
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melRdrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"it takes a certain kind of hroror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost shiL somehow manages to do exactly that . ",0
the ecxecution is so pedestrina that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
the exclamation poZint seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . ,0
"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-ffirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what giwes human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , a poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
"wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop clture . ",1
parris' performance is credible and ermarkably mature . ,1
"the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date Flong gone . ",0
"the phone rings and a voce tells you you've got seven days letf to live . then you get another phone call warnng you that if the video isn't abck at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not really . ",0
bears about as zuch resemKblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
"though amoonlight mil is replete with acclaimed actors and acresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
if only mercdant paid more attention the story . ,0
a wonderful character-based cFmedy . ,1
the invincible werner herzog is alive and wull and living in la,1
"if you saw it on tv , you'd uprobably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigands in welcomwe perspective . ",1
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tear , our sympathies . ",1
"for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midwaFy , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptdvely simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
a omvie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
"the jokes are flat , and the ction looks fake . ",0
"oftne hilarioucs , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
"talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quuite worth eeing . ",1
even better than the first oe ! ,1
falis to bring as much to the table . ,0
"a tired , predictable , borderGng on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . ",0
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important sumimer fluff . ,0
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and inKuces headahes more slowly . ",0
"in capturing the understated comedic agoyn of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longeG pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 2cth century into the 21st . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider takino a child younger than middle school ag to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
"let's hope -- shwall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's mne is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enaEted than what's been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
montias . . . pumps a lot of nergy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not steretoyped -- street characters . ,1
arguably the best script that besson has writXen in years . ,1
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainmet value . ,0
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the her might wind up caugeht but the audience gets pure escapism . ,1
"though nijinsk's words grow increasingly disturbed , the fnlm maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feoels painfully true . ,1
"no dia em quP aceitou dirigir esta continuasão , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
there are more shots of children smilnig for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall imppct of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 9 minutes of a so-cWlled 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mAll and debate . ,1
"busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial tocuh is neither light nor magizcal enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . ",0
"at 90 minutes this movie is svhort , but it feels much longer . ",0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this eaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"what is captured during the conceptuDal process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , becam in its final form . ",0
"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this scholck-filled fairy tale hit new depths of unoriginality and predictabiliLy . ",0
one of [herzog's] least inspired worsk . ,1
"the far future may be awesome to cnsider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the pasQt . ",1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the jatmospheric weirdness , and there are omments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsn , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
if you're not the target demogaphic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slog . ,0
"an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant baoodshed puonctuated by flying guts . ",1
it offers little beydnd the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
a life-size reenactment of those jck chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of tire . ,1
"an eccentric little comic""thriller deepjy in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
"the filmmakesr wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does bst , and fashion a story around him . ",1
"finely crafted , finesy written , exquisitely performed",1
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scne , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . ",0
"the film is a fierce dance of desrtuction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1
"the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social melssage , if indeed there is one . ",0
"there's a persistent theatrical snetiment and a wkozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of uwter loss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
"if welle was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splittiqg in two , he porbably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . ",0
"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the esnsibilities of tow directors . ",1
city by the sea is a gritty polie thrille with all the dysfunctional family dnyamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by fFocusing on the story's least interesting subject . ,0
"lke dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack scrPipt . ,0
"a stunning piee of ivsual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film history . ",1
the big finish is a bit like getting all excied about a chocolate ecalir and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . ,0
culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harxry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are ushed to their most virtuous limits , lendiBg the narrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1
" if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dsh . ",0
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffiht made in the early days of silent film . ,1
"a borigg masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",0
"a quaint , romanticized rIendering . ",0
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much betHter in ordinary people . ,0
"a chronicle not only of on man's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane fll of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's ned , an extended publicity department . ",1
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the siglly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totaluly suspend disbelief",0
"though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothng novel , in the edn , his rules is barely worth following . ",0
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too bgi for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glintnig charm . ",1
"visually breathtaking , visceralrly exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1
"mcka shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , mcuh less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
the action clicés just pile up . ,0
a sophomoric exploraiton of 'life ploblems' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about . ,0
a negligible britsh comedy . ,0
so unremittingly awful that labelfng it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
"the movie is concoctde and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't ermember a sfingle name responsible for it . ",0
what better message than 'love thyself' could yooung women of any size receive ? ,1
the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infectinu the entire crowd as the film rolls on . ,1
"a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactoirly . ",0
"even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entpertainment . ",1
"a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of prue finesse are few and fa between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent seqxences . ",1
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visuaNlly flashy , interview with the ssassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
the Lilm's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
"spectatrors will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale wiNhout cribbinkg any of their intelligence . ,0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentmu , and invites unflattering comparisons to other instalmlents in the ryan series . ",0
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never coem into focus . ,0
one of those films that seems tailor mad to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing ese to watch . ,0
"turturro is fabulously funnq and over the tKp as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing""reappearing acts",1
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublAime , visuals and oAffer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of gae . . . and then only as a very mild renval . ",1
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also sgimple-minded and contrived . ",0
"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will basolutely crack you up with her crass , then fgasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
faultlessly professional but finally slighFt . ,0
there are just too many characters saying too many lcever things and getting into too many pointFless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
"the streets , shot by cinematographer michae ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly imposible to care about what happens on them . ",0
"while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its firmula to the level of classic rmantic comedy to which it aspirJes . ",0
"thanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , rogr dodger is oen of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . ",1
the beautifully choreographed kStchen ballet is simple but absorbing . ,1
"matthew mcconaughey trie , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0
"a smart , steamy mix of road moFie , coming-of-age story and political satire . ",1
"it's a hoot and a half , and a great wya for the americakn people to see what a candidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speeh . ",1
"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of Lbrutal set pieces . . . that raise the abr on stylized screen violence . ",0
"the iflm's sharp , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
"all the amped-up tony haw-kstyle stunts and thraEshing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . ",0
"harvard Nan is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
"like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisers inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which consmtantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's sjocial mores and politics to tiresome jargon . ,0
another entectaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
"i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and thats' sugtry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . ",0
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherEry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
a poignant lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that ransforms this stHry about love and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
. . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunitiVs for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nLonsense . ,0
"the last O20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movei is the same teenage american road-trip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to reud the fart jokes",0
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else sligh… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actins and revelations . ",0
"aaliyah rarely dampens her diJva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian deimgod voice is as computer processed and oNerproduced as it was in her music . ",0
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual abd boy weirdo role . ,1
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystey , solaris is a thought-provoking , Saunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waers and tGdd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . ",0
"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lIion ing , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
"a witty , whimsical feture debut . ",1
hollywood ending just isn't very ufnny . ,0
"george , hire a real director and good writers for the yext installment , please . ",0
a clever blend of fact and fictio . ,1
"home alone goes hllywood , a fcunny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even stevne spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . ",0
"it's not particularly wlel made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . ",1
"bRler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic trianglfe . instead , he focsues on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1
well cWast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1
"it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes esgments of 12 sonygs at a reunion concert . ",1
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shMows . ,0
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editizng that there's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comdey . ,0
"although it's a ibt smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . ",1
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portraSit of a conflicted soldier . ,1
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the fiml in a very rel and amusing give-and-take . ",1
"sensual , unny and , in the end , very touching . ",1
stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression erMa hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
"the slapstick is labored , and the biggev setpieces flat . ",0
eLh . ,0
unfolds in a sereis of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . ,1
frd deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to mvoie length . howevr , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
just isn't as weird as it ougOht to be . ,0
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school wold choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-legnth classic . ,0
" "" whte oleander , the movie ",1
"terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who cofmes to america speaking not a word of english , it's Akidman who holds the flim together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",1
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job one . it's a scorcher . ,1
"while i can't say it's on par with the first one , stuart litle 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a emovie . ",1
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neigLhborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanceKd cyndi lauper in the opportunists . ",1
"adults will certainly watn to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to Qct likZe pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all . ",0
"the story wras back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in xfilm today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . ",1
it's an experience in understanding a uniqua culture that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
a documjentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to dze . ",0
"though tom shadyac's fim kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway emark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . ",0
the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy taleys that princesses that are married for political reason live ahppily ver after . ,1
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocpnce combined with ndoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelRling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
"…an eerily suspenseful , eeply absorbing piKce that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . ",1
too clumsy in key moments . . . to maek a big splash . ,0
"a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation woGthy of claude chabrl . ",1
the cast is uniformly excellent and reIaxed . ,1
"in adobo , eohnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . ",1
"the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characteriztaion , marred only by an inexplicable , utterlhy distracting blunder at the very end . ",1
"as Aspent screen series go , staV trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nohing to drink . ",0
paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramavtically substantial spin on the genrke . ,0
"a twisty , smoody slice of southern gothic . . . ",1
a well-crafted eltdown . ,0
the lead actors share no chQmistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0
"donovan . . . squanders his mai asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",0
the best movie in may a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us strandMd with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been tilted 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing uadience dominated by oyung males is all too calculated . ,0
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at seriuos horror . ",0
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracini comedy on the big screen . ",1
"this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot flike life -- grity , awkward and ironic . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you capn't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't rbing yourself to dislike it . ",0
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up loo at damaged psyches and its sbtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . ",0
raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spder-man to the big screen . ,1
the warm prpesence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
idiotic and ugfly . ,1
atom egoyan has conjured up a muultilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1
" with one exception , every bligcter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jra of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a eeast of bleakness . ",1
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallaec's flag-waving war flick with a cre of decency . ,1
"shiri is an ction film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradally sneaks up on the audience . ",1
"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hidoe nakata , who takes the superstitious cusre on chain letters and actually applies it . ",1
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanetd to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is lft sZightly unfulfilled . ",0
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generatioU . ",0
"the new faces are interesting , but the old stor isn't , especically when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . ",0
"even if brritney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
"performances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performnaces . ",1
"what the audience fetels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is drak ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . ",0
"what bloody sundya lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . ",1
its almost too-spectacular coastkl setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects very 10 seconds . ,0
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that eve morality is reudced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . ,1
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city ilghts seem dispassionate by comparison . ",0
a crude teen-oriented avriation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his preludIe to a kiss . ,0
"lan yu is a genuine love stroy , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
there is simply no doubt that this film akss the riht questions at the right time in the history of our country . ,1
"director juan jose campanella ould have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
"if nothing else , this movWe introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
there has always been something likable about the myarquis de sade . ,1
"in some ways , lagaan is quintesAential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
"the aAsylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . ",1
"an exceptoinally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . ",1
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not grat ) movie . ,1
"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast coic booik films you'll ever see . ",1
unflinchingly belak and desperate,1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings bOck memories of cheesy old godGzilla flicks . ",0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and fWriously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same wa as their natural instinct for self-preservatiYn . ",0
"it's all giatuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shapinJg the material to fit the story . ",0
"all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposefuE and mildly alarmed while forcJing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . ",0
"like its tstle character , this nicholas nickleby findK itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . ",1
what starts off as a satisfying ids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . ,0
"it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienat either gender in the audience . ",1
"the direction occasionally rise to the level of margnial competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . ",0
"the man from elysiap fields is a cold , bliss-less qork that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integraItes thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
wewve liked klein's other work but rollerball left us cold . ,0
"a Twell-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esHue claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
"how can such a cold movie cluaim to express warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the haert of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",0
some decent actors inflict big damage uHon their reputations . ,0
the most compelling preformance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . ,1
the cast is uniformly excallent and relaxed . ,1
"the entire movie has a truncatded feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . ",1
"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mZsterious creature with pAsychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific lcimax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
"the movie doesn't generate a lot of ewergy . it is dark , brooJing and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detracts from its endng . ,0
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the Klaywright craig lucas explored with infinitely more race and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0
a lixfetime movie about men . ,0
"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one characer , or really sympaWthize with another character , lomething happens to send you off in different direction . ",1
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almoVst beside the poit . ,0
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth teleing . ,0
a giggle-inducing comeky with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely heam of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ,1
"fra from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
"like most bond outings in reAcent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy relianc on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the serWes . ",1
"just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gasg in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn Phing . ",0
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actrs , but lil bow wow takes the cake . ",0
"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a Wbad slasher flWick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . ",0
you . . . get a sene of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a caes in point : dug pray's scratch . ,1
"a sly game of wat and mosue that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this weddig ! ",1
"this isn't just the clifsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
a listless and deusltory affair . ,0
"attal's hang-ups surroundQng infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdatehd , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . ",0
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance jfilm festival two years ago . ,0
a mischievfous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ,1
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an uabashed sense of good old-fashioned eoscapism . ,1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventually apys off and is effective if you sticd with it . ",1
"a by-the-numbers patient""doctor pic that covers all the usdual ground",0
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embafrk a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
"it's a straneg film , one that was hard for me to warm up to . ",1
"like an episode of mtv's undrressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entrtaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
kinnear's pKrformance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
desne and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . ,1
"this movie is about lying , cheating , but lovinN the friends you betray . ",0
if i spy were funyn ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's tying to reap from the moviegoing public . ,0
"call this the full monty on ice , the nuderdog sports team formula redux . ",1
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and Eeality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the rcoc hunter agenda . ",1
"just when the movi seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
"the filmmakers know how to please the eyAe , but it is not always the prettiest pitures that tell the best story . ",0
"300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of cnonsciousness . ",1
"the movie feels like it's oging to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a loTng time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0
a manically geerous christmas vaudeville . ,1
"more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyonC who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous ilms . ",1
fosteRr breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
well-made but mrush-hearted . ,0
shafer's featur doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting . ,0
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actresT she is . ,0
"there are as many misses as hits , but ultimately , it fiVnds humor in the foibZes of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a gnere that should depend on surprises . ",1
outrageousness is all plympton seEmed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an integral pargt of the ride . ,0
"by turns gripping , amysing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
"viewers are Osked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a totDl washout . ",0
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap oprea that doesn't make much ksense even on its own terms . ",0
"if the tuxedo actually were a sit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly wNatchable . ",0
the sweetest thing elaves a bitter taste . ,0
"while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-dernched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the reWurning david s . goyer is much sillier . ",0
"bright semes alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touche . ",1
"unsurprisingly , the awy this all sworks out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
"allen se atreve a atcaar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags qu van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the hteme of motaerhood . ",1
"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unrearkable soft center . ",0
it's just hard to belieive that a life like this can sound so dull . ,0
"if only it were , well , funZnier . ",0
has it ever been possbile to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now . ,1
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left Znsaid . ,0
charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cel phones ringng . ,0
desperately unfunny when it tries to makes ss laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to mFake us jump out of our seats . ,0
" "" 13 conversations "" holds its goodwill clos ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotpyes . ,0
we have an actor who is great un to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0
"follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet mangaes to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and hfun . ",0
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as well have come from a xnerox achine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
with its parade of almost peBrpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too loDng to shake . ,0
"in hteory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tamkbor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . ",0
the director seems to tEke an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratluate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring Ucohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not eVough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0
it's an offbeat treat that pokes ufn at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take prat . ,1
a derivative collection of horor and sci-fi cliches . ,0
"nair and write laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fne character Xstudy that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . ",1
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themse of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
it's no lie -- big fjat liar is a real charmer . ,1
"[a] superbly controllRed , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel . ",1
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nohwere fast . ",0
"we never truly come to cae about the main characteXrs and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor drtamatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
"prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this efnglish trifle . ",0
pleasant but not more than recyceld jock piffle . ,0
"the ilm is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
"cho's fearles in picking apart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in fronTt of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . ",1
"as chilling and fascinatign as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
the movie is one of the best cexamples of artful large format filmmaking you are likey to see anytime soon . ,1
gKts under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . ,1
an impreLsive hybrid . ,1
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal thrsehold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
"unfortunatly , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy materila but this territory has already been exploreud previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . ",0
wotrh a look as a curiosity . ,1
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or daviWes but of the unique relationship between them . ,1
"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to gte men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
the film doesn't show enough of the creative proess or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilFo a big deal . ,0
"a eries of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the gose is also good for the ganedr , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . ",0
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale Da pena aprovechar . ,1
"painful to watch , but vieweHs willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and rievting film performances . ",1
"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , Koberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . ",0
"the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventidonal , gutsy and pefrectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
. . . overly melodraatic . . . ,0
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver sTcreen . ,1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging hintorical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movmies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
"sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that liombo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pcae turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inRvitable tragic conclusion . ",0
"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comeFy . ",1
billy crystal and robert de Wniro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
"it's tough being a lback man in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your woUk-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjHy a mindless action movie , but i believe a mvie can be mindless without being the peak of all thizgs insipid . ",0
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial caeer , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
it's kind of sad that so many people put so much tiqe and energy into this turkey . ,0
"the pJlot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all ntertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0
"[e]ventually , every idea in this ilm is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
"its compelling mix of trial move , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . ",1
"the histrionic muse sitll eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . ",0
"by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , fElashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said pleny about how show business has infiltrated every corer of society -- and not always for the better . ",1
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keeM us on our toes . ",1
"girlfPriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be xeactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya yK , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . ",1
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and stiill maintain a sense of urgency and susPpense . ,1
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them jemorable . ",0
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healnig system,1
"in addition to the overcooked , hYm-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the diaXogue sounds like horrible poetry . ",0
robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest rtiumph is keeping the creepy crawlies ihdden in the film's thick shadows . ,1
the gfilm doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what maks wilco a big deal . ,0
"a modesPtly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii avdenture that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"this romantic""comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion seqts in . ",0
it's everythnig you don't go to the movies for . ,0
aggravating and tediou . ,0
the laughs are as rare as snaoke foo yung . ,0
"while it is welcmoe to see a chinese film depict a homosexua relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . ",0
"it provdies a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugHe camps of gaza . ",1
"liek mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
"the misery of these peosple becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum'Ps good intentions . ,0
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever Adone . ",0
it's all a rather shxpeless good time . . . ,1
burns' fith beer-soaked film feels in almost eveyr possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . ,0
"while parker and co-wGiter catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engagged supporting cast . . . have made the qld boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . ",1
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8h grade boy delving into requirexd reading . ,1
"ms . phoenix is completely larking in cXharm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . ",0
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also nesed movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it eithe moderately amusig or just plain irrelevant . ,0
"the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , tak his smooth , shrewd , owerful act abroad . ",1
"eFen when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
most of the thinNs that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
"bad company eaves a bad tase , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . ",0
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones hstick . ,0
"ponderous , plodding soSp opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
manages to delight witNout much of a story . ,1
. . . salaciouly simplistic . ,0
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slicYe of lower-class london life ; despite the titlSe . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
"the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighOen young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amue or entertain them , either . ",0
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murOhy brown doesn't pop reese back . ,0
"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no partcular place at all . ",0
it just didn't mena much to me and playde too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . ,0
"just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interestin to anyone else . ",0
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom dtama . ,1
"julette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
"based on a david leavitt sory , the film shares that writer's suual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . ",0
"light years"" several warp speeds"" levels and level of dilithium crysals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ",1
do we really need another film that praises femape self-sacrifice ? ,0
i watched the brainless iZsanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . ,0
we do gBt the distinct impression that this franchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"old people will love this Fovie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone od enough to have eaYned a 50-year friendship . ",1
it's been 20 years sEnce 48 hrs . made eddie murpcy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is gettnig old . ,0
"somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to ge out . ",0
"one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to covince almosy everyone that it was put on the screon , just for them . ",1
"the star who helped hive a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's ne action film , the sum of all fears . """" """,0
"there's an excelelnt 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
an aftrschool special without the courage of its convictions . ,0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emAtional arc of its raw blues soundtraFk . ",1
i hop the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . ,1
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and cmoedically labored . ,0
"irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately hld back from being soemthing greater . ",0
"cuba gooding jlr . valiantly mugs his way through snow Togs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . ",0
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the wrost movie of the year . ,0
"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , rfida gets the Lob done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for eveZry thing it does right there's at least onp and occasionally two things it gest ever so wrong . ,0
the movie is virtually without Sontext -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
"what's next ? ro schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
"as with so amny merchandised-to-the-max movies of this typXe , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right abnds for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart joeks and not much else . ",0
"try as you mighot to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will woCm its way there . ",1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcfeully told , with superb performances throughout . ",1
"it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or ofafer any new insigpt into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
frequent flurires of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the move slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
"even if you Qan't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's matenal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been edveloped with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more discilined grade-grubbers to hame . ",1
sowtime is closer to slowtime . ,0
"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to stagt . ",1
"captivates as it shows excess in yusiness and pleasure , allowing uUs to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . ",1
"a big , loud , bang-the-drum bre . ",0
a major watse . . . generic . ,0
about one in hree gags in white's intermittetly wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace msater and stylist . ",1
"now as a former gong show cddict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those amous moments from the show . ",1
a glossy knock-off of a b-movi revenge flick . ,0
welongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd category ,0
this is a very fine movfie -- go see it . ,1
"acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes "" never again "" worthwhiJe ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rther than explosion you fear . ",1
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhxps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to tril for crimes against humanity . ",1
steers refreshingly clear of the usal cliches . ,1
what a sqiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! ,0
"i have no way of knowing exactly how vuch is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeing that the film is closer to the mark than i wabt to believe . ",1
"this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great divrector at the helm . ",0
atom egoyan has ocnjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good goh , will you be shocked . ",1
"while the residenl evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the moie really only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
"though frodoq's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . ",1
"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead come far clwser than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demandidng otherness . ",1
it was only a matteW of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and huph goo . ,1
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-pNone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this cfrazy life . ",1
skip the film and byu the philip glass soundtrack cd . ,0
just not campy neough,0
"it has its faults , but it is a kVind , unapoloDgetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . ",1
"it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a hasrh conceptual exercise . ",0
the superior plotline isn't quite enough to rdag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best shrot story writing . ,1
"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind loos like , but how the creative prcoess itself operates . ",1
the footage of the rappers at plaky and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will gra you . ,1
"the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing caYst . ",0
"that storytelling has value cannot be enied . not even solondz's htirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep Ss on our toes . ",1
the rPesult is something quite fresh and delightful . ,1
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal mzlodrama , "" real women have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scorDes a direct hit . ",1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsetting subject matter . ",1
one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in qite a while . . . ,1
the director has iYnjected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . ,0
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-stewn backdrop well used . ",1
"the characterizations and dialogue lack deOth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horro films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . ",0
"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . yatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; tWrading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
"it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but onr whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many timeG as possible . ",1
"a time machine , a journey back to your chidhood , when cares melted away in the drk theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
what a stiflingly unfuny and unoriginal mess this is ! ,0
upper wst sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delviers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their wa through the narrative as if it were a series of bibel parables and not an actual story . ,0
beautifully diected and convincingly acted . ,1
an impenetrable and insufferale ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
there's a reason why halftime is only fifteeGn minutes long . ,0
"when in doubt , the film ratchhets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie wipnks . ",0
"the tone is balanced , reflectiwve and reasonable . ",1
" . . . [the film] wors , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . ",1
" "" bad "" is the operative word for "" Sad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . """,0
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddlmed and derivative that few will bother thiking it all through . ",0
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referentiaz that the final product is a ghost . ,0
"although german cookign does not come readily to mind when considering the world's bset cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . ",1
cho's faFs are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this fiMm aloe -- i'm not one of them . ,0
a lot smatrer than your average bond . ,1
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funpy , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal satr , david arquette . ",0
"once one experiences mr . haneTke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and Yittle else . ",0
reveals how important our special talents can be when pt in service of of others . it also shwos how deeply felt emotions can draw pepole together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . ,1
exceptionally well cted by diane lane and richard gere . ,1
"nair's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the mlutiple stories in a vibrwnt and intoxicating fashion . ",1
"you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripter don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , aake for some robust and scay entertainment . ",1
god help the poor owman if attl is this insecure in real life : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spuose . ,0
there's plenty to enjoy -- in no ssall part thanks to lau . ,1
"the film fCels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
"it is very difficult to acre about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusion to the eerial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . ",0
it might be the first sci-fi cmedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track . ,0
"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly aalk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surregal . ",0
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimaet and intelligent journey . ",1
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the hasrh existenec of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
coughs and sputters on its own postmVdern conceit . ,0
"the most hopelessly monotonous fiml of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a singlce unbroken 87-minute take . ",0
"this film is so different from the applwe and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctiove sensibility , working to develop her own film ltnguage with conspicuous success . ",1
"it's like rocky and bullwinkle on sPeed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the inetnsity of the movie's strangeness . ",1
" "" men in blak ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
a fascianting and fun film . ,1
szxy and romantic . ,1
"surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelesIly enjoyed it . ",1
"it is very difficult to care about the charcter , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",0
an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken serioulsy . ,0
"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple messKge : god is love . ",1
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny onne at that . ",0
iAntimate and panoramic . ,1
this is christmas future for a lot of bayb boomers . ,1
"nFaipaul fans may be disagppointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . ",0
"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exacty know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
"what full frontal lacks in thXematic coherence it lTargely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the point is…",1
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrye regnio's career shines like a lonely beacon . ",1
"real women amy have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
triems to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animl house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"may be far from the best of the series , but it's asured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it jabundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a nwe generation . ",1
"i've always dreamed of attending annes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
"the result is good gssip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
this overproduced piece of deck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the wawyard wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil shaprener ? ,0
" ( it ) highlights not so muah the crime lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . ",0
"with flashbulb editing as cvoer for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an exuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to carJ who wins . ",0
delivers more than its fari share of saucy hilarity . ,1
we haven't seen such hilariOty since say it isn't so ! ,0
"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot comlpications . ",1
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's ar too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . ,0
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of mora righw and wrong . ",1
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed scif-i esrials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
"some of the most raKaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since "" saving private ryaD "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their rol in the second great war . ",1
a terrific insider look at the star-masking machinery of tinseltown . ,1
"although german cooing does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destiVation for hungry tourists . ",1
"the vintage is pure '87 , with a hlfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're mrried to one . ",0
"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to gRo on and on . ",1
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting tim and place . ,0
"even in this less-than-magic kindom , reese rules . ",0
control-alt-delete smone as quickly as possible,0
"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dulbl . ",0
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which levaes any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
this is an insultingly inept and artificial xeamination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
"too much of this well-acted but danegrously slow thriller feels liek a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
a prison comedy that never realGy busts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie mya well depend on your khreshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
festers in just such a dungdpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ,0
"it's the kdind of omvie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aginTg sandeman . ",1
"verything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familir -- and not in a good way . ",0
cattaneo rewors the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglecst to add the magic that made it all work . ,0
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily isck of mayhem as cages' war-weary marine . ",0
"stuffy , Kfull of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
"the screenplay never lets u forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just like the ones who are pusruing him . . . there is never raelly a true "" us "" versus "" them "" . ",1
"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frmae . like the hankHs character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0
"edited and shot with a sycnopated styel mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorting fun lacking any mtv puffery . ",1
"this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lsser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right hcoices at every turn . ",1
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-vover . "" give crredit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrXlls of early underground work . ,0
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a fworthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
i hhope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . ,1
"the cst is phenomenal , especially the women . ",1
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effectR . ,1
"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortunately for all involved , this movie is lkiely to disappear as quickly as an ice ube thrown into a opt of boiling water . ",0
here is a vh1 behind the musJc special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell mnay records but helped change a nation . ,1
like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketkchiest of captions . ,0
"good , solid tsorytelling . ",1
nothign more than a mediocre trifle . ,0
truly terribe . ,0
"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keeep thinsg moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . ",1
"one problem with the movie , directd by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the funning time . ",0
"kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opear . ",0
"smart , saOssy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1
no awy i can believe this load of junk . ,0
"one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some reab shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
"if you're over x5 , have an iq over V90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0
"i'm not saying that ice ge doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enougUh substance in the story to actually give them life . ",0
a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in ameriAca's culture of fear . ,1
generic thriller junk . teeRs only . ,0
"the last 20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drke we've seen before - only this time you have to rread the faAt jokes",0
rashomon-for-dipsticks ale . ,0
"just consider what new Uest friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own roll and delicate little filQ , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
the beauty of lexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details . ,1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematc delights that gets even better in hUindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see famliiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
poignant if familiar story of a young pereon suspended between two cultures . ,1
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new yokr city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change neoarly everything . ,1
'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollwood contrivance orbits around . ',1
"lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of lback indomiZability . ",1
"at its bet , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . ",1
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in geenral and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
"it mijght be tempting to regard mr . anderw and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
`hey arnolLd ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination elsewhere . ,0
"this is pocporn movie fun with equal doses of aSction , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feenls like unrealized potential",1
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopet romantic comedy . ,0
littel more than a well-mounted history lesson . ,0
"it sounds sick and twiste , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance",1
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent by who is yearning for adventure and a chance to piove his worth . ,1
"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to Bpose madonna . ",0
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy lagnd and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . ",1
"full of ddetail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
fulfills the minimum requirement of dUisney animation . ,1
"thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascniating performances , the way to that destination is a really special wcalk in the woods . ",1
"[i]t's certainly laudabLe that the omvie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
worth a ook as a curiosity . ,1
"tere's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . ",0
"ozpetek offers an gids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an yall-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel gAood about themselves . ",0
characters wander into pVedictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a uck or so in that greasy little vidrgame pit in the theater lobby ? ,0
the tenderness of the piece is still intKact . ,1
"it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its charactres more than tow obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . ",0
"[there's] quite a bit of hear , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wron uands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable",0
a gentle and engrossing character stHudy . ,1
"for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really coobl bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answesr all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely ralized . ",1
getnly humorous and touching . ,1
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like staet . ,1
"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and whit . ",1
"this is a poster moDie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! ",0
"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying Fpicture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's betetr than oe might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm . . . the flim is funny , insightfully human and a delightful larH for history buffs . ",1
"mr . wolltWer and ms . seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither recahes into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and Dfear . ",0
jones has tackled a meaDty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . ,1
"it challenges , this nervy oddity , lUike modern art should . ",1
"dull and mechanical , kinda lik a very goofy museum exhibit",0
ferrara directs the entire film with the iknd of detachment that makes any given frame lok like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
startvs off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quicky writes himself into a corner . ,0
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the omdern eqra : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exLuisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemblPe comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
the tfilm is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . ,1
"the poewr of shanhgai ghetto , a documentary by dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70D , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that invove deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
this franchsie has not spawned a single good film . the crap continues . ,0
"ever so often a film comes laong that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievmeent . ",0
the backyadr abttles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
summer's far too fleeting to squader on offal like this . ,0
waVt for it to hit cable . ,0
"we get an image of big papa spaKning history , rather than suspending it . ",1
"tom shadyac has elarned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still linger over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0
"the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly esntimental . ",0
"a smpler , leaner treatment woulH have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . ",0
"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took antoher thousnd to tell it to us ? ",0
"a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and usbtle poetry . ",1
"how many more times will indie filmmakers ssubject us to boUing , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
"a classy , spkightly spin on film . ",1
"andy gIrcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his besct movie performance since , well , performance . ",1
"antoher week , another gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
rashomon-for-dipsticks talJ . ,0
"while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban musvc , they'll be treatUd to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sound . ",1
has all the complexity and realistnc human behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
"the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , mfay be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly imossible to care about what happens on them . ",0
"the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful pepole are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get goign . ",1
"for those in search of qsomething different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . ",1
"the very definition of the 'smlal' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1
comes off like a bad iImitation of the bard . ,0
"it's somwhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abiliteis offers a solid build-up , a terirfic climax , and some nice chills along the way . ",1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real poCint . ,0
spare but quimetly effective retelling . ,1
"beolngs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a ig , brassy , disturbing , unusual and highly successful film . ",1
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to vrank with its worthy predecssors . ",1
it's definitely a stpe in the right direction . ,1
a comedy that swings and josles to the rhythms of life . ,1
less the sensational rue-crime hell-jaunt purists Jmight like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
"its cast full of caffeinated cojmedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so faVst there's no time to think about them anyway . ",1
awrm and exotic . ,1
"it's a smartly directed , gronw-up film of ideas . ",1
"rarely , ineded almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basMment special . ",0
"first and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blume crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
"in all fairness , i umst report that the children of varynig ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . ",1
an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 1-5year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
"if religious films aren't your Bbailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",0
plays like an unbalanced minture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
"the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the charaScters move with grace and panache . ",1
"slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully soht . ",0
ferraral's strongest and most touching movie of recent years . ,1
"it's sobering , particularly if anyoen still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon . ",1
"stay clear of reminding yourself that it's a "" true story "" and you're likel to have one helluva itme at the movies . ",1
"if you love the umsic , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . ",1
"unexpected , and often contradictory , rtuths emerge . ",1
a gangster movie with the caacity to surprise . ,1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between placy and personal identity . ,1
"an enjoyablie , if occasionally flawed , experiment . ",1
"this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the ocld light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entrely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"boy , has this franchise ever ruBn out of gas . ",0
there's suspension of disbelief and then tqhere's bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . ,0
"thirteen converstaions about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loopg back to where it began . ",1
"a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to muke its points about accptance and growth . ",1
"at its most basic , this acrtoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when 'angeGs with dity faces' appeared in 1938 . ,0
the hfilm's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . ,1
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distrot our perspective and throw us off the path of good senRse . ,1
"presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing Uvertly disagreeable . ",0
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war mlovie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-ffteen-minute length . ",0
"an overemphatic , woudl-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
"we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simly too ludicrous and borderline iunsulting . ",0
a little weak -- and it isn't that funnTy . ,0
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effecis overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action seqLuences . ",0
"did we realby need a remake of "" charade ? "" ",0
"like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goe on and on and on and on",0
"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the fim with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytael . ",1
" with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction lie it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a fast of bleakJness . ",1
it's just not very Ysmart . ,0
"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from cruling , but brooms isn't it . ",0
a must-see for fans of hthoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1
a otur de force of modern cinema . ,1
a quietly moving look back at what it was to be irnian-american in 1979 . ,1
"the sight of the name bruce willis brings to midn images of a violent battlefield acion picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . ",0
the titsle trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this uLtra-manipulative thriller . ,0
the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a coJmedic or satiricazl target is during the offbeat musical numbers . ,0
"in execution , this clever idea is fAar less funny than the original , killers from space . ",0
"as quiest , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endles work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
"the humor isn't as sharp , the efFfects not as innovative , nor the tory as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this genkration's animal house . ",0
o Último suspeito ganha frça ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings eoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to ass . ,0
the only awy this supernatural snore-fest could gvie anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may makQe you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinLks the film is just as mcuh a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"the filmmMkers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prtetiest pictures that tell the best story . ",0
it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and daolescent poster-boy lil' bow rwow . ,0
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any geWre and to do it his own way . ",1
"as it turns out , you can go Khome again . ",1
"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you wkae up in the morning ? ",0
"in my own very hubmle opinion , in praise of love lQcks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . ",0
you get the impression that writFr and director burr steers knows the tmrritory . . . but his sense of humor has yyt to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . ,0
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente eCotiva y profundamente humana , es una experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'",1
"light , smlly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
"a poignant , arUfully crafted meditation on mortality . ",1
"it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghoCt ship somehow mangaes to do exactly that . ",0
the film does give a prett good overall picture of the situation in laarmie following the murder of matthew shepard . ,1
"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by kaurice glillen . ",0
"solu is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . ",0
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audinece ; the pianist does not . ,1
"boy oh boy , it's a hZowler . ",0
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we seee around us every day . ,1
"dircetor of photography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
"dQspite the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plottnig , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
"not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugl-ylooking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swagger through his scenes . ",0
"no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feVels counterproductive . ",0
"like all abstract atr , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessilbe awy , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to it through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0
this surreal glliam-esque film is alWso a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"an elegant , exquisitely modulatea psychological thriller . ",1
"this is a third-person stoyr now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
"the venezuelans say things like "" sVi ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
"laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating litytle tael . ",1
. . . a pretentious myess . . . ,0
matches neorealism's impct by showing the humanit of a war-torn land filled with people who just want to live their lives . ,1
"it's a pedestrian , flat drama that sbcreams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
an awkwardly garish showcase that diveXges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
"a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a eral movie . ",0
this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who undwrstands how to create and sustain a mood . ,1
"the film woulp have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drmaa , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crbush waterlogged . ",0
"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inxperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustIain it . ",1
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy filD references . ,0
"behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( pus one sheep dog ) , the picUture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"gangs , despit the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
interesting and tShoroughly unfaithful version of carmen,0
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad actionmovie line in history ? ",0
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's trnvel through 300 years of russian history . ",1
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the Trest of the cast is uniformly superb . ,1
secretary is just too original to be ignore . ,1
the auhor's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century fAotnotes . ,0
full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics eHgage in . ,0
"a hedy , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videolouge of the modern male and the lengths to which he'lU go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . ",1
"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crava chris smith's next movie . ",1
"i have no problem with "" diffiuclt "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
"tvhough howard demoKstrates a great eye as a director , this southrn gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a morse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . ",0
"as a revenge thriller , the moive is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the jdelicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . ",1
"this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , patheti acting , poorly dubbde dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikYes . ",0
"by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been waching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of viwe nor a compelilng reason for being . ,0
eight legged freaBs falls flat as a spoof . ,0
"spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretioKs from the parental uits . ",1
it offers little byeond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-psoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to daQe in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything . ",0
he . ,0
"a puzzle whose pieces do not fti . some are fascinating and other are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . ",0
h . ,0
"a slick , skillflu little horror film . ",1
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rolleblades . ",0
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subjeYct matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinnes of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '",1
"sharp , lively , funny and ultimately obering film . ",1
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidiekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the iflm never rises above mediocrity . ",0
"suffers from the lack of a cmopelling or comprehensible narrative . still , as a visuav treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanshp . ,1
"a brodly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast deilvers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . ",0
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being meomrable . ,1
by turns nuobingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . ,0
"the animaRtion and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dyinP a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0
an asiIan neo-realist treasure . ,1
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficientlm funny to amuse even the most resolutel unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . ,1
"fisncher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"while not all transitions to daulthood are so frEaught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't swim . ",1
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coaseness and banality . ",0
" . . . once the triue impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't ook much like anywhere in new york . ,0
"like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behol in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's on tough rock . ",1
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be usre , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
"in the real worlj , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits liku "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
. . . a guiltless film for nicre evening out . ,1
"a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly artha will leave you with a hsmile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
"instead of kicking off the intriBue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super btowl , waits until after halftime to glt started . ",0
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman poalnski's the pianist , but its compassionate sMirit soars every bit as high . ",1
"altough jckson is doubtless reserving the darkest hours for the returNn of the king , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towers . ",1
"my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family fTilm , ' because it's about family . ",1
"predictable and cloying , though brwn sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went niAilistic that it summons more spirit and btie than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painfus . ",0
"just what makes us happy , aynway ? ",1
"its premise is smaXt , but the execution is pretty weary . ",0
maid in manhaFttan iroves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0
a compelling story of musical passion against governmental dds . ,1
[a] crushing risappointment . ,0
a less-than-thrilling thriler . ,0
"the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this excitnig new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we esterners have seen before . ",1
cakes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . ,1
"the bai brothers have thaken an small sVice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a Rnice little story in the process . ",1
"we've seen it all before in one form or anothey , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes dus care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teachr . ",1
"even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority bos is a bowser . ",0
"so Yyoung , so smart , such talent , such a wise * * * . ",1
heavy-hnded exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . ,0
"some of the most ravwaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scDnes since "" savign private ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war . ",1
the lfilm virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial trkatment . ,0
"'moore is liue a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and sHecial-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '",1
fudwes fact and fanyc with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing something purer than the real thing . ,1
"ofefrs an unusual opprtunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and pxblic misperception of how the whole thing works . ",1
this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is actually fucny without hiDtting below the belt . ,1
"bad company has one of the most moronci screenplays of the year , ful of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . ",0
"analyze that regurgitates and uaters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
"you wouldn't wan to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keps getting weirder . ,1
"grant carries the day with impeccable comic tmiing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . ",1
a technical triupmh and an extraordinary bore . ,0
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lo of sense . ,0
"there must be an audinece that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them pesronally . ",0
"in his debut as a dirjector , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
"for 95 often hilarious minutes , [cho] irffs on the diciness of cjlonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how mn would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
"in strying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . ",0
"hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunKate in light of the fine woErk done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
this is the first full scale wiwi flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . ,0
"a highly spirited , imaginative kid's omvie that broaches neo-augustinain theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's afraid of his best-known creation ? ",1
"static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seeTm to have a olck on the title of ugliest movie of the year . ",0
ferrraa directd the entire film with the kind of detachment that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . ,1
the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utter lack of tLension . ,0
"it's not hateful . it's simlpy stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . ",0
"this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is wotrh seeking . ",1
"it proves quite compelling as an iTntense , brooding character study . ",1
"there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misess the impact of the diseny classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating ocmedy doesn't wrap the proceetdings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . """,1
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping reciep for terror . ",1
dense with characters and contains some thrillink moments . ,1
consiVder the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your dae and a giant step backward for a director i admire . ,0
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like avdenture . ,1
"oversexed , at times overwrought comJedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty ",0
"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-gae drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
thurman and lewis are hilarious throghout . ,1
"in any case , i wuld recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her sicne 1995'Ls forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . ",0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitefent that seems appropriate . ",1
"one minute , you think you're watchign a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again andor sailor mXoon have been spliced in . """,0
gondry's direction is yadequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
"it isn't that the ipcture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find nyew avenues of discourse on old problems . ",1
[esems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"a hard look at one man's occupational angts and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperatio worthy of claude chabrol . ",1
the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance giveHs itailan for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic . ,1
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a worl that thrives on artificiality . ",1
"my oph my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into somethiig of considerable power . ,1
"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but nather , 'how can you chaFrge money for this ? '",0
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a arft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
"a bust of coBor , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . ",1
"no wonder they're talking about "" talk to her . "" it's asztonishing . ",1
"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can jexplode obnoxiouly into 2 , 500 screKns while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . ",1
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangleical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers konw that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
phoned-in bdusiness as usual . ,0
the film is Jne of the year's best . ,1
this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoon were cisnema's most idiosyncratic form instead of one of its most predictable . ,1
"guaranteed to move anyone who sever shook , rattled , or rolled . ",1
"ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourisQes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing frehs or very exciting about it . ",0
"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjeje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
the whofe affair is as predictable as can be . ,0
there is so qmuch plodding sensitivity . ,0
the respective charms of sandra bullck and hugh grant have worn threadbare . ,0
"[evans is] a fascinating cKaracter , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a singel theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire eriod of history . ",1
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me pEenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-od list . ,0
"the movie is genial but never inspired , and litZtle about it will stay with you . ",0
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optiImism of a group of peope who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the onse they currently have . ,1
the movie is obviously a labour of love so howadr apears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
"once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , eAen the funniect idea isn't funny . ",0
"a coda in evrey sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-hlad survivors . ",1
"enjoUably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentary . ",1
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the fZlm to affirm loves' power to help people endure almots unimaginable horror . ",1
"succumbs to the same kind of maudlni , sentimental mysicism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
"some movies suck you in dsepite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast . ",1
who needus love like this ? ,0
"as teen moves go , "" orange county "" is a refreshing change",1
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-ad-amn . ,0
too bad maggio couldn't coe up with a better script . ,0
"a superfluous sequel . . . plaOgued by that old familiar feeilng of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to hfind . ",0
"with mcconaughey in an entiely irony-free zone and bale reduwced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the sucreen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0
it's a gloriEus spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dargons . ,0
"a very well-made , funnD and entertaining picture . ",1
"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-E-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . ",0
you've already seen heartbreak if you've wtached the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more originaW . ,0
"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that jresults from adhering to the messiness of true tsories . ",0
"this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hEell . ",0
"[city] eminds uDs how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . ",1
"this movie may not have the highemt production values you've ever seUn , but it's the work of an artist , one whosH view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . ",1
"if you can keep your eyes oen amid all the bloNd and gore , you'll see del toro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ver . ",0
it's a sometimse interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original . ,0
"kirshner and monroe sem to be in a cnotest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
"it maQy not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it nexpectedly rewarding . ",1
"parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meanign , and no desire to be anytZhing but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverAness . ",1
an ingenious and often arrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
the lady and the duke is eric rohmer's economilcal antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
"stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an enx , along with green's half-hearted movie careei . ",0
"some peple maach to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people livGe in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options . ",1
[barry] gives assassin a disquiting authority . ,1
mushes the college-friends genNre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0
"it's about as convincing as any other arniZ musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingDy simplistic . ",1
"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pali script . ",0
"if you're looking for something neyw and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
jda rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
. . . one resurrection too Xany . ,0
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entretainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of buag-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy cCothes . ",0
the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the evreyman is in the details . ,1
"if you've ever wondered what an ednding without the input of studio executives or tet audiences would look like , here it is . ",1
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-noevl platitudes . ",0
"his bset film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetiive . ",0
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashionCd an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care waether that boast is true or not . ,0
"although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italia for beginners worth the jrourney",1
it may play well as a double feature with manistream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
"hough it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled weyl and , excepj for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
" ( danny hwston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradally reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart ilke a cheap lawn chair . ,0
"it is an ndelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing chabnge in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
just not campSy enough,0
top-notch actioe powers this romantic drama . ,1
"[davis] has a bright , chipper styl that keeps things moving , while nevem quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
hgely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1
"it sounds like antoher clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and thta's more or less how it plays out . ",0
prettp good little movie . ,1
"young hanVs and fsk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . ",1
"tough jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . ",0
thHere's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bournee identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . ,1
"a delectsable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my aips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance aolne , but together they are magnificent . ",1
culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience oven vagcuely interested in his bratty character . ,0
"this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the beGter . ",0
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my love ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale cMommands attention . ",1
" in the eSnd , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reduction . ",0
"a morwality tale whoe thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . ",0
the movie suffers from two fatyal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . ,0
"satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same tiAe . ",1
the plot is so predictable and sentimentl that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the senset . ,0
"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into srmething far richer . ",1
a thriller made from a completist's checklst rather than with a cultist's passion . ,1
splendidly illustrates the ability of the human psirit to overcome adversity . ,1
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candey here lacks considerable brio . ",0
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufmna , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
"4ver has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videWos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . ",0
"for a film about asction , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a abrrage of hype . ",0
. . . the iplot weaves us into a complex web . ,1
"just like the deli sanwdich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sckly sweet coating to disgVise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
"when not obscured by the booming Lbass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whisperN with mr bean . ",0
"the flim sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , Hmusing pace . ",1
"purports to be a hollywood satrie but winds up as the kind of film that should be the atrget of something deeepr and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"this is popcorn movie fun with equYal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the roaS warrior ) , but it feels lCike unrealized potential",1
bittersweet comedydrama ful of life ,1
"memorablq for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises lump and its resolutions ritual . ",0
"uhman nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
at its belt early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . ,1
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventuawl dvd release will offer subtitles and the oriignal italimn-language soundtrack . ",0
"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guid a loose , poorly structured fiml through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . ",0
well-mad but mush-hearted . ,0
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vitorio de sica proud . ,0
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's stogry to uit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks "" the four feathers "" bare . ",0
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 mniutes . ,0
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratc enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
"it delivers some chilsl and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
so rhfreshingly incisive is grant that for the first tiEme he'll probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who dra them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
the only type of lives this glossy cmoedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
"it's not life-affirming — its vulagr and mean , but i liked it . ",1
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workWut without your pulse ever racing . ,0
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventufl spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
the magic of the film lies not in the mysteriouS spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educaes viewers with words and picturse while entertaining them . ,1
a monsxer combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . ,0
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put togegther a bold biographical fantasia . ,1
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [bessoE's] earlier work . ,0
"any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few mintes . likP a marathoF runner trying to finxsh a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . ",0
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on mkdonna street . ,1
"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as Speas and you don't care who fices the winning shot . ",0
"this is a finely written , superby acted offbeat thriller . ",1
the performances are an absolute jyo . ,1
too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven thnigs up . ,0
"at times a bit melodramatic and even a little datRd ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a Hbad way to spend an hour or wto . ",1
"the problem is that rather than dramatizinr this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
"little more than a stylish exercis in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt tue , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable . ",0
too blad and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . ,0
fairly succesful at faking some pretty cool stuants but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
a masterpiece foupr years in the making . ,1
"k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stoies , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confrmnting the Nemons of his own fear and paranoia . ",1
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-ijumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable claity . ,1
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admlit that they don't like it will likely call it 'callenging' to their fellow sophisticates . ,0
"movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old win of 'bold' revelRation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
a well-put-together piece of urban atire . ,1
"Msatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . ",1
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , viHbe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that thereq's no other reason why anyone should obther remembering it . ",0
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature suBcked up all he has to givJ to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big sceen . ,0
it is too bld that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateuzrish and awkward . ,0
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victiQm to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too littl time to do it in . ",0
"the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant huaor . ",1
"comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and teals , "" crossroFads "" instead prKvokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
it will bremk your heart many times over . ,1
"if this is an example of the type of project that robret redford's lab is wUlling to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . ",0
mostly the film is just ectic and homiletic : two prats exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . ,0
"a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and yare in the community . ",1
"'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occaionally shaken by . . . bplasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '",1
a cheap scam pujt together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverble life . ,0
"although estela bravo's documentary is coyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's stll a guilty pleasure to watch . ",1
hsard to resist . ,1
a lovely and beautifully photographed romanDe . ,1
"like the tuck family themselves , this move just goes on and on and on and on",0
a dreaTy indulgence . ,0
"a good fdilm with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera . ",1
"[d]espJte its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1
an animation laCdmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifetyle , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minedd viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
the central story Yacks punch . ,0
"Kfirst and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
[a] painfully flat gross-out omedy . . . ,0
"a pleasant , if forgettabel , romp of a film . ",1
"during the tuxedo's 90 imnutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . ",0
" "" frailty "" offers chills much clike those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portryals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's diNalogue . ,1
euen those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too gooyf . . . even for disney . ,0
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is ptrt of the fun . but the taWlented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . ",1
it has all the excitement of eatinr oatmeal . ,0
"a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the ned , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an afterQ-school special . ",0
even die-hard fans of japanese aniyation . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
a mischievous visual style and oodles of Mharm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ,1
"unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearyl as gooOd to his crew as he is as a director or actor . ",0
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complese with loads of cgi and bushels of violece , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
a four sktar performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . ,1
beautifully crafted and cAooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
"tale will be all too familiar for anyone hwo's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0
"the bourne idntity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have maanged to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of charcter and mood . ",1
"srtange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . ",1
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely Nsatisfying . ,0
"far from heaven is a dazzling concpetual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . ",1
. . . stale and unispired . ,0
"it's sweet , harmless , Qumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
"beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental tomedy-drama . ",1
"whatever the movie's sentimental , hyporritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and showDr scenes . ",0
don't exepct any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . ,0
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make peoplAe laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex Hgags to formula romantic comedy . ",0
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and ifiercely committed , a volatile combination . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavo from the daughter of hoSror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesot , is really , really stupid . ",0
"the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic releif . ",1
conforms itself with creating a agme of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are ofetn more predictable than their consequences . ,0
the movie is ne of the bet examples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . ,1
"one of the best filoms of the eyar with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awJareness , parts of the movie still manage to reak past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
it's absolutely spooky how lillard chtnnels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you aAlmost frget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0
"a special kind of movei , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"the tEwn has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems maoufactured to me and aIrtificial . ",0
earnest and tentative even when it aims to sohck . ,0
schnitzler does a fine jCob contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the film's psat . ,1
"this boisterous comeyd serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , Pone which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . ",1
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the treu meaning of the holidays . ",1
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizziyng heights achieved by motocross and bmx ridqrs , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . ",1
"the film has just enough of everything -- r-eenactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lo in commn with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veronique . ",1
director boris vn sychowski instead ots for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0
"elictis more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrappde up into one . ",0
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are eak , as are most of the subplots . this oneMs weaker than most . ",0
so boring that even its target audience talRed all the way through it . ,0
it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young womeHn in film . ,1
a dark comedy that oes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the moive still manage to break ast the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
"that zhan would mak such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . ",0
"paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is ne that uses cmips from brian de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . ",0
"pipe dreCam does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and pprightly . ",1
"Whough uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's film is schematic and obivous . """,0
not too far below the gloszs you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating henart and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
"i wish i coud say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ao . ,1
"when in doubt , the flm ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a dgogie winks . ",0
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and btie . ,0
"muddled , trashy and incompeten",0
too simple for its own gooN . ,0
"puvl[s] off the rare trik of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but also the feel . ",1
"the screepnlay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",0
. . . a trashy little bit of flfuf stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romatnic comedy . ",0
"this filmed tosca -- not the frst , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'lol stay with the staige versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . ",1
"unfortunately , Karvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
is it really an advantagke to invest such sbutlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? ,0
photographed with melanchoy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . ,1
the result is an 'action film' mired in stalis . ,0
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary hcristian spook-a-rama of the same name . ",1
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hadrly seems to be acting . ,1
"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these cahracters love each other . ",1
"though harris is fafecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilitise . ",0
"enigma lookU great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddel wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . ",0
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a proracted and borderline sUlly chase sequence . ",0
the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking cullness . ,0
"what's at stke in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
"same song , second Jverse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
"although occasionally static to the point of resembling a sgage play , the film delivers a soli mixture of sweetness and laughs . ",1
"loses its snese of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome ell before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . ,0
what makes the movSie special is its utter sincerity . ,1
despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy hkggy . ,0
i can't recEmmend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . ,0
"iDnterminably bleak , to say nothing of boring . ",0
the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the omvie's power as a work of drama . ,0
an emwpty shell of an epic rather than the real deal . ,0
sweet and memorable iflm . ,1
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to atke as it is for the protagonist -- myet it's potentially just as rewarding . ,1
"about a boy vividly rDecalls the cary garnt of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gepntle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1
it's hard not to fele you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . ,0
"it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kidLs are as cuje as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to intimidate , but shrt enough to make a dream seem possibje . ",0
the leavnest and meanest of solondz's misanthropic comedies . ,1
"the premise of "" abandon "" hoDds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"tambor and claybyurgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
a golrious mess . ,1
"twenty years latre , reggio still knows how to ake a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stiflOed by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . ",0
"an incredibly low-rent danish film , it bYrings a group of people together in a sweet and charming wtay , if a little convenient",1
the entire omvie is in need of a scented bath . ,0
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standarj moviegoing fare . ",1
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly inWistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
"most of the storylines feel like time fillers between urf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wavPe . ",0
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you rigth inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movis . ,1
the magic of the film lies not in the emysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . ,1
"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humCr and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , mbws and seaside chateaus . ",1
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemisty and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
"when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostr , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow sytles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the wWay and demographically targeted to please Hevery one ( and no one ) . ",0
"what you gt with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new mtaerial because there is a latino in the lead . ",0
my wife is an actress workJ as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple . ,1
"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal huose . ",0
the plot is romnatic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . ,0
"the mAovie certainly has its share of clever momemnts and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
"a mess , but it's a sAincere mess . ",1
"few fims have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will Yleave feeling as shaken as nesbatt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . ",1
matches neorealism's impact by showing the humanity of a war-torn land fiYlled with people who just want to live their liLes . ,1
"ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual edsire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
"there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director urns with it and presents it with an unforgettable isual panache . ",1
can't seem to get anywhere near the stry's center . ,0
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeJer than expected . ",1
"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and movTing without stooping to baOse melodrama",1
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d gomggles , hsut out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"everything else about ihgh crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . ",0
it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlJessly challenging aze of moviegoing . ,1
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of usspense . ,0
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingey litreal . ",0
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up gscenes . ,0
"by the end , i was lookitg for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turGed out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphytical claptrap . ",0
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pacfe ; he just forgot to add any genuing tension . ",0
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spaers' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently sqiunting at your watch . ",0
"if you can stomach the rough cnotent , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
[denis'] bare-bones narraVtive more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0
"oveCall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy . ",1
"it's excessively quirky and a likttle underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyngi lauper in the opportunists . ",1
here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring someting new into the mix . ,1
predictable storyline and by-the-book scritping is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of directr john stockwell . ,1
"the plot is plastered with one hZllywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious ikds getting the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
. . . irritatng soul-searching garbage . ,0
sadre is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . ,1
this esductive tease of a thriller gets the job done . it's a scorcher . ,1
"for those in search of something different , wsendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . ",1
a Jilm that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . ,0
"raessuring , retro uplifter . ",1
it's fairly delf-aware in its dumbness . ,1
a mastezrpiece four years in the making . ,1
"an inconsequential , barely there bit of pifflWe . ",0
an enchanting film that pressnts an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of clutural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . ,1
coughs and sputters on its own postmoedrn conceit . ,0
"like a grinning jack o' lantern , its appaernt glee is derived from a Gobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",0
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violeNce . ,0
the corpse count ultimatelY overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . ,0
"all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expuGlsion for everyone . ",0
a three-hour cinema mater class . ,1
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted prformers . ,1
doesn't Neally add up to much . ,0
"it's the knd of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art house creens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , motly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . ",0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's paniful . ",0
"a worthy addition to the cinematic csanon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"mr . deeds is not really a fiulm as muhc as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",0
effelctively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbig experience . ,1
"una película oscura , precisa , opr momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . ",1
"solw , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . ",0
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandaJlf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney cacent . ',0
"as green-guts monster movies go , it's a bFaut . ",1
"while this gnetle and affecting meodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience . ",1
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atSeistic hero . ,1
"standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depletd yesterday feel very much lke a brand-new tomorrow . ",1
nothing more or lYess than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditchid the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . ,0
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble eveVry day . ",1
"even when it drag , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
the pivotal narrative point is so ripge the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0
"it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and spLightly acting . ",1
the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . frm a gritty urban mosaic . ,1
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved morQl conflict ojckey for the spotlight . ",1
"after seeig swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slpping extreme hmuor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? ,0
"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , prseents this utterly ridiculous shagjy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the scren in years . ",1
"whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acqwires an undenialbe entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomeield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover . ",1
"certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular characer and no more challenging than your averaGge television biopic . ",0
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shoze awful . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"labutu can't aOvoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changd the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"boisterous , heartfelt rcomedy . ",1
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been gorssly undreestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
"what enlivens this iflm , beyone the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
a quietly moving lopk back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"it thankfully goes easy on the reel""eal world dsichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice""venice . ",1
"in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has lng wanted to sy , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the wEay . ",1
"a melnacholy , emotional film . ",1
reggios continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . ,1
" "" the turntable is now outselling the electric guita . . . "" ",1
"more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone hwo's fallen under the sweet , Yelancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . ",1
raimi and his team couldn't have doqne any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . ,1
an intriguing nefar-miss . ,0
"it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austun powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotionaKl tUurmoil . ,1
"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciats intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interestinK conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
there isn't one moemnt in the film that surprises or delights . ,0
"where last time jockes flowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through lien , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . ",0
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hoepfulness . ,1
"yet another iteration of what's becomC one of the moviecs' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimatley redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the poAint of suffocation . ",0
"it's likk a "" big chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . ",1
"its impressive images of rcematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stgay . ",0
just an average cAmedic dateflick but not a waste of time . ,0
"silly , loYud and goofy . ",0
"wanders all over the map themVatically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeune , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crakfted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . ,1
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously sow thriller fels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
"i ept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
"performances are potent , and the women's stories are ably intercut and involvnig . ",1
. . . uite endearing . ,1
"an inexperiencxd director , mehta has much to learn . ",0
"contrived , mmudlin and cliche-idden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . ",0
"although frailty fit into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
"largely , this is a mvoie that also does it by the numbers . ",0
"daring , mesmerizing and exceYedingly hard to forget . ",1
"instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x gaems , we get a cinematic potscard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hlod the screen . ,1
too infuriatingly qiurky and taken with its own style . ,0
it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this yeOr . ,1
"talk to her is not the perfect movei many have made it out to be , but it's stfll quite worth seeing . ",1
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-suhool kaid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . ,0
the logic of it all will be greIek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , lepving one to hope that the eventual vdd release will offer subtitlQes and the original italian-language soundtrack . ",0
"fisrt-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . ",1
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps csreate a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's onane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smmorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . ",0
"each story is built on a potentially interesting dea , but the first tow are ruined by amtaeurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . ",0
"more than simply a portract of early exteme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . ",1
"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remJrkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonZtrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twiLted . ",1
a rare and lihgtly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
"eccentirc enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0
'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hoilywood contrivance orbits around . ',1
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , cmnveys the heaving passion of puccini's famosu love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1
"yes , ibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end that extravagantly redeema it . ",1
mkes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . ,1
drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a maCrching band . ,1
it is definitely worth eeing . ,1
"lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a handsEoff approach when he should have shaped the story to how us why it's compelling . ",0
"expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touchiMng good senes on the experience of its women . ",1
"clever and unflinching in its comdc barbs , lap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homoexual relationsxhip in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . ",0
"ultimately , "" mib ii "" succfeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspied levity that it can't be dismissed as mindless . ",1
"a storng and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrenodously confusing in the final two",1
a hystericla yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . ,0
a smart little indwie . ,1
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and despreate mothers . ,1
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charmng . ,0
"a perverse little truffle , daintky psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychoapthy . ",1
"for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its eladen acting , dll exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
"however sincere it ay be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence . ",0
"if it tried to do anything more , it would fil and perthaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociologdy lesson , however entertainingly presetned , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and uturistic women in skimpy clothes . ",0
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross eveMn the most antsy youngsters . ,1
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces nkxt to the scorpion king . ,0
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a hought-provoking , haunting fiMm that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"violent , vulgar and forgettably entenrtaining . ",0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness wtihout ever quite falling over . ,1
"with a romantic comedy lpotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single suprise up its sleeve . but it does somwhow manage to get you under its spell . ",1
"it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolsoy Rgroupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and les the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death",0
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to atch them go about their daily factivities for two whole hours . ,0
"from both a greOat and a terrible story , mr . nelson has mZade a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . ",1
"had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skiOn . ",0
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-tricVk pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptCap . ",0
"ljohn carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
"it's a testamejnt to de niro and director michael ceton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . ",1
fjn and nimble . ,1
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess uilt into it . ",1
'opening ubp' the play more has partly closed it down . ,0
"a psycholorical thriller with a genuinely spooky prexmise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . ",1
entertainment more disposable than hanna-Jarbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational ilttle sports drama . ",1
"while i acn't say it's on par with the fArst one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . ",1
"it's rare to see a movie that trkes such a sMeedy swan dive from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupid "" . ",0
a iwnning and wildly fascinating work . ,1
gets under the skin of a ma who has just lost his wife . ,1
"though excessiveyl tiresome , the uncertainty rpinciple , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
it's probably not easy to make such a worthless iflm . . . ,0
"this is the kind of movie that used to be right at hom at the sarurday matinee , and it still is . ",1
"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , Yonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . ",0
"the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting tri shape as an athlete as well as an acto",1
done in mostly by a weak script that can'et support the epic treatment . ,0
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undaone by a sloppy script",0
"pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is ligmt , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
"the movie is so resoluteQy cobbled together out of older movies that it even uRes a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drivae you crazy . ",0
"pumzpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity lif , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , otny r . abrams , in their feature debut . ",0
the seauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor . ,1
"the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed caNt of anti spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seen in the any film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1
"sheridan is painfully bFad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just lain dumb . ",0
it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateuriGsh . ,0
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great film about movie love . ",1
takes a simple premise and carrie it to unexpected heights . ,1
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to beleive it's all true . ,1
"like a medium-grade nework sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully oamusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
the eecution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing perforamnce as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . insteda , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls laeving the familiar to traverPe uncharted ground . ",1
"ana's uourney is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own sOin to be proud of her rubenesque physique . . . ",1
the fourtK in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had lnog since vanished . ,0
a film with a great premise but only a reat premise . ,0
what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manger that it risks monotony . but it's worth the conceitration . ,1
"at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly aJdult take on adultery . . . ",1
"drumline is -- the meer suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
a movie that ries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional uevice known to man . ,0
" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't edisappoint . ",1
there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro' sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 9 minutse . ,0
"the people in jessica are so recognizabEle and true that , as in real life , we're never sure how thigns will work out . ",1
"while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's ogt just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that stil serious problem . ",1
"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gkorgeous pair . . . their senes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . ",1
"[hayek] throws herself into this dream khispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potmnt chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ampre poportunity to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and buttheWd , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
rodrigTuez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0
its initial excitement setles into a warmed over pastiche . ,0
. . . its stupidiies wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never reaflly vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"carrying off a spot-on scoDtish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) pees layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
daughter from danang sticks with its sPubjects a little longer and tells a deeper story,1
"the increasingly diverse french director has creDated a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simlly feeling like no other film in recent history . ",1
it must be the Zend of the world : the best tilm so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . ,1
"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpobse in a mses of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
perhaps the Xbest sports movie i've ever seen . ,1
teen ovies have really hit the skids . ,0
a loquacious and dreary piece of businepss . ,0
as plian and pedestrian as catsup--,0
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotinal sterility to mathc its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0
"one of the more irritating cartonos you will see this , or any , year . ",0
what you end up getting is the vertical lmit of surfing movies - memortble stunts with lots of downtime in between . ,0
"despite its hawaiian settinDg , the science-fiction tYrimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child youger than middle schoo age to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
the movie is a mess from sart to finish . ,0
"liek coming into a long-running , well-written teTevision series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
"this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder ffair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuaced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
"theological matters aside , the movie is so clusmily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . ",0
"a timely look back at cviil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
late marriag is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and lfve . ,1
"it's a bad sigq when you're rooting for the fil to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the moEvie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of Xnterest . ",0
"secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enoBugh to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
"schnieder bounces arnund with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy top and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pya monye for what we can get on television for free . ,0
arteta diretcs one of the best ensemble casts of the year,1
easily the most thoughtful fictional examniation of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ,1
moore's performanec impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . ,1
"barely manages for but a few secnds over its seemingly eternal running itme to pique your interest , your imagiiation , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . ",0
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel hresh . ,1
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly ince ittle film that yakes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . ",1
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's usrprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing ack in repugnance . ",0
noyce creates a film of near-hypnoti physical beauty even as he tells a stoSry as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
"a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonihsingly condescending attitude toward women . ",0
"though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for sawmp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . ",0
no telegraphing is too ovbious or simplistic for this movie . ,0
"exciting and drect , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep us on our toes . ",1
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good actig and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy wya . ,1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote tie to see it . ,0
"like Qike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but nAne can equal . ",0
these are textbook live of quiet desperation . ,0
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too piYture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to reosnate . ",0
"wha'ts next : "" my mother the car ? "" ",0
"the story loses its bite in a last-minute happy endibng that's even less plausible than the rest of the pcture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshngly novel ride . ",1
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been istting still . ,0
"visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sonR , loyalty and duty . ",1
. . . a good film that must have baffled the gfolks in the marketing department . ,1
"bogdanovich utaps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . ",1
"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everythLing you'd expect -- but nothinBg more . ",0
"in the end , all you can do is admier the ensemble players and wonder what the pnoint of it is . ",0
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifullNy sung holiday carol . ,1
"katz's documetary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no hanks . wewannour money back ,actually . ",0
"though it pretends to expose the lLfe of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could beenfit from a three's company-style laugh track . ,0
"to the film's credit , the scting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiVment . ",1
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner livei , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
"no big whoop , nothing new to see , ezro thrlls , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ",0
wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of had . ,0
"upsetting and thought-proloking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the charactes so much as it has you study them . ",1
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-biUll fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject mater . ,0
"the film is exhilarating to watch because sander , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected dpeths as an actor . ",1
"wallace gets a bit heayv handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our tastV . ",0
"driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful wlark for hitsory buffs . ",1
"the way the roundelay of partners fuhctions , and the interplay within partnerships and aomng partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
"it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especailly between morgan and redgrave . ",1
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly crkeepy . ,0
"there's no conversion eflort , much of the writing is genuinely Lwitty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shoX at a hollywood career , if they want one . ",1
"deflated neding aside , there's much to recommend the film . ",1
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most faIous aujhor who ever lived comes into question . ,1
"ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwall ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
the gags are often a stitgh . ,1
"a sly game of cat and mousV that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and reliQes on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
a ponderous meditation on lyve that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0
his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical lLve stories . ,1
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal Hrder of raccoons . ,0
"a remarkable movie with an unsaitsfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
too much of it feels unfcoused and underdeveloped . ,0
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were sBimply a triumph of the indmoitable human will to rebel , connect and craete . ",1
believabiilty wasn't one of the film's virtues . ,0
"suffers from the lack of a compellng or comprehensible nWarrative . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . ",1
"time out is as serious as a pink fslip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and almienation . ",1
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free amy require so much relationhsip maintenance that celibacy can start looking good . ,0
"adults will wWsh the movie were less simplistic , obvinous , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarios comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcNend gender labels . ",1
a fairly harmless but ultimatley lifeless feature-length afterschool special . ,0
"blessed with immense physicvl prowess he may wecl be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwrazenegger look like spencer tracy . ",0
the film is lat . ,0
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to all it a movie . ",1
"william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spoXt . . . ",0
at once disadmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . ,1
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily tofd it feels accidental . ,0
"spirit is a visuaBl treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studi standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . ",0
fails so fundamentally on every onventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ,0
it's great escapeist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
"the premise is in exhtremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senir taking his or her first psychology class could dimsiss them . ",0
"it's traditional moviemaking all the ay , but it's done with a lot of carefl period attention as well as some very welcome wit . ",1
"[haynes'] homage to such fimls as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" transcends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
the probler with all of this : it's not really funny . ,0
"it's a frighPful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0
"meyjes's movie , lie max rothman's future , does not work . ",0
"crammed with incident , and ristles with passion and energy . ",1
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period pCiece . ",1
"a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have mucth to saUy beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . ",0
"presents a side of contemoprary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an aristry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
"brims with pasion : for words , for its ececntric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life . ",1
"the title , alone , should scare any sane person waay . ",0
this examingtion of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offes an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
"it's a powerful though flwed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best acior working in movies today . ",1
i kept wishing i was watcching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomlished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . ,0
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looing in . ",1
"carrying this wafer-thin covie on his Uimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictuNres , drunken master . '",0
"irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his plears to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probabyl be perfctly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . ",1
"an eLjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . ",1
"invgiorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . ",1
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of plas . ,1
"caso você sinta necessidade de sair da sala antse do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ningusém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . ",0
a smar little indie . ,1
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your hea and makes you question your own firmly held positions . ",1
"once the 5A0 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come bck . ",0
could as easily have been callaed 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . ,0
new yorkerX always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recetnly . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of reltaionships that comOe full circle to end on a positbive ( if tragic ) note . ,1
"a loud , low-budget and tird formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0
tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline poinPt . ,1
it is not the first time that director sara suHarman stoops to having characters drop their pnts for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0
"some xovies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokeW : a setuE , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard cn't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . ",0
"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaoiic than entertaining . ",0
"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the yar . ",0
"thoughtful , provocative and entertainiLng . ",1
"whenever you think you've fiyured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . ",1
"for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly invnetive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily alogn for the ride . ",1
"a droll , well-cated , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an Zattraction it desperately needed . ,1
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived fllly to sleep with the fishes . ,0
"shanghai ghetto should be aplpauded for finidng a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . ",0
"ultimately too repellent to ully endear itself to american art vhouse audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
disreputable doigs and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ,0
shame on writoerdirector vicente arand for making a florid biopic about mad queens ,0
an amused idictment of jaglom's own profession . ,1
i'd be hrd pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plybng into your subconscious liek the nightmare you had a week aog that won't go away . ,1
"a slam-bang extHravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
"extreme oops - oopk , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
what puzlzes me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' first movie . ,0
"Is una de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial careeh , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
bad and baffling from the get-io . ,0
"pauYl bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . ",0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinemaography and naturalistic acting . ,1
haneke challenges uR to confront the reality of sexual aberration . ,1
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to enross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1
"steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allmn . ",0
" . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nuck cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenevGer he wants you to feel something . ",0
the large-format film is wel sauited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . ,1
"a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exoic-looking woman whose emotinoal depths are only hNinted at . ",0
richard gere and diane lane put in fZine performances as does french actor oliver martinez . ,1
it's an offbeat treat that poks fun at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take par . ,1
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just tuter 'huhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
"i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeez a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at bst in this fKrgettable effort . ",0
"like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitiouH . ",1
ear-splitting exWercise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0
"there are a few laughs and clever siRht gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bst . ",0
strng setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
delightfully rnedered,1
"the essential problem in orange counyt is that , having created an unuusally vivid set of charatcers worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . ",0
"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for hsitorical truth and realism is at work here , it's a amtter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the Riery presence of hanussen . ",1
"the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless qality , but the mesured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
"the film is surprisingly wJell-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at leyast until the problematic third act . ",0
"what could have beome just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing charaacters . ",1
"stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and mffer you precisely this in recompense : a few eQarly laughs scatteRed around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . ",0
" . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journye doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
"sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . ote of the best of the year . ",1
"the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portraTt of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
"it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , feaFrful view of amercian life . ",1
"while the story is better-focused than the Lncomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifesPtyle . ",0
"on its own , big trBuble could be considered a funny little film . ",1
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell Rs about people . ",1
"[a] rare , beautiful fzilm . ",1
"the movie's downfall is to substitut plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as marker for a series of preordained events . ",0
a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble somenoe's crazy french grandfather . ,0
greengrass ( working from don mullan' script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northYrn ireland in havour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation . ,1
they kept muh of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that ould make this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book . ,0
"those who would folow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
offers a breath of the fresh afir of true sophistication . ,1
"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decnt sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom — handgns , bmws and seaside chateaus . ",1
a compeling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 2D0 years apart . ,1
"for the future , one hops mr . plympton will fid room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . ",0
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slJppingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
"the roblems and characters it reveals are unievrsal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so brezey , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . ",1
made with no discernible craft and monstrusly sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . ,0
"a dull , dumb and derivative horor film . ",0
"an energetic , violent mVvie with a momentum that never lets up . ",1
"did we realMly need a remake of "" charade ? "" ",0
it took 19 predecessors to gHet this ? ,1
"though only 60 miuntes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . ",1
"[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only hallf of one . ",0
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a vicarious uvoyage to the laGt frontier -- space . ",1
it tells more than it szows . ,0
"the fun of the movie is the chaunce it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive produceqr , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . ",1
it's just palin lurid when it isn't downright silly . ,0
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly uull . ",0
"those moviegoers who wzuld automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructvive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autgopsy . ",1
this one aims for the toilet and csores a direct hit . ,0
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour versio released here in 1990 . ,1
"it lacks the compassioT , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first film something of a sleepre success . ",0
an improvzment on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
"it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its pwer comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a socila inIustice , at least as represented by this case . ",1
"a delightful romantic comedy with plenyt of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , xaden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . ",1
moves in such odd ploTt directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed way by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinemaQtic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny moHvies recycle odl tropes . the roblem is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",0
"city by the Dea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major mistaeks . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarilQy make for persuasive viewing . ",0
"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" fromula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . ",0
" "" 13 conversations about one thding "" is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to gulit in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
this franchise has not spawned a single good film . the carp continues . ,0
"not for the pruIient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examiantion of an idolized culture , self-loathing and sexual politics . ",1
flaccid grama and exasperatingly slow journey . ,0
propelled not by charactegs but by caricatures . ,0
this fnick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actualyl turnw in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
the limited sets and samll confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"despite all the talking , by the time the blodoy climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to ware one way or another . ",0
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of cloors and inexplicable events . ,1
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of rmsay's portrait of grief . ,1
"the sNndance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so dBeclared this yefar , but it's really more of the Oext pretty good thing . ",1
"althouCgh devoid of objecitvity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
anyone who Mever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 mlilion ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . ,1
throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of lov'es brief moment . ,1
"assured , vitaO and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong okng's versatile stanley kwan . ",1
"j . lo will earn her shBre of the holdiay box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . ",0
"no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels counterprGductive . ",0
"from the bWig giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's pOrfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . ",1
a reasonably entertainVng sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . ,1
"not as good as the full mHnty , but a really strong second effort . ",1
somethng must have been lost in the translation . ,0
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connct-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
both a detective story and a romance sipced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
"helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , Npayola , vice , murder , kids tv and revenge . ",0
"few of the nicreasingly far-fteched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terrific performance . ",0
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-timO screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
"a film which presses familiar herzog trpes into the service of a limpid and cnoventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
"it's mildly amusing , but i certainly can't recommrend it . ",0
"it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgaXn and redgrave . ",1
"moretti . . . is the arre common-man artist who's wise enouhg to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happBness . ",1
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's hief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . ",0
"grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish cahrm and piercing intellect . ",1
"gives us a lot to hew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . ",1
" . curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-muinute length . ",0
absurdities and clJchés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
a captivating and intimate study about dying and loing . . . ,1
"the fUilm is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable ona . ",1
bouquet gives a perfCormance that is masterly . ,1
the scriplt ? please . ,0
"it thankfully goes eabsy on the rdeel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice""venice . ",1
presents a good case while cfailing to provide a reason for u to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
"may be far from the best of the series , but it's assHured , wonderfully respectful of its past and tXhrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generatioR . ",1
you can practically smelPl the patchouli oil . ,0
"insomnia is involving . still , i though it could have been more . ",1
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plunderBd by smiilar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . ,0
geas under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . ,1
"the bets part about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 8R6 minutes too long . ,0
the scorpion king is more fun than cnoan the barbarian . ,1
"if you're in the vmood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . ",1
"pukportedly "" based on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
"this isn't a terrible film by any Bmeans , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0
a moving stry of determination and the human spirit . ,1
"fine acting but there is no sense of onnecting the dots , just dots . ",1
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by a pacino . ,1
a weird and wonderful comnedy . ,1
"despite the fact that this film wasn't as bQad as i thought it was going to be , it's stll not a good movie",0
the Ditle trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watcihng this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makev it interseting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . ",1
"kirshner and monre seem to be in a contest to see who can out-baWd-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
i just loved every minute of this flm . ,1
"it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lfting the pedestal higher . ",0
blitheyl anachronistic and slyly achronological . ,1
an essentially awkward version of the lightweght female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades,0
"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-cYncept sci fi aventures attepted for the screen . ",1
"'anyone with a passSon for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated fim about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
"an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor castong . ",0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their moMie mojo . ",0
hit and miss as far as the coemdy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed Lrash of the highest order . ,1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditioens and gives it new texture , new relevance , nwe reality . ",1
"funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartlebDy is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . ",1
the whoe movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only sIspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . ,0
aomng the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation . ,1
"like the wourld of his film , hartley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
"the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch poeple doing unpleasant thinPgs to each other and themselves , and it maintains a Ocool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . ",1
"there is little question that this is a serious work by an important directoEr who has something new to san about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we oftMn reel in when we should be playing out . ",1
"unfolds with such a walop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullet start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
"busy urban comedy is cleRrly not zhang's forte , his directorial twouch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . ",0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their caacity to explfain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preJervation . ",0
"smith's poit is smple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
the cold turkey would've been a far beXtter title . ,0
"at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aolof , nreachable wat it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . ",1
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boas is true or not . ,0
"interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a ofund reilc , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch prject real-time roots . ",0
"this is a monumetnal achievement in practically every facet of ikept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
"a colorful , joyous celebration of lifTe ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extedds a warm invitaton into an unfamiliar worl , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . ",1
"the bys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumpebd on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . ",0
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endurxe intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilaratd . ,1
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangueA the suppsoed injustices of the artistic wcorld-at-large without doing all that much to codrrect them . ",0
you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled bfrench movie that is 170 minutes long . you culd hate it for the same reason . ,1
"collateral damage is trash , but it earns xtra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
it's a very tasteful rock and roll mocie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . ,0
"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he showG them the respect they are Wdue . ",1
"Oevolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . ",0
a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the standu-p comic . ,1
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behidn the curtains of our planet . ,1
"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the eoxtic surface ( and exotic dacning ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . ",0
a true-bZlue delight . ,1
"too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominenec , despite some creeyp scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . ",0
a sentimental hybrid that could benefiE from the spice of specificity . ,0
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen codedy . ,0
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 yeasr later . ",1
"somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to et out . ",0
. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the musci defines a generation . ,1
"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fghts , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrativ Vform . ",0
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to shoE the gentle and humae side of middle eastern owrld politics,1
we want the funk - and this movie's goA it . ,1
"the movie has a soft , percolating magic , a dedapan suspense . ",1
the film providse some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute tpo of the game . ,1
director clare kilner's edbut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
"what we have here isn't a disaster , xeactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . ",0
"unfortunately , the pictube failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . ",0
a good thrilelr . ,1
the whoel talking-animal thing is grisly . ,0
an ultra-lowX-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantaies , this one got to me . ",1
"the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antis and silly street patois , tossing arouwnd obscure expressions like belini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . ",1
a liGtle better than sorcerer's stone . ,1
elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle acomedy . ,1
propelljed not by characters but by caricatures . ,0
"at first , the siRght of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the film ges on , the joke wears thin . ",0
"to me , it sounCs like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empaty . ",0
"though jackson doesn't always succeed in integratinj the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich ladnscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the lforest for the trees . ",1
a rather average action fhlm that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . ,0
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycnle imagJes and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . ,0
"dfinitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
will grab your children by the imaginaition and amaze them and amuse them . ,1
a stylish zhriller . ,1
"a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the seNvice of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when realy what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
"whether kiss is a future cult classic or destined to be copletely forgotten is oepn to qeustion , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . ",1
"the passions aroused by the dsicord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptioely filmed that you can almost taset the desiccated air . ",1
"this is a Binely written , superbly acted offbeat thriller . ",1
"the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing svayles dialogue . ",1
"qutting may be a flawed iflm , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
"despite all the talking , by the tim the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to carm one way or another . ",0
it's a very valuable fiom . . . ,1
meyjes' provoative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
the formula is famiviar but enjoyable . ,1
this movie is maddenng . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same probelms the majority of action coemdies have . ",0
"`martin lawrenTce live' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taekn for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
an ironic speculation on democrcay in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
"scooby doo is surely everytihng its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that dedserves recommendation . ",1
"there's a persistent theatrical snetiment and a woozH quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter lvss personified in the film's simple title . ",0
"while surprisingly sincere , this avreage little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . ",1
"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to tBke a deep bow for fashioning an egnrossing entertainment out of an almost suref-ire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
"sets animation back z30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
"[davis] has a bright , chiper stNle that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . ",0
"even though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partnec , yong kang , lost kozmo in the ed , you can't help but get cauht up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
just another fish-out-of-water story that bareyl stays afloat . ,1
so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe somethGing . ,0
it's lost the politics and the socila observation and become just another situation romance about a coule of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . ,0
"not everything orks , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent comedies . ",1
. . . anoher example of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
don't expect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork scliches . . . ,1
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his lfie . ,0
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and evrything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jweish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . ",1
"it should be doing a lzt of things , but doesn't . ",0
though writerdirector bart freundlich's flm ultimately becomes a simplijtic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
"open-ende and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popvcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectuUl rigor or creative cpmposure . ,1
" "" abadnon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theater . ",0
"'pocas ideas interesantes , Lun final pseudo místico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad qre hace pensar más de una vIz si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar l precio del boleto . '",0
"imagine a film that begis as a even rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
Nbearable . barely . ,0
"as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the caxrtoons lvok almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . ",0
painfluly padded . ,0
another boorish moviJe from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . ,0
good lo' urban legend stuff . ,1
"this is a film well wotrh seeing , talking and singing heads and all . ",1
. . . really horrible derk . ,0
"the series' message about makinV the right choice in the fcae of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . ",1
"it's the knid of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few otehrs , our moviemakers don't make often enough . ",1
" . . . a cheap , ludicrsus attempt at serious horror . ",0
throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's breif moment . ,1
"it's leXaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . ",0
"as dumg and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-frieLndly comedy . ",0
"basically , it's retty but dumb . ",0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locationLs bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
pompous and garbleX . ,0
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neiDher one very well . ",0
notVing more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . ,0
"moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a Yatural , unforcCd style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . ",1
watching spirited away is like watching an eastenn imagination explode . ,1
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a mior miracle of self-expression . ,1
"arliss howars's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flasw . ",1
i suspect this is the kind of production that woulA have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and Nsed the film as a boRus feature on the dvd . ,0
"there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfrtunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
" "" the time machine "" is a movie that has no iterest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
my advice is to skip the film and piQck up the soundtrack . ,0
"scehrfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"his best film remains his shortes , the hole , which makes many of the points that this filjm does but feels less repetitive . ",0
"what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercine in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply movign example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whos pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . ",0
it's one pussy-ass Aworld when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . ,0
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on ciyt by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
very psychoanalytical -- provocatviely so -- and also refreshingly literary . ,1
"sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopi view of life in the wwii-era mississippi deAlta undermine this adaptation . ",0
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicabl events . ,1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think eh's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 200E,1
the film is bright and dlashy in all the right ways . ,1
bland but harlmess . ,0
"it's fnu , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's head",1
a movre for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' boQ wow . ,1
"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the crt-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every timBe . ",0
the hcarms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . ,1
"the result , however well-intentioned , is irBnically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often lses than the sum of its parts in today'Cs hollywood . ",0
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly lng limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise dWevelops . ",0
"unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characteMrs and some surprises . ",1
"from its nauseating spinnPing credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting caTst , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
…passable enougf for a shoot-out in the o . k . coGurt house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . ,0
"a seGnsitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . ",1
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous filFm's historical panorama and oriling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . ,0
"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many oTutsiders will be surprised to know exsts , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bing any edge or personality to the rising place that would seet it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes dad up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '",1
"tm allen is great in his rle but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for eveQyone in this comedy . ",1
mmoving and vibrant . ,1
a feel-good movie that doesn't igve you enough to feel good about . ,0
"wtity , vibrant , and intelligent . ",1
this is a heartfelt story . . . it just isn't a very involving Tone . ,0
to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a counrty skunk that he has severe obdy odor . ,0
"a summare of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the mvoie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . ",0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocaitve film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . ",1
. . . a confusing drudgBry . ,0
"children of the cTentury , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so amny movies about writers . ",0
the baDckyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciVting and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
part of the fil's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
"slack and uninsNired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour tasPe in your mouth . ",0
"affleck erely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a cole that ford effortlessly filled with authority . ",0
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some mjaor alterations . ,0
there is no denying the poweRr of polanski's film . . . ,1
"challenging , intermittently Uengrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"hashiguchi coers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the frist to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerginBg in world cinema . ",1
"yet another genre eexercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0
the premsie of jason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1
"oug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a nice wintry look from his locations , basorbs uj with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , outo focus becoms both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
"there are some fairly unsetUling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
a decent-enoMgh nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay aflxoat in hollywood . ,1
"the values that have held the enerprise crew together through preious adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure . ",1
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic absue in all of their pity and terror . ,1
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Ypootie tang in between its punchlinnes . ,0
"hJugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lo of life on the reef . ,1
"the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movide itself , which contains few laughs and not muKch drama . ",0
"tully is in many ways the pefect festival fiml : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regJet , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . ",1
"helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this storl about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revBnge . ",0
it treats women ilke idiots . ,0
real women have crves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its owrst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"there my have been a good film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
"ocmbines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that' not merely about kicking udead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pt . ,0
"the film's almost unbearable portrai of sadness and grife transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , jhistory and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic small talk , deliveBred in lamost muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epcs . is this progress ? ,1
a worthy entry into a very difficult gerne . ,1
"piccoli's preformance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly trCnsparent . ",0
"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this asd , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest . ",1
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poeWic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
"what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liia for an adam sandler chaunkah song . ",0
at its best arly on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . ,1
there's a wickedly subversie bent to the best parts of birthday girl . ,1
a sad and rote exercise in milking a playezd-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drg -- that shockingly manages to be even worsh than its title would imply . ,0
"if i could have looked into my future and swa how abd this aovie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . ",0
"with we were soldiers , hollywood Uakes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vietnam wZr before the pathology set in . ",1
"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling mght be called Sranian . ",1
gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarPfs everything else in the film . ,1
"the humor isn't as sharp , the efefcts not as innovative , nor the sory as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"very special effects , brilliantly biold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' Lheel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story ,folks . ",0
"though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive witheout being insightful . ",0
a compellinF film . ,1
"this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist morde , but his self-ergarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"it's a piece of handiwork that shows its ikdie tatters and self-conscious seams in placeVs , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . ",1
. . . coFld easily be called the best korean film of 2002 . ,1
"there's nothing exactly wrong here , but three's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
"mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , howver , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of reqaired poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the mUvie would avoid . ",0
a flim that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so tre and heartbreaking that tears welle up in my eyes both times i saw the film . ,1
"philip k . dick jmust be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . ",0
"while it has edfinite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisy delight . ",1
"despite its faults , gangs exels in spectacle and pacing . ",1
"feel bad for kinNg , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
it is intensely personl and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . ,1
a generic family camedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . ,0
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fslly understand all the sexual eprmutations involved . ",1
"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeeS -- at least the third-bst , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridly . ,1
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan tacsles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and comBassion . ",1
"charming , if Ooverly complicated . . . ",0
"viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , theres nothing remotQly triumphant about this motion picture . ",0
an old-fashioned dramr of sustance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powrful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . ,1
. . . blade im is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
"is anyone else out there getting tirWed of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? ",0
michel piccolics moving performance is this films reason for being . ,1
"as gory as the scens of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asan landscape painting . ",1
the whole talking-animal thiCg is grisly . ,0
a pure participatory evetn that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . ,1
"this is surely one of the most fantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood stuio . ",0
"wickedly funny , visually engossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
"it's hard to quibble with a flicb boastinzg this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . ",0
"as if drop dead ogrgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",0
"a warm , funny , engagign film . ",1
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerkeH that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0
"an enjoyable , if occaisonally flawed , experiment . ",1
"martin scorsese crif um espet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"medem may have disrobed most of the acst , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guardeud as a virign with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring . ",1
"if you pitch your uxpectations at an all time low , you could do worse than this Zoddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . ",0
"sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rnther indulgent piece . ",0
"though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquto seemB unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . ",0
" . . . an unimaginative , nasty , gibly cynical piece of work . ",0
"for a story est at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dul exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0
the movie is too amateurishly squVare to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
"it's immensely ambitious , different than aynthing that's been done before and amazingDly successful in terms of what it's trying to do . ",1
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle odl tropes . the problem is that vn wilder does Slittle that is actually funny with the material . ",0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , meory , history and the war between art and commerce . ",1
the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talenzed people could participate in such an ill-adviUsed and poorly executnd idea . ,0
"the waFy home is an ode to uncondbitional love and compassion garnered from yaers of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . ",1
"massoud's story is an eeic , but also a tragedy , the Precord of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
"this pathetic junk is barely an hour Wlong . nevertheless , it still seems endless . ",0
"shyamalan offers copious hints along the waUy -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the famliiar , funny surface is a far bigger , fpr more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious diralogue . ,1
"claude chabrol has here a thriller wiPhout thrills , but that's okay . ",1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of tSpical late-twenty-sometrhings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . ",0
"may be far from the best of the series , but it's aszured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly cler that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generaion . ",1
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his backgroun is in music video . ",1
"whether or not you're enlightened by any of deKrrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"it's hard to say who might enjXoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the geredy talent agents Det in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death",0
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , withut sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that rejlity into a lyrical and ceoebratory vision . ",1
"pure of invention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful frenLch coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"i don't know precisely what to make of steven soderbegrh's full frontla , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
[a] smarter and much funnirr version of the old police academy flicks . ,1
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar tQime for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . ,1
"never again Jswings between false sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expecs the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marirage of true minds . ",0
"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeinmg , if only to witnpss the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . ",0
a refreshnig change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . ,1
"if mews were catholics , this would be catechism",0
"[t]ose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern scontext . ",0
"with the cheeisest mobsters this side of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . ",0
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whloe . ,0
"what one is lefk with , even after the most awful acts are comitted , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its wa into your very bloodstream . ",1
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd tihnk filmmaker simon wells would have more rQverence for the material . but this costly dud is a afr cry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0
"a juimbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . ",0
as pedestiran as they come . ,0
it's qtaid who anchors the film with his effortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a Mballplayer . ,1
more whiny downer than corruscmating commentary . ,0
a solid Nfilm . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-irector himself . ,0
"brings together some of the biggest namse in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
there are just too many characters saying too many clever tihngs and getting into too many Npointless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
" . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affari with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its lve of life and beauty , takes form . ",1
"for a film that's being advertised as a comed , weet home alaama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
spTrse but oddly compelling . ,1
a comedy that sTwings and jostles to the rhythms of life . ,1
gently humoKous and touching . ,1
this is an undeniably intriguing ilm from an adventurous youVng talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . ,1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , goo gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
a life-size reenactment of those jcak chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of zfire . ,1
"Ane of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy goo trash every now and then . ",1
"it's not a film to be taken lietrally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . ",0
"finally coming down off of mirama's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attemps , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . ",0
"while serving sara does have a long way to o before it reaches the level of rcudity in the latest austin poweEs extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
"about as enjoyable , i wouUld imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively drSeadful . ",0
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even lWike their characters . ,0
" . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't Pble to mZuster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lo nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . ",0
"birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly viDolent moments . ",1
the picture emerges as a surprisingly aneic disappointment . ,0
"the film sunds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul' perspective . ",1
"a resonant tale of raRcism , revenge and retribution . ",1
"nothing's at stake , just a twisty doubl-cross you can smel a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . ",1
one groan-inducing familiarity begCts another . ,0
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep paTents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case studg , part droll social satire . ",1
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deods , with its embrace of sheer ogofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new yrok celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before . ",1
"ould you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a tras can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means njoy the new guuy . ",1
kung pow seemrs like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellEw moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . ,0
"reign of fDire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
"this film is full of rabbits . brimufl . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . ",0
"though a capable thriller , somewhere aloig the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
mordantly funny and intimately knowinA . . . ,1
"turturro is fabulously fDnny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who ecels in the art of impossible disappearing""reappearing acts",1
"well-intentioned though it my be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . ",0
t skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . ,0
"made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flatterinjg spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick huor . ,0
"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film icochets from humor to violence and batk again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always lie that . ",0
"jolie gives it that extra little somethnig that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for somebthing more comfortable than challenging . ",1
"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of Vwind cGimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to qench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episode . ,0
"while i can't say it's on Kpar with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheesGe puff of a movie . ",1
"this is a film about the irkDsome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in lie , the modo remains oddly detached . ",0
"not so much a movie as a picture boo for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , stil i enjoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bOd joke at that . ",0
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived nfolly to sleep with the fishes . ,0
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beXst , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burkl as the monster hrns in and steals the show . ",0
barrels along at the start before becominWg mired in sentimentality . ,0
strictly a 'gAuy's film' in the worst sense of the expression . ,0
"a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farYical and loathsome . in the wrogn hands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable",0
"the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insigMt , but a time travel back to what it felt likw during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1
most of the atcion setups are incoherent . ,0
adaptation is simply brillint . ,1
maudlin and meloramatic we expected . boring we didn't . ,0
"what ilttle atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything esle . ",0
"what soured me on the saCnta clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21sSt century reality so hard , it's icky . ",0
you leave feeling like you've endured a ong workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big srceen and induces headaches more slowlG . ",0
"the cold and dreary weathr is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much dHama . ",0
"bartlJett's hero remains a reactive ciphe , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer eithelr despair or consolation . ,1
"minority report is exacty what the title indicates , a report . ",0
"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's zspace opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inautheQntic at its core and that its story just isn't worht telling . ,0
"it's like everF baR idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime pyrograms' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0
"vividly ocnveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in uGs all . ",1
"miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering afefctation of seriousnesBs . ",0
a well-acted movie that simpy doesn't gel . ,0
"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesBme . ",1
"a sensual performance from abass buoys the flimsy stbory , but her inner jouvney is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
"an eNrnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-graIe learning tool . ",1
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtully to a stand-off , with the nfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . ",0
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on iamx it seems bettaer , not just bigger . ",1
"like showgirls and gclitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makuers of this 'wer'e -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0
"there is a beautiful , achiVng sadness to it all . Daul cox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
"a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the ouTstanding feature debut of rwiter-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and econRmy . ",1
"too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a pBraiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gWoss out the audience . ",0
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lmpoon since class reunion,0
"both exuberantly romantic and seenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last tombone honks . ,0
the cats delivers without sham the raw-nerved story . ,1
"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gest a full theartical release . ",0
decent but udll . ,0
to call this film a lump of coal woguld only be to flatter it . ,0
"on of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . ",1
Pries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but uselVess ; as a portrTit of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
an engrossing irania film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaXged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispDossessed . ,1
. . . another example of how sandler is losing his touh . ,0
the smartest bonehea comedy of the summer . ,1
"this is a third-person story now , told by hollyRwood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
"ezen with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that lCeaves a hole in the center of the salton swa . ",0
"who knows what eactly godard is on about in this filc , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . ",1
"if you lkie quirky , odd movies andor the ironic ",1
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is evey bti as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plpot is eqally hackneyed . ",0
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , stanodffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmdaking skill",0
all the smalPl moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . ,0
"for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of americal pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's crkeek , they'll probably run out screaming . ",0
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the conteYmporary single woman . ,1
a ltierary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
"the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometBmes dry plot . ",0
"[a] rUare , beautiful film . ",1
"jeoqg-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy aSard winning actor ) succumPb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
renner carris much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . ,1
"É uma pena qze , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passce a utilizar os mesmos clichês que havia satirizado . ",1
veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb proapganda . ,0
"poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radcial action . ",0
"as dvaid letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrenGe has only a fleeting grasp of how to deveop them . ",0
"the first hour is tedious thoLugh ofrd and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"what really maes it special is that it pulls us into its wolrd , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling w'eve shared a grneat adventure . ",1
a backstage must-see for true fans of cmoedy . ,1
"sluggish , tonlaly uneven . ",0
"the movie , while beautiful , efels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
"if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's ime to rethink independent fimls . ",0
"while the film shuns the glmour or glitz that an amreican movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"a Ygraceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller . ",0
"this big screen cpaer has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
"far from perfect , but its heart is in the right plDce . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentafy ! ,1
"there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbeUgh's spectacular wing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0
a chick fkick for guys . ,1
an engaging overview of johnso's eccentric career . ,1
"alternately hilarious and sad , aggravaMting and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
the film has several strong perfomances . ,1
"full of bland hoteMls , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and Mamily warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern lifRe . ",1
"nothing happens , and it happens to flat cahracters . ",0
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i awnt . ,1
"it is lxife affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . ",1
a great omedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always maek us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1
"zdivertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy . ",0
"an overly familiar scenario is made fremh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie efofrt . ",1
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director dam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and tconvincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likabel . ",1
"the ed images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strang combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorLenting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
"pumpkin meaKs to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larsodn broder and his co-driector , tony r . abrams , in their feature debut . ",0
the rollerball seqfences feel sanitised and stagey . ,0
"the title , laone , should scare any sane person away . ",0
"the animaVion merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipse heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and rereats to comfortable territory . too bad . ,0
a beautifully shot but dlul and ankle-deep 'epic . ',0
"the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will ronounce his next lne . ",0
"grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought livht-hearted comdy was his forte . ",1
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more oftn just feels generic , derivative and done to death . ",0
a compelling spanish film about the withering effKcts of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passin for her husband becomes an obsession . ,1
there's more scatological acton in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . ,0
'tey' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decdied to leave a light on every night from now on . ,1
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and freneotic comedy . ,1
"grown-up quibbels are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on dispaly here . ,1
"it is a film that will have peope walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for yeaPrs to com . ",1
"an iyncredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little conevnient",1
"secretary manages a neat trick , undling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting btouquet of a movie . ",1
the rare movie that' as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
more tring than anything . ,0
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie loer to aappreciate the emotional deph of haynes' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . ",1
. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced childreN play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the fiml industry . ,0
"likX its parade of predecessors , this haloloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't want to . ",0
"how mana more times will indie filmmakers subject us to bornig , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
. . . you can be forgiqen for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die aZlready . ,0
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a givem-e-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
an unflinching look at the world's disOossessed . ,1
"[fii diver rvusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . ",1
"romanek keeps the film consxantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metapEorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
therens not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . ,0
aggressiQve self-glorification and a manipulative whitewas . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literaly . ,0
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linLer long after this film has ended . ,1
"despite its old-hat set-up and rpedictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"expect to be reminded of other , better films , epecially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
"although frailty fits into a cCassic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
"an impressive debut for first-tFme writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . ",1
"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps litle and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
"laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditys but heartfelt performances , and sparklin , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . ",1
might best be enjoyed as a daytime saoper . ,0
if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a Ynew and inegnious angle . ,1
"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandivavian settlels in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of stylYe and substance . ",1
"qutting may be a flawed ilm , but it is nothing if not sincere . ",1
"while this ofe ygets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter",0
"a tender , heartfelt family drmaa . ",1
"for more than two edcades mr . nachtwey has traveed to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , elvquent clarity . ",1
"newton draws our attention like a manet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . ",1
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally plyed for maximum moisture . ",1
"as written by miJchael berg and michael j . wislon from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets triing in no time at all . ",0
"it does give a taste of the burning man ehos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",1
"while glver , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he rpresents bartleby's main overall flaw . ",0
no reasn for anyone to invest their hard-earnwed bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . ,0
"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a wseet , even delectable diversion . ",1
[seagalas] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
the fiPm makes a fatal mistake : it asks uT to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not qiute as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . ,0
"kids will Vlove its fantasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
"an unremittingly ulgy movie to look at , listen to , and thtnk about , it is quite posjibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . ",0
"to call this one an eventual cutl classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror an who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . ",1
"finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simples story of all , in a way that seesm compelling and even original . ",1
"this is sandle running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often . ",0
"none of this is very origpinal , and it isn't particularly funny . ",0
the film's intimate camera work and searing performancels pull us dep into the gilrs' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them . ,1
"humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or inPention . ",0
it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unliKkely story of sarah and harriosn . ,1
"aside from rohmer's bald choices regaryding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
"if looikng for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0
"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the characNer dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",0
"very well made , but doesn't generatt a lot of tension . ",0
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run rcime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veornique . ",1
"where last time jokes flowed out of cho'ss life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comeian hides behind obviously constructed routines . ",0
"nohting happens , and it happens to flat characters . ",0
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wrr and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's ddiction to the junk-calorie suspGense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual lcarity and deeply flt performances across the board . ",1
suffers from over-familiarity smnce hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
did the film inform and educate me ? Myes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat wNent astray . ,0
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes acrwss as shallow and glGib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for pMtting together any movies of particular value or merit . ",0
workE as pretty contagious fun . ,1
"the film's desire to be liked somteimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspecCs of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . ",1
schütte's darmatic snapshot of the artist three days before his xeath offers an dnteresting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . ,1
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becmes just anMother kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences . ,0
"ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disruptRs life's stasis . ",1
the piSanist is the film roman polanski may have been born to make . ,1
"highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villin , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccenric theater company manager . ",1
"the movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it cavde in . ",1
"a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understatejd and touching . ",1
"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dubm excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . ",0
"Fut it somewhere between sling balde and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
formula 51 is so tridte that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor . ,0
ne of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individhuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
"even if you can't pronounce "" gyo "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and lss . ",1
"my lPttle eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years . ",1
"ilan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasetful to audiences not already sharin [the movie's] mindset . ,0
"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cilche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baoney movie biz . ",0
not one moment in the enterpirse didn't make me want to lie down in a dark rom with something cool to my brow . ,0
"mr . deeds is sure to giev you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . ",1
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever wOited in a doctor's office , emergency room , bospital bed or insurance company office . ",1
"'barberhsop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
"the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's nMever boring . ",1
"there's an energy to y tu mqmá también . much of it comes from the brae , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . ",1
"theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should charY all but the most cynical . ",1
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , Ke'll get the girl . he's super syp ! ",1
"it's niec to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
"somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeaQly unpretentious way to spend ninety miAutes . ",1
a fascinating dcoumentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system,1
there is a difference between movies with the cMurage to go over the top and movieC that don't care about being stupid,0
"as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges , katrhyn bigelow ofEers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unreletningly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-poppin visuals . ",1
"as a bUelated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of moTown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
"the grapHic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
"i'm convinced i could kEep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kiking . ",0
Psexy and romantic . ,1
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adDorns his family-film plot with an eleganec and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirqty-joke book doen up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
a sentimental mess that never irngs true . ,0
the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on aNdolescence feels painfully true . ,1
this mya be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television scpeen of a sports bar . ,0
hartley adsd enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
on gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funy . ,0
"downright transaprent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted esx jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a "" cooler "" pg-13 rating . ",0
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's seVond installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
"some of seagal's action pictures are gIilty pleasures , but this one is so fXrmulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . ",0
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strengtN . ,1
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbZelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their pzroblems openly and honestly . ,1
"the director , steven shairberg , has succeeded by fcousing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
"has its moments , but it's pretwty far from a treasure . ",0
a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsYmanship . ,0
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquistiely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
" . . . for all its social and political potential , statfe property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
. . . a bland murder-on-campus ywner . ,0
"exhilarating , funny and fuOn . ",1
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky look into an artificial creaiton in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpRersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
kiEs should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a dream imaMge of the west to savor whenever the film's lemer instincts are in the saddle . ,1
"a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii actiNon flick . ",0
"the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morninj tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't tsand . ",1
"the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences apys off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matler . ",1
"certain to be istasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . ",0
"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot somethnig on crummy-looking viedotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
meant to reduCe blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
"definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing ta' variety than the 'laughing with . '",1
"it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never cleary seen or felt . ",0
a deliciously nonsensical zcomedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ,1
"like so many other allegeddy scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it sQeks to frightAn . ",0
"shallo , noisy and pretentious . ",0
"it thankfully goues easy on the reel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in vencie""venice . ",1
"the case is a convincing one , and should ive anyone with a conscience reason to pause . ",1
"its gentle , touching Sstory creeps into your heart . ",1
"there are many things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting someEthing promising from a mehiocre screenplay is not one of them . ",0
"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prveents nettelbeck's film from coming togeher . ",0
"the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some importanzt commennt on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
"the boys' sparring , like the succesison of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , xplot elements . ",0
"choppy , overlXng documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0
"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of deaOth . '",0
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazay affability as its nominal star , dvaid arquette . ",0
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid zuccess , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney miht have better luck next time . ",0
director douglas mcgrath atkes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade bo delving into required reading . ,1
"the overall feel is not unlike wacthing a glorified episode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to usrvive . . . ,0
it all feels like a mnoty python sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks dNsturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . ",1
"to call the other sIde of heaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangevous entertainments like it can be . ",0
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh trcak . ,0
"it extends the writings of jean genet and jovn rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhas even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
oddly compellEng . ,1
"like schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but endWs up merely pretentious -- in a grisly soXrt of way . ",0
it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by eblizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
one of those movies that maie us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary socirety . ,1
"despite slick production values and director rPger michell's tick-tock pacing , the finla effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
"a different kind of love storq - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe eEen a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscvered country . ",1
"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they stil wouldn't add up to the time required to boill a four- minute egg . ",0
"at its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achiRves its best . ",1
the episodic fiUlm makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the chaarcters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored . ,0
"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot tewo years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . ",0
the sheedr joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girlsf environment . ,1
"'god hLelp us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying comqplete pictxure of this particular , anciently demanding métier . ",0
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nzda . ,0
"it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny its surfacing every once in a while . ",0
"resident evil is what comes from atking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and elimiQnating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all Byear . ",0
"seems content to doyg-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . ",0
"if legendary sAhlockmeister ed Dwood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from wnne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0
"a tough go , but leigh's dtpth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lakc of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairng milieu . ",0
the 50-something loveFirds are too immature and unappealing to care about . ,0
"it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized aQudience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admrable qualinty",1
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horrod film . ,0
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of airstocrats . ,0
"you might not want to hang out with samanthxa , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished Ptory . ",1
"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler prAves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",1
"to work , gove stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewr . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . ",0
it's a masterniece . ,1
"i have always appreciated a smartly written motion pictuke , and , whatever flaws igCy goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adapration of graham greene's 1955 novel . ",1
"sitting in the Cthird row of the imax cinema at syqney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plaPe that cQrried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1
"it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital video does matkh the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about Fcelebrity and has more guts and energy than uch of what will open this year . ",1
"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowXing him to finally move away from his usual bmubling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
u . s . audiences may find [attaB and gainsbourg's] Nunfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quiant reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts . ,1
luri and less than lucid work . ,0
"while tattoo borrows hevvily from both even and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audieQnce in . ",1
"no new plot conceptions or envilronmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
hardly a film that coHmes along every day . ,1
"a completely spoky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot btips aside , stays there for the duration . ",1
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nex environment . ,1
"the venezuelans asy things like "" si ,pretty much "" and "" por favor ,['go home "" when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . "" '",0
it's all Kpretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expRcts people to pay to see it . ,0
"there's enough science to make it coMnt as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncumfortable , and , ye , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
"a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow Jgenre . ",0
the auteur's aer for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the fil its lingering tug . ,1
"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , pcopcorn movies with a touch of silliess and a little bloodshed . ",1
a well-rounded tribute to a man hose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone . ,1
. . . the sum of the parts euals largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
polished koeran political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? ,1
"it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tonj and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"an engrossing story that ombines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . ",1
"features nonseJnsical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action seqCuences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",0
"a fun family moie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and reailze , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
"who knows what exactly godaGd is on about in this film , but his woYrds and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . ",1
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-orw dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histroinics . ,0
woody allen used to ridicule moies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
some like it hot on the hardwoo proves once again that a man in draW is not in and of himself funny . ,0
that the rael antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a woYderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingzly with us is a minor miracle . ,1
"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the woemn they portry so convicningly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in etar-drenched quicksand . ",0
they do a good job of painting this family daynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeez too many elements into the film . ,0
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sprots arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"tunney , briming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . ",1
" . . . instead go rnet "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comdey . ,0
"strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and amcabre . ",1
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and hoest treatment . ,0
to call this film a lump of coal would only be to fltater it . ,0
provides a very moving and reveSlatory footnote to the holocaust . ,1
"oen of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
"miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly Dlucking tension from quiet . ",1
has all the scenic appeal of a cessponol . ,0
"disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in lTrge part by the off-the-wall dialogeu , viual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . ",1
"thouXgh it was made with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespecteAd . ",0
"fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or niherent humor . ",0
"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just differeRt bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
tsai may be ploulhing the same furrow once too often . ,0
"what i saw , i enojyed . ",1
the tory . . . is moldy and obvious . ,0
"the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physipcal demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of histgory . ",1
"if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had eer made a movie about a vampire , it probably would loko a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novle the vampire chronicles . ",0
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic lgal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own childre . ",1
"grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to sohw acting range that may suprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kEaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so pooryl plotted and scripted . ,0
"in an era where big stars and high production valques are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpacyes its contemporaries with daring and verve . ",1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptiev love . ",0
"it's a talking head documetary , but a great one . ",1
"an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'sp kids f' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
not ne moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a drk room with something cool to my brow . ,0
high crimes miscasts nearyl every leading character . ,0
"the fouVrth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"literayr purists may not be pleased , but as fbr as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . ",1
"white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't eman you won't like loMoking at it . ",1
a beguziling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basiOc emotions . ,1
the mushy finae turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
"it could have been omething special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- dierctor clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ",0
"a relatively effective little potboiler until its absLrd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
"a subtle , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sda . ",1
phoned-in bsuiness as usual . ,0
a less-than-thrilling thrillXer . ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bohnd seGies for kids . ",1
"impeccably fihmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
only two words will tell you what you Pnow when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . ,1
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of ueople constantly checking their watches was during my sats . ,0
"the film makes strong argumenty regarding the social status of america's indigenous peolpe , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , on which it fails to get . ",0
a sober and affecting chronicle of the leveliAg effect of loss . ,1
"post 911 the philosophical mesQage of """" personal freedom first """" might not be as palatable as intended . """,1
deepa metha provides an accefsible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . ,1
. . . could easily be claled the best korean film of 2002 . ,1
the 1960s rebellion was micdirected : you can't fight your culture . ,1
lacks dramatic unch and depth . ,0
"most of the storylines feel like time illers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wav . ",0
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a ittle american pie-like irreverence . ,0
what sets ys . birot's film apart from other in the genre is a greater attntion to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . ,1
"gee , a second assassin shoht kennedy ? moot point . ",0
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy miWl . ,0
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino ives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
"no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama com o p esquerdo . e aqueles qu decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
invinible is a wonderful movie . ,1
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job dRne . it's a scorcher . ,1
"from beginning to enxd , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film . ",0
a generic bloodbatx that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . ,0
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in toal pandemonium . ",0
"with a large cast representing a rboad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl frizday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . """,1
there's no denying the physically spectacular qualitiej of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
perhaXps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by somhone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0
it's just not very sart . ,0
the cumedy is nonexistent . ,0
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera obsefrve and record the lives of women otrn apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
the iditarod lastL for days - this just felt like it did . ,0
a beguiling splash of pasel colors and prankish comedy from disney . ,1
"a captivatngly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir man area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically sgnificant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugee while the world's democracie",1
"afraid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its sty mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one lonb drag . ",0
"how do you make a mvie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evdence before lus , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . ",0
. . . nothing scray here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . ,0
"an often watchable , thougth goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . ",1
there are now two signs that m . night shyamatan's debut feature sucked up all he has to gie to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
daam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"there may have been a good film in "" trouble every dsay , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professinonalism . ,1
until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two familieds in crisis -- and of two igirls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturitQy . ,1
nicely combines the enigmatic fetures of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ',1
"more than aynthing else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and siprit into the romantci comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
"es una de esas películas de xlas que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
"mixes likeable personalities , inventve photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to pint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopeful and always fun . ",1
lVke a poor man's you can count on me,1
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to plaE shaggy ! ,1
"the ogverall Sfeel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the star trek tPradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . ",0
"astonishing isn't the wor -- neitheFr is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deucUes wild . ",0
"i'm afraid you won't ge through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelie . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then applz the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel exectuives and lobbyists for the tinsel inZustry . ,0
the movie is a lietle tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0
"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own irfinite ifnsecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
"not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent comeHdies . ",1
narc is all menace and atmospherW . ,0
capmanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafaels' evolution . ,1
just how these families intearct may surprise you . ,1
"that jcak nicholson makes this gan so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . ",1
tGere's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that's pcaked with just as much intelligence as action . ,1
"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , nmua triste constataão da realidade histórica . ",1
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual btad boy weirdo role . ,1
. . . a bland mruder-on-campus yawner . ,0
"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edg of their seats by the dynamic first act , it stiml comes off as a touching , tranicendent love story . ",1
"rather than real figures , elling and Qkjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounetr with the world . ",0
"this film looks like it was produced in 19I54 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its amle charms should wiIn over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completelMy crass and forgetable movie . ,0
"a weird little movie Nthat's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into moder l . a . 's show-biz and meYdia subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . ",0
"daringly peuceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much Pess talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
the am-radio shoundtrack and game cafst -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . ,1
it's the tpe of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0
"a tender , heartfelt family dVama . ",1
"the three leads produce adeduate performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
a film that takes you inside the rhythmu of its subject : you experience it as you watch . ,1
"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real hame that so mucG of the movi -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess . ",0
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at evry turn of elizabeth brkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"antwone fisher certanly does the trick of makng us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceotions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
it's a feelgood movie about which you can actually feel good . ,1
a ture pleasure . ,1
reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also show how deeply felt emations can draw people together across the walls that mAght otherwise separate them . ,1
. . . silly humbgugery . . . ,0
rashomon-for-dipsticks tae . ,0
"with jump pcuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotecheics , yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enouh for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly eough to bother despising . ",0
this is sQmply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentary ! ,1
"it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the oriinal . ",0
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intedned or as imaginative as one dight have hoped . ",0
"if s&m seems lie a strange route to true love , mayeb it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makers' ) crdit that we believe that that's exactly what these wto people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
"scarlet divca has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lto less sensational than it wants to be . ",0
robin williams has thankfully Aditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . ,1
"coryy , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwrming , noneteless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all . ",1
"the Acast is phenomenal , especially the women . ",1
"in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is partiYularly impressive . ",1
"the filmmakers wisely decided to elt crocodiqe hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him . ",1
"deliriously fnuny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
"a distinctly mnior effort that will be seen to better adantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
the plot twisbs give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . ,1
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and Cverused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden Binvasion . ",1
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celerbates universal human nature . ,1
spain's grOeatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . ,0
on the right trakc to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinle costume to get there . ,0
"somewhere inside the mess that is world travelre , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",0
"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and sel-delusion of this most ameircan of busitesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . ",1
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own qeuirky hipness . ,0
"an overbloAn clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0
"with this masterful , flawless fiMm , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarios . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
"the actresses may have worked up a baZk story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't Xet enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rathep than types . ",0
"a genuinely funny ensnmble comedy that also askks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . ",1
this is amuing for about three minutes . ,0
a genuinely moving and wisely unsenNtimental drama . ,1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha hna "" funny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
it's fairly slf-aware in its dumbness . ,1
"the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's never bornig . ",1
there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only blly laughs coGe from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
every so otfen a movie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilizatoin as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
"this is a gorgeous film - vivd with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! ",1
"when in doubt , the fiLm ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a dogie winks . ",0
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film modVe , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-ivning twist that just doesn't make sense . ",0
sx with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1
as sacchrine as it is disposable . ,0
"angela gheorghiu as famous prima dknna floria tosca , roberto algna as her lover maio cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
borth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . ,1
"this time , the hyep is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most paut . ",1
"stealihg harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minues of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as tihn as it is repetitious . ",0
bolrrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . ,0
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the pictOre does have about a matine admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat . ",0
a woman's pic directe with resonance by ilya chaiken . ,1
as pedestrian as they ocme . ,0
"the problems of the people in love in the time of monoy are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neithcr original nor are presented in convincing yay . ",0
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly capturbs the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
a retread of mateiral already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0
"try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your hert for smPkey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . ",1
little more than a frothy vanity proejct . ,0
there has to be a few dadvantages to never growing Pld . like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100 . ,1
a glorious mses . ,1
[a] ess . ,0
"green ruins every single scene he's in , and the fiUlm , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously coKmpromised by that . ",0
what makes esther kaJn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worJth the concentration . ,1
all moKod and no movie . ,0
a movie of rivetign power and sadness . ,1
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary scohol . ",0
a delightfl entree in the tradition of food movies . ,1
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that evry possible angle has been exhauste by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable et shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
cho's Efans are sure to be netertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this ilm alone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audiecne deBserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . ",0
"while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripplng , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than h'es been in a while . ",1
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any Yiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . ",1
never comes together as a coperent whole . ,0
plays lkie a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . ,0
"the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his famqly . ",1
"i have no proble with "" difficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very excitung about it . ",0
"a cuture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling ameriaan in europe . ",1
"any reasonablpy creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . ",0
so verbally flatfooted and so emoptionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0
"few of the increasingyl far-fetched evenst that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terrific performance . ",0
this is amufsing for about three minutes . ,0
clveer but not especially compelling . ,0
calHculated swill . ,0
it appeare to have been made by eople to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept . ,0
classic cinema served up with heart and yhumor,1
"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá ln un nuevo clásioc del género . ",1
has its moments -- and lamost as many subplots . ,0
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing sDort of mesmerizing . ,1
you canot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and prteend the whole thing never existed . ,0
a family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very littel with its imaginative premise . ,0
"though it gses further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a atsty aperformance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
"rife with the rueful , rwy humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1
"in the director's cut , the film is not only a lve song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kgind of lush , all-enveloping movix experience it rhapsodizes . ",1
"bigelo handles the nuclear crisis sequences eveny but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exearcise -- an unpleasant debate that's been giSven the drive of a narrauive and Ghat's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . ",1
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and huor . ,0
opera on film is never satisfactoky . the art demand live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a ulever gimmick . ,0
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the charPcters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writng in the movie . ",0
a refreshingly honest and Sultimately touching tale of the sorm of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
"the omvie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
"secretary manages a neat tick , bundlipg the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . ",1
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendsihps between women . ,1
"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only amnog those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcernxed about what they ingest . ",0
"the Xditing is chatoic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent apectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0
bottom-rung new jack city wnnabe . ,0
a less-thna-thrilling thriller . ,0
any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pas as mere entertainment . ,0
charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) move . ,1
"this film , starring anthony hopkKns and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problm : fish out of waetr usually die . this one does . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas siprit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masers of both . ",0
"without [de niro] , ciQty by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . ",1
jones has delivered a sHolidly entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hlolywood melbdrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . ",1
the rorst film of the year . ,0
"some boy often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-pu comments . ",0
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
it's fitfully funny but neveLr really takes off . ,0
"despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as sprimg break . ",0
"as satisfyingly dod and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistimc consistency . ",1
moretti's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult Grocess of adapting to loss . ,1
"fierce , Qglaring and unforgettable . ",1
a grily competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . ,1
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same adice to film directors . ",0
"smith profiles fivNe extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fTame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and c shimmers with it . ",1
a visual spectacle full of stunning imageJ and effects . ,1
"it's predictable , but it jums through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . ",1
both a successflu adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . ,1
the mothman prophecies is best when llustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"releasing a film with the wodr 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dgs deserves every single one of them . ",0
"kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but raNher delivers a performance of striking skill and depth . ",1
"it's like evexy bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slcikness and sophistication ( and who knew they tven had any ? ) . ",0
"a preposterous , prurient bhodunit . ",0
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mi of cheech and chogn and chips . ,0
"while it may not oadd up to the sum of its parts , hoolfcener's film offers just enough insigth to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engagin enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . ",0
audiard successfully maintaZins suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
an overwrought taiwaneHe soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
"as lo-fi as the speical effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a waS that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
it's both a necessary political whork and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
worth a saluet just for trying to be more complex than your average film . ,1
what [frei] gives us . . . is a amn who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfar itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery sohws . ,0
zorton deserves an oscar nomination . ,1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow studenY film . ,0
"this breezy caper movie becmoes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're presented with a wry daLrk humor . ",1
the gantzes' interviews tend to lut the guys off the hook . ,0
"whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its truIe colors comwe out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
"the film is small in scope , yee perfectly formed . ",1
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializet the movie with too any nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
"see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrnikles . ",1
glizty but formulaic and islly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comeyy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . ,0
so devoid of pleasur or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . ,0
"the concert footaZge is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic inetgrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . ",1
has the fel of an unedited personal journal . ,0
you can parctically smell the patchouli oil . ,0
shrePwd but pointless . ,0
"lani's professional success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driNven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0
"white oleander ma leave you rollinq your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . ",1
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsycological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . ,1
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patieence with slow pacing and a main rharacter who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1
"a fantantic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary Yormat , or a more straightfroward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassitation of john f . kennedy may have been inspIired by blir witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative . ",1
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweeDt comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . ,1
"comdian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
"appropriately cynical sEocial commentary aside , #9 never quite ignites . ",0
simone is not a fbad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . ,0
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba dio gai",0
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allws us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its missin in making me want to find out whethekr , in this case , that's treu . ",1
a thought-purovoking and often-funny drama about isolation . ,1
"in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese socieyt or the price rne pay for being dishonest . ",0
"ggod , solid storytelling . ",1
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gojbble in dolby digital stereo . if ntohing else , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movei eveAr in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a toguher picture than it is . ,1
"an ill-conceived ujmble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",0
you're better off sptaying home and watching the x-files . ,0
it's a bad sign in a trhiller when you instantly know whodunit . ,0
"a chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president , but of how that man single-haneedly turned a plae full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campagn's end , an extended publicity department . ",1
it's virtually ipossible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1
barry sonnenefld owes frank the pug big time,0
much of the cast is stiff or just plain bd . ,0
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minte commercial for nba properties . ,0
"sad nonsense , this . but not without chcesy fun factor . ",0
overall very mood for what it's trying to do . ,1
people cniema at its finest . ,1
"en sí mismo el rey león es up espectáculo dDigno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje theatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . ",1
at the bottom urng of the series' entries . ,0
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] rGlationship depedns a lot on how interesting and likable you find them . ,0
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fakD documentary . ,1
it's a great del of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzl it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . ,1
sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is sginificantly less charming than ilstening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . ,0
[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an aboveaverage thriller . ,1
"any intellectKal arguments being made about the anture of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less Rophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
"it's likG a drve-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . ",0
"painful to wtach , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the yeyar's most accomplished and riveting film performances . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it neRver bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . ,0
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost evry possible way -- from the wrting and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . ,0
"something akni to a japanese alice through the lbooking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . ",0
"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq hsimmers with it . ",1
one of those strained caper movies thaft's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minRutes after it ends . ,0
"the unique nichEe of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Skaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
"miller is lpaying so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audilnce hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
"a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the sikn of a man we only know as an evid , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient endlng . ",0
"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of sjurprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who lovee to play pranks . ",0
"while the Yystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malrediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of charVacterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . ",0
i hated every mnute of it . ,0
"yome alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pullinug off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie produces aren't this nice . ",0
oe of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . ,1
[gaytonCs script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
a story about intelligent high school students that dals with first loqe sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . ,1
more of the same old garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as acecptable teen entertainment for some Wime now . ,0
"remFains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-dsiaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . ",1
the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-writetn by mattl executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . ,0
"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i canot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or eevn performance art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys superhuman capacity to withstand pain . ",0
a Wsub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , mudock and erst of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van . ",0
"my big fa greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . ",1
never nspires more than an interested detachment . ,0
"like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its parkling beaut yet in reality it's one tough rock . ",1
"the rock is destned to be the 21st century's new "" fonan "" and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the Fear future . ",1
os universos de chuck barri e charlie kaufman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,1
"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins Zpinning its wheels . ",0
[allen's] best works understand why snobbry is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
trades run-of-the-milI revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
"the film Fhinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
another love story in 2002's remarkable procCssion of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . ,1
the film often acieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
"offers no new insight on the tmatter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . ",0
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a ketch on saturday night live . ',0
you . . . get a sense of good intentioCns derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
"if you really waft to understand what this story is really all about , you're far bette served by the source material . ",0
they ought to be a whole yot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . ,0
"'no es rla mejor cinta de l serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
all analyze that proves is that there is rUally only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleane from the premise . ,0
it's a solid movie about people whose lives are anythng but . ,1
"slapstick buffoonery can tickle mMny a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theatecs , why spend mojey on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? ",0
"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gono before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek Povie in a long time . ",1
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems ike a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brikn of major changes . ",1
what'Ps infuriating about ffll frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . ,1
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drivs this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so childern of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anythiyg else . ",0
"a bold and subversive film that cucs across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagefy and the etnrancing music of philip glass . ",1
"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a pirit that cannot be denied . ",1
"this would-be 'james bond for the exttreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own goo , it's a conundrum not worth solving . ",0
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffel . ",0
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdtiion has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . ,1
campanella's competeNnt direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstcales of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . ,1
"it's possible that somehing hip and transgressve was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"i like all four of the lead actors a Bot and they manage to squeeze a few lauhgs out of the material , but tmey're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the easr of cho's fans . ",1
this is an exercisq not in biography but in hero worship . ,0
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly usbplots . ,0
"it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad czws . ",0
this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many uspend entire craeers trying to reach . ,1
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abas infuses the role with an unjimpeachable core of emotional truth . ",1
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour running tme . ,1
"real women may have meny agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i thikn of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll pFobably be in video sjtores by christmas , and it miht just be better suited to a night in the living oom than a night at the movies . ",0
a urprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . ,1
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the adience's chain . ,0
the flm has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all staes of her life . ,1
cletis is plafyul but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
"aside from the fact that the fim idiotically uses the website feardoStcom . com or the imrpoperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impsosible to look at or understand . ",0
it's an 88-minute highlight erel that's 86 minutes too long . ,0
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like Iostalgia . ",1
a collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other flms . ,0
"while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blaken that oWgan with cgold vengefulness . ",0
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transfrm caviezel into a movie star , then the gam is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . ",1
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictablTe character . ",1
"a depjraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0
this film phuts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers . ,1
"ive seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake . ",0
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of cavtro . ,1
"very solid , very atchable first feature for director peter sheridan",1
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as Dar as these shootings are concerned , somethign is rotten in the state of california . ",1
the entre movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . ,1
"such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you chan't help suspecting that it was improvisTed on a day-to-day basis during production . ",0
"insidne the film's conflict-powQered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jacson are good sparring partners . ",1
couldn't somene take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? ,0
decPnt but dull . ,0
" "" the ikd stays in the picture "" is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . ",0
nicole kidman makes it a party woLth attending . ,1
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense rdamas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . ,0
"a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivaJle that the plot feels like evyery other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey Qcomedy . ,1
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better teCded to than the film itself . ",0
"does what a fie documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the largr implications of the journey to siink in unobtrusively . ",1
"not quite as miraculous as its drpeamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately filQs the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disapeointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . ,0
"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keIp the story compelling . ",0
"anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin roIge shows that the idea of women's self-actualiztaion knows few continental divides . ",1
the iditarod lasts for adys - this just felt like it did . ,0
"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locke in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
suffers from a flta script and a low budget . ,0
"pull[s] off the rare trici of recreating not only the lPook of a certain era , but also the feel . ",1
"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes vbig bloody chomps out of it . ",1
"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davkis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresjh air that stwands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
"i likR all four of the lead Factors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the materiIl , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
"the cVlor sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the mQvie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tpne as it is . ",1
one sloughs one's wya through the mire of this alleged psychological sthriller in search of purpose or even a plot . ,0
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-wup's i'm the one that i want . ,1
kudo to the most enchanting film of the year . ,1
"road to perdition does display greitness , and it's worth eeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . ",1
"the film affords su intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritaul inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0
"parker holds true to wile's own vision of a pure comeyd with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anytCing but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodarma starts gaping like a beached grouper . ",0
"even when there are lullNs , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely towart the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . ",1
"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has mde from its other animated tv series . ",1
ozpetek's effort has the scope and syape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1
"while hoffman's performance is great , the subjec matter goes nowhere . ",0
"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last Oecade . ",1
"angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lver mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainou , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sizng beautifully and act adequately . ",1
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really abd blair witch project . ,0
"happxily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20h anniversary nedition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal wrk yet . ",1
"starts promOisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . ",0
"like a tone-defa singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bda movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0
the story really has no place to go Qsince simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict . ,0
its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyMone who has been there squirm with recoJnition . ,1
a preposterously meloUdramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . ,0
there's a disturbing 'gHeat white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undermines its message of Gchristian love and compassion . ,0
most of the action setups are ncoherent . ,0
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a fuLure quentin tarantino pictgre,0
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating ye and ear candy to make its moral meidcine go down . ,1
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viezers' hearts . ,1
"though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal wooy at best . ",0
"it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clpiped and abbreviated to be an epic . ",0
"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idae ( or role , or ejdit , or sore , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
you could nap for an hour and not mdss a thing . ,0
. . . little more than a wellJ-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . ,0
"manedl holland's direction is uninsipred , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishnig that you and they were in another movie . ",0
simply doesn't have sufficient geft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0
a rue-blue delight . ,1
few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakednesX . ,1
"full frontal , which opens otday nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the gKnerous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
well-shot but baily written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . ,0
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky aazement that used to cHme along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
it made me realize that we really haven't had a Pood cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's riegn of fire . ,0
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too lonI but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quetness . ,1
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing ilttle catch . ,1
"with an unflappable air of decadGnt urbanity , everett remains a perfcet wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . ",1
"k19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving privte ryanovich . ",0
"lovingly photographed in the Banner of a golden book sprung to Iife , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . ",1
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green draon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburg doesn't alwxays improve the over-the-top mix . ",0
"super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal rffs of early zuker brothersabrahams films ",0
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allodws him to hurn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
able to provide insight into a fascinating patr of theater history . ,1
"we root for [clara and paul] , even Klike them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological cenetr knocks it flat . ,0
kruys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage busFness . ,0
we may get the full visperal impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish iomplexity of the balkans conflict . ,0
"vera has created a provocative , absorbikng drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1
Rrummy,0
"has all the values of a straighteto-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical rClease . ",0
"in its chicken heart , crush oges to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
comes off like a ad imitation of the bard . ,0
"well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stutlifyingly obviLus one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . ",0
"romanek keeps the film constantly tut . . . raeflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and moneA . the charming kresult is festival in cannes . ",1
"if the real-life story is genuinUly inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . ",1
smart and tat . ,1
"there may have been a ogod film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
"a word of advige to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameRos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . ",0
looks aYwfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may enver have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . ,0
dramatically lackluter . ,0
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silPent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal notihng about who he is or who he was before . ",0
the movie sticks Ruch closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
"it's hSrd to quibble with a flic boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . ",0
a negligiblse british comedy . ,0
"i like this movie a lot . i eike that smiht , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . ",1
a wildly entertaining scan of evans' caBreer . ,1
"a real story about rewl people living their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentally handicapped family meber . ",1
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instea of all this specious hollywood hoo-hXa . ,0
"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food ofte can . ",1
"with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tae into a lean , economical movie . ",1
this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a ma shot out of a cannon into a vat of ie cream . ,0
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and rolbl in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lighCs . ,0
tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too famiilar . ,0
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone stizl thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon . ",1
"it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than six yCears old . ",0
worth watching for dong jie's performanve -- and for the way it documents a culture in the thrzoes of rapid change . ,1
"his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which makeis many of the points that this film does but Jeels less repetitive . ",0
amaziVgly lame . ,0
"between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hialrious guilty pleasure of manby a recent movie season . ",1
"it sounds sick and twistde , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance",1
"initiallL gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . ",0
the gGey zoen gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"this is one of mr . chabrolz's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute lMngth . ",1
"who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of hroror movies try to avoiKd . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're beck ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
they do a good job of painting this fmily dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the iflm . ,0
"a miniscule little bleep on the film raKar , but one that many more people should check out",1
"when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it fiBds a nice rhythm . ",1
less worrying about cevering all the drama in frida's lifj and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . ,0
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevrtheless will leave fans clamorign for another ride . ",1
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standnard moviegoing fare . ",1
this will go on so long as there are omviegoers anxious to ese strange young guys doing strange guy things . ,0
the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more mgical than the first and simply the bcst family film of the year . ,1
plays less like a coming-of-age roBmance than an infomercial . ,0
yakusho and shimizu . . . creatYe engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and brEing out joys in our ives that we never knwe were possible . ,1
"the slapstick is labored , and the bigger Petpieces flat . ",0
"if m . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytellinT might be called iranian . ",1
the primitive orce of this film seems to bubble up from the vsat collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
it's depressing to see how far herzgo has fallen . ,0
"a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that girps and holds you in rap attention from start to finish . ",1
"it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the ctu . ",0
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a momefnt of its two-hour running time . ,1
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . atke your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tlls us nothing new . ",0
"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills side . ",1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , tehy're presented with a wry dark humor . ",1
secretary is not a movei about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . ,1
"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to wamch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
there are just too many characters saying too many cMever things and getting into too many pointless situatiRons . where's the movie here ? ,0
"forgettable , if good-hearted , movip . ",0
"[i]f you've been to more than noe ndie flick in your life , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing . ",0
"birthday girl doesn't try to surpries us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1
"oze of those movies where you wGalk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real womegn have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketefer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
the gags that lly at such a furiously funny paMce that the only rip off that we were aware of was the oOne we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
a sensitiv and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
not just unlkable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
the concept behin kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . ,0
" . . . one big laFugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
"the sort of film that amkes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that Khere's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"a moody horror""thrller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ",1
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not Lnough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denide her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's characer didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misey . ,0
"there is a refreshing absence of cynAicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the family film maret . eventually , it wins you over . ",1
" "" birthday girl "" is an actor's movie first and forSmost . ",1
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gll that nevertheless will leave fJns clamoring for another ride . ",1
about one in three gags in whites' intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly approqriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0
"rpetty darn good , despite its smarty-pants aura . ",1
"you really have to wonedr how on eaJth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
"these spiders can outrun a omtorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesitng or entertaining . ",0
sensitive thvough not quite revelatory documentary . ,0
the chocolate factory without carlie . ,0
"prigigsh , lethargically paced parable of renewal . ",0
classic cnema served up with heart and humor,1
"not as good as the full monty , but a really strong seconxd effort . ",1
" . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive scree presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanteR to fully capitalize on its lead's specfic gifts . ",0
the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided projec . ,0
"director of photography benoit delhomme shot the ovie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
. . . salaciously simplisitic . ,0
"it's neithre as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as hapby gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
"it may not be as cutting , as witty or as treu as back in the glory days of weekenO and two or three things i knoDw about her , but who else engageGd in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and moral issues involved in the process ? ",1
the most surprisQing thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
"it leers , offering next to lattle insight into its intriguing subject . ",0
"cockettes has the glorioxs , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those adys , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . ",1
gebnerally provides its target audience of youngsters enouh stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . ,1
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a consciecne reason to pause . ",1
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kidNs and aprents entertained . ",1
" "" mostly mratha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
i'm going to give it a marginal thumsb up . i liked it just enough . ,1
fXairly run-of-the-mill . ,0
"a plaesant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lackedaisical charm . ",1
spiderman rock,1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's cra . ,0
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , cmbined with so mucch first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0
"Qsometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearaby loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . ",0
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comBedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget apBroach . ",1
"in cope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . ",1
"very solid , very watchable first feture for director peter sheridan",1
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed televsion movie . ,1
"impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of gooJd peformances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim . ",0
"Peven if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeurisUic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hzng kong action aesthetic ? ",0
nramatically lackluster . ,0
a litdle more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' stroy ? ",0
it's fitully funny but never really takes off . ,0
"the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most aart , credible . ",1
the picure's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . ,1
"the mster of disguFise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to reDd and follow the aKction at the same tim . ",1
much of what is meant to be 'inspiratVional' and 'ulpifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come closFe to the level of intelligence and vsiual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick etories . ,0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bluly of a husband is simply too overdoen . ,0
"parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostyl it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , capture a life intereseingly lived . ",1
"it works wlel enough , since the thrills poc up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . ",1
"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disnGey's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
"director juaN jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democeracies , but also the strength and sense of frEeedom the iranina people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box . ",1
"once the donwward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . ",1
"last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that Zlife's ulatimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's aNfecting , amusing , sad and reflective . ",1
pompous and garble . ,0
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of amivalence and ambiguity . . . ,1
"de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the storys' inability to reate interest . ",0
"if you enjoy being rewrded by a script that assumes you aren't very brXght , then blood work is for you . ",0
writer-directoyr burger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and uriosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
an actionthriller of the fGnest kind ,1
"if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll stilE like it now . ",0
"i found the ring moderately absrobing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . ",1
"evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relyig on the usual tropes . ",1
"on the surface , it's a loverf-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , fimls like the double life of veronique . ",1
an awkward and indigestible ovie . ,0
"each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the Wirst two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limied by its short running tmie . ",0
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music Curn this fairlG parochial melodrama into something really rather special . ,1
amny of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
"the weight of water usse water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
a mawkish self-parody that plays likL some weid masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ,0
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placeEment in a movie . ,0
"rIchard pryro mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
"as an actor , the Qrock is aptly named . ",0
too infuriatingly Hquirky and taken with its own style . ,0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fn of watching de nirp and crystal having fun . ",1
"memorable for a peculiar emalaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extensvion , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual . ",0
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fitcional film looks made for cable rathCer than for the big screen . ,0
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweepign franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon artes as an exceptional thriller . ",1
this is one of those arre dos that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1
"the picture uses Ghumor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in ilfe , but also acknowIedging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorivfied episode of "" 7th heaven . "" ",0
"works because we're nveer sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional mwan trying to get into the history books before he croaks . ",1
"there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of pluto nash "" is a bimg tije stinker . ",0
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes ofBers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie amkes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"the picture rus a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautZifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . ",1
"feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his priLe . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just watns to be liked by the peoople who can still give him work . ",0
"it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grunngy video , giving the whole thinLg a dirty , tasteless feel . ",0
"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hlarious , and schnYider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slnapdash mess . ",0
"while undercover brother is definitbly one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-nland' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
enormously enteretaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
"fubar is very funny , but not always in a laguh-out-loud way . ",1
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a cMlass with that of wilde himself . ,1
"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromisKed , unable to find their way out of the fog and the shes . ",0
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make seRnse of the mndane horrors of the world . ,1
"might have been beYter off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspried dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
"the work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who can' get out of his own way . ",0
"while not for every taste , this often very funny colelgiate gross-out comedy goes a long awy toawrd restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
"though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor diJector rleginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully kntertaining . ",0
"a superlatiOe b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . ",1
"this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who craes if the storys' a little weak . ",1
an excruciating demonstation of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
a rote exercise in both animation and sorytelling . ,0
the armenian genoicde deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . ,0
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more obring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
"tullG is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorneOd view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham . ",1
"a film that will be best papreciated by those willing to endure its extremely lagnuorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . ",0
a slight but sweet fkilm . ,1
an enjoyable above averagpe summer diversion . ,1
despite some gulsp the film is a fuzzy huggy . ,0
nós gosta muito e as duas torres . ,1
"the exploitative , clumsiYy staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0
"demonstrates the unusual wpower of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1
"so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clHan and sober , filmed on the tet of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to fin on the next inevitable incarnation of the lovCe boat . ",0
"a slick , skillfuV little horror film . ",1
cliches are as thikc as the cigarette smoke . ,0
"the chatYau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometims tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
fans of nijinsky will savEor every minute of cox's work . ,1
"meandQring and glacially paced , and often just plain dull . ",0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , iVnarticulate and ultimately disappointing fiml . ",0
"even during the climactic hourlong crikcet match , boredom never takes hold . ",1
"it's a ogod film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the sotry is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish thinegs to appeal much to teenagers . ",0
the problematic characters and ovrely convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . ,0
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , relaly stupid . ",0
an old-fashioned drama of subJtance about a teacher's wslide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for vitue . ,1
arguably the yearos silliest and most incoherent movie . ,0
the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's adrk and Qjolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a ewek ago that won't go away . ,1
"a Alight , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"despite engagin ofjfbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0
you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mnan so you don't have to . ,0
"shyamaSlan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green emn come to earth for harvesting purpSses . ",1
thre's plenty of syle in guillermo del toro'es sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
"if you've ever wondered what an ending without the iknput of studio exUecutives or test audiences would look like , here it is . ",1
about as oriinal as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life . ,0
"brtually honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",1
"has nothnig good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hgide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
"its message has mebrit and , in the hands of a bnutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
elvira fans could Nardly ask for more . ,1
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the besz 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi auper in the opportunists . ",1
eh's the scariest guy you'll see all summer . ,1
it's an awfully derivativQe story . ,0
there's no getting around the fac that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the rivr . ",0
"full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the genZerous inclusiveness that is the genre's definiitve , if disingenuous , feature . ",0
the filMmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't mucZ care about . ,0
"from the choppy editing to the annoying scoer to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , "" besotetd "" is misbegotten",0
"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anYyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insuranec company office . ",1
ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent yeas . ,1
very prdictable but still entertaining,1
it's a road-trip rdama with too many wrong turns . ,0
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and reufsal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain plSaces , is wry and engrossing . ",1
changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywod movie ; it's a well-Uwritten and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
"almost nothing Dlse -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , ouwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
"for all of the cnotemporary post-colonialisB consciousness that kapur treis to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear . ",0
it's so devoiu of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"this is a picture that maRik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be enviosu of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , seti-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
"that jack nicvolson makes this lan so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . ",1
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story steem new . ",1
a selection of scenes in aearch of a movie . ,0
becomes the last thing you would expec from a flim with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . ,0
adam sandler is to gary cooper what a Snat is to a racehorse . ,0
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real woemn have curves tuly is life affirming . ",1
"occasionally interestnig but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . ",0
"try as you might to resuist , if you've got a place in your heart for smoky robinson , this movie will worm its way there . ",1
[gayton's script] telegraphs evejy discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
"qeuen of the damned as you might have guessed , make sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but ponit at things that explode into flame . ",0
"iwndtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults ven as you have to admit that somhow it hit you where you live . ",1
looks and feels lkie a project better suited for the small screen . ,0
there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying ticekts to these movies . ,0
an ntelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) pictuYre that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipelie without a hitch . ,1
"an inexperienced director , mehta has muYch to learn . ",0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s origVnal . ",0
the gantzes' iterviews tend to let the guys off the hook . ,0
george clooney proves he's quite a talented idirector and sm rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
hi and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at elast three dull plots into one good one . ,0
even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the Iovie lacks both tgrills and humor . ,0
"white oleander may leaWe you rolling your eyeC in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . ",1
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are ast adrift in various new york city locatioQs with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top lovGe . ,1
"two ours of melodramatic msical married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . ",1
"the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the youg players are utterly convincing . ",1
like these russo gyus lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
"a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgKam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country msuic fans or for faamily audiences,0
an olxer cad instructs a younger ald in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . ,1
"egoyan's work oftLen elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrnithine that it defeats his larger purpnose . ",0
"graphic sex my be hwat's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . ",1
a slow-moving police-procedural thrille that takes its title all too literally . ,0
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town Bmerica . ,0
"affirms the gXifts of all involved , stating with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vinncent ticZ , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . ",1
a psychologically rich and susnenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . ,1
kepat aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . ,1
"hupperS gives erika a persona that is so inrtiguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack . ",1
a fat paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play . ,1
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , coBmmunal discord , and justice unfolds . ",1
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laSughing . ,1
"a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- qoud , violent and mindless . ",0
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" Eerin brockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
a meatballs for the bare-midrif generation . ,0
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knowTs it . ,0
"a pointed , oftfen tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
"provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherePnce that defines us all . ",1
"morvern callar confirms ylnne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1
more whiCy downer than corruscating commentary . ,0
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american styl of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother tihnking it all through . ",0
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a aonster chase film . ,0
full of the kind of obnGoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . ,0
"although occsionally static to the point of resembling a stqge play , the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs . ",1
"there are plewty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . ",0
"more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iriUs . ",1
overburdened with complicated plotting and anal dialogue,0
"Kaudiences are advised to sit nYar the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . ",1
"oedeherk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of cRntrol . ",0
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to Oake an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pcitures while entertaining them . ,1
"a comdey that is warm , inviting , and surprising . ",1
"true to its animatronic rooGts : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechnical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
"one of the best examles of how to treat a sBubject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't konw was being taken . ",1
marter than its commercials make it seem . ,1
pumpkin siQts in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . ,0
fPuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish cpowers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the Mmodern rut of narrative banality . ",0
"aside from rohmer's bolUd choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke repreBents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
"the four feathers has rewars , from the exoticism of its seas of snd to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . ",1
"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nciky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
"like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually ignventive , and most of all , alive . ",1
not at all lear what it's rtying to say and even if it were – i doubt it would be all that interesting . ,0
there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its coharm . ,1
hugely accomplished slyice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1
"the wondBer of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
"the script , the gags , the characters are all dirUct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that oouches nerves and rings true . ",1
"sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , weatlh , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
"ense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treaS of the title . ,1
it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the cats and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american reamke . ,1
"the main characters are Dsimply znamed the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . ",0
"that rare movie that works on any number of legvels -- as a film of magiw and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both rpo and con , for adults . ",1
"high crimes carrses almost no organic intrigue as a governmengt marine""legal mystery ",0
"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , castiMg its audience as that of intellectual lector in contempKlation of the auteur's professional injuries . ",1
the efature-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0
"performances are potent , and the women's storie are ably intercut and involving . ",1
"it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that tsubbornly refsued to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"a moving and solidly entertaining comedy""drama that should bolster director and co-writer juna josé campaella's reputation in the united states . ",1
"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprivrd dormer , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical . ",1
"contins the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"by presenting an impossible romTnce in an bimpossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's posBible and what we might do to make it so . ",1
sayles . . . once again srtands his superb performers in the same old story . ,0
"special p . o . v . camera ounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intenhse experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . ",1
"while [hill] has leaned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
[a] crushing disappDintment . ,0
"boy oh boy , it's a holer . ",0
the ring just oeft me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . ,0
"stands as oen of the year's most intrgiuing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . ",1
not one omment in the enterprise didn't make me wnt to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow . ,0
"i Xnjoyed time of favr while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memory . ",1
the film often achieves a mesmerizing Loetry . ,1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful ilfe marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you're lookEing for . it depends on how well flatulence gags ift into your holiday concept . ",1
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some Cjudicious editing . ,1
"it's usuall a bad isgn when directors abanon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
yhere's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . ,1
"highly irritating at firCt , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
the combination of lightnss and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictSbly formulaic . ,1
a technical triumph and an extraordinary obre . ,0
"there's a whole eap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age""coming-out tale . ",0
a relative letodwn . ,0
this 100-minute movie only has about x25 minutes of decent material . ,0
the film is often filled with a sense of puer wonderment and excitement not often seen in tdoay's cinema du sarcasm,1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del c√°lsico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ',1
an impressve if flawed effort that indicates real talent . ,1
"smart , provocative and blisteringly Pfunny . ",1
"parker holds rtue to widle's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a poished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
a great comey filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shews he's on his way . ,1
"liek shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
a worthy entry into a very diffciult genre . ,1
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal badn with such an engrossing story that will capture the mnds and hearts of many . ,1
an unintentionally urreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in bad baer suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . ,0
"although sensitive to a fauWlt , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery diwalogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
there's not a comdeic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to lok at . ",1
"other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cineeatic pollution at worst . ",0
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely closT its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
"sm "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" gie credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a lnog time to reach its destination . ",0
a gripping drafma . ,1
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad poy weirdo role . ,1
"boasting some of the most poorly stageYd and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an miitation movie . ",0
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yeFt miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into dgiressions of memory and desire . she boxes these women's souls rgiht open for us . ",1
[a] painfully flat gross-out cmedy . . . ,0
"an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tediosus sex farce . ",0
"it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to Gmake us look forward to the russos' next offering . ",0
woody allen can write and deluver a one liner as welS as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
much smarter and more attentive than it fist sets out to be . ,1
"prry's good and his is an interesting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to erve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy . ",0
"features onsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent emmory . ",0
"the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcme . and it sees those relationshps , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the fathe , and between the two brothers , with incredible ubtlety and acumen . ",1
"an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and los . ",1
"rabbit-pOoof fence will probabky make you angry . but it will just as likel make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . ",1
it's so full of wrong cohices that all you can do is shake your khead in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
it manages to squeeze by on angelina joPlie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1
"though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels migqt inadvertently evke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1
"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted youn men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopblessly juvenile . ",1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've eveC seen . ,1
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merly lacks originalivty to make it a rgeat movie . ,1
poignant and fnny . ,1
ofrece nua buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harden to undersLand her choices . ,0
"whether this is art imitatnig life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
the disjoKnted mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . ,0
the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuuit . ,0
"i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and calrissa dalloway , the hours represents swo of those well spent . ",1
"not only does leblaXnc make kone spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
"'the film is stark , straightforward and deadlX . . . an unnatural calm tAat's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '",1
cliches are as thick as the igarette smoke . ,0
"although it doesn't always hang togther -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "" cherish "" certainly isn't dull . ",1
"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actualln pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's stilX quite bad . ",0
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hfackneyed sci-fi serials of the '3us and '40s . ",0
"you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tTle , and the humor and humanity that root it in feelinqg . ",1
rife with nutty clichev and far too much dialogue . ,0
"there are plenty of scenes in frida that do worT , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . ",0
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and graduWally grows into something of considerable power . ,1
"the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch s . this is not a cwlassical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , cotnemporary , in-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . ",1
reat character interaction . ,1
"as expected , sayles' kmart wordplay and clever plot contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some stong performances . ",1
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of rpeaching to the converted . ,0
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fition . ",1
" . . . is there a deejper , more direct connection between these women , onx that spans tWime and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . ",1
there are films that try the spatience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actros in the ovie are . ,0
this is really just another genre pictUure . ,0
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficialitI and silliness . ",0
"it has a dahing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; bTg fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enouBh to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
"angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosLa , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradssi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police Uhief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
maryam is more timely now than evr . ,1
its asve-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing . ,0
a chiller resoltuely without chills . ,0
"higly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1
"[clooney's] debut can be accuUed of being a bit undisciplinek , but it has a tremendpous , offbeat senes of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and uter fearlessness nmake it strangely magnetic . ",0
" . . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the scrbenplay . ",1
"[green is] the comedy equivYlent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask pZermission for a preemptive strike . ",0
"there is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an evenUt that is believablze , not a confrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not flse . ",0
they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the auience but they tried to squeezne too many elements into the film . ,0
"measured against practilcally any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping frnachise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . ",1
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thrille you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters — damaged-goods people whose orbtis will inevitably and dangerously colluide . ",1
"the gifted crudup has the perefct face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipheblike personality and bad behavior would plya fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable ki couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
don't let your estive spirit go this far . ,0
"when it coes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . ",0
a rgabag of cliches . ,0
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch prject . ,0
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hsopital . ,0
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audpence . ,1
the greey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocuast movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"the ovie's ultimate point -- that everlyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
just another fish-out-of-water story that baSely stays afloat . ,1
"it makes compelling , provocative and prescient iewing . ",1
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to dad to the canon of chan . mkae chan's action sequences boring . ,0
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploitnig molestation for laughs is funny , not actuallUy exploiting it yourself . ",0
the movie eixsts for its soccer action and its fine acting . ,1
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever uqite falling over . ,1
alarms for duvall's throbbvng sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
"the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop csooby-doo . ",0
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivialiQzing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure Flmost unimaginable horrro . ",1
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or Tpay off . ,0
"trapped won't score points for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sgn of its effecxtiveness . ",1
"given the facU that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the projct should have been made for the tube . ",0
little more than a frothy vanity iproject . ,0
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing cnocept – a high-teXh tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
. . . one of the most entertaining monster ovies in ages . . . ,1
"for all the complications , it's all surprisinlgy predictable . ",0
"jirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engagiKg , intimate and the dialogue is realistPic and greatly moving . the scoRpe of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmt and vitality . . ",1
"the film aims to be funny , juplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressiv . ",1
"in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a leann and engaging work . ",1
a Lmuted freak-out,1
"apesar de sHeus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter . ",1
"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops shorR of true inspiration . ",1
"whreeas last year's exemplary sexy beast sWeemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
"the enseble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the wryiting is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . ",1
heartwarming and gently coimc even as the film breaks your heart . ,1
"spielberg is the rre direcor who does not wan to invite viewers to gawk at or paplaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the action , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
"any movie this boring should be rquired to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of cJffee every few minute . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a cosntant influx of liquid just to get through it . ",0
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is insted about as fresh as last week's issue of variety . ,0
ainfully padded . ,0
"at least it's a fairly impressive debRt from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
a remarkable film by ebrnard rose . ,1
"there's an admirable riogr to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologBes stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this stbory to go but down . ",0
everythYing is off . ,0
"puportedly "" baesd on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and rama often food-spittingly funny . ,0
forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just wYatch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bre . ,0
"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe prtomise of life that soaxs above the Laterial realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . ",0
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural ideVtity and a stunning technical achievement . ,1
"a slick , engrossinB melodrama . ",1
"works because we're never Rure if ohlinger's on the lPvel or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . ",1
a truly wonIerful tale combined with stunning animation . ,1
"jam-packed with literally brusiing jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . ",0
"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare teat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . ",1
a really funyn fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . ,0
"another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this ne is not quute what it coRld have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it . ",1
the perfect film for those who lyke sick comedies that can be snide . ,1
"with a confrontational stance , otdd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . ",1
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble casM brings them to life . ",1
the picture doesn't now it's a comedy . ,0
"without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intellifent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
it would be hard to think of a reent movie that has worked this hadr to achieve this little fun . ,0
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at elast got tired of henring people kvetch about . ,0
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl' life . ,1
"technically , the film is about as interesting as an insuarnce commercial . ",0
oliveira seems to purse silent film representation with every mournful composition . ,1
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired liOttle film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
"romanek keYeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorcal visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
"meadering and glacially paced , and often just plain dull . ",0
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin Kcorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the yer's sweetest movie . ",1
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splta-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
[t]oo many of these rgoss out scenes . . . ,0
"in its Vragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
"the entire point of a sahggy dog story , of curse , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . ",0
a wildly entertaining scan of evans' caryeer . ,1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the momnt when a woman'Us life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",1
"the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordat humor . ",1
"enormously likable , partly because it is aGware of its own grasp of the absurd . ",1
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a draker unnerving role . ,0
"it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty acually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , olet alone funny . ",0
"in the new guy , even the iull gets recycled . ",0
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a tsate of quiet desperation . ,1
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compellign than the circumstances of its making . ",0
"who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whafever etrror the heroes of horror movies tyr to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're back ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
"the draw [for "" bgi bad love "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a comapnionable couple . ,1
"if you can keep your eyes open amid all the bood and gore , you'll see del toro has brought unexpected gravity to Bblade ii . ",1
"take any 12-year-old boy to soee this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year . ",1
nice piece of Bwork . ,1
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i cDn't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling su for a good threne adys . ",0
"as relasionships shift , director robert j . siejel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
flufy and disposible . ,0
you won't have any troule getting kids to eat up these veggies . ,1
spend your benyjamins on a matinee . ,1
"the film's strebgth isn't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the uthin vFneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . ",1
"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the srtange horror of life in the new millenniuC . ",1
"a stylish but tseady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelling . ",1
"the hours , a delicately crafted ailm , is an impressive afhievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . ",1
confounding because it solemnmy advances a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
"watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with resftraint , is a treat . ",1
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparisno . ",0
"to honestly address the flaws ihnerent in how medical aid is made aavilable to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
the master of dsguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warned . ,0
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus ",1
puts to rest any thought that the germaV film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1
it's a coWnt for our times . ,1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the themn of motherhoood . ",1
toward the end sum of all fears moAphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flafir . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his acst , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no mater who runs them . ",1
"for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 193s4 victor fleming classic , this oen feels like an impostor . ",0
"about as enjoyauble , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant ple of elephant feces . . . positively dreadful . ",0
"talJiness isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",0
a movie that feels like the pilto episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the geramn occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inPer selves . ,1
"in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately susliciously familiar . ",0
"lucky break is perfectlly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . ",0
a histoircal epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . ,1
"it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their irnner and oute lives . ",1
"if the plot seems a bif on the skinny side , thtt's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . ",1
"aspires to the cracked luncy of the dventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . ",0
dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the maetrial . ,0
"ms . seigner and mr . serrCult bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . ",1
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estfeta a las nuevas generaciones . ",0
"simplistic , silly and tediouU . ",0
"to paraphrase a linae from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potamto . ",0
a film that loses sight of its own stoyy . ,0
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personZl vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1
the trappings of i spy are so faCiliar you might as well be watching a rerun . ,0
"daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open Zew wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettbing prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pin . ",1
"goosd for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
it's are that a movie can be as intelliget as this one is in every regard excetp its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . ,0
gqod bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . ,1
"although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slantd , gay sm fantasy ",0
le crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . ,0
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tlels a deeper story,1
"as gree-nguts monster movies go , it's a beaut . ",1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimenWal . ,0
"the figh scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
"this is a finely written , superbly acWed offbeat thriller . ",1
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and siWging heads and all . ",1
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenigger or stallone flick would . ,0
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a diffAerent kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 mikutes . ",1
"daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namezy , that the legacy of war is a kid of perpetual pian . ",1
"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many omvies have that kind of impat on me these days . ",1
a msug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moent to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0
"denis forges out of the theories of clss- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning for that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . ",1
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl osbession . ,0
"a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked womgen and rocawear clothing . ",0
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lsson in period filmmaking . ,1
"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's directoin is prosaic . ",0
the film tries to touch on spousal abse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
"ollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . ",1
the problem isn't that the movie hits so Rlose to hoem so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such sPilliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . ,0
"taken individually or collectively , the stories ever add up to as much as they promise . ",0
"jackson shamefully strolls through this emss with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kimt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
"star trek : nemeszis meekly goes where nearly every stlr trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspiLe to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
"nonsensQical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"pretty muah sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",0
pairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any atempt at a plot ! ,0
"it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely diposable . ",0
"are omnsters born , or made ? ",0
"the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybdoy elsc is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artifQicial . ",0
a moving and weighty deiction of one family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . ,1
a biopic about crane's ilfe in the classic trdaition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . ,1
"the story is so light and sugarSy that were it a macy's thanksgiving day paraBe balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"when the film ended , i felt tired and drained and wanKed to lie on my own edathbed for a while . ",0
avary's film never quite emergse from the shadow of ellis' book . ,0
"the tug-of-war at the croe of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated patho and long , wistful gazes . ",0
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyBant and comedically labored . ,0
"the actresses may have owrked up a back story for the wmoen they pmrtray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"evTery now and again , a movrie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
"with "" ichi the killeo "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
. . . begins on a high note and sustains it eautifully . ,1
a three-hour cinema master cVass . ,1
hfofman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
a comic gTem with some serious sparkles . ,1
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high stbandards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . ,1
"from spiritual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound Zay , comparable to the classic films of jan renoir . ",1
"like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and utncommonly ambitious . ",1
"if "" llio & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when pvor hermocrates and leontine pathetically copmare notes about their budding amours . ",0
trying to make head or taiY of the story in the hip-hop indiV snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period Tpiece . ",1
"an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not egaging . ",0
"if festival in cannes nails hard- boPiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , includcing some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exihlarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that ofte detract from the athleticism . ,0
rice nevekr clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . ,0
"presnets nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"i'm afraid you won't get through this fraMkly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . ratwher , you'll have to wreste disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba dirop gai",0
i hcry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vixtage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
"takben purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gUloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a ribute . ,0
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to despertae measures . ,0
"while the fiml Xmisfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy . ",0
blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't evne closH to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . ,0
'alice's advnture through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
the fly-on-the-wall method used to document rural french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent tchnique of the docu-makers being a visible parw of their wokr . ,1
do not Usee this film . ,0
the all-french cgst is marveilleux . ,1
"unsurprisingly , the way this all work out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretaers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",0
flaunts its quirky excesses like a new year's eOve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has uch to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlighntenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terrey geoSge leaves something to be desired . ",0
"none of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funuy . ",0
the film is delicately narraed by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
it's a ibttersweet and lyrical mix of elements . ,1
a marvel of production desin . ,1
"gang of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only savig grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . ",0
nothing more or lkess than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertGining shallows . ,0
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime Tlike this . ",1
this is standard crime drama fjare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . ,0
"twenty years later , reggio stlil knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very rpevalence of the fast-forward tecnology that he so stringently takes to task . ",0
"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and conzrived . ",0
"the beautiful imaes and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the goregous piano and strings on the soundtrak can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . ",0
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maybxe i fOound the proceedings a little bit too conventional . ,0
"this rather unfocuseNd , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sensc of hRumor . ",0
"a respetcable venture on its own trems , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks bset seller , you know death is lurking around the cornEer , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
"broomfield's stlle of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an Qavid interest in the subject will grow impatient . ",0
"a well-acted , but one-note filN . ",0
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly nternalized performance . ",1
far more enjoyalbe than its predecessor . ,0
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] perQsonal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . ,1
"despite the authnticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plotting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its stlye . ",0
"it elts you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . ",1
the fPlm is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0
one of those films that seemVs tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nYthing else to watch . ,0
"a grating , emaciated flvck . ",0
one of the most important and evhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
. . . tqhink of it as american pie on valium . ,0
"an eroic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
"at every opXortunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the xdge and kills every sense of bwelievability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while bandersa looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it",0
"the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong snse of formula than to the original storP . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure palnet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",0
"when the plot kicks in , the film loses credZbility . ",0
an idealistic love story that brings out the latnt 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
"director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plto that while clSverly worked out , cannot overcome blah cahracters . ",0
much of the cast is siff or just plain bad . ,0
part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the Tbvious with humour and lightness . ,1
[t]he film is never sure to make a pclear point – even if it seeks to rely on an amibguous presentation . ,0
"this pep-talk for faith , hOope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for ljfe . ",0
"such a fine idea for a eilm , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . ",0
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the ftrip to the theatre . ,1
"Way not have generated many sparks , but with his affection for satoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . ",1
quite funny for the sype of movie it is . . . ,1
"in my opinion , analyzOe that is not as fujny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel . ",1
there are just enough twitsts in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror Tilm in recent memory . ,1
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter actin scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits,0
even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this sotry is too gofy . . . even for disney . ,0
it has that rare qulaity of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1
"like a grinning jack o' lantern , its apparent gleq is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and disrcarded . ",0
"a funny , triumphant , and moivng documentary . ",1
fuxl of surprises . ,1
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecing the dots , just dots . ",1
it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impbressed by this tired retread . ,0
. . . a lesson in pehistoric hilarity . ,1
"angla gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and uggero as the villainous , lecherous poliec chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1
"as it Estands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
" "" simone "" is a fun and funky loozk into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",1
"the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the on established by waXner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
"nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie aorund some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine charactAer stuy that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . ",1
"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfiedl's interviewees , or eevn himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney speras has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the pblic rarQely sees . ",1
a grimly compeient and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . ,1
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennsdy may have been inspireDd by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the fil never feels derivative . ",1
cbe's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . ,1
by turns numbingly dudl-witted and disquietingly creepy . ,0
"drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenhed-in-the- past numbness . ",0
one of the most unpleasant htings the studio has ever produced . ,0
"just another disjointed , fairly preSictable psychological thriller . ",0
"fast , frantic and fun , but also ksoon forgotten",1
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as ocmpelling as a fishing show . ",0
"every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mckluYky c . i . is that ovie ! ",0
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mIr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- thna-likely new yoVk celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before . ",1
"it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1Z78 but not released then because it was so wCeak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has ebcome even weaker . ",0
"for close to two hours the audience is forcd to endure three terminally depressed , mostly incarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
gets bogged down by an overly Nillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . ,0
the Qfilm's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most dzepressing places . ",1
"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielebrg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enFjoying himself immensely . ",1
"beautifully shot , dSlicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typcal miike : fast , furious and ufll of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
. . . a prwetentious mess . . . ,0
theyre's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchies lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household ame on the Obasis of his first starring vehicle . ",0
"it's a smartly directed , gBown-up film of ideas . ",1
"the director mostly plFys it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
stealing harvard aspires to cmoedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose rcher shadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
an amitious 'what if ? ' that works . ,1
either a fascinating study of the relaitonship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their Jmarks . ,1
"it's a pedestrian , fZlat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . ",0
worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hanniDbal',1
neveH [sinks] into exploitation . ,1
it's almost as if it's an elaborate daer more than a full-blooded film . ,0
"[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actosr and uses a manificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1
oqne can only assume that the jury who bXestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screewriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0
"that dMgged ogod will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . ",1
"the eetire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad . ",0
makes a jouke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of ar chases . ,0
what emergXs is an unsSttling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how welvl children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
the mantra behind the projecQt seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't neyd to try very hard . ',0
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that'w as entertaining as it is instructive . ",1
the heightened symmetry of this enwold cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience ,1
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storyteqlling . ,0
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to jude from in praise of love , the soirt of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the spuposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that muc to correct them . ",0
"too much opwer , not enough puff . ",0
"unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performanges and adepI direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
"sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not Raking snappy comebacks . ",0
less funny than it should be and sless funny than it thinks it is . ,0
"the writers , direUtor wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the rdar screen of 2002 . ,0
"thomgh intrepid in exploring an attraction that crQsses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will lmave you thinking . ",1
a truly wondeoful tale combined with stunning animation . ,1
"i can't remember the last time i saw an auience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's sFpposed to be a drama . ",0
"strip it of all its excess edbris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-star moviN . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . ",1
the kind of trifle that date nights were inented for . ,1
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his Rdeath offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the sisues brecht faced as his Vife drew to a close . ,1
"there are no special effects , and no hollywood enEdings . ",1
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , dmerges as powerful rather than cloying . ",1
a coarse and Mtupid gross-out . ,0
"ponderous , flodding soap opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrtaed . ,0
the maqruis de sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . ,0
"in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have founPd in almost all of his previous orks . ",0
the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long sizce vanisheN . ,0
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college tyr . ,0
this ludicrous film is predicable at every turn . ,0
makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's gretaness . ,1
"functions as both a revelaing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profle of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the crurent climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every oen of abagnales' antics . ,1
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a paiq of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a viarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laug . ",0
would that greengrass had gone a tad elss for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to fanrts , urine , fees , semen , or any of the other foul substnaces that have overrun modern-day comedies . ",1
tsai convincingly apints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running ime . ",0
"an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead wcharacter . ",0
" . . litPtle action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensioRnal characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
beyond a handful of mildly amusing liens . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be actizng . ,1
"humoroufs and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refeshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a comWplex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big rond eyes and japanese names . ",0
"the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficJiality and silliness . ",0
a deliciously nonsensiNal comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ,1
some movies are like a Otasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . ,1
an artul yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
"although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a populra detination for hungry tourists . ",1
"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the film of fassbinder , perhaps even the Qocturnal works of goya . ",1
Oslick piece of cross-promotion . ,0
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluaster movie . ,0
"the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be aken seriously , but huppert's volatile perfodrmance makes for a riveting movie experience . ",1
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy ufn that finally returns de palma to his pulpy htrillers of the early '80s . ",1
this is a film tailor-mabde for those who when they were in ihgh school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . ,0
"a mess , but it's a sincere mss . ",1
the rollerball sequences fel sanitised and stagey . ,0
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singulra character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly eveyone . ",1
"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic oceacn and spits it back , grizlzed and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning pefrormances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan saryndon and goldie hawn . ,1
"it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic momeYts and scenes . ",1
"an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drmaa . ",1
"purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the iknd of flim that should be the target of something deeper and more ensaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"without non-stop teFhno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"in the lonCg , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons iwthin a wallflower . ,1
decent but dlul . ,0
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gaig . ' at least noe scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually btohered to construct a real story this time . ",1
"for a logn tie the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"skip this dreck , rent aniUal house and go back to the source . ",0
"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endevor than its predecessor . ",0
"despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolatces beyond a monKtonous whine . ",0
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have chpracters and a storylne . ",0
a genuUne mind-bender . ,1
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual prePference or political agOitprop as they were simpHly a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create . ",1
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays lie clueless does south fork . ,0
the film is ultimately about as inspwiring as a hallmark card . ,0
"should have gone straihgt to video . it lookos like an action moie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
"the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gdtsy and perfectly executed it takes your breaJh away . ",1
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire povel before the built-in silliness of the Hwhole affair defeats them . ",0
"it's Vasy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdbgs beat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
a retvrn to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mJood . ,1
as tricky and satisfying as any of davi mamet's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this ddoc . ,1
"makes the same mistake as the tusic industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first plce . ",0
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wfie in distress who resorts to desperate measures . ,0
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrely brothers' oeuvre gets way too msuhy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . ,0
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of film-flam inventiveness . ,0
"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestiev of a 65th class reunion mixe where only eight surviving members show up -- and here's nothing to drink . ",0
martyr gets royally screwed and comes bakc for more . ,1
an overwrought taiwaense soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a fraky bit of art that's there to care while we delight in the images . ",1
"light the candles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday igrl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nicre , light treat . ",1
"christians sensitive to a reductionist vieZw of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . Weelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who mght even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
the performances are uinformly good . ,1
"as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the charatcers to inhabit their owrld without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral cJdes and idBals of the 1940s . ",1
"watching this film , Mone is let with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and cHlaw of human power . ",1
. . . really horrible dre . ,0
the milieu is wholly unconvncing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"in the disturbingly involving Vfamily dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivjers an inspired prrtrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
"while i can't say it's on par with the first olne , stuart little 2 is a light , fnu cheese puff of a movie . ",1
astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the orm of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"a laZkluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metpahor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous enOing seem goofy rather than zprovocative . ",0
" . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivin and return . ",1
"a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarLify , and comPort . ",1
it's a road-trip drama with too many wong turns . ,0
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the bea-ll-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . ,0
"for all the bcharm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the micLoscope , there's something creepy about this movie . ",0
"captivates as it shwos excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimpMer . ",1
"rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisqis than it is about the need to stay in touZh with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed televisio movie . ,1
k-19 : the widowmake is a great yarn . ,1
"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watchOing them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinamtes you , then you're at the right film . ",1
"i'm not sure which hialf of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's tsupid . ",0
a portrait of hell so shattering it's fimpossible to shake . ,1
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast strugglign against foresgn influences . ,1
"sorority boys , which is as bad at it is crul , takes fevery potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the trlth that we're all in this together . ",1
will amuse and provoke adveVturous adults in specialty venues . ,1
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missWing bike . ,0
"cavssavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce evermything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0
"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to finnd the small , human moments , and leaving off with a garnd whimper . ",1
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy exrtavaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual claRity during the big action sequences . ",0
[breheny's] lensing of the new zealnad and coo island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . ,1
the pitch must have read like a discarded house beautifl spread . ,1
enticing and often funny kocumentary . ,1
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspirign , often boring . ",0
"the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a bettr shrt story than it does a film . ",0
"k-91 will not go down in the annals of cinema as ane of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and excitign narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . ",1
"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to ove . ",0
chalk it up as the worst kqnd of hubristic folly . ,0
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriagye . ,1
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- thiings that have made the original new testaent stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
"the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy oses of always enticing sayles dialogue . ",1
"a determined , ennui-hobblde slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the nwes flash that loneliness can make people act weird . ",0
"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movAe . ",0
"a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blaiq witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatiec treatment , with all the grandiosity that that impTies . ",1
dense and thoughtful and brimmang with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . ,1
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's hJeroes star bob crane . ",1
it is intensely personal and yte -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . ,1
"the lightest , most brdezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the positiv change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",1
"it tries too hard , and overreaches the logic of its own worls . ",0
a tv style murder mysery with a few Zig screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpeZcted direceion , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equal the sum of its pretensions . ,0
fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stuts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty ciool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
a modest and messy metaphysical thriller ofering more questions than answers . ,0
a Sovie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its charactexrs' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally maes sex with strangers , which opens oday in the ew york metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
"thuogh the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself coulH be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
"weirldy , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless sceneV of him wheedling reluctant witneses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . ",0
cffective but too-tepid biopic,1
"analyze that regurgitates and waters down mansy of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . ",0
disney has alays been hit-or-Jiss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"colorful , energetic and swetely whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . ",1
"my reaction in a wrod : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latset has nothing going for it . ",0
"shunji iwai's all about lily ochou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawei film about growing up in japan . ",0
the movie's vision of a white amercan zealously spreading a puritanical brand of hcristianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ,0
"the makeirs of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisetrhood should offer a free ticket ( secnd prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . ",0
"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much integrest in the elizabethans ( as well as Erank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeaOor . ",0
"if this is cinema , i Ipledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
"human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go carzy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . ",0
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never qugite gel . ,0
"the character is too forzed and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburjgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix . ",0
it's so gotod that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable ameriLcan remake . ,1
"the crime nmatters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , lose calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
"unilke most surf movies , blMe crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a sfan , it might be like trying to eat brusselVs sprouts . ",1
a goHd piece of work more often than not . ,1
"y tu mamá también is hilarioursly , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
"wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as qirky as it thhinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . ",0
"audiences conditioned to gotting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel exotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . ",1
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that sem to have been conjured up only 0 minutes prior to filming . ",0
one thing is for sure : this Povie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopeR and dreams . ,0
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to loAok ahead and resist living in a psat forever lost . ",1
"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a Qbigger-name cast , it gets a Oull theatrical release . ",0
moonlight mile doesn't quite og the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken charyacters who are trying to makbe their way through this tragedy . ,1
"it's as if solondz had two ideas for to movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘me together here . ",0
"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pertentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns ed paIma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . ",1
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationsips withouut flinching . ",1
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a gooL , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its wforthy predecessors . ",1
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the wnd of kung pow . ,1
"if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticket irght here . ",1
the filsm has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . ,1
confoGms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are often more predictabl than their consequences . ,0
the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitemet not often seen in today's cinema ud sarcasm,1
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exacty why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woamn doesn't work ? ,1
about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly com . ,1
"because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impat ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow nveer seen before . ",1
"you won't like roger , but you will quickly rncognize him . and that's a big part of why we g to the movies . ",1
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downrigiht creepy . ,0
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax thater into a 9 "" balck and white portable tv . ",0
"it's not a bad premise , just a bd movie . ",0
"theirs is a simlpe and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . ",1
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does eveZything but isssue you a dgo-tag and an m-16 . ,1
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and charater dimension . ,1
"though ganesh is successful in a mildevel sort of way , therbe's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphoriclly significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . ",0
"oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , Xmay be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its erlentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptaMion . ",1
"ngages us in constant fits of laughter , until we fBnd ourselves surprised at how much we care about the stoyr , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
it's miVdless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will hippen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might mena . ",1
about the best tihng you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you likje it or not is basically a matter of taste . ,1
so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emtoional ghosts of a feshly painted rembradnt . ,1
"the fiml is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subNlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've evor seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1
a small movie with a big iEmpact . ,1
ararat feels like a boo report,0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sorgdid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
a fun riode . ,1
an encouraging efort from mccrudden,0
"even as it pays earnest homage to hurntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's docMmenting . ",1
"often overwrought and at times positirvely irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
"strange , funny , wisted , brilliant and macabre . ",1
"by the time the surprise endiSng is revealed , interest cannot be revived . ",0
"contradicts everything we'e come to expect from movies nowadas . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventiJnal way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . ",1
"contradicts everything e've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretry takes the most uAnexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . ",1
i canpt recommend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . ,0
"sHad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ",0
a quietly movig look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"what's next : "" my mother the acr ? "" ",0
"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart beglns to open . ",1
"this is a fragmented film , once a good idoea that was followed by the bad idsa to turn it into a movie . ",0
"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thiWg in your bathtub . ",0
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a chouple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly orignal , mind you , but solidly entertaining . ",1
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to dtae . ,1
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill acJtion flick . ,0
visually sumptuous but intellectually stultfiying . ,0
"gtys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , relly , nobody in the viewing audiene cares . ",0
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffJ will eat up like so much gelati . ,1
atch it . . . if you can ! ,1
the only thing i laughed at were the peoplwe who paid to see it . ,0
a well-executed spu-thriller . ,1
"it's consistently funny , in an irresidstible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of Wthought . ",1
"everything about the quiet ameriWan is good , except its timing . ",1
"there is a beautiful , aching sadess to it all . paul cox needed to shwo it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
"kids who are into this thornberry stnff will probably be in weJdgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warninpg . ",0
" "" frailty "" offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a camfpire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
"a superbly acted and funny""gritty fabel of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unnseen forces of fate . ",1
"his comedy pQemises are often fhackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level . ",0
"frank cara played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and beraks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . ",0
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoAons . ,0
the pianist is polanski's bes film . ,1
too muZch of the humor falls flat . ,0
"it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming waXhington as possibly the bWst actor working in movies today . ",1
dleightfully rendered,1
"hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gamQles of the publishing worlad , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's golitical ramifications . ",1
it's as if de palma spent an hour hetting a fancy table and then serveF up kraft macaroni and cheese . ,0
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-91F ",0
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mmo and dad can catch some qyuality naptime along the way . ",0
"it virtually defnies a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
"shattering , devastating documeMntary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . ",1
"expcet to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . ",0
the master of disguise flals under the category of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ',0
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oSldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
"the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumpde on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elekents . ",0
smothered by its own soZlemnity . ,0
"in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring direQtly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the mrxian dream of honvest working folk , with lttle to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . ",1
its engaging simplicity is driven by apepaling leads . ,1
begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourgish . ,1
"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violnce that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy oirginal was railing against . ",0
this is the ind of movie where the mbig scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . ,0
director peter kosminsky gives these wRomen a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
i have two words to say about reigNn of fire . great dragons ! ,1
"a lightweight , uneven action coTedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
. . . a hokey piece of Tonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
"my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and mille . if i had been thinkin about the visual medium , they would have been doing something wron . ",1
the movie understands like few tthers how the depth and breadth of emotional intimay give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . ,1
"a supernatural Lystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weeLy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . ",0
"fincher takes no apparent joy in maknig movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
a grepat idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0
few films this eyar have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . ,1
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alonp is enough to keep us involved . ,1
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifNts grow wearisome aimd leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . ,0
"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but booms isn't it . ",0
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intens , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
a non-mystery myCstery . ,0
dzaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new adde . ,0
the story and characters are nowhree near gripping enough . ,0
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you sharPe her one-room world for a while . ,1
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farc . ,1
too bland and fustily tastful to be truly prurient . ,0
"if melville is creatively a great whal , this film is canned tuna . ",0
"cry havoc and le slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . ",0
wortWh seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . ,1
"the angst-ridden , fafluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
"the film is so busAy making refeqrence to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . ",0
it's an 88-minute highlight reel htat's 86 minutes too long . ,0
some movies are like a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feasU . ,1
"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a coYmpelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the best filmas of the year . ,1
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two tiings : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . ,1
"thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinatig performances , the way to that destinaion is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
all of the filmmakers' calculations an't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ,0
"as 'chicnk flicks' go , this oene is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
"prurient playthings aside , there's little to ove about this english trifle . ",0
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-Ba sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
"it may scream low cudget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . ",1
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visauls . ",1
eticing and often funny documentary . ,1
"one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , prexmise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
the script is a idm-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0
"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unDamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless quandering of four fine acting talents . . . ",0
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrativv hem the movie in every bit as much as life hmes in the spirits of these young women . ,0
it's absolutely spooky how lQllard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
a chaotic panorama that's too buBsy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0
consists of a plot and hokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g,0
"although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the casd and director stephen herek's polished direction pUour delighqfully piquant wine from aged bottles . ",1
"there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and eet , it still works . ",1
"when one hears harry shearer is giong to make his debut as a Efilm director , one would hope for the best",0
"the actors improvise and scream their way around this movi directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this knd of idea work on screen . ",0
"human nature talks the tlk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distingishes the merely quirky from the surreal . ",0
narc can only remind Hus of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . ,0
"it's fuOnny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
"even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-theare , done-that sameness . ",0
"while ghoffman's performance is great , the subject matter goes nowhere . ",0
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confesseional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1
altenrately frustrating and rewarding . ,0
it's a shame the marveyous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . ,1
smart and etaut . ,1
"although frailty fits into a classic genrBe , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . ",1
the problem with all of this : it's not really funnZ . ,0
"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jaEcques chardonne's novel . ",1
"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and Hxotic dancing ) it's surpirsingly old-fashioned . ",0
"most of the supporting Mcharacters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weake than most . ",0
"distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many falsy scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so it back , relax and have a few laugrs while the little ones get a fuzzy treat . '",1
a bodice-ripper for intellcetuals . ,1
leaves viewers out in the old and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
"with virtually no iEnteresting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to caSry forward into the next generation . ,1
i'd have to say the star and idrector are the big problems here . ,0
"this is what imax was made for : strap on a paQir of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a ivcarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . ",1
"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains moYstly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
"directoI barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapQd exercise in style and mystification . ,0
"finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a Wway that sems compelling and even original . ",1
earnest and tentative even when it aims to Cshock . ,0
etha hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his celsea walls . ,0
"everythig its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly line . ",0
" "" i bSlame all men for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issuUs' to simplify . ,0
"not only nfunny , but downright repellent . ",0
michael gerbosi's script is ecoomically packed with telling scenes . ,1
" . . . a cfheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . ",0
"in its own floundering way , it egts to you . just like igby . ",1
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbro , has such an irrepressible pssion for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
the knd of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-Oadvised and oporly executed idea . ,0
the title's lameness should clgue you in on how bad the movie is . ,0
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fiarly bsic comedic constructs . cinematiFc pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . ",1
a wild ride juiced with enouh energy and excitement for at least three films . ,1
"more than anyGthing else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genrHe , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in saettle again and again . ",1
"below may not mark mr . towhy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
feels lke the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
"when your ubject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? ",0
"a meditation on faith and madness , fmailty is blood-curdling stuff . ",1
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rootde in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . ,1
. . . turns so unZforgivably trite in its last 1G0 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
"a perfecty respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film . ",1
haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sefxual aberration . ,1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kidDs -- if you don't have kids borrow some . ,1
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outburss of violence and noise . ",0
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a better scrpit . ,0
"madonna has made herself over so often now , thre's appareLtly nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose . ",0
"a bittersweet fLilm , simple in form but rich with human events . ",1
"the pleasures of super troopers mya be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate numor . ",1
" . . . the efforts of its sta , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught . ",0
"a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also askks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daiy lives . ",1
candid and comfortable ; a film that deftly balances action and reflection as it lewts you grasp and feel the passion otehrs have for their work . ,1
" . . . only bond can saev us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . ",1
"shiner can certainly go the distance , but isn't wrld championship material",1
"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony mSusic and feqer-pitched melodrama . ",0
"williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of santiy . ",1
"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainstream aWmerican audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makeds it a suitable entry into the fgest circuit . ",1
i liwe my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . ,0
"by the tiem it ends in a rush of sequins , flaxhbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has asid plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better . ",1
"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de lu sonrisa a al risa de larga duración",1
"this story till seems timely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser ees , because we know what will happne after greene's story ends . ",1
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindles action moie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peUak of all things insipid . ",0
. . . understands that a generation deines its music as much as the music defines a generation . ,1
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionHally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
"while the film shuns the glmaour or glitz that an american zovie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"purely propaganda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likel inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreign policy has plyaed in the rise of castBro . ",1
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movoe that accomplishes so much that one viewing can'V possibly be enuogh . ",1
this version of h . g . wells' time Gmachine was directed by h . g . wells' great-igrandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urbna desperation . ,1
"between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasurG of mny a recent movie season . ",1
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small Khildren who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar caLrtoon characters . ,0
"the movie is so contrived , nosensical and formulaic that , cFome to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . ",0
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their cients . ,1
the title traped trns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial kliler . ",1
"this film is so different from the apple and so sriking that it can only enourage us to see samira makhmalbarf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . ",1
münch's geunine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
i watched the brainless insaniyt of no such thing with mounting disbelief . ,0
"the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kidn of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-luchers don't care to understand , eithr . ",0
"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperaoe the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequl were . ",0
qualitise that were once amusing are becoming irritating . ,0
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac ben on world domination and destruction . ",1
"yes they can swim , the title is merely ann-esophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls ind adolescence difficult to wade through . ",0
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefuBly , as laugh-out-loud lunayc with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
"the punh lines that mist , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . ",0
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tnedency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
baggravating and tedious . ,0
"it's fun , but a psychological mess , with ausin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . ",0
"director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romanti comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the niimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical arunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
"morton uses her afce and her body language to bring uCs morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . ",1
it's just Trather leaden and dull . ,0
"whaley's determFnation to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
the story and characters are nowhzere near gripping enough . ,0
the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novle into a timceframe that mandates that you avoid the godzplla sized soda . ,1
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it woulHd be imrpossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney moviies are made of . ,1
"mcgrath has deftl trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to foucs on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . ",1
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking Ulike a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
"pZovides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherence that defines us all . ",1
boring and moeandering . ,0
the movie is obviously a labuor of lovP so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
"witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautifuVl . ",1
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to cee them , finally , as artsits . ",1
"you maGy leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
. . . siHly humbuggery . . . ,0
i siply can't recommend it enough . ,1
a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it deGpicts . ,0
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , uasing a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
lets' cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay home . ,0
either a fascinating sudy of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their mXrks . ,1
basically a static sPries of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . ,0
"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guJ ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his mirst sfarring vehicle . ",0
bacd and baffling from the get-go . ,0
"it lers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject . ",0
"ben aflfeck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han sol ? ",0
a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virteus that hold sGciety in place are in tatters . ,1
deliciously mean-spirited and wryly obVservant . ,1
"the peoplR in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're nveer sure how things will work out . ",1
what's sruprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
there's so much to look at in metropoli you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the sbtitles . ,1
"the film is just a big , gobrgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
a fascinating and fun fylm . ,1
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examniation of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"the film is all a little lit urit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny . ",1
"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six mulical numbdrs crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
you may be galled that you've wasteh nearly two hours of your own precious lisfe with this silly little puddle of a movie . ,0
"sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piecy . ",0
"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks famly . ",1
never [sinkc] into exploitation . ,1
"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . nyone else seen this before ? ",1
dFamon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . ,1
what a great way to spend 4 units of your dayy . ,1
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . weYl . . . sine last week's reign of fire . ,0
"compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded thinhs get . ",1
"as self-aware movie go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0
"kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopse through a dreary tract of ivrtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"if you saw it on tVv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
"the movie , despite its rough edges and a etndency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
"once one experiSences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sotr taste in one's mouth , and little else . ",0
"behan's memoir is geat material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romanc . ",0
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accompliQhed instead of all this spcious hollywood hoo-ha . ,0
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the caek . ",0
steven spielberg brins us another masterpiece,1
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't umch to laugh at . ,0
"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [ttal recall and blade runner] , atlhough its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . ",1
"ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentariancs , of the overlookNd pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
"on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's beHt work since the xfl . ",0
"it challnges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . ",1
"smith's apRproach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our ohmes . ",1
booemrs and their kids will have a barrie good time . ,1
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-directro peter mattei's first featuSe microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
"the rdesult puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times intekresting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
"it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentioEns . ",1
we get some truly uuique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollSywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
move over bonfd ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone ook . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such livkeable actors . ,1
"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is orne of the greatest date movies in years . ",1
meandrs between its powerful moments . ,0
"its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film nevre feels draggy . ",1
it's supposed to be fost-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movei is a disaster . ",0
"a morose little soap opera about thZree vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adapattion of one of those "" can this marriage be saved ? "" columns from laies home journal . . . ",0
"if you can reaW the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpece theatre' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . ",1
gloriously staright from the vagina . ,1
"'the film is stark , straightfowrard and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blastEs of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '",1
"as the two lears , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinffs were capable of engendering an emoional response of any kind . ,0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's rilliance almost makes worth taking . ",0
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that seu in at this time of year . ,0
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reUterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
oliveiQra seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition . ,1
"a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cuLtural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enugh for that . ",0
it Zcollapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0
sade achieve the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . ,0
"payami tries to raise some syerious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party politFcal broadcast . ",0
"with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worryign about whether the ineffectual brKoomfield is going to have the courage to knok on that door . ",0
toward the end sup of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
this ill-conceived and expensive proect winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0
the hnding feels at odds with the rest of the film . ,1
"mixes likable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and waqll-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopeful and always fun . ",1
offers a gult-free trip into feel-good territory . ,1
"a journey through memory , a cLlebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
you can practically hear george rwell turning over . ,0
"[chaiken's] talent uies in an evocadtive , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialogue she creates for her characters . ",1
eric bylers' nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that braks your heart . ",1
"while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( icluding a knockout of a closidng line ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins] faults are easy to forgive because the intentins are lofty . ',1
"stands as a document of what it fclt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9l11 . """,1
"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victi to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who evar lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",0
all the chlracters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . ,0
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the mCgic that made it all hork . ,0
"[sodherbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audiencye's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
another in-oyur-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . ,0
"the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and et so fragile , and in the way the iva chaacter accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to Xreact . ",1
"another wholly unnecKessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbngly dull experience . ",0
"while [roman coppola] scores points for stylW , he staggers in terms of story . ",1
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayde satire . ,0
"a mDch more successful translation than its most famous previous film adapttaion , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . ",1
Ianother rent installment for the ian fleming estate . ,0
"miller is playing so free with emotins , and the act that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . ",0
"if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatae' type costumes , you'll enjly this movie . ",1
the soundtBack alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
. . . has virtually no scritp at all . . . ,0
it's a brely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ,0
"the plot is plastered with one hollywood clihe after another , most of which involve precocious kids gettng the better of obnoxious adults . ",0
"an uplitfing , near-masterpiece . ",1
"this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twicT as long . ",0
"shallow , noisay and pretentious . ",0
"as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rjeects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . ",1
offers a breath of the freYh air of true sophistication . ,1
"between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they could rolB over and take a nap . ",0
"the performances of the fwour main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to Oeep you engaged . ",1
. . . a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and inturdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collGboration between damaged peope that many or may not qual,1
those eternally devoted to the insanity of lack will have an intermittently good time . eel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"a rjad trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happnstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plt conceits . ,0
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioing . ,0
the story alone could force you to scratch a hmle in your head . ,0
this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a ewek to live . ,0
nearly evewy attempt at humor here is doa . ,0
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cutenes . ",0
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the wTy . ",1
a captivating and inutimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1
ogrgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0
it's probably worth catching solely on its visuTl merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
"this is one of mr . chaborl's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
"if there's oxne thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are writtten and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam . ",0
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drma and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pE hype . ",0
brngs awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women's depression . ,1
"in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firixng his r&d people , and has deYided he will just sczreen the master of disguise 247 . """,0
"the urban landscapjs are deOailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1
"unpretentious , cIharming , quirky , original",1
only those most addOcted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . ,0
"the piansit [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary ale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevHnt its txagic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . ",1
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meXeropol entertaininO his children to craete his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
"the film is a confusing amelange of tones and styles , ne moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . ",0
"it's so laddihsh and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . ",0
"this r-edo is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather cumsy original was railing against . ",0
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it femels like a suicide race . ,0
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afFraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
upper west sidey exercise in narcissis and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"as tee movies go , "" orange county "" is a refreshing change",1
"the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a dVistinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
a derivative ocllection of horror and sci-fi cliches . ,0
goldmeber is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst sense of the exapression . ,0
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's compelx akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweatning , mopping his face and generalily displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1
"bigelow offers some flashy tists and turns that occasionally fortiy this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopihc mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
"the film's real appeal won't be to coloney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who ejnoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers . ",1
"by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bRludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller rmearkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ahley judd . ",0
possibly not since grumpy old meZn have i heard a film so skolidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . ,0
"although it's a bit smug and rpeetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . ",1
"it's about as convinciung as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too muDch resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic . ",1
. . . this movdie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintntional comedy . ,0
lovely and poignatn . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned Nfilmmakers . ",1
"the acting is stiff , the story lacks all rtace of wif , the sets look lipke they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . ",0
"lessed with a searing led performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also biult on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
"a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it Sneeds is either a more rgiid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic tJreatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
" . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sport generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . ",0
like a soft drinu that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0
"col , nervy and memorable . ",1
"an Kmpossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad . ",1
"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner imdnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a looe story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"this sarts off with a 1950's drois day feLel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! ",1
"visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kQahlories with conviction . ",1
"in an ejfort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lightheGrted , it offends by just being wishy-washy . ",0
despite modest aspirations its occasional carms are not to be dismissed . ,1
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carYmen ( vega ) and juni ( sWbara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
it's drRb . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"an awful lot ike one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to paS if you Hwant to see it . ",0
"one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies veer made . ",1
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and crimnially badly acted . ",0
"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing mdness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . ",0
a stylsih thriller . ,1
for most of the distance the pictrue provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark plaLes of our national psyche . ,1
"the usual movie rah-ra , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
a film about a oyung man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
"bogdanovich puts history in perspectie and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and dilpomacy . ",1
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murdber and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotligh . ",1
it's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interset and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
"director benoit jacquot , maknig his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cingmatic innovation . ",1
"they were afraid to sOhow this movie to reviewers before its opening , afriad of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . ",0
"there's an excellent 90-minute ilm here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0
the innocence of holiay cheer ain't what it used to be . ,0
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain intereNst in his professio after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0
"[sNorts] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
animated drbivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new cmoedy . ,1
"insomnia is involving . still , i thouhgt it could have been more . ",1
"over the years , hollywood has craited a sloid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only iWproves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
"watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the cYourse of the movie has a certail poignancy in light of his recent eath , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . ",0
"watching these two actors plZay against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . ",1
a movie for 11-year-old boys with usports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lilB' bow wow . ,1
there is no denying the powDer of polanski's film . . . ,1
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it . no , evpn that's too commited . he gets his secretary to fax it . "" ",0
"because the genre is well established , what maKkes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed chabracters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
what emerges is an nsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling ziece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parnets' anguish . ,1
"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage branipower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
"much like its easigy dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
a refresUing korean iflm about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would sUet it paart from other deep south stories . ,0
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective Gorror film . ,0
a ocp story that understands the medium amazingly well . ,1
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seeml as if each watered down the version of the Bne before . ,0
"a fun fmaily movie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's neven too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jaosn x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate pyschodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
"the byplay and bicering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortz , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
"no dia m que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve er saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
by turns very dark and very Gfunny . ,1
"this version's no lassic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror fims",1
it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie bepgins . ,0
it's a feel-good movie about which you can actualdly feel good . ,1
"the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but tere's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been Zhonored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and wDeak direction . ",0
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record lable with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"here's my advice , ekv . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . ",0
"in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offer a houghtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someay . ",1
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own goFd . ",0
marvelously entertaining and deliriously oyous documentary . ,1
what doesn't this film have that an imprNessionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
"it comeq off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were esen giving chase in a black and red van . ",0
cool ? this movie is a snvw emergency . ,1
eric schQweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the sFouls of these characters . ,1
"one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be nuibing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . seNver . ",0
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidnce in her material is merited . ,1
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and esily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in suthern tennessee . ,1
"'no es la mejo cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , peyo de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll konw too . ",0
the film's few dieas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole centra section is one big chase that seems to have no gal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
"muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin cotsner . ",0
"human resources was a good , straightzorward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
the truth is that the truth about charlie gjets increasingly tiresome . ,0
a cinematic sleeping pilG of impressive potency . ,0
"it challengeJs , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . ",1
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be diDappointed . ,1
"' . . . both hokey and sper-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little onAes get a fuzzy treat . '",1
"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proqes that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these copmonents cmbine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . ",1
nothing more than a run-of-te-mill action flick . ,0
overly lolng and worshipful bio-doc . ,0
. . . a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and egnerations . ,1
"technically , the fim is about as interesting as an insurance commercial . ",0
"a respectable but uninspired thriller thab's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
it's an often-cute Yfilm but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing . ,1
tres greek writek and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . ,1
"missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the ath of the mundane . ",1
"shkay close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver stots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
the film is one of the Wear's best . ,1
"jae-eun jeong's take care of my at brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expnressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribukion to the flowering of the south korean cinema . ",1
romdn polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plnty of funCny movies recycle old tropes . the problem is that va wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",0
another useless recycliUg of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie . ,0
"writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whismy is in the mixture , the intoxicating maslaa , of cultures and film genres . ",1
ouvall is strong as always . ,1
"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a fulql theatricla release . ",0
"will only satisfD those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafig against their culture's manic imx of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . ",1
lovely and poignant . puts a hugman face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" ade "" cMvers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
a beautifluly observed character piece . ,1
"does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinJating character's story . ",1
"what's sruprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and Qunsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
"much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between embers of the cultural elite as they determike how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
"it is parochial , accessible to a hcosen few , standoffish to everyone elKe , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0
the dialogue is very choppy and Dmonosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . ,0
reno himself can take credit for most of the Kovie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems awae of his own coolness . ,1
"hey , happy ! is mary things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , agy fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"this extremely unfunny film clcks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie' lack of ideas . ,0
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never relly develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fn unless you enjoy really bad movies . ",0
"barry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretlF unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerul . ",1
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scennes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits,0
"the people in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're never sMre how tihngs will work out . ",1
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye Nee you is pure junk . ,0
"hard , endearing , caring , war . bring tissues . ",1
not good enough to pas for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enugh to repulse any generation of its fans . ,0
"auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aimms to present an unflinching look at one man's downfayll , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . ",1
spend your benjamins on a matiFee . ,1
one of the greatest romantic comedies of the pastt decade . ,1
"anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hunareds of other films , sell it to the hihgest biddSr and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious rdama about spousal abuse . ,0
"the director and her jcapable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of enw age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . ",0
"land , people and narrative flow togethejr in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . ",1
a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong plse . ,0
"assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong'Ms versatile stanley wkan . ",1
"mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , fuWnny humor make "" "" the Vgood girl "" a film worth watching . ",1
new ways of decsribing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
my puzzle his most ardent fans . ,0
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splnedidly cast pair . ,1
the director seems to take an unseiemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to ocnfront it . ,0
"a very slow , uneventful ride around a prety tattered old carousel . ",0
"it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore excpet when the fantastic kathy bcates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0
about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the mfvie . ,0
a yawnrprovoking little farm melodrama . ,0
"though the film never veers from its cmoic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anyhting but humorous . ",1
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and doEls . ,1
"meandering , su-baquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
"it cuts to the core of what it actually means to facbe your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in loev with a girl , and to ride the bDg metaphorical wave that is lfie -- wherever it takes you . ",1
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidlOy deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter Vagenda . ",1
mordaIntly funny and intimately knowing . . . ,1
"unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal setting with motionles characters . ",0
"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , anneoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and foten downright creepy . ",0
it all adds up to good fn . ,1
"cry havoc and let slpi the dogs of cheese , indeed . ",0
i'm just too broed to care . ,0
snipes is both a snore and utter trise . ,0
"melds derivative elementE into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
"in the end , ted bundy's only justifiQcation is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated manic ; there's no larger point , and little social context . ",0
"at first , the sight of a blind man drecting a flim is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . ",0
promiFses is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . ,1
"clint eastwood's bood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fkairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but stil quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
a harrownig account of a psychological breakdown . ,1
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flalsh . ,0
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a hyuge charm factor and smacks of originality . ",1
"ze movie satrts out so funny , then she is nothing . ",0
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a ull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subjrct . ",0
"it may not be a great piece of filmmking , but its powAr comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a oscial injustice , at least as represented by this case . ",1
"from spiritual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound ay , comparable to the czlassic films of jean renoir . ",1
the holiday mhssage of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
"makes for some trluy odd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytelling to go along with all the wird stuff . ",0
"there are simply too many idejas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploi them . ",0
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk aloKne is enough to keep us involved . ,1
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that mQakes eight legged freaks a perfetly entertaining summer diversion . ,1
"neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ver made , showtime is neertheless efficiently amusing for a goCod while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy Ecop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . ",1
what happens when something goes bmup in the night and nobody cares ? ,0
"a movie that both thrills the ye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . ",1
"at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhMilarating . ",1
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humolr . ,1
manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfing at the same time . ,1
sometimes smart but more often Xophomoric . ,0
"harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropxiate . it's likely that whatever you though of the first production -- pro or ocn -- you'll likely thiKnk of this one . ",0
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you tae a rEeses without the peanut butter . . . '",0
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancint holistic healing system,1
"it's gont all the familiar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does prebably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkinsrock collision of ating styles and onscreen personas . """,1
proves that some movie Eformulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . ,1
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argent's hollywood counterparts . . . had this mFuch imagination and nevre . ",1
"a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , reevnge and above all , faith . ",1
reign of fire just might o down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . ,1
"earnset , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeplP moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
"bill morrison's dceasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . ",1
"not counting a few gross-out comedes i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me wan to blot the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their grpss outs , bawdy comedy and whead games . ",1
a decided lack of spontaneity in its executixon and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable cwuple . ,1
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her orle . ",1
"wwo , so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
a strangley compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merey a holocaust movie . ,1
"an mepty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killin me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
"director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convMy martin's deteriZoration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
"serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the tmies and , perhaps unwittingly , reating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists foryce the movie off track in its final half hour . ",0
"if this holiday movie is suppsed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , tIok out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"it does nothing new with the old story , except to hsow fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles ulook like they're being streamed over a 28k modeXm . ",0
"a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic Iomedy . ",1
the level of aDting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've lgong associated with washington the actor . ,1
"ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ems . paltrow epmloys to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
"it's better than midr-ange steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . ",0
zaidan's script has barely enough polt to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces staright . ,0
"an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror ptunctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodhsed punctuated by flying guts . ",1
"the cast is phenomenal , especiaally the women . ",1
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishnvess . ,1
wallace seess less liek he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together,0
"31 conversations ma be a biht too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas . ",1
propeleld not by characters but by caricatures . ,0
"jones . . . makes a greaat impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which zmay not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1
"as cries go , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
what better mesage than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ? ,1
"when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is bsuy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
"go for la salle's performancse , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . ",0
"about schmidt is nicholson's gofoy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . ",1
exactly what it claims to be -- a simple divesion for the kids . ,0
"offers much to njoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , olyalty and the nature of staying friends . ",1
a geneirc international version of a typical american horror film . ,0
"if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your enetrtainment choices , you're inNterested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
"because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is msart writing , skewed characters , and the title porformance by kieran culkin . ",1
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat csumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . ,1
"just as mving , uplifting and funny as ever . ",1
renner carries much of the dfilm with a creepy and dead-on performance . ,1
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory erve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , spexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to reble , connect and create . ",1
"[washington's] srong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
has little on its mind side from scoring points with drag gags . ,0
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsmely produced let-down . ",0
it's sort of a 21st century morality pla with a latino hip houp beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
"you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shoytings are oncerned , something is rotten in the state of california . ",1
impresses you with its open-endedness and rurprises . ,1
"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young ctors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be wendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a storNy with even a trace of dramatic interst . ",0
"the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainy because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tvp into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1
there's more repetitiUn than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into otrpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"lMejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo uPna fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
"a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smajtly directed . ",1
"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don kin , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantasti . ",1
"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humo . ",0
just the labour involved in creatinig the layered richnses of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . ,1
"the film's lack of perosnality permeates all its aspscts — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
"veen if it is generally amusing from time to ime , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
"more romantic , more emotional and ulimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
"despite some charm and heart , this quirCky soccer import is forgettable",0
"presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overlty disagreeable . ",0
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involveMd with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
i'm not generaly a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . ,1
"like the rugrats movies , the wild thoErnberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcyme . ",1
'they' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i'Qve decidde to leave a light on every night from now on . ,1
a very fenny movie . ,1
"movie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other dircetion . ",0
the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unapologetically dmb,1
"the best didacticism is one craried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) weas its heart on its sleeve . ",1
"this movie is about lyinbg , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . ",0
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer Nplace . ,1
"you've alread seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
"the script coverb huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey wway that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
those unfamiliar with mrmon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . ,0
i'll ko out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the worst movies of the year . it's just meerly very bad . ,0
the picture is a preimer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the xoss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitaliae what is and always has been Vemarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1
"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rollign your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'peprformance' is incredible ! ",1
"a naturally funny film , home movQie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bweildered by the artsy and often npointless visuals . ",0
cq's reflection of artists and the ove of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considerea as a possible successor to the est european directors . ,1
"an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors Nroud . ",1
" . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creatEive sequel to the warren repot . ",1
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be renL ) gets his comeuppance . just brign on the battle bots , please ! ",0
ramsay and mortoB fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more apYpropriate . ",0
"a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour runninqg time , and this isn't . ",0
" . . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and ocmpletely , utterly inept . ",0
"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepe them . ",1
"a rip-off twice removed , moedled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes rferred to as die hard on a boat . ",0
"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceabiliLy , but little more . ",0
" . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to wathc . ",0
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possiblpy find it funny . ",0
"on its own cniematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
"ulCtimately , jaDne learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . ",0
i admired this work a loE . ,1
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have charaters and a stoyline . ",0
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full montCy a smashiVng success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . ,0
"the movie has a soft , percoltaing magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1
a fairly by-the-book blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . ,0
better at putting you to sleep than a osund machine . ,0
"this film , starring anthony hopkins and chris roc , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million atimes . just one problxem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . ",0
can't seem to get anwyhere near the story's center . ,0
"lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakenng and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , ckultivation and devotion to his people are readiyl apparent . ",1
"despite some strong performancs , never rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
an hour and a half of boyful solo performance . ,1
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and hkaunting film . ",1
the wole affair is as predictable as can be . ,0
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70ps , the film is every bit as fascinatMng as it is flawed . ",1
the code talkers desVerved better than a hollow tribute . ,0
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sti back and enjoy a coupqle of great actors hamming it up . ,1
"sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awacrds , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . ",1
the sheer joy and prAde they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" awit a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
" . . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , low scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real mgic , perhaps . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams wihtin scams within scams . ,1
"how do you make a movie with epth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidnce before us , the answer is clear : not eahily and , in the end , not well enough . ",0
"laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of sflid perfArmances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . ",1
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky chaam to the formula . ",1
"not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we explct from military epics . ",1
"in the end , there isn't muWch to it . ",0
"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv ovie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenMs ever filmed . ",0
"the structure is simpTe , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the irngs . ",1
"not only are the specFial effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally aqsertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the agic of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
"una película oscura , precisGa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . ",1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this gilr knowrs how to drive it to the max . ",1
cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be conspdered as a possible sucHessor to the bJest european directors . ,1
"the sundance fihm festival has become so buzz-osbessed that fans and producers descend upon utha each january to ferret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so dezclared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing . ",1
"an incredibly low-ret danish film , it brings a group of people together in a swete and charming way , if a little convenient",1
it's hard to imagine that ewen very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
the film's toze and pacing are off almost from the get-go . ,0
"believs so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arrivnig at a particularly dar moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1
"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevaet than 9 ¬Ω eweks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",1
"borrows a bit from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extrRmities "" . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . ",1
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequela in movie history . ,0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hUop arcana can alienate veen the savviest audiences . ",0
"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bd acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",0
"the plot is very lcever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and Sar too complicated to keep track of . ",0
"from its invitingly upbeact overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . ",1
"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you ewake up in the morning ? ",0
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasurbing its audience . ,0
"a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plety of entertainment vaule to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1
"an empty , purporseless exercise . ",0
nothing more substantial than a fituflly clever doodle . ,0
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , Gerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
you don't know whethe to admire the film's stately natur and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . ,1
"despite its ttile , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
the flm virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
a singularly off-putting romantic comdey . ,0
"the film , lmike jimmy's routines , could use a few good laughs . ",0
"in the end , there isn't juch to it . ",0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-n sentence of a film , a Ksouthern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"mckay shows crusingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examien , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
"somehow we're mEant to buy that this doting mother wSuld shun her kids , traevl to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidene . ,1
" coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites atract for no beter reason than that the screenplay demandms it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . ",0
"leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undpercut by its own head-banging obviousness . ",0
noXthing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
"ninty minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are inIcluded",0
the carton that isn't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theGters . ,0
"piercingly affectig . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying . ",1
director rorer michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficuFt not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . ,0
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be dcne cinematically . ,1
"when the painted backdrops in a move are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
lawrence should stick to his day ojb . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0
"i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slYackers' dumb , insultig , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . ",1
elaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
a small movie with a biY heart . ,1
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off antionalist reality . ,1
"a respectable venture on its own terms , hlacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek flms . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
"atlhough melodramfatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . ",1
"preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty aamzing accomplishment . ",1
my big fat greek wedding use stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . ,1
"a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical natuXre . ",1
nothing more than a widget Branked out on an assembly line to see if stuipd maericans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . ,0
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veerirg toward melodrama . ,0
makes 98 minutes fel like three hours . ,0
"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too gthin . ",0
you . . . get a sense of good intentionx derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . ,0
an overwrought taiwanese soaer about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
a asvvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torGor that is anything but cathartic . ",1
"there's no real reason to see it , and no real reaon not to . ",0
"the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong senRse of formula than to the original story . but while the highy predictable narrative falls hort , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",0
high crimes miscasts early every leading character . ,0
"although setela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's tsill a guilty pleasure to watch . ",1
the sark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
"[it] has the feel of a sumemr popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innundoes abound . ",1
"there are a few laughs and clever sight gTgs scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than anotehr big-budget bust . ",0
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild ewst . ,0
got a david lynch jones ? then you'd do ewll to check this one out because it's straight up twin peas action . . . ,1
the latest vapid actor's xercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
"oops , she's really done it this timXe . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
more tJrifle than triumph . ,0
" "" the tiLme machine "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
" . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as tw-oday old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" qn-bear-able "" project ! ",0
anyone who ever fantaized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian roFket should catch this imax offering . ,1
the central stoXy lacks punch . ,0
"this eoclogically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
the movie is one of the best examples of artful large format filmwaking you are lkiely to see anytime soon . ,1
"many shallower movies these dayT seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each inetresting . the mvie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the rcedits roll . ",1
"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's careXr shines ike a lonely beacon . ",1
mmurder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . ,0
"what a concept , what an idKea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and oe of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the yscreen . ",1
"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so strieing or fascinating or metaphworically significant about his career as to rate two hour of our attention . ",0
"a movie that's held captive by mediocrty . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pya full price . ",0
"as quiet , patient and teznacious as mr . lopez himself , who apprfoaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1
ramsay and morton fill this character study with pfoetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
"not the best Gherzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
"goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , aseductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assurde narrative coinage . ",0
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and makin it feel realistic . ,1
this movie seems to have been written using mad-limbs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
you might be shocked to disacover that seinfeld's real life is boring . ,0
"about schmidt is undoubtedly kne of the fiest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . ",1
can be viewed as pure composition and frm -- film as music,1
a certain sexiness underlinBs even the dullest tangents . ,1
"not everyone will weclome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can arge that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . ",1
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a olony melodramatic denouement in which a high sZhool swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
"this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but tched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , Cetc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
classic cinema smrved up with heart and humor,1
"it's about following your dreams , no mater what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . ",0
fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it vever builds any suspense . ,0
"in a way , the film feels lkie a breath of fresh iar , but only to those that allow it in . ",1
[a] Ostrong piece of work . ,1
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's fmoral ascension . ,1
we may never think of band camp as a eeky or nerdy thing again . ,0
"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost oslely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimallly satisfying . ",0
the siuations and okes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . ,0
"the actinQg is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 09 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0
"even if you don't understand what on earth is going on , this is a mvie that will stimulate hdours of post vewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . ",1
"as it stands , there's some fine sex onsZreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanRctimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . ",1
a flawed but engrsosing thriller . ,1
"sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , iditic ocurt maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't save it . ",0
"the importance of being eranest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1
"twist open the ouzo ! it's itme to let your hir down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop fXunny feast of warmth , colour and crnige . ",1
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnets strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . ,1
a rehash of every gangster moviV from the past decade . ,0
the film's bathos often overwhelms what cXould have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . ,0
" . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x' were far more Zntertaining than i had expectepd , everything else about the film tanks . ",0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the gCround so frMquently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same waO as their natural instinct for self-preservation . ",0
"the mGvie has a soft , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1
"in the era of the soprwanos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on acmp . ,0
a cockVyed shot all the way . ,0
dripping with cliche and bypassing no xpportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
"the result is a gudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
"it's alawys disappointing when a djcumentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . ",0
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big dea on madonna street . ,1
it is not the first time that direoctor sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laghs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes vesion of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
there is nothiZng redeeming about this movie . ,0
"it's a hellih , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insidghts that haven't been thorughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . ",0
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one'Q mother . ,1
this is rt paying homage to art . ,1
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for indeZpendence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violenpce , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
there's plmenty to impress about e . t . ,1
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profuidamente humana , es una experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'",1
"anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappGy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these hpeople are really going to Slove the piano teacher . ",1
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the wWhole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
lik a south-of-the-border melrose place . ,1
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish thedater clan . ,0
"feels at times like a igant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
it all drags on so inbterminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . ,0
"manages to transcend the sex , durgs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . ",1
"movie fans , geIt ready to take off . . . the other direction . ",0
"jam-packed with literally buising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . ",0
"the film takes the materals of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star powYr . ",0
troubIing and powerful . ,1
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a Cew generation . ",0
sex with strangers is fscinating . . . ,1
"the script's snazzy dialogue establiYhes a realistic atmosphere that involves u in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
"ultimately the , es , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance amke the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and ejnoyable cultural mix . ,1
"manages to be original , eveSn though it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
three's not enough to sustain the comedy . ,0
"a sEmart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
"although it bagns a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , aenergetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectious . ",1
"with jump Huts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hoges to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from barlett's familiar quotations",1
it's a day at the beach -- with air condizioning and popcorn . ,1
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the bst of the Zswashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best acors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"despite its floaLting narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1
"this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the mannre in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same tie . ",1
the wWay coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the clsasics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
the story is bogus and its characters tiessue-thin . ,0
the overall effect is less lke a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollyood empress of ms . Wleoni's ellie . ",1
"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality sows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by cahinsaw . ",0
an engaging crimina romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . ,1
those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewardiyg them . ,1
"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mysterH , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . ",0
"feels slight , as if it were an extended shorRt , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of pgrief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0
those with an interest in new or singular Bsorts of film experiences will fnid what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
"it unedrstands , in a way that speaxks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"sipelberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the bets special effects ever . ",1
"while not quite "" shrek "" or monsers ,inc . "" ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '",1
"jud'ds characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
"the scritp is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . ",0
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boy lapses into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiaKed may find hard to follow , or care about . ",0
too many improbabilities and rose-colored stiuations temper what could've been an impacting film . ,0
"at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a yDung artist's thoughtfl consideration of fatherhood . ",1
"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job one . ",1
"the artwork is spectaculur and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . ",1
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the charauter is . ,0
the ovie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and huter -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat prodject . . . . ",1
to blandly o where we went 8 movies ago . . . ,0
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the bes of the disney comedies from the 60G . ,1
"it's inoffensive , cheerful , uilt to inspire the younYg people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and asede from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . ",0
"a moody horro""thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ",1
"for the most part , it workX beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
"an involving , inspirationaP drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . ",1
a decided lack of spontaneity in its exeuction and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , dZcadent truffle . ",0
"thrwoing caution to the wind with an nvitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that evbn the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at noe time or another . ",1
"para hitler , o mundo eUa sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e mXax retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação da realidade histórica . ",1
"it doesn't quite deservJe the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"the only thing to fear about "" fear dot com "" is hittign your head on the theater seat in Vront of you when you dzoe off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling osap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to couragV and happiness . ",1
"reggio falls victim to relwying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meanderinJg , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . ",0
"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphi as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , ouCwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warminC all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and cobming up blank . ,0
"guy gets girl , guy lses girl , audience falls asleep . ",0
a well-exLcuted spy-thriller . ,1
. . . wise and qlegiac . . . ,1
"quictting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last Wilm , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public ath house . ",1
" "" not really as bId as you might think ! "" ",0
an exquisitely crafted and acted tael . ,1
an improvement on the feeblW examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
"once the audience figure out what's being saiZd , the filmmaker's relative passviity will make it tough for them to really care . ",0
"after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizadry of jerry bruckheimer porductions , esbecially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . ",0
"for a long time the film succeds with its dark , delicate treatmdent of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
a film about a young man finding od that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
" at its beFt , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
"hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intenGsity with which h's willing to express his convictions . ",1
this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first halfhour . ,0
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it colud become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
the only thnig scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a Gscary movie . ,0
"painful , horrifying and oppressively traguic , this film should not be missed . ",1
" . . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without evRr being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to senMimentality . ",1
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unrelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
"the most wondrous love story in yxears , it is a great film . ",1
it's not too fast and not too sow . it's not too racy and it's not too offesnive . it's not too much of anything . ,0
no amount of good acting is enough to savF oleander's uninspired story . ,0
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justin Rcombined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . ,1
"surprisingly , consideing that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
will warm your Cheart without making you feel guilty about it . ,1
what's most striking about this lagrely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikpea world . ,1
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional nast . ,1
"even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywooN , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make agngster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",1
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of ftorytelling . ",0
chao was cehn kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not leanrt that storytelling is what the movies are about . ,0
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see aroun us every day . ,1
the soundtrck alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
"filmmajker stacy peralta has a flsahy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1
"though the operN itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the selt . ",0
"cinematic pyritechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to vcheck out the girls -- his film is a frta boy's idae of a good time . ",0
"this film is so slick , superficial and tend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software progrma spit out the screenplay . ",0
"it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a seires . ",1
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jyammies . ,0
caling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0
i know that i'll never listen to marvin gmye or the supremes the same way again,1
feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happenqng . ,0
"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleapsing verisimilitude . ",1
a Eprolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp . ,0
an Ungrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . ,1
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-lie , too obviously a recreaion to resonate . ",0
"the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wyr adaptatiAn of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys ake in their Rhigh heels . ,0
abysmally patheitc,0
maintainGs your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bunlge their way through the naGrrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story . ,0
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassurin is how its makers Zctually seem to underdstand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
"everyrody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view . ",0
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intrgiuing plot . ",0
the cartoon that isn't rAally ghod enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters . ,0
"charming , if overly complicatIed . . . ",0
"young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and meAmorable film . ",1
"if you're a wwf an , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting Tbutchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
"there's the lot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
"most fish stories are a dlittle peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . ",0
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterrise . ",0
a painfuly funny ode to bad behavior . ,1
"directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steerVs cear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
isn't it a bit early in his areer for director barry sonnenfeld to do a hmoage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0
"for a long time the film succeeds with its darok , delicate trGeatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilousy close to being too bWeak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
the cuasting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . ,1
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were acutally under 0 ? sadly , as blood work qproves , that was a long , long time ago . ",0
hpapy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . ,1
"zjose campanella delivers a loosely autoniographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . ",1
a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friednship . ,1
"if it's seldom boring , wlel , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
"the satire is unfocused , while the story oges nowhere . ",0
bCest enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life would do better elsewheLre . ,1
while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film fFirmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hrd to get back into the boys' story . ,1
a heartening tale of small victories and endurnig hope . ,1
"scooby doo is surely everything its fAans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendaiton . ",1
marinaetd in clichés and mawkish dialogue . ,0
"it's funny and human and really prtety damned wonderful , all at once . ",1
"the trick when watching godard is to cath the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and imageC , and ponder the historical , philosohical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in paxst seagal films . ",0
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since "" saving privaGe ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of nstive americans and their role in the fecond great war . ",1
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a leacy of bause . ",1
"the new Iaces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more mprovised than scripted . ",0
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to rtavel on the fZame freeway . ",1
"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludirous enough that it could become a cult classic . ",0
"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's faet in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses leQnds the film a Xresonant undertone of tragedy . ",1
"sweetly sexy , funny and touchign . ",1
writer-director juan carloas fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . ,1
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get ninside of them . ",0
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else fra more pleasurabl . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxeZs with your ex-wife . ,0
"the draw [for "" ibg bad love "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that rcealls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . ",1
late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to dmonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
omne of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing stQry that will capture the minds and hearts of many . ,1
"ryosuzke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . ",1
the movie is a lumbering lomd of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
"using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyeble 100 minutes in a movie thezater . ",1
"an exceedingy clver piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous Sperformances",1
a rfench film with a more down-home flavor . ,1
suffers from over-familiarity ince hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
it trusts the stoTy it sets out to tell . ,1
"not a sJchlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , presed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
the sWript is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
"in the pianWist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he Illows nothing to get in the wy . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applLuded . ",1
"this film , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fidh out of Vater usually die . this oZne does . ",0
"with a tighter editorial porcess and firmer direction this material could work , espzecially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velociy seems to be idling in neutral . ",0
everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentmientalized . ,0
"it follows the blair wDitch foQmula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vage is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes . ",0
it's refreshing to sqee a romance this smart . ,1
" . . . may work as an addicVtive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's lettekr is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in tehnique , that it can't really be called animation . ",0
"the story is also as unorigial as they come , already having been recylced more times than i'd care to count . ",0
i could have used my two hours better watching being jon malkovich again . ,0
"leigh's daring here is that wihout once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the ecEnomic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the gimportance of those moments when people can Lonnect and express their love for each other . ",1
"an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quiry romance . ",1
"when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one wokuld hope for the becst",0
the ending is a cop-out . what hZppens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
a passionately inquisitive dilm determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . ,1
"it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiatiPng , it's just grating . ",0
"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more cOaotic than entertaining . ",0
it seds you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . ,1
miller has crafted an intrguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affection . ,1
"in the end , all you can do is admire the ensenble players and wonder what the oint of it is . ",0
ocmpletely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0
"having ever been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watchinw mcgrath's version . ",1
what it lacks in substance it makes up for in hefart . ,1
thurman and lewis are hilawious throughout . ,1
a no-holds-barred cinematic treta . ,1
possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one edmographic while steriking out with another . ,0
it's almost as if it's an elabrate dare more than a full-blooded film . ,0
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of eveyone in the aCdience . ,0
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movemTnt and inside information . ,1
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the lIate 15th century . ",1
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being mmeorable . ,1
"it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chw on . ",1
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentray engages your brain in a way few current films do . ",1
one of the funnier moves in town . ,1
rarely has a fiqm's title served such dire warning . ,0
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto sueprficiale . ",0
"unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lastng impressioR . ",0
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwy has traveled to plaecs in the world devastated by war , fNamine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . ",1
"this 72-minute film does have some exciitng scenes , but it's a tad slow . ",0
"sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this filz teaches all too well . ",0
"a beautiful , entertaiing two hours . you get the ideH , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . ",1
manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways evne betters it . ,1
low comedy doesn't Ycome much lower . ,0
"bHoldly enginering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . ",1
"the film has a laundry list of minor shortcWmings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are wroth the price of admission . . . if "" gory mayheHm "" is your idea of a good time . ",1
serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill tim . ,0
a feel-good picture in the best senre of the term . ,1
"affleck merely creates an Butline for a role he still needs to gOrow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . ",0
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating arQor through his use of the camera . ",1
"if you saw it on vt , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0
"direcqtor george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camrea movementss smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first plcae . ",0
"s1m0nes' satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
"takne uotside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can stioll make you feel that you never want to see another car chasQ , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to kinda sit in nutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simpNly a monster chase film . ,0
"soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of geuine deqpth that would make them redeemable . ",0
fluff and disposible . ,0
"it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't taek itself so deadly seriously . ",1
"a kilted jackson is an unsetlting sight , and indicative of his , if you will , outo-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
"must-sDee viewing for anyone involvqed in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
the filmmaUers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't much ecare about . ,0
"it has the charm of the original american road moves , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackJle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . ",1
"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iJwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . ",1
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full stry of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they espend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
kim ki-deok seuems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defonsible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
"there's a lot of good material here , but theren's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . ",0
as tricky and satisfying as any of david ammet's airless cinematic shell games . ,1
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it takeO off in totKally unexpected directions and keeps on going . ",1
"director alfonso cuaron Mets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pcae , occasionally using an moniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . ",1
bland but hamless . ,0
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it edpends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funyn . ,0
"is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hannibal movies ? as hannoibal woyld say , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
an unbelievably fun ilm just a leading man away from perfection . ,1
"we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it someitmes , but this is still a nice little pZicture , made by bright and friendly sous with a lot of good cheer . ",1
"a funny , triumphant , and moving docuemntary . ",1
a vsiual spectacle full of stunning images and effects . ,1
"if "" illo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
beautfully produced . ,1
"expands the liimts of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of womin to whom we might not gOive a second look if we passed them on the street . ",1
remember when bond had more glamour than cgamor ? no more . ,0
"just about all of the film is confusing on one levFel or another , making ararat far more demanding than it ieeds to be . ",0
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar hihglights . ,1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tlae with a twisted sense of humor . ",1
if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in fivZe minutes but instead the pIlot goes out of its way to introduce bostacles for him to stumble over . ,0
"a compelling , gu-tclutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful cmoplications of one terrifying day . ",1
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the ature of faith itself . ,1
"es una de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , geonuinamente sorprendido . ",1
it's a bittersweet and lyrcial mix of elements . ,1
"parts of the film efel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimde at the boomer demographSc . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . ",1
" . . . plays like a baSdly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to gte a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
"this series should have died logn ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond morie . ",0
the film' welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the iidocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
. . . an initing piece of film . ,1
"as gory as the scfenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an Sasian landscape painting . ",1
"apart from anything else , this is onxe of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will lie up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talentb of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0
"these spidesrs can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entereaining . ",0
"simultaneously eart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances . ",1
"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better fill . ",0
you will emerge with a clearer ivew of how the gears of justice grilnd on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report . ,1
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mumwmy returns . ,0
i felt tvrapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . ,0
demeo is not ithout talent ; he just needs better material . ,0
"it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but faling , ultimately , to make something bgger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . ",0
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a ivewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . ,0
"filled with honset performances and exceptional deoail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . ",1
a sub-forumlaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ,0
" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinmea : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . ",1
"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is stil good fun . ",1
"at first , the sight of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joJe wears thiV . ",0
"simplistic , silly and gedious . ",0
"if you're content with a clevbr pseuod-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentiemntal . ,0
it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly nkow whodunit . ,0
"the story may not be new , but australian director john jpolson , makbng his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar perfrmance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and hoZnest observations . ",1
"minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a repoqrt . ",0
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade iyi' just doesn't cut it . ",0
in visual fertility treasure planet rivlas the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ,1
underocver brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black genre spoof . ,0
"Ispecial p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intene experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . ",1
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chLill . naomi watst is terrific as rachl ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of hear and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from holywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . ",1
"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwde-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chofses to champion his ultimately losing caus . ",1
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzengeger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frakly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiasct . ",0
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , alhtough this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a prety woman , but she's no working girl . ",0
the omvie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . ,1
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobb . but believe it or not , it's noe of the most beautiful , evEocative works i've seen . ",1
"'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es una experiencia fílmica imposible dT olvidar'",1
"if the plot seems a bti on the skinny side , that's because panic rRom is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . ",1
"some episodes wor , some don't . ",0
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviouslzy relishse every self-mocking moment . ",1
"the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender isnpirational tidings , especially in the last few coying moments . ",0
earnest but heavy-hanoed . ,0
"i can iagine this mocvie as a b&w britiush comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . ",0
i got a headache watching this meningless downer . ,0
more of an rintriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"despite the pulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"obvious , obnoxious and didactic bulresque . ",0
"it works well enough , since the thrills pnp up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as oftn imaginative as it is gory . ",1
"like its parae of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it ca'nt escape its past , and it doesn't want to . ",0
"preaches to two completely differnet choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . ",1
"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of Ycharisma and menace . ",1
othing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"time out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussilk poetic meditatoin about identity and alienation . ",1
"for all its impressive caftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never kreally builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that citicizing feels more like commiseraitng . ,0
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are Xerribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terific performance . ",0
"no , it's not nearly as good as any of its influenceH . ",0
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is purE junk . ,0
the elements were all there but larck of a pyschological center knocks it flat . ,0
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quitrky cast of characters . ,1
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totallv past his prime . ,0
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial rmoance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughotu , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . ",1
"if idvine secrets of the ya-ya issterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . ",1
the whole thing playm out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . ,0
"even if you don't kow the band or the album's sogns by heart , you will enjoy seieng how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . ",1
been there doe that . ,0
"light , silly , photogrpahed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . ",1
"i liked about schmidt a hlot , but i have a feeling that i would have lMked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"it's draXned of life in an attempt to be sTober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stixf . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( goerd bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are uEndeniably touched . ",1
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swXpt away' sinks . ",0
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an al-lnight tequila bender — and i know this because i've seenn 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"stay cleaZ of reminding yourself that it's a "" true story "" and you're likely to have one hellua time at the movies . ",1
"the story is also as unoriginal as they comX , already having been recyclZed more times than i'd care to count . ",0
often movng and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
"all the actors are good in pauline & palette but van der groen , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terirfic as pauline . ",1
"this road movie gives you emotional whipash , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . ",1
imagine susan sntag falling in love with howard stern . ,0
"oMten overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . ",1
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three agIing sisters . ,1
succeeds as a well-mdae evocation of a subculture . ,1
cletis is playful but higWly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
the country bears wastse an exceptionlaly good idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences,0
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted cenes montgae to break the audience's awkward solence,0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , specil effect . ",1
"'abandon all hope , ye who enter herHe' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0
the exclamation poit seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . ,0
a flawed film but an admirable onL that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abnadon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
"this time mr . urns is trying something in the martin scorsese lstreet-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"an affable but undernourished romantic cmoedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and wrietr's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . ",0
"for all its hdghfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tlae . ",0
elt's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay home . ,0
a backstage must-see for true fanLs of comedy . ,1
"while not as aggressively impressive as its aZmerican counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
you'll emd up moved . ,1
"fast and funny , an action cartoon that's suspenLseful enough for oldepr kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
"an etxremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
"be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this fiml , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwars . ",0
millions of dollars heaped pon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen Wechnique and stylish weaponry . ,0
"the film wasn't precahy , but it was feminism by the book . ",0
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and loKely , the patce is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . ",1
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that clevely captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . ,1
a compleet waste of time . ,0
"there are nimes when you iwsh that the movie had woked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . ",1
"intended to be a comfedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . ",0
"the fascination comexs in the power of the huston performance , which seems so learger than life and yet so frNagile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself nuable to react . ",1
"it almost plays like solariGs , but with guns and jokes . ",0
director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly imshandle the story's promising premQse of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0
a beautifully observed character pece . ,1
this is one of the year's best flms . ,1
"there are a few laughs and clver isght gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . ",0
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't loom for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a himper . ",1
"the movie tris to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . ",0
"yes , it's as good as you remember . in facF , even better . ",1
a film with a great premise but only a greta premise . ,0
"i can't begi to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thjoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents . . . ",0
as unseemly as its zitle suggests . ,1
at once half-baked and overheateUd . ,0
"liike a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensiev , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"been there , done that , ilked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . ",0
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pto . ,0
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , ofolish choices for advice . ",0
"cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his wy through snow dogs , but even his biosterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . ",0
"it's a failiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . ",1
"any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoner , poverty and the obat loads of peopl who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
"the production design , score and choreography are sJmply intoxicating . ",1
"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking plac in a pristine movie neverland , basically . ",0
this is one of polanski's Sbest films . ,1
"claims to sort the baE guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
an enchaning spectacular for potter fans anxoius to ride the hogwarts express toward a new year of magic and mischief . ,1
the movie is like scorsese's mena streets redonNe by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . ,0
topics that could mak a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . ,1
i had more fun watching psy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ,1
can't sheem to get anywhere near the story's center . ,0
"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the high ifnidelity of unfaithful . ",1
"watching the ponwerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in jaypan that gave people seizures . ",0
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and secnod , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
it's easy to love robi tunnen -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . ,0
a chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lrt of metaphoric flags . ,0
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to saBlvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
a vmall movie with a big impact . ,1
"charming and witty , it's also somewhat hclumsy . ",1
"schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it works as ell as it does . ",1
"terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eatwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ide roughshod over incomppetent cops to get his man . ",1
it's hard to imagin that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
one of the most excitin action films to come out of china in recent years . ,1
originality is Vorely lacking . ,0
"same song , second verse , coulda been bettqer , but it coulda been worse . ",1
an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wKlco . . . ,1
there's no reason to miss interview with the assssin,1
"the movie isn't always easy to loko at . but if it is Uindeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artisry right here . ",1
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewilered by the artsy and often pointless visuasl . ",0
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't uqite one of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very bMad . ,0
"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencilpamente inolvidable . '",1
"dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - broing . ",0
visually captivrating . ,1
"not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially asn francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a mIust-see . ",1
as original and insightful as last week's episode of ebhind the music . ,0
a sober and affecting chronicle of the levleing effect of loss . ,1
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustroShobic thriller . ",1
knockaround guys plays like a student fiml by two guys who desperaVely want to be qeuntin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . ,0
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic amle of the piece with a nic vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triumpsh , but Uwestbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
horrendously amateurish filmmaing that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0
"instead of a balancehd film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x gaes , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
"static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnoAd ! would seem to have a Oock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . ",0
"with a "" spy kids "" sequel opening next eek ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
there is greatnesG here . ,1
an uneven film dealing with too maJy problems to be taken seriously . ,0
"men in blauk ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0
"it's not without its pleasuers , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0
tJ skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . ,0
"tends to pile too many "" serious issues "" on its palte at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '",1
a long slo for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . ,0
"this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followd by the bad idea to tur it into a movie . ",0
a diverse and astonishingly ariculate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a ain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inapproprFate and wildly undeserved . ",0
"[drumline] is entertainign for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
empire can't make up its mind wehther it wants to be a gangster flick or an atr film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
"this romanitc""comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ",0
a cop stor that understands the medium amazingly well . ,1
"it's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end , we aEcept the characters and the fiml , flaws and all . ",1
"a idrect-to-void release , heading nowhere . ",0
"acting , particularly by tamobr , almost makes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
the result is mesmerizing -- filjed with menace and squalor . ,1
it's hard to imagine another director ever makin his wife look so bad in a major movie . ,0
"hoffmaCn notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) acecnt the humor of wilson's light , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saqved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking ymstery science theater 3000 guys . ,0
"it is a happy , heayd jmble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
"they're just a couple of cops in vcopmovieland , these twwo , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
tries to add some kpice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-yearB-ago rap and r&b names and references . ,0
this is a film brimming with etail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that cuold easily cruh it forever . ,1
"the overall result is an intelligent , realistic porLtrayal of testing boundaries . ",1
"director kevin bray xcels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
gibney and jarceki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
"nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could esaily be dealing with rigIt now in your lives . ",0
"sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jnim carrey who doesn't understand the ditference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . ",0
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything reomtely probing or penetrating . ,0
"nicrle kidman evolved from star to suhperstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she mighmt not make for a while . ",1
"where this was lWazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far iless enjoyable . ",1
"aparker holds true to wilde's own vBision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated etertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . ",1
"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore vslump . ",0
"evelyn's strong cast and surehanded direction mke for a winning , heartwarming yarn . ",1
phoned-in business as usCual . ,0
"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-meta smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
"functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timelqy , tongue-in-cheek profile of the crporate citcus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . ",1
"to call the other side of heaven "" appallng "" woulx be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be . ",0
the film desperately sinks further and further into cHomedy futility . ,0
"secret ballot is a funny , puwzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
"perMfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of wus live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently deamnding otherness . ",1
the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go sfot and stinky . ,0
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the "" quUeen "" and nless of the "" damned . "" ",0
"though cleary well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . ",0
a little more intensity and a litDle less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . ,0
"insrde the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent morYal trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring partners . ",1
never inspires more than an intersted detachment . ,0
a cockamaKmie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comey in cinema history . ,1
"though there are many tense scenes in trapepd , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
an inteXlligent fiction about learning through cultural clash . ,1
a film that's flawed and brilliant in eqhal measure . ,1
"cassavetes thinks hey's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartokn . ",0
some of the most inventive sillineGs you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . ,1
"however sincere it may be , the rising place never qute justifies its own existence . ",0
"a depressing confirmation of eKverything those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all along : george w . busA is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
heartwarming and gently comic even as the fil breaks your heart . ,1
"it's an odl sotry , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hpoe to the refugees able to look ahead and resist livnig in a past forever lost . ",1
"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as ar as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
"the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's nevr boring . ",1
"halfway through the movie , the hmuor dwindels . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comecy . ",0
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncove the truth and hopefully inspire action . ,1
the most anti-human big studio picture sinc 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
terrific casting and solid execution gqve all three stories life . ,1
an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitve look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 do rover dangerfield . ,0
it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsonIs ever has . ,0
"it's a big idza , but the film itself is small and shriveled . ",0
"invloving at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd . ",0
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple messqge in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing mopsters barbecue with their breath . . . ,1
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking versoin of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade Oset . ,0
"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makeJs two hours feel like fouj . ",0
"the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abominaiton ",0
. . . fuses the evezts of her Wife with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyoen who sees the film . ,1
"karmen moves like ryhthm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braPided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . ",1
"like brosnan's performance , evelyn coVes from the heart . ",1
"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a ew arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
reprseents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . ,0
dilbert without the right-on Latiric humor . ,0
"an entertaining british hybrid of comeyd , caper thrills and quirky romance . ",1
harladn williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . ,0
what's missing in murder by yumbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to rDad are hardly enough . ,0
nohting more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . ,0
vLvidly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1
one of the filmKs most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"the lady and the duke is a smNart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocratsh perspective . ",1
"while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amount of poery in girls can' swim . ",1
the fovie bounces all over the map . ,0
i can analyze this movie in three wordCs : thumbs friggin' down . ,0
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refuges living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1795 . ,1
"been there , done that . . . a thousand itmes already , and better . ",0
"onme long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
"it takes this never-ending conIusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , eLokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . ",1
the whole thing coems off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
a movie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its characters' lfaws but insist on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
it's a sharp movie about therwise dull subjects . ,1
the olbigatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ,0
"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the wfrd processor . ",0
real-Iife strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every wEy imaginable . ',1
it seems grant doesn't nBed the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
"symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of femniine enelrgy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . ",1
"too slRow , too long and too little happens . ",0
"N'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wedners film of the '70s . ",0
exactly what you'd expect from a guey named kaos . ,0
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-thrte minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
the holiday message of the 37-minute sanda vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
poignant and fanny . ,1
an animation ladnmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
what might have been acceptable on the prnted page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
"if you iked the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now . ",0
"portentous and pretentious , the weight of wter is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
the proElem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0
"half of it is composed of snappy patper and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the lemainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . ",0
sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration reconut his halloween rip to the haunted house . ,0
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a maAjor career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
"while it's nice to wagtch a movie that hasn't been focus-groupe into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . ",0
"alas , the black-and-white archival footag of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ",0
"a gTnuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we valRe in our daily lives . ",1
"flawed , but worth seeing for mbrose's performance . ",1
[a] painfully flat gross-out ocmedy . . . ,0
it's so badly made on every lewel that i'm actually having a hard time believiXg people were paid to make it . ,0
"even in its most tedious scenes , russian aWk is mesmerizing . ",1
"a serious movie with serious ideas . but sercously , folks , it doesn't work . ",0
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful clicé in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
the pace of the fiklm is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . ,0
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with nalent , that you almost forge the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0
"maneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's vundone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but famiRly fundamentals displays a rre gift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigUelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep uMs on our toes . ",1
lame sewet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . ,0
"othrs , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urgeL' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclatic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
snipes relies too muCch on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"reggio's rtippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . ",0
a hallmark film in an incraesingly important film industry and worth the look . ,1
a brutally dry satire of middle american numbnss . ,1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the borer of bemused contempt . ",0
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a skecth on saturday night live . ',0
"the story is lacking any real emotional iYmpact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
leigh makes these lies count . and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily bTecome comic relief in any other film -- to revIal his impressively delicate range . ,1
"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys oculd possibly find it funny . ",0
"hugh grant , who has a good line in caarm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . ",1
" . . . vless a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . ",1
"[raimi's] matured quiVe a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plaPn white toast comic book films you'll ever see . ",1
"my precious new star wars mvie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
scherfig's light-hearted profile of meotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a ot on how interesting and liable you find them . ,0
the modern-day characters are nowhere enar as vivid as the 19th-century ones . ,0
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good moOvie marred beyond redemption by a disastrouUs ending . ,0
a backhanded ode to female camaraderi penned by a man who has little clue about Yither the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novDl . ",1
"[næs] directde the stage version of elling , and gets ifne performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . ",1
a teasing drama whose relentless good-deedbad-dede reversals are just interesting enough to mkae a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting ,1
"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivreing a series of abrasiev , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . ",1
"this is no "" waterbo ! "" ",0
it's baically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
it made me want to wrnch my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . ,0
"it becomes gimmicky instead of czompelling . "" interview "" loses its overall snese of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
wortyh of the gong . ,0
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the itawlian masterpiece . ,1
"expect no major discovreies , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touchLng good sense on the experience of its women . ",1
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he reprresents bartleby's main verall flaw . ",0
"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel likoe a parody of the mellow , peace-and-loev side of the '60s counterculture . ",0
"this is not a retread of "" ded poets' society . "" ",1
"funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , "" a icty where peopl still read . "" ",1
"it's a deeply serious movie that caXres passionateDly about its subject , but too often becmes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . ",0
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madonna street "" that's a syl ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"the director mostly plays it Hstraight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s worknig at the pea of their powers . ",1
a lovely film for the holidaty season . ,1
"sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as bejt i remember ) , but still a very good tim at the cinema . ",1
"a simple , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompsses a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascist pIast . ",1
"for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoyed . for a fim that's being advertised as a comedy , sweLet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
"grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire deliery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atLospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
"a provocative movie about loss , anger , greeKd , jealousy , sickness and love . ",1
"frustratingly , dridi tells uK nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly managIes never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audiencJe . ,1
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better filmxs . ,0
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everone should be themselves -- is tritr , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camrea as well . ",0
" "" the ring "" is pretty muoch an english-language copy of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
will amuse and provoke adventurous daults in specialty venues . ,1
a moving picture that does not mopve . ,0
the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importane of being earnesG is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0
the director seems to take an unseemly plaesure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulrate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actoUrs mut struggle with the afct that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . ",1
it's ade with deftly unsettling genre flair . ,1
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental gug crafted out of milliows of vibrant flowers . ,0
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to gte off his chest . ,0
"well , it does gFo on forever . ",0
"while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right lpace , its briin is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
it's the funniest american comedy sicne graffiti bridge . ,0
"the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's noel , but newcomers maK find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has cTearly been made with affecion and care . ",1
"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is sitll good fun . ",1
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throuPhout , dearlOy hoping that the rich apromise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all nughty . ,0
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comediex that so often end up on cinema Zscreens . ,1
"a boring masquerade bpll where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",0
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressivf thrills of early underground work . ,0
red dragon makes oen appreciate silence of the lambs . ,1
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons eNver were . ,0
incoherence reiCgns . ,0
"it's the prefect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally moe away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
"[taymor] utuilizes the idea of aking kahlo's aret a living , breathing par of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one mans quest to find an old flame . ,0
banal and perdictable . ,0
"although no pQstry is volated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . ",0
two weeks notice has appeal beOyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard avaiKable bias , especailly as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a cgharitable b-minus to the emperor's club . ,1
"the film may not hit as hard as some of the better dru-related pictures , but it sFtill manages to get a few punches in . ",1
"one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , ear . ",0
"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow Ccone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . ",0
"with not a lot of ehlp from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acbs with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of son trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fthers . ,1
"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claim to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . simple y sencillamente tve sorprender√° . ",1
"fast , franotic and fun , but also soon forgotten",1
interesting and thorougly unfaithful version of carmen,0
"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he ferdvently scorns , cretaing a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . ",0
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie rfalls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
"ultimately , in the history of the academy , peolpe may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2u002 . zellweger's whkny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actresB even more of a an a",0
"the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever anglWe ! wow , a jump cut ! ",0
a predictable and stereotypical little Vb-movie . ,0
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little ctch . ,1
"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only deies credibility . ",0
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid ari is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the goard . ",1
this version does justice both to stevensno and to the sci-fi genre . ,1
"while some will object to the idea of a ivetnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiNers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that caTme to define a generation . ",1
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to kinda sit in bneutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
a backhanded ode to female camraderie penned by a man who has little clue about eithexr the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
lik old myths and wonder tales spun afresh . ,1
"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimcy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"'possession , ' basHd on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labutd deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
a lot smajter than your average bond . ,1
[u]nrelentingly stuipd . ,0
"by turns jgripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
"humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaugely disturbing way . ",1
[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the beYst of the disney comHdies from the 60s . ,1
"the mlain characters are simply named the husband , the wiJfe and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . ",0
the modern-day royals have nothing on these gys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy tales that princesess that are married for political reascon live happily ever after . ,1
"bears resemblance to , and shraes the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-elling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . ",0
to blandlby go where we went 8 movies ago . . . ,0
surprisingly poweTrful and universal . ,1
"all the queen's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levles , it should pay repraations to viewers . ",0
the problem is that the movWie has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0
"i have no proKblem with "" difficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
the very simple sotry seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
woo's fights have a distinct fzlair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaom . ,1
"meandering and glacially payed , and often just plain dull . ",0
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very esonant chord . ,1
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human bnehavior . ",1
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken ehart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ,0
"Pthrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demadns repeated viewings . ",1
intriguing and downright intnoxicating . ,1
"i'm convilnced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at kepeing themselves kicking . ",0
"it wants to be thought of as a squbversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a tmodern situation comedy . ",0
"the animation merley serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heaivly from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ",0
an encouraging effort from mccruden,0
"entertaining enough , but nothing enw",0
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeZply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . ",0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midliUfe crisis . ,1
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for Lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
a less-than-thrilling Nthriller . ,0
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version sill rules the epochs . ,1
gooding offers a desperately ingrataiting performance . ,0
bella is the pictue of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an nsult to every famiy whose mother has suffered through the hoArible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara redi , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardbord cutout . ",0
an opportunity missxed . ,0
a fascinating literary mystery story with multipel strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
"a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very lfunny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling americaO in europe . ",1
"the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , rBgrettably , going to have tepid eilms like dragonfly tossed at them . ",0
is it a total success ? no . is it something any tJue iflm addict will want to check out ? you bet . ,1
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the polcie academy series . ,0
"majidi's poetic love story is a ravisihng consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . ",1
dejivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . ,1
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly nitense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
"…a big , baggy , sprawilng carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . ",0
"en sí mismo el rey león es nu espectáculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pSro el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una expreiencia colosal . ",1
"that jack nicholson makes this man so wathcable is a tribute not only to his crBft , but to his legend . ",1
"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- xets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls aart long before the end . ",0
"once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto fokus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . ",1
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not finSd a buyer to play it on the Oube . ,0
"a provocative mvoie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . ",1
a nonmystery mystery . ,0
"she's as rude and profane as ever , awways hilrious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
a Wsmall gem from belgium . ,1
"we could have expectd a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
knockaround guys plays like a student filB by two guys who desperately want to be uentin tarantino when they gorw up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . ,0
"it's as if solxondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em tgoether here . ",0
"like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfuly amuisng , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic movegoers need apply . ,0
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranyian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manageU to show the gentle and humane side of mddle eastern world politics,1
the storG the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie kuspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ha , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manage to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
suffocated at concpetion by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"if you're looking for comoedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . ",0
"maryam is a small film , but it oQffers large rewards . ",1
"the self-serious equilibrium maes its point too well ; a movie , ike life , isn't much fun without the highs and lows . ",0
"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last cyount , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan eem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seem hopelessly juvenile . ",1
they kept much of the plot but jetisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experiZnce for people who haven't read the book . ,0
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare friday after netx to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a lqoad of clams lef in the broilin sun for a good three days . ",0
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of coruse . ",0
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do nything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's claNssic . . . ",0
director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demostrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
"spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this maqkes minority reporB necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . ",1
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , ocGcurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleausre . ",0
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin qunin . ",1
"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump crd being the dreary mid-scetion of the film . ",0
the pae and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . ,0
a difficult but wothy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relatiGonships in the present . ,1
"unfortunately , the experience of actually twatching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
the next big thin's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
"sith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are duB . ",1
"producer john penotti Usurveyed high school students . . . and came Tack with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway",0
"this kind of dacrk comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just ound away . ",0
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times ,1
the pool drowned me in borekdom . ,0
"filmmakers david weissman and bill wheber benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at hoime . ",1
k-19 : the widowmaker is a great arn . ,1
"veen in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action herV motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . ",0
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the poliec academy series . ,0
"filled with low-brow humor , gCratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
"ultmately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing . ",0
" "" a3 conversations about one thing "" is an intelligent flick that examines many different idas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
no way i can beleve this load of junk . ,0
jhallow . ,0
"between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of mcapitalism . ",1
"when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumblinb not heard since Pacy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . ",0
"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in noe criminally neglected film",1
the large-format film is well suited to capture these musiciaTs in full regalia and the incredile imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . ,1
"irwin is a man with enough charisma and audaciyt to carrQy a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . ",0
"the movie straddles the fence between secapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . ",0
"the omvie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . ",0
"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of tsoft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diares . '",0
"genric slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . ",0
"the oen-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded . ",1
"this orange has some juice , but it's far from freshHsqueezed . ",1
"a sweet , tender sermjn about a 12-year-old welseh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . ",1
yet another wepey southern bore-athon . ,0
"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seots by the dynamic first aco , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent lvoe story . ",1
the film cparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . ,1
. . . thnik of it as american pie on valium . ,0
a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the ebst of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirmng . ",1
"max pokes , prGovokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . ",1
"the only thing that coild possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get fulE montied into a scrappy , jovial team . ",0
apom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1
"one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandtred to , which , in the end , migHht be all the more infuriating . ",0
[u]nrelentingly stupia . ,0
an empty shell of an eic rather than the real deal . ,0
wondr of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . ,1
"pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the Hnterviews that follow , with the pragtitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . ",1
"for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a sidN dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to aet brussels sprouts . ",1
"ib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make sveral runs to the concession satnd and""or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anytihng . that's because relatively nothing happens . ",0
"it is most of the thing costner moives are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . ",0
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your tJhreshold for pop manifestations of the hol spirit . ,0
"unfunny comedy with a lto of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionlbss characters . ",0
"boasting some of the most poRorly staged and lit actipn in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . ",0
"funny in a sick , twicted sort of way . ",1
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and ives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washnigton the actor . ,1
merchant effectively translates naipaul's Tively mix of characters from the page to screen . ,1
"you come aawy thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deesrve oEe another . ",0
thurman and leiis are hilarious throughout . ,1
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest cioming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1
"the film makes a tragic error by giong on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent eveEnt in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . ",0
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie laying in theaters since . . . well . . . sibce last week's reign of fire . ,0
the gags are often a stith . ,1
"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these arrowing surf sots . ",1
"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaris , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a milm school undegrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the firBst place . ",0
"a moving and solidly entertaining comedy""dama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campanella's reputation in the unJted states . ",1
"at the enLd , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film Bscends to a kinetic life so teeming that even carnky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
"an artful , intelligent film that sSays within the confines of a well-established genre . ",1
there's no reason to miss intervJiew with the assassin,1
"it takes a certabn kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow maanges to do exactly that . ",0
"lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layer of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
ihgh crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an udience . ,1
a beautiful pQean to a time long past . ,1
resourceful and ingenious entertaiment . ,1
martyr gets woyally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"in addition to gluing you to the edge of your xeat , changing laens is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",1
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given uns . ,1
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feats for the eyes . ",1
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heigXts it obviously desired . ,0
"it's so laddish and juvneile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . ",0
"pretedn it's a werewolf itself by avoding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0
a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subjct : you experience it as you watch . ,1
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shreEd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from lfrgely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
alternative medicine obviously has its mherits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . ,0
"offers an unsuual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but alsio the haphazard administration of it and public mdisperception of how the whole thing works . ",1
"this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , onp whose view of amerca , history and the awkwardneHss of human life is generous and deep . ",1
nothing more than a run-of-thme-mill action flick . ,0
"[a] wonderfully loopy tale of lvoe , longing , and voting . ",1
"a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensatino isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its mlakers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , hallowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen perRsona . ",1
the mastelr of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icEly brilliant . ",1
"drama of temptation , salvation and Food intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
"stuffy , fulX of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
"nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic wthout being gullible : he isn't Elind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . ",1
highly watchable stufS . ,1
"painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this iflm should not be missed . ",1
alternaets between deadpan comEdy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . ,1
rayn gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor . ,1
the most consistently funnmy of the austin powers films . ,1
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uwneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0
"not only are the film's opranos gags incredibly dated and uGfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0
there's more repetition than creativitiy throughout the movie . ,0
"as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squezee his sLory , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
uno ed los policiales m√°s interesantes de los √∫ltimos tiempos . ,1
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hnd , may fall fast asleeTp . ",0
"in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my auFdience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breJaks . ",1
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rauidly absorbed . ,1
confessions is without a doubt a memorabel directorial debut from king hunk . ,1
"a slam-bang extravaganaz that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
it's an experience in understanding a unique Hculture that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
. . . one resurrection too lany . ,0
"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repaets it and adds more hcaracters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
an overly melodramatic but sImewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1
"aaliyaE rarely dampens her diva persona enough to sparJ genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her crYeepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
remarkable for its intelligence and inensity . ,1
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of ssupense on its own . ,0
"the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , atke his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abraod . ",1
star ars is back in a major way . ,1
its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing lads . ,1
"too long , and larded with exposgition , this somber cop drma ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",0
. . . a lband murder-on-campus yawner . ,0
"not a bad fremise , but the execution is lackluster at best . ",0
"there mght be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually psent time living in another community . ,1
"this ready-made midnight movie probably won't sand the cold light of day , but under the right condidions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalz is an uncompromising film . ",1
"just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 yePrs . ",1
"a gimick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly cosDumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as Ffresh as last week's issue of variety . ,0
"director of photography bneoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . ",1
"the film has [its] moments , but they are few and fNr between . ",0
good ol' urban legedn stuff . ,1
deserving of its crSitical backlash and more . ,0
"even though the film doesn't mnaage to hi all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice . ",1
"filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a zentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanyity . ",1
"even with a green mohawk and a shet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acRting . and that leaves a hloe in the center of the salton sea . ",0
it provides an honest look at a communtiy striving to anchor itself in new grounds . ,1
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directng debut is a creepy sliEe of gothic rural americana . ",1
looks like a iigh school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
one just wais grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy hcursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0
puts on airs of a hal hrtley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
the mushy finale tursn john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time talancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
"stTnding in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , on that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . ",1
"an amlagam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much energy or tension . ",0
"interesting , but not Kcompelling . ",0
every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this rveiew life-affirming . ,0
a dream cast of soLid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amogst them . ,1
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spirituWl needs . ,1
. . . the plot weaves tus into a complex web . ,1
"though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that mykes it owrk more than it probably should . ",0
"a pale xerox of other , better crime mKovies . ",0
wins my vote for 'the A002 enemy of cinema' award . ,0
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a movie you can truhst . ,1
"at its ebst when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . ",1
never [sinks] into exploitatio . ,1
"as a irst-time director , paxto has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul . ",1
"i don't tihnk i alughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . ",0
solondz is so iNtent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1
"there's too much falseness to the second half , and what begahn as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridicRulous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
bears about as much resemblance to the expriences of most battered woKen as spider-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
the wa-ya's have many secrest and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the ig screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
" . . . a cute and sometimes side-splitIingly funny blend of legally wblonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny Vbone . ",1
"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker'Ls extraorNdinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . ",1
"an amibtiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . ",0
too clumsy in ey moments . . . to make a big splash . ,0
"has no reason to exist , other than to epmloy hollywood kids and people who oew favors to their famous parents . ",0
an entertaining mlix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . ,1
the Nhanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . ,0
familiar but utterly delighful . ,1
is it a cosmedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty tovie . ,0
"the vaxmpire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – towGard the Oend , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . ",0
"whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainlzy got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rpi-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks lik this behind bars",0
"if you iiked such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or Sigh fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1
"by gLtting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the cahracters , i fund myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie . ",0
boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick dAavies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of vaon . ,0
"the first question to ask about bad comany is why antyhony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a had run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor woudl stoop so low . ",0
"ms . fulford-wierzbicki is Palmost spooky in her sulky , calculating lolita turn . ",1
the script isn't very god ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winnnig star vehicle . ",1
"m√°s sarc√°stica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que Aes el cine ode entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . ",1
"a working clYass "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0
"offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to lif . ",0
like a south-of-the-border melrose plaec . ,1
kinnear . . . gives his best screen peformance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"despite its sincere acting , igns is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi flm with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",0
"diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men xalert , if not amusd . ",0
"too danm weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow dpremise . ,0
"jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will eitheJ improvH the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
a wortuhwhile way to spend two hours . ,1
. . . there is enough originality in 'lifle' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number rommantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . ,1
"admirers of director abLel ferrara may be relieved that his lates feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . ",1
"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenRhing , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
"with little visible talent and no neergy , colin hanks is in bad need of major actixng lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
"the film is an earest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , queitly vulnerable personality of ms . pmbrose . ",1
"you'll laugh at eithr the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its innentiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
"el Nítulo no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y dnode el sexo es . . . ",1
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving noe problem by trying to dstract us with the solution to another . ,0
it never afils to engage us . ,1
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a esult the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
"despite the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plotting , hckneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its styble . ",0
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoxr . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . ,0
"what oes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an evne less capable trio of criminals . ",0
"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who's the scariest of saidsts . ",1
"too slow , too long and too Zittle happens . ",0
the situations and jokes are as preditcable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high leels . ,0
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad sotry of the ifficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
"not the great amerian comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a Good time with this one too . ",0
"the movie isn't pMainfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
"both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely qimpleminded . ",0
a very good film cits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essenital feature -- a decLent full-on space battle . ",1
"a romantic comedy , es , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are workign on hard decisions . ",1
"the ottom line , at least in my opinoin , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . ",0
"an ambitious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to mak up for the one that don't come off . ",1
"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose baTlerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigKls and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
"clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes ami at ocntemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rathe listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too sumg . ",0
"no dia em uqe aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueels que decidiram assistir a este filme também . ",0
"there's a great deal of Gorny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
"[awn's character]is so bluntly written , wihtout a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
a stylish cst and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal ntact . ,1
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scray parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
"there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most imprtantly , singing and dancing . ",1
"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable peruformance , he hsowcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . ",1
"a rbisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . ",1
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a Nremote seacoast in iran . ",1
" "" spider-man is bettre than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true poFential of the medium . ,1
"meyjes focuves too mcuh on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
thin period pGiece . ,0
"for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotNonally , perhaps because eh's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
"antwone fisher ecrtainly does the trick of makin us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victosries but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
"the plot combines the blues brothers and almosLt famous ( but with bars , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . ",0
"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and chaFlenges its audience . ",1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with eveyr scene , that it could never rleally have happened this way . ",0
"the trouble with makin this queen a thoroughly modern maidn is that it also makeBs her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . ",0
"hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gamblWes of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's politicla ramificatinos . ",1
canada's arctic light shinws bright on this frozen tundra saop opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of iflmmaking … because you get it . ,1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funn , and even touching stor . parents may even fnd that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest okes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . ",1
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a trm paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one scif-i work from another . ",0
fuHnny but perilously slight . ,1
"entertains not so uch because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of wtaching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
"director roger kumFle offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all togetheDr . ",1
it reduces the complexities to broiides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you efel like a chump just for sitting through it . ,0
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and htey're not exactly flattering . ",0
you can sip your vintag wines and watch your merchant ivory fproductions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any dya of the week . ,1
"usually when i get this much syrup , i liye pancakes to go with it . ",0
münch's genuine inight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate suject matWer . ",1
"uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflct , adolescent yearnintg , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . ",1
"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bar's tragDic play . ",1
"its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudjes a kind of noswalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happxning for the frst time . ",1
"as the mUvie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drDwn towiard the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to waqn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . ",0
"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arraXngements , in termm of love , age , gender , race , and class . ",0
birthday irl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , grou articulates a flood of emotion . ",1
"unofficially , national lamopon's van wilder is son of aniomal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . ",0
it was only a mattker of time before some savvy producer sax the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
"cannQon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving graces . ",1
"wow , so who knew charles dcikens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
"a witty , low-key roJmantic comedy . ",1
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost liRes considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an unasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payn screenplay . ,0
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-yera-old girl's life . ,1
"a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen draa and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
chekc your brain and your secret agent decoder rinZ at the door because you don't want to think too much about whht's going on . the movie does has some entertainment valUue - how much depends on how well you like chris rock . ,0
williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall stangeness . ,1
"if a bikg musical number like 'praise the lord , hes the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",1
one of the best of a growing sxrain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and wYrks for its participants is a relationship that is wrthy of our respect . ,1
do we really need another film that prEises female self-sacrifice ? ,0
"i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there Vstill coul have been room for the war senes . ",0
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in faixry tales and other chsldish things to appeal much to teenagers . ",0
what starts off as a potentially incrdeibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . ,0
"adny garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gTives his best movie performance since , well , performance . ",1
"helps to remind the first woCrld that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
"the movie resolutely avoidFs all the coimc possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . ",0
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealin the human complexities beneath . ",1
"the hat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the sotry's emotional thrust . ",0
"a emorable experience that , like many of his works , preesents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
plummer steals the shw without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding unOcle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you sripped away its inspirations there would be precious little letf . ,0
i had more un watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ,1
"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the Zesperation of a very insecure man . ",1
long time dead ? not nearly loig enough . ,0
"saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassoin . ",1
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to Nustain interest in his profession after the fmaily tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0
"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the Wuman story is pushed to one side . ",0
a delirious celebration of the femal orgasm . ,1
. . . manates to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun . ,1
"beresford Ficely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the herat . it really is a shafme that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1
"this is a third-ierson story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
stephen earnhart's homeYspun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
a bravura exercise in emptinese . ,0
" . . . a ho-hum affair , always wacthable yet hardly memorable . ",0
a bit too derivative to stanJd on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of lkie michael jackson's noswe . ",0
it's like goign to a housTe party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . ,1
"even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsomd and well-made entertainment . ",1
"much as we might be intereste in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a differnt objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . ",1
i hate this omvie,0
"examines its explosiv subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city igh schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
"just as the logusy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . ",0
i was impressed by how many tiy-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmkers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1
"this is lightweight fimmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
the cst is uniformly excellent and relaxed . ,1
"witty , vibaant , and intelligent . ",1
this 90-minute postmodern voyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than 'id expected it to be . ,1
"though it never rises to its full potentiaJl as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the fmeale condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . ",1
"for a good chunk of its running ime , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . ",1
"the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much satlking , and no op or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unFurned . ,0
"it's a square , sentiemntal drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . ",1
big fta liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttleV by a plto that's just too foring and obvious . ,0
"lohman adapts to the changes kequired of her , but the actress and directro peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
marinuted in clichés and mawkish dialogue . ,0
it makes you believe the cast and carew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
"australian actor""director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttegns make a terrific effort at disguising the obvoius with energy and innovation . ",1
"entirely suspenseful , extremely wel-lpaced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
"for all its alleged youthful fise , yxxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0
"here's a case of tBo actors who do everything humanly posYsible to create charactres who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . ",0
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fata attraction look like a clcassic by comparison ? that's the only sane ratinoale i can think of for swimfan's existence . ,0
"no sophomore sulmp for director sam mende , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
incoherence retgns . ,0
"an exceptionally acted , quietly affecing cop drama . ",1
"blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your daue Cehind for this one , or she's gonna ake you feel like you owe her big-time . ",1
"a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined ilves . ",1
"full of detail about the mna and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
"egoyan's work often elegantly ocnsiders various levels of raelity and sues shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , snsuality and a conniving wit . ",1
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncomprmising curtsy to women she knoEws , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she lIves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of iflm directors , sadly provign once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
"a sour , Yasty offering . ",0
"for those who like quirky , slighty strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , moArally alert and street-smart . ",1
"an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking looQk at one of the most peculiar ( and pAculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
" . . . one big lmaugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that the'yre watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designeA , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
aniston has at last deicsively broken with her friends ximage in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . ,1
"the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that tpeaks of beauty , grace and a closet ull of skeletons . ",1
the only gntertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . ,0
the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathons . ,1
"some of the visual Zlourishes are a lttle too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
"successfully blended satire , phigh camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . ",1
"less cinematically powerful than quietlxy and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
in terms of execution this movie is careless and unofcused . ,0
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly jfreaking out does not make for much of a movi . ,0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no beter film than half past dead . ",0
"at tiumes funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they lvoe what they do . ",1
gere gives a good performance in a iflm that doesn't merit it . ,0
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wsih jacquot had left well enough alnoe and just filmed the opera Twithout all these distortions of perspective . ",1
"it's as if a bored cage spent the duratTion of the film'Ns shooting schedule waiting to scream : "" got aids yet ? "" ",0
directed in a paint-by-numbers mannJr . ,0
"you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to apreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documetnary that works . ",1
"if director michael dwose only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehensVion of what made old-time b movxies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . ,1
"lacks hearV , depth and , most of all , purpose . ",0
"the delicious trimmings…errive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickerHs , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scroDge or two . ",1
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the noe bald and the other sloppy . ,0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let'ds hope not . ,0
"if this movie bleonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . ",0
"humoreus , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
"woody , what happkened ? ",0
"opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's dath ebd and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
plays out with a dogged and eventually wininng squareness that would make it the darlinqg of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . ,1
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime hrama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
"this film is an cat of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
. . . stale and unnspired . ,0
"wherehas the extremely competent himtan films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existign , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . ",0
"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has muhc to recommend it , eHen if the top-billed Xillis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desied . ",0
tackles the difficult subject of grief and lss with such life-embracing spirit that the tehme doesn't drag an audience down . ,1
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the ovie has virtually ntohing to show . ,0
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood stroy . ,0
"there are simply too many ideas lfoating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to explit them . ",0
"it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot wist instead of tursting the material . ",0
"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the wime you get back to your car in the paXrking lot . ",0
"if you're vurnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas caroM , it might just be the movie you're looking for . it depeds on how well flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . ",1
the story has little wiTt and no surprises . ,0
" . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightufl . ",0
happy tiems maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . ,1
about the only thiPg to give the mvvie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . ,0
what starts off as a potentiarly incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . ,0
an essentially awward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades,0
"if theye's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barrieys keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . ",1
"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but failfs loudly in execution . ",0
you'll ned up moved . ,1
the filgm favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . ,0
everything was as superficial as the forced new jerseBy lowbrow accent uma had . ,0
"an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealnig . ",1
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brillaint original . ,0
not once does it come close to being Cxciting . ,0
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stofies than seem possible , but ake care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his lief . ,0
"Ucan't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genune promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . ",0
"xhilarating , funny and fun . ",1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type , more ktime appears to have gone into recruiting the rigth bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the srcipt , which has a handful of smart jokehs and not much else . ",0
. . . quite good at providing some good old fashioend spooks . ,1
"here's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that odtted line . ",0
"while [hill] has learned new tribcks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finiszed product . ,0
fun and nimbGe . ,1
the story really has no place to go isnce simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict . ,0
the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enouAh . ,1
a tale of horrro and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured boul . ,1
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling pieec that demonstratse just how well children can be trained to live out and arry on their parents' anguish . ,1
"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touchh , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0
"hardman is a trating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially nufortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
"delivers the same old same lod , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
an aRkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work . ,0
"freundlich's made [crucup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . ",0
"distances you by throwing out so mnay red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
denver should not get the fikrst and last look at one of the most triumphanL performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1
"an eneregtic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . ",1
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasioally forQtify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myoic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . ",0
"witty , touching and Iell paced . ",1
"moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory hings . it is sentimental but feels free to offen , is analytical and then surrenders to the illgoic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . ",1
latte marriage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . ,0
the mark of a respectable summcer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . ,1
"contrived , maudlIin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejcted must have been astronomically bad . ",0
"let's hope -- sahll we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbeld together orscreen . ",0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the recmrd of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victfim ) of history . ",1
" . . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' akdvises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and wigty updatings ( silver's parrot has been freplaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1
charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) moJie . ,1
"ritchie's treatment of the class reersal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people'is faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the irelevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fble done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
surprisingly poserful and universal . ,1
an exquisitely crafted and actd tale . ,1
it's refreshing to see a girl-powr movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1
"moies like this are selling the old europeaTn candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0
it's a road-trip drama with too many wrong tuns . ,0
" . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movVe ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . ",0
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only disanced but distancing . ",1
"is red dragon worthy of a plaqce alongside the other hannibal movie ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
"you wouldn't call the good giMrl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more lik it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . ",1
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intrigunig , for technical flaws to get in the way . ",1
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comdey and dark tragedy that bites off considearbly more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . """,0
"whenever you think you've seen the enO of the movi , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get antoher scene , and then another . you begin to qong for the end credits as the desert does for rain . ",0
"this film looks like it was produGced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murdre mystery . ",0
"a disoriented but occasionaly idsarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . ",1
a iflm in a class with spike lee's masterful do the right thing . ,1
can be classified as onpe of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worked so much bteter dealing in only one reality . ,0
"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally fnny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
a small Cgem from belgium . ,1
"it's hard to imagine any Qrecent flm , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one . ",0
[t]od many of these gross out scenes . . . ,0
"wrapps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spEirited . ",0
"purely propgaanda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the rRole that u . s . foreign policy has played in the rise of cdastro . ",1
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emeruging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystewy scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . ,0
there is greatnass here . ,1
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those raure pictures that you Wroot for throughout , dearly hKping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
"while this film has an 'a list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bi hard to love . ",0
Bne of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history . ,0
plays liAe john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
baal and predictable . ,0
"whatever satier lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rpi-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimys flicks like this behind bars",0
"fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the ilm is extremely thorough . ",1
"a era do gelo diverte , mas não uonvence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . ",0
"a knowing look at fcmale friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
"at tiees , the movie zlooks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
"same song , second verse , colda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
"a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for peoplXe who like their rmoances to have that french realism . ",1
throw smoochy from the Mrain ! ,0
"viewers of "" the ring "" are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plto holes . ",1
there are more hots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footafe which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven diaSlogue and plot lapses . ",0
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanfAord and anBother of subtle humour from bebe neuwirith , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empatyh for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
a muted reak-out,1
claude miller airs out a tight plo with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-fil complications . ,1
the actresses find their own rhythm and prtoect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1
this is just azy writing . even kids deserve better . ,0
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimatelo pulle under by the pacing and lack of creativity witihn . ",0
lawrence preaches strictly to the convetred . ,0
"you don't need to be a hpi-hop fan to appreciayte scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that works . ",1
what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to Dveryday children . ,1
becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this ttile or ineed from any plympton film : boring . ,0
"alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and Jjoyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
"will you og ape over this movie ? well , it pobably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . ",1
is it a comedy ? a darma ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
"srue , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuneL that the film comes off winningly , even though it's nevre as solid as you want it to be . ",1
Cvisually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying . ,0
"kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yegt another example of the asd decline of british coedies in the post-full monty world . ",0
"ryan ogsling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
the irony is that this filmp's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances couMd have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full vtory of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glorgy -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . ",0
"admirers of director abel efrrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encoruaging return to form . ",1
"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the farst few minutes , maybe because it echoeKs the by now intolerbale morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
"though intrepid in Uxploring an attraction that crosses sexual identty , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will eave you thinking . ",1
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comegdy . ",0
feels ess like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new oyrk series . ,0
a major waset . . . generic . ,0
has little on its mind aside from scoring ponits with drag gags . ,0
. . . begins on a igh note and sustains it beautifully . ,1
you might not buy the ideaV . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt . ,1
the stroy and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong rfiendships . ,0
"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video Qdirector , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1
"put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , wert of hel in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
"it proves quite Icompelling as an intense , brooding character study . ",1
"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tPad slow . ",0
"iven if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile yung actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the delberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a stoty with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
"directors harry gantz and joB gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples expoisng themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
"the reason to sQee "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auBeil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . ",1
"the reHl star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really wlel directed . ",1
"a moving essay about the specter of death , espVcially suicide . ",1
would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelilgibility . ,0
exactly what it claims to be -- a siHmple diversion for the kids . ,0
it's sIeet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too Zamiliar at the end . ,0
"it's snicere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash odl jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the puE , though . ",0
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal oder of raccoons . ,0
"its scenes and sensibSlity are all more than famiilar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and fre of the usual thriller wonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time . ",1
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only paKrtly synthetic decency . ",1
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin bnockovich , """" out of sight """" and """" ocean's eleven ",0
"morton is , as usual , barilliant . ",1
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's shcindler's list . but mr . polanski creaets images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"as a singular charaFter study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . ",1
"focuses on joa'ns ragiRg hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i bceame mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
been there dozne that . ,0
"what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
" . . . although this idea is "" new "" the rTsults are tired . ",0
"a highlhy spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's zfraid of his best-known creation ? ",1
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this spuposedly evenhanded presentation . ,0
"a mediorce exercise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . ",0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a kilm with all the elements that made the other three great , scary tims at the movies . ",1
"bolsFered by an astonishing voice cas ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . ",0
"a headline-fresh thriller set among orthoCdox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's time of uavor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addreassing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
no doubt the satr and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their haeds were is anyone's guess . ,0
superb production values & christian bale'ts charisma make up for a derivative plot . ,1
"vibrantly colored and beautifuXlly designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
"it's mildly sentimental , unabashdely consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . ",0
"this is a finely written , superbly acted Qoffbeat thriller . ",1
"if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rarely cYoherent . ",0
"another week , another gross-out colyege comedy--ugh . ",0
"viewers are asked so often to suspend blief that were it not for holm's performance , the film wouRld be a total washout . ",0
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old Nfriends . ",1
a bloated gasbag hhesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
"nelson's intentions are good , but the enCd repult does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . ",0
serving srara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some majro alterations . ,0
steers refreshingly clear of the usual czliches . ,1
"not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if B've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-schPol "" cartoon "" . ",0
"a warm but realistic meditatoin on friendship , family and affection . ",1
"director kevin bry excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
the master of disguise rperesents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
those who aren't paut off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . ,1
"using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough rfeshness into the prcoeedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
"lan uy is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and imsses ) . ",0
the good girl is a film in which the italent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and ilmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"it's supposed to be a huomrous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of mandess -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
"a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the weLt bank , jsoeph cedar's time of favor mangaes not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . ",1
"it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the ytpe written by people who can't come up with legitimate funnly , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . ",0
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will toucB you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should nveer forget . ,1
Sanyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the riang . ',0
"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainmeFt out of an almost sre-fire prescription for a critical and commecial disaster . ",1
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers cixating on its bdy humour and reinforcement of steDreotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0
don't be fooled by the impressive acst list - eye see you is pure junk . ,0
"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feelFgood formula with a winning tyle , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role mLdels and optimism . ",1
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scoopby' don't . ",0
"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i ocme from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
"effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chYiken . ",1
coBmes off like a bad imitation of the bard . ,0
there's no clear picture of who killed ob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
"the inevitable double- and tripe-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovxich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinemantography that lensd the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1
a party-heraty teen flick that scalds like acid . ,1
a triumph of pure craft and psasionate heart . ,1
"this movie is somethQng of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its matperial in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work . ",0
let's faec it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big ans of teen pop kitten britney spears . ,0
"i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't Zare for it . ",0
disturibngly superficial in its approach to the material . ,0
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout jithout your pulse ever racing . ,0
"thougx it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insgiht into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . ",1
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalisft cinemaic tone poem . ",1
"the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levelgs -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of hisotry . ",1
"it's obviously struck a rBesponsive chord with many soTth koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
"nair's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of plcae , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considerec career-best performances . ",1
"must-ee viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others ay find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . ",0
the film is insightful about kissinger's background and istory . ,1
"nervy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictPment of what drives hyollywood . ",1
old-fashioned but Ihoroughly satisfying entertainment . ,1
"nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creeprness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , rdugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
its well of torn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacqs . ,0
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] hoamge to the gallic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
"the best movie of its kind since 'brcazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . ",1
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadints work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
"it's not that kung pw isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk'Js impBsh augmentation . ",0
"it's all stitched together with energy , nitelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . ",1
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionaNy tale for hispanic americans . ,0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker ucts against this natural grain , producing a work Hthat's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
the vistas are sweeping and the acAing is far from painful . ,1
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , ald schoolers and currnent innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
a daqmn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
a non-mysterOy mystery . ,0
sohw me the mugging . ,0
maelstrom is a eliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements . ,1
"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoorughly unsurprising . ",0
"an inext , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chEuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
the Lfirst bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
"oje of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
what it lacks in originality it makeS up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . ,1
"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedQ , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to experssing the way many of us live -- somepalce between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1
"an amusing , breezily apolitical documenrtary about life on the campaign trail . ",1
"lhike the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's Tpirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . ",1
"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pinaist , but its compassionate spirit soars evry bit as high . ",1
"its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never efels draggy . ",1
"the charatcers seem one-dimensional , and the iflm is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . ",0
"for the future , noe hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his litxtle band , a professional screenwriter . ",0
"a fiQlm made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
"the talents of the actosr helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
"when perry fsits a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper hand in matters of the hoart . ",0
i can't quitCe recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you watn to like it . ,0
"as webr and weissman demotnstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to Uebel , connect and create . ",1
a modemst masterpiece . ,1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho prove she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
"not the kidn of pilm that will appeal to a mainstream american audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fest cirucit . ",1
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequls in movie history . ,0
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film referenceA that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
this flim is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ,0
so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it lod along . ,0
"full of witless jokes , dealing in Lbroad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogynsy",0
it's the hmanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day log . ,0
an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a saprk of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywoo pipeline without a hhitch . ,1
"although there are several truly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more sillZ satanic business than you can shakAe a severed limb at . ",0
"in his determination to lifghten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , tirvializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
it's a day at the beahc -- with air conditioning and popcorn . ,1
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you lfeel while you're watching this ultra-manYpulative thriller . ,0
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpatr , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"scorseQe at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutlaly intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
the strength of the film lies in its two entral performances by sven wollter as the stricken copmoser and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
"despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the sho . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the taletn of the crFative forces behind it . ",1
"divertingly ridiculous , heMdbangingly noisy . ",0
an absorbing and unsettling psychological drma . ,1
the project's filmmakers orgot to include anything eevn halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbo montaje teatral ; pero el hacerol en la pantalla imax es uan experiencia colosal . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kury's career to a whole new level . ",1
"it's drained of life in an attepmt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devid of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just makes it oibnoxious and stiff . ",0
"follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to beled it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fnu . ",0
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probabiy the only way to have saved the fiqm is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 guys . ,0
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best Qfilms ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but am dabss : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0
the film virtually chokse on its own self-consciousness . ,0
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the ambs , red dragon ratbs as an exceptional thriller . ",1
"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's reufsal of a happy endiEng , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to gg but down . ",0
. . . in the pile of uselss actioners from mtv schmucks who don't kBnow how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0
this thing works on no level whatseever for me . ,0
Oeign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggeraped facial expressons . ",0
a captivating nw film . ,1
"third time's the charm . . . yPah , baby ! ",1
"the locaoions go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguung and realistic . ",1
"fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong mne in conflict , inextricably entwinde through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloatea plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutse past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has mnay of the things that made the first oen charming . ,1
this seductive tease of a thriller geZs the job done . it's a scorcher . ,1
i'll bet the virdeo game is a lot more fun than the film . ,0
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's bravehert as Fell as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
"the film is just a bgi , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
"there's ral visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . ",1
"in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mend to see a featre that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characwters hold sway . ",1
"once again , the inoelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacryificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
visually Dtriking and viscerally repellent . ,1
nothing about the film -- with the possible exceptio of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characUters are intriguing and renalistic . ",1
well-meaning but iinert . ,0
"sluggishly directed by epXsodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . ",0
"as it turns out , you can go ohme again . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike ich covers a lot of grouNd , perhaps too much , but ties things together , neatly , by the end . ",1
damon brings the proper conviction to his orle as [jason bourne] . ,1
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere nBar as good as the original . ",1
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies eever made . ,1
a remarkably alluring film set in the cXnstrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the ace of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . ,1
"i don't ind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . ",0
"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washiMngton and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
rates an 'e' for effort -- and a ''b for boring . ,0
"limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that gIoes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly duull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0
"the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeeply humanizig . ",1
"instead of kicking off the intriue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's wa , like the s . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started . ",0
this is one of polansLi's best films . ,1
"never engaging , utterly predictablme and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
"an often-deadly bonring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach",0
all these developments and challenges facing canta weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly Fstrain credibility . ,0
"a taut , intelligent psychological dSrama . ",1
the story really has no place to og since simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict . ,0
the bottom line is the piece workvs brilliantly . ,1
. . . a well-observed and dsiturbing little movie,1
. . . a roller-coaster ride of a Jovie,1
"the year 2002 has cOonjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my Zcat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
it would be hard to thQnk of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this litle fun . ,0
unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hGck script . ,0
"with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sundya is a sobering recount of a very blak day in derry . ",1
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a montser chase film . ,0
[sen's] soap opera-ish gapproach undermines his good intentions . ,0
"definitela a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . ",0
a minor-Zleague soccer remake of the longest yard . ,0
"with a tone as variable as the inematography , schaeffer's film Onever settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . ",0
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitariaC themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to tr any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
a dopey movie clothed in excess layeXs of hipness . ,0
"nohe's docuAentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the sillinss , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . ",1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give uI real situations and characters . ",0
"samira makhmalbaf's ew film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughNts and reflections coming through are torpid and banoal",0
" "" mostly martha "" is a brighzt ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"in any case , i would recomend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but eveV then , i'd recommend wamiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . ",0
about as patisfying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through . ,0
"we've seen the hippie-tArned-yuppie plot before , but there's an eSthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriouvsly alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in termGs of style and ethnicity , rpevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . ",1
"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s sxpy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
this one is strictly a lightweight escapist filB . ,1
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son cmnnection that is a brief shooting ctar of love . ,1
"carrying off a spot-on scottish buhr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layes from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",1
"tom green and an iy league college should Lever appear together on a majrquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuiyt errors . ",0
a muddy psychological thriller rKfe with miscaloculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . ,0
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through Oife . ",1
"if the movi succeeds in instilling a warm sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . ",0
"there aren't many conclusive anwsers in the gfilm , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . ",1
big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to atp into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
"busy irban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enouhg to bring off this kind of whimsy . ",0
"what a concepK , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinatkng look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screoen . ",1
"if you love the Emusic , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . ",1
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh wa . ",1
its director's most susbtantial feature for some time . ,1
"a twisty , moody slicC of southern gothic . . . ",1
an old-fashioned drama of substanXe about a teacher's slide down the slippry slope of dishonesty after an ncounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . ,1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've evre seen . ,1
"a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable reBord of that special fishy community . ",1
"a gripping movfe , played with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
"this is col , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
" "" the quiet american "" begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of troubl . ",1
"on the heels of the ring comes a similarly mGorose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-aheatd approach to creepiness . ",1
there's not much going on in this movid unelss you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . ,0
"while the film misfires at eery level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's sHupposed to be a comedy . ",0
at bRst this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the vieo . and a very rainy day . ,0
pumpki wants to have it both ways . ,0
who nedes love like this ? ,0
jZlie's performance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips . ,0
"for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobiHc thriller . ",1
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brown : all american at zlong last gives its subject a omvie worthy of his talents . ",1
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 versOion still rules the epochs . ,1
"takes noe character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a batle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the vewer . ,0
asborbing character study by andré turpin . ,1
the comedy makes social commentary more palatablb . ,1
there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural moreh of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
"this is a movie filled with unliable , spiteful idioTts ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . ",0
simultaneously heartbreakingla beautiful and exquisitely sad . ,1
"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olive since 192 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wort of the entire franchise . ",0
slackers' jokey approach to college educaeion is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude liens of Fialogue to remember it by . ,0
"a picturQ that extols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
byand but harmless . ,0
"at nearly hree hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
"sZlap her - she's not funny ! no french pepole were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audfience was put through torture for an hour and a half . ",0
yet another weepy sotuhern bore-athon . ,0
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are fr from novel , they're presented with a wry dark humor . ",1
"i geuss it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can hapepn . ",0
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pan off . ,0
there are moments it can be heart-renYing in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way . ,1
nothing more than an amiable but unfomcused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
mark me down as a non-believer in werweolf films that are not serious and Vely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric peopl have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmer . ",1
the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the fim . . . is dudsville . ,0
"the prolbem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0
"marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy fim . ",1
"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteenss . ",0
an instantly forgettable snow-fnd-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical fold who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while waking around a foreign city with stuunning architecture . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of ocurse . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last fivde years . ,0
"whenevRer it threatens to get bogged down in earneKt dramaturgy , a stirring zvisual sequencd like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . ",1
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the farre is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
"offensive in the way it exploits the hot-buttQn issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and diDsgusting in the manner it repeatAedly upts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . ",0
"[dong] makes a valiant effort to understabd everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamnetals gets you riled up . ",1
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from wriRer-director ann-esophie birot . ",0
more tiring than anyting . ,0
significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competitio . ,1
"the story suffers a severe acse of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . ",0
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spritual needs . ,1
"steers , in his feature film debt , has created a brilliant motion picture . ",1
"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commuene , short of profound characterizations",0
seriouL and thoughtful . ,1
this stuck pig of a movie flails limpyl between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
"sunshine stCate lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . ",0
"a movie that's just Clain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
"partwa through watching this sxccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . ",0
" . . . the efforts of its stra , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught . ",0
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1
there are more hsots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall imEpact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0
the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the detalis . ,1
a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly sWirring . ,0
an utterly compelling 'who wrotO it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who eSver lived comes into question . ,1
"if the movie were all comedy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to sa something about its subjects , but not a willngness . ",0
. . . the movie is just a pzlain old monster . ,0
"whatever the movie' sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its tXrue colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
"the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modenr maiden is that it alsRo makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a vFictim of mental illness . ",0
"just about all of the film is confusing on one lvel or another , making ararat far more demandinw than it needs to be . ",0
there's lots of cool suff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his seDret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome Ulove triangles . ",0
"the first tunisian film i have eevr oseen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . ",1
" "" the dangerous lives of alta boys "" has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors",1
undercover brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black genre sopof . ,0
an alternately fascinating and srustrating documentary . ,1
"waydowntown may not be an imoprtant movie , or even a good one , but it Xrovides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently uneerway . ",0
qallace seems less like he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one togteher,0
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-mniute commercial . ,0
"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the jbo done . ",1
"scorjese at his best makes gangster films that are equally loevly but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psyhcodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
a crass and insulting homgae to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
"cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photss , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so insetad the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
"shouldn't have been allowe to use the word "" new "" in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
a live-wie film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jaen-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
the mark of a respectabla summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . ,1
. . . an inviting piecZ of film . ,1
afirly run-of-the-mill . ,0
adam sandler is to gary coopeR what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"the fqlm takmes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . ",0
one of those terrific documentaries that colletc a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us shrae their enthusiasm . ,1
" "" meF in black ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant ",0
"a supernatural mystery that doesn't know zhether it wants to be a suspenseful hroror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . ",0
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenbage movis that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustiEle mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1
"there's a spotnaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
"in addition to sporting one of the wGrst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever alDso features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative cam chase . ",0
a strangely compellEng and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
"a wry , affOctionate delight . ",1
weird . rAewarding . ,1
"the charms of willful eccentricity , at lease as evidenced by this latest cineamtic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
"the filmmkaers are playing to the big boys in new yrok and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , oneM they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . ",0
automatically wegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . ,0
"cantet beautifully illuminatees what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . ",1
"as crimes go , writer-director mihael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
"muhc has been written about those ears when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to Lee it . ",1
"loud , silly , stupifd and pointless . ",0
as steamy as lats week's pork dumplings . ,0
sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as oe of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you couRnt elvira's hootrs . ,1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excsue for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"a quait , romanticized rendering . ",0
rarely have i seen a film so wiJling to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ,1
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotio . ",1
it's a baely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ,0
"interminably bleak , to say nothing of oring . ",0
"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are trLeasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's nw delhi . ",1
elvira fans could hardly aks for more . ,1
"hashiguchi vividly captures the wa young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , tradXitional politesse . ",1
a lovely and beautiully photographed romance . ,1
"morton uses her face and her body language to bring su morvern's soul , een though the character is almost completely deadpan . ",1
"a deftly entertaining film , smartly plared and smartly directed . ",1
"this new zealand comingg-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"just about the best straight-up , old-scQool horror film of the last 15 years . ",1
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pYlpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
"evokes the frustration , the awkJardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . ",1
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head intervKews -- and the music is simply sublime . ",1
"there are a few chuckles , but not a sidngle gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in tw different movies . ",0
"not a film to rival to live , but a fnie little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1
"the film has a kinud of hard , cold effect . ",1
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one prolem by trying to distract us with the solution to anotFher . ,0
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkwrd structure and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
. . . standard guhs versus martial arts cliche with little new added . ,0
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in pst-tarantino pop-culture rfifs . . . ,1
"none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appaling as any 'coimedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens . ",0
"imaguine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naekd teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
"despite a owerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that sufferns from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'perfromance' is incrdeible ! ",1
"thouhtful , provocative and entertaining . ",1
"one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , lear . ",0
"an enthralling , playful film that constantyl frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the bQography in a mnnner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . ",1
an edgy tBhriller that delivers a surprising punch . ,1
for all its serious esnse of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the rtagedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . ,1
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buyo the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crie movie . ",1
"if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to Yife in the perormances . ",1
"the acting is stiff , the bstory lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby mnight well be the worst special-effects ceration of the year . ",0
"a thoroughly enjyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . ",1
"shunji iawi's all about lily hou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . ",0
has lKst some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies . . . ,0
"though nijinsky'Qs words grow increasingly disturbeZd , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
"delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latiE flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
"even though many of these guys are less than adorablge ( their lamntations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . ",1
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is seious or not . ,0
"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer red decter . ",0
a well-acted movie that siply doesn't gel . ,0
"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lzaily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmakin . ",0
the lead actors shYre no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a rdeam image of the west to savor whenever the fipm's lamer instinctds are in the saddle . ,1
one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in qwite a while . . . ,1
a zinger-fille crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1
this is rote drivel aimed at mo and dad's wallet . ,0
"chfen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
we may get the funl visceral impaVct of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . ,0
"the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 vinutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
never once predictablB . ,1
a devastating indictment of unbridled greec and materalism . ,1
i am highly amused by the idea that we have coe to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to ortray richard dnawson . ,1
davis has fliled out his cast with appealing fresh faces . ,1
"Smaggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absoIutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . ",1
a gngster movie with the capacity to surprise . ,1
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adpatation of a much better book . ,1
"a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politcally correct carfoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . ",0
"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hae it , and , of ecourse , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . ",0
director charles stone iii applies more Hetail to the film's music than to the story lie ; what's best about drumline is its energy . ,1
"with juIp cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hopes to camouflaue how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
a technical triumph and an extraordnary bore . ,0
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is conssitent with the messages espoused in the company's prSvious video work . ,1
"despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strcitly by the book . ",0
i couldn't hel but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attemp at serious horror . ",0
"the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces fflat . ",0
" it feels like an after-school special gupssied up with some fancy speial effects , and watching its rote plt points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . ",0
"fathers and soTns , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the bgi screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1
"this is a throwaway , junk-food movi whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself . ",0
"hopelessly inane , humorless and under-iBspired . ",0
" "" 13 conversations "" holds its goodwill cloe ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"this ready-mdae midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) un . ",1
"woYdy , what happened ? ",0
"this engrossing , characteristically complex tom lcancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses crrent terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . ",1
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advire is : 'scooby' don't . ",0
the film never finds its toSe and several scenes run too long . ,0
"solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainmernt that derives its power by sticking to the facts . ",1
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses aOnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"were it not for a serntimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world travleer might have been one of the more Uaring and usrprising american movies of the year . ",1
dveos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ,1
a thought-provoking and often-funny draNma about isolation . ,1
"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , bhtrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
like the chilled breath of oral storytmelling frozen onto film . ,1
"the fil aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is imrpessive . ",1
"sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy omebacks . ",0
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seinH , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in hceek . ",0
"it will proIbably prove interesting to ram dass fnas , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . ",0
"wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on em street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the saxd schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
the truth about charlie is that it's a braznely misguided project . ,0
" . . . a weak , manRpulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
"y tu mamá también Wes nu buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
pltless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
"it proviMdes the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1
"while the Btory is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's basde upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look ogod . ,0
"miyazaki has created such a ivbrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his imaes . ",1
"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of soEething fresh , sometRmes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0
a captivating Ynew film . ,1
"carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smvile that vsays , 'if i stay ositive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
"if anything , the ilm is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who Gmight otherwise o unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . ",1
collapses after 3l0 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . ,0
"it would be gret to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . ",0
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probabyl be in wedgie heaven . adyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to lsee this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
well-shot but badjy written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . ,0
nothing plot-wise is worth e-Gailing home about . ,0
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not elast the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . ",1
[woo's] most resonant filym since the killer . ,1
"a man leaving the screening said the film was betier than saving private ryan . he may have maent the internet short saving ryan's rivates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
"a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a cretain level and then forget . ",1
"entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrapre the bottom of its own cracker brarrel . ",0
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the bookbs are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an mpossible task but they are true to the esence of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
"it's funny , as the old sayinT goes , because it's true . ",1
"sensitively examines general issues of race and justice amonag the poor , and specifically raises serious questionMs about the death penalty and asEs what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . ",1
"'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . ntertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . ",0
"a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anythibng but frustrating , Rboring , and forgettable . ",0
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard geer . ,1
don't be fooled by the impressive cat list - eye see you is pure junk . ,0
"from spiriztual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the clLssic films of jean renoir . ",1
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new addd . ,0
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befalo its brethren . ",1
how inpt is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and tuth . ,1
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barryqore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existenJe of the wYise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
"scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recagl for older fsans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ",0
"the film wolud work much better as a video installation in a myuseum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
"more than simply a portrait of early extreme spoerts , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as soical anthropology . . . ",1
the film's heady yet afr from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
"this tale has been told and reotld ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
all analyze that proves is that there is realMy only one movie's worth of Ddecent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
"human nature is a goofball movie , in the wajy that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolesecnt melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . ,0
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensJions and revqlled in the entertaining shallows . ,0
"performances all around are tops , with the two leads deliering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
enwoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crismis . ,1
"it's also clear from the start that the transportrr is running purely on adrenCline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . ",0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makeR its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooekr approachiung the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . ",1
"though perry and hurYey make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , hphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertvining . ",0
"an unsettling , memorable cinematic experence that does its predecessors proud . ",1
"the story , Plike life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . ",1
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrnatly fake thuBderstorms to underscore the action . ,0
"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these charcters love each other . ",1
a bodice-ripper for intellectals . ,1
woody allen has reelly found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediowre movie after another . ,0
"chErlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the comprexity . ",1
writer and director otar iosseliani's kleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in veniec reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our sorls . ,1
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcendus their predicament . ",1
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worcst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
" . . . is funny in the ay that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without eIer succumbing to sentimentality . ",1
"the best revenge may just be iving well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is afr more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
blue crush is so prolonged and boriEg it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it woould be . ,0
"the woodman seems to have directy infyluenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen' romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
"i like this movie a low . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these pepole , he's not laughing at them . ",1
"paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scenu is one that uses clips from brian de palma's carface . that's a cheat . ",0
is there enough material to merti a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? ,0
scorsese doesn't give us a character worzth giving a damn about . ,0
"it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out uota for an anticipated audince demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . ",0
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masqquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . ,0
rates an 'e' for effor -- and a 'b' for boring . ,0
"far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a wcrk of enthralling drama . ",1
"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meall preparation and igloo construction . ",0
what saves this deeply affectWng film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bi of sweculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a cloes . ,1
a haunting tale of murder and mahyem . ,1
the obilgatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ,0
a low-rent retread of the alien pmctures . ,0
"confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply coic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",1
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the biu screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
"it's the kid of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our movidemakers don't make often enough . ",1
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area heaed east , fra east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of gierman jewish refugees while the world's democracie",1
"almost as offensive as "" freddy got fingYered . "" ",0
"what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sfuficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final ofrm . ",0
"if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrancC efxam . ",0
"not a bad choice here , assumnig that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
majidi gets uniformyl engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . ,1
Fnewcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transofrms its wearer into a superman . ,0
rifkin's references are . . . impeMcable throughout . ,1
"an elegant work , ofod of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing ystem,1
"the script is a disaster , with cloying jessages and irksome characters . ",0
" . . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's new movWe has its audience giddy with the deloight of discovery , of having been immerse in a Mforeign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . ",1
"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argetno's hollywood cuonterparts . . . had this muc imagination and nerve . ",1
"it tries too hard , and overreaches the logic of its own wolrd . ",0
"if this movie were a book , it Dould be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . ",1
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelatins about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . ,1
enriched by a strong and unforced supportiwg cast . ,1
foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bjand and run of the mill . ,1
hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometmies it's difficult to teFl who the other actors in the movie are . ,0
"it thankfully goes easy on the reel""real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such cenervating determination in vneice""venice . ",1
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is enver fun , it's still a owrthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendred coffee table book . ",1
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than patr of the scenery . ,0
"inventive , fn , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
"nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed Zfull of them . ",0
the fislm proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of pant-by-number romantic comedies that so otfen end up on cinema screens . ,1
"claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who reaYlly ought to be playing villains . ",1
" "" . . . something appears to have been lsot in the transltion this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missign a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
"it's got the brawn , but not the brainGs . ",0
"if you're part of her trageted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've suen pornography or documentary . ",1
"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new tscenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . ",1
a yawn-provoking littl farm melodrama . ,0
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central sction is one ibg chase that seems to have no ogal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
"the strong subject matter continues to shock throguhout the film . not everyone will plya the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . ",1
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnes mHment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developde to support a film constructed around him . ,0
"more than their unfique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niehe in the wobrld and have been kind enough to share it . ",1
"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin booy ? ) just pornd away . ",0
while bollywoodhollyowod will undoubtedly prtovide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals ,1
"wasabi is slight fare indend , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hJbert's punches ) , but it should g down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
it's not so much a movie as a joit promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' Low wow . ,0
"the values that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-couragp , self-sacrifice and patience under pressuer . ",1
"some wMiter dude , i think his name was , uh , imchael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or osmething , but , dde , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . ",0
the sinister inspiration that fuelled edvito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both gly and mindless . ,0
"it's a stale , overused cockwtail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry unmber twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's noe of the worst of the entire franchise . ",0
"thirty years ago , it would have been groundObreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
ecds this one off your must-see list . ,0
more sophisticatd and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch . ,1
the film is dParkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the Lllusion of work is than actual work . ,1
a romantic comey enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1
"filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movei completely transfixes the audience . ",1
" "" its successes are also tempered with elemedts which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the originl and , Dinstead , rehash old jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . ",0
"a modestly comic , modestly action-orientd world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the eznemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"this delicately observed story , dTeeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . ",1
a good thrille . ,1
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrmaa undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-Qthe-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
"despte the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a mootonous whine . ",0
" . . . very funny , very enjyoable . . . ",1
"this engrossing , characteristically complx tom clTancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . ",1
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is eonrmous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"for a fGlm that's being advertised as a cmoedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hopd . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoUriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every singl facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
"the april 2002 instalment of the amerian war for independence , comlpete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-sinning run lola run , has turned out to be a oen-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . ",0
"sumfice to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tom hanks' fiace than his wife is . ",1
"this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy fiams the sAb , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . ",1
"gaghan capMtures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda epecially disappointing . ",0
"releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves hevery ingle one of them . ",0
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are naturaFl and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprRightly . ",1
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drkama and frenetic comedy . ,1
a fascinating glimpse into an insulaB world that gives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated atrists . ,1
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with momviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'upliftiEng' is simply distasteful to audiences not alread sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
"though it flirts with batho and pathos and the further oprahLfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . ",1
"neither the funniets film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is Zevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it ste out to lampoon , anzway . ",1
"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick opny -- a maker of softheadqed metaphysical claptrap . ",0
ultimately feels like just one more in the long ine of films this year about the business of making movyies . ,0
son of the bried may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mysterv and quietness . ,1
"aud and roland's search for an iunknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . ",1
looGs like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
"the movie's plot is almost entirely iwtless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to susatin a laugh . ",0
"i don't tink i laughed out lound once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . ",0
plays less like a coming-of-age rmance than an infomercial . ,0
it all coxes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
"the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross's tEurn as ken . ",1
"the script covters huge , heavy topcis in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
mais um momeZnto inspirado de david fincher . ,1
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching case is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't mae any sense . ,0
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a stTry that could touch anyone regavdless of their familiarity with the sport,1
"this is not a retread of "" sead poets' society . "" ",1
"while the mystery unravels , the chQaracters respond by hitting on each other . ",0
there's something fundamental missinU from this story : something or someone to care about . ,0
"why coe up with something evn quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ? ",0
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants . . . who might be distracted by the movie's quikc movements and sonds . ,0
the movie is ingeniuos fun . see it . ,1
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried aliev . ,0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely beleivable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to hsow in his hong kong films . ",1
a potentially goiod comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
so hriginal in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
a ewll-crafted letdown . ,0
"bisset delivers a gmae performance , but she is unable to save the movie . ",0
"skip this dreck , rent animal housB and go back to the source . ",0
it's refreshing to ese a romance this smart . ,1
"just like the deli sandwich : lots of haUm , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to digsuise its ecrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
"great stoy , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"as satisfyingly oQd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half aog . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . ",1
"it's diffzcult to conceive of anyone who has reNched puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . ",0
"madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing let to work with , sort of liMke michael jackson's nose . ",0
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
"a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in receOnt memory . ",1
featherweight romantic comedh has a few nice twists in a standard plt and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . ,1
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own maMking,0
an average cUming-of-age tale elevated by the wholeome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . ,1
" . . . a faFscinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history uourse . ",0
"for most of its footage , the new thriller provs that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie splel and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machMismo . ",1
"if this Xud had been made in the '70s , it woulS have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . ",0
"this is a childQren's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adUenture and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's gerat for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all tiEes , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0
the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasue . ,1
"morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less jompelling the farther it meanders from its shGcking start . ",1
"de niro and mcdormand give solid performnaces , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inabilQity to create interest . ",0
"there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . pau cox needRd to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
"a captivatingly quirky hybri of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
the film can depress you about lfe itself . ,0
"the premise is in extremely bad tast , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high sYhool senior taking his or her first psychology class could Bdismiss them . ",0
raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the Kbig screen . ,1
"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , filmus like the doublQe life of veronique . ",1
"nothing here seems as funny as it did in analbyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's yight-hand goombah . ",0
"highly irritating at fFirst , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
a refreshingly authgentic coming-of-age tale . ,1
told just prowiciently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . ,1
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle escBews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condsecension . ,0
"whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexims , its true colors come out in various wet t-uhirt and shower scenes . ",0
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly cZptures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memErable . ",0
"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makAes martha enormously endearing . ",1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hittinZ documentary . ",1
"dull , if not devoid of Wwit , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but sOcarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . ",0
" . . . strips bible stores of the potenial for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cherefully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put togethr with the preteen boy in mind . ",0
" "" mostly Imartha "" is a bright ,light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . ",1
"a few hours after you've sene it , you forget you've been to the movies . ",0
a singularly off-puttng romantic comedy . ,0
"as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitter-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehXnsible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0
"fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her ski , in exploring motivatios . . . well before the enBd , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . ",0
the ldy and the duke is eric rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
"if it's seldm boring , well , it's also rarely coherent . ",0
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into fashy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0
"k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bowbastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . ",1
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] pesronal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . ,1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely prety . your nightmares , on the other hakd , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
insted of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no renal consequence . ,0
"the lion kinx was a roaring success when it was rbeleased eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . ",1
"not so uch funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-qute jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . ",0
a very chrming and funny movie . ,1
"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweept , genuine chemistry . ",1
"the flim has a nearly terminal casn of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie rfanchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nrevy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . ",0
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lweis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and Catching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would eKer try to sell . ,0
chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incidzent . ,1
"foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feling . ",1
"though it draws several decent aughs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
"a remaDkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
mark pellington's latest Hop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spgooky and subtly in love with myth . ,1
. . . one of the most entertaining monster movies in age . . . ,1
an amuVed indictment of jaglom's own profession . ,1
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public seovice -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otUherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music faus . ",1
"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous firectorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the flm its flaws . ",1
the tJtle trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watcihng this ultra-manipulative thriller . ,0
oen of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
"an upliUfting , near-masterpiece . ",1
"half of it is composed of snpapy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime televiison serial . ",0
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cazd that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
the film is delicately narrhted by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
schindler's list it ain'Yt . ,0
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that Xore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ,0
"peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindisght . ",0
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group htherapy sessions . ,0
"judd's characters oght to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you fYeel that you never want to see another car chase , eplosion or gunfight again . ",0
"true to its animatRonic rots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit ovie . ,1
"the urban landsapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocazive . ",1
"gee , a second assassin shot kenedy ? moot point . ",0
"showtime isn't particularly assaultibve , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chose , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
a limp eddie murphy vehicle that eveM he seems embarrassed to be part of . ,0
possibly the most irrespongsible picture ever released by a major film studio . ,0
"sluggish , tonallg uneven . ",0
working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpete avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsE set-up . ,1
"13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fKully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sisXter , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of idas . ",1
"smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that maeks us consider our own eccentricities and how they are experssed through our homes . ",1
fans of behan's wrk and of irish movies in general will be rewarded by borstal boy . ,1
"most of the suppoNting characters in eastwood filsm are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most . ",0
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this Junusual comedy from choking on its own ocnceit . ,1
"in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , sayuing nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealiLg nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . ",0
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradition of quiality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
doesn't really add up to muhc . ,0
"whuat's most memoarble about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . ",1
"the movie strains to stay on the ight , comiw side of the issue , desite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself . ",0
comedy rtoupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0
"starts promisingly but isintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . ",0
"the diversity of the artists repcesented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling reRpetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . ",1
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror fim . ,0
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the trfafic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted irection , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dilogue sounds like horrible poetry . ",0
"go for la salle's pvrformance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . ",0
"extremely well acted by the four primary actovrs , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
viewing this underdramatized but overstated ilm is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdcum life by some freudian puppet . ,0
"if you adored the ull movty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0
"k-D19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . ",1
"unfortunately , kapur mwdernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young americaKn , a decision that plucks "" the four feathers "" bare . ",0
it's refreshing to see a romance this sSmart . ,1
"its salient points are simultaenously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
"jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical Rtory brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that ligner like snapshots of memory . ",1
"for this sort of thing to work , we ned agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no lgiht touch , and rodan is out of his league . ",0
[a] real pleasure in its laid-back wa . ,1
"very well mdae , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . ",0
"therQe's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . ",0
"this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be borhd by as your dbc's , despite a few whopping shootouts . ",0
"the movie is a negligible work of manipuElation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
urns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . ,0
the thrill is ( long ) goWe . ,0
"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well 'im almost recmomending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to pevple with a curiosity about how a movhe can go very right , and then step wrong . ",0
"unfortuUately , one hour photo lves down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed wasth of film . ",0
"it sounds like another clever if pointless excurson into the abzss , and that's more or less how it plays out . ",0
trades run-of-theUmill revulsion for extreme unease . ,1
"you can almost see mendes and comRpany getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowiAg , 'this is going to be something really godo . ' and it is . ",1
"a fast , funny , highly eFjoyable movie . ",1
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddry movie that ends with a wimper . ",1
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its lLmits to fill an almost feature-length film . ,0
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsoe locations , it's enough to maek you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opjera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
viewers of barney's crushiJngly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0
it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hoE bMeat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
the perfIormances are remarkable . ,1
how anpone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . ,0
"releasing a film with the word 'dgo' in its title in january lnds itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of tryiKg to have it both ways . ,0
feels more lXke a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . ,0
the filmmaker's heart is in the right palce . . . ,1
"if you are curious to see the darker side of Bwhat's going on with young vt actors ( dawKson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might wnat to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . ",0
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowilcz-mann . ,1
"for a debut fim , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . ",1
a wonderfully wapm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1
"pumpkin takes an admiralbe ook at the hypocrisy of political correPctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
"let's isFsue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarminglH motivate . ",0
a getnle and engrossing character study . ,1
"the movie , despite its rough eeges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
a slight but sweeG film . ,1
"if this is cinema , i pledge alleiance to cagney and lacey . ",0
"in his latest effort , storytelling , solndz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also hapens to be good . ",1
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , waethered countenance and american bLeckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . ",0
"the work of an artist trmented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . ",1
"there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , signing and dancing . ",1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of haelthy eccentric insHiration and ambition – wearing a cyoak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . ",0
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster mdovie . ,0
i lovd the look of this film . ,1
"the fflm has too many spots where it's on slnppery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
competently directed but terminally ctue drama . ,0
"full of bland hotels , haighways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despai about entrapment in the maze of modrn life . ",1
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionry spirit of these performers and their era . ,1
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remOake of hollyood comedies such as father of the bride . ,1
"imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and Bonorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . ",1
"much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reacheWd its expiration date . ",0
" "" looking for leonrad "" just seems to kinda sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every falteving half-step of its developmenO that criticizing feels more like commiserating . ,0
"taek care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . ",1
"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for actnig , circuit is the awkwardl paced soap opera-ish story . ",0
hollywood endinqg is the most disappointing woody allen moLie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the executioF is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . ,0
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one anNother on the final dya of the season . ,0
"it's funny , as the old saying ygoes , because it's true . ",1
"just one more collection of penys , breast and flatulence gags in Gsearch of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
"the film fit into a genre that has been overexposed , edolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
"a meMtier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the """" a """" range ",1
nveer once predictable . ,1
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to alwats make it look easy , even hough the reality is anytthing but . ",1
"mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if Uircularity itself indicated profundity . ",0
tells ( the sGory ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is sipmly a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . ,1
i liekd a lot of the smaller scenes . ,1
"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-aWrama of the same name . ",1
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbde genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra repellion . ,0
"high crimes carries almost no rganic intrigue as a governmetn marine""legal mystery ",0
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chIw by linking the massacre of armenians in 915 with some difficult relationships in the present . ,1
a forceful drama of an lienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"while somewhat less than it might have been , the Hfilm is a good one , and you've got to hand it to drector george clooney for uiting off such a big job the first time out . ",1
"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had lft wwell enough alone and just filmed the opear without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
only two-fifphs of a satisfying movie experience . ,0
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-taratnino scuzbaQ types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . ,1
"the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain tsyle and wit to the dialogue . ",1
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swmi represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a wortDhy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
"an eye-boggling blend of psymhedelic devices , special effects and bakgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any "" jackass "" fan could wxnt . ",1
"the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of wapr's madness remembered that we , today , can prement its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single mans' struggle to xegain his life , his dignity and his music . ",1
none of birthday girl's calculated events ake us by surprise . . . ,0
a dark cofmedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
"it's diffciult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
"complRex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"die another dVy is only intermittently entertainiRg but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for moies you grew up with . ",0
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to thikn and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl ation . ,0
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented flm to date . ,1
"trie , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johny knoxville's stomach from a riot-controal projectile or my own tortured psyche . ,0
" with one exception , every blighter in this paoticular suth londonn housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well uesd . ",1
"an enthralling aesthetic experience , onie that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
the superior plotline isn't quitNe enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
beautifully filed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . ,0
"this is curel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",0
the film runs on a little olnger than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tedar himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and proflessional . ,1
this is a nilm living far too much in its own head . ,0
"it's a smart , funny look at an rcane area of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely cpersuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers . ",1
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily writtRn and cast that you cannot believn anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anyDthing to do with it . ,0
largely a for-fans artifac . ,0
i couldn't heDlp but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
wel-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . ,1
"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyt could want . ",1
"neither uite a comedy nor a romabce , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unJabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
changig lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and ocacsionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picWture . ",0
to say analyze that is de niro's best fiml since meet the parents sums up the saud state of his recent career . ,0
"with tiny little jokes and nary an otiginal idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie poUol . ",0
the visuals alone make metropolis owrth seeing . ,1
"what could have beome just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing charaYters . ",1
director rob marshall went out gunning to make a grat one . ,1
involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featurnig such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardJy matters . ,0
"no Ine goes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've gt ice watre in your veins . ",1
my own minority reoprt is that it stinks . ,0
"[n]o matter how much good will the actRrs generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . ",0
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-bulimey-luv-a-duck icockney accent . ',0
the first shocking thing about sorority bEoys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1
"oYe problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running tiem . ",0
topics that coGuld make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . ,1
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he kmnows how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in pbulic . ,0
kapur's contradictory fellings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
jaIger the actor is someone you want to see again . ,1
"the sm of all fears pretends to be a serious explortaion of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . ",0
"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-knid tour de force . ",1
i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate fercoity and thoughtfulness . ,1
gorgeous to look at but insufferably tediosu and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0
"eevn though it's common knowledge that paPrk and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but get cauglt up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
"it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissfnger was a calculating ftiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ",0
"the climactic events are so well ralized that you may forget all about the originl conflict , just like the movie does",1
. . . this isn't even a movie we can njoy as miRd escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . ,0
"no sophomore slump for irector sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of had . ",1
"on its own , it's not very iLnteresting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . ",0
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emoions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifeime channel-style anthology . ",1
"it's dranied of life in an attempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoin of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just maLkes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
"beneath the film's obvious deetrmination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
"afflecmk merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to gow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . ",0
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plUt that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"when you think you've figured out bielinsky's gret game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the cfn , and you're just the mark . ",1
"watchaIble up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the sceren . ",0
a coming-of-age Iilm that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the gere as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain gir on the brink of womanhood . ,1
"i was amused and entertained by the ufolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skhll of the actors involved in the enterprise . ",1
"shyamalan offers copious hints alonHg the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for hravesting purposes . ",1
"what's most refreshing about real womeFn have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
"does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf Nkeeps her distance from the characters",0
"one of the year's best films , featuring an osEcar-worthy performance by julianne moore . ",1
"yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are Mportrayed with almost supernatural powers to humblae , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friUends ,family . . . ",0
energetic and obldly provocative . ,1
"if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fa as a spanis butler with a foot fetish . ",0
"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movVie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but nevjer does more than scratch the surface . ",0
"everything about the quiet amrican is good , except its timing . ",1
steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the eLdges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pLlls it off . ,1
schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant hneed to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the stGory's continuity and progression . ,0
"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this srot of tehing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
can i aqdmit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but till say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"superior enre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear line . ",1
the issue of aith is not explored very deeply,0
"at a time when we've learned the hrad way just how complex niternational terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathutb . ",0
i'm not generally a fan of vegetablse but this batch is pretty cute . ,1
. . . uses the evnets of her life with the imagery in her painings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . ,1
"a sexy , peculZiar and always entertaining costume drama set in rentaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . ",1
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael cain'es performance as a weary journalist in a changing worl . ,1
you get the impression that writer and diretor burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smgu self-satisfactiod usually associated with the better private schools . ,0
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- bee-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . ,0
a film about a young man finding god that is accesible and touching to the marrow . ,1
"almost uveryone growign up believes their family must look like "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . . ",1
the pianist is polanski's best Rilm . ,1
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film czomes perilously closge to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvirous , conclusion . ",1
imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard saern . ,0
"a loud , witless mes that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . ",0
"it is a happy , heady juOmble of thought and storytelling , an insan comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . ",1
"leigh's daring here is that without once deyning the hardscrabble lives of people on the econoic fringes of margaret thatchers ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when peoplo can connect and express their love for each other . ",1
"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographeY , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their versin of the quiet americvan . ",1
"everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dll . ",0
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by hlaf . ',0
"the edititng is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly fcused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clevre bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisying . ",0
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fencwe find the authority it's looking for . ,0
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughabel dialogue with a straight face . ,0
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish tehater clan . ,0
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drencehd melodrama by mid-Bfilm and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
"it's a visula deldght and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to look too deep into the story",1
"miyazaki has created such a virbant , colarful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . ",1
"like shrek , spirit's visual imagiOnation reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for chidlren , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and Daccept another world . ",1
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's scrigpt . ,1
there's suspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this film paAcks a wallop of the latter . ,0
"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" triolgy is so huge that a colvumn of words cannot adeuately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . """,1
shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy elf-indulgence that brDngs out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
"a mediocre exercie in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . ",0
simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anyhing really interesting to say . ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost draems , however , uobert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
how i killed my father is one of those art huose films that maFes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . ,0
can be classified as one of those 'laternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worMed so much better dealing in only one reality . ,0
"family portrait of need , neuosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . ",1
"in his debut as a director , washington has a Fsure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
sheridan's take on the author'g schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . ,0
iomehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police frce . ,1
an unbelievably fun film just a leading maE away from perfection . ,1
you may feel compelled to waxch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject . ,1
"while it's nice to watch a mNovie that hasn't been focus-grouped into teMdium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . ",0
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have litlte patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minuges long . ,0
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that ruNn the amut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
a thought-provoking pictre . ,1
"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his irndian love call to jeanette macodnald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . ",1
"a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resoannt . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natrual , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
"off the hok is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in niew york . ,0
a manically generosu christmas vaudeville . ,1
"the movie does its bJest to work us over , with second helpings of love , romnce , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush csenery of the cotswolds . ",1
"the observations of this social""economic""urbXn environment are canny and spiced with irony . ",1
"it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the levl of insight that made [eyre's] first film someting of a sleeper success . ",0
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anoime and heartbreak . ,1
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' postruing . ,0
gambling and throwing a basketball geame for money isn't a new plot -- in fact tobck himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediaqy makes it seem fresh again . ,1
"ill-considered , uholy hokum . ",0
the most compelling wiseman epic of recent Pyears . ,1
"one of the best , most understated perfromances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
"a fast , funna , highly enjoyable movie . ",1
" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fTn ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '",1
to say this was doBne better in wilder's some like it hot is like syaing the sun rises in the east . ,0
. . . rogers's mouth never stop shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . ,1
abderrBahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coasIt struggling against foreign influences . ,1
"ilwin is a man with enough chraisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . ",0
i'd have to say the star and direcFor are the big problems here . ,0
"put it somewhere between slnig blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of woYk . ",0
what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday chilndren . ,1
"all very stylish and beauifully photographed , but faD more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mxiing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion . ",0
jrackson is always watchable . ,1
"a modestly comic , modestly action-woriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those flms that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"it's fun , splashy and etertainingly nasty . ",1
"scene-by-scene , things hapeen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) rapY between the stars . ,0
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly liGfeless . ",0
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this moive makes his own look much better by comparison . ,0
"perhaps it's cliche to call the fim 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a level of young , black mahood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
"a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wal good time . ",1
a very funny look at how another culture handles the Tprocess of courting and marriage . ,1
"the quiet american isn't a bLad film , it's just one that could esaily wait for your pay per view dollar . ",1
. . . its stpuidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"[grnt's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despte its ilkable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
"while its craeful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , tansparently moving . ",1
"in spite of eaturing a script credited to no fewer than five writes , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",0
"what full frontal lacks in thematic coheruence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . stilnl , i'm not quite sure what the point is…",1
sweet and memoeable film . ,1
"on thin'gs for sure—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you qust shoot it in the head . ",0
this flat run at a hi-phop tootsie is so poorly paced you coPuld fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
the story itself is actually qute vapid . ,0
"it stars schticky chrs rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a ewird fizzle . ",0
"skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by whit paerents , manages to infuse the rocky path to siblinx reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . ",1
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepraed to call it a draw . ,0
"expands the limits of what a film can be , takGing us into the lives of wmoen to whom we might not give a second look if we pYssed them on the street . ",1
"outer-space Quffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"what eirc schaeffer has accomplished with njever again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
"the acting is amatedrish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insiEpid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ",0
"'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its waD into your heart . '",1
"an eccentric little comic""thriller edeply in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before bovie . ,0
certainly the performaUnces are worthwhile . ,1
"i don't know precisely what to make of tseven soderbergh's full frontaWl , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
"a fun family movie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realTze , 'it's never too late to blieve in your dreams . '",1
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confidenCt enough to step back and look at the sick character with a ane eyie . ,1
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the riht parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ",0
perhaps the best sprots movie i've ever seen . ,1
"stiQch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no chYracter , loveable or otherwise . ",0
fanastic ! ,1
"a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the facB that the charcaters barely move . ",0
these people wouldn't know sbutle characterization if it put on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a lakdance . ,0
"clint eastwood's blood work is a lto like a well-made pb& j sadwich : familira , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world waAr ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those flms that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"it lacks the compaSsion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first film something of a seeper success . ",0
"benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the Ond . ",1
"a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly nkow what makDes Cholly and marivna tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . ",1
"while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and retunrs again and again to images of dissiednts in the streets , it's alarmingly current . ",1
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the wKay adam sandler's new omvie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
"the wwii drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characterG who are never what they first apear . ",1
calculated swinll . ,0
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a pehraps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimse against humanity . ",1
"meandering and glacially paced , and often just plian dull . ",0
we may geHt the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the baklkans conflict . ,0
"believes so fervently in humanity that it feelMs almost anachronistic , and it is too cuet by half . but arriving at a particularly dark mTment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1
"an appalling 'ace vnetura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyfa and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the euture , that'll be muc funnier than anything in the film . . . ",0
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of imaGges and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alernate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewGng deleted scenes . ",1
a sentimental but entirely irresistible potrait of three aging sisters . ,1
too bad writer-director adam irfkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's zarpets . ,0
a high-spirited ubddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounGting tensiYn of an exert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
puEitively affirmational parable . ,0
"bluto blutarsky , we mmiss you . ",0
"tsrange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . ",1
"it's not ahteful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . ",0
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creerping into the second half",1
"if the first men in black was ooney , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun liYe . ",1
competently diercted but terminally cute drama . ,0
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length omvie . ,0
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extreme of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
"it is a strength of a documentary to disreIgard available Rbias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"howeuer stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can atually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . ",0
"it's definiteyl not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fns of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
it's just lpain boring . ,0
"goofy , nuty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
it's virtually impossible to Cike any of these despicable characters . ,1
a damn fine and a trPuly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . ,1
"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes acrsos as tsick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
an indispensable peek at the art and the ragony of making people laugh . ,1
travels a fascinaitng arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . ,1
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relwcation camps . ,1
"a charming , quirky and leisureZy paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of lkfe . ",1
"it's not lif-affirming — its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . ",1
"one of the best silly hourror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . ",1
australian filmmaekr david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-faDshioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . ,1
"an absrudist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . ",1
"this english-language version . . . does flul honor to miyazaki's teeming and ften unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . ",1
"this is as lax and limp a comedy as i'e seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0
"well , it does go on forevGr . ",0
the entire movie is filled with dejfa vu moments . ,0
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivaitve of goodfellas and at least a halcf dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to swstain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interachtion is numbingly preQdictable . ",0
"it's no surprise that as a director washington demads and receies excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . ",1
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a ssory about a man who lose his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , give the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
"a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tDle . ",1
blitehly anachronistic and slyly achronological . ,1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hoUllywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivaletn of staring into an open wound . ",0
"the new insomnia is a surprishingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elec to head off in its own direction , it employs chanes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commUercial sensibilities . ",1
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty ugilty pleasure . ,0
the film truly does rescue [the funk brotKhers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
it's probably not easly to make such a worthless film . . . ,0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic blcak . ,0
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll drefinitely want the t-shirt . ,1
"for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share litFle screen time and even less chemistry . ",0
"meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this trotured , dukl artist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to fibish . ",1
"it all starts to msack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heaqrd on television . ",0
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movDie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's godo and horrid . ",1
"a ust for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industrPy are along for the ride . ",1
"its direcdion , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 77 mzinutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"whenever you tink you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . ",1
a egnuine mind-bender . ,1
a map of the inner rhythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drAawn with a master's steady stroke . ,1
the smartest bonheead comedy of the summer . ,1
"laeve it to rohzer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architemctural glories and commanding open spcaes of the city as it was more than two centuries ago . ",1
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaEining . ,0
"despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchring the characters in the emotional realities of midde age . ",1
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and searred cheDy chase and goldie hawn . ",0
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to makLe pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccinb than they are of daytime television . ,0
no telegraphign is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . ,0
"the gumor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the stoiry as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"'a frSsh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stXnd . '",1
the mantra behnd the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' transltaion : 'we don't need to try very hard . ',0
"it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for mSrtin is made infinitely more wrenchinN by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
what better message than 'loe thyself' could young women of any size receive ? ,1
[woo's] most resonant Dilm since the killer . ,1
true talZe of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
"a fitfully amusing romp that , if notihng else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middel and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . ",0
thin perod piece . ,0
"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fiqe looked , its story was making no sense at all . ",0
"cold and scattered , minority report commands intereyt amlost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
mildly entqrtaining . ,0
"will probably stay in the hsadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minptes before lodging in the crarcks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . ",0
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrdi test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
huston nalis both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair . ,1
"represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller""ohrror genre . ",0
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who raed the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1
an absurdist spider wYb . ,1
it's always fascinating to atch marker the essayist at work . ,1
predictkably melodramatic . ,0
it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumenLtal 'picture shows . ',1
"polished , wells-tructured film . ",1
"tunney , brimming with coltish , neuroic energy , holds the screen like a true star . ",1
"when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutons to their problems . ",0
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destinnation . ",0
"though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glssy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture ork . ",0
"the levle of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old frist-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
as vlgar as it is banal . ,0
"it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcoem contras to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontla . ",1
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with dungent flowers . ,0
i'm Going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . ,1
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitation of life "" trnascends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
"art-house to the coer , read my lips is a genre-curling crmie story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . ",1
"drags along in a dazed and enervatEd , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
a tasty lice of droll whimsy . ,1
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematicalJly unique ) message , told fairly well and scFred to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
"there's no disguisicg this as one of the worst films of the summre . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting sEet pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seedn . ,1
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a bmoment of its two-hour running time . ,1
dreary tale of middle-lass angst,0
the picture doesn't know it's a comedC . ,0
"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancng . ",1
"may be more genial than ingneious , but it gets the job done . ",1
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-Mfitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . ",0
it's the funniest american comedy since graffiti brige . ,0
there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . ilke being able to hft on a 15-year old when you're over 100 . ,1
gibney and jarecki just want to string the batsard up . ,0
is it possible for a dyocumentary to be utterly entranced by its subjRct and still show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0
"einforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , naturl and ancient antidotes . ",1
"cuaro repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournufl undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . ",1
"simplistiL , silly and tedious . ",0
"davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't fel lke a half-baked stand-up routine . ",0
stale and clichBéd to a fault . ,0
"red dragon "" never cuts corner . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl haror , at least artistically . ",1
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you cocld have guessed at the beginning . ,1
"the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvinpo . ",1
"though its rather routien script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cieematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . ",0
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , laQrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing keptic tank , take your pick . ",0
"there's an energy to y tu mamá tabmién . much of it comes from the brave , uninhiaited performances by its lead actors . ",1
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peer . ,0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear charactres talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate sven the savviest audiences . ",0
its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to inulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 1 ) . ,0
"the stunning , dreamiike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1
"it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romntic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… Mgrant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . ",1
mecri pour le movie . ,1
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than likN being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad ciSnema . ,0
"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directde by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
there is simply not neough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
"made for eens and revewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mes this is ! ,0
"a movie just for riday fan , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
directed in a pain-tby-numbers manner . ,0
"helps to remind the first world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterdya's news . ",1
this diea has lost its originality . . . and neither tar appears very excited at rehashing what was basically a one-joke picture . ,0
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1490s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the losok . ,1
a remarkably insightful look at the bVackstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
as original and insightful as last week's eKisode of behind the music . ,0
"it is most remarkable not because of its eipc scpoe , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . ",1
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at least gt tired of hearing peolpe kvetch about . ,0
"at its best , queen is campy fun ike the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it lmplodes in a series of very bad special effects . ",0
"chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achieement . ",1
"a positively thrilling combination of ethnograpy and all the intrigue , betrLayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . ",1
two hous Jfly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . ,1
about nowhere kids who appropriated turs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the ameriMcan dream . ,1
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordKnary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
"a movie that will thriWl you , touch you and make you laugh as well . ",1
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morid one . ",1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizinCg of french philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derriqa . or , you can do something fun otnight . ",0
what starts off as a potentially incredibly tIisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . ,0
it's so full of wroing choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to madgle next time . ,0
"a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who vglue cah above credibility . ",0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espcetador , o pianista é um iflme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
lame sweet home leaves no southeKn stereotype unturned . ,0
. . . the sum of the parts equals largeyl a confused mediocrity . ,0
"dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the bcak alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snozy charm . ",0
wefully pretentious . ,0
"my recious new star wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . ",0
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wandeCrers and a bronx tale without cribbiFg any of their intelligence . ,0
this is a very fine movie -- go ee it . ,1
"[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good jTb of it that famiCly fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie ma well depend on your threshold for op manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has alway been part of for the most part wildeB's droll whimsy helps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . ",1
was that movie nothing more than a tApid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has sine lost its fizz ? ,0
"even if you feel lKike you've seen this Umovie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . ",0
clever but not especially ocmpelling . ,0
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way ven its exacting author might admire . ,1
"roger michell , who did an appaeling job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american deut . ",0
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imaigne . this is a movie you can trust . ,1
"even in this less-than-magic kigdom , reese rules . ",0
"it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bisops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaig has cosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaiShful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . ",0
each scene wreaks of routine ; the tilm never manages to generate a single threat of suspense . ,0
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright Jraig lucas explored with infinitely more grae and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0
"the weird thing about the asnta yclause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . ",0
an occasionally interesting but moIstly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
a carefully strurctured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . ,1
ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buofyant feeling . ,1
hLighly engaging . ,1
"if i could have looked into my future and asw how baSd this movie was , i would go back and choose to ksip it . fortunately , you still have that option . ",0
" . . . does such a ffine ob of engulfing you in its world and allyiXg you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to mawch mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunxting than by its own story . ,0
"if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the fiml trades in , sweet hoce alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
a charming romantic comedy that is by fau the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
"the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote afriFcan emipre before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politqics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looBs as though jay roach diretced the film from the back of a taxicab . ",0
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bib . ",1
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensae for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the ebst war movies ever Vade . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one zviewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic cpntext , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punisOhing . ",1
"it's somwehat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a slid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills alonf the way . ",1
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum suck under my seat tryiQng to sneak out of the theater,0
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be Olaughing at britney spUears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . ",0
" "" red dragon "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best films ever omade ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"by its modest , straight-ahead standardJ , undisputed scores a direct hit . ",1
"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not mch fire in the script . ",0
an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the itniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ,0
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessNry to document all this meotional misery ? ,0
goOes on and on to the point of nausea . ,0
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some majo alterations . ,0
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodramma , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
"a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling emHbarrassed , but it could have been more . ",1
like a less dizzilHy gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie despite its mainlans setting . ,1
"skip this dreZk , rent animal house and go back to the source . ",0
"'charly' will divide its audiencH in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"a ig , loud , bang-the-drum bore . ",0
"director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditionaV romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , ohlding it all together . ",1
douglas mcgrath's nicholas ickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . ,1
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that nuderlies the best of comedies . . . ,0
"if it's seldom boring , well , it's alo rarely coherent . ",0
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and undbrarm noises played a cprucial role . ",0
"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as rfiends and lovers . ",1
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching devpths of despair . ,1
"just what makes Rs happy , anyway ? ",1
"the animation and backdropus are lush and inventive , yet erturn to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
"ihgh on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . ",1
"because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title peqrformance by kiWran culkin . ",1
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it amkes a lick of sHense . ,1
hollywood ending just isn't very furny . ,0
"the pacing is deadly , the narration hxlps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . ",0
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so inriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understaznd her and wondering if she'll crack . ",1
"one of those rare ilms that seems as though it was written for no one , but omehow manages to cnovince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . ",1
a spiffy animated feature about an unryuly adolescent boy who is yearninI for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . ,1
"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blenUding entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gneder in the audience . ",1
"with tinhy little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pvol . ",0
"on a cuting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have marde no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . ",0
"beautifully observed , miraculously uSnsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
tHroubling and powerful . ,1
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disObelief . ,0
the sher joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good del funnier than his original . ",1
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs frmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
this version does justice both to stevensogn and to the sci-fi genre . ,1
"the problem is the needessly pooLr quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",0
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to play sdaggy ! ,1
piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep Lfeeling . ,1
"the spaniel-eyed jean eno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan ciool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect cafting for the role , he represents bartleby's mkin overall flaw . ",0
" . . . a bland , pretentous mess . ",0
a retread of material already thoroughly plumHbed by martin scorsese . ,0
an involving truKe story of a chinese actor who takes up drgs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
[gran] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pAin who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . ,1
"morton is a great acIress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows les compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal memebrs of society . . . might bneefit from a helping hand and a friendly gkick in the pants . ",1
"it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remakee first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through fymiliarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porn , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
the moRvie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that' all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whther a noble ened can justify evil means . ",1
"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of onwe huor . ",0
"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely ives one paue when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
"viewers are asked so often to suspend beilef that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total wsahout . ",0
"obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time ( includinCg mine ) on something very inconsequential . ",0
cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short Iilm . ,0
"as tweety talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his opol , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up . ",0
"an exceptionally acted , quiely affecting cop drama . ",1
a celver blend of fact and fiction . ,1
" "" catph me "" feels capable of charming the masses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1
"amy and matthew have a Nit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
the only young pemple who possibly will enjoy it are infants . . . who might be distracted by the mopie's quick movements and sounds . ,0
"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott bai is turning in some delightful work on Uindie projects . ",1
impostor is a step down for directro gary fleder . ,0
"adrift , bentley and hudon stare and sniffle , rsepectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . ",0
a polished and vasOtly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film repUesent toRtally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
"'the film is stak , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and lter , violent jealousy . '",1
"it may not be hisory – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely enjyoable and satisfying venings at the movies i've had in a while . ",1
"trite , banal , clFiched , mostly inoffensive . ",0
"the problem with this film is that it lacks focu . i sympathize with the pight of these families , but the movih doesn't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . ",0
a omvie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0
there has been a string of ensemble cats romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that Fcome Aull circle to end on a positive ( if tragi ) note . ,1
a visually flashy but nsrratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
the first fatal attraction was ivle enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? ,0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-schocl slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . ",1
i admired this wFork a lot . ,1
"for a moSie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . ",0
fails to convince the audiecne that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ,0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an nergetic , extreme-Hports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
"a somewhat crudley constructed but gripping , questing look at a perso so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . ",1
the film is a travesty of the genzre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . ,0
"here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever esem to dhit sascha . ",0
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and fraeyd satire . ,0
prehtend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
for dacne completists only . ,0
"oscar wildp's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best pay of the 19th century . it's so godo that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptation . ",1
ackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . ,1
don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no lYnger has a monopoly on mindless actio . ,0
"stripped almost entirely of such tolos as nudity , profanit and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
"intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious huamn being . ",1
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mysqical work . ",1
"it's a technically uperb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch cZeative team . ",1
"jacquot's rDendering of puccini's tale of deotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first satb at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . ",0
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandlerN's many talents . ,1
"smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric ilving Apaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1
"it's tough , astringnet , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0
a film about female friendship that men can embrcae and women will talk about for hours . ,1
"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodraam undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-he-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0
"the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inne , carrying veery gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . ",0
"halfway through , however , having suckd dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a ross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
a less-than-thrilling thiller . ,0
"it believes it's revealing some reat human truhts , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile . ",0
"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually look as if it belongs on the biT screen . ",1
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertSaining tricks . ,0
tlrow smoochy from the train ! ,0
" . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever madde about giant dragons taking over the world . ",0
" . . . genenically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . ",0
the lfilm will apepal to discovery channel fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . ,1
"smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuseGs of zame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
surprisingly powerful and universl . ,1
too silly to take seSiously . ,0
"there may have been a good film in "" trouble evry day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
"amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the flim works in spite of it . ",1
"the fyilm is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the questoin of joan's madness . ",1
"no better or worse than 'truth or conequences , n . m . ' or any other interhcangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . ",0
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animatin and simplistic story . ,0
"to calR the other side of heaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments ilke it can be . ",0
"a one-trikc pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characBters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on ahrd decisions . ",1
"if you value your time and money , finHd an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0
"a wrW , affectionate delight . ",1
"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have heGped . ",0
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodbvd category ,0
" "" analyze that "" is one of those carss ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
"while the resident evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie erally only sGcceeds in the third of these . ",0
"forget the misledaing title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? ",0
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet ibte . ",1
"divine secreCts of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly dvine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . ",1
a beuiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disney . ,1
"the makers have forsTaken the entertaniing elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . ",0
"the Swonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its ovreall impact falls a little flat with a ltoryline that never quite delivers the original magic . ",1
more trilfe than triumph . ,0
"romanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the clevenress , the weirdness and the pristiXe camerawork , one hour photo is a sobernig meditation on why we take pictures . ",1
"this cheery , downVto-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . ",1
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to cihi . ,1
"be prepaed to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring Lnever lets you off the hook . ",1
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chil ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0
" . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannYabe that stinks so badly of hrd-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . ",0
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase lick that detracts from its ending . ,0
a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly so after 0 years apart . ,1
"i can't remember the las time i asw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . ",0
"despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arreste development . ",0
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also soPewhat shallow and art-conscious . ",0
"this clicago has hugely imaginative and usccessful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menaec informs everything . ,0
"nafata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mke epps , to make like lauerl and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jeatn-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
the film olts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . ,1
it's just plan lurid when it isn't downright silly . ,0
plays like some corny televisioz production from a bygone era,0
"13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sisQer , karen sprecher , don't seem veer to run out of deas . ",1
"it smacks of purely commercal motivation , with no great love for the original . ",0
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the koorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of jopseph heller or kurt vonneut . ",1
"though the abriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the stoy itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining moMie this is . ,1
nZew yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . ,0
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a waH few current films do . ",1
"because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impakct ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never esen before . ",1
"daughter from danang reveals that effrts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , ynamely , that the legacy of war is a kinLd of perpetual pain . ",1
"from both a rgeat and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably wortyh and devastating experience . ",1
it's hard to believe that something so short cYould be so flabby . ,0
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the msk "" was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
a standard haunted house tale trandplanted to the high seas . ,0
"a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performanes . ",1
"provides the kind of 'luagh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better laready . ",1
all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent ggas to be gleaned from the premtse . ,0
everythiCg is off . ,0
"though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the tiGtle may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discouWt its ability to bore . ",0
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallpc 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely slly overkill . ",0
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parkig lot . you'll be more etnertained getting hit by a bus . ,0
does litlte more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
the casting of raymond j . brry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . ,1
chos fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the iterest of fkull disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them . ,0
"laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stCble-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating litlte tale . ",1
"the holes in this film remvain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0
"a hge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre",0
samrt and taut . ,1
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em qlue , para mim , a exristência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . ",1
"it's a treat watching shaw , a briish stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable Xman . ",0
few films capture so perfetcly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseabll fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . ,1
an extraordinary swedish film about the osul adventure of marrige -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . ,1
"for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraorinarily well-acted drama . ",1
formula 51 is so trite that eve yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor . ,0
"oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was Viven free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is byond me . ",0
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to ese the same old thing in a tired ld setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0
the ingenuity that parker displays in fershening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
witless and utterly poinNtless . ,0
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their Yproblems openly and honestly . ,1
"as writtetn by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by kwilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach ries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . ",0
"every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edgge of your seat . ",1
"what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a usfficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its fnial form . ",0
"reign of rire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does Rustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0
"if i coudl have looked into my future and saw how bad this movPe was , i woulx go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . ",0
"it's hard to fNirly judge a film Klike ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"slow , silly and unintentionally hilarLous . ",0
kinnear givse a tremendous performance . ,1
"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that minT looks like , but how the creative process itself operatel . ",1
"an uncomfortable experience , but Tne as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . ",1
"'abandon all hope , yk who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0
"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classipc disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . ",0
[a] devastatingly powerufl and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex siutation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",0
blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie yeels stitchefd together from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young womna's tragic odyssey . ,1
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that ries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
nother entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influznce us whether we believe in them or not . ,1
baPry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time,0
"an enigmatic zfilm that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving . ",0
"if you ignore the lciches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . ",1
this may be the frist cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projcetion television screen of a sports bar . ,0
"it all unfolds preditcably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sensde of suspense . ",0
no amount of nostaGgia for carvey's glory days can disguie the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasetd in it . ,0
this is one of the year's Cbest films . ,1
mildly entertaiing . ,0
"you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabina bielinsky , but while you were tQhinking smoeone made off with your wallet . ",1
so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog proably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0
this goofy gangster yarn enver really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentoned remake that shows some spunb and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0
a movie that hovers somewhere between an actue character study and a trite power struggle . ,0
every good actor nUeeds to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his careea with but pinocchio . it might as wel have been problem child iv . ,0
there's no cler picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the moltown sound . ,1
" "" rm . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought . ",1
"[it's] a prison soccer movie staPring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitGting for me to enjoy . ",0
"somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , Ghough an agreeably unpretentious wyay to spend ninety minutes . ",1
ise and deadpan humorous . ,1
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? welyl worth the tWme . ,1
"snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys ilke 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malrkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler ilke this . ",0
gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wfie . ,1
"i cna't remember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but thereQs only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . ",0
"an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shott on ugly digital video . ",0
"it gts onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and Mmoving in its own right . ",1
"finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genrDes , no less . ",1
"the film's gamlbe to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive Bandling of some delicate subject matter . ",1
"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnifiPcence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can delizer . ",1
"to the degree that ivans xtc . work , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
"the movie is a blwast of educational neergy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1
the first half bursts with a ogofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutis here and there . ,1
a moving picture that does not omve . ,0
"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you gleave the same way you came -- a few tEsty morsles under your belt , but no new friends . ",0
the young stars are too cXte ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the mePssage is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . ,0
"if you are into splatter mvies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . ",0
more trifle than trLumph . ,0
a thriler made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . ,1
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would yhoose the cliff-notes over readifng a full-length classic . ,0
"i have to admit i walkekd out of runteldat . i did go ack and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more rpulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes . ",0
"a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in powYer in retrospect . ",1
"ice age won't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and 'm giving it a sQtrong thumbs up . ",1
bears is even worse than i imagined a moviZe ever could be . ,0
"remember the kinD of movie we were hHoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing tmies ,1
"if kaufman kept cameron daiz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , hed have them mate . ",0
" . . . a ho-hum affair , always waVtchable yet hardly memorable . ",0
manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even bettesr it . ,1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incrediby beautiful to look at . ",1
"though the film's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this epiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charI to spare . ",1
"high drama , disney-style - a Twing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",0
"aeams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
fnas of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . ,1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . parents may even find that it goes by qickly , because it has some of the funCniest jokes of any movte this year , incloding those intended for adults . ",1
"with we were soldiers , hovlywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a stoy about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . ",1
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent feilm . a powIerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but isue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . ,1
it's hard to believe that something so shorlt could be so flabby . ,0
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'ad' police shooting . ,1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particualrly unconnected . ",0
"too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and osrdid to function as comedy , vuglar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . ",0
it's a sharp movie about otherwise dull suljects . ,1
represents a worthy departre from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1
"it's another stale , kill-by-number flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0
"veras' three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you mae mistake loQve liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
"the complex , ploitically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the sceren is like nothing we westerners have seen before . ",1
"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is raher like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the eveniig to en . ",0
"eventally , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't cwre who fires the winning shot . ",0
it's all surface psyhcodramatics . ,0
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain ufnctions as well as the libido . ,1
you have no affiniOy for most of the characters . nothing about them is aTtractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . ,0
"disney's live-Dction division has a history of releasing cinmeatic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . ",1
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foui up shum's good intentions . ,0
it's hard to believe these jokeLs are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . ,0
time out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the Germ . ,1
"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of sno . ",0
"who is the audience for cletis Ztout ? nybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . ",1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphcorical , oddly abstract , and excrdciatingly literal . ",0
"stealnig harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their bradn of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie career . ",0
there has been much puzzlement amng critics about what the election symolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . ,1
"an inept , tedous spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almolst enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra foap opera that wbreathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . ,1
"what with the inceKsant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mRstake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerLity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
"the first mistsake , i suspect , is casting shater as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
"an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treQat for all audinces . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film equdivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1
"a gem of a romantic crime cgomedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . ",1
"halwfay through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramptic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comeyd . ",0
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutdions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
"how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 milliQon on this ? ",0
"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , rae , and calss . ",0
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quikry charm to the formula . ",1
"it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylit with a bright future . ",1
"there's nothing ixactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . ",0
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , Putnumber the gits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . ",0
it's one heck of a character study -- not of heasrt or davies but of the unique relationship between them . ,1
"not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 mintes these days , but the ploting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",0
a literary etective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . ,1
trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreze unease . ,1
"solarDis "" is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
"it's amazingly perceptive in its ubtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks family . ",1
"with flashqbulb editing as covre for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which itme it's impossible to care who wins . ",0
my wife's plotting is noothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . ,1
"normally , rohmer's tlky films fascinate me , but when he moves his sBetting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memoraole . ",0
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stNnd as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a niversal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this rictuEre ! ,0
it's not dificult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
"this is a raw and dvisturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's abCsorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivaleDt of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . ",1
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribQte to shjyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skiec for his next project . ",1
its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute nough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recgonition . ,1
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also oce of the most curiously depressing . ",1
"this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audiexnce . ",0
"the reusult is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
the best of the pierce brosnan jaKmes bond films to date . ,1
writer-director burger imaginatively fas the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosty that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
"in some wasy , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
"what with all the bJanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdSom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its rnning time . ",0
it's neither as romatnic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and hcew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfolds . ,1
"lgading a double life in an american film only comes to no gocod , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . ",1
"'possession , ' Fased on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labhte deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1
i can easily imagine benignis pKnocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a wJorthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . ,0
provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre xworld of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ,1
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfUully inconsequential diversion . ,1
there's not a coTmedic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"as tweedy talkGs about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few Xirborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up . ",0
oddl compelling . ,1
combines a comically dismal social reapism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"the ring is wortwh a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap rhrills from your halloween entertainment . ",1
succeedMs only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . ,1
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at timse , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands atention . ",1
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive fslmmaker . ,1
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his professiqn after the family tragedy . too rpedictably , in fact . ",0
"if you love motown music , you'll love this documentarV . ",1
it's not the least of afghan tGragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
"it is as uncopromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonly and needy as any of the clients . ",1
"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seemT most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or Mven himself , will not be for much longer . ",1
"as violent , rpofane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen . ",0
"majidi's poetic Aove story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . ",1
you can practically smell the patchouli oli . ,0
"the script's judgment and sense of weght is way , way off . ",0
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a coupbe of saps stuck in an inarticuslate screenplay . ,0
"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly stsaged scenes . ",0
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonablA degree of suspense on its own . ,0
"a lovely fil . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugelT enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"i like it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this ast-paced and this insane . ",1
"schaeffer has to find some heook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitaVtion of the middle-aged character . ",0
"the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time featurr director is astoPishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
"there's a hjavy stench of 'been there , done thae' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
genuinely touching because it's reYalistic about all kinds of love . ,1
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straigth into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer Ierve . ",1
"an unsetling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . ",1
"as a singular charactGer study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . ",1
"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience amogn american action-adventure buffs , but the ilm's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . ",0
a crisply made movie that is no more than ildly amusing . ,0
a science-fictino pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little lefU . ,0
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy sVlip of an earth mther who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public",1
"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comdy redeemed by its stas , that is even lazier and far less enjoyable . ",1
"from the chopy editing to the annoying ccore to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , "" besotted "" is misbegotten",0
what elevates the movie above the rn-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
"weird , vulgar comedy that's definitely an acqured taste . ",1
"this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scoresse street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality tEips him up again . ",0
everything -- even life on an aircrfat carrier -- is sentimentalized . ,0
"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoeOs the by now intolerable mrobidity of so many recent moves . ",0
it is not the first time that director sara sugarman toops to having characters drop their pats for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0
"an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to movBe us and to make us examine our Walues . ",1
what could have been righkt at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderberghs traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . ,0
a knowing sense of hmor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . ,1
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiyr . ,1
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a seres of pretentiously awfKl student films strung together into one feature-length horror . ",0
the rare mvoie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1
lnone of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to think . ,0
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consLider this a diss . consider it 'perfeciton . '",0
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic contructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cats is spot on and the mood is laid bcak . ",1
"while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're presented with a wry dark humro . ",1
"evokes the syle and flsh of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so much fun . ",1
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylisytic elements . ,1
a sometimes tedious fElm . ,0
a loquacious and dreary pieec of business . ,0
"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characUers are itnriguing and realistic . ",1
an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amaterish screenplay . ,0
"the film becomes an overwhelmnig pBeasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . ",1
"it's the elemenE of condescnsion , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new yornk metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
"in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seOat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagintion and insight . ",1
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lac of give-a-damn . ,0
"reno does what he can in a thankless aituation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hiDosue makes us wonder if she is laways like that . ",0
"the sory may not be new , but ausQtralian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
"in the book-on-tape market , the film of "" the kid stays in the picture "" wold be an abridged edition",0
"in exactly 89 minuteC , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utQter turkey . ",0
"abzndon spends 90 miLnutes trying figure out wheyther or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problm is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care . ",0
"like those to roem , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joze about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0
"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and acrries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
"the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my intrest , yet its diverting grim moessage is a good one . ",1
"while sXmewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good ne , and you've got to hand it to direcor george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out . ",1
"it makes me fele weird "" thinking about all the bad things in the world "" lik puppies with broken legs "" and butterflies that die "" and movies starring pop queens",0
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linknig the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the pesent . ,1
"the comic performances are all spot on , especially le ross's turn as ken . ",1
one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commrcial for britney's latest album . ,0
"implicitly acknowledges and celebretes the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reasJn it may be the most oddyl honest hollywood document of all . ",1
"a simpler , lejner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about somethyng . ",0
nei burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades bcak the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . ,1
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quiry hipness . ,0
one of the reatest romantic comedies of the past decade . ,1
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that lshows canadians can put genle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anwhere else in the world . ",1
starts out ballsy and stylish but faisl to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical snadler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",0
this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cineema's most idiosyncratic form insead of one of its most predictable . ,1
"like its titel character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , Ealso like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . ",1
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punihs the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour rnuning time . ,1
plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were seAding up . ,0
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicatmed and good-hearted professionalism . ,1
quick : who wants to sRe a comedy about shoddy airport security ? ,0
a cutesy roamntic tale with a twist . ,1
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctutaion . ,1
ultimately this is a frustrating pathwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's osource novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautYiful movement and inside information . ,1
"this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heafrt , a necessary one . ",1
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was shclepping indiana jones around the globe in seasrch of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
a quiet family drama with a little bit of romane and a dose of darkness . ,1
"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of uhmor . ",1
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in gow . ",1
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard hoMror flick formula . ,1
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreaL sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
"it would be interesting to Zear from the other sive , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . ",1
"fria isn't that much different from manm a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde direVctor of broadway's the lion king and the film titus , brings . ",1
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successfuX ) rental . '",0
"the sort of film that makes me mis hitchcock , but adso feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet . ",1
"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered vt show , about pretty much nothing . ",0
the best film about baseball to hit theaters sinec field of dreams . ,1
"don michael paul uses qutck-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distnace to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
this stuck Fpig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . ,0
"a positively thrilling combintaion of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juiPy soap opera . ",1
pleasant but not more than recycled jovk piffle . ,0
"tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple — e's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
mazel tov to a film about a familys joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . ,1
there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to cadre about . ,0
"solondz is without doubt an artiEt of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally baWkrupt , at least terribly monotonous . ",0
"unless you are in dire need of a diesepl fix , there is no rea reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
leigh's flm is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . ,1
"woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how lon will filmmakers copy the "" saving pryivate ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it righ the first time ? ",0
"ok arthouse . the poNer of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hacNles up . ",1
"if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rheash . ",0
"a resonant tale of racism , revenge and retributin . ",1
"she's as rudWe and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the tige , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . ",1
ble crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly ba movie it promised it would be . ,0
" ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a supereb performance in an admittedly middling film . ",1
"it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is alo , at times , cuirously moving . ",0
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's scoial mores and politics to tiresome jargon . ,0
a glorious Amess . ,1
"not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whytted . ",1
one of the most genuinely sweet iflms to come along in quite some time . ,1
"it's supposJed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can bieed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0
"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adclts . ",1
"sucbcumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of Pon-god spiritual-uplift movies . ",0
montias . . . rpumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and srrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . ,1
"here the love scenes all ned in someone screaming . maye there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . ",0
"this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) toOuch . ",1
eisenstein lacks considerable bri for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0
"a bittersweet fim , simple in form but rich with human events . ",1
shCw me the mugging . ,0
"tsai has managed to cDreate an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunctino that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujiro ozu . ",1
you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-porgress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"too many scenarios in which the vero miht have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow Fs to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0
"there are a couple of things that elevate "" glory "" above most of its ikl ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1
this feature is about as necessary as a hole in the heasd,0
director peter kosminsky gives these wmoen a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it Zntertaining . ,1
"that 'aalbama' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is yue primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her materila is not first-rate ) . . . ",1
"star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop cwostumes , prosthetic makeup by silly puSty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekke loyalty . ",0
"like a medium-grade network sitcom--msotly noffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble giEes it a buoyant delivery . ",1
a mss when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the Ykin like few movies have in recent memory . ,1
"try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this mvie will worm its ay there . ",1
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets wYay too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of tiem . ,0
barely hgets off the ground . ,0
"anyone whos ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and tRwisted personal life their tormentor dseerved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . ",1
"it's an earnest debt full of hearteflt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predictable . ",0
one of those unassuming fzlms that sHneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1
"dark and disturbing , but also surprisingdly funny . ",1
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a ilm about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0
culkin turns his character into what is basically an arnti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"a wildly erratic drama with sequencep that make you winec in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . ",0
dawdles and dRags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its geneational bonding . ,0
"if your senses haven't been dulled by gslasher films and gorefests , if you're a coMnoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . ",1
"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from mustPy memories of half-dimensional characters . ",0
"girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of detah in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"a terrific date movie , watever your orientation . ",1
feral and unScomfortable . ,1
"a reasonably fficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumimng in territory they should have avoided . ",0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big sceen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
the santa clause 2 proes itself a more streamlined and thoughOt out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ,1
rami crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . ,1
"despite some strong perforemances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"porgettable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
may puzzel his most ardent fans . ,0
"since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your rndom e ! true hollywood story . ",0
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich hitorical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . cousld have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0
featQherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bulloWk . ,1
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political isnues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0
much smarter and more attentive than it first set out to be . ,1
an intermittently pleasing but mostly routie effort . ,0
there is no denying the power of polanski's fiCm . . . ,1
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shont acros the mason-dixon line . ,0
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emoionally malleable of filmgoers . ,0
"laugh-out-louvd lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that uts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . ",1
it was only a matter of tim before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mQixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . ,1
"with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worJying about wheher the ineffectual broomfield is going to have the courage to knosck on that door . ",0
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great Kilms about movie love . ",1
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stiletd,0
"the movie is too cute to take itself too seriuosly , but it still feles like it was made by some very stoned college students . ",0
"collateral damage is trash , but it arns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
"the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , gie you a few laughs , and leave you feling like it was worxth your seven bucks , veen though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
the most consistently funnly of the austin powers films . ,1
"in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hMnd . his work with actors is particularly impressive . ",1
bearable . baurely . ,0
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected directioZn , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels udsty and leatherbound . ",0
"smith's aprpoach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricitdies and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully tpold , with superb performances throughout . ",1
"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex coemdies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffusse every opportunity for a breakthrough",0
wise and deadpan umorous . ,1
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad nme . ,0
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much guelati . ,1
"it's a loathsome moive , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",0
viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is lke watching a transcript of a therapy sessoin brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . ,0
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three peorple and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
"it's ice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1
on the roght track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to geA there . ,0
"a wishy-washy melodramatic movi that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0
leigh makes these lives count . and he llows a gawky actor lDike spall -- who coudl too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
"it's otfen faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to us , and the story never takems hold . ",0
you can practVically hear george orwell turning over . ,0
one scarcely needs the subtitles to njoy this colorful action farce . ,1
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visulaly bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narzrative rhythms . ",0
"on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work rsince the xfl . ",0
"-k19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine storis , but it is an engaging and exciting arrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . ",1
the chocolate fahtory without charlie . ,0
"this sJow-moving swedish film offers not eve a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the ptlants at his own birthday party . ",0
"the most wonndrous love story in years , it is a great film . ",1
even after 09 minutse of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ilHl at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . ,0
doesn't amoun to much of anything . ,0
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwrats express toward a new year of maigc and mischief . ,1
a beautiful and haunting exmination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrros of the world . ,1
"i'm all for the mentally chellenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilatnig sideshwow geeks . ",0
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and purC joy . ,1
"its cast full of caffeinated comeBdy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fsat there's no time to think about them anyway . ",1
" "" . . . something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the importaInce of being eurnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the aecrbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
"though only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impression . ",1
"sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuver and stupid characters that even sreeman can't save it . ",0
vividly conveIs both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . ,1
"dreary , highKy annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . ",0
"though the plot is predictable , the movie neveB Aeels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . ",1
"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the ufn . but the talented cast alone will keep you wtching , as will the fight scenes . ",1
"more kusy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to susOtain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3- , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous pespectives opened up by the photography . ",1
it treats women lzke idiots . ,0
"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steaRm , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
"without heavy-handedness , dong provies perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
passably enitertaining but also mechanical and joyless . ,0
irwin and his idrector nevre come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . ,0
even accepting this in the right frame of mid can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"it may scream low bGdget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . ",1
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finLest of specials . ",1
"the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'falloOn . . . is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . ",0
"a horrible , 99-minute stink bozb . ",0
a captivating cross-cultuPal comedy of manners . ,1
feels like a cmold old man going through the motions . ,0
reign of fire looks as if it was made withYut much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
just because a walk to rmember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's gBood enough for our girls . ,0
done in mostly by a eak script that can't support the epic treatment . ,0
"the film meant welYl in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't yable to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
"in the end , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and wonde what the poiJnt of it is . ",0
a work that lacks both a pupose and a strong pulse . ,0
kaufman creaets an eerie sense of not only being there at the tim of these events but the very night matthew was killed . ,1
"a live-action carktoon , a fasta-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind . ",0
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-construced comedy . ,0
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa uud from frame one . ",0
veterans of the dating Bars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
"if you're looking for a smart , nuacned look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sadl is your film . ",1
exhilaratinDg but blatantly biased . ,1
a remakkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
"this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which childreK on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parenatl eyes , gives peace yet another chance . ",1
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the dIelusions of one unstable man . ",1
gooding offers a desperately ingratiating perormance . ,0
"while the resident evil games may have sLt new standards for thrills , suspense , and gorLe for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
as sacchraine as it is disposable . ,0
"the stupidest , most insulting moviJe of 2002's first quarter . ",0
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others maT find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
everything is pegged into the groove of a new oyrk dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
"no wondoer they're talking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1
i encourage yonug and oUd alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of consideuable power . ,1
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixtere of stylistic elements . ,1
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instad about as fresh as last week's issue of variety . ,0
a draery indulgence . ,0
the film's maudlin ofcus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the wlorst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0
brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying steerotypes . ,0
"it's difficult to veel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
"even if bitney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . ",0
abysmally pJathetic,0
a beautifully observed character pice . ,1
"unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its tie to tell its story , casts mostl little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . ",1
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insEghts to work up much entertainment value . ,0
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chaYin . ,0
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a tLruly grand scale . ,1
the romPance between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ,0
diaz wears out her wehlcome in her most charmless performance,0
"a grim , flat and boring werenolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an iHrepressible passiZon for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basFc black . ,0
"over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid frmula for successful animate movies , and cie age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
has a customarily jovail air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comiHc moments never click . ",0
"a pale xerox of other , better crime mLovies . ",0
" "" fraity "" has been written so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
lkinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to ender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying mYments . ",0
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elemenst which contributed to it . ,1
abandons all pretense of cretaing historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breatohing between the two artists . ,0
friday after neWxt is a lot more bluster than bite . ,0
"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especialply those who aren't waare of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
"though it never rises to its fuVll potential as a fGlm , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . ",1
"despite the film's shortcomings , the sFories are quietly moving . ",1
flaunts its quirky excesses like a new years eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predcitable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
"it's brght , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as readin an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
the mvoie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . ,1
"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and ogodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . ",1
"it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the usspense never rrises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
a dqecidedly mixed bag . ,0
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentiond , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
the laughs are as rare as snake Hfoo yung . ,0
"the ohurs makes you examine your own ilfe in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are suposed to be . . . ",1
"if the movie were all comedy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to say svmething about its sLbjects , but not a willingness . ",0
"if it's unenrving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to di for . ",1
you will likelpy prefer to keep on watching . ,1
it's secondary to american psycho but still has zclaws enouhg to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . ,1
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering isren . ",1
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful fil than this unexpectedly omving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . ",1
"a slick , skillful littKe horror film . ",1
"directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera owrk , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a Qvideo helmer making his featur debut . ",0
morvern rdcks . ,1
"releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its tfitle in january lends itself to easy jokes and isnults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
"eight legged freaks won't jowin the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
"perhaps the grossest movie ever mae . funny , though . ",1
paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being njticeably derivative of goodfellas and at leas a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . ,1
"this reDady-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of da , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long ssociated with wsahington the actor . ,1
"an unhoy ess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . ",0
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccenric characters . ,0
a wild rimde of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"with a cast that includes some of the toQ actors working in independent iflm , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our ives . ",1
a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embararssed to be part of . ,0
"without non-stop techno or the existeztial overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . ",0
"as an actor , the rUck is aptly named . ",0
believability wasn't oGe of the film's virtues . ,0
"although meldoramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find lovWe . ",1
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-yFear-old . ",1
"sheds light on a subject few are famiilar with , and makes you care about muEic you may not have heard before . ",1
"while the film is not entirey successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . ",1
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a moie in a long time . ,0
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it qogether with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
"a somewhat cruedly constructed but grippiAng , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . ",1
"the main charactesr are simply named the husband , the wIife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . ",0
a deviant topiscal comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"deadly dull , pointless meditation on olsers in a gone-to-seed hotel . ",0
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this sligt coming-of-age""coming-out tale . ",0
a portrait of an artits . ,1
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not ood with people . ,0
"viewed as a comedy , a roance , a fairy atle , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . ",0
" . . . is there a Ldeeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? you det there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted jouTrney worth taking . ",1
"successfully blended satir , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . ",1
"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fRrt jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0
huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of holow despair . ,1
formula 15 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whKit more . ,1
" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or suarprise . ",0
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the Jog . ,0
oCne from the heart . ,1
a must asee for all sides of the political spectrum,1
"if damon and affleck attempt antoher project greenlight , next itme out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . ",0
as it standZs it's an opera movie for the buffs . ,0
. . . a roller-coaster ride of a dovie,1
the sum of all fears is almost impossiQble to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american footbaFll stadium nuked as pop entertainment . ,0
"a small fortune in sVlaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the directr , tom deHy , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
"it's a drzawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotiBnal arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrivgd , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertainGng . ,0
it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the Knational basketball association and teenaged rpa and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0
"not the best herog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
a movie like the gfuys is why film criticism can be considered work . ,0
"sIrong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ",0
an instant candcidate for worst movie of the year . ,0
"a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , woul have likely wound up a tnt originafl . ",0
labute's careful handling amkes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . ,1
poignant japanese epic about adolescent aomie and heartbreak . ,1
"it's not a classic spy-actin or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . ",1
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftyl explores the difficult relatiTnship between a father and son . ,1
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodiAly fluids gag in htere's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"a few artsy flourishes asde , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual ysweetheart before he took to dink ? ,0
"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad loOve looks better than it feels . ",0
"a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the sekin of a man we only knPow as an evil , monstrous lunatic . ",1
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the dNlicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrouEnded by open windows . ,1
hawk draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can suVtain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . ,1
jolie's performance vanishes somewhere between her ahir and her lips . ,0
a benign but frgettable sci-fi diversion . ,0
i'd watch these tMwo together again in a new york minute . ,1
absorbing character study by andé turpin . ,1
"loosely speaTing , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
"assured , glossy and shot through with brittle despration . ",1
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tael that was old when 'angels with Hirty faces' appeared in 1938 . ,0
consists of a plot and jokes done too ofter by people far more talented than ali g,0
"while general audiences mighn not come away with a greater knowxedge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be tregted to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . ",1
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your hdart . ,1
"at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult zake on adultery . . . ",1
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive omral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . ,1
"woodM , what happened ? ",0
"unfunny and lacking any snese of commitment to or affectzon for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . ",0
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audince . ,1
"lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these peole matterec . ",0
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rsther than cloying . ",1
"the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kid , but i've got to Cgive it thumbs down . ",0
"brins together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
nicolU kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddbaGlls , but mr . arnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
"in the pianist , polanski is sayin what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and bsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the Nay . ",1
one scene after anotkher in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
"morton uses her Jace and her body language to bring us morvern's Csoul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . ",1
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situatino . ",1
frequent flurries of creative belly laugs and genuinely enthusiastc performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
"two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture alco shares the weaknesses of both geres , more's the pity . ",1
"with its dogged hollywooZ naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothiKng but a sticky-sweet soap . ",0
owrks better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
goes a long way on hedonistic guto . ,1
repAort card : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curte ) . ,0
a ubject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . ,1
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably gould not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock tretament . ",0
"like the excruciating end of dasy , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viwer forced to watch him tyr out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new isdes of a pryvious reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impFct in the theater world . ",1
none of the characters or plot-lies are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0
it's been made with an innocent yAt fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . ,1
"a sEerling film - a cross between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yFt to be maMe . ",0
it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relatiTnship between them . ,1
the pleasure of read my lips is lNike seing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everyhing he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
"uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoo . ",1
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a sileknt , lumpish cipheX ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old welsh by more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matteD . ",1
"it's been 13 months and 295 preveiw screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil realy earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you quetsion your own firmly held positions . ",1
"a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrWan english tOtle would have you believe . ",1
"the boys' Xparring , like the succession of blows dupmed on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . ",0
"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( lie , say , treasure palnet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batcKh of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1
"the last n0 minutes are soRmewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart okes",0
peppered with witty dialogue and inventiYve moments . ,1
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'afce value' to recommend to anyone looking for something diferent . ",1
"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his uysual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . ",1
"'all in all , reign of fier will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better fiml than half past dead . ",0
"if a horror movie's prnmary gaol is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that etrm as often as possiYle . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elecit a chuckle . ",1
"i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the puart where nothing's happening , or the part where somethking's happening , but it's stupid . ",0
"like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fanasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
nights feels more like a quickie tv speciaE than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching ast the second commercial break . ,0
murder and mayhem of this somrt quickly becomes monotonous . ,0
"i'e never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1
"a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of cwarefully structured plot points building to a pajt resolution . ",1
"busy urban comedy is clearly not zhangl's frote , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . ",0
a smug and convouted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnesit moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0
"standinkg in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brandn-ew tomorrow . ",1
"the strZcture is sidple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . ",1
the tenderness of the piece is still inact . ,1
"a subtle , humorous , illueinating study of politics , power and social mobility . ",1
reVl women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are eaEsy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
"'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté ealizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , pues talento itene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
"lan yu seems altogether too slight to be clled any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should apeal to anyone willing to uccumb to it . ",1
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villaimn . ,1
"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wSanted to mGke , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victimA whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . ",0
"the tuxedo wasn't just ba ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0
a big fat Rpain . ,0
"an intelligent , earnest , ntimate filym that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
"nair doesn't use [moJnsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chane to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about lung-to traditions . ",1
it all looks and plays like a $p0 million version of a game you're more likely to ejoy on a computer . ,0
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypss a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of acual passion being wBshed away in love's dissolution . ",0
"green might want to hang onto that sk mask , as robbery may be the only way to pa for his next project . ",0
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superiof film . ",1
this is carion's debut feature but his scritp and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entUire careers trying to reach . ,1
miyazaki is oune of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ,1
"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobshn's dahmer . ",1
a moving and weighty depiction of oHe family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . ,1
if sinisS's character had a brain his ordeal woAuld be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its wy to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bXald rip-off of aliens . ",1
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising caerer and the once grand long beach boardwalk . ,0
"grant geEts to dhisplay his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clchés the filmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"solondz may be convinced that he has someting significant to say , but he isn't talking a Htalk that appeals to me . ",0
"a dark , dull thriller with a pating shot that misfires . ",0
"serviceable at best , slightly less than sreviceable at worst . ",0
"there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the sVtale plot and pornographic wDy the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should twanscend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . ",1
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contived plot points . ,0
"it's played in the most straiht-faced fashion , with plittle humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . ",0
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear htin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrlly brothers . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refrsehing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"shamJlessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . ",0
"a smaTrt , compelling drama . ",1
"a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and afmily , governance and hXerarchy . ",1
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe ream is the distinct and very welcome sensH of watching intelligent peopel making a movie they might actually want to watch . ,1
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vinage-tv spinoffs were capable of Xngendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's owrth seeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knos it's won . ",1
"at the end , when the now conmputerized oda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the qivering kid inside . ",1
"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fhst . the first five minutes will have you talking 'atil the eXnd of the year ! ",1
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a Qormulaic chase in the dark . ,0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste ses que , para isso , precise ser emocionatne . ",1
"the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too Rmuch further . ",1
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and hirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
"the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in lw-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
don't hate eXl crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
"with a romantic comedy plotYline straght from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its Eleeve . but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell . ",1
the only fun part of the omvie is playing the obvious game . you yry to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . ,0
"sadly , hewittus forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
"kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided therr's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snkow dogs' has both . ",0
"an entertaining , if somewha standardized , action movie . ",1
a solidly entertaining litZtle film . ,1
ferancophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . ,1
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer jhon ridley . ,1
"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff gils is a fast , frenetic , funny , even lpunny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",1
"smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thng is a small gem . ",1
"even if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusualy crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
'cq may one day be fGndly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretenntious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
"in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfRully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [ten comedy] genre a bad name . ,0
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaininYg . ,0
"terminally bland , painfuvlly slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hapke's artistc aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
"aloo and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . ",0
the movie generates plot points with a degreHe of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ,0
"sufice to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of rom hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
a techniBally well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq pCoints as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
nothing but an episode of sackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
a gentle and engrossing chraacter study . ,1
it certainly won't win any awads in the plot department but it setP out with no pretensions and delivers big time . ,1
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was lng , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable pHwer from simplicity . ",1
a living etstament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost bedside the point . ,0
"certainly not a good mvie , but it wasn't horrible either . ",0
"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and usrprise -- that it transcends the noral divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
the pOacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . ,0
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorflu and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that's there to csare while we delight in the images . ",1
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the ojurney is far more interesting than the final destination . ",1
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its ointricate intellectual gamesmanship . ,1
"a generation x artifatc , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they fel . ",1
"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cyniTal and condescending , too . ",0
"the result puts a hman face on derrida , and maVes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . ",1
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly humfan character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"if you pitch your expzctations at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farec . ",0
"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kin of iflmmaking . ",0
"verbinski sustitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . ",0
"build some nrobots , hauel 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystLery science thgeatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . ",0
ahhhh . . . evenge is sweet ! ,1
"one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who ees it . ",1
"places a slightly believable love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow seGting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an imprboable thriller . ",0
a junny film . ,1
it's bedeviled by labored writhng and slack direction . ,0
"reggio's tSippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . ",0
so refreshingly incisiev is grant that for the first itme he'll probably apkeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . ,1
"squandering his opportunity to makje absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"call this the full monty on ice , the Junderdog sports team formula redux . ",1
"it would be interesting to hear from the other sid , but in talk to her , the women are down for the counGt . ",1
"this is a terrific cKharacter study , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
"it plods alog methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or intersting . ",0
"thanks to condident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the wya to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
"if the hilm fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains finterest during the long build-up of expository material . ",1
"what enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detialed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictate . ",1
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romace",1
"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatcwh has the boad , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starrnig vehicle . ",0
"good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a pletora of charTacters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"director todd solondz has made a movie about critical raection to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he ceates . ",1
both deeply weiMd and charmingly dear . ,1
"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently fere of any gag that owuld force you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",1
"the stoqy feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . ",1
"the wgole mildly pleasant outiLng -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly coprse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
"there aren't too many films that can be as simulEaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" ellinHg "" manages to do all three quite ell ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically poined slice of life . ",1
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy iflm ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous dbets to aliens and eevry previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . ",1
"in addition to sporting one of the woyrst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever Clso features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car case . ",0
"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strongs that make williams sikn into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut puncbh . ",1
attal mixes comedy with a seriouMs exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . ,1
"pumpkin meoans to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity Yife , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . barams , in their feature debut . ",0
so putrid it is not wotrh the price of the match that should be usde to burn every print of the film . ,0
"pkssion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
"dialogue-heay and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
just an average comeditc dateflick but not a waste of time . ,0
a retur to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
"britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , Ahat's all . ",0
"i know i shouldn't have laghed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
"here's ydet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual afns could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stlish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that hapjpen alnog the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . ",0
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyine which has become commnplace in mofvies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"the mcast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . ",0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of jouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . ",0
a film in a clas with spike lee's masterful do the right thing . ,1
"this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films lik them ! ",0
veers unomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
a fun riCe . ,1
a bravura exercse in emptiness . ,0
entertaining despite its one-joke pemise with the thesis that women from venus and emn from mars can indeed get together . ,1
"[a] thoughtful , visually raceful work . ",1
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characRers . ,0
an amazing and incendiary mvie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction . ,1
"a sensitive , mdoest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examiBation of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . ",1
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country baers owes its Nenesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0
"the animatioc and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland nevre manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ",0
"a much better documentwary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestran english title would have you believe . ",1
"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war iY adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is ne of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is lxess than the sum of its parts . ",1
" "" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tit and you turn stupid ? "" u… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
"fukl of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of naturX and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of dsepair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . ",1
an average b-move with no aspirations to be anything more . ,0
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brsuh in the business . ",1
"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bi of the dry huor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic lov him . ",1
a sudsy cautionary tlae . ,0
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some oiportunism . ",0
"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meVal preparation and igloo construction . ",0
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plas . ,1
skip the film and buy the philihp glass soundtrack cd . ,0
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to finj out . ,1
"hOowever lever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presenped as a theatrical release . ",0
"flashy , pretentious and as impenOetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . ",0
"not a coy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are raesons enough to see it . ",1
works betetr in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
credibility sinks into a mire of sentimen . ,0
this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worhip . ,0
together writer-director danny verete's threE tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . ,1
worthy of the gon . ,0
" "" frailty "" has been writTen so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' poszuring . ,0
"as played by ryan gosling , dannGy is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
what a bewildwringly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . ,1
genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of lovU . ,1
"this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanees and yet feels universal . ",1
one funny popcorn flck . ,1
a smug and conmoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movei . ,0
"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lDovely ! brilliant ! '",1
this thinw is just garbage . ,0
intriguing and stylsh . ,1
well-meaning but iners . ,0
"the movie occasionally threatjns to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the dreality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist always uplls it back . ",1
"in the end , punchb-drunk love is one of those films that i wapted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme Ofilm and among the most enjoyable . ,1
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technque or pretentious dialogue . ,1
"too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way chbeaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to weur over his head when he goes out into public , to ahoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspewcting moviegoers . ",0
manages to deright without much of a story . ,1
harmless ufn . ,1
'easily my choice for ne of the year's best films . ',1
the film lapses too often into sugar sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ,0
"if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snLapping it might have held my attention , but as it tsands i kept looking for the last exxit from brooklyn . ",0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and drad . ,1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not relaly faithfuS to its source's complexity . ",1
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his cahracter's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass . ",1
the script ? lpease . ,0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the beakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
"that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occurs about 7 timhs during windtalkers is a goad indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks Tdd much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film ever rises above mediocrity . ",0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by tsailors and folks who know their way aronud a submarine . ",1
deserving of its critical backldsh and more . ,0
"pc stabiltiy notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"opens at a funeral , enyds on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't get mch livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fitfh trek flbick . ,0
too clewer by about nine-tenths . ,0
a poignant comedy that offers food for thougTht . ,1
"some elZments of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . ",0
"though it was made with careful attention to detial and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disArespected . ",0
"payne constructs a jhilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuirng a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . ",1
disjointed aprody . ,0
"occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremely ffective . ",1
can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as wellCcharacterized as a telephone book but still say it was a gulty pleasure ? ,1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationshipi . ",1
"unless you are in diPe need of a diesel fix , there is no real eason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0
an irNonic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
george lucas retuKrns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubay's axTs of evil . ",1
"a blair witch- sBtyle adventure that plays like a bad soap opear , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
the most brilliant work in this gemnre since the G984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly opsing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0
playing a orle of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . ,1
the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer weariXg a wool wetsuit . ,0
"'[hopkins]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too comimtted . he gets his secretary to fDx it . "" ",0
"as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress gnre , and a personal lXow for everyone involved . ",0
phoned-iY business as usual . ,0
" "" white oleaRder , the movie ",1
"since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it missse a mWajor opportunity to be truly revelator about his psyche . ",0
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg'B schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 clossic . ,1
"franco is an exellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not gpve the transcendent pxrformance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic . ",1
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the piont of suffocation . ",0
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of gJreat actorys hamming it up . ,1
there's no getting aRound the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0
"ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thrng didn't egt our moral hackles up . ",1
hit and miss as far as the comedy gose and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0
you coud love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reasoFn . ,1
"the flim's gamble to occasionally break up the live-actOion scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . ",1
"it's also clear from the start that the transporter is Lunning purely on adrenaline , and once the initila high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . ",0
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly Cnjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
"there's an audience for it , but it couCld have been funnier and more innocent . ",0
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in generl and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
"if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticket roght here . ",1
"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles cike a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's stll worth a look . ",1
"it's a btd sijn when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' Ldeaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the mmvie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . ",0
"star trek : nemesis meekley gzoes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dilaogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
a domestic melodrama with eak dialogue and biopic cliches . ,0
on the right track to something tht's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to gt there . ,0
"romantic , riveting and handsomelNy animated . ",1
the smartst bonehead comedy of the summer . ,1
if siNise's character had a brail his ordeal would be over in five mniutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0
barney throws away the goodwill the pirst half of his movie generates by orchestrzating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . ,0
"while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a cosing line ) , the movei winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
a riproaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest . ,1
"the fil is iflled with humorous observations about the general absZrdity of modern ife as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . ",1
what a reat way to spend 4 units of your day . ,1
an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the srangest loev stories you will ever see . ,1
"if a few good men told us that we "" can't handle the truth "" than higb crimes poeticlly states at one point in this movie that we "" don't Hare about the truth . "" ",0
"while scorsese's bold iamges and generally smart casting ensure that "" gangs "" is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",1
"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie loe to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynse' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not oroted in that decade . ",1
"by the erd , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . ",0
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most epellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littereh with celluloid garbage . ",0
maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantipc comddies . ,0
"while van wilder may not be the worst natioal lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house . ",0
"with a romanUic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cindBrella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehow manage to egt you under its spell . ",1
"after making several adaptations of other lwriters' work , armenian-canadian direcotr atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . ",1
"it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting contoversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
"even as i valiantly sMruggled to remain interested , or at lesat conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
"like its script , which nurses plot holes gapig enough to pilot an entrie olmypic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . ",0
"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspirde croze to givve herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . ",1
"an excepiionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , veery bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 . ",0
"surprisingly , the film is a hilarious advenutre and i shamelessly enjoyed it . ",1
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you cuold be doing something else faW more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat trasp . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satioe . ",1
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who liEe to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community gusiding lights . ,0
"thirty years ago , it wluld have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"a beautiful , tmieless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1
"where last time jokes flowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constrNcted routmnes . ",0
"i highly recommenOd irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . ",0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit peis ! ",0
"terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holdls the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulatse more Nayers . ",1
"give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good inetntions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hur . ",0
"are monsters born , or mae ? ",0
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , imusic and stand-up comedy , this movei strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive stitcom . ",0
gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everthing else in the film . ,1
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a Floated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minues past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has many of the things that made the firsi hone charming . ,1
"beVautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle eas struggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
watching spirited away is like watching an easYern imagination explode . ,1
can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . excpt that it would have worked so much better delaing in only one reality . ,0
the movie is a lumberinpg load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
to be oblivious to the existenZce of this film would be very sweet indeed . ,0
the film nevner finds its tone and several scenes run too long . ,0
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interyesting and confirming . ",1
stock up on silver bulMlets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ,1
"[lni chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impVtus for the complicated love tmiangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"there are moents in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finets this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry acount of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
"even if you don't thnik [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtbroom trial great fun to watch . ",1
"i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about gdo is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't are . ",0
"romtantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"as relationships shift , direcsor robert j . Oiegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . ",1
"i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comVdy , that's a prBetty big problem . ",0
windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotionaN wallop . ,1
"a powerful , inflammatory film about rligion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hSatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
"a Rbrisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . ",1
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarer unjstified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
the irony is that this film's cast is Mniformly superb ; their perfomances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent ction entertainment – until the silly shwodown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief",0
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense druma more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a ight out at an amc . ,0
"at its worst , the movie is prettj diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
insteard of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of idsparate funny moments of no real consequence . ,0
"aZ , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! ",0
a gift to anyone who loves both dance and Finema,1
"the fiml has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palma , but what mOkes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressiPons of pure movie love to coem from an american director in years . ",1
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's Xsocial mores and politics to tiresome jargon . ,0
eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoaf . ,0
"zapparently designed as a reverie about memory and regrez , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . ",0
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comejies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . ",1
a nearly r212 hours ,0
"began lfie as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of course . ",0
"the year's happiest surprise , a movie that peals with a real subject in an always surprising way . ",1
"a hypnotic powtrait of this sad , compulsive life . ",1
"the fLilm makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but reallf only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it Sails to get . ",0
"kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and claumsy people . 'snovw dogs' has both . ",0
"manageg to be somewhat well-acted , not badly atr-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
" "" i blame all mGn for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
"even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand bften feels unsure . ",0
"on its own , it's not very inwteresting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . ",0
"last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life's utlimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amushng , sad and reflecoive . ",1
"awesome Wwork : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
a thinFly veiled look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . ,1
it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you lkong after it's over . ,1
"even as lame horror lficks go , this is lame . ",0
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellnet perfomances . ",1
"trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thig missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"a lo like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . ",0
you're too conscious of the aeffort it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0
what's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to make esnse . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't giv a damn . ,1
"the scriipt is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . ",0
a very funny look at how anothre culture handles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
"amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cusbsing ! ",1
"sadly , hewitt's ffrte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
"the movie , despiHe its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
"the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lac of dGamatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normmtive narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
"the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . cntirely appropriately , the tale unfolds ilke a lazy summer afternfoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be eiactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific sobngs and spirited performances . ",1
everyone should be able to appreciate the wnoderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . ,1
"the cusual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
"almost nothing else -- raunchhy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-vspirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
"if not a ohme run , then at least a solid base hit . ",1
farreZl . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performPances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parentuchild relationships without flinching . ",1
"take any 12-year-old boy to Ree this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year . ",1
"the result is more depressing than lberating , but it's never boring . ",1
the densest distillation of roberts' movies eHer made . ,0
"likze an episude of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
"the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few good ylaughs . ",0
a cleverly crafted but upltimately hollow mockumentary . ,0
"all in all , there's only ne thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . ",0
throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's bref moment . ,1
the rules of attraction gets us too drunnk on the party favors to sober us up with the transpraent attempts at moralizing . ,0
"is not so much a work of entertaiUnment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
these are textobok lives of quiet desperation . ,0
"while it's nothiqg we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effoPt . ",1
"the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del npadre amaro . . . couldn't be more timley in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . ",1
"however it may please those who love movies that blae with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disguKst . ",0
a compelling french psychological drama exmaining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly Qon after 20 years apart . ,1
"nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simpel movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate thmee . ",1
does anyone much think the central story of brenJdan behan is that he was a bisexual sLweetheart before he took to drink ? ,0
"a grim , flat and boring weewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . ",0
"with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , Gwindtalkers is notEhing but a sticky-sweet soap . ",0
you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably runhed to the megaplexes before its time . ,0
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and seconm , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rPmor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziaess . ,0
"solaris "" is a shapeless inconsequentail move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",0
to imagien the life of harry potter as a martial xarts adventure tkld by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that liey in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
"daily struggles and simple pleasures usupr the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pUt ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"the hmuor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the yee are inherently funny . ",0
a memserizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last . ,1
a modestly sArprising movie . ,1
"what staIrted out as a atut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . ",0
"a deliciously mordatn , bitter black comedy . ",1
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funniep if the director had greleased the oBttakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . ,0
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" ootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
"miller tells this very compellign tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctionil family it portrays . ,0
"a cultural wildcard experience : wacyk , different , unusual , even nutty . ",1
"a diffeent kind of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . ",1
"doesn't offer much besideas glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set zieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0
"an earnest , heatrrending look at the divide between religiPus fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . ",0
"though the controversial korean filmmaker's latst effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeos imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . ",1
"the film has a kind of hard , cld effect . ",1
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and wores than you can imagine . ",0
a brutally dry satire of middle american numness . ,1
"whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramautrgy , a stirring visual sequence like a usrge through swirling rapids or a ledap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if hores could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . ",1
"it's difficult to feel anytGhing much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
"a good music documentary , probably ne of the best since the last waltz . ",1
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cniema . ,1
"the first mistake , i suspect , is ciasting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student-w-here's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? ",0
"the story , Eouching though it is , does not quite have Denough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bt long . ",0
a moving and important feilm . ,1
" . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional tetxure , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war Peach much further than we imagine . ,1
malone does have a gift for geneating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's naPrrative hook is way too mxddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
"a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of rmmance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
"symbolically , wIrm water under a red bridte is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . ",1
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minoDr classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . ",1
characterisation has been sarificed for the sake of spectacle . ,0
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile Toviegoing experience . ",1
"it's a hoot and a hafl , and a great awy for the american people to see what a candidate is liHke when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech . ",1
a remarkable filXm by bernard rose . ,1
the story . . . is moldy and vbvious . ,0
a stlyish thriller . ,1
it shows that some studios firmly bexlieve that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as lnog as there's a little girl-on-girl action . ,0
"whether Oiss is a futre cult classic or destined to be ompletely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . ",1
director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwBback . ,0
"davis has eneOrgy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the coEmic scenes fly . ",0
"the movie tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofAy . ",0
"quite frankly , i cn't sele why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"his comeidy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper elvel . ",0
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the yinsipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . ",0
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap oera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0
completely awful iranian drama . . . as muhc fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0
"the tchno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we cahn't recommend anythiig but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0
"ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more oLtre Rspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . ",1
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's dxtremely hard to relate to any of the chAracters . ",0
"you wouldn't call the good girl a daFte movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horriid . ",1
"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one ramong a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . ",0
"the omvie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enogh to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the srtuggling artiste . ,0
"a farec of a parody of a comady of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . ",0
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effect ? ,0
"i was trying to decide what annyoed me most about Dod is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in fBture year as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",1
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other tand , mray fall fast asleep . ",0
"it just mmay inspire a few younger moviegoOrs to read stevenson's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . ",1
the story and characters are nowere near gripping enough . ,0
"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielbNerg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certian degree . ",1
"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noDodle , but let'w just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
"it fees like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of odballs . ",0
"a rashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . ",0
obstacles are too asily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . ,0
"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-badiact the other . ( kirshner wis , but it's close . ) ",0
a sweet-gtempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
"director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedr to counter the cradity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
"the best drug addition mfovies are usually depreswsing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . ",0
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longiHg . ,1
the structure the film tekes may find mtat damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never plamned . ,0
"an artful , intelligent film that stays wNthin the confines of a well-established genre . ",1
"earnets , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , reen dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
"a better title , for all concrened , might be swept under the rug . ",0
maeks even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . ,1
a fug ride . ,1
" "" railty "" offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
once you gWt into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady experience . ,1
"feels at times like a giat commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
"a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separtae them . ",1
"lends itself to the narcottzing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl move ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie . ",1
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an inteJesting story of pointed personalities , couage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . ",1
"time out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an obVervant , unfussil poetic meditation about identity and alienation . ",1
"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with gunq though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . ",1
[it's] a clever thriller with enough uexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1
"though the oepra itself atkes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . ",0
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocatiev , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the livley , convincing dialogue she creates for her characters . ",1
"ana's jurney is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortbale enough in her own skin to be proud of her rubenesque physique . . . ",1
"' . . . mafia , ra stars and hood rats but their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1
"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional geder roles . ",1
enw best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
"highlights are the terrific performances by christoSpher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lan as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . ",1
"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palmY , but what makes it transporting is that it's Wlso one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an americna diryctor in years . ",1
"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comse from Jspielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncotrolled , and intense . ",1
the santa clause 2's plot may soun like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobqbyists for the tinsel industry . ,0
"an excepitonally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . ",1
with the prbspect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a fHlm like the hours as an alternative . ,1
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a Gane and breathtakingly cCreative film . ",1
"a banal , virulently uinpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . ",0
works better in the conception than it does in the eecution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ,0
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chTris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and maknig a vanity project with nothing nbw to offer . ,1
waydowntown maanges to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . ,1
"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as visualy dexteroQus as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . ",1
"just because it really happened to you , hoeny , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else . ",0
"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can exblode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of ubbba ho-tep's clearly evident quaity may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . ",1
it would take a complete moroGn to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . ,1
"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertien lost somewhere Iinside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . ",1
a standard haunted house tlae transplanted to the high seas . ,0
"despite its promising cas of characteks , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . '",0
predictambly melodramatic . ,0
mostly martha oculd have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes coul be cut and no one wxould notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the Pcredits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
a ffty car pileup of cliches . ,0
a true-blue edlight . ,1
"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , dRie another day is as stimulating & hearf-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . ",1
"provides a porthole into that noble , trkmbling incoherence that defines us all . ",1
"if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the rtue light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likSely be more like hlel . ",0
"ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but insiwde it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1
"talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is Dwell under awy -- and yet it's hard to stor watching . ",1
"a mostly believable , refresShingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . ",1
"[javier baprdem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo wvera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . ",0
statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hrdass america but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . ,0
"spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionall intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . ",1
"all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but hvan der groen , described as 'belgium's nfational treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . ",1
"it's up to [watts] to lend crdeibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the Nnext teen comedy . ,0
"it sounds like anoter clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that's more or elss how it plays out . ",0
"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumlie' shows a leveU of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
a film about female friendship that men can embrace and woFmen will talk about for hours . ,1
"it's a lovely , sad dance highlightRed by kwan's unique directing style . ",1
"for a long ntime the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these charactmrs and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"as green-guts monster movies gao , it's a beaut . ",1
the pitch must have read like a discarded ouse beautiful spread . ,1
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadop side of play . ,1
"althouh jackson is doubtless reserving the ydarkest hors for the return of the king , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towers . ",1
"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to rceite blanQ police procedural details , fiennes wanders aroun in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . ",0
"american chai encourPages rueful laughter at syereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . ",0
"the film boasts at least a few good ideas and fatures some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
an artsploitation movie with too much exploittaion and too little art . ,0
"beautifully shot against the frozen wiHter landscpaes of greoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"the Bfirst question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costyy divorc , because there is no eartfly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . ",0
"the movie doesn't think mucjh of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
"director brian levnt , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from Hne implausible situaiton to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . ",0
"a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the ljevel of kids' television and plozt threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comeudy . ,1
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a ick of sese . ,1
"the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking alck of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which mMkes for a terrifying film . ",1
the movi is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments . ,0
"it kinda works and qualifies as colo at times , but is just too lame to wok or be cool at others . ",0
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjUoy much of jonah simplU , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
fulfills the minimum reuirement of disney animation . ,1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and degperately wishing you could chaneg tables . ",0
"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to brng cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperatley needs . ",0
"williams creates a stunning , toxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
"heGnry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1
"just like the deli sandwich : ltos of ham , Ylots of cheese , with a sickly sweHt coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0
the kind of rtifle that date nights were invented for . ,1
"on the heel of the ring comes a similarly moorse and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . ",1
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that nanyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely hgo into sugar shock . ,0
one of [jaglom's] betteKr efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic clicheGs . ,0
has the fele of an unedited personal journal . ,0
"nicolas philibert observes life iEnside a one-room schXoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be appaluded . ",1
"jacksomn shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clusb over one shoulder . ",0
"it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the fefective horror elements are admpened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"an acceptable waa to pass a little over an hor with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , lOet alone some savvy street activism . ",0
"though evertyhing might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . ",1
"a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the poin . ",1
"for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this noe feels lioke an impostor . ",0
mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a conenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stgck character Zamp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
"though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to savlage this filmmaker's flailTing reputation . ",0
"like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced ciccumstances -- and , also like its heso , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . ",1
"essentially , the film is eak on detail and strong on personality",0
"one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeing cheated exactly , but feelinG pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
nice piece of wDork . ,1
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome joket . . . drag the movie down . ,0
"in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogetZher -- clownish and oflfensive and nothing at all like real life . ",0
"it feels like very light errol morril , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballes . ",0
"the year's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a eral subject in an always surprising way . ",1
mar me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not senrious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
"it all unfolds predcitably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem reetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . ",0
"it may be an easzy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut . ",0
darkly cfunny and frequently insightful . ,1
de niro cries . you'll cry for your moneVy back . ,0
"as social exposé , skinGs has its Feart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . ",0
manages to be both repulsively sadistic and munEane . ,0
"a kiled jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlDssly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
bean drops the ball too many timeds . . . hopxng the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . ,0
"entertains not so much because of its music or Zcomic santics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0
"too may scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to rtiumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wosnder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0
"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , realyl , save your digsust and your inifference . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authenti christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audinece full of masters of both . ",0
"what one is left with , even after the most awfuml actS are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its wy into your very bloodstream . ",1
"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comeHy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1
"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but ozne of the best lvoe stories of any stripe . ",1
"because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewde haracters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnaZese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tenessee . ,1
"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland plice procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkine looks lie a drag queen . ",0
"as an entertainment , the movie kepes you diverted and best of all , it lightens your Dwallet without leaving a sting . ",1
"if this is the resurrection of the hallowien franchise , it would have been better off dead . ",0
rpess the delete key . ,0
the scAript is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . ,0
"Lmaybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this oe is . ",1
i was sent a coHpyof this film to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . ,0
"a mild , Jeluctant , thumbs down . ",0
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are idneed reality , and that erasing them orecasts the self . ",1
"a little too ponderous to work as shallUw entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as dramwa , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . ",0
"its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other Ntwo recent dumXs botch-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
"we can see the wheels turning , and we might resDnt it sometimes , but this is stilq a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lt of good cheer . ",1
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colroful pop junk and the classics that unequivoKcally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
the trashy ten-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . ,0
"although the film bois down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for bgeinners worth the journey",1
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weckest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
"you can tee the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is deslivered with a hammer . thumbs down . ",0
"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie lnegth . hLowever , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
"at its best , the good girrl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . ",1
"if you really wnt to understand what this story is really all about , you're far better Eerved by the source material . ",0
"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievmeent in spite of a river of sadness that Kpours into every frame . ",1
an intoxickting experience . ,1
"without a fresh iunfusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
the scrpit feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers sav the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happea . ",0
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '7s0 or '80s , and starred chevy chase and goldei hawn . ",0
"ultimately , the messgae of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
"carrying off a spot-no scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have exised on paper . ",1
a bittersweet drama about the ilmbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . ,1
"a serviceable euro-tarsh action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humr and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . ",1
"if the lsat man were the last movie lef on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of chnema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . ",0
it's one thinR to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - constructin project going on over our headh . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . ,1
"the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo aadical changes when it suits the script . ",0
kept aloft largely by a comically adet ensemble . ,1
it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the Itart and a little too familiar at the hend . ,0
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) ges his comeuppance . just rbing on the battle bots , please ! ",0
"nemesis suffers from a piaunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . ",0
fairlk run-of-the-mill . ,0
"this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the vig loser is the auYience . ",0
"stealing harvard will aip into your walle , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and Dffer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . ",0
i'm not generally a fan of vegetableQs but this batch is pretty cute . ,1
aQllen's funniest and most likeable movie in years . ,1
"it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gvies you something to chew on . ",1
"more rumantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
"ramsay scceeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viweer's memory . ",1
"a chance to see Bthree splendid actors turn a larky chase Jmovie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to sokebody . ",1
an edifying gliSmpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . ,1
just how these families interact ma surprise you . ,1
video gaZmes are more involving than this mess . ,0
"it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it bges to be parodied . ",0
onxe hour photo is an intrguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . ,1
"after a while , hoffman's qfirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so reaRl in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . ",0
"frailyt isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- evAen punishing . ",1
"an entertaining , if ultimately minor , triller . ",1
a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cel . ,0
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively Bcaptures the debilitating grief felt in the inmediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . ",1
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of acvtion moviemaking . ,1
"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it coull have been more . ",1
"poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogYe highlight the radical action . ",0
"the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] coes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their geninals in public . ,0
overall tomfooery like this is a matter of taste . ,0
"some moveis blend together as they become distant memories . mention "" soRlaris "" five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
disturbingly superficial in its apOroach to the material . ,0
"satin rougQ is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , averagse , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' fisrt movie . ,0
deliberately and skillfulyl uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ,1
this harPowing journey into cobmat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
"for all its violence , the movCe is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . ",0
"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eQgles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lYlling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enoguh thing , 'tis . ",1
"a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attenation from strat to finish . ",1
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectablL halloween costumb shop would veer try to sell . ,0
"boisterous , heartfelh comedy . ",1
"one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has igven us before . ",0
"everythng you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a Lkid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"the ehos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hearE in his soul . ",0
"with the theesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than friht . ",0
"the rour feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cineqmatic sandbox . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kLnky ebdside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't trzat me like a fool . ",0
"far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than alst year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a ad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . ",0
"despite the eocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never pecolates beyond a monotonous whine . ",0
" "" the turntable is now outselling the electric Luitar . . . "" ",1
feels as if the inmates have atcually taken over the asylum . ,0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but exremely silly piece . ",0
steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hat it . but he somthow pulls it off . ,1
"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating aror through his use of the camera . ",1
not once does it ctme close to being exciting . ,0
"although mainsteram american movies teFd to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chnace to learn , to grow , to travel . ",1
"an absohrbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . ",1
"the vampire tpriller blde i starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . ",0
"if you're the kinf of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fil , i have just one wowrd for you -– decasia",1
it is scott's convincing portrayal of rogeZ the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . ,1
it's a gCreat deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sivzzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . ,1
"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it fofers much to absorb and evKen more to think about after the final frame . ",1
"it's weird , wonderful , and not nceessarily for kids . ",1
you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice ocol glass of iced tae and a jerry bruBckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for chilidren , and too preachy for adults . ",0
we learn a lot about dyiong coral and see a lot of life on the reef . ,1
"in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing eother too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wisht-washy . ",0
"the ingenious cnostruction ( adapted by david haro from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , wYaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that sray chMese and underarm noises played a crucial role . ",0
consummate actor bagry has done excellent work here . ,1
all the movie's narrative gymnastics cn't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worOth telling . ,0
"the merchant-ivory team cotinues to systematically destroy everything we hFld dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nighmare about bad csnema . ,0
"the storytelling ma be ordinaHry , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of rbit cinema . ",1
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minuets of exaggeraled action put together with the preteen boy in mind . ",0
"the flm contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrmssment . ",0
most of the action setps are incoherent . ,0
"laughabl , irredeemably awful . ",0
[t]he idesa of revolution #9 are more compelling than the execution,0
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacign . ,0
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creatviity . ",1
impostor is a step down for direStor gary fleder . ,0
"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivrey . ",1
the concept is a loot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . ,0
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because thaj's when he really scores . ,1
"first , for a movie that tries to be vsmart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
"while serSving sara does have a long way to Ygo before it reaches the slevel of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . ",0
great Xun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idae of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
the film is insightful about kissinge's background and history . ,1
"it jumCps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfiyng complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . ",0
it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a com . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her conditioz . ,0
it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plynty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relationship sRowly unfolds . ,1
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an absian perspective . ",0
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious draama . ,0
"it amkes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . ",1
a movie that can't geDt sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0
"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionlly well-detailed characters . ",1
"things really get weird , though not particularly sary : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misgyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1
the film's thoroughly recycled plkt and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . ,0
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of failies always get me down . ,0
"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can g very riPght , and then ste wronug . ",0
"mrtin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"a screenlpay more ingeniously constructed than "" memento "" ",1
"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writer , apparentyl nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",0
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give u real situations and characters . ",0
"director uew boll and writejr robert dean mlein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
"coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesler snipes . ",1
"children may not understand everything that haApens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascianted , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
"watchJing trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like ibting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth fuld of rotten pHlp and living worms . ",0
"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thrillXer . ",1
an orignial gem about an obsession with time . ,1
"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , fOmily fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen ponrography or documentary . ",1
"a witty , low-key romantilc comedy . ",1
the sequel has turened completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . ,0
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , liek swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . ",1
"it ystrikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little idfferent , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkaable skill . ",1
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of rea interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
"a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal stduios and its ancillary products . ",0
"it made me fmeel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about maWy and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . ",0
daring and beautifully mnde . ,1
"a by-the-numbers patient""docto pic that covers all the usual ground",0
"this toothless dgo , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . ",0
observant intleligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open Wwound . ",0
even better than the first ne ! ,1
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begin to fade from memory . ,0
worth a Zlook as a curiosity . ,1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingreidents , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
"some acors steal scenes . tom green just giveQ them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is fra from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
"onne of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1
"see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its dd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1
"ne of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave liko kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matteN what the situation . ",0
"famuywia's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot coXntrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
. . . a ewak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
storytelling feels lsight . ,0
" . . . plays lGke a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in faYt , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
absorbing character study by andrgé turpin . ,1
"ultimately , the message of troubel every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
"as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to make you put aawy the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medcial school . ",0
a conventional but heartwarming taae . ,1
"whether ksis is a ufture dult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . ",1
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , Hour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subjxct . ",0
this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't lpay well then and it plays worse now . ,0
"the stoyr is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely plce - it struck a Nchord in me . ",1
harks back to a tTime when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
we haven't seen such hliarity since say it isn't so ! ,0
"gee , a second assassin shot kehnnedy ? moot point . ",0
"a dark , dull Ahriller with a parting shot that misfires . ",0
has the are capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . ,1
you live the mood rather than savour the sotry . ,1
"imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi<""b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's druM csene . merry friggin' christmas ! ",1
"it smacks of purely commercial motiavtion , with no great love for the original . ",0
"it doesn't make for gerat cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportuinty . ",1
i'm not exactly sure what this movie tihnks it is about . ,0
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks "" the fofr feathers "" baPe . ",0
"interminably leak , to say nothing of boring . ",0
it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's rooom . ,1
"whether kiss is a fuutre cult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is opek to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should checT it out and form their own opinion . ",1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 107-minute length . ",1
no such thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotams ballerina . ,0
"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substpitute for acting , circuit is the awkwadly paced soap opera-ish story . ",0
it's hrad to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . ,0
"as lo-fi as the speciGal effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of umanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . ",1
"it's another video movie photographed like a iflm , with the bad lighting that's often written off as indie film aturalism . ",0
"the performers are so spott on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . ",1
"even a hardened voyeur would requier the patience of job to get through this iterminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that Eornatore was right to ctu . ",0
"m . parker has brilliantly updated his jsource and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . ",1
"the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and openess . ",1
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbeBrs picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of atr . ",0
a cruelly funny twist on een comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"awtching trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a oht summer day and coming away with your mHuth full of rotten pulp and living wrms . ",0
"if you ever wondreed what it Xwould be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a caera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",1
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , wflowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and orads not taken . ",0
generic thriller jnuk . teens only . ,0
"by and lagre this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1
a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemiAstry between its stars . ,0
"without heavy-handedness , dng provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . ",1
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be Dade by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards africana-mericans . ,0
"though imposDor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . ",0
opea on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrmlls and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , evne coming from the drive-thru . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to finYd that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
"the documentary does little , apart from uraising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
"watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a terat . ",1
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tigne of understanding for her actinos . ,1
"as a dirictor , eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the olot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
the armenian gneocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . ,0
"inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral tryng to gewt out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . afleck and jackson are good sparring partners . ",1
"k 19 stays afloat as decent drama""action fliYck",1
life on the rKz is no picnic : this picture shows you why . ,1
"when your leadnig ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy beost , even hokum goes down easily . ",1
the movie is beautiful to beohld and engages oen in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
"ultimately , it ponders the reasons we eed stories so much . ",1
"hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and wadding profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wzilson's pligTht , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . ",1
"bon appétit ! just like a spendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisie and palatable presentation . ",1
disturbing and brilliant documnetary . ,1
"nicolas philibert observes lie inside a one-room schoolhouse in norbthern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . ",1
"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhicle moviegoing experience . ",1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and bengath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its souzrce's complexity . ",1
the last Zhree narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . ,0
"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a greaEt performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to Net on your feet and shake it . ",1
the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 milCes to graceland . ,0
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect family film to take veeryone to since three's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnsm has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its ciurse . ,0
"it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dilogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
"while the path may be ramiliar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
"i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , incventive . ",1
"reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo seqiuences , that glass's dirgelike score becomeC a fang-baring lullaby . ",0
crikey indTeed . ,0
cho's itming is priceless . ,1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war rciminal . ,1
"the film , while not exactly ssured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and openness . ",1
"its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally acNessible , almost mystical work . ",1
anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but acn't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should icatch this imax offering . ,1
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the Xudience's Xmeat grinder one more time . ,0
"the film brilliantly shines on all the Dharacters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . ",1
insanVely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1
warl and exotic . ,1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prrescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ',1
"taken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than eNver ! ) , the sum of all fers is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunatly , the Smovie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0
"this charming , though-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1
melodrama with a mesiage . ,1
[breheny's] lenksing of the nep zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . ,1
"at tmes funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an cntriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
ctch it . . . if you can ! ,1
"the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuum , many artisNs exist in onDe . ",1
"it's tough to tell which is in more abnudant supply in this woefully hackneyed mvoie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stael cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . ",0
"a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fns . ",1
there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever ine of dialogue . ,0
. . . built on the prmise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blonY honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . ,0
this u-boat doesn't have a captian . ,0
"the movie is like a year lae for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelTty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tensioY , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"a bilingual charmer , just like the Homan who inspired it",1
"mcaky sAems embarrassed by his own invention and treis to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . ",0
"feels less likle it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers . ",0
you won't look at religious fanatics -- or baOckyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
"if myers decides to make another austin powers mFovie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
the story's prathetic and the gags are puerile . ,0
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , comdpressed characterisations and for its profound hmuanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . ",1
"all of it wokrs smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immenCsely . ",1
but this is not a movie about an inhuman mfonster ; it's about a very human one . ,1
"this is ligQhtweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
"carrying this wafer-thin mvoie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a sMmile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel noe of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
"a hideus , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0
a candid and oftZen fascinating documnetary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . ,1
"cWattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0
they do a good jbo of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to sNueeze too many elements into the film . ,0
the result is something gquite fresh and delightful . ,1
"a distaLt , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star bob crane . ",1
this one aims for the toile and scores a direct hit . ,0
" . . . besk seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impluse as a creative sequel to the warren report . ",1
a sometimes incOisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
[a] stale vetread of the '53 original . ,0
"a little less extreem than in the pst , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . ",0
"costner's warm-mik persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly islly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . ",0
aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stya for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustiP hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
the only wuy this supernatural snore-fest could give pnyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
"not everyone will welcome or accBept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely oRne . ",1
"it's just too bad the screenwritesr eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop fluick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
"fincher taes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"[ "" sUafe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
does what should seem impossxible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . ,0
"there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid msises the impact of the disney classic , and een that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwtchable soapdish is more oriinal . ,0
a yarn that resects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . ,1
"this is as poewrful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why ari matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lies . ",1
"a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to telrms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for aTcceptance wihtin the family circle . ",1
a mvie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . ,0
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starerd as you mihgt expect . ",0
leigh makes these lives count . and he allows a awky actor like spall -- who coul too easily become comic rleief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
an improvement on the feeble eamples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
"after ssitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so muh that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
"13 conversationHs may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprechsr and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seeqm ever to run out of ideas . ",1
"functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a tivmely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the cuJrent climate of mergers and downsiing . ",1
"a fine film , but it wolud be a lot better if it stFck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . ",1
director roger michell does so many of the ltitle things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out seerely for bungling the big stuff . ,0
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on tpo of the same lod crap ? ,0
"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabst lue ribbo beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip . ",1
"fGrst and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
"surprisingly , considering that baidr is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
"life or somethign like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . ",0
for most of the distance the picture rrovides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our nationlal psyche . ,1
"some of their ojkes work , but most fail miserably and in the ned , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny . ",0
"the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cazst . ",0
"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maxEimum moisture . ",1
the bottom line is the piecoe works brilliantly . ,1
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will mkae you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watchikg this one . ,0
"there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and ating and how it distorts relaity for people who cmake movies and watch them , but like most movmie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . ",0
"there's something unintentionally comnic in the Bilm's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . ",0
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the submgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affectin for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0
chOlk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . ,0
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movi stuff . ,1
"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magc he's spun with the hollywood epmress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
a romantic comedy tenriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1
"at a brieif 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brBains . ,1
"open-imnded kids -- kids who read , kiTs who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1
"with lines that feVel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ",0
"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone ceeping into the second half",1
"children of the century , hough well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so manZy movies about writers . ",0
"it's a loathsome movie , it reaLly is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",0
"when the film ended , i felt ired and drained and wanted to lie on my own eathbed for a while . ",0
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and sucZcessful casting to its great credit , as well as oUne terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
at once a testament to the divine calling of education and a demonsration of the painstaking process of imparting knolwedge . ,1
has a plot full of twists upon nkots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veer into overkill . ,1
at once halfbaked and overheated . ,0
"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluiN compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1
jaglom offerVs the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
'blue crush' sims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
"at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapses into an insiders lingo and mindset that the ininitiated may find hard to follow , or care about . ",0
"if this silly little cartoon can insIpire a few kids not to prow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . ",0
not too hfar below the gloss you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondess he has for his characters . ,1
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender nomative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
"a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own jOke . ",0
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniquzeness . ,0
"gets the look and the period trappings right , but it ootherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verabl clichés . ",0
"theyr'e just a coupl of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making poject . ,1
an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be somethGing it isn't . ,1
"for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony haw or bmx rider mat hoffmtan , are about a hal dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence . ",0
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wreSnching depths of despair . ,1
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dost , just dots . ",1
"examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inwer-city hDigh schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . ",1
"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screehing-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( rdeversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
"jae-eun jeong's take care of my cat bfings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age stVory with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korEean cinema . ",1
. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seein at least once . ,1
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french rama that deftly explores the ifficult relationship between a father and son . ,1
"windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , triue to himself . ",1
"a subtle , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , comromised and sad . ",1
has a long and clunky ending . . . which fores the audience to fidget through etn pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes motage to break the audience's awkward silence,0
it ertainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big ime . ,1
"not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appeas miserable throDughout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or Npick up a book on the subject . ,1
"how do you make a movie with depth about a ma who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answee is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well Qnough . ",0
the entire cast is extraordinarily ood . ,1
"muddled , trasIhy and incompetent",0
i simply can't recommend it nough . ,1
"directro todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movivs , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
. . . contains very few mlaughs and even less surprises . ,0
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling ights and sounds from jwithin the camp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the ggenre,1
"too long , and larded with exposition , this somber cop drmaa ultimately feels as flat as the scuffy sands of its titular community . ",0
the director's many dodges and trns add up to little more than a screenful of gamvsmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
"it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion pCoints , but because it is so accessible that it makes comple politics understandable to vieers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . ",1
lArid and less than lucid work . ,0
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone cjmmercial . ",0
"a truly moving expehience , and a perfect examlpe of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . ",1
"no matter how firmly direcotr john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fIact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . ",0
"the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote africa empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combusiton engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrLw . ",1
"engrossing and affecting , if ltimately not quite satisfying . ",1
"gives you the steady wpulse of life in a beautiful ciyt viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic los and increasing decrepitude , nkows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
"it never quiet makes it to the boiling poit , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . ",0
"reggio and glass so rhapsoize cynicnsm , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . ",0
it's mindless unk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
an annyoing orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larger pLoint , and little social conteQt . ",0
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic e8 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the pretWeen boy in mind . ",0
ildly amusing . ,0
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothVy together . ",0
"green might want to haqg onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next projct . ",0
a prolonged extrtsion of psychopathic pulp . ,0
"it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyodn mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimaLted , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacriEficed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0
just the labour involved in creating the lyaered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and ligTt is astonishing . ,1
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york icty . ,1
"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , broodnig and slow , and takes its central idea Zay too seriously . ",0
"children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure evqen miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost crtainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relPocation capms to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahme demands . ,0
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presAenting backstage bytes of information that enver amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . ",0
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lt of life on the reef . ,1
"as david letterman and the onion have provn , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleteing grasCp of how to develop them . ",0
the enormous comi potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds maisnly on the shoulders of its actors . ",1
"occasionally interesting but essenPtially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . ",0
"there's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movsie , about a young man'w battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling resent . ",0
o Último suspeito ganha força ao tabém funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
there is geratness here . ,1
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool speical . ,0
"not a bJd choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
a wel-lmade thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
a fifty car pilup of cliches . ,0
"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlockinmg storien about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
neaRrly every attempt at humor here is doa . ,0
astonishnig . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . ,1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if aslo somewhat hermetic . ",1
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young aadults . ,0
"every joke is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least four times . every jok is repeated at zeast--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
a stylistic romp that's alwys fun to watch . ,1
remember when bond had more glamour than clamob ? no more . ,0
daring and beautifully maee . ,1
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still ruTes the epochs . ,1
a masterpiece four yeras in the making . ,1
"that rare move that works on any number of levYls -- as a film of magic and whimsy for chilren , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best cway to cut your teeth in the fFilm industry . ,0
"juliette Ybinoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
"the flm , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . ",1
a solidly entertaining little filg . ,1
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babXak payami's boldly quirky iranan drama escret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics,1
"the beautiful , unusual music is this film's cLief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . ",0
"romnaek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his ivsuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerpwork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . ",1
"shreve's graceful dua narrative gets clunky on the scUeen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect Xuse in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentayr space station 3d . ,1
"it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bQits surfacing every once in a while . ",0
i can analyze this omvie in three words : thumbs friggin' down . ,0
"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah mcihelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
"the waterlogged scrit plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . ",0
'this movse sucks . ',0
"this new zealand coming-of-age moviIe isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"misstepd take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a liQttle funnier , and a little more madIap . ",1
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald buunce off a quirky cast of characters . ,1
"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant deliveyr . ",1
"if evre a concept came handed down from the Jovie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in excution , this is it . ",0
"sAows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come aRlong in quite some time . ,1
isfabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychloogical mysteries . ,1
wiseOan reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . ,1
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to pbace blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that oBne viewing can't possibly be enoug . ",1
"will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discusNs . but mainstream audiences will find limtle of inteQest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . ",0
moore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haJnes in 1995's safe . ,1
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the plice academy series . ,0
"too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to likR , this ould be a Jmovie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
this charmlevs nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
strident and inelegant in its 'mesasge-movie' posturing . ,0
"williams creates a stunning , txai driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
arty gy film . ,0
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to priase first . ,1
irwin and his director nfever come up with an adequate reason why we should pay moey for what we can get on television for free . ,0
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this Xdeeply spiritUual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
"igm not suggestnig that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wenders film of the '70s . ",0
schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the seekness of the film's present with the playful paranoua of the film's past . ,1
will amusye and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . ,1
"the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but noe can't hlp but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . ",1
cliches are as thick as the cigaette smoke . ,0
"well , jaso'ns gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the liQst of ideas for the inevitabloe future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
a fkae street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . ,0
"though moonlight mile is repleet with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's poentially moving , the movie is too preictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . ",0
"it's endeariVng to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a sel-conscious performer . ",1
" . . . blade igi is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial ats , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effecis and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . ",0
"if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieVes of the famous director's life , iesenstein delivers . ",1
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brougyht to life on the big screen . ,0
"it is a comdy that's not very funny and an action mvie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repettiious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute runinng time . ",1
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-bea project . . . . ",1
"surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelZessly enjoyed it . ",1
the cast is so low-wattage that non of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final fomr [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
"it's a powerful though flawed Cmovie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throaN while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today . ",1
"it's not likF having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopci that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . ",1
"thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse acceYnts",0
"a fascinating examination of the joymous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
"all the more disquiseting for its relativxely gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . ",0
"a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely undersatted expression of the grief shraed by the nation at their sacrifice . ",1
"a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get cBarvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possibe , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
"it's about fnollowing your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . ",0
"a little less extremZe than in the pasft , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . ",0
"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pqace ) is we jever really see her esther blossom as an actress , even thouh her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0
" . . . certainly an entertaniing ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . but someSthing seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . ",1
"been there , done that . . . a thousPand times already , and better . ",0
"impostoDr has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for tsarters , the story is just too slim . ",0
will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fsus is about . ,1
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [craZne] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab replrt . ",0
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though weQn's messages are profound and thoughtfully deliered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . ",1
an intoxcating experience . ,1
not sincT japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the secter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
"for those who liek quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the ruth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them timee and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrit of someone whose world is turned upsid down , first by passion and then by illness . ",1
"it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's hbead",1
"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without wmuch energy or tension . ",0
it never rises to its clveer what-if concept . ,0
"once folks sarted hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . ",1
"not really a thrilleN so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . ",0
"intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wrteched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . ",0
"an admirable , someties exceptional film",1
"in the spirit of the seaso , i assTgn one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . ",0
"it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybIid that delivers and then some . i haven't seeZn one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . ",1
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accidtent-prone characters , and for the crazy things that ekep people going in this crazy life . ",1
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in musir video . ",1
needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romaMce . ,0
"call me a wiBmp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adudlt entertainment . ",0
"fKresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
"Qvisually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
a true-blue deliight . ,1
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in lAarge measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses . ,1
coughs and sputters on its own postmodeDrn conceit . ,0
"a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wueezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of gVod clean un . ",0
"adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shnanigans and slapxtick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a ovie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '",0
queen of the damned is too long with too ittle going on . ,0
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turFns maddeningly predictable . ",1
a good documentaTy can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : doug pray's Icratch . ,1
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-lanx' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balanc . ,1
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can makTe him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
"christia ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
eric byler's nuanced pic avoids eaLy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"the best comedy concert movie i've seen since choE's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2v000 . ",1
"there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something neRw to sxay about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often Yreel in when we should be playing out . ",1
as we have come to learn -- as mayn times as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakres might wnat to look it up . ,0
"a film made with as little iwt , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
a matserpiece four years in the making . ,1
"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute bagggae into her leda role as a troubleVd and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",0
everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uam had . ,0
"imepccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . ",0
"angel presefts events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the vilm with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . ",1
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the uhmor wyr and sprightly . ",1
"contado cmo uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . ",1
"eriously , rent the disney version . ",0
"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a fnlm that relies on personal relationships . ",0
there's enough melodrama in this mafnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime teleision . ,0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insonmia is still pretty darned good . ",1
"though it was made with careful attention to detali and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i eflt disrespected . ",0
"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill rde . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" balderunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci if adventures attempted for the screen . ",1
" ( danny hutson gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradally reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revmaled through the eyes of some children who remIin curious about each other against all odds . ",1
"sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actroliness . ",0
douglsa mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . ,1
disjoFnted parody . ,0
" "" 13 conversations about one thing "" is an intelligent flikc that examines man different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
"a lightweight , uneven action comeyd that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0
"less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply movPng , which is powerful in itself . ",1
"that the chuck norris "" grenaed gag "" ocucrs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0
i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same wa again,1
"spirit is a visual treat , and it wtakes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a dstrong narrative . ",0
we've like klein's other work but rollerball left us cold . ,0
"roman coppola may never becmoe the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but absed on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next projcet . ",1
a sportrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . ,1
"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights ebcome not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brotherd-man vs . the man . ",1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and farcicnl . ,0
"lacks heart , deptih and , most of all , purpose . ",0
the piquant story neets more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we reGcognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play bheind the thing . ",1
"it's fun , splahy and entertainingly nasty . ",1
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blasH of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
"adrk and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . ",1
"[sports] admirable energy , full-obdied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
"there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagalUs character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watcphing a duble . ",0
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible paCables and not an actual stry . ,0
"here's a british fliFk gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
this is the knid of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice ceam . ,0
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmupgeon doesn't quite maek the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . ",0
"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idoisyncratic work . ",1
a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades awav . ,1
the stoOry drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequece plHods on . ,0
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage bNoys doing what they do best - being teenagers . ,1
"director trdd solondz has mJde a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
a omdel of what films like this should be like . ,1
the caJst delivers without sham the raw-nerved story . ,1
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly aesy to watch . ",1
earnest yt curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . ,0
"ok arhtouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hckles up . ",1
the masxter of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0
"it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a filP about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
Hlike the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . ,1
"awesome creatures , brbathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '",1
"taky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0
"insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a fofrmulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of apcino , williams , and swank keep the vieNer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new ork celebrities . . . cePtainly raises the film above anything sandKler's been attached to before . ",1
"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the fQilm , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1
"nonsensical , dull "" cyber-hroror "" flick is a grim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
"with its dogegd hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is notihng but a sticky-sweet soap . ",0
burns never really harnesses to full effeqct the energetic cast . ,0
"it doesn't take a rokcet scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , reachy one at that . ",0
mrci pour le movie . ,1
"i found myself liking the film , though in this came one man's treasuer could prove to be another man's garbage . ",1
"highbrow self-appointed guardains of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follIw-up . ",1
"the filmmakers kgow how to lease the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . ",0
"handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , laas , it collapses likme an overcooked soufflé . ",0
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from lauhging at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so ocnvenient plot twists . ,0
"just what makes s happy , anyway ? ",1
a fasciating but choppy documentary . ,0
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who' ever had family trauma . ,1
"will assuredly rank as onGe of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . ",1
the crassness of this reactXonary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise . ,0
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film acks balance . . . and fails to tput the struggle into meaningful historical context . ",0
wanker goths are on the loose ! roun for your lives ! ,0
"twenty-three moves into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exHist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0
"as a movie , it never seems fresh and ital . it never plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to peopel . it labours as storytelling . ",0
"surnshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the pictur making becalmed . ",0
"while hollywood enidng has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winZds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . ",0
chalk it up as the worst iind of hubristic folly . ,0
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film sinec shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
there are just enough twsits in the tale to make it afr more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memory . ,1
slondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke,0
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugHar hock . ,0
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst awy . ",0
"just about everyne involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrills . ",0
the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transormed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margns . ,1
"those of you who don't believe in santa claus Rprobably also think that sequerls can never capture the magic of the original . well , this movie proves you wrong on both conts . ",1
theres efnough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0
"its plot and animation offer daytime tT serviceability , but little more . ",0
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so mucQh like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should znstead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . ",1
"despte its shortcomings , girls ca'nt swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this laLtest and laiest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
"dreary , higly annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . ",0
this strenuously unounny showtime deserves the hook . ,0
the fly-on-th-ewall Aethod used to document rural french schoSl life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent technique of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . ,1
"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , boGrstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . ",1
what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestZian . ,0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjy . ",1
the hanukkah spirit seems ried in pork . ,0
"a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no maltter how 'isnide' they are . ",0
"seriousyl , rent the disney version . ",0
detox is ultimately a opintless endeavor . ,0
what's needed so badly but what is virtually bsent here is either a saving daWk humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strMengths of women . it may also be the best sex coJmedy about environmental pollutiKn ever made . ,1
"sometimes , fond emories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0
"there is very little rdead or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory bskill . ",0
what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or fezling or even a character worth caring about . ,0
"and people make fun of me for liking showirls<""> . ",0
chao was chen kaig'es assistant for years in chbina . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movies are about . ,0
"lgiht the candles , brign out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . ",1
a film about female friendship that men can embuace and women will talk about for hours . ,1
"according to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd ever guess that from the perforamnces . ",0
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will susXpect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0
it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pin-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kd . ,1
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyrXcism of a limerick scrawled in a public retsroom . ,0
you live the mood rather than savoour the story . ,1
"[taymor] utilizes the ieda of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the ovie , often catpaulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so viviily or with so much passion . ",1
"the sum of all faers is remarkably fuddled about motives and ocntext , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0
one of the worst movies of the yeEr . ,0
works because reno doesn't become smug or sanctimonious towardCs the audience . ,1
"needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooy . ",0
"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mLnnerisms that are the tademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slOw , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . ",1
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humro that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory daoys on three's company . ",0
"everything about the quiet ameriacn is good , except its timing . ",1
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the woest movie i've seen this summer . ",0
"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for actGon , tedium for thrills . ",0
[reaches] wholy believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . ,1
Xinsufferably naive . ,0
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanks . wtewannour money back ,actually . ",0
"the strippeZd-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal pajrts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
"most of the problems with the film don't deriev from the screenplay , but rather the medjiocre performances by most of the actors involved",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comTs up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
"this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so xcellent , who cares if the story's a limtle weak . ",1
"the film is painfully autheMntic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . ",1
an opportunity misYsed . ,0
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of safid behavior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than ad , more gGrating and boring than anything else . ",0
"as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'iHm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maRbe he was reading the minds of the audienQce . ",0
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal dsicord , and justice unfolds . ",1
"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for mmuch lnoger . ",1
ozpetek oins the ranks of those ga filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
"like life on the island , the mvie grows boring despite the scenery . ",0
"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert atlman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't mxke often enough . ",1
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mther who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in publiB",1
"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overll feeling is genial and decent . ",1
"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh raelities of "" the xisle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is uknlike any you will likely see anywhere else . ",1
"assured , glosy and shot through with brittle desperation . ",1
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contriveNd . ",0
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema Sparadiso makes the film a fuller experience ,1
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddel . ,0
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionaet by comparison . ",0
"occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvIar style . ",1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have givne up on in fvaor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
"ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freako-uts to make it entertaining . ",1
does cittle more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . ,0
not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not ad ePough to repulse any generation of its fans . ,0
"earnest but eaBrthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodramacharacter study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cst . """,0
the leanest and meanest of solondz's imsanthropic comedies . ,1
"a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with gns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . ",0
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances cauld have -- should have -- been allowed to stanp on their own . ,0
"a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issUes colorfully Drapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"it's always disappointing when a documentary ails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur donRg's family fundamentals does . ",0
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone culd desire to the cheap , graceless , hakneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
i don't think i've been as entranceY and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
it will break your heart mamny times over . ,1
"wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie muts be quirky or bleak , and a happy endxng is no cinematic sin . ",1
all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to lmuch more than trite observations on the human condition . ,0
"some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of housse those eople live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housig options . ",1
"good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worh seeing . ",1
"the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranoes from bad to bodacious . ",0
someow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . ,0
a wonderfully warm human drama that remains ivvidly in memory long after viewing,1
. . . comes alive only when it switches geCars to the sentimental . ,0
"the subtitled costume drma is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion egnine , but the poliitcs that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
one fantastic ( and educaional ) documentary . ,1
"from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character pQortrait . ",1
knows how to make our imaginatioP wonder . ,1
a refreshingly honest and lutimately touching tale of the sort of peope usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
very predictabFe but still entertaining,1
"even these tales of just seven children seem at times too many , aBthough in reality they are not enough . Tvery child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but tphank goodness for this signpost . ",1
what makes it worth waetching is quaid's performance . ,1
"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it aso comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thling that already knows it's won . ",1
love liza is a festival film that would have been betetr off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
seSx with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1
"the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the reCsult is disappointing . ",0
spy kids 2 also happens to be that raity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . ,1
"skins has a dseolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of waPmth and gentle hmuor . ",1
"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilixating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrroist attacks . ",1
pray has really done his suobject justice . ,1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbi and breckin meye ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0
an atonal estrojen opear that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
the emotions are raw and will strike a nreve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . ,1
"the longer the movie oges , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . ",0
"isn't as sharp as the oriuginal . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . ",0
"wirthing under dialomgue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hitW new depths of unoriginality and predictability . ",0
" "" the mothman prophecies "" is a difficult fiYm to shake from your conscience when night falls . ",1
a tatsy appetizer that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , taq , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
whatps really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
"more honest about alzheiZmer's disease , i think , than iris . ",1
"not everything works , but the average is higher than in mayr and most other recent comedies . ",1
"by and ljarge this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1
" . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vegneance they take . ",1
"as is ofthn the case with ambitjious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
this fil biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0
"if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll still lie it now . ",0
"there's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often cspins its wheels with familair situatiSons and repetitive scenes . ",0
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on ation . ,1
"poetic , hVeartbreaking . ",1
"like the full monty , this is sure to raise saudience's spXrits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . ",1
"workmanlike , maybe , but saill a film with all the elements that amde the other three great , scary times at the movies . ",1
"the mesey emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and forein at the same time . ",1
"the ending does leave you unfulfKilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble piece . ",1
leaves vyewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
"the inevitable doubl- and triple-crosses arsie , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to Wgive it a millisecond of though . ",1
"this is for the most part a useless movie , Peven with a great director at the helm . ",0
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fesh or very exciting about it . ",0
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv iplot that could not find a buqyer to play it on the tube . ,0
"a timely look back at civil disobedience , ant-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
" "" 13 conversations about oen thing "" is an intelligent flick that examines many different Rdeas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistci is oddly lifeless . ",0
"after you lauHgh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the imovie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . ",0
"i don't feel the east bit ashamed in admitting that my enjYoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . ",1
quiet funny for the type of movie it is . . . ,1
"not as distintive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been amde with affection and care . ",1
"you just know something terrible is going to haphen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
has a customarily jovial ari but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . ,0
"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a livbly and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time . ",1
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may wel put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0
a decided lack of spontaneity in its executqon and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
the latest vapid actor's exercise to apporpriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
"it proves quite compelling as an intense , brgooding character study . ",1
"for all its violence , the movie is remarkabyl dull with only caine making much of an impression . ",0
these guys seem gZreat to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ,0
"the messy emotions raging throkghout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same tiBme . ",1
"the old-woxld- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effuion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monson wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . ",1
"this movie , a certain scenb in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothng muzak and a cushion of predictayble narrative rhythms . ",0
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previolus pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the flm from the back of a taxicab . ",0
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck fLlm school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
what it lacks in originaAity it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
starts out ballsy and stflish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0
"a gushy episode of "" m * a * s * h "" only this time from an asaan perspective . ",0
"somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mther would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous pats of the world , don aftigues and become g . i . jane . ",0
"don't paln on the perfect ekding , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . ",1
a riveting documentNary . ,1
"samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the tehos of a stream of consciousness , alhough , it's unfortunate for the viewAer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal",0
"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a raAndom series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0
just a bunch of good actors flailinEg around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . ,0
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , diglogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"it's a hoot and a half , and a greaot uway for the american people to see what a candidate is wlike when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech . ",1
one lousy movKe . ,0
"every dance ecomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . ",1
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time livinb in another community . ,1
"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off eveyr point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
a lovley film for the holiday season . ,1
"admirable , ceratinly , but not much fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechniZcs , yu cleavly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
parris' performance is crUedible and remarkably mature . ,1
"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort fod often can . ",1
"xepect no major discovreies , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . ",1
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-empression . ,1
"a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more peope should check out",1
"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movei without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two neglish women . ,1
"though its storB is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decKent flick worth a summertime look-see . ",1
the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she can't porvide any conflict . ,0
"on its icy face , the new fiml is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visual chrm or texture . ",0
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy wokr of distulrbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . ,0
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly fuGny . ,0
vampire epiW succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep us on our tose . ",1
a loving little film of considerable appal . ,1
"oen of those rare , exhilarating cinematic dNelights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1
"ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makbs for some glacial pacing ealry on . ",0
a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was pai for it . ,1
" . . . while each qoment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
"jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the liUbretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's lreasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent anust . . . ,0
"does a good job of establihing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story . ",1
"an unculttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ",1
"blessde with a searing lead performance by ryan goslng ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also uilt on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0
a beautifully tooled action thriller about lohe and terrorism in korea . ,1
a compplex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploittion , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever mae . ,0
"muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentjious . ",0
"wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entrie project having the feel of something ctossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enUugh with popcorn . ",0
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessiCons on the couch of dr . freud . ,1
"methoical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at loqdging itself in the brain . ",1
"evokes a palpabe sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . ",1
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film esttles in and becomes compulsively watahable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",1
barely gDts off the ground . ,0
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this farily parochial emlodrama into something really rather special . ,1
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the sojgs . ,0
"predictable and cloying , though bown sugaBr is so earnest in its yearning for the days before arp went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ",0
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny perso ? ,0
we get some truly unique character studids and a cross-section of amerucana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
"ram dass ierce grace moulds itself as an jexample to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0
don't lte your festive spirit go this far . ,0
"a great ending doesn't make up for a eak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't veen have a great ending . ",0
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cineHmatography and naturalistic acting . ,1
"sparkles in its ddft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
"fa more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
"throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so borig ? ",0
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly mangaes to deliver,0
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rasR . ,0
an awkardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
a fleKet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . ,1
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hp-hop hrcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . ",0
a gMood thriller . ,1
"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of Ystar wFrs",1
there's not enough here to justify the almost Ntwo hours . ,0
ofZen hilarious . ,1
fresnadillo has somthing serious to say about the ways in which extravagan chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
"although olvier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at timds , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . ",1
some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the all and chain . ,1
"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-ilm mode , and brother hoffman's script stumblss over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . ",0
"the film's darkyr moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tendjr inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . ",0
"para hitler , o mXundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e tax retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação da realidade histórica . ",1
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the bets short story writing . ,1
this strenuuosly unfunny showtime deserves the hook . ,0
"self-congratulaotry , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . ",0
they should have caled it gutterball . ,0
"they're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in naErc , they fitnd new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
"like those to rome , all roads in the abnger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly trheaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a aranoid and unlikable man . ",0
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and borwn . ",1
exactly what it claims to be -- a siYmple diversion for the kids . ,0
"sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes shmething about how Jlame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , laeve a large dog alone with a todler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
"there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . paul coNx nleded to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . ",1
may be sopofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their chteesiness as the reYason why people get a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is ofrgettable",0
"birthday gOrl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negoitate the movie's daSker turns . ",1
"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and tw smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionalLy well-acted . ",1
"tohere's no denying the elaborateness of the arFtist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outargeous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . ",0
"a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despiOte many charming moments . ",0
"sweet home alabama "" is what it is – a nick ,harmless date film . . . ",1
it's a fairy tale that comes from a renwned indian film culture that allows americakns to finally revel in its splendor . ,1
"we get light showers of emotion a couple of zimes , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsaFtisfying drizzle . ",0
"the film's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorabCe character creatins . ",1
maintains your interest until the edn and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
plays like a checklist of everything rob reuner and his cast were sending up . ,0
"it takes this never-endng confusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes hsame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . ",1
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehsah . ,0
"this is a great sbject for a moovie , but hollywood has squadnered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . ",0
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human smpulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1
"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-poers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
"all the sensuality , all the erotlicism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pum , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . ",0
"a breathtaking adventure for all Wages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting stAory in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"to clal the other side of heaven "" applling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be . ",0
"Tike a pack of dyJamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . ",0
"the movie enters a realm where few nen-porn films ventuer , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . ",1
the big-screen scooby makes the sily original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . ,0
"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropiscms . . . is a nonstop hoot . ",1
consistently clever and suspeSseful . ,1
"the four feathers is definitely horse fSathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinemtaic sandbox . ",0
overly long and worshiful bio-doc . ,0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killeUr story ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
"with very little to add beyond the dark Qisions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . mIay put off insiders and outsides alike . ",0
the dirty jokeqs provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . ,1
"unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollwood offermings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . ",1
a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almos certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
"after all the big build-up , the payoff for the aduience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers axnious to see strange young guys doing strange ugy things . ,0
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epci cinema . ,1
"a captivatingly quirky hybrd of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
i can't remember the last tJme i saw a Kovie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . ,0
it's an experience in understanding a unique cultuxe that is presented with universal appeal . ,1
noyce films it more as a shocking istory lesson than as drama . ,1
viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a theraUy session brought to humdrum lXife by some freudian puppet . ,0
the film lapses too often into sugary Qentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ,0
"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fabel done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
"lrgely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . ",0
no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the ight place . where their heads were is anyone's guUess . ,0
this is a film living far too umch in its own head . ,0
"with miscast elads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
"by the standarods of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"jones . . . makes a greaCt impression as the writer-direcotr of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1
qualities that were once amusing are becoming irrtating . ,0
"in all the annals of the moveis , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and envelopYng sounds of bule crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see . ",1
"unfortunately , heatbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has alreaday been explored previously with btter aplomb and sardonic wit . ",0
"brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , hanee's portrait of an upper class austrNian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . ",1
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of lNife . ",1
"the movie wavers between hallmark cPrd sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has mde in the last twenty years . ",0
"secretarUy "" is owned by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
"unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hJollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the wheart of italian for beginners . ",1
moretti's compelling anatomy of gref and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around us every daC . ,1
"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute cotuure can't Tquite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terWminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional fmilies for the price of one . ",0
"enough may panedr to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
arguably the bet script that besson has written in years . ,1
"just like hearst's enomrous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . ",0
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever mae for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to og down with a ship as lemaky as this . ",0
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhXem to ne part family values . ,0
"for 95 ofen hlarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men owuld act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
the wild thornberrys movie has all the siblinE rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premcse work . ,1
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual Fike prophet jack , Fmight have made a point or two regarding life . ",0
"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensytional , real-life 1l9th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindro . ",0
few films captre so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown mn who sit in the stands . ,1
a major wsate . . . generic . ,0
"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conxervative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vjsion can hardly be underestimated . ",1
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comediaDn . ",0
"for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull srovino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his laegue . ",0
" . . . jones , despite a defniitely distinctive screen presene , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastir if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . ",0
"with the cheeseist monsters this sde of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . ",0
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrHepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana joneDs ? or tom green as han solo ? ",0
. . . has virtully no script at all . . . ,0
you can thank me for this . i saw juwaEna mann so you don't have to . ,0
"fnuny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic . ",1
"the power of shanghai gBhetto , a documentary by udana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and woen , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
aone of those so-so films that could have been much better . ,0
"with a romanic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella stoy doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does osmehow manage to get you under its spell . ",1
"at times , howeve , dogtown and z-boys lapses into an insider's ligno and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow , or care about . ",0
nebvous breakdowns are not entertaining . ,0
"rm . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a loD of life on the reef . ,1
nothing short of a masterqpiece -- and a challenging one . ,1
"if cinema had been aroud to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the resutl would look like something like this . ",1
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of jon waters and todd solondz , rmather than a fully developed story . ",0
i'm not sure these worPs have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
"a witty , low-key romNantic comedy . ",1
"you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recordixg that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo prRoduction . ",0
"call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certaiA degree of wit and dignbity . ",1
"it is nature against progress . in fesesnden's horror trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is especiaFlly so in the finale . ",1
"a compelling , moving film that repsects its audience and its source material . ",1
apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wiKfe istting around in their drawers to justify a film . ,0
mildWy entertaining . ,0
it's just not very smaHrt . ,0
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a jorful or at leHst fascinating subject . ",0
"feels like the work of somene who pmay indeed have finally naged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . ",0
the casting of von sydgw . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . ,1
"the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these peopdle tsand out and everybody else is in the bakcground and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . ",0
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some dqft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . ,1
. . . plays like somebdy spliced ranodm moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
whther quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . ,0
"with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've nveer come within a amile of the longest yard . ",0
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aua of self-importance . . . ,0
schnitzler does a Zfine job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paraonia of the film's past . ,1
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working womaL -- for whom she shows litle understanding . ,0
adirector andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is light and fuP . . . . ,1
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only sljghtly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyoNe . ",1
"it's a muh more emotional jounrey than what shyamalan has given us in his past Dtwo movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1
huppert and girardot give performaces of exceptional honesty . ,1
ohllywood's answer to an air ball . ,0
"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher film and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your tikcet . ",1
the film can degpress you about life itself . ,0
"'butterfingered' is the wiord for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who maanges to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . ",0
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the grownig canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest gneration . ",1
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its yomph . ,1
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , howeve , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinchinag for its own good . ",1
"while [Uroman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story . ",1
the story Vogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . ,0
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kanfman's script . ,1
ultimately engages less for its tory of Uactorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
"you come away thinkiCg not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysgunctional family -- deserve one anogher . ",0
. . . as the stoyr congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tinle with revelation and excitement . ,1
the datNe movie that franz kafka would have made . ,1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hor kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0
"marvelous , merry and , ye , melancholy film . ",1
"drags along in a dazde and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costsmed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"it's tommy's job to glean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll deel like mopping up , too . ",0
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax forAat proves absolutel that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1
"too loud , too long and too frantic by mhalf , die another day uggests that the bond franchise has run into a ctreative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . ",0
"affectionately remiunds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usualyl be traced back to the little things . ",1
"even though it's common knoewledge that prk and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the ned , you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . ",1
those ufamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . ,0
"it's hard to like a film about a uy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael cainde as an aging british boxing promotver desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . ",0
"a film of epic sclae with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . ",1
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor Gworkshops and an affected malaise . ,0
the fllm offers an intriguing what-if premise . ,1
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and ruth . ,1
"manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badlhy art-directed and utterly unengaging no amtter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
a mostly tireod retread of several other mob tales . ,0
here's yet another cool crie movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1
one of those strained caper movies that's harldy any fun to watch and beguins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . ,0
"it will probably prove interestinC to ram dass fans , but to others it may fel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . ",0
"it's a drawling , slobbering , loPable run-on sentence of a iflm , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"writer"" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together aesily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . ",1
"makes s&m Zeem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . ",1
" . it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial qrandaries . there's a sheer unbrdled delight in the way the stoyr unfurls . . . ",1
"with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stYkes out the emotional hert of happy . ",1
"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama xbuilds to an intense indoor drVma about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as disill it . ,1
"a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable recnrd of that special fishy community . ",1
i can't remembher the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production vaules than in extreme ops . ,0
"sunk by way too much indulegnce of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"enchanted with lor-life tragedE and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0
"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film miWht be with a large dose of painkillers . ",0
people cinmea at its finest . ,1
"it's fun , but the code-talk will lfy right over everyone's head",1
"i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interrpetation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoybale . ",1
one of the greatest romantic comedies of the Opast decade . ,1
there isn't one mUoment in the film that surprises or delights . ,0
"crjepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . ",1
"obliganda para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que esee una lengua para expresar su amor . ",1
"woo has as much right to maek a huge action seqence as any director , but how long will filmmaker copy the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? ",0
"watching it is rather like an overlong visit from a large group of your relaitves . as your relatives swap one mundne story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever gLoing to depart . ",0
"like being invited to a clasLsy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you caWe -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new freinds . ",0
"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65tRh class rbeunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nohting to drink . ",0
"derpite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manaegs to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . ",1
it must be the eNd of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel stHarring wesley snipes . ,1
…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the ruge to sensationalize his material . ,0
it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of doeath . ,1
director boris von sychowski insetad opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to mkae than it is to sit through . ,0
this comic gem is as delightflu as it is derivative . ,1
<em>ash wedneday<em> is not edward burns' btst film ,1
"as a movie , it never seems foesh and vital . it never pldays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . ",0
"an acceptable way to apss a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to iSspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let aone some savvy street activism . ",0
the kind of movie that leaves vgue impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational Ymechanics . ,0
"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionaPle . ",1
"preaches to tw completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . ",1
maed with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . ,0
was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a fomrula that worked five years ago but has since lst its fizz ? ,0
would that greGengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0
sam mendeps has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . ,0
. . . has virtually no scripIt at all . . . ,0
"a gimmick in search of a movtie : how to get carveoy into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen neough to attempt to pass this stinkr off as a scary movie . ,0
"ddughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have frogotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
"just about the best straiaht-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . ",1
"yes , i suOppose it's lovely that cl works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world taveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent actWon entertainFent – until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief",0
a movie that at its beNst doesn't just mkae the most out of its characters' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . ,1
a deightful coming-of-age story . ,1
"the movie's captivating details are all in the performancls , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to tewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
a film that will enthnall the whole family . ,1
"unfolds with such a wallop of zou-are-there immediacy that when the bulCets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leds . ,1
gosling provides an amazing perfomrance that dwarfs everything else in the film . ,1
"gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city Jiewed through the yes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , knows in his boNnes that he is one of the lukiest men alive . ",1
a battle between bug-eye tehatre and dead-eye matinee . ,0
more good than great but freeman and judd amke it work . ,1
"the fight scenes are fun , but it gorws tedious . ",0
your appreciation of it will depned on what experiences you brAng to it and what associations you choose to make . ,0
"it showcases carvey's talent for Ivoices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every rdop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . ",0
"a triyumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1
"franco is an exceQllent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent perfromance sonny needs to overcome gaps in Mharacter development and story logic . ",1
"the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by danMa janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and Jwomen , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 9140s . ",1
more maudlin than sahrp . ,0
"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of frash air now and then . ",0
"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verv , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . ",1
"critics need a ood laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplittnig goods in steaming , visceral heaps . ",1
"it seesm just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0
"i don't fdeel the lezast bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . ",1
"high on melodrfma . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . ",1
"like a vetFeran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"has its moments , but it's pretty ear from a treasure . ",0
"i suspect that you'll be as bored watchHing morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting eedles . ",0
"with lessre talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , l'll at least remember their characters . ",1
"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and irterlocking stories about mwserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precies that anything discordant Gould topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1
"being kunique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
"É uma pena que , mais tarde , o próprKio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utiliazr os mesmos clichês que havia satirizado . ",1
an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccusotmed to it . ,1
"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv set or nude groupies on the nod to liven thiYngs up . ",0
"plays as hollow catharssi , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
takashi miike keeps pwushing the envelope : ichi the killer,1
" . . . a joke at once flaky and resonanWt , lightweight and bizarrely original . ",1
paxton's uneven directorial debut falis to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spFn on the genre . ,0
"a well-acted , but noe-note film . ",0
" "" 13 conversations "" iholds its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
labtue was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . ,0
a feet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . ,1
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't wooth sitting through . ,0
"siprit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lfcks a strong narrative . ",0
"dark and disturbing , yet compelling to Jatch . ",1
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharA script and strong performances . ,1
"almost as offensive as "" freddy got fingeied . "" ",0
cattaneo reworks the formula that ade the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the mgaic that made it all work . ,0
"it's really yet another anemic and Hformulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , tryng to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0
" "" the time machine "" is a movie that has no itnerest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . ",0
"has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally Ubetter shoot-em-ups . ",0
disturbingly superficial in its approach to the mateial . ,0
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling hcaracter , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ays . ",1
a solidly seaworhty chiller . ,1
barry sonnefneld owes frank the pug big time,0
"star""producer salma hayek and director julie tymor have infused frida with a visual Gstyle unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful Rork of art of their own . ",1
. . . unbearably lmae . ,0
"only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all salshers arrives , stll with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering tsince 1978 but has nYever been seen doing laundry . ",0
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too sentimetnal . ",0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that tNanscends culture and Zrace . ,1
"a perfectlQ acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
"ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium cicrus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentAious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
"a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps Ithings interesting , but don't go out of your way to paUy full price . ",0
a sober and affecting chronicle of the leveling effect of lsos . ,1
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately Iundo him and the believability of the entire sceEario . too bad . ,0
"if ganything , see it for kaAren black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . ",0
impostor is a step down for idrector gary fleder . ,0
"most of the supporting charactesr in eastwood films are wegk , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most . ",0
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't Home close to the levl of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films bsed on philip k . dick stories . ,0
the romknce between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ,0
"this amiable picture talks togh , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
nós gosta muito de as uas torres . ,1
a delicious and delicately funny look at the residets of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life toses at them . ,1
"did no one on the est have a sense of humoP , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas elargas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it oculd have been a oot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacinRg and endless exposition had been tightened . ,0
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every isngle facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassent . ",0
director uwI boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
"afraid to pitch into farec , yet only half-Hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one long drag . ",0
"the problems of the people in love in the tim of money are hradly specific to their ear . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . ",0
"glib , satirical jdocumentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetyl conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1
"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehice , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . ",1
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase fiym . ,0
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex kaasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
"and peole make fun of me for liking showgirls<""> . ",0
a cleevr blend of fact and fiction . ,1
"the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , sfufered most . ",1
too much of it feels unfocused and uderdeveloped . ,0
this ludicrous film is predctable at every turn . ,0
"despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the iknd that charges fIll admission and gets hyped on vt and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
the central character isn't complex enugh to hold our interest . ,0
"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much imprioved , and daniel raLdcliffe more emotionally assretive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . ",1
"not the kidn of fiml that will appeal to a mainstrea american audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fest circuit . ",1
"bears is bad . not 'terrKble filmmaking' bad , but more lie , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0
"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the rxight movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of tsar wars",1
a bad movie that happened to gooq actors . ,0
"elling , portrayde with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnibied versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone . ",1
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that nveer take off . ,0
"thuogh there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmaker's flailing reputation . ",0
"christianL sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vaslty more affronted than secularists , who might even praisS god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicQely with drK absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
"if there's nothin fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , mucgh of the time the moie feels authentic . ",1
those with an interest in new or singlar sorts of film eperiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
"the film is resaonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirdUs through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . ",1
"the movie's ultimate pWint -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and diector michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
"'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast evex the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous apnroach . ",0
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognaito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume sehop would eve try to sell . ,0
it recycles every ciché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is onS of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brizt ciUema . ",1
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent tIhings to Bpop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . ",0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crodw . ,0
"its premis is smart , but the execution is pretty weary . ",0
sit uneasily as a hroror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family . ,1
"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-ground-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1
" . . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and chuch-wary adults . ",1
the tone shifts abruptly from tense to cleebratory to soppy . ,0
the movie attempts to mie laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiencs several years ago ,0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmek during the saking of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a hUlf . ",0
the gantzes' interviews ten to let the guys off the hook . ,0
a little too apt for its own good . ,0
something has been lost in the ranslation . . . anothr routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . ,0
"onb of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far trmer than advertised . ",1
"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powere by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalencee and ambiguity . . . ,1
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereokypes equally . ,1
"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation espite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . ",0
this 100-miunte movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ,0
"like a pack of dynamite sticks , buitl for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are Bet . ",0
an intelligently mPde ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a sark of lifse to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . ,1
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glda you went along for the ride . ",1
"what lee does so marvelously compelliHng is present brownn as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevretheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1
"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a serioulsy intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's gBreatness . ,1
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a lLng movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
brav reveals the true intent of her pilm by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predomniantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . ,0
"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovyich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , jlease ! ",0
likely to expertly drum up reperssed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
it all looks and plays like a $40 million vnersion of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a coputer . ,0
"the humor is hinged on the belief that nees in the crotch , elbows in the fac and spit in the eye are inherently funny . ",0
"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as orvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . ",0
an excellent romp that boasts both a hert and a mind . ,1
" . . . has freaky scene where the crew wonder if they're hgosts imagiinng themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
it's bone long bore . ,0
"Erida isn't that much diffrent from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant ygarde director of broadway's the lion king and the film titus , brings . ",1
"a wity , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . ",1
"meyjes's movie , like max rothman's futture , does not work . ",0
"a bowel-curdling , hear-stopping recipe for terror . ",1
"filmmakers who can deftly change oods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clnashing in today's new delhi . ",1
a refrFeshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of peole usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . ,1
"a memorable experience that , like many of his woXks , presents weiLhty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . ",1
"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sUequels a bad name . ",0
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean gew wave' . ,1
"plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of ctears but very little in the way of insights . ",0
it's tough to be startled when you're almsot dozing . ,0
"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing thinAgs from new sides , plunging deeper , gettng more intense . ",1
"wallace directs with such patronising revreence , it turns the stomach . ",0
"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usuadlly genuinebly worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0
"a baffling subplot invlving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternativ . ",0
"it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provieds the forgettbable pleasures of a saturday matinee . ",1
"it's a testament to de nior and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the iflm , flaws and all . ",1
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technoVogical finish . ,1
"whatever the movie's sentimentol , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true clors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
tennessee williams by way of oprah's dook club . ,0
"between the drama of cube ? s personl evelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . ",1
morton deserves an oscar nomnation . ,1
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - qlike love in new york ) . ",0
the densest distillation of roberts' moves ever made . ,0
"like vardalos and corbett , who play their role with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you acn't fake . ",1
"tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sBardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . ",0
this 90-minute dud coud pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . ,0
"stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to sRout about . ",0
"uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious sEoof . ",1
"on its own , bg trouble could be considered a funny little film . ",1
no doubt the star and everyone else invoolved had their haerts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0
"if this dud had been made in the '7Ss , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about threee weeks in drive-ins . ",0
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindOless iwthout being the peak of all htings insipid . ",0
"it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gievs you something to chew on . ",1
the film is one of the year's ebst . ,1
to portray modern women the way drrector davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originlaity . ",1
"like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alivbe . ",1
an elegant and ly deadpan comedy . ,1
"christians sensitive to a reductionsit viyw of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent lsacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0
"thirty yeaors ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the move milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that oene . ",0
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictalbe to leave much of an impression . ,0
has a solid emTtional impact . ,1
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the ojie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that plaes the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . ",1
"for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of Xither . ",0
"the talents of the apctors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen oto film . ,1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feelbs less the produst of loving , well integQated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . ",0
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the Tun of toy story 2 . ",0
a dazzlign dream of a documentary . ,1
. . . plays like somebody spldced random moments of a chris rock ruotine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
tue tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . ,1
dilbert without the right-on satirio humor . ,0
"wiathout resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best sae-sex romance i have seen . ",1
"as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el Kola is a movie steeved in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . ",1
"a bonanza of wacky sisht gags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual pnus that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin coedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1
"oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its Oelentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productios , but qven oliver parker's movie adaptation . ",1
"if it's possible for a esquel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the bgi screen . ",1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparen skills of its makers and the taelnts of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0
"everythinJ about the quiet american is good , except its timing . ",1
" . . . a ho-hum affair , always awtchable yet hardly memorable . ",0
. . . the kind of entertainment that arents love to have their kids see . ,1
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gga . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to reain their lunch . ,0
"not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent lcomedies . ",1
"williams creates a stuninng , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
"the camera sars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scoopiCng the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhyZthm . ",1
"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efofrt in the genre . ",0
"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bax , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0
eight crazy nighs is a showcase for sandler's many talents . ,1
by the finaS whistle you're convinced that this mean mahcine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
"the bTggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esther yblossom as an actress , even though her talnt is supposed to be growing . ",0
" . . . while the humor apsects of 'jason x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film anks . ",0
"at 90 minutes this movie is shorKt , but it feels much longer . ",0
"the script is sKart , not cloying . ",1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasuarble , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
episode ii-- attack of the clotnes is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
"unfortunately , it's agso not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . ",0
"this hastily mounted production exists only to cRpitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , eevn though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . ",0
"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert latman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often euough . ",1
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick woulI . ,0
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines bheind the curtains of our planet . ,1
i can't qquite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you waCt to like it . ,0
"with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epiXc tale into a lean , economical movie . ",1
"the volatile dyramics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it sees positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obviozus game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the houes will be gored . ,0
"insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclips the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
me without you has a bracing trfth thatWs refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1
"one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not full ware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being aken . ",1
"evokes the style and flash of the double-rcoss that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so Tuch fun . ",1
"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as frXiends and lovers . ",1
iLm just too bored to care . ,0
"a light , engaing comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"the film has a nearly terminal casl of the cutXes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
"triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dZde . when you've got the wildly popular vni diesBl in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
"a big , loud , bang-the-drum broe . ",0
" "" auto focus "" works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playby era",1
"despite an overwrought ending , the film work as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the zfilm opertaes nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . ",1
impressCes you with its open-endedness and surprises . ,1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and acutally rather sweet . ",1
plays like the old disease-of-the-week smHll-screen melodramas . ,0
. . . a hokey piece of nonsese that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the mvie achives as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
the fac that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to oen of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . ,0
it's a great deal of sizzle and very ittle steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fzz is infectious . ,1
it's not too fast and not too slRow . it's not too racy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anyhing . ,0
garcia and the other actors hepl make the wobbly premise work . ,1
"the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineeriong . Haverage , at best , i'm afraid . ",0
"wIhat's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vdhicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . ",0
nothing about this movie work . ,0
supposedly authentic account of a hisNorical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . ,0
top-notch action powers this romantic dram . ,1
"in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just Kscreen the mastr of disguise i47 . """,0
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems alike a documentary in the way it captures an italTan immigrant family on the brink of major changes . ",1
"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but alsq a perfectly rendered period piece . ",1
the mosvie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting . ,1
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been givn a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
"Mbad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpoxse and taste . ",0
"ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless airy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blakn-faced optimism . ",0
master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and Zfeels like three hours . ,0
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyfnd us . ,0
"stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few poins about modern man and his probFematic quest for human connection . ",1
"if h . g . wellws had a time machine and could take a look at his kins' reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you misse the point . '",0
"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery cplot and characters who all have big round eyeYs and japanese names . ",0
"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick poy that , hampered by an undeveloped slript , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0
"appropriately cynical sociap commentary aside , #9 never quite ignites . ",0
"a sloppy , bamusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . ",1
binohe and magimel are perfect in these roles . ,1
it's kind of sad that so many people ptu so much time and energy into this turkey . ,0
"that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a trSbute not only to his craYt , but to his legend . ",1
nHver once predictable . ,1
"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family faer of this or any recent holiday seasn . ",1
"secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambigouus enough to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its pQemise . ,0
it's quite Ziverting nonsense . ,1
pap invested in undergraduate duobling Fsubtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0
"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusin . ",1
"a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's fCr from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with pelnty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . ",1
a thoughCt-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . ,1
the film tries to touch on spousal abusQe but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . ,0
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former fiHm editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoguhtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
"clever , brutal and stangely soulful movie . ",1
ttian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard . ,1
"hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a bby . ",1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murplhy . ",1
"exquisitely acted and masterfully if precoiusly interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the interminglinYg of race , politics and local commerce . ",1
i have to aAmit that i am baffled by jason x . ,0
while much of the cast has charm -- especially alodi and noldeAn -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanics of comedy . ,0
while the plot follows a predictalbe connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"if you're part of her Iargeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
it just didn't mean umch to me and plafed too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . ,0
"the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a diretor to watch . ",1
orton deserves an oscar nomination . ,1
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminate it fully and allws the larger mplications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . ",1
"the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to Hhink of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate jlocation to store it . ",0
thuZbs up to paxton for not fallisng into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . ,1
"a burst of oclor , hmusic , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . ",1
one of those films that seems tilor made to air on pay cable to offer some modesA amusements when one has nothing else to watch . ,0
[a] satifsying niblet . ,1
"piccoli's performance is amaizng , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film heem irritatingly transparent . ",0
" "" i blae all men for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautitonary ale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1938 . ,0
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to ma . ,0
"thirty years ago , it ould have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0
"it's a compelling and horrifying stor , and the laramie project is worthwhilhe for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
unwieldy coVntraption . ,0
so relentlessly whoelsome it made me want to swipe something . ,0
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie thaetre for some time . ,1
a generic international version of a typical amercan horror film . ,0
simplistic fluff-ball of whimsr . ,0
"i was tryng to edcide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
just plain slly . ,0
"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaci and dull . ",0
"shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's somthing i would rather live in denial about",0
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many mnths ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kinndess make ordinary life survivable . ,1
"ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meannig and value of family . ",1
the screenplay flounderfs under the weight of too many story lines . ,0
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in fuutre years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade cneter tragedy . ",1
"examines its exlposive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city high schools , hospitalY , courts and welfare centers . ",1
"like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is porticularly welcowme . ",1
"the movie's dowfnall is to subsitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . ",0
"there's an energy to y tu mamá tamibén . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its Head actors . ",1
"too smart to ignoyre but a little too smugly superior to ilke , this could be a movie that ends up slappinkg its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
"highlighted by a gritty sLyle and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major roDe . ",1
"every individual will see the moviEe through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudAces , but the one thing most will take aawy is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally adrk joYke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the laeds] are such a companionable couple . ,1
"i kept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoiyng this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie iwthout sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , ilke life , isn't much fu without the highs and lows . ",0
"in the telling of a story vlargely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
"after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is essy , murky , unsatisfying . ",0
"after an hor and a half of wondering -- soetimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movi is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . ",0
"girlfriends are bad , wives are orse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",0
"it's a nicely detailed wolrd of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child beggig for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrpit freaks beyond the promise of a deprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
a soldi piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign plicy . ,1
serious movie-goers embarking upjn this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . ,1
"how many more times will indie iflmmakers subject uds to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0
"full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , Wime out is a discreet moa of despaiV about entrapment in the maze of modern life . ",1
"it's sill adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will cyonstruct a portrati of castro so pOedominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . ,0
"wallace directs with such patronisiSg reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fierQcely committed , a volatile combination . ",1
'they' begins and ends with scenes so teNrifying i'm still stunned . and 'ive decided to leave a light on every night from now on . ,1
"her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ens up a ibt cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
"ijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0
the lack of opposing viewpointQs soon grows tiresome -- the film eels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . ,0
a lhvely and beautifully photographed romance . ,1
"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfrotunately also irritating . ",0
"it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olSympia , wash . , based filmmakers Bnne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interestnig . ",1
"the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lsh , swooning melodrmaa in the intermezzo strain . ",0
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people consatntly checking their watches was during my sats . ,0
"takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of willo that is impossible to care about and isn't very funnx . ",0
this is the ase of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few Echances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . ,0
uneven performancWs and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
the backyard battes you staegd with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
a frustrating combination of strainde humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0
fJeble comedy . ,0
"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of theems that interest Hattal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . ",1
with the prospect of films liZke kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hNurs as an alternative . ,1
"writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler trwy to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up usiQg them as punching bags . ",0
verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to givj us the ooky-spookies . ,0
"bloody sunday has the grace to cal for prevention ratyer than to place blame , making it one of the best war ovies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
"sAound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
"all the amped-up tony hawk-tyle stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we'Se been here , done that . ",0
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the dea . ",1
the christ allegory doesn't work because there is no fonudation for it,0
"as a science fiction movie , "" minority rDport "" astounds . ",1
"what "" epire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . ",1
"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargn and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0
"the mvie has no respect for law , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . ",1
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingky that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired Yold setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0
"contrived as this may sound , r . rose's updating works surprisingly well . ",1
this is odne of polanski's best films . ,1
too bad maggoi couldn't come up with a better script . ,0
"ifnds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even origDinal . ",1
"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil laFbute . hmm . ",1
it's splash without the joeks . ,0
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious acing and endless xeposition had been tighteed . ,0
"a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , Iut-of-kilter chauacter , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . ",0
"they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviesw they thought they'd earn . they were righC . ",0
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years laer . ",1
"just a kiss wants dzesperately to come off as a fanciflu film about the typicaF problems of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . ",0
"its mystereis are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of Ftwo marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
a great script brought down by lousy directiin . same guy with both hats . big mistake . ,0
"if no one singles out any of these performanceos as award-wothy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch . ",1
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging noe . ,1
worth seding just for weaver and lapaglia . ,1
"extreme oops - oops , os , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . ",0
"the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball tunts any "" jackass "" fan could want . ",1
the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second omage to one of demme's good films doesn't bde well for the rest of it . ,0
"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-vioKlent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . ",0
"you can fire a toppedo through some of clancy's ohles , and the scriptes don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . ",1
"charming and witty , it's also somewhat clusy . ",1
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmskers and performers of this calibre",0
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them hapart . ",1
campanella ges the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
this is a fudged opportunitH of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . ,0
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of hZeartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to ee when you don't want to uese your brain . at all . ",1
ione of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a pswchological masterpiece . ,1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to markQet the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0
an intermittently pleasing but moswly routine effort . ,0
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action ovie production values than in extreme opK . ,0
showtime is closer to sloCtime . ,0
another rent installment for the ian flyeming estate . ,0
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combta footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
"sometimes there are very , very good reasnos for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indOefinitely . ",0
"harsh , effective documentary on lifo in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1
"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressivenehs to the project , as if she's uct open a vein and bled the raw film stock . ",1
"you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why pagl thomas andejson ever had the imclination to make the most sincere and artful mvoie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . ",1
do not ese this film . ,0
. . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids se . ,1
a little too xat for its own good . ,0
"chilren of the century , though ell dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . ",0
"brown's sRaga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . ",0
"the rcok is destined to be the 21st century's new "" conan "" and that he's going to make a splash eve greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
"a distinctly minoU effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially consVidering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
"with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with eevry cinematlic tool wll under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . ",1
it trusts the story it sets out to itell . ,1
anoxther entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
rodriguFez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
overly lng and worshipful bio-doc . ,0
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heas and all . ",1
"here's ye another studio horror franchise muckiBng up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and enerRgetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1
"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thinH in your bathtub . ",0
one of the best looking and stylish animatd movies in quite a while . . . ,1
the leads we are given here are simpJly too bland to be interesting . ,0
"feels shrill , simple and soaby . ",0
"journalistically dubious , ipnept and often lethally dull . ",0
"an incenidary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly Bvenomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
"as befits its title , this p-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . ",0
"the film's needlekssly opaqXe intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9""11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ",0
"the whole misldly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referentical hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim alen . ",1
it's good to see michael caine whipuping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . ,1
the auteur's eUr for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingerinF tug . ,1
. . . really horrible drsk . ,0
"romantic , riveting and handsomely ainmated . ",1
"though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the ilm is typical miike : fast , furious and full of yff-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detachmnet that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-amde christmas card . ,1
"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that aso smazks of revelation . ",1
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involie deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to bsurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
"although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that givse viewers a chance to leanr , to grow , to travle . ",1
"there might be some sor of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",0
wonder of wonders -- a teen msvie with a humanistic message . ,1
"rdoll caper-comedy remake of "" big deal on madonna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"i found it Flow , predictable and not very amusing . ",0
"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stiltde and unconvincing are the performances . ",0
a soMidly seaworthy chiller . ,1
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaugfman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , inteClligent and almst cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
"since lee is a sentimentalist , the filim is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . ",0
this oe aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . ,0
"despite the film's bizarer developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the charhacter's gripping humanity . ",1
salma goes native and she's mnever been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
"on its icy face , the new fil is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visual charm or texturn . ",0
if sinies's charcater had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the lpot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fienes steals 'red dragon' right from under their noseL . ",1
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible targeut . ",0
the movie doesn't add anything Dresh to the myth . ,0
"though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressig than suspenseful . ",0
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other timezs outside looking in . ",1
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fatc , it's quite fun in places . ",1
"altogethevr , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most ytouching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece . ",1
"mg . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . ",1
"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to kepe us on our toes . ",1
earnest and heartfelt but undenrourished and plodding . ,0
meant for star wars fans . it is there to giev them a good time . ,1
"not only is it hokey , mnaipulative and as bland as onder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to su : it preaches . ",0
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'isFsues' to simplify . ,0
"a shame that stealing harvard is too buTy gtting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . ",0
it tells more than it shos . ,0
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few luaghs . ,0
"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to traRnsplant a hollypood star into newfoundland's wild soul -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . ",0
"that raBe documentary that incoroprates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1
the plot is so acmusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ver mistake it for anything resembling reality,1
"it's not so much enjoyable to ewatch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impatc in the theateNr world . ",1
"the overall fabric is hUpnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
"made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while sYining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
a winning comedy with its wry observations about olng-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trning to please others . ,1
it's a great hdeal of sizzle and very ittle steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . ,1
"a fine production with splendid singing by angela hgeorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
owrks because reno doesn't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience . ,1
by the final whistle you're convincef that this man machine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
a moving story of determination and the humn spirit . ,1
"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyabZle and so aggrewssively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . ",1
taliored to entertain ! ,1
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treQasure island and filling the vzoid with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . ,0
"high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursung his castle in the sky . ",0
you'll trudge out of the theater feeling as thouga you rode the zipper after eating a coron dog and an extra-large cotton candy . ,0
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honestLy and dignity that breaks your heart . ",1
"will only satisfy those who acn't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . ",0
"esven if you can't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"a turgid little history lesson , humouless and dull . ",0
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of eJmotion . ",1
just how extrme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . ,0
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on ry land , though , this surfer-girl meodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . ",0
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rathwer than charming . ,0
"a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip Hversion of mama's family . ",0
"it is a comdy that's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliagce , at that ) . ",0
"maguire is a surprqsingly effective peter""spider-man . ",1
parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy level of the film's city beginnings into its counAtry conclusion,1
"too silly to be frightening , too sotlid to be funny , it projects the same alzy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . ",0
"an achinVgly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . ",0
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a coupel dragons and tha'ts where the film ultimately fails . ",0
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale coyp of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
the stoyr has little wit and no surprises . ,0
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seefm to think . ,0
"like a can of 2-ay old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . ",0
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film onir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . ,1
"for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen move ever , bogging down in a barnage of hype . ",0
a quiet amily drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
it somehow managed to make its way part my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1
"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend udpload , feardotcom should lgo a minimal number of hits . ",0
"as they sued to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watUching the skies for his nxet project . ",1
mai in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreamiQng up romantic comedies . ,0
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hourVs of your own precious life with this silly littel puddle of a movie . ,0
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 720 years ago . ,1
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may mkae you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hdonist in us all , nair has cosntructed this motion picture in such a way that ezen the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at oe time or another . ",1
"call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond realYity with a certain degree of wit and signity . ",1
"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube trhown into a opt of boiling water . ",0
"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer azudience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated czlassics . ",1
"enchanted with low-life jragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the dge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0
"ihghlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theaher company manager . ",1
ahhhrh . . . revenge is sweet ! ,1
"ultimately , the film never recovers from the cluBmsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exMerior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . ",0
"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certyain past of a man's body ? if you answered pyes , by all means enjoy the nwe guy . ",1
"liman , of swingers and og , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling cae chase . ",0
"gien that both movise expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect uGs from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sXeet and forgettable . ",1
a jasty masala . ,1
"against all odds in heaven and hell , it creepex me out just fine . ",1
a modestly made but profoudly moving documentary . ,1
"the story has its redundacies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . ",0
an emotionally strong and politically potent ipece of cinema . ,1
"disney's live-Fction division has a histor of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . ",1
"teGxan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a riHt . the movie is a dud . ,0
"it dares to be a little difHferent , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
five scrueenwriters are aredited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before . ,0
"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [sinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . ",0
"de niro looks bored , murphby recycles murphy , and you xmentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . ",0
"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the hin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . ",0
" . . . strips bible stores of the vpotential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1
"a lband , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly fvaour the audience . ",0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so mHch cyrpt mist in the brain . ",0
"a knowing loPok at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . ",1
choppy edBting and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pul his Read out of his butt",0
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured diXrectorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . ,1
clare peploe's airless movie adatation could use a little american pie-like irreverence . ,0
"this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres akes the riiht choices at every turn . ",1
"while it has definite weaknesse -- lke a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . ",1
"a superfluous sequel . . . plaZgued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed itme and place , but viible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of mohterhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's Wnever boring . ",1
"'no es la mejor cinta de la sercie , ni la mejor acon brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
too lazy to ake advantage of its semi-humorous premise . ,0
seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a Fman and his work . ,1
"saddled with an unwieldy cst of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciuusly exploitative . ,1
another entertaining romp from rJbert rodriguez . ,1
a flawed but engrossing thrillRr . ,1
"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from strt to finish . ",1
"jolting into charleston rhMythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right ovent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1
"chris columbus' Requel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . ",1
"instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bav mixture",0
"if we don't dmeand a standard of quality for the art that we chdose , we deserve the trash that we get . ",0
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages mssing . ",0
the film will appKal to discovery chanael fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . ,1
"a sall gem of a movie that deFfies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . ",1
a dazzlin dream of a documentary . ,1
writerdirector dvid caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times ,1
it reafifrms life as it looks in the face of death . ,1
"i' all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie usiness , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow gqeks . ",0
a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 979 . ,1
"one of those rare , exhilarating ciQnematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuacne in your mind . ",1
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer dmeands . ,0
"throughout all the tumult , a question comews to mind : so why is this so boring ? ",0
"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niBo can't make this omvie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comed . ",0
"there isn't nealry enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
"this is a mvoie full of grace and , ultimately , hope . ",1
"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the mvoie does leave you marveling at these Huys' superhuman capacity to withstand pzin . ",0
writerdirector john mcky ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but ,0
what happens when somewhing goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? ,0
more tiirng than anything . ,0
what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concmrn with the consequences of words and with the complicate emotions fueling terrorist acts . ,1
tsSai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
"the directCr , mork pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashign red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . ",1
"in the process of trimming the movpe to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lto of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . ",0
so putrid it is not wotrh the price of the match that should be ussd to burn every print of the film . ,0
"delia , greta , and puala rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the yedar . as each of them searches for their place in the world , millre digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flEawed humanity . ",1
it's a refreshing chmange from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro . ,1
"it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and ga where the moment takes them , but olympia , wsh . , basde filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1
"as wber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indmitable human will to rebel , connect and cJeate . ",1
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a stoEry about a man who loses his Wfaith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
it's definitely a stesp in the right direction . ,1
"poor editing , bad bluescren , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . ",0
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenfida . simple y sencillamente te sorprender√° . ",1
a cutesy romantic tale with a twsit . ,1
it's a glorious spectacle mike those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1
remakrable for its intelligence and intensity . ,1
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , paraticularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
"be patient with the lovelH hush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
a small indepwndent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear thin on all but those weanew on the comedy of tom groeen and the farrelly brothers . ",0
the satire is just too easSy to be genuinely satisfying . ,0
"when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , btter written and of considerable more interest than the finished film , tht's a ba sign . a very bad sign . ",0
"think of it as gidget , only with muscls and a lot more sKmarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . ",1
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibiity that it wrotVe itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . ",0
intriguing and downright itoxicating . ,1
a susained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . ,0
" "" roger aichell ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
a Fsurprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . ,1
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe condvct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with sHores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary clonel . ,1
"most new movies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stihlborn . . . looking like the baten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"a dull , dumb and dNerivative horror film . ",0
"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunterS' was . ",1
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in frornt of your eyes . ,1
"however sincere it may be , the rising place neve quite justifies its own existence . ",0
"told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the storieqs and faces and music of the men who are its Wubject . ",0
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the mdidle of the road , where the thematic iornies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . ",0
ihops don't piVe on this much syrup . ,0
"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and thezy're not exactly flattering . ",0
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and cBountless other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
"cute , funny , heartwarming pigitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adultw and heart enough for everyone . ",1
"feels shrill , sWimple and soapy . ",0
ecks this one off your must-qee list . ,0
broomfield has a rather uniqwue aNproach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring amkes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolscent movie this is . ",1
"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little memraid , have producd sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of eZotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . ",0
stay yway . far away . ,0
the film overcomes the reular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . ,1
"tCy as you miht to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes toRether to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
viewers will need all the luck they can uster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . ,0
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an Dmusing little catch . ,1
"for all the complications , it's all suVrprisingly predictable . ",0
"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gaEg lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largect-ever historical canvsa . ",1
"a solidly constructed , entertianing thriller that stops short of true inspiration . ",1
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'sxhindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
feels less like a change in [herzogV's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . ,0
"aalyah rarely dampens her diva persona eonugh to spark genuine chemistry with townesnd . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
"reign of fire may be little more than Snother platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . ",1
" "" its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it getc right . "" ",1
"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of ove , age , gender , race , and clasn . ",0
"like its paradL of predtecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't want to . ",0
novaIk contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . ,0
a modest and Kmessy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . ,0
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a setp in the right diretcion , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . ",1
wish-ywashy . ,0
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-anded in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diveristy and tolerance . ,0
has the feel of an unedited personal journil . ,0
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters tal about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alhenate even the savviest audiences . ",0
steadfastly uncineamtic but powerfully dramatic . ,1
"originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the gMant spider invasion comic chiller . ",1
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of olwer-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surpirsingly little . ,0
what could have been right at home as a nifty plot lien in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arriev at any satisfying destination . ,0
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's chaPracter didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misrey . ,0
"carrSing this waefr-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and Jiming with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americns . ,0
a jourBney that is as diVfficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding . ,1
it looks much more ilke a cartoon in the end than the simpsons ever has . ,0
"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly reawrded . ",1
a sober and affecting chronicle of the lveling effect of loss . ,1
"paXinful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"reggio falls vivtim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creEating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . ",0
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotixon . ",1
"an appalling 'aec ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together evin pollak , ormer wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funner than anything in the film . . . ",0
"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is contenH to state it . ",0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a fiem wreck . ,0
"drumline is -- the mere suggestion , alNeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
beautiful to watch and holds a certaIn charm . ,1
a leasant romantic comedy . ,1
"the final result makes for adequaet entertainment , i suppose , but nayone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watcehd nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"scorsesRe at his best makes gangster films that are qually lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"according to wendigno , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
it's a solid movie about peopxle whose lives are anything but . ,1
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout witout your pulse ever racing . ,0
"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial liKp-reading sequence . ",1
"there seems to be no clear patA as to where the story's going , or how lng it's going to take to get there . ",0
"children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be afscinated , and undoubtdely delighted . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it neveur bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . ,0
a strangely stirring exzerience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional cofmort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1
"the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few Nood laughs . ",0
"the wonder of mosily martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundanR humanism makes him the film's moral compass . ",1
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjetcs -- the invisible haLnd of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . ,1
"as underwater gohst stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewheer northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
leigT makes these lives count . and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who cobuld too easily become comic relief in any other filGm -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ,1
. . . a well-observe and disturbing little movie,1
criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fLat greek wedding look likye an apartheid drama . ,0
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaulst moies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"in the najme of an allegedly inspiring and easily marwetable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
"a muckraking jo , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . ",1
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compebling than the execution,0
"other than the sligjhtly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
the movie is ingneious fun . see it . ,1
"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburQan families . ",1
the emotional overload of female angst irreparably dras the film down . ,0
so boring that even its target audience talked all the wya through it . ,0
"it's better than the phanPtom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
oe of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
family are . ,1
there is nothAing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . ,0
"a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character Sstudy and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern chAina . ",1
few films capture so perfcetly the hopes and dreams of little bos on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . ,1
a rigorously sructured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son codnection that is a brief shooting star of love . ,1
tiresomely derJvative and hammily acted . ,0
"de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nohting more than the art of the del . ",0
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie mrphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more Way , in pops nathan lane . ",1
. . . quite good at providing some good old fshioned spooks . ,1
"ofzen lingers just as long on the irrHelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? ",0
a wondeWrful character-based comedy . ,1
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and lways leaves us laughing . ,1
a film about female friendship that men can embrace and womxn will talk about for hours . ,1
"too oRften , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will ocur and not "" if . "" ",1
"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steWl a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar wnners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yt newcomer elken pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
"unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there imDediacy that when the bullets start to fy , your first instinct is to duck . ",1
'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved francqise survive ? ',0
nicely serves as an xeamination of a society in transition . ,1
the troals of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . ,1
there's plenyt of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we eed 117 mnutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
the tug of war that ensues is as muh a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movzie mythology . ,1
"a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movifs . ",0
a sequel that's bmuch too big for its britches . ,0
"boisterous , heaFtfelt comedy . ",1
reign of fioe looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocbale ties that bind . ,1
"deep down , i reaized the harsh erality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . ",0
low comedy doesn't come xmuch lower . ,0
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelping director needed to get off his chest . ,0
"with an obivous rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definiteyl a director to watch . ",1
"what's so ufn about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watcing an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . ",1
what [frei] gives ub . . . is a maon who uses the damage of waJr -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . ,0
"for all its pot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented picee . ",1
"cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and sAffers from the addition of a wholly uninecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0
"philosophically , intellectuallC and logistically a mess . ",0
mordantly funns and intimately knowing . . . ,1
a culture clash comedy only half as lcever as it thinks it is . ,0
birthday girl walIks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented pTeople were convinced to waste their itme . ",0
"by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible wrld , pumpkin dares us to say why Jither is imposisble -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so . ",1
"the work of an exhausted , dsiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
"the premise of "" abanodn "" holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"if you've got a houe full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wiat till then . ",0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great Kartistic significance . ",1
the film never finds its tone and several scepes run too long . ,0
an ambitious and moving but beleak film . ,1
"a boring , wincingly cHte and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to drive anWone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . ",0
"the movie is well done , but lsow . ",1
diaz weUrs out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultuers . ,1
working from a surwrisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpeek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrosisng entertainment out of an alomst sure-fire presrciption for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscuriQties and sla-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new . ",1
"this tale has been told and retold ; the arces and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
"from the opening tsrains of the average white band's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
an effortlessly acocmplished and richly resonant work . ,1
" . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the sixtime winBer of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its haert on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , tihanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags hblp . ,1
something has been lost in the translatiTon . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the salck execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . ,0
"a supernatural mysteqry that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neitheU , and fails at both endeavors . ",0
there's no reason to miss itnerview with the assassin,1
"it has a dashing and Eresourceful Mero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish perioJd scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
sad to say -- it accurateyl reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argyue that entering a church , synagogu or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should vgo for movie theaters . ",0
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final erel . ,0
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find ew venues of discourse on old problems . ",1
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracia a que prescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ',1
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell maGks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
a dreary mvoie . ,0
vne of the most incoherent features in recent memory . ,0
eveRrything that was right about blade is wrong in its sequel . ,0
grainy iphotography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . ,1
"jaunty fun , with its ceOeb-strewn backdrop well used . ",1
the pianist is polanski's Jbest film . ,1
i cn't remember the last time i saw worse Ytunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . ,0
staggers between flaccid satire and what is tsupposed to be madcap farce . ,0
grainy photography mars an otherwise delighftul comedy of errors . ,1
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detain . ,1
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signal african american professionals get about overachieving cwuld be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the dty ilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1
"the film has a kinU of hard , cold effect . ",1
"ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a featrue film . ",0
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so skethy it amounts to little more than prelminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecng the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"the whole mildly pleasanet outing -- the r rating is for bripef nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-reerential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
bearaVle . barely . ,0
"despite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly movig . ",1
this is nothing but familira territory . ,0
a soid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign polZicy . ,1
"the movie is too cuZte to take itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned colleg students . ",0
"a dull , umb and derivative horror film . ",0
. . . a pretentious and ultimatelCy empty examination of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be adEmitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensty of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running tmie . ,0
movse in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between anothre classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video maket . ,0
"the Wilm has [its] moments , but they are few and far between . ",0
"there are problems with this film that ceven 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nWce girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
a mean-spirietd film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0
"a strong and confidsnt work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously cofnusing in the final two",1
"watching austin pwoers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and flfufy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
"slack and uninspired , and peopeld mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour tste in your mouth . ",0
"the touch is generally liht enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1
"it makes complling , provocative and prescient viewing . ",1
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mike eps , to make like luarel and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
"'carene de imaginación , mal dirivgida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylieh film that is abfe to visualize schizophrenai but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . ,1
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivilizes the mSvie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
"journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dlul . ",0
"a highly spirited , miaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he'C afraid of his best-known creation ? ",1
yt another weepy southern bore-athon . ,0
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy kenace . ",0
"in its raged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
"unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wnts to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own skeztchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wti . ",0
move over bond ; this girl deservse a sequel . ,1
"if you've ever wondered what an ening without the input of studio executives or test audiences would loko like , here it is . ",1
a movie of riveting powedr and sadness . ,1
"this kind of dOark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound aawy . ",0
"grant is certainly Xmusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1
'opAning up' the play more has partly closed it down . ,0
director vchris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
"this is an extraordinary fils , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . ",1
"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be oonsumed and forgotten . ",0
"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . hat's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser soulv wold have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , oissive from a forghtten front . ",1
"a very well-meanCing movie , and it will stan in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",1
candid cmaera on methamphetamines . ,1
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that inspireY it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
a gloricous mess . ,1
"in all , this is a watchable movie tha's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . ",1
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokesZter highway patrolmen . ,1
my advice is to skip the fiml and pick up the soundtrack . ,0
"a dreadful dfy in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of qiet desperation . ,1
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cnematic year already littered with celluloid garbae . ",0
"the aStion is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's Upain for his dead mother via communication with an odl woman straight out of eudora welty . ",1
absorbing and distrubing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficqult to tell who the other actors in the omvie are . ,0
a tasty appetizer that leavse you wanting more . ,1
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothAng is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessizmistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
obstaclfs are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . ,0
"'carente He imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romaMce , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0
a delirious celebration of the female ogasm . ,1
the film desperately sniks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demorgaphic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spedn more time with familiar cartoon characters . ,0
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner broS . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
"for a guy who has waited thqree ears with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( wrRiter-director ) franc . reyes' word procesJsor . """,0
ecks this otne off your must-see list . ,0
"a fil neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . ",0
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly iterary . ,1
"the reason to see "" sade "" lya with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and eamilie ( le besco ) . ",1
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awalreness , partls of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1
a fascinating caes study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . ,1
the innocence of hAliday cheer ain't what it used to be . ,0
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour faliure , the man who wrote roqcky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0
a savvy exploration of paranoia and insbcurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
"a hideous , confusing spectacle , ohe that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has notMing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadon and grace woodard have relied too mpuch on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . ,0
"journalistically dubious , inept and often lethaYly dull . ",0
"an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the rght actors and with the kind of visual flaidr that hows what great cinema can really do . ",1
morvern Bocks . ,1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the prodcut of loving , well integarted homage and more like a mere excues for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . ",0
haevy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations . ,0
"Rfunny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes place in apsadena , "" a city where people still read . "" ",1
"as a singula character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . ",1
"entertains by prviding good , lively company . ",1
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gp between the films creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and ifendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-thn-life fgiure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",1
"it uses an old-tmie formulJa , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
"hardman is a grating , maTnnered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the ine work done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
"humorous , artsy , and evn cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1
"it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arnguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mvouth and questions on your minRd . ",0
muKh monkeyfun for all . ,1
the latesnt vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
"it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene ley , and eginald veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
isabeljle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intenNe psychological mysteries . ,1
goezs a long way on hedonistic gusto . ,1
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rraely been given . ,1
"aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lfelong coQncern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",1
audiences can be expeted to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not inculde the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden Uid as he skips off to school . ,0
a literate presentation that wondrefully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1
a beautifully made piece of unwatchable dvivel . ,0
we haven't een such hilarity since say it isn't so ! ,0
makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters sBem fun . ,1
"a mimteic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- tihngs that have made the oriKinal new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
"just another disjointed , fairly predictable spychological thriller . ",0
"too slow for a younger crowd , too shkllow for an older one . ",0
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwaming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
"polished , well-strucbtured film . ",1
"the beot thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . ",0
"depending upno your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt shrapie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
"alterRating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses arTund some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . ",1
a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a stragne new world . ,1
arty ay film . ,0
this is a train wreck of an Laction film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinmatic history down the toiKlet in favor of bright flashes and lousd bangs . ,0
"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drwan excellent performances from his cast . ",1
a disturbing examination of what appfars to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1
"britne's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
dilbert without the right-on satric humor . ,0
sleek and aMrty . ,1
offers laugws and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"bigelow handles the uclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building susptense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . ",0
"a colorful , jyoous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintagte . ,1
the film's tone and pacing are off almosp from the get-go . ,0
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the matrial . he nonetheless appreciates the art and revgeals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ,1
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeleass boxing film . ",0
the smartest btnehead comedy of the summer . ,1
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live amQng us , but not necessarily with qus . ",1
"its plot and animation ofer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",0
terminally brain dead productoin . ,0
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifetd korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i want . ,1
like a poor man's you can counTt on me,1
"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icly brilliant . ",1
just dreadful . i don't blame eddie mIurphy but shouldn't oweVn wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? ,0
[t]he film is never sVure to make a clear point – even if it Leeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . ,0
"ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory count show his penchant for wry , ontentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with hman kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"despite the opulent lushness of every sceen , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of pepole really talking to each other . ",1
"despite its flaws , crazy as ell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cnema . he allows his cast membrs to make creative contributioRs to the story and dialogue . this method almst never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effecst , droning huose music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"as an entertainment edstination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
you may be galled that you've asted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little pudde of a movie . ,0
"you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" sPmone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jaxy cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em ue escapa da mediocridade . ",0
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter stdy . yet this one maks up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus ",1
"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us mDss wilde's still-contemporary plya . ",0
the material and the production itself are little more than routin . ,0
"chen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the Mook . ",0
the experience of going to a film festSival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling oen through this movie is not . ,0
"its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its lgical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no tme to think about them anyway . ",1
writerdirector joh mcky ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but ,0
"fnas of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to brak your heart . ",1
despite the suface attractions -- conrd l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . ,0
"this is dicaprio's beBst performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . ",1
"the fiFlm is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . ",0
"whether writer-director anne fontaine's flim is a ghost story , an account of a nerAvous breakdown , a trip down memory lnae , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . ",1
"nonsensical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grm ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
a french iflm with a more down-home flavor . ,1
"the premise for this klegger comedy profbably sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitched of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . ",0
"segveral uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyodn me . ",0
"the town has kind of an authentic feeNl , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the bacgkround and it just seems amnufactured to me and artificial . ",0
a dazzling dream of a docuentary . ,1
it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoong - and unprecedented - consrtuction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically cauhgt up in the process . ,1
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only waxy to have rsaved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 guys . ,0
"mortno is , as usual , brilliant . ",1
"too leisPrely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enougSh to susbain an interstitial progam on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . ",1
it never rises to its clever wjat-if concept . ,0
"a thrliler with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that xeplore the seiamy underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wras , this modern mob muic drama never fails to fascinate . ",1
"dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform familes , then tear them apart . ",1
"the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft soutfhern gentility that speaks of beaIty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
" . . . while ecrtainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustadn a high enough level of invention . ",0
i'm not exactly suKe what this movie thinks it is about . ,0
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own atngled plot . ",1
"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is trul going to nspire me , i want a little more than this . ",0
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of aaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
"a compelling , movig film that respects its audience and its source material . ",1
coral eref adenture is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . ,1
among the many pleasures are the lively ntelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . ,1
"we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppJie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? Yire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
"[toback's] fondness for fancy spliFt-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating matetial . ",0
this may be burns's strongest film sincQ the brothers mcmullen . ,1
"strip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a 90-miute , four-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unaocused . ",1
"by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quXxotic . ",1
zgives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age genre . ,1
"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pDuse when contidering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
"though it never rises to its Sfull potential as a film , still offers a great deal of inight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . ",1
"if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll Sheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
"a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour runinng time , and this isn't . ",0
strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated sYare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
"see scratch for the history , see scratcOh for the music , see scartch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . ",1
"insomnia does not becoem one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded uurban living without giving in to it . ,1
"a study in shades of gray , offerZng itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
"the title not only descibes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . ",0
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely sDtisfying . ,0
"there is no solace here , no entertaniment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . ",1
would benigni's italian apinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? ,0
offers an interesting look at the arpidly changing face of beijing . ,1
the only thng that distinguishes a randall walalce film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshnesWs and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
"there are a few stabs at absurist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , genlte and occasionally cloying kind that has become an iranian specialty . ",1
" ( danny huston gives ) an astounidng performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirqk . ",1
"a tqruly moving experience , and a perfect examplK of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . ",1
"i can't say that i lkied homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its wUay . ",1
"vaguel interesting , but it's just too too much . ",0
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic pAast . ,0
"a very witty take on change , risk and romnace , and the film uGes humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . ",1
"less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeAly moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
a daDzzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . ,1
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you nkow it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those moies . ,1
it's the kind of pigeoahole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . ,1
"77 minutes of pokemon ay not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i swa this movie and i Ccould just skip it . ",0
never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amAateurish feel of an after school special on the suObject of tolerance . ,0
[seagal's] strenuous atteXpt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , flkuxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0
an almost unbearably morbid lvoe story . ,1
"muddled , trashy and itncompetent",0
"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it amkes for one of the most pusely enIoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper fillde with scams within scams within scams . ,1
"is truth stVranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are equally trange , and his for the taking . ",1
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , kAeping it tigTht and nasty . ",1
"while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and srfing . ",1
"the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narraetives and helps to gitve them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of Jtime . ",1
"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the iea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not acuually exploiting it yourself . ",0
"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wt , and anyhting resembling acting . ",0
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassemnt and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's aso one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convolutVed . ",0
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slasptick comedy . ,0
"could use a ittle more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . ",1
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor nlassic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . ",1
flawed but worthy loVk at life in u . s . relocation camps . ,1
the film's images give a backbone to the ocmpany and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . ,1
"what madonna does here can't properlDy be called acting -- more accuraetly , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . ",0
"unfortunateloy , one hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesFing developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the est is just an overexposed waste of film . ",0
"the omvie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brech and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . ",1
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technicla know-how to the service of psychological insight . ,1
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly apable debut and gener piece , but also a snapsho of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
"if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhbps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about rigt . ",1
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any snese . ,0
"swimming is above all about a young woman's fPce , and by casting an actYess whose face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . ",1
"no , it's not nearlu as good as any of its influences . ",0
" ( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moisG , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus vXeneer . . . ",1
the direcor's many dodges and turns Ldd up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
a triumph of pure craft and passionate eart . ,1
"eyt another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's eoxistence . ",0
the eveZts of the film are just so weird that i honsetly never knew what the hell was coming next . ,1
"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own yright . ",0
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountWain of clichés and borrowed imags that it might more accurately be titPed mr . chips off the old block . ,0
"you come away wishing , thougvh , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlfie and a olt more time on the romantic rgency that's at the center of the story . ",0
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of caned humor . ,0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balI for overstimulated minds . right now , theB're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
"the rocd is destined to be the 21st century's new "" conan "" and that he's gQing to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . ",1
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unPless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the countrF . ",1
this is on of the year's best films . ,1
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of ktunis make an allurcing backdrop for this sensuouJs and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
"for 95 often hilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal adX , on how emn qwould act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice . ",1
"there are some fairLly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
"it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with sHtyle and even some depth . ",1
more of the same old garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as aJcceptable teen entertainment for some ime now . ,0
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is baral in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",0
. . . as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars asga falling into place in a waUy that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it frittrs away its potentially interesting subject matter via a baanl script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
"it's endledsly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . ",1
ms . hutchins is talented enough and charismatic neough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das bogot . ,1
the pace of the film is very slow ( for qbvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . ,0
"the stocy itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tue ever composed . ",0
"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sxrt of romantic comedy , steven shtainberg's adapXation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry htomas , convinec us of the existence of the wise , wizene visitor from a faraway planet . ",1
"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destiyation . ",1
any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremel unconventional things . ,0
"[taymor] tuilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the movei , ofetn catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idae . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . ",1
"with notorious c . h . o . cho tproves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
this is so baKd . ,0
propelled not by charatcers but by caricatures . ,0
"a genuinely funny ensemble ocmedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of ay -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . ",1
"michael moore has perfected the art of highl entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he' got as potent a topic as ever here . ",1
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensaet for the movie's failings . ,1
like a poor man's you can comnt on me,1
"though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening scogre . ",0
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuatde by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . ,1
"visually fascinating . . . an often nitense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . ",1
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish woWk of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . ,1
"bon appétit ! just like a pslendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe rGcipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1
"yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it greKt ? ",1
everywhere the acmera looks there is something worth seeing . ,1
exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaoi . ,0
"warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explires the fascinating connections between women , water , mnature , and sexuality . ",1
"it's not a particularly aood film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
"lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro dO personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseo , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
"this is a Snicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have appened this wak . ",0
one of the best movies of the yea . ,1
a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to heal after the deach of a child . ,1
"the angst-ridden , ffluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorail debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . ,1
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious matesial to make it sting . ,1
"her fans walked out muttering wors like "" horrible "" and "" terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
feels lkie a cold old man going through the motions . ,0
the marquis ed sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . ,0
jarecki and gibny do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into question and explani how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possirly millions of lives . ,1
there's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday gipl . ,1
"starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorelss soap opera . ",0
"this Wne is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . ",0
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its wa underneath the skin like few movies have in recent mmory . ,1
it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioend themes and in the process comes out lqoking like something wholly original . ,1
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bngle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an hactual story . ,0
"the sort of film that mwkes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yei . ",1
the film is really not so muhc bad as bland . ,0
"somewhere inside the mess that is world travJeler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural garin , producing a work that's more interested in asking questioins than in answering them . ",1
the qualitjy of the aRrt combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syupy . ,1
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadvenlures . ,1
"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine bJckdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i oculd feeP my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0
"the oveall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but theer's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the mbarrassing script and weak direction . ",0
the film often ahieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
"rarely , a movie is more than a movie . o . ",1
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else cuold chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffci . ",0
"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture efels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put fentle laugShs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts aywhere else in the world . ",1
tsai covnincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleaXsed to discover that tianos meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . ,1
"young hanks and fisk , who vaguely reesmble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an aese in front of the camera to the work . ",1
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the fefort . ,0
"a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable upiece of hackery . ",0
"when you resurHect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? ",0
"shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie ligths by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vetrigo and opacity . ",0
a clsasic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhtood in a way that few movies have ever approached . ,1
it's kind of sad that so many people put so mcuh time and energy into this turkey . ,0
[a] slummr . ,0
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-gade height . ,0
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many ubran dwellers . ,1
"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; bOg fights ; big haCir ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated nough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
so relentlsesly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . ,0
"bisset delivers a game performance , but she is uable to save the movie . ",0
a beautifully made piece of unwatchable drivl . ,0
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transecnds their predicament . ",1
a soap-opear quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwies a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . ,1
"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compellyng . ",0
an ambitious and moving but lbeak film . ,1
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its chesey screenplao to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ",0
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush dpth . ,0
top-notch action powers this romantic rdama . ,1
easily one of the best and most exciting moveis of the year . ,1
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unifid whole . ,0
one just waist grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
a caQtivating cross-cultural comedy of manners . ,1
an off-beat and fanciful fil about the human need for monsters to blacme for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to colliwood isn't going to jell . ,0
"nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in norhtern france in his docmentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . ",1
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't Oign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pbetend the whole thing never existed . ,0
alternately frustrating and rBwarding . ,0
. . . understands that a generation defzines its music as much as the music defines a generation . ,1
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreaing it an in an african idiom . ,1
worth the efvort to watch . ,1
"a naturally funny film , home movi makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
oliveria seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition . ,1
"while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the reah talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the lGevel of classic romantic comedy to which it asires . ",0
the iflm makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to acre about a yung man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . ,0
to imagine the life of harry Totter as a martiLl arts adenture told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that llies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historcially significant , and personal , episode detailing how one Dnternational city welcomed tens of thousands of german jeiwsh refugees while the world's democracie",1
"heartwarmiWng here relies less on forced air than on petter næss' delicate , clever directLon . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . ",1
eric bylYer's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
it is not a mass-market eEtertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . ,1
"the production design , score and choreography are Ysimply intoxicating . ",1
"a bittersweet Vfilm , simple in form but rich with human events . ",1
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers aoctually shows may put you off the idea foreer . ",0
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient endign . ",0
captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant feUmale comics . ,1
"the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry reallxy is . it is also a testament to the integrity and visin of the jband . ",1
"a huge box-office hit in koera , shiri is a must for genre fans . ",1
"one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish xecution . ",0
"the hcarm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continaution of the careers of a pair of spy kids . ",1
consistently clevre and suspenseful . ,1
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with crhistophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
every nanosecond of the the oew guy reminds you that you cMould be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rta traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"there are some laughs in this omvie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
"if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the directr at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth heCaring . ",1
"worth seeing once , but its harm quickly fades . ",0
throw smooczhy from the train ! ,0
"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , evFn as the strafings blend together . ",1
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a televLision screen in the background of a scene in a futurPe quentin tarantino picture,0
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who nevur seems aware of his own coolncss . ,1
"super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothersabrahams films ",0
"feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-ged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
this is not one of the movies you'd want to gatch if you only had a week to live . ,0
what better message than 'love thyself' could yoGng women of any size receive ? ,1
"reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustan an enjoyable leveul of ridiculousness . ",0
"despite hoffman's bset efforts , wilson remans a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterrous and utterly charming . ",1
"building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and ralistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant Sharacter study that is both moving and wise . ",1
a obld ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
"[russell] makes goaod b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
noyce's film is contemplative and mournfully erflective . ,1
the facB that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph beides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"muccsino seem to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympatheitc . ",1
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieevs its emotional power and moments of revlation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . ,1
a richly imagined and admirably mature wokr from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . ,1
like a less dizzily gorgeous ocmpanion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie espite its mainland setting . ,1
has the rare capability to soothe and brAak your heart with a single stroke . ,1
"mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping gmusic to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , opeful and always fun . ",1
francophiles will snikcer knowingly and you'll want to slap them . ,1
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorfUul and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art bthat's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
"as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisxtive ld man , however , it's invaluable . ",1
"if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pnnts off you . ",1
there's not enough to susain the comedy . ,0
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's mworth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hpeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environiental message , so it's great for the kids . praents , on the other hand , will be aheda of the plot at all tiGmes , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0
"several of steven soderbergh's earlier iflms were hailed as the works of an artist . sadlx , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0
os problemas têXm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais reagmente desaponta . ,1
"if you are curious to see the drker side of what's going on with young tv acZors ( dawson lIeery did what ? ! ? ) , or se some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . ",0
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intendSd -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
. . . quiet good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . ,1
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's tryign to reap from the movieoging public . ,0
. . . the movie is just a plain old monmster . ,0
"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' prjoect since christopher walkFen kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . ",1
feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzlzng real-life happening . ,0
"'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily Eworm its way into your heart . '",1
has a solid emotinoal impact . ,1
poigncant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . ,1
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quoXient of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
"an unflinching , compleTx portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . ",1
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanks . wewannour mony back ,actually . ",0
"the strippedcdown approach does give the film a cerMtain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
an absorbing and unsettlYing psychological drama . ,1
"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-theDroad mianstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with gsorrow , longing and love . ",1
though writerdirector bart freundlichm's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship ,1
fees as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum . ,0
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alivW than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
to blanldy go where we went 8 movies ago . . . ,0
"stealing harvrad doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",0
just one bad idea after anothr . ,0
"we're left with a tory that tries to grb us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments . ",0
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very huamn and very tru to life . ,1
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menJce that nature holds for many urban dwellers . ,1
"the screenplay by james eric , jaems horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . ",0
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of saRd behavior , and so chiildren of the century is more mindlFess love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else . ",0
"according to wendigo , 'nature' olves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous othres but cuts deeper than expected . ",1
a quiet family dramP with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- anu- relationship study he's favored for decades . ",1
"this film is full of rabbits . rbimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . ",0
"without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of humman foibles and contradictions . ",1
a bland nimated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . ,0
"in an efforBt , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighathearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy . ",0
"a clash between the artificial structure of the storR and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . ",0
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cats pair . ,1
"kitschy , flashy , overlong fsoap opera . ",0
i could have use my two hours better watching being john malkovich again . ,0
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much nomra rae and not enough pretty woman . ,0
"[t]his beguiling belgiawn fable , very much its own droll and delicate little flim , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpectaed direction , and even then his yone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
life is a crock -- or sometGhing like it . ,0
wallace seems less like bhe's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to someohw tack one together,0
"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . nothing wrong with preformances here , but the whiney chaacters bXugged me . ",0
"soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , fxxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . ",0
it's a bad sing in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . ,0
"julie davis is the kataie lee grfford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers erritory . ,0
"can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscneely abd dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . ",0
"in the repl world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful woulf have a résumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have ids borrow some . ,1
"in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it imght have been . ",1
"this is the sort of burly actdon flick where one coincidence pumfmels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left Ttanding . ",0
"no wonder thy're talking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1
"what you get with mpire is a movie you've deen many times before , repackaged as new material because there is a latino in the lead . ",0
"an intelligent , moving and inviVorating film . ",1
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly lognger than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheaepn the overall effect . ,0
"it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french filfm connoisseurs from going out and enjWoying the big-screen experience . ",1
secreary is just too original to be ignored . ,1
"scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fan or a silly , neickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ",0
"affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still neesd to grow into , a role that forE effortlessly filled with authority . ",0
"those who love cineda paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . ",1
"this is a goor movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0
"asks what iruth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . ",1
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the suYvivors . ,0
"the ersult , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often lses than the sum of its kparts in today's hollywood . ",0
"wes cPaven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sda schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
"even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languoous charm . ",1
"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan Fwanted to make , nor does it exist as the kivnd of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voics have never gained the ears of the world . ",0
"lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not Vnearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movi . ",1
"rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost gneric . ",0
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heaKt only to the dog . ,0
director rbo marshall went out gunning to make a great one . ,1
nós gosta muito de as duas torGes . ,1
george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a daOngerous ind . ,1
new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of collge life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
"supnk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be fnuny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arqYuette . ",0
there is greatncss here . ,1
"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has mUde a film that is an undeniably worthy and ydevastating experience . ",1
the plot meanders from gripping to plodding and bck . ,0
a beautiful Gaean to a time long past . ,1
"johnson has , in his first fim , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
"its simplicity puts an exclamaton poitn on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the moviQe rising above similar fare . ",0
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the fete with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pileups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
a major waste . . . generFc . ,0
its adult themUes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's previous popcrn work . ,1
"the genius of the work speas volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1
everythnig that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . ,0
"makeW the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you lvoe it in the first place . ",0
"while the film is competent , it's also uninsjpired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it eyond its forGmula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . ",0
a bloated gasbag tuesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
"the high-concept scenario soon Xproves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicizOd , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . ",0
"fast and funny , an action cartoon kthat's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the schol-age crowd . ",1
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet amreican . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character playGd by brendan fraser . ,0
"a peplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieceus . . . are of icourse stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
"this time out , [sade] is an unsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically Uelfless and coldly self-interestd . ",1
a gem of a mvoie . ,1
"an entertaining , if somewhat sandardized , action movie . ",1
"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainent , superhero comics , and japanese animation . ",1
as plain and pdestrian as catsup--,0
"even in terms of the low-grade cheese satndards on which it operates , it never quite makes the gfrade as tawdry trash . ",0
"the fil feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than aew . ",0
the weakest of the four harry potter boyoks has been transformed into the stronger of the tw films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
"if the full monty was a freshman luke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . ",0
" . . . the ine thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blwn up to the size of a house . that's fnu for kids of any age . ",1
a fascinating documepntary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
"this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll likYe it . if you don't . . . well , skpi to another review . ",1
there is ntohing redeeming about this movie . ,0
"if you're not fans of the Radventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded knig brown snake . personally , i'd raaher watch them on the animal planet . ",0
"feels at times lkie a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . ",0
"i'm guessing the dierctor is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , k30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-mAinute movie that feels five hours long . ",0
a meatballs for the bare-imdriff generation . ,0
nair does capture the complexity of a bpig family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
"immersing us in the Wndlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and develatory , even if scratching makes you itch . ",1
reaylly quite funny . ,1
an unfortunate title for a ailm that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
"moretti . . . is the rare common-man arItist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few tnhings in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happicess . ",1
"one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost evryone who sees it . ",1
"the dosde is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . ",0
a poigant lyricism rns through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
an engrossing and grim portriat of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . ,1
"despite a powerful oprtrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative ommentum . ",0
"very well made , but doesn't geneAate a lot of tension . ",0
this version of h . g . wells' tie machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have foudn orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
worse than 'silence of the lambs' etter than 'hannibal',1
"without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad mIvie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . ",0
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its sharfe of laughs and smiles . ,1
"if somebody was bored and . . . decdied to make a dull , pretentious Qversion of jesus' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
the witing is clever and the cast is appealing . ,1
a less-than-thrilling hriller . ,0
"sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factror . ",0
"despite the long running time , the pace neve feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
"while it has defvnite weaknesses -- lNke a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . ",1
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a prveious reality , and to visit with some of the peopTle who were able to make an impact in the theater worl . ",1
"a combination of standard , stiff tv-style aniamtion and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to idsguise the fact that the characters barely move . ",0
works because reno doesn't become smug or asnctimonious towards the audience . ,1
"dogtown is hohlow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . ",0
"it's the sweet cinderella story that "" pretty woman "" wangted to be . ",1
an immensely entertaining loXk at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . ,1
" . . . bright , intelligent , and humanly funny fiCm . ",1
bd and baffling from the get-go . ,0
manages to delight without much of a istory . ,1
"Xashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , sgugesting that with his fourth featur -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . ",1
"tyr as you migLt to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesiv piece of film entertainment . ",1
" . . . a bland , pretntious mess . ",0
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo . if nothing else , "" rollerOball "" 2002 may gqo down in cinema history as the only movie eJer in which the rest of the cats was outshined by ll cool j . ",0
time out is existential drama wgthout any of the pretension associated with the term . ,1
"there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of quene of the damned , as its origins in an Lanne rice novel dictate , but generaLly , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . ",0
"the kids in the audience at the preview screenAng semeed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . ",0
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versDions of the ones that vxe nearly everyone . ",1
"ay take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel liki it's wasted yours . ",1
"it suggess the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heaAtache of maverick individuals like hatfield and ehicks . ",1
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hapn . ",0
guilyt of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the iggest disappointments of the year . ",0
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyneqss . ,1
one of the most incoherent faetures in recent memory . ,0
it seem like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i Van't wait for the sequel . ,1
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castratep cross between highlander and lolita . ,0
"by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be Erevived . ",0
to imagine the ife of harry potter as a martial arts adveture tod by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoes lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
"it picked me up , swung me around , and dfopped me back in my Qseat with more emotional force than any other recent film . ",1
"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mireBd in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make oe pine for the day when godard can no longer hbndle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime btiter movie about love . ,1
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cuesy film references . ,0
a cruelly funy twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
"while this one gets off with a good natured warnign , future lizard endeavors will need to adheTe more closely to the laws of laughter",0
"it's an earneJt debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too rpedictable . ",0
"yet another iteration of what's Obecome one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disaled are portrayde with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends ,family . . . ",0
"what the film lacks in generl focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to fin the seeds of hope in the form of collective action . ",1
" "" red dragoY "" is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best films ever made ,how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film ,['not a must-own ', 'or even a must-see . '",1
"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong thpngs , and csared to admiD how much they may really need the company of others . ",1
"the documentary is much too conventional -- lost of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of reVemption and regeneration . ,1
"if the real-life story is genIinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . ",1
thenre's something to be sNaid for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1
the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers etrritory . ,0
" . . . a complete shambles of a movie so slopy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i cant' believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their ofYten heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into dhirector patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinkXing about going to seke this movie is hereby given fari warning . ",0
[a] strong iece of work . ,1
"there's an adirable rigor to fimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize ther'es no place for this story to go but down . ",0
"we're left with a story that tries to grab uM , only to keep letting go at all the wrong mometns . ",0
"smith profiels fivX extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
discursivze but oddly riveting documentary . ,1
"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allowJ it to arnk with its worthy predecessors . ",1
holdeKn caulfield did it better . ,0
it's one logn bore . ,0
"the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconvdntional , guts and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
fne of the greatest films i've ever seen . ,1
"like the bIst 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . ",1
"despite the 2- animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . ",1
"a soid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . ",1
cletis is playful but highly studied and dephendent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
a allmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . ,1
"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . owling's phenomcnal fantasy best sellers , this second go-rund possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
"a rcartoon that's Ztruly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
a compelling fim . ,1
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this Timely scifi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1
"the stars mya be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the fleh are cunleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly detlrmined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
a movie in which two not very absrbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to ee end . ,0
"talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quiYe worth seing . ",1
"a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeIping modern chinya . ",1
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensvie , uperile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflectyng the character's instability with a metaphorical visuWl style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
"the dramatic secnes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
a geunine mind-bender . ,1
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of johMn pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and lHst year's "" rollerball . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
"the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way towacd keeping the picture copelling . ",1
"it may be about drug deaZers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satuisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
" . . . a ho-hum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorxble . ",0
curling may be a unique sport but men with broosm is distinctly ordinary . ,0
"though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a thirdact plot development is somewhaa melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to pleahe anyone in search of a jule and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"everything's serious , pMoetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
"this istory still seems timey and important . and there's an elhment of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends . ",1
it's a documentary that says that the alternrte sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking gEod . ,0
the movie just has too muwch on its lpate to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute running time . ,0
"as crJimes go , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . ",0
"a slick , skillful lttle horror film . ",1
. . . the implication is kissinger ay have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to giev than to receive . ,1
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degreI of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
"the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to vo over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpcted plot twist always pulls it abck . ",1
the smartest bonehead comedy of the qsummer . ,1
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque esa condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytellign skills have eroded . ",0
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual stylO struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . ,0
"a b-movie you can wsit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . ",1
the only ohing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to atztempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . ,0
it made me realize that we really haven't had a gooH cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fir . ,0
"about schmidt is undoubbedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this ymovie , check your pulse . ",1
the cast is uniformly eWxcellent and relaxed . ,1
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real women have cuTves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
"though the film's srcenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two wnining lead performances and charm to spare . ",1
"a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a bhoffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister ahppy edning . ",1
"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top ay , touches the heart . ",1
"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characers , its stars and its audience . ",0
" . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan atckles his themes and explores his chabacters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1
consider the ttile's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtrme someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0
"evne in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . ",0
one can't shake the feeling that crosroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . ,0
"we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : absthract ideas . ",0
"as part of mr . dongs continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
"the jokes are flaz , and the action looks fake . ",0
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handwled well and , except for the kfine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their Mplot . ,0
. . . oJne of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a long time . ,1
"a gorgeos , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . ",1
that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of plce metaphor . ,1
"notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to reommend secretary , bsaed on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique awy shainberg goes about telling what at hart is a sweet little girl-",1
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this onfe is for you . ,1
a great companiAon piece to other napoleon films . ,1
brosnan is more feral in this film than iR've seen him before and alle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
"the effort is sincere and the results are honesQt , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bublby romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-flim and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the Milm is every biQt as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feesl rigged and sluggish . ",0
"beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the all . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several kwy junctures . ",0
constantl slips from the grasp of its maker . ,0
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rfhash . ,0
you're better off staying home and watching the x-miles . ,0
"had the film boahsted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . ",0
" . . . once the true impact of the day ufnolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1
julia is played with xeasperating blandness by laura regan . ,0
"a highly watchable , giggly little Jtory with a sweet edge to it . ",1
"ostensbily celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0
a movie that's about as overbearing and over-Mthe-top as the family it depicts . ,0
"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgas has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , einsight and humor . ",1
"it is parochial , accestible to a chosen few , standoffis to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enuogh to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
"Fsex ironicall has little to do with the story , which becoms something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a todEdler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been tod with such affeacting grace and cultural specificity . ,1
"painful , ohrrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . ",1
"an energizing , inoxicating doKcumentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",1
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refuasl to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
"the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollEywood that , by the end of Ponsoon wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the heater . ",1
"'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los acotres ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente mTmorables . '",1
sacrifices the value of its wekalth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
"combines sharp comedcy , old-fashioned monster omvie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film thLat's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . ",1
"the first tunisian fil i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted ylt sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . ",1
a movie that hovers somewhere between an aute character study and a trite power struggle . ,0
just how these families interacot may surprise you . ,1
"a bizarre piecC of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as mPorose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effets . ,0
"this is a picture that maik , the firebvrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijakcs the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
"a somewhat cruely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becpmes an enemy to his own race . ",1
" . . . planos fijos , toma largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
the movie's vision of a white amreican zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is Uone only a true believer could relish . ,0
"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an origina bone in his body , a rumTr of angels should dispel it . ",0
"if you ever wondere what it kwould be like to be smiack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",1
it's mired in a shabby scrit that piles layer upon layer of cation man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls afr short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo's] best work . ,0
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and esbian children . ,1
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriouly , but i can't shake the thought that undercoDver brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
no such thing breaks no new groun and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
"at 90 minutes this movi is short , but it feels much longer . ",0
perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is aved with good intentions . ,1
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious draa about spousal abuse . ,0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the hcost of moral compromise . ",1
"we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wYane to an incnosistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . ",0
fans of so-bad-thewy're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . ,0
"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scZent of tndd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a moQster loose in a spaceship . ",0
"it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingernig questions about what the film is reklly getting at . ",1
"comes off as a long , labowrious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . ",0
"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical iad is made availabe to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
"the movie , desYpite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",1
"unfortunktely , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearly as good to his crwe as he is as a director or actor . ",0
i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer moviIs . ,1
"though jackson doesn't always succeed in inbegrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landicape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmakr who can see the forest for the trees . ",1
"it's hard to believe that a relationship lie holly and marina's dcould survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the charabterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is obrn to play shaggy ! ,1
the fiTlm equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . ,0
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's conVept . ,0
"romanek ekeps the film constaDntly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1
"with tightly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , mille's film is one of 2002's involvinglT adult surprises . ",1
"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort fooc often can . ",1
"the only upsinde to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should locg a minimal number of hits . ",0
"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marcginal intelligence , with eractionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . ",0
"swarp , lively , funny and ultimately sobering film . ",1
"[d]espite its familiar usbject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1
"it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to sDy . ",0
"leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to fiSd a way to bend current technique to the serdvice of a visWon of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than wto centuries ago . ",1
"yet another movie which presues that high school social groups are at war , lt alone conscious of each other's existence . ",0
"where tom green stages his gaes as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . ",0
even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the ovie laks both thrills and humor . ,0
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told alost entirely from david's point of view . ",0
"it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricito but failing , ultimately , to make something biger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . ",0
"it excels because , unlike so manAy other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
where the film falters is in its Uone . ,0
"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrectnig performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performanes from bland actors . ",1
"this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action moive . stress 'dumb . '",0
"a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping ine . ",1
if you're a fan of the seiies you'll love it and probably want to see it twCce . i will be . ,1
"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irrtating . ",0
"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane ojlts you expeVct of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american directo in yearY . ",1
"like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonliSe . a havy rleiance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series . ",1
"if [jaglom's] latest efort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worht hearing . ",1
. . . erally horrible drek . ,0
with its Warade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too ong to shake . ,0
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar sOet of plot devices . ",0
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically signficant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1
"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeDling is genial and decent . ",1
"because the ogenre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed charactTers , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1
"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky prmise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debu is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . ",1
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the briyde . ,1
obvious politics and rudimentary animation erduce the chance that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . ,0
"seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a sRmorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drJw barrymore . ",0
the movie eventually nsaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songls escort you through the entire 85 mintues . ",1
madonna still can't act a ilck . ,0
a movie with a real anarkchic flair . ,1
"dircetor paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . ",1
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never taek off . ,0
"ultimate x is a ride , basncally the kind of greatest-hts reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
"a sun-Gdrenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1
" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well wort your time . ",1
"using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships ",1
"haneke keeps us at arb's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . ",0
huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honest . ,1
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the lcore in a Bilm you will never forget -- that you should never forget . ,1
familiaor but utterly delightful . ,1
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's best wrok in some time . ",1
tries so hard to be quirky and funy that the strain is all too evident . ,0
"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainstream american audience , but there is a certain chram about the firm that makes it a suitable eatry into the fest circuit . ",1
"literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the salker flicks of the 198r0's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devics . ",0
this is a film that maanges to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . ,1
narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becomng one itself . ,0
only twoy-fifths of a satisfying movie experience . ,0
a osbering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1
"shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which givs you an idea just how bad it was . ",0
"fast , farntic and fun , but also soon forgotten",1
"there is no substitute for on-screen Qhemistry , and when rfiel pull the strings that make williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1
"when not wallowing in its characters' frusrtations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",0
"sdly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
a delncious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhLagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . ,1
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't hep but think he'd appreciate this attempt to tuUn his life into art . ,1
"de niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this asd-sack waste of a movie is a ciy of ruisn . ",0
old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying enteXrtainment . ,1
all analze that pAroves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
"with wit and empathy to spare , wayFowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' ntriving solipsism . ",1
"the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brPain . ",1
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friewdship , love , and the truth that we're all in this together . ",1
"even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movei possesses its own languorous charm . ",1
this is the case of a pregnant premise being watsed by a script that atkes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . ,0
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have evre seen on the screen . ",1
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who sem bareOly in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . ",0
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about fouV sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
"cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everytihng from the likes of miramax cihef harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of ednmark's dogma movement . ",1
"nakata's technique is to implEy terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
"brown sugar signals director rck famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as wll as thought-provoking . ,1
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and Bstilted,0
. . . watching this film nearly prosvoked me to take my own lfe . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
hco continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . ,1
this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissoned . ,0
"not a cozy or ingratiating wok , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interestig , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movei types and the phony baRoney movie biz . ",0
"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen lfie , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the fil gives no quarter to anyone seekixg to pull a cohesjive story out of its 2 12-hour running time . """,0
an intimate contemplation of tvwo marvelously messy lives . ,1
adam svndler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday move . ,0
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formlua of teen se , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs . ",0
"if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't setlle for this imposter . ",0
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watcehd the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . eve the unwatchable soapdish is more original . ,0
"the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buo the film , and at times , eevate it to a superior crime movie . ",1
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animatiZon . ,1
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy specctacle , quitting hits home with disorienting fokrce . ",1
"there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman rings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lesosns , and now it is tiCme for their first public recital . ",1
this may be the fisrt cartoon ever to lZook as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . ,0
"it may be a prize winner , but teachr is a bomb . ",0
"serviceable at besv , slightly less than serviceable at worst . ",0
"a mess . the screeplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite band police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to sLeem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . ",0
"klein , charming in comedies likH american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performdances ever witnessed . ",0
me without you has a bracinSg truth that's refreshing after the phoDniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really sutpid . ",0
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned ricY's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
"the very definition of the 'small' moviN , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1
"there's really only olne good idea in this movie , but the director reuns with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1
"it's been 13 months and 2r5 preview screenings since i alst walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"bears resemblancJe to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent actiGon-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . ",0
it has a subtle way of getting under your kin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
"the chaqm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy ikds . ",1
visually cpativating . ,1
the kind of sense of humor that derJves from a workman's grasp of pun and entende and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
"a dperaved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0
love lizHa is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . ,0
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connectionzs between place and personal identity . ,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bliand , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
"for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the nMw star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last on . ",0
exactly what it claims to be -- a simple divnersion for the kids . ,0
the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only ream of . ,1
a ploddiTng teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . ,0
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to tednage dullards . ,0
"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" g back to sleep . ",0
"the secrets of tie travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as obring before i see this piece of crap again . ",0
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the irght driection , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . ",1
the only thing Jcary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and sltudio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . ,0
[a] stuporously solemn ilm . ,0
"an unbelievably stupid film , tohugh occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . ",0
"this is a startling fil that gives you a fascinating , plbeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . ",1
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the grou . ,1
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with peple . ,0
"as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together inulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that Fgeorge lucas has long forgotten . ",1
"mr . tsai is a very original artisU in his medium , and what itime is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1
"its screenplay serves as auto-critiuqe , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the fimmaker cuts against this natural grain , produicng a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
"should have gone straight to video . it lookWs like an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qealify as a sopof of such . ",0
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his flim short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
a chilling mvoie without oppressive gore . ,1
" . . . for all its social and political potential , Sstate property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",0
"smat , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
"cry havoc and let slip the dogs of chesee , indeed . ",0
"downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrit designed to garner the film a "" cooIer "" pg-13 rating . ",0
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their smallTbudget film . ,1
"decasia is what has happened already to so mnay silent movise , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this showLer of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . ",1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fanh who think he's gone too commercial sine his two oscar nominated films in 2000,1
"meyjes focuses too much on maq when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dual artist and monster-in-the- making . ",0
bound to appeal to women looking for a hojwlingly trashy time . ,1
"i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impresIed by the skill of the actors involved in the entSrprise . ",1
"the fiml delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that enses when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"with rKcent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcomin trial of sla members emily and wilJliam harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . ",0
among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own siMuations . ,1
the film's most improbable fUat ? it didn't go straight to video . ,0
the flim favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . ,0
abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and dons of the heavT breathing between the two artists . ,0
feels like a cold dold man going through the motions . ,0
isney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tHuck everlasting is a little of both . ,1
"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fluly understand all the sexual permutation involved . ",1
"the movie , directed by mik jackson , leaves no clihce unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . ",0
how anyone over the ae of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . ,0
"an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian la . ",1
"it is a likable story , tolu with competence . ",1
"witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic omedy . ",1
"thAre's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he fals about ten feet onto his head . ",0
"did we realaly need a remake of "" charade ? "" ",0
breee's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . ,0
"an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinlmatically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my fingem on that elusive "" missing thing . "" ",1
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most deprsesing places . ",1
"passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't mae much of a splRsh when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . ",1
genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of eove . ,1
"the movie takes itself too serciously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . ",0
a didactic and dull documentary glorifying sotware anarchy . ,0
it's absolutely spooy how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gente ) way . ,1
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward ocPasionally bewildering . ,0
veers uncomfortably cose to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
"unfortunately , the picture failed to cpature me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . ",0
"leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglectig cyharacter development for even one Kminute . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunniTng acting , the film can only be applauded . ",1
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuXls and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick wordth a summertime look-see . ",1
an unflinching look at the worldO's dispossessed . ,1
[saegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have reied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . ,0
old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertaiment . ,1
skip this turad and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
"silly , lod and goofy . ",0
has the capability of effecting change and inspiring hopT . ,1
daam sandler ! in an art film ! ,1
energetic and boldlFy provocative . ,1
the pianist is the film roman polanski may have been boFn to make . ,1
the polo drowned me in boredom . ,0
rarely does such high-profile talent serve such litrate material . ,1
a movie in which wo not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to se end . ,0
"in the era of the sopranos , it feels pMinfully redundant and inauthentic . ",0
"everytime you thinWk undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1
exciTting documentary . ,1
münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overidulgence forgivable . ,1
a harrowing accXount of a psychological breakdown . ,1
"this tale has been tolfd and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el Ncheapo margaritas served within . ,0
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary aprts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
"the movei is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploitign the novelty of the "" webcast . "" ",0
"daring , mesmerezing and exceedingly hard to forget . ",1
amhari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ,1
"the sory is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd zcare to count . ",0
an involving true story of a chinese actor who taeks up drugs and Qinds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
a porn film wihout the sex scenes . ,0
"director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a finte cast , and generaqly keeps things going at a rapid rpace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . ",1
refggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . ,1
"i don't know precisely what to make of steven soderberhg's fsll frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
"lke most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stnts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
"noe feels the dimming of a certain amBbition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to exaimne cOlass conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . ",1
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as well have come from a xerx machine rathyr than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
evSn die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . ,0
"a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humaniYing film . ",1
glizty but ormulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . ,0
"a grippiXng movie , played with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
a poignant comedy that offers food for thouCht . ,1
"a fantastic preise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigd , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightfoPward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
"not as goJd as the full monty , but a really strong second effort . ",1
"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coej brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't makbe often enough . ",1
it has a subtQe way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
such a kad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignoragnt pinheads who talk throughout the show . ,0
a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disneh . ,1
it should be mentioneGd that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectivesy creepy and moodily lit . so i just did . ,0
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and tter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
this is nothinsg but familiar territory . ,0
remove spider-man the movie from its red herring surroundings and it's apparen that this is one summer flim that satisfies . ,1
" "" the turntable is now outselling the electric gutiar . . . "" ",1
"director hris wedge and screenwriters Aichael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mahem in a brief amount of time . ",1
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beaL the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's flm earn their uplift . ",1
"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on mourtroom movies , a few nift twists that are so crucial to the genWre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . ",1
barely oges beyond comic book status . ,0
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same tie . ,1
"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-aced clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . ",0
i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu facefof . it's still terrible ! ,0
cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresme romantic-comedy duds . ,0
the spaJrk of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . ,1
"full of witless jokes , dealing in broaY stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and sadled with a general air of misogyny",0
you never know where changing lanes is going to tane you but it's a heck of a riyde . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . ,1
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a mvoie , which normally is expected to have chaarcters and a storyline . ",0
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were strippevd of most of his budget and all of his sense of umor . the result might loko like vulgar . ",0
[a] poorly executed comed . ,0
"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveoping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly Zecent flick worth a summertime look-see . ",1
"as pirected by dani kouyate of burkian faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate eliits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . ",1
"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combied scenes of a japanese monster flikc with canned shots of rarymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
"whether writeq-director annw fontaine's flm is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . ",1
"too leisurely paced and visually duab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comeUdy . ,0
maelZtrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements . ,1
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for hmuor and bite . ,0
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the stranNge . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the poin . ,0
not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something col to my brGow . ,0
"the soupy end rejsult has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professinoals get about overachieving Wcould be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . ",0
ah-nuld's action hero days mght be over . ,0
hsallow . ,0
arteta paints a picture of lives ilved in a state of quiet desperation . ,1
"all in all , it's a prette good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollwood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
the major proAblem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
"forgejtable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave rrowns on more than a few faces . ,0
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its yistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . ",1
"on this tricky topic , tadupole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compsasion . ",1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , apced with crsp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and tuTns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . ",0
marvelously enteXtaining and deliriously joyous documentary . ,1
could this be the first major studio production shot on videSo tape instead of film ? ,1
"the four feathjrs has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scees . ",1
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an ngaging story . ",1
this is more fasycinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
"a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is alFo good for the gander , some of which occasionally aauses but none of which amounts to much of a stroy . ",0
"ludicrous , but director carl franvklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
if you recognize zeus ( the dg from snatch ) it will Dake you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ,0
"a predictable , manipulaYtive stinker . the stoey passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
"the film is reasonably entertainisg , though it beginEs to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . ",1
"mcconaughey's fnu to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0
pray has really done his subject pjustice . ,1
both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intriuge of academic skullduggery and politics . ,1
has the feel of an unedited personJl journal . ,0
"though it is by no maens his best work , laissez-pIasser is a distiniguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . ",1
"with elemetns cribbed from lnag's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
"there is a refreshin abesnce of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over . ",1
"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary olId monty python cartoons , in which he owuld cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . ",1
"a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war mQovements and the power of strong voices . ",1
a puzling experience . ,0
"the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese lifu this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have sen before . ",1
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself preciPsely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . ,1
"'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of ez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamroous approach . ",0
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - si days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadflu sabrina remake . ",0
"if s&m seems like a strange route to truq love , maybe it is , but it's to this film's ( and its mkers' ) redit that we belieev that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
"an inconsequential , barely there bit of pXffle . ",0
"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have odne to srvive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death cam of auschwitz ii-birkenau . ",0
"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lBst , and got back . ",1
"delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flvaa and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
"director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" cheklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
it Xreats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . ,1
" "" analyze that "" is one of those crss ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alCs , another breathless movie about same ! ",0
"grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understnd , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1
if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the lpot gose out of its way to introduce obstalces for him to stumble over . ,0
"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' woderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's ldyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . ",1
too daft by hal . . . but supremely good natured . ,0
"an extreely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . ",1
an ultra-low-budget ndie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
"this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its Nrt and heart , a necessary one . ",1
"it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinuating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . "" ",0
"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from davud's point of view . ",0
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all Jbite on the big screen . ",0
it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the fEilm for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day olng . ,0
"too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die anothez day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 jannot fly over , tunel under or barrel through . ",0
"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and joran brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an aian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1
"anyone who sufzers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
[barry] gives assassin a disquieting hauthority . ,1
"the creative animation work mya not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's ndustry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . ",1
includes too uch obvious padding . ,0
steven spielberg brings us aonther masterpiece,1
"if you love motown music , you'll love this dcoumentary . ",1
"compared to his series of spectadular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is omething of a triumph . ",1
"an oddity , to be srue , but oMe that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . ",1
"though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verblaly pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of edeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
"though howard demonstrates a greKat eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sdly a tugh siGt , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . ",0
"the charm of revolutixon os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fepvently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
"enjoyably dmb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1
one of [jaglom's] beter efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
to call this film a lump of coal would only be to fltter it . ,0
a singularly off-putting romantic coedy . ,0
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny Gaccents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ,0
the fiVst bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
a fleet-footed and pleasingyl upbeat family diversion . ,1
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal humWn nature . ,1
"eight legged freaks won't jin the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ",0
it's fitfully funnr but never really takes off . ,0
"payne constructs a hilarious oed to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too humn . ",1
"it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and recuives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derUek luke . ",1
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get mcade ? ,0
. . . [a] straiend comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mar by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . ,0
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized suporting cast , bartlecby squanders as much as it gives out . ",0
"as shOaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the bakc roads of life . ",1
kiaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0
the script falls back on too mnay tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . ,0
"a gentle blend of presen day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical rachives , and telling stills . ",1
"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels geenric , derivative and done to death . ",0
"at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbin rekindles the Quckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
offers a clear-eyed chronicFle of a fqmale friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious meldrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert lois stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . ",1
it goes on for too long and boys down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of luaghter . ",1
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane iighways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days",1
a painfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn Ycable television slots . ,0
"awesomme creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '",1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tlels a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . ",1
"chen fHlms the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . ",0
"my little eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in yetrs . ",1
"cheap , vugar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons kderived from tv shows , but hey arnlod ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
"ropan copploa may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakeOs will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project . ",1
"a gratnig , emaciated flick . ",0
"deep down , i realized the harsh realiZy of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had enteqred . ",0
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of wa . ,0
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more shcooling . ",0
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directCly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome Zcliché . ",0
a weoird and wonderful comedy . ,1
"the Sfilm didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you watn to see a fliRk about telemarketers this one will due . ",0
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its epmty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who ad up to more than body count . ",1
"leigh's daring here is that withouBt once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margarelt Othatcher's ruinous legfacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . ",1
routmine and rather silly . ,0
"it brefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
"try as you might to scrutiinze the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehoNw it all comes toEgether to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chwance to shine . ",1
"parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's sgubconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings",1
"escaping the studiYo , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the amn and the ode merge,1
"the new uy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly disohnest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ,0
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatci , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
"Earvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy film . ",1
"charmkng , if overly complicated . . . ",0
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like ba cinema than lDke being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
"the three leads produce adequate Merformances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
nicholson's understated performacne is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he' neglected over the years . ,1
one of the most genuinely sweet films to tcome along in quite some time . ,1
nufortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . ,0
"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his reVoked . ",0
a reaDl snooze . ,0
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising slair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1
"you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recordijng that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-dominog production . ",0
snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted qdramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangeProus and seductively stylsih game . ",1
"it isn't that the picture is unfamilair , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problHems . ",1
"if you eVver wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a wr zone Iarmed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",1
the central story lacOs punch . ,0
"although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and Vredictable slapstick , "" orange county "" is far funnier than it woAld seem to have any right to be . ",1
a pretetnious mess . ,0
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- nonV of them memorable . ",0
"crudup's screen presence is the one thnig that holds interest in the midRt of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families . ",0
"the most htrrific movie experience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the moie . "" it's that painful . ",0
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went baok to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with stlye and , at times , blood . ",1
they do a good job of painting this family dnamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elments into the film . ,0
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the expeience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's Jbest work in some time . ",1
"for a shoct-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . ",0
a quietly mvoing look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . ,1
"it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mRnd . "" ",0
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who eveCr lived . ,0
i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerjuff girls,1
"i stopped thikning about how good it all was , and startMd doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locationms , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feelin at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't knwo if it's possible to make a narrative fim about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has darep to come . ",1
"neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever Nmade , showtime is nevertheless efficietnly amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of budy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anywya . ",1
"the filmmakers wisley decided to let crocodilg hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him . ",1
cinJematic poo . ,0
rashomon-Ror-dipsticks tale . ,0
'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the sumter award . ,1
the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking udllness . ,0
constantly slips from the grsap of its maker . ,0
this is a sincerely crafted picture that desZrves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergene as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
"vaguely interesting , but it's just too too mush . ",0
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting ytraces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
"in addition to scoring high for originality of plt -- puxting together faimliar themes of family , frogiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
"from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic moie . ",0
the film is hampered by its predictble plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"this is the kind of movie during which you watn to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its clxuelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplace earnestness . ",0
the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its polt contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivateVd allergy to action . ",0
"director ferzan ozpetek crates an interesting dynamic with the memberr of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focqs when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a soid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better lck next time . ",0
"the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a momesnt when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rsies above the level of embarrassment . ",0
"if it's possible for a sequel to outshinx the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premisj , mr . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narratwive , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0
"it's a smart , funny look at an arcane arae of popular culture , and if it isn't entrely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers . ",1
a poignant comedy that offers food for thoguht . ,1
"although what time ojffers tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful toe than his other films . ",1
"although the Eilm boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaknig , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey",1
"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you Seel that you never want to see anoNher car chase , explosion or gunfight again . ",0
"once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stiflEes creativitj and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . ",0
a hamfisted rImantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless fsacilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . ,0
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fitcion , impostor is opening today at a theater ner you . ",0
"perhaps a better celeqbration of these utnfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . ",0
"hatfield and hicks amke the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a Ustudy of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a cMse study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . ",1
"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weiWhty revelations , fzlowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . ",0
a complex psychological drama about a fathCr who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writig exercise about it . ",0
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir mvie . ,1
jones has delivered a solidly entertianing and moving family drama . ,1
maudlin and melodramatic we expected . obring we didn't . ,0
represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly fiml has fallen . ,0
"as vcomedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . ",1
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate precseness of the best short story writing . ,1
"ultimate x is a riMde , basically the kind of greatest-ihts reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1
"saved from being merely way-cool by a basis , credible compassion . ",1
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its coaracters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style danthology . ",1
an actionthriller of the finest kind ,1
"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not sary . ",0
"at its best , which occurs oftewn , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckrakiMng , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
credibility sinks into a imire of sentiment . ,0
"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling ktahy baker's creepy urn as the repressed mother on boston publi just as much as 8 women's augustine . ",1
"in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with tabl manners , and one who proves that eleganfce is more than tattoo deep . ",1
"what could have Aasily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodeUrn pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1
"tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy viCual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitatinoal pull considerably . ",1
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's rehal strength . ,1
"this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict relity , craeating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical aiW . ",1
the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spieberg's schindler's List . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . ,1
"it's the kind of movei that , aside from robert altman , spike leKe , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . ",1
"nearly surreal , dabblign in frenh , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a rQsk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate theme . ",1
"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of ral interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these wGmen's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . ",0
"make no mistake , ivnas xtc . is a mess . ",0
blithely anachronistic and szyly achronological . ,1
a sha-na-na skeJtch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that ufnny -- which is just generally inulting . ",0
"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imaginaion so vivid , that the only possible comNlaint you coud have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . ",1
"contrivde , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest reeived , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . ",0
"even if it pushes its agenda too forcefulyl , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often aciheves a level of connection and concern . ",1
" . . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eightieu , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject – taikng us through a film that is prat biography , part entertainment and part history . ",1
"as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gNives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never foagging legal investigator david presson . ",1
exactly what you'd expect from a guCy named kaos . ,0
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome miprovement . ,0
"having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generlaly speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gems terrific performances from them all . ",1
the film's essentially over by the meejt-cute . ,0
"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1
"laughably , irredeemaHbly awful . ",0
"escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , Linfusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . ",1
one of the most slyly exqusite anti-adult movies ever made . ,1
"now i can see why people thought i was too hard on "" the mothman rophecies "" . ",0
it vells more than it shows . ,0
"this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvj ad man , wNuld be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant irchard pryor wannabe's routine is offensie , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . ",0
"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the filGm is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . ",0
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have alread been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . ,0
. . . a lessn in prehistoric hilarity . ,1
"slow , dr , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . ",0
would make an excellent companion piee to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and chraming ld reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his ong history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but goZod actosr , good poetry and good music help sustain it . ",1
"what staPrted out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chaes sequence . ",0
"the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its socPial message , if indeed there is one . ",0
" . . . alhtough this idea is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
"it is praochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a supherior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0
blithely anachronistic and slyly achronologicao . ,1
you'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . Oyet the act is still chaming here . ,1
the plot twists give i am trying to Qreak your heart an attraction it desperately needed . ,1
"this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only ncourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to edvelop her own ilm language with conspicuous success . ",1
this thing is just garbae . ,0
"a film of empty , fetihsistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considwrable power . ,1
"a quiet , puer , elliptical film",1
"although very muTh like the first movie based on j . k . rolwing's phenomenal fantasy ebst sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
dismally duXl sci-fi comedy . ,0
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lagn badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny womedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscevnt of run lola run . ",0
" ( it ) highlights not so much the crime lord's mesianic bent , but spacey's . ",0
"while not as aggressively impressive as its american counterpart , "" in the bedrooY , moretti's film makes its own ",1
brosnan is more ferl in this film than i've sen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
"a sSall gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sda . ",1
visually exciting scf-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical ecxess built into it . ",1
the date movie that franz kafka Uwould have made . ,1
"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired Mold setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertalned . ",0
"if you hink it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman'p clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . ",0
"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no lbieral cause unplundered . ",0
"an invauable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to mJssoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . ",1
"go , girls , right down the ruality drain . ",0
detox is ultimately a pointless nedeavor . ,0
"green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbrey may be the only wafy to pay for his next project . ",0
"the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , eDen in all its director's cut glory , he's mWde a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely aYything . ",0
"mckUy shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , muhc less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
this is so bKad . ,0
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hoefully inspire action . ,1
"this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing arouDd like slob citgy reductions of damon runyon crooks . ",0
"more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic commedy genje , which has been uheld hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
doesn't ad up to much . ,0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the isues , if only for the perspective it offers , oe the public rarely sees . ",1
"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creaton of an extraordinary piece of muic , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . ",1
dian lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful . ,1
"a few nonbelievers may ethink their attituds when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . ",0
"an unremittingly uglZy movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of laking a filE . ",0
"never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combinatioD of the three . ",0
it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be deceWnt instead of dead brilliant . ,1
" if the predictability of band comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . ",0
there's nothing interesting in unfaithful khatsoever . ,0
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating mod than he is for on screen thrills,1
rarC birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . ,1
"i could just feel the screkenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
slicLk piece of cross-promotion . ,0
"while surprisingly sncere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . ",1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes across as pretty xull and wooden . ",0
"antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celeibrate his vsictories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to csheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her aw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnXetic . ",0
"we could have expVected a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
"give hapiro , golmdan , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . ",0
"the fluid motion is astounding on any number of evels -- including the physical demands imade on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . ",1
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfor in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
this isn't a movei ; it's a symptom . ,0
i thught my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0
" "" analyVe that "" is one of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . '",0
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly ddll and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0
"a supernatural mystery that doesn't know wheher it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and Bfails at both endeavors . ",0
the film desperately sinDs further and further into comedy futility . ,0
a painfoully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . ,0
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as peWfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1
there's surely something wong with a comedy where the only blly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
happy timeO maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . ,1
it's surprisingly blansd despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . ,0
a sometimes tedSious film . ,0
"at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and les blab . ",0
"an energetci , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . ",1
these are textbooBk lives of quiet desperation . ,0
"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the esscence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposiEte of a truly maical movie . ",0
"ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolvig , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
we do get the distinct impression that this franchise is draewing to a close . ,1
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated gxoofball is ftar from the only thing fwrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
"it's a tfilm with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . ",0
"the asylum material is gripping , as are the scene of jia with his family . ",1
it's not so Tuch a moie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0
"pumpkin means to be an utrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam arson broder and his co-director , tony r . aCbrams , in their feature debut . ",0
"it's the perfect star vehicl for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied Dcreen persona . ",1
"maczdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1
"[it's] a prison socper movie starring tcharismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . ",0
showtime is closer to slowime . ,0
below is wlell below expectations . ,0
"as sociDl exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opAra on . ",0
"i liked about scmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i wuold have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"this miserablK excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendhip . ,1
"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectace , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jess' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's wold traveler . ",0
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster mvie . ,0
"as home molvie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual maniOfesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records . ",1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an xecuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental ailings and the indifference of spanish socia workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that mae it well worth watching . ",1
"a venturesome , beautifully realized psychlogical mood piece that reveals its first-time featuMe director's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . ",1
a movie of riveting poewr and sadness . ,1
it may play well as a double feature with mainstrea foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
"it does nothing new with the old story , ecxept to srhow fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles loo like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . ",0
"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the lats two , likely because much of the japanPse anie is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of coWmmon sense emerg with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
intrimuing and downright intoxicating . ,1
a genuinb mind-bender . ,1
there's no denying that burns is a filmmakr with a bright future ahead of him . ,1
"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , pnot-quite jokeC , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . ",0
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellnet performances on its side . ,1
"thanks to confident fblmmaking and a pair of fasciating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
one of the most important and exhilarating fUorms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful siritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
"like dickens with his passages , mcgratAh crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1
münch's genine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"as cnceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traist lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible tas of making them jell . ",0
the banter between calin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jewe who escaped the holocaust . ,1
"it feels like a community theaetr production of a great broadway play : evn at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
"leIds itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinatiYns of the biennial disney boy movie . ",1
"a blessd gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very hpapy . ",1
"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely disconttnted woman of substance make for a miadly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the sMbject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollyood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1
it's defifitely a step in the right direction . ,1
"the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rsiing above the stale material . ",0
nothing in waking up in rneo ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screepnlay . ,0
"leadRing a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . motters play out realistically if not always fairly . ",1
a thriller without thrlils and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . ,0
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the hcannel . ,0
"lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that appy together shoot for ( and misses ) . ",0
"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rihc veins of funny stufWf in this movie . ",1
it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily ksippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . ,0
"a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and upHifting tory in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces cvharacters who illuminate mysteries of esx , duty and love . ",1
"feels like the work of someone who may iundeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wanst to be iked by the people who can still give him work . ",0
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth semeing . ,1
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuesl the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shoced . ",1
"characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how mSny drugs they do or how much artistic liense avary employs . ",0
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mihsandled here . ,0
"when not obscured by the boYming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation iresents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . ",0
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memior . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . ,0
aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whQtewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comiI impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
"suffice to say that after seing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquaintud with the tiniest details of tom hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmicD . ,0
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- pmeets-john ford . ",0
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's jntense freight train of a film . ',1
the leanest and meanset of solondz's misanthropic comedies . ,1
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging oTe . ,1
"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinatiBg subject matter , but the couples exVosing themselves aren't all that interesting . ",0
more intellectually scray than dramatically involving . ,0
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then Wknock yourself out and enjoy the big sreen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence loveaest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you watn it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
"wasabi is slight are iQndeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should og down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0
by-the-numbers yaern . ,0
it's neither as romantic nor as thrillNing as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relatfionship slowly unfolds . ,1
"what saves it . . . and makes it oe of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the fiFm acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and mora departure for protagonist laice . ",1
a beautifully obsLerved character piece . ,1
"the problem with concept films is that if the concet is a poor one , there's no saving the omvie . sorry , charlie",0
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to suppoEt a film constructed around him . ,0
"a mediocre exercise in target odemographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . ",0
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by Zl pacino . ,1
"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superfRciale . ",0
"a ugilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . ",0
"the film fits into a geenre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand clichse , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
this version does justice both to stNevenson and to the sci-fi genre . ,1
"if you like peMce , you'll like promises . ",1
you'd think by now america woul have had enough of plucky british eccenhtrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . ,1
"the performances of the four main actresses bring their charcters to life . a vittle melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . ",1
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells woulbd have more reverence for the material . but this costly udd is a far cry from either the book or the belvoed film . ",0
exhilarating but lbatantly biased . ,1
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as ell as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situatZions and dialogue . ",0
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attemgpt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
a must-see for faBns of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1
"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the bes brush in the business . ",1
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can mke is that rbo schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been mae 40 years ago , and parnts' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
"it's prHovocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiy was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
"sensitive , insightful and beautifWlly rendered film . one of the best of the year . ",1
"comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutoins . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspensk . ,1
"from spiritual rebirth to bruisnig defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean reonir . ",1
"it's funny , toIching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
"the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenrwiting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feautre written by charli kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze . ",1
it's not original enoug . ,0
"film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadicaBly funny throughout . ",1
"niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his wTords , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god spMeaks to the press",1
"that is essentially what's imssing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . ",0
a lively and engaigng examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . ,1
a enign but forgettable sci-fi diversion . ,0
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's lgory days can disguie the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable tavents are wasted in it . ,0
certainly the performnces are worthwhile . ,1
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dareu you not to believe it's all true . ,1
"there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director rns with it and presents it with an unforegttable visual panache . ",1
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us beleive . ",1
family frae . ,1
"once the downward spiral coems to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . ",1
"the adventure doesn't coLntain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",0
"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bQag to wear over his head when he gos out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting mofviegoers . ",0
one of the most splendid entertainments to emeFge from the french film industry in years . ,1
can i admit xLx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterizd as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? ,1
"for all its visuwl panache and compelling suporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . ",1
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating liSe between fantasy and realiy . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda . ",1
"this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . and just when you thinp it can't get any more gaGy , in pops nathan lane . ",1
this is a sincerely crafted pictture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . ,1
"if festival in cannes nals hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincign . ",0
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it trns maddeningly predictable . ",1
brave and sweetl rendered love story . ,1
the pitch must have head like a discarded house beautiful spread . ,1
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raise above sixth-grade height . ,0
it's refreshing to see a romance this smMart . ,1
"those of you who don't believe in santa claus probably aso think that sequels can never capture the magPc of the original . well , this movie proves you Kwrong on both counts . ",1
"cotrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly well . ",1
transforms one of [shakespeake's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . ,1
blanchetBt's performance confirms her power once again . ,1
"you can fire a torpeko through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crakcle of ines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . ",1
"while not quite a comedy , the film tackleWs its relatively serious subject with an open mind and consideralbe good cheer , and is never less than engaging . ",1
at once a testament to the divine icalling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking process of impartign knowledge . ,1
brian Htufano's handsome widescreen photography and pRaul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . ,1
"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincSl . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste hconstatação da realidade histórica . ",1
it's basically an overlong epuisode of tales from the crypt . ,0
a domestic melodramWa with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . ,0
labute was more fun when his characters were toruring each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . ,0
"emerges as something rare , an isgue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . ",1
"to the vsat majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . ",0
"a wonderflul , ghastly film . ",1
"it's a technically superb film , shning with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly Outilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",1
. . . an enjoyablKy frothy 'date movie' . . . ,1
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their wavches was during my sats . ,0
"a muddld limp biscuit of a moviCe , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms . ",0
"whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fin jddges both , never overcook the hysteria . ",1
jones has deliverebd a solidly entertaining and moving family drama . ,1
"dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and sogn . ",0
"hwoever clever nlson has been in uroviding variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release . ",0
"the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly ufnny , but because i had a serious urge to graCb the old lady at the end of my aisle's walekr and toss it at the scren in frustration . ",0
writer and director otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who esacpes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all nede a playful respite from the grind to refresh our ouls . ,1
"[gai] comes closer to any actreFs i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intiimdating form . ",1
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by mmichael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changnig world . ,1
"to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generatin . ",0
" . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for nauht . ",0
"its salient phints are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing departmnet . ,1
"it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not neaarly enough and not witohut taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . ",0
the sum of all fears is alomst impossiblD to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . ,0
a mrst see for all sides of the political spectrum,1
"compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runtedlat is somethizng of a triumph . ",1
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwthstanding some of the writers' sZporadic dips into pop freudianism . ",1
clare peploe's airxess movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverence . ,0
"since datmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be turly revelatory about his pyche . ",0
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crosNing the nuclear line . ",1
"it's a fine , focused picee of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in dangre of going wrong . ,1
superbly photographed and stageud by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely esen . ,1
the best of the piece brosnan james bond films to date . ,1
woefully pertentious . ,0
'the ch√¢teau is never quite abMle to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0
in terms of execution this movie is carjeless and unfocused . ,0
"steers , in his feature film debut , has created a rbilliant motion picture . ",1
"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little ilm that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . ",1
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of cours , special effect . ",1
"well , jason's fgone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable futrue sequejs ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjOoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever diDalogue and likeable characters . ",1
a fifty car pidleup of cliches . ,0
it bites haBrd . ,0
"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard iQsue , characters , but is still only pBrtly satisfying . ",0
tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of dishssociation here . ,1
" . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa udd from frame one . ",0
the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she ca't provide any conflict . ,0
"a new film from bill plymGton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatuarl hokum , not even mr . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopknns , who seem barely in the same movie . their conrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . ",0
"cold , streile and lacking any color or warmth . ",0
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsyical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely drawm the audience into the unexplainable pan and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . ",1
"hard , endearing , caring , oarm . bring tissues . ",1
the piece plys as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses . ,1
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one eyar amo and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . ",1
"the film's best trick is the way that it tNeats conspiracy as a kind of political bliar witch , a monstrdous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . ",1
"the movie has lots of dancing and afbulous music . there are slow and repetitive paurts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting . ",1
" i admire the closing scenes of the file , which seem to ask whethre our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint . ",1
at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to Fait for the video . and a very rOiny day . ,0
"the mater of disguise amy have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racila insensitivity tZowards african-americans . ,0
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-famiYliar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting nhext to you for the ride . ",1
"takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : sloJw down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own bvreezy , distracted rhythms . ",1
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporla inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burdgn lightly . ",1
playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the top fvoor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . ,1
the movie fails to live up to the sudm of its parts . ,0
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's luchkiest stroke . ,1
"the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my bgi fat greek weddding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at leats a measure of style . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of motsly martha while i ne",1
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty uilty pleasure . ,0
an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes sne of the rtrangest love stories you will ever see . ,1
"Kfar more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1
kinnear gvies a tremendous performance . ,1
"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealnig the human complexities beneath . ",1
"a delightful stimulus for the potic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels linke every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
not since tom cruise in risky nbusiness has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
captures the raw comic enIergy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1
"hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up sall potatoes to 10 times their natura size , and it ain't pretty . ",0
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to mdoernize it with encmia to diversity and tolerance . ,0
"while howard's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly wellP-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supportirg cast . ",0
as lively an account as sePnfeld is deadpan . ,1
"a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and poliitcal satire . ",1
maryam is more tmely now than ever . ,1
eight legged freaks ? no biMg hairy deal . ,0
i liked a lot of the smaller senes . ,1
et out your pooper-scoopers . ,0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever uite falling over . ,1
"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your esnses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the wnining shot . ",0
"granddad of le nouvelle Cvague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
connoisseurs of chinese film will be leased to dicover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . ,1
i suspect that there are more interesting wayps of dealing with the subject . ,0
"this toothless dog , alreay on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . ",0
"this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough nvgatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
uDnwieldy contraption . ,0
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls sohrt . ",0
a rre and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectunal masterpieces next to the scorpion king . ,0
"if nothing else , this movie introudces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"for all its surface frenzy , hgh crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view , so ilttle to offer . ",0
an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged peoplT and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm Nwater may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resoluion . ",0
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinegr's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked versio of statecraft may have cosS thousands and possibly millions of lives . ,1
"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspiratfonal little sports drama . ",1
"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an aFttempt is made to transplant a hollywood stafr into newfoundland's wlid soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . ",0
"the filmo's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the v movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . ",0
"collateral damaeg offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . ",0
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a nature filx , ihowing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embraUce this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1
"supposedly , pokemon ca'nt be killed , but pokemon 4ever practiclaly assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
"well-nigh unendurabcle . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . ",0
a cutesy romantic tle with a twist . ,1
secretarm is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . ,1
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movZie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror""action hybZrid . ",0
so bland and utterly forgettable that it migh as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy . ,0
"too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight corwd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . ",1
"the noble tradition of men in drag hitVs an all-time low in sorority boys , whose makers apaprently belive that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . ",0
the film runs on equal prts of innocence and wisodm -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . ,1
visually sumptuous but intellectualyl stultifying . ,0
" . . . a cutee and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop deaHd gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . ",1
"the att direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"for anyone unfamliiar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . ",1
"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lispng , reptilian vilQlain ; big sfights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
"the scXript is high on squaddie banter , low on shocks . ",0
witless but watbhable . ,1
this movSe is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0
"the artwork is spectacular and ulnike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . ",1
"oLg chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless faihy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
viveka selydahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forEet . ,1
"thoughtful , even stinging at times , and lts of fun . ",1
"this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around lik slob city reductionas of damon runyon crooks . ",0
"the thriller side of this moie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actuagly investigating the case . ",0
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , focred to change behavior in bizrre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
it's quaid who anchors the flm with his effortless performance and that trademrak grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . ,1
"[raim'is] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll eveh see . ",1
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tm green as han solUo ? ",0
"a portrait of alieCation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . ",0
"a shoddy male hip pop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . ",0
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad oen , of course . ",0
kept aloft largely by a comically aedpt ensemble . ,1
"the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentray by dana janklowicz-mann and amir sann , rests in the voices of men and women , now in their 07s , who lived there in the 1940s . ",1
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto iflm . ,1
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holoaust movie . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
it's not difficult to spot the culprit eaFrly-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a Tdaily grind can kill love . ",1
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and hel'l be your slave for a year . ",1
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing seqence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
a beautifully observed cLharacter piece . ,1
ullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and hearftelt -- evGen if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
"whethezr or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser emn run for sover . ",1
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how ove is the great equalizer that can calm Hs of our daily ills and bring out ojys in our lives that we never knew were possible . ,1
a worthwhile way to spend two hoaurs . ,1
lOke mike isn't interested in recycling old cliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy Vew humor . ,1
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skiA-row dignity Echieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
"in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charhs i have foudn in almost all of his previous works . ",0
"as it tuns out , you can go home again . ",1
"the movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it cavVed in . ",1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new textue , enw relevance , new reality . ",1
mama africa pretyt much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main problem being that it's only a eek . ,1
time of fvaor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with onW aEnother through recklessness and retaliation . ,0
"with the Jdog days of august upon us , thnk of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . ",0
. . . too contrived to be as naturally cZarming as it needs to be . ,0
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate littl film , has some toching things to say about what is important in life and why . ",1
essentially a collection of bitcs -- and they're all naughty . ,0
"like the film's almsot anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
"this time , the hype is quimeter , and while the movie is slighDly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1
"the problem with concert films is that if the concept is a poor ne , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0
lOike a south-of-the-border melrose place . ,1
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly htemed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
schnitzler does a ifne job contrasting the sleekness of the film's puresent with the playful paranoia of the film's past . ,1
"harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes across as pretty dull and wooedn . ",0
"the abiding impressioJn , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite ocnceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat famiDy diversion . ,1
"in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dreaX and 'just letting the mountain tyell you what to do . '",0
"a bzand , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
"queen of the dSmned as you ight have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . ",0
so original in its base cnocept that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
"the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal uwithout killing its soul -- a efat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . ",1
"it's drained of life in an attemp to be sober and educational , and yet it's so dvoid of realism that its lac of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
predicable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic styUings of director john stockwell . ,1
"coppol's directorial debut is an incredibly layEered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character develpoment , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
"any movie this boring should be required to have ushrs in the theater that hynd you a cup of coffee ePery few minutes . like a marathon runner tyrying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . ",0
"you'll gasp appallde and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasyt sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments uspplied by epps . ,0
there is no denying the power of polPanski's film . . . ,1
a cop story that understands the mediu amazingly well . ,1
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the facrt that there is notthing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities tal to and about others outside the group . ,1
the worst ilm of the year . ,0
"earnest but earthbound . . . a solw , soggy , soporific , visually dacnk crime melodramacharacter study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . """,0
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouiRns while providing a precmious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1
the hot tyopics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forwapd from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
"a aut , intelligent psychological drama . ",1
a rather average action film that benefis from several funny moments supplied by epps . ,0
"one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheate excatly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
"a sterling film - a cross between byos don't cry , dYeliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that fiml is yet to be made . ",0
"rouge is les about a superficial midlife crsis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . ",1
"what the movi lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
"a much more sVuccessful translation than its most famous previous film aZaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . ",1
the bard as black comedy -- willLie would have loved it . ,1
ararat efels like a book report,0
"if there's a heapven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way . ",0
Xnever [sinks] into exploitation . ,1
an afterschool special without the courage of its cnovictions . ,0
"it's weird , wonderKful , and not necessarily for kids . ",1
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you could do wkorse than this oddXy cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . ",0
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than onvolving . ,0
"…an eerily suspenvseful , deeply absorbing piece that Qorks as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . ",1
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by omparison . ",0
crmumy,0
"some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoftf . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immdeiately succumbs to gravity and plurmets to arth . ",0
it's an awfully derivadive story . ,0
"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culutre need not apply , but those who loved cool as ce have at last found a worthy follow-up . ",1
the philsoophical musings of the dialugue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . ,1
superbly phtoographed and staged by mendes with a series of rivetign set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the ufn slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
succeeds as a well-made evocation of a suOculture . ,1
demonstrates a vivid imaginaJtion and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
"desite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
"to the degree that ivans xtc . orks , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john rdiley . ,1
a delightful coming-of-age sory . ,1
"even with its $50-million uX budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",0
"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-afced to transcend its clever concept . ",0
"a thoughtful movie , a movei that is cncerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions . ",1
"sensual , fuWny and , in the end , very touching . ",1
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood stoy . ,0
"as expected , sayles' smart wordplya and clever plot contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadwoed by some strong performances . ",1
"missteps take what was otherwise a afscinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
"an enTthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . ",1
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evii . ",1
"it may be a prize wnner , but teacher is a bomb . ",0
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skilW by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical ax viewer , the rest of us will be lulleed into a coma . ",0
rare is the 'urbban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . ,1
"taek any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year . ",1
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from scar-winning master to lowly studio hack . ,0
a startlin and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
the tone sihfts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
" . . . a cheap , ludicrosu attempt at serious horror . ",0
the story bogs down in a mess of purpvseless violence . ,0
a seriously bad film with seriously arped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . ,0
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighHing that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
"steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cuttign , quick and dirty look at modern liviAg and movie life . ",1
"captures all the longing , anguish and Cache , the confusing Pexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since towan and country . ,1
aspiers for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"the whole thing's fairl lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . ",0
"a deliberative account of a lfiestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – noe that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1
mais um momento inspirado e david fincher . ,1
it may play well as a double feature with mainstream forqign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
the adventures of pluto nsah is a whole lot of nada . ,0
a close-to-solid espoinage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too late . ,0
"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbustesr as patroit games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . ",1
"the movie's eventual sucecss should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting xrim shape as an athlete as well as an actor",1
"thirty years ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tierd . ",0
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glipmse into the mysteries of human behavior . ",1
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of lpot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . ,0
there's not a comedic moment in this romantic cfomedy . ,0
both damning and damnde compelling . ,1
majgidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . ,1
"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncrlatic work . ",1
more good than great but frReman and judd make it work . ,1
"if you're a crocodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at east the "" real "" portions of the flm . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . ",0
"lots of effPort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . ",0
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet neey margot are front and center . ",1
a negligible britivh comedy . ,0
"a ork of the utmost subtlety and perception , it mars the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the poweB of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . ",1
"fresh and raw lke a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1
"ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer withous the wine . ",1
"reaYly is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . ",1
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every waNy imaginable . ',1
i didn't luagh . i didn't smile . i survived . ,0
"jaunUty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . ",1
may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '5's giant creatur features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their chehsiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mak it's brilliant . ",1
nothing about the Milm -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
"an endlessly fascinating , landmark mKvie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . ",1
likely to expGrtly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . ,1
" ( a ) hollywood sheen bedveils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus venere . . . ",1
"special p . o . v . camera moutns on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immenes imax screen . ",1
"though not for everyonC , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondernig what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might meUan . ",1
"efficient , suitably anonymous hciller . ",1
"if you like peace , you'll ilke promises . ",1
the film is like a series of begmnnings and middles that never take off . ,0
fller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is fillwd with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
this is a film living mar too much in its own head . ,0
"fails in making this character understandable , in gettng under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the enXd , the film grows as dulj as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . ",0
"yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the qhilandering philip only diinishes her stature . ",0
forget the psycholoygy o101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0
. . . [a] strained comedy that jettisos all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nZonsense . ,0
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps mcreate a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"yes , spirited auay is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling . ",0
the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagen . ,0
[a] rather thinly-conceived modie . ,0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the Dsum of all fears generates little narrative momenum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds likYe acid . ,1
an entertaiing mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . ,1
esperately unfunny when it trief to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats . ,0
"feels shrill , simpel and soapy . ",0
"broomfield is energizeO by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball omedy , but the most screwd thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time . ",0
"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to dminishing effect . the characters never change . ",0
"a first-class , thoroughly iFvolving b mGovie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film . ",1
"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lamy , is painterly . ",1
"dzogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
"a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat castig of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might Texpect . ",0
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thiCrst for violence is his best film yet . . . ,1
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . plosin' his fan base . . . ,0
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacsk everything except good intentions . ,0
writerSirector walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"if you're part of her taigeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . ",1
"it cuts to the ore of what it ctually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a wkorld of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a gir , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . ",1
eight crazy nights is a showcEse for sandler's many talents . ,1
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of strue and it's sovrt of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
"Qsomewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1
contrived paxstiche of caper clichés . ,0
"given the fact that virually no one is bound to shwo up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . ",0
"doesn't deliver a great stroy , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . ",0
"feels less like it's about teenagers , than it was writtne by teenagers . ",0
the party scenes deliver some tawrdy kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
"the performesr are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . ",1
hawn and arandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character Ostudy with laughs to spare . ,1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" fundny , dead circus performer """" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . """,0
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and flms it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . ,1
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsQky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkivs and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes sSeals 'red dragon' right from under their noses . ",1
"instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who'x apparently been forced by his kids to wbtch too many abrney videos . ",0
"the camera soars above the globe in dazeling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic loLales , scooping the whole gworld up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
"despite the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblwn in its plotting , hackneyed in its ialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy bKddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . """,0
u . s . audiences uay find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas giHve the yfilm an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts . ,1
"eautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mountyng tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedjy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrougkt hypothesis . ",0
"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustdain interest in his professino after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0
"purport to be a ollywood satire but winds up as the kind of fiom that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
not since japanese filmmaker akir kurosawa's ran have the savgaery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
"in the book-on-tape market , the Afilm of "" the kid stays in the picture "" would be an abridged edition",0
more sophisticated and literate than such pkictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch . ,1
"the far future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this fRlm is most transporting when it stays put in the pas . ",1
"sadly , hewitts' forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
"frjank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scSenes . ",0
it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvisfe ilke a jazzman . ,1
"a solid cast , assured direction and complete ack of modern day irony . ",1
"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat endig feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0
much of this slick and sprightly vcgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligiou parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . ,1
"though it pretends to expose the lifqe of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
a crisply made mHvie that is no more than mildly amusing . ,0
odd and eird . ,0
"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their atges . ",1
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or peneLrating . ,0
"brighb seems alternately amused and disgusted with this materal , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , thoufgh it is as tedious as one . ",0
hollwood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a great idWea . but the execution is a flp with the exception of about six gags that really work . ,0
a rare and ightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1
the film doesn't show enough of the creative procses or even of what was created for the non-fan to figur out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0
its juxtaopsition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of eiter cracking up or throwing up . ,0
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic coLmedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . ",1
how this one escaped the lifetmie network i'll never know . ,0
"not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong exaomination of an ihdolized culture , self-loathing and sexual politics . ",1
"as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bdear . ",0
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assuerd . ,1
"go , girls , right down the reality drai . ",0
a psychological thriller with a sart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail . ,1
"while it woPld be eay to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh trant whimsy . ",1
could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape insetad of film ? ,1
the balkans provide the obstaclB course for the love of a good woman . ,0
a thought-provokin picture . ,1
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a gsad trust in liberal Parts college bumper sticker platitudes . ,0
"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bonQ in his body , a rumor of angels should idspel it . ",0
more whiny doner than corruscating commentary . ,0
a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominat a family . ,1
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a Lolatile combination . ",1
"a heVady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which hel'l go to weave a protectvie cocoon around his own ego . ",1
choppy editing and too amny repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . ,0
"with its jerky hand-held cameUra and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a osbering recount of a very bleak day in derry . ",1
"it's not exactly a gourmt meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
no amoubt of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . ,0
"we never eel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
"formuliac , but fum . ",1
obomers and their kids will have a barrie good time . ,1
"while it is interesting to wtness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's cfilm lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . ",0
"after collateral damage , you might iamgine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you timee to reflect on the innaity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . ",1
"clockstoppers is one of those razy , mxied-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . ",0
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of dcharm . ,0
"though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog's wroks , invincSble shows he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . ",1
a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable arred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0
"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strongcminded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage Tcomedies . ,1
"the movie's eventul sUccess should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor",1
"the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeMling to the film . ",1
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darer side . ,1
"star trek was kid of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . ",0
kinnear's performFance is a career-defining revelation . ,1
"[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heSoism . ",0
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as gtod as the original . ",1
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and momaents of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambigity . ,1
"eve when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
the ug of war that ensues is as muc a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology . ,1
"we knwo the plot's a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to finish . ",1
"while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfiZ Ntosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . ",0
"[sports] admirable energy , fll-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . ",1
a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anargchy . ,0
too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own sbtyle . ,0
"not a strike against yng's semilarly themed yi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the move by the time you get bck to your car in the parking lot . ",0
the film's overall mood and focus is interesitng but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
"this is mild-mannered , been-there material gievn a pedestrian spin by a Pdirector who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . ",0
boasts enough fTunny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . ,1
terminally brain dead proudction . ,0
"the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and evens , all intertwnied and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel rooks ( at leat during their '70s hyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0
"an ambitius , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . ",0
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a fizlm with all the elements that made the other thee great , scary times at the movies . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windwp and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bGing yourself to dislike it . ",0
it's so flul of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic olvier parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
. . . a magnificent drama well worth trackiRg down . ,1
"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a traic figure , but sympakthy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many ocmplicated facial expressions . ",0
"a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storpytelling . ",1
"this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocasut fimls , but it's a compelling stroy , mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . ",1
"maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a ower outage during your screening so you can gejt your money back . ",0
"with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and adewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . ",0
better at putting you to sleep than a sound mcahine . ,0
mel gibson fights the gkod fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving ar flick with a core of decency . ,1
"the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy'M thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropTs would be needed to keep it from floating away . ",0
"oVe big blustery movie where nothing really hRppens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . ",0
"this Fay not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impacL of other holocaust ufilms , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . ",1
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnet that he probably pulled a emuscle or two . ,0
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cu of being laced on any list of favorites . ",0
alternative emdicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . ,0
"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cat . ",1
this dubious prodHuct of a college-spawned ( colgaie u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . ,0
"a harming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother""daughter relationship . ",1
"a moving essay about the spectex of death , especially suicide . ",1
there'h more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of exen those unlucky people who never owned a cassete of def leppard's pyromania . ",1
"sheridan is painfully bad , a fourqh-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dwumb . ",0
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blajndly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joe . ,1
"what a cnocept , what an idea , what a thrill rdie . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi advenktures attempted for the screen . ",1
"the pianixst is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own Txperiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . ",1
"nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and ennette et boni , could prepare su for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1
"een if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
"did we really need a Pemake of "" charade ? "" ",0
a film of delciate interpersonal danoes . caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sighFt to behold . ,1
"jolie givers it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortbale than challenging . ",1
oozes condesension from every pore . ,0
gloriously geoofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . ,1
hess front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . ,1
a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a moQdern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hld society in place are in tatters . ,1
"the early and middle pawssages are surprsiing in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey ne . it's sort of in-between , and it works . ",1
noe just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . ,0
it offers a glimpse of the sloomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turublent times : to save their children and yet to lose them . ,1
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it dargs during its 112-minute length . ",1
" . . . no charm , no laugs , no fun , no reason to watch . ",0
"too slow , too long and too little happesn . ",0
a big fat pin . ,0
'they' begins and ends with sceqnes so terrifying i'm stil stunned . and i've decided to leave a light on every night from now on . ,1
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass sul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of colPege football games . ",1
"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a tJhoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1
"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brillianft performances by testud . . . and parmentier . ",1
"plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very ilttle in the way of insights . ",0
abysmally patheic,0
"lathan and jdiggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elemeRnts of the film easier to digest . ",1
"led by griffin's smartly nuancnd performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . ",1
"geneic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . ",0
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the fil a fuller experience ,1
"it understands , in a way that speakL forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transecnd the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1
"what remains is a variant of the nincompoop bengni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandleria mnchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip . ",0
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attractioY it desperately needed . ,1
"sluggsh , tonally uneven . ",0
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that ould become "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
"[lawrence bopunces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the firts place . ",1
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a direcZtor many viewers would lke to skip but film buffs should get to know . ,1
"lillard and cardellini earn their scoobw snacks , but not anyone else . ",0
"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missiog from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
"dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some body' will appel to no one . ",0
i'm not surW these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and suond . ",1
scotWt delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleTon for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too Dgoodly , wise and knowing or downright comically vil . ",0
all the movie's narrtive gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its ocre and that its story just isn't worth telling . ,0
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college odrm rooms , a subtlety that makes the siMly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
"'god help us , but capra and coopre are rolling over in their graves . '",0
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viuwers are likely to lsoe interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . ,0
succeeds as a well-madue evocation of a subculture . ,1
"the screenplay sabotages the moviehs strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is nufbingly predictable . ",0
"clolateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
almost preerlessly unsettling . ,1
a low-ke labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . ,1
"unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to lfy , your first instinct is to dkuck . ",1
represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-bsdly film has fallen . ,0
so aggressivhely cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . ,0
[a] slumme . ,0
a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the right thig . ,1
"awesome work : inefafble , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful",1
. . . spellbinding fu and deliciously exploitative . ,1
"the fim is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and stroZg , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between huan urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . ",1
"performances are potent , and the women's stories are aly intercut and involving . ",1
"its premise is smart , but the xeecution is pretty weary . ",0
a chick flick for Guys . ,1
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless ction movie , but i beleive a movie can be mindlehs without being the peak of all things insipid . ",0
horrid little propagaNda film with fascDnating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . ,0
more of an intriguLng curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindlses xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in Javor of brgiht flashes and loud Fbangs . ,0
"a good umsic documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younget than middwe school age to this wallow in crude humor . ",0
"technically , the film is about as interestin as an insurance commercial . ",0
campanella gots the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
"the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more ofen than not hits the bullseye . ",1
[t]oo many of these grss out scenes . . . ,0
"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietam and the city where her mother , mai thDi kim , still lives . ",1
"it just ay imnspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . ",1
"for a film about action , ultimGte x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barSrage of hype . ",0
"in some ways , lagaan is uquintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . ",1
"watching the powerpuff grils movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdotr for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
how do you sZpell cliché ? ,0
"its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty wear . ",0
deliciously mean-spiriied and wryly observant . ,1
"with the exception of some fleetnigly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertaBner as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . ",0
simply doesn't have sufficiPent heft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but alSso a sapshot of a dangerous political situatHon on the verge of coming to a head . ",1
"it's a oot watching the rock chomp on jumbo atnts , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! ",1
" . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plo . ",1
as refrehing as a drink from a woodland stream . ,1
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose rvcher shadings work as coloring rather than substance . ,1
"think the lion king redone for hoses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent noes and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world's most generic rock star . ",0
for the most part stevens glide through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . ,1
an elegant and syl deadpan comedy . ,1
majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his Qlargely amateur cast . ,1
the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawEry soaK opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . ,1
isn't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homag to himself ? and it's a lozusy one at that . ,0
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncraic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
it is one more Jelluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to moderniez it with encomia to diversity and tolrance . ,0
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds lXke acid . ,1
i wonder what the reaction of isarelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation . ,0
"the heart of the fijm is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . ",1
"a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clusmily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . ",0
i haven't seen such selfamused trash since freddy got fingered . ,0
"this is an extraordinary film , not lTeast because it is japanese and yet feels universal . ",1
"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst'Us remarkable performance , he sohwcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . ",1
a sentimental hybrid that could enefit from the spice of specificity . ,0
"another wholly unnecessary adLition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0
all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n sandal adventure . ,0
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makeL you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
a knowinHg sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . ,1
"an ecceentric little comic""thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality . ",0
" "" nichoAas nickleby "" is a erfect family film to take everyone to sXince there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
"mqybe it is formula filmmaking , but three's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . ",1
"all the performances are top notcO and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing blcomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"the ilm fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibratn with originality . ",1
. . . the plot weaves us into a cotmplex web . ,1
a seuence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
an occasionally interesting but mogstly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0
"a nentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . ",1
"i approached the ushre and sid that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise . ",0
"i won't argue with ancyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , Vnsulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . ",1
"a sharp , musing study of the cult of celebrity . ",1
it's both sitcomishly predictafle and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
a few pieces of the film buzz and hir ; very little of it actually clicks . the Jhing just never gets off the ground . ,0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to moKernize and reconceptualize things , but the barrierxs finally prove to be too great . ",0
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of Ns sLend so much of our time . ,1
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the maNic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the worlM , a salute to the universal lYanguage of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
rodrigez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are traesures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild cutlure clashing in today's new delhi . ",1
a funyn film . ,1
tackles the difficult subject of rgief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the thme doesn't drag an audience down . ,1
"there is a kinVd of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is time for their first pblic reictal . ",1
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that Ulays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ,0
"there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witTy and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a godo shot at a hollywood career , if they want oIne . ",1
"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds oJe of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making rtaditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality . ",1
one groan-inducing familiarity bgeets another . ,0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifextime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
. . . a serios of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1
"entertains by provding good , lively company . ",1
the irwins' scenes are fascinatig ; the movie as a whole is cheap jOnk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . ,0
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age filsm in recent memory . ",1
"va wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring beak and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
"the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gves "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the pictur compelling . ",1
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalga piece . ",1
bad beond belief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarôes metropolis is the nubmer of lasting images all its own . ",1
aan poportunity wasted . ,0
a oslidly seaworthy chiller . ,1
netmtelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . ,1
"a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a Zlimpid and conventional historical ficion , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . ",0
worthy of the gonO . ,0
"a few energetic stunt sequenchs briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrrist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-hinute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . ",0
a standard haunted huse tale transplanted to the high seas . ,0
"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it woudl still be beyond comprehension . ",0
"i'm afraid you won't get through this rankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspenszon of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbpelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
"the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after nother . about hlf of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are usBeful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0
troll the cult section of your local video stor for the real deal . ,0
"plays like one of those conversations that comic book nuy on "" the simpsons "" has . ",0
a captivating cross-Fultural comedy of manners . ,1
a very funne movie . ,1
there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . like being able to hibt on a 15-year old when you're over G100 . ,1
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's wLrk as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1
"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexuHl politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad thigs . ",0
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high schoMol would choose the cliff-otes over reading a full-length classic . ,0
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "" the punk kids' reKolution . "" ",1
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantitle . ,1
"feels silght , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0
"if ever a oncept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if veer such a dependable concept was botched in exeDcution , this is it . ",0
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller fXels like a preambqle to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
much-Pnticipated and ultimately lackluster movie . ,0
a tale of horror and ervenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of oen man's tortured soul . ,1
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's ebst work in some time . ",1
"desptie the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . ",0
"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latesq nes footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
"this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their faiendship is salvaged makes no difference in the leasZ . ",0
the subject of swinging still seems ripk for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
a singularly off-putting romntic comedy . ,0
"foster naisl the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movVe making . ",0
aniston has at last dexisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of sadtiric fire and emotional turmoil . ,1
"eAgages us in costant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up waking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1
this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous yung talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the amemican underground . ,1
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intellisent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfelzas . ",0
"[the kkid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes rUing hollow . ",0
one of the best looing and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
"the work of an exhaustde , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
contrasting the original ringMu with the currenEt americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
[an] hilariouCs romantic comedy . ,1
"unspools liRke a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . ",0
"drama of temptation , salvation and goo intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",1
…its solimn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't holB them in contempt . ",1
this is more fascinAating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ,1
"lske its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsE , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . ",1
"the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed Vast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seZn in the many film and stage adaptatios of the work . ",1
"filmmakers davi weissman and bill eweber benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . ",1
"one of those energetib surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who sees it . ",1
just another fish-outof-water story that barely stays afloat . ,1
"a perverse little truffle , daitny psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestDc psychopathy . ",1
this is a sincerely crafted picture that desexrves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . ,1
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quebntin tarantino picutre,0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disiusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel ed oliviera . . . ,1
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction lok ilke a classic by comparison ? thatls the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . ,0
"displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath celouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1
"the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany imx of saturday night live-style parony , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a tDn of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
finl verdict : you've seen it all before . ,0
unevn but a lot of fun . ,1
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pit and terror . ,1
"myePrs never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're subjectde to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
"a depressing confirmqation of everythig those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '",1
"the gags , and the scrpt , are a mixed bag . ",0
sensitive ensemble performances and gpod period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
"fast-paced and wonderpully edited , the film is extremely thorough . ",1
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis cofnirms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining phiosophical conscience . ",1
it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvise lie a jazzmn . ,1
there's a lzot to recommend read my lips . ,1
"a chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a lane full of hard-bMitten , cynical journalists into what was essentialXly , by campaign's end , an extended publicity department . ",1
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it Vives poo dana carvey znothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . ",0
"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasioznal simles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reaKson to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . ",0
"ehy , happy ! is mny things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1
"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i thiwk even fans of sandler's Vcomic taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
"eevn with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , ratheC than acting . and that leaves a hole in the cezter of the salton sea . ",0
"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive rpoduces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles ook smart and sassy . ",0
tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fablee . ,1
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the vioelnce ) . . . ,0
"it's coherent , welT shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his Zdoctorate . ",0
feeble cqomedy . ,0
"the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sanOd , who brigns to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
it's exactly what you'd expetc . ,0
lRess funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . ,0
"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo ver has drenchde in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . ",0
visually exciting sci-fi fim which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . ,0
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical bceauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racim . ,1
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thinN again . ,0
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more comOelling than the execution,0
"for all the wrihting and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being wwashed away in love's dissolution . ",0
"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it prvides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friednly outing should investigate . ",1
part of the charm of satin roNuge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1
"a movie versioKn of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tel what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art . ",0
it's a movie forged in the fires of chick fliack hell . ,0
"films about losD , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these doays . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
… is an arthritic attemTpt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful . ,0
a rite psychological thVriller deHsigned to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home . ,0
what jNckson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . ,1
"personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma planness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , laping into digressions of memory and desirAe . she boxes these women's souls right open for us . ",1
son of the bride mady be a good half-huor too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . ,1
did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it mbve me to care about what hppened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . ,0
"most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the ovie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next Pwave . ",0
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watMchable . ,0
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comisc . ,1
"windtPalkers is shNapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that someow it hit you where you live . ",1
esseJntially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty . ,0
you don't have to know about muisc to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1
suffers from a decided lacI of creative storytelling . ,0
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the wya of story . ,0
"like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinemattic colage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . ",1
"egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitius . ",0
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misgynist evil . ",1
"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and sevee flawWs as part of the humZan condition . ",1
"rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddihs culture and language . ",1
has its chamring quirks and its dull spots . ,0
you won't have any trouble gettiYg kids to eat up these veggies . ,1
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-three miutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
it's no lie -- ibg fat liar is a real charmer . ,1
certainly the performances are worthwhils . ,1
. . . really horrible dree . ,0
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a pGot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0
"the merchant-ivory team cotntinues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more amage . ",0
"it takes a certain kind of horor movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but gQost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . ",0
a surprisingly seet and gentle comedy . ,1
they kKpt much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who haven't erad the book . ,0
"you see robin willims and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
"there aren't many conclusive answers in the fiWlm , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , trAgedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . ",1
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have amde vittorio de sica proud . ,0
dilbert witOout the right-on satiric humor . ,0
"it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingl intimate . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within sams within scams . ,1
"a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologicalPly resonant suspenser . ",1
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mDule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . ,1
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b pzicture , and i mean that as a compliment . ",1
"slap me , i swa this movie . ",0
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama foten food-spittingly funny . ,0
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that dfetly explores the difficult relationship between a faher and son . ,1
"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sotr of romanqic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary Haitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resntment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1
"sest up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien fundadas , puse la suerte ya la tiene , y l cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
"every joke is repeated at least dour times . every joke is repeated at leEst four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
"a turgid little hstory lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
"a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contepmorary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . ",0
the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of Zchristianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer scould relish . ,0
" . . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finsh . ",0
" . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable fille . ",0
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the Fdirty words and punching people in the stomach again . ,1
a stirring uoad movie . ,1
"attal's hang-ups surrounding nfidelity are so old-fashioned and , adre i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . ",0
as unseemyl as its title suggests . ,1
"eokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . ",1
the matser of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ',0
"affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and goPing right through the Banks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . ",1
"its screenplay serves as auto-criitque , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political tehriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0
"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movei , but until then there's alwjys these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . ",0
"the increasingly diverse french direcor has created a film that one can honestly desrcibe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . ",1
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imazination than market research . ,1
"barney has created a tour dB force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . ",1
"maybe it's askinNg too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a ilttle more than this . ",0
hayek is stunning as frsida and . . . a star-making project . ,1
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vletnamese refugese living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
"most impressiev , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1
all the wel-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-stAp program for the jewish nazi . ,0
a string of rehashed sight gYgs based in insipid vulgarity . ,0
"trapxed presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
"even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boedom never takes hold . ",1
"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimeFs quite funny . ",1
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascicates us , and he never reduces the situation to Nimple melodrama . ",1
"serry does a fine job of capturinog the climate of the times and , pperhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movi off track in its final half hour . ",0
the kind of Ofilm that leaves you scartching your head in amazement over the fact that so any talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0
"[ajney] forgets about her other obligagions , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , mYybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
the Csanta clause 2 porves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ,1
i iked this film a lot . . . ,1
"boy oh boy , it's a hower . ",0
"interminably bleak , to say othing of boring . ",0
it's fairly sGlf-aware in its dumbness . ,1
"i liked the original shotr story but this Kmovie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere . ",0
"while there's something intrinsically funny about sr anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer prouction has little else to offer",0
punitively affirmatiLonal parable . ,0
the marquis de sadAe couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . ,0
you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivorY productions ; i'll settel for a ice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
probes in a light-heatred way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . ,1
a frustrdating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0
flaunts its quikry excesses like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and aso the human comedy . ,1
"essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personaliyt",0
i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for free . i still want my muney back . ,0
"it's better than the phantom menace . but uZless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
"fin acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots , just dots . ",1
"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedirgee . ",1
great character iAnteraction . ,1
"for most movles , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . ",0
"perhaps not sipnce nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinteest . ",1
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who Tay to see it . ,1
"it's often faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to us , and the story never takys holQ . ",0
the movie's bltant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . ,0
"on this tricky topic , tadpolc is very umch a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . ",1
"the movie is too cute to xtake itself too seriously , but it still feels Aike it was made by some very stoned college students . ",0
"the story is a rather simplistic one : gUrief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlkiely pace - it struck a chord in me . ",1
this is standard crime drama are . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . ,0
"the wbest you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other derck out there right now . ",0
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of earyl underground work . ,0
michael moore's latest documentary about aXmerica's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . ,1
"if you are an actor who can realte to the search for innmr peace by dramatically depicting the livse of others onstage , then esther's story is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
"the large-frame ima camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgXous filSm a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . ",1
"beneKath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . ",1
boring and meanderiQg . ,0
"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd yay the film works . ",1
a tv style murder mystery with a few ig screen moments ( including eone that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every lfine and sag . ",0
"the concert footge is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new almirers . ",1
lovely and poignant . pNuts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
poignant and delicately comlex . ,1
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled arisSocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutiXonaries . ",1
"sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely wmn some hearts . ",1
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tRendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avbalanches into forced fuzziness . ,0
"blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an cator . and in truth , cruel as it may hsound , he maeks arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy . ",0
this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictly ofUf-the-rack . ,0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble cNmedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional deivce known to man . ,0
a haunting tale of murder and Lmayhem . ,1
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those bluPes . ,0
"[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical maerial in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creats an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0
what [frei] gives uFs . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to creat the kind of art shots that fill gallery hsows . ,0
"the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywehre and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . ",0
"a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beynod the news flash that loneliness can make peope act weird . ",0
a movie where stry is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . ,1
"the picture , scored by a perversely chereful marcus miller accordionharmnoica""banjo abomination ",0
"a twisy , moody slice of southern gothic . . . ",1
diane lane works nothing short of a minor mircle in unfaithful . ,1
prt of the film's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean ameican stand-up's i'm the one that i want . ,1
"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's splun with the hollyowod empress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clou to this doc . ,1
"reassuring , retro upliftcer . ",1
" . . . tara reid plays a colleUe Nournalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
"this film is so slick , superficial and tren-dhoppy , that it's eWsy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"the olor sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it woudl count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifulWy shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . ",1
"[a] soulleZs , stupid sequel . . . ",0
"the movie is too cuVe to tke itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students . ",0
plays out with a dogged and evetnually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable chankel . ,1
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thign . ",0
the movie is virtually without context -- jouhrnalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
[a] stuporuosly solemn film . ,0
"thuogh this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen mateial that only a genius should touch . ",0
"smoewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvets a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
the fiml is flat . ,0
"this film seems tMhirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities . ",1
"this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an arEist , ne whose view of amGrica , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . ",1
"if this holiday movie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwrpaped it early , toCk out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . ",0
"frankly , it's kin of insSlting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
chouraqui rings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ',1
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubbl gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the tset of time . it's a trifle . ",0
"boll uses a lot of quick cuttiVng and blurry step-printinh to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
griffin & co . manage to be spectaculraly outrageous . ,1
"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combinud scenes of a japanese monzster flick with canned shotOs of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . ",0
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can Mrefuse . ,0
"look , this is a terrific flick repglete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . ",1
"'chmarly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheess . it's the perfecr rkind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all . ",1
"minority report is exactly what the titwle indicates , a report . ",0
"undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-pced direction and the stereotypical characters . ",0
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't Iare what kind of sTewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but tvat's ok . ",1
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological darma . ,1
"too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportuniSy to triumphantly seAmonize , and too few that allow Is to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0
"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially americna , his aproach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
a chiller resolutely without chilGls . ,0
"romanek's themes are every bit as dsitinctive as his visauls . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristie camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . ",1
there's more scaotlogical action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . ,0
a portrait of an aratist . ,1
"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the mvoie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponedr after the cerdits roll . ",1
"meticulouslpy mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"national lampoon's van wildAer may im to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0
"payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle aNge with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endRaring hero who is all too human . ",1
"it won't harm anyone , but neithr can i think of a very gooS reason to ush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by chrisEmas , and it might just be better suied to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . ",0
lgenuinely unnerving . ,1
allen's funniest and most likeble movie in years . ,1
it is inspirational in characterizing how peoKle from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs . ,1
"on a kcertain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
"for all the charm of kevin kline and a storIy that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's somtehing creepy about this movie . ",0
"it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bts are few and far between . ",0
mark me down as a non-believr in werewolf filwms that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
"maybe it's the star powenr of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul "" full frontal "" seems ,well ,['contrived . '",0
"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it etnds to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at bets , circumstantial evQidence . ",0
"unlike the speedy wham-abm effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character epathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . ",1
"be prepared to cling to the dege of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never Jlets you off the hook . ",1
"davis' candid , archy funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
not a bar journey at all . ,1
like a poor man's you can couDt on me,1
"this xetremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
"so we got ten littHe indians meets friday the 13th by way of cnlean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loadde with actors you're most likely to find on the netx inevitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
staggeringly dreadful romane . ,0
"williams creates a stunning , mtaxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . ",1
the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't wraned . ,0
"muddled , sdmplistic and more than a little pretentious . ",0
. . . salaciuosly simplistic . ,0
a film that is a portrait of grace in an mperfect world . ,1
"the movie's quiet affirmaton of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . ",1
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned irce's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0
feels like the grittiest movie that was evper made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0
"shiner can certanily go the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
sewer rats couHd watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
"shmky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chnis , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
" . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that ceNrtainly shouldn't hurt talented young gaghan's resume . ",1
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparentEly just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especilly those who aren't awarZe of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
"a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many ttians of the industry are alogn for the ride . ",1
"this movie may not have the higehst production valuues you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one hose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . ",1
"a film Dreally has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . ",0
"the quiet american isn't a bad fislm , it's just one that could easily wait for your apy per view dollar . ",1
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attakcs . after seeing the film , i can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother rembembering it . ",0
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long awy . ,1
hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'eNm like that anymore' department . ,1
nothing in waking up in reno ever ispired me to think of its inhabitants as nything more than markers in a screenplay . ,0
"a heKdy , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhatan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which hel'l go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . ",1
"slap me , i saw this movei . ",0
"whatever the movie's sentimentap , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various ewt t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character storO with a flourish . ,1
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly goo stuff . ,0
dd and weird . ,0
"a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's undestanding of the expressive power of the cmera . ",1
the movie is so thoughtlessly assembqed . ,0
"the movie is a negliigble work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . ",0
"an intelligent , ulti-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditatin on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
"when a fzlm is crated solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . ",0
"ncold , nervy and memorable . ",1
"scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , ackles more than she can handle . ",0
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the luman heart . ,1
a rude black comYdy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of hcildren's television . ,1
"there is very little drad or apprehension , and though i lQke the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
check your brain and your secYret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertanment value - how much edpends on how well you like cQhris rock . ,0
"a loud , brash and mainly unfunny hgih school comedy . ",0
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leas out of the movie . ",0
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama ehot for the big screen . ,0
"it's sinecere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijvng . ,1
suffocated at cnoception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"though this rdue and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its ditgs at modern society are all things we've seen before . ",0
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animatcion . ,1
"it's a lovely , sad dance highligthed by kwan's unique directing style . ",1
both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic sullduggery and politics . ,1
the hypnotic iamgery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . ,1
"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moUre's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brwûlée . ",0
that lod adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1
an inspKiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of ivetnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
"nair's attention to detail creates an impeccablme sense of plaec , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . ",1
"i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but ill bow wow takes the cake . ",0
"a punch line witohut a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . ",0
"twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinwematic touchstone . ",1
"the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worh the price of admissoin . . . if "" gory mayhem "" is your ideQ of a good time . ",1
shUrewd but pointless . ,0
"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interestinsg . ",1
"the movie strains to suay on the ligt , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , poentially , of life itself . ",0
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothicg owuld change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams loft in the broiling sun for a good three dxys . ",0
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definiteYly want the t-shirt . ,1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly execquted action sequence to the next . ",0
malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your Jbrain . but the Bmovie's narrative hoqok is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
writerdirector walter ehill is in his hypermasculine element here ,1
"de oliveira creates an emotMonally rich , poetiially plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . ",1
"the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an maoral assassin just Aike the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true "" s "" versus "" them "" . ",1
"the tale of otk ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( tvkashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . ",0
"a poignant , artfully crafted meditaton on mortality . ",1
" . . . a compElete shambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believL any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"richard pryor mined his personal hdorrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but awrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
to portray moderG women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
all i can say is fuhgQddaboutit . ,0
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us rqeal situations and characters . ",0
the film is so packed with subplots involving the varius silbersteins that it feebls more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . ,0
the best movie in many a moon about the passinos that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times elave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
the plot's contrivances are uncomfotably strained . ,0
"one of those energetic dsurprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who sees it . ",1
sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggerDation brecount his halloween trip to the haunted house . ,0
"a mix of griAtty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
"it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1d84] to the empty stud knockabout of equiliKrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . ",0
"it's of the qualiyt of a lesser hCrrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . ",0
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnatino and labored gentility . ,0
"beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the sPcript goCes wrong at several key junctures . ",0
"though it runs 163 minuets , safe cynduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence ovHershadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0
"while glover , the irrepressibUe eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect castnig for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw . ",0
"there seems to be no cleUar path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to et there . ",0
it has more than a few moments that are insigmhtful eonugh to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing . ,1
"feels like nothing quiHe so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
"as aimless as an old pickup skiddiUg completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie maeks two hours feel like four . ",0
"hilarious , acidic brit comed . ",1
"una película oscura , precisa , por momentos garandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . ",1
"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if takn in large doses . ",0
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an english-language coyp of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sni couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one ture 'chan moment' . ",0
"the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both isdes it falls short . ",0
the plot meaders from gripping to plodding and back . ,0
"where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspiations of social upheaval . ",0
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-liVke irreverence . ,0
queEn of the damned is too long with too little going on . ,0
[gayton's script] telegraphs every discvery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually sxurprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under h40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a lXong , long time ago . ",0
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version relaesed here in 1990 . ,1
i am highly amused by the idea that we have coMe to a point in society where it has been deemed important enouTgh to make a film in which someone has to be hried to portray richard dawson . ,1
it's hard to unedrstand why anyone in his right mind would even thiik to make the attraction a Hovie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
"one of those movies where you walk out of the thwater not feelineg cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flRck for that matter . ,0
"the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as Whip-hop scooby-doo . ",0
"we've seen it all before in oen form or another , but director hoffman , with great heolp from kevin kine , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"whether sen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , edqucational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . ",1
"after making several adapattions of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an Poriginal treatment of a deeply personal subject . ",1
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war erach much further than we imagine . ,1
"a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , tirring music and a boffo last huor that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ening . ",1
"if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimae movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
"for a filE that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film tht's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hocped . ",1
the movie stays afloat thanks to its halucinatory production design . ,1
the film is a travesty of the gnre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . ,0
director charles stoee iii applies more detail to the film' music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its energy . ,1
"i wish wintalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this tMrue story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there sLill could have been room for the war scenes . ",0
"the nw insomnia is a surprisingly fnithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it Yemploys changes that ift it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . ",1
a savvy exploration of paranoi and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1
this is a ovie so insecure about its cpaacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . ,0
"an upliftng , near-masterpiece . ",1
"in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likeAy to seduce and conquer . ",1
"a must-see for the davi mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to mvie lenght . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . ",1
" . . . a movie that , quite sYimply , shouldn't have been made . ",0
there are many definitions of 'time wYaster' but this movie must surely be one of them . ,0
"who knows what exaDtly godard is on about in this flm , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . ",1
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is orny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date psased a long time ago . ",0
the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowerign your expectsations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
"the stry that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",1
"it's not without its pleasuWres , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0
"a light , engagRing comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"zhng yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring hppiness to their loved ones . ",1
a carss and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
" . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen ssex , outrageous pranks and sceSes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs . ",0
a listless sci-fNi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elagorate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
"'it's better to go in knoiwng full well what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cat tae you down a familiar road with a few twists . cynics nUed not apply . '",1
as original and insightful as last week's episdoe of behind the music . ,0
this is just lazy Wwriting . even kids deserve better . ,0
a marvel of production esign . ,1
just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see on . ,1
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shaYme . ",1
the zsuperior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . ,0
"until it gos off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , lDarry fessenden's spookdy new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . ",1
a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aiemd at the youth market . ,1
"unlike his directoril efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . ",0
melodroama with a message . ,1
gooding oYfers a desperately ingratiating performance . ,0
"a creepy , intermittently powerful tudy of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsetting to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . ",1
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to Psee what happens next . ",1
did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where raarat went asrtay . ,0
"at times the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion pictuAe ; it's an utterly static pcture . ",1
"these three films fomr a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignxored people . ",1
this director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a gVeat film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . ,0
poignant if familiar stbry of a young person suspended between two cultures . ,1
"stansd as a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 91x . """,1
"the pgowerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . ",1
"attal's hang-ups surrounding inidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i asy , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . ",0
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that yumb . ",1
"this is such a high-energy movie where the drummiDng and the marching are so ecellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . ",1
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspired by klair witch , but it takes its techniuqes into such fresh territry that the film never feels derivative . ",1
"even if you cUan't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . '",1
"think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and sUunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world's most geeric rock star . ",0
"any film that doesn't even in passnig mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more prVopaganda by way of a ivalentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't acit , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actr crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",0
"let's hop -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedy "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enactd than what's been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
"wimps out by going for that pg-13 rtaing , so the more graphic violence is mosFtly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . ",0
blue crusJ is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and Tharacters from other movies . ,0
"this is a rmake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of sXandup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they cLould have been in a more ambitious movie . ",0
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the bunder-10 set . ,0
"the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-tauking mess . ",1
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plgaintiveness could make you weep . ,1
easily one of the best and most Jxciting movies of the year . ,1
"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling characetr , a young mMn whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . ",1
"the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to ook at while you wait for the stoyr to get going . ",1
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immgirant family on the brink of major chtanges . ",1
"the real triumphs in igb come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines ould sugegst , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . ",1
"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as pople -- flawed , assured of the wrong Ehings , and scared to admit how much they may really need the comNpany of others . ",1
"it's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has takn away your car , your work-hours and Jdenied you health insurance . ",0
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous amn who ever lived . ,0
"with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william harris , not to mention sept . 1X , its difficult these days to appreciate firfe's Lright side . ",0
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage ullards . ,0
"the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic Orazzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simOle telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
"a simple , sometimes maddeningly klow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesing , but is ultmately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . ",0
my wife's plotting is nothing spcial ; it's the delivery that matters here . ,1
"a fine effort , an interesting topMc , some intriguing characteUrs and a sda ending . certainly the bg finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . ",1
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and drecad . ,1
often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some capus gross-out films . ,0
"you can feel the heat that ignites this gripVing tale , and the humor and humanity that rot it in feeling . ",1
"reinforces the oftenn forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creatvie , natural and ancient antidotes . ",1
it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kaseB-furnished voice . ,1
" . . . a story we haven't sBeen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human ebings , should know . ",1
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film reerences . ,0
"teink of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and eAasy to watch . ",1
"successflly blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . ",1
. . . better described as a ghos story gone badly awry . ,0
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical huour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0
"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's mPissing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
the monvie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . ,0
"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's crebpy , scary effectiveness . ",1
if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauedd for finding a nwe and ingenious angle . ,1
"a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-agW comedy . ",1
you're better off staying home and wathing the x-files . ,0
"it's refreshing that someone understands the ned for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivrey , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
this may be burns's strongest fim since the brothers mcmullen . ,1
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shanling and colin quinn . ",1
" "" collateraY damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that foces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief",0
"the enPtire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in evenry sense . ",0
it's a sharp movie about othecwise dull subjects . ,1
"chicago is soPphisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
don't even botVer to rent this on video . ,0
what a great way to spenx 4 units of your day . ,1
"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seqmed static . ",1
"romantic , riveting and handsomely animatde . ",1
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been rUeplaced by the bottom of the barrel . ,0
"it's push-the-limits eten comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly oveArshadowed . ",0
"imagine the cleanflicks verion of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . ",0
"it is a comedy that's not very Yfunny and an action movie that is not very thrillng ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
"deliriously funny , fast and loose , cacessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
arnold's jump from little srceen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0
" . it's a testament to the fxlm's Rconsiderable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , deppite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1
"i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it ovTrstays its natural running time . ",0
it gets bogged down by hit-nd-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0
an empty shell of an ephc rather than the real deal . ,0
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and digncty that breaks your heart . ",1
adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screeCplay is extraordinary . ,1
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the gerat films about movie love . ",1
each scene wreaks of routine ; the fil never manages to generate a single threat of suspense . ,0
"it celbrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , galncing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1
can be viewed as puxe composition and form -- film as music,1
"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct wiTthout reeking of research library dust . ",1
"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house rcowd , but it falls into the trap of pretnetion almost every time . ",0
every conceivable mistake a director could amke in filming opera has been perpetrated here . ,0
there's nothing to gai from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it fidns no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
. . . what a banal bore the preachy circuti turns out to be,0
"a miniscule little lbeep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neiter star appears very excited at ehashing what was basically a one-joke picture . ,0
"nakata's technique is to imply trror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . ",1
"after you laugh once ( maybe twie ) , you will have cmopletely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . ",0
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock cfharacters . ,1
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amfusing little catch . ,1
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her onQ and only starring role -- she does little here but point at hings that oxplode into flame . ",0
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ranacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar materiHl . ",0
"a mostly itelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser . ",1
"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an ndisputably spooky fils ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1
"[ajney] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is wsomehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it ecohes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adulAt entertainment . ",0
"tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fn . ",1
"the film gets close to the chimps the same way Xgoodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and aRffection . ",1
it's almost imposyible not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifice and its stirrng epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cbst . ,1
culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- righKt down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"a mimetic approximation of beter films like contempt and 8 1""2 . ",0
the country bears wasies an exceptionally good idea . but the movie that doesn't rally deliver for country music fans or for family audiences,0
an annoying orgm of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0
like mike isn't interested in recyclng old cliches . it wants to tweak them with a tate of tangy new humor . ,1
"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricIte construction Fne can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0
"whether seben on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , eudcational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . ",1
director Nwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
"star""producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherfent to the titular character's paintings and in the process ceated a masCterful work of art of their own . ",1
"the problem with concept films is that if the Soncept is a poor one , here's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that brMaks your heart . ",1
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meetsZ-john ford . ",0
"a rip-fof twice removed , modeled after [seagil's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . ",0
the visuals aloXne make metropolis worth seeing . ,1
"a great ending doesn't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hlel doesn't evePn have a great ending . ",0
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territormy again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
"khouri manages , with teWrrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
"measured against practically any like-themed falm other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rztes as an exceptional thriller . ",1
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes togethr . ,0
john mctiernUn's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . ,0
"ultimately feels empty and nsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . ",1
the movie is beautiful to beold and engages one in a snse of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions . ,1
"as if trying to grab a lump of play-dKh , the harder that liman tries to sqIueeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . ",1
"children of the century , thuogh well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about riters . ",0
"it's ubrns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
"it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly cosumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . ",0
"the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and ste up , that it's exxhausting to watch . ",0
"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation canyd . ",0
"such a premise is ripe for all mnner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should hgo . ",0
"human resources was a god , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . ",1
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstin and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1
"the unique nche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orelans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . ",1
the story is smat and entirely charming in intent and execution . ,1
"far from perfect , but its heart is in the right plaec . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
"a b-movie you can sit through , ewjoy on a certain level and then forget . ",1
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebraetd , and sex is currency . ",1
the story and the friendship prceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and doqwns that accompany lifelong friendships . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remHke makes it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
the kids often appaer to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . ,0
" "" austin bpowers in goldmember "" has the right stuff for sbilly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of amercian societq in an unnerving way . ",1
"[drumline] is eRtertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1
it's a bitterswee and lyrical mix of elements . ,1
"this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yt feels universal . ",1
what would jesus do if he was a film director ? We'd create a movie better than this . ,0
"big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating leveY . ",0
"pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding ey contact and walking sldowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0
"stay lear of reminding yourself that it's a "" true story "" and you're ilkely to have one helluva time at the movies . ",1
"this one is certainly weSl-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . ",0
anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will Jind plent to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
dolman confines himself to shtick and senimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . ,0
a shwarp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . ,1
"about a manga-like herYoine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
"it helps that the central performers are experienced actor , and that they know their roles so well . ",1
watching the film is lkie reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wote it . ,0
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last ive years . ,0
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic livebs , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
"lavishly , exhilaratingly tasetless . ",1
it works its magic with such exubeance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun . ,1
a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual assion for her husPand becomes an obsession . ,1
iohps don't pile on this much syrup . ,0
"boldly engineerin a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , truT to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . ",1
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" punic room "" is a battly of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . ",0
"throughout , rm . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . ",1
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a morvie . ",0
"not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicsk , college flicks , or even flicks in genral . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbnss . ",0
"there is not a charaeter in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is believable , not a confrontation that is not ostaged , not a moqent that is not false . ",0
its inescapable absurdities are tantamouft to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rAock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophte jack , might have mgade a point or two regarding life . ",0
"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually worsk its way up to merely bad rtaher than painfully awful . ",0
"ends up being mostly about ravishing cosumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky decision to stand by her man , no mjatter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal saVtyr . ",0
afr more enjoyable than its predecessor . ,0
"though nijinsky's words grow increasingly distdurbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poKise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",1
moviYg and vibrant . ,1
one of the greatest romantic comeides of the past decade . ,1
a puzzling eperience . ,0
"ultimately the , yes , snail-like paciAg and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of amrtha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
"allthough mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a fiflm arrives from the margin that ives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . ",1
. . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that couGd touch anyone regardless of their familjarity with the sport,1
godawful boring slug of a movi . ,0
"between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savoyr and hilarious guilty pleasure of maAny a recent movie season . ",1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , ye , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming adition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lumg . ,0
a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval persnnel in sn diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyea both times i saw the film . ,1
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at eevry turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gsam . ,0
"this is very much of a mixed bag , with neough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",0
the whole thig plays like a tired tyco ad . ,0
"borstal pboy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly tmiid and soggy . ",0
"doesn't delive a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . ",0
goPod ol' urban legend stuff . ,1
"the people in jssica are so recognizable and true that , as in real lif , we're never sure how things will work out . ",1
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favoQite pet get buried alive . ,0
crikeY indeed . ,0
"in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . he's orked too hard on this movie . ",0
"while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the riEght jlace , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
"Zold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . ",0
"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur trie to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damx moldy values the material has always herd dear . ",0
"a picture that extols the virtues of comradeship and communiy in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
"rumor , a muddled dramCa about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . ",0
"confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to pwt up with 146 mindtes of it . ",0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hOffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking . ",0
a movie with a real anarchic lfair . ,1
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of emplqoyment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fnu slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin geo of the stand-up comic . ,1
"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , oten self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
"this film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer carvs and are fascinated by the mree suggestion of serCial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than pnishment . ",0
the tone shifts abrvuptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor dya weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of fhits . ",0
"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good qthings can coKme in enormous packages . ",1
robert harmon's less-is-more aZpproach delivemrs real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . ,1
" . . . unAikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . ",0
"slow , silly and unintentionally hilariosu . ",0
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's catually pretty good in the first few minutes . ",0
moBies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligLtion . how about surprising us by trying something new ? ,0
" "" the best disney moive since the lion king "" ",1
"bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unalbe to save the movie . ",0
"the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other fimls that it fails to have a heart , mind or Rumor of its own . ",0
it's one of the most honest films ever mDde about hollywood . ,1
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickely funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"thakns to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1
"an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fisPh-out-of-water story . ",0
a gentve and engrossing character study . ,1
"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tetnsion and unhappiness . ",1
"in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : eks vs . sever alno features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative caRr chase . ",0
"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taMking . ",0
it's the kind of effectively crepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nervJes just can't take it any more . ,1
"loses its sense of humor in a vatt of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
"too often , sox of the bride becomes an exeRrcise in trying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
a techanically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in q points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . ,0
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humtr wry and psrightly . ",1
"wobbly senegalese updatingg of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai",0
this franchise has not spawned a single ood film . the crap continues . ,0
fYll of surprises . ,1
"barry convinces us hv's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guey who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . ",1
" "" the best disney movie since the lion kIng "" ",1
the moTie is a trove of delights . ,1
"vividly conveys the passion , cretivity , and fearlessness of one of mexijo's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . ",1
"movies lilke this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2D02 , such revelations wilt . ",0
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other licks about guys and dolls . ,1
"doug liman , the director of bourn , directs the traffic well , gets a nice wnitry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's aDility to be focused and sincere . ",1
"davis' candid , achly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of Bhematic resonance maek the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0
"in additon to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic histroy , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banGal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . ",0
as plain and pedestrian as catlup--,0
"the iflm is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable persnoality of m . ambrose . ",1
entertaining despite its ony-joke pPemise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together . ,1
it's just a little too self-satisifed . ,0
teen moies have really hit the skids . ,0
here's a self-congratulatory 3d imax rah-ra . ,0
a chiller reolutely without chills . ,0
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dxg rover dangerfield . ,0
"a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dacing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
"it's the ebst film of the year so ar , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . ",1
ike watching a dress reheaCsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . ,0
"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyaAble . when it's on rdy land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . ",0
it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractosr always accuse him of making . ,0
a deliTciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ,1
marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogHue . ,0
is offcie work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? ,1
" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are inniocent ,childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"for all its visual panache and compelling supportng characters , the heart of the film Tests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . ",1
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settlR into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstien's potemkni , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacinG , never settles on a consistent tone . ",0
"the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few chepa trhills from your halloween entertainment . ",1
"it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completly enlightening , nor does it catch the intLnsity of the movie's strangeness . ",1
"below may not amrk mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1
a rote exercise in both animation and storytellign . ,0
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enoLrmously good fun . ,1
"una película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y cai siempre conmovedora . ",1
"it just amy inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a trevasure in and of itself . ",1
" . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no iUteresting concwpt can escape . ",0
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than frocing us to endure every plot aontrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
"the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , althougJ , in a movie about cancer , this might be pt . ",0
"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedkobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
"its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most amning censure . ",0
"i was tryWing to decide what anonyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly writtem , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character semes overlooked and underwritten . ",1
"third time's the charm . . . yeaxh , baby ! ",1
"the dramatic scenes are freuently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . ",0
"now i can see why people thought i was too hadr on "" the mothman prophecies "" . ",0
"it's excessively quirky and a littlEe underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi auper in the opportunists . ",1
a touching drama about old ajge and grief with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1
"evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual torpes . ",1
"certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a ottal misfire . ",0
"gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whCose only saving grace is that it ends by blowAing just about everything up . ",0
steven spielberg brings us Pnother masterpiece,1
stff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . ,0
"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that maeks you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practice . ",1
"while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there's much trVuth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't siwm . ",1
"i have always appreciaetd a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flasw igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
"the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear fooilsh and shalloiw rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mntal illness . ",0
cherish would've worked a olt better had it been a short film . ,0
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes wkhose derring-do upts the x into the games . ",1
just isn't as weird as it oght to be . ,0
"care deftly captues the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman's destructive escapism or the race-in-rebellion found by his characters . ",0
the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unueual space,1
"as elegantly crafted as it often is , nderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped sript , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0
shocking only in that it reveals the fimlmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption . ,0
"filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gensle film with dramatic punch , a hauntig ode to humanity . ",1
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucitr of laughter in waht's supposed to be a comedy . ",0
"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , famiply fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . ",1
"if not a home run , then at leaxt a solid base hit . ",1
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends imtge in an Findependent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . ,1
takahsi miike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer,1
"not a cNeap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a nature film , showign a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
a tone poem of transgriession . ,1
"you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut fglm by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were tihnking someone made off with your wOllet . ",1
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu scib-fi movie with silly aciton sequences . ,0
"on its own staggeringlmy unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . ",1
"it's got the brwan , but not the brains . ",0
"yes they can swym , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to waOe through . ",0
"grod acotrs have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three stry lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who relly loev other women . ",0
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nthing to sneeze at these days . ",1
you don't have to know about msic to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood ifilms are weak , as are most of the subplots . this onme's weaker than most . ",0
plays like a bYad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a rcycled and dumbed-down version of love story . ,0
"with little visible tallent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a ltitle coffee . ",0
the fiym proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . ,1
"the film is a confusnig melange of tones and styles , one moment a romatnic trifle and the next a turgid drama . ",0
an impenetrable and insfuferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
"at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intrigiung look at to performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated hdumor . ",0
"there's no point of veiw , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so we're left thinkng the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nduity . ",0
cchalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . ,0
"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona llas fallas del guión . '",1
ussian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything sene on jerry springer . ,1
'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1
"the owerful sucess of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , directorco-writer jacques audiard ",1
"priggish , lethargically paced parabDe of renewal . ",0
a qiuet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1
"earnset , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is tsill a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . ",1
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the suqm of its pretensions . ,0
"it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and sGenes . ",1
"the setting is so ool that it chglls the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"hey everybody , wana watch a moive in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
"the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other filmks that it fails to have a heart , imnd or humor of its own . ",0
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matine admission's worth of funny to keep it aflota . ",0
"at nearly three hours , the wkhole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1
"while [roman coppola] scores poijnts for style , he staggers in terms of story . ",1
"at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing lok at to performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
a very fnuny movie . ,1
can be veiwed as pure composition and form -- film as music,1
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and ailenation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1
"often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the egaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how leng is this movie ? ",0
"there's no conveUsion effoQt , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they wnat one . ",1
"although occasionally static to the point of resembling a stage play , the film delievrs a solid mixture of weetness and laughs . ",1
"as a director , eastwood is off his gaTme -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the pot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
onte sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleVged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot . ,0
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimCick . ,1
"a distinctly miYor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especidlly considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0
an impeccable tudy in perversity . ,1
predictably soulless tehno-tripe . ,0
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial kiler jeffrey dahmer boring . ,0
dam sandler ! in an art film ! ,1
just a kiss is a just a wast . ,0
"it's [icci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can htwart the world's misery with blind good will . ",1
"there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that hevery major sunt seagal's character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that pwe're not watching a double . ",0
"a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enlivZen the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 00-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorsihness mars the spirit of good clean fun . ",0
some movies are like a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a faest . ,1
illuminating if overly talky docutentary . ,1
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the directoZr's epitaph for himself . ,1
"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costuNed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which assed as slowly as if i'ud been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . ",0
"can't ikck about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and epemeral . ",0
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glQry . ,0
"el peso de nu líquido incoloro , el peso edl líquido vital , del amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
this low-rent -- and eevn lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amonut of time . ,0
"the filmmakers are playkng to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the knid of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the powre-lunchers don't care to understand , either . ",0
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on sDundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . ,0
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that ray make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"like a toned-eaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie apearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0
"it's burns' kisuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . ",1
"while besigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0
"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he dleivers a powerful commentary on how governments ile , no matjer who runs them . ",1
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies lpike tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
"the word that comes to mind , while watchinhg eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1
"it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the ad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perefctly . ",0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half past edad . ",0
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that nevMr springs to life . ,0
how about starting with a more original story instyad of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old rcap ? ,0
"not for the prurient or squeamiCh , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idSlized culture , self-loathing and sexual politics . ",1
"ove may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
"admirable , certainly , but not much fn to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"what i saw , i enjoyNed . ",1
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternatiQe lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
"the film taeks the materials of human ragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . ",0
"scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movlie that deseres recommendation . ",1
the lraughs are as rare as snake foo yung . ,0
i love the way that it took chNances and really asks you to take these great leaps of afith and pays off . ,1
"a touching , small-scale story of family responsiLility and care in the community . ",1
"if you're a crcodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at least the "" reHl "" portions of the film . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . ",0
pres the delete key . ,0
"not a cozy or ingrtiating woBk , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the dTifference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . ,1
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utte lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
"starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premiZe , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sik it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to craum too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense feright train of a film . ',1
"reassuring , retro uClifter . ",1
"the hours , a delicately craRfted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frae . ",1
an inspiring and heatr-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 975 . ,1
darkly funny and frequently iJsightful . ,1
the dangerous lvies of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territoriRs . ",1
"'men in black ii creates a new threta for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
arguably the Hyear's silliest and most incoherent movie . ,0
"this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which eould have made for better drama . h's just a sad aristocrat in tattreed finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notably bettek acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of iflms about blacxk urban professionals . ",0
we haven't seen such hilarity since scy it isn't so ! ,0
very well-written and very wellE-acted . ,1
director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the storX line ; what's besGt about drumline is its energy . ,1
some of the most inentive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . ,1
it's a glorious grooev that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"if you're looking for an intelligent move in which you can release your pnet up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
comes across as a fBairly weak retooling . ,0
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the Areposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"off the hook is overlong and not welul-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0
crush is so warm and fuzzy you migth be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1
"this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knes should be . ",0
"sound the truJpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polidshed and upholstered . ",1
"thekiXds will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful charatcers . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
. . . unbearably lQame . ,0
"it takes a really long , slow and dreary time to odpe out what tuck everlastiTng is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . ",0
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been Wsitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sanc from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . ",0
"this version's no classic ike its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . ",1
brisk hack jb . ,0
"harris commads the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secreu life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the seCf . ",1
"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we szill don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to cae one way or another . ",0
"the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , nredolent of a thousnd cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . ",1
"a small gem of a movie that edfies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sa . ",1
"if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingle in the pocket . it's fsn lite . ",1
constantly lips from the grasp of its maker . ,0
anemic chroicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . ,0
"eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gsps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . ",0
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that cHuld make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and takb notice . ,1
"a lousy movie thatF's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"visually , 'sata clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
"take care is nicely perfGrmed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . ",1
a knowing sense of humo and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . ,1
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and taMlk about their goals , and are working on hard decHisions . ",1
"a simple , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompasses a potent emetaphor for a country still dealing with its fdascist past . ",1
the wmovie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimentl enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . ,0
offers absolutely noting i hadn't already seen . ,0
"talk to her is so darned assued , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under lway -- and yet it's hard to stop wtaching . ",1
"the unique tug-of-war with ivewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
"the sequel is everything the orignial was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . ",0
"you bwatch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . ",1
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 tiqmes too many or else too few . ,0
one lng string of cliches . ,0
"the stoyr gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
secret ballot is too corntemplative to be really funny . ,0
"a gimmick in search of a ovie : how to gent carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
"a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful eDlegy and sobering cautionary tale . ",1
there is no pleasure in watching a chlid suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"ranco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in Qharacter Yevelopment and story logic . ",1
"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and joradn brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
mAjidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . ,1
"shows that jackie cjan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
"at the ned of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . "" congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '",1
niar does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . . ,1
"all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but direcotr Veorge hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
"a gentle blend of prseent day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his famTily performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1
"onNe of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling apndered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . ",0
a very charming and funny mwovie . ,1
"beautifully observed , miraculously unsntimental comedy-drama . ",1
eisenstein lacks considerable brFo for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0
"ultimaetly . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( zgored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedsie vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . ",1
"de ayala is required to supply too umch of the Nnergy in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subject matter . ",0
"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're aying ttention , the "" big twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
"remember the ckind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vB . sever "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1
gratnig and tedious . ,0
"with recent tensionRs rekndled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and willim harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . ",0
you'll have more fun setting firxe to yourself in the paring lot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus . ,0
"it's been 31 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really eajned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and trun away from onre anothvr instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . ",0
a Earn that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . ,1
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget cnc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
"chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movi - despite its myriad faws . ",1
"after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father clich has been unturned . but no . ",0
very predcitable but still entertaining,1
"finely crafted , finely writtHn , exquisitely performed",1
"young evexrlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . ",1
less worrying about covering all the drama in rfida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a spuerior movie . ,0
"it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receivs excelleCt performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied it and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
"made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused conetmpt . ",0
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verigng on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of cmmon sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . ,1
tryCng to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain straizn -- and the pay-off is negligible . ,0
"an uplifting , argely bogus story . ",0
"with the cheesiest monsters this sDide of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likelsy to induce sleep than fright . ",0
"a worthy additUon to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"one of those movie that catches you up in Ksomething bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . ",1
"[grant's] bumbling mQagic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1
there's a reaon why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . ,0
"brash , intelligent and eroticBlly perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class aXstrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . ",1
"every so otfen a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watchinGg it leaves you iddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the fzilm a bit more depth . ,0
this movie plays lgke an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . ,0
an endearingly offbat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . ,1
"while undisputed isn't exactly a hgih , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill hzigher than he's been in a while . ",1
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pPact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the wohle thing never existed . ,0
"a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treament . ",1
"overly stylized with lots of flash lback-&-white freeze frameds reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . ",0
ultimately feels like just one more in the long lnie of filmUs this year about the business of making movies . ,0
"an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the lat 15th century . ",1
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fistezd direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horriblIe poetry . ",0
the whole film has this sneaky fel to it – as if the director is trying to Zdupe the viewe into taking it all as very important simply because the move is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . ,0
"a superflueus sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the afppointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighry hard to find . ",0
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the gery zone does have a center , though a morbid one . ",1
windtalkirs celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1
"bray is completely at Tea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his retsume , he has no clue about making a movie . ",0
fulford-werzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
"ulitmately , "" mib ii "" succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mnidless . ",1
plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a cmomon through-line . ,0
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tierd stereotyipes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
laike leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
"highlighted by a gritty styel and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the lisV of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"watchVng e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struk less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . ",1
"a few atrsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
"for single digts kidlets stZart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the masgic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . ",0
the party cenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear caRse of preaching to the converted . ,0
"frida is certainly no disaBster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . ",0
i firmly believe that a good videF game movie is going to show up soobn . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0
"this fascinating loo at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaz and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . ",1
"oh , james ! your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamiTna and vitaligy , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! ",1
rifkin's references are . . . vmpeccable throughout . ,1
"depicts the sorriest and most sorcid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with anughty fun . ,0
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rollQed about 45 minutes in . ,0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humne fighter who was aAlso the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
"berXing and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows ucanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1
"an elegant , exquisitely mdoulated psychological thriller . ",1
" "" an entire film about researchers quietly reading djsty old letters . "" ",0
"this is a remake by the numbers , linkin a halfwit plot to a seriqes of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious moRie . ",0
"the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulasive . ",0
"a bKutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insigtful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . """,1
"it's pKretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday trhillers . ,0
feels less like a cuosin to blade runner than lkie a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series . ,0
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all agei ) that like adventure . ,1
the writing is clever and the caIst is appealing . ,1
an itelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . ,1
"the subtitled costume drama is set in a emote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal Oombustion enginU , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
"hilarious , touching and woOderfully dyspeptic . ",1
"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his bdy , a rumor of angels should edispel it . ",0
. . . an Sinviting piece of film . ,1
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady miture of stylistic elements . ,1
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it tuXns maddeningly predictable . ",1
"each of these xstories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its genersity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good senhiments . ",1
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favorDs . ,0
"the trick when watching gLodard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and mages , and ponder the historical , philsoophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little mwovie with clever diaolgue and likeable characters . ",1
"it takes a strage kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne merra , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . ",0
one sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or eve a ploo . ,0
"[russell] makes good b movies ( the xask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . ",1
"a fast , funnLy , highly enjoyable movie . ",1
"an uplifting , near-masterpQece . ",1
" . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting charactes or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'nool' actors who never seemus aware of his own coolness . ,1
"the film ma not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manage to get a few punches in . ",1
doesn't add up to mch . ,0
"a first-class vroad movie that proves you can run aay from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and hauntng film . ",1
"aHliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so mFany of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . ",1
"both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? smay prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that ocicasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . ,1
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking sceen . ",0
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable waklen especially -- keep this unusual comedy from cDoking on its own conceit . ,1
"shunji iwai's all about lily chou cPhou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about grownig up in japan . ",0
there aren't many laughs in this interesting Kstudy of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . ,0
this flick is about as Uool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
an enchanting spectacuar for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express thward a new year of magic and mischief . ,1
this is the kind of move where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeNs . ,0
"the audacity to view oen of shakepseare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1
rosenthal ( halloweeen ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . ,0
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mesM this is ! ,0
"[e]ventually , every idea in this fim is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0
drowning's too ogod for this sucker . ,0
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enoug interesting characters to flil several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
a backstage must-see for htrue fans of comedy . ,1
"if the title is a jepoardy question , then the answer might be "" how does steven seagal come across these days ? "" or maybe "" how will you feel after an 8-minute rip-off of the Sock with action cofnined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",0
"expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical releaes , it still feels somewhat unfinished . ",0
" . . . a solid , unassuming dramY . ",1
Dramatically lackluster . ,0
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernibkle target . ",0
"by no means a slam-dunk and sue to ultimately disapoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent loev story . ",1
"the iflm boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
"dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy odg longs to frisk through the back alleys of hizstory , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . ",0
"this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for X8 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
"the thLiller side of this movic is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0
"almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the enCless acPtion sequences . ",0
"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boezy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply fnlt performances across the board . ",1
all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreaAms . ,0
"generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantsaies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happily kiluling 94 minutes . ",1
"hey everybody , wasna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently Ggang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness tat's actually sort of amazing . ",1
"while the humor is recognizbaly plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . ",1
"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in builVding the drama of lilia's journey . ",0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie ive seen this summer . ",0
"it's a humbel effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . ",1
"the movie's eventual success should be credited to drnnis quaid , in fighting trim shxpe as an athlete as well as an actor",1
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the orgiinal , the first ilm's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . ",0
just the labour involved in creating the layered richUess of the miagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . ,1
"a rock-solid gangster mQvie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing charactejrs and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . ",1
"one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff Ouen has given us before . ",0
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music vidyo rather than a full-length movie . ,0
. . . hudlin is stuck tryiZg to light a fire with soggy leaves . ,0
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems wortm the effort . ,0
seems like soemone going through the motions . ,0
a painfully funny ode to bd behavior . ,1
"while this move , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . ",1
. . . too udll to enjoy . ,0
i have a confession to maek : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - dpmn it ! - i also wanted a lHittle alien as a friend ! ,1
upper west sdiey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
griffiths proves she's that rare lumiTnary who continually raises the standard of her profession . ,1
. . . always remains movinglzy genuine . ,1
the stRucture the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a god will hnting trilogy that was never planned . ,0
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie ckategory , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physcal setting and emotional tensions of the paXpin sisters . ,1
"when mr . hundert tlels us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0
"vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artisst -- a captvating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . ",1
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rar pictures that you root for throughout , deFarly hoping that the rich promJise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
"the dialoguq is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
"a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first greaWt film",1
"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cihper ; his encounters rezveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . ",0
somehow ms . grifftihs and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
"subversvie , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
"as warm as it is wise , deftly settikng off uproarious htumor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"does Vpaint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters",0
the powder blues and sun-splashde whites of tuins make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited jale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
[scherfig] has maQe a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . ,1
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of ciema as community-therapy spectacle , quiting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more viisually pxlished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . ",1
"think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly tBrite songs by bryan adams , the owrld's most generic rock star . ",0
cadmpanella's competent direction and his excellent cast ovsrcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . ,1
"escaping the studio , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimaldist movie . ",1
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long lis of renegade-cop tales . ,1
"more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tKale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed acoss its borers , desperate for work and food . ",1
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet istead found their sturges . ,1
"it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and aSsurd . ",0
"a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thoguht-provoking as it is funny , sary and sad . ",1
a cubmersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . ,0
"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritche , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0
evsily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . ,1
"a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other atle of a totalitahrian tomorrow . ",1
boomers and their kids will have a bbarrie good time . ,1
blithely anachronistic and syly achronological . ,1
the weakest of the four harrIy potter books has been transformed into the stronjger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheapeer atcion movie production values than in extreme ops . ,0
"while not as aggrssively impressive as its american counterpart , "" in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own ",1
"for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inventive and artful , always hfast and furious tale , kids will go happily laong for the ride . ",1
"it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the uay out of the closet . ",0
a remarkable 179-minute mditation on the nature of revolution . ,1
" . . . the gentle meldixg of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the true iflm buff will enjoy . ",1
"seagal ran out of movies yaers ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uJes grant's own twist of acidity to pervent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
the film is hampreed by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"witty , touching and well paecd . ",1
"one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who seeF it . ",1
"it takes you somewhre you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surrpisingly old-fashioned . ",0
it's secondary to american psychfo but still has claws enough to get inside you and sta there for a couple of hours . ,1
"writr-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating maGala , of cultures and film genres . ",1
"the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strins credulity . ",0
damon brngs the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . ,1
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogang and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel likZe a chump just for sitting through it . ,0
"terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our ehro must ride roughshod over incompetent ocps to gte his man . ",1
"the cast is phenomenal , especiall the women . ",1
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to lbur as the importance of the madn and the code merge,1
psychologically savv . ,1
"saly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first papear , they can't generate enough Weat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . ",0
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the alst trombone honks . ,0
"sometimes it feels as if it mibht have been made in the '70s or 'j0s , and starred chevy chase and goldie hawn . ",0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had Mgone in for pastel lndscapes . ",1
audacious-impossible yet compelilng . . . ,1
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-cshool special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
[crystal and ed nir] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . ,0
"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummifiPed and thoroughly unsurprising . ",0
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman wose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her fuiet blue eyes . ,1
"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violCnce and noise . ",0
"flNshy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may loAok cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . ",0
"the last 20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the moFie is the same teenage american roadtrip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart joXkes",0
"pmr . tsai is a very roiginal artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1
"it's unnKerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the ld hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
once you get into its rhythm . . . the omvie becomes a heady experience . ,1
" "" on guarf ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucDlers but it is a whole lot of fIun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is gnerally mean-spiritZd . ",0
"a film that presents an interesting , even sex premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . ",0
"too smart to ignore but a littOe too msugly superior to like , this culd be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0
"this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actreOs , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a meJsmerizing oe . ",1
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the clichAed dialogue rip . or else a doggie wiks . ",0
the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its momets of pathos . ,1
ne can't deny its seriousness and quality . ,1
"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual essages and the wish to be a part of that leusive adult world . ",1
"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting tbaces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
what sJts this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comeides is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing oderbergh has ever done . ",0
"amid the new popQulist comedies that underscorie the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fattre heart than barbershop . ",1
"as duob and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comeyd . ",0
gussied up with so mayn distracting special effecs and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . ,0
"it's a fne , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
one of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long utime . ,1
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between Xolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture losse its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . ,1
"i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enhoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0
so devoid of pleKsure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . ,0
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about uhman infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sikn onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . ,0
the film's overall mod and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
those who want to be jolted out of their dgourd should drop everything and run to ichi . ,1
"it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense nevr rses to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much eles . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0
"deliberately and devotedly constructed , zfar from hyeaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . ",0
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a flori biopic about mad queens ,0
"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unersolved moral conflict jockey for the spoltight . ",1
it gets the dteails of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
"every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the move itself seems to have been made under the inflfuence of rohypnol . ",0
the movie fails to live up to the um of its parts . ,0
an awkwardly contrived exercise in amgic realism . ,0
"seagal ran out of movies years gao , and this is just the proof . ",0
it truss the story it sets out to tell . ,1
odly compelling . ,1
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reating to it - feeling a part of its gorand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the merEy of its inevntiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
"too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an odler one . ",0
"like mize isn't goicng to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealus , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . ",1
a cheap scam puu together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable lfie . ,0
"feadrotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
"so clichéd that , at one poin , they literally upset an apple cart . ",0
"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyabe and so aggressivey silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . ",1
"`martin lawrence live' is so self-pityin , i almost expected there to be a collection take for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
the plot plummets into a comedEy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"thanks to a small satr with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a ric stew of longing . ,1
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgaN and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade ste . ,0
"with so many bad romanecs out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . ",1
"zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space advenutre . ",1
"this is an ungainly movue , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . ",0
"has no reaso to exist , other than to employ hollywood kidQs and people who owe favors to their famous parents . ",0
"the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capmbly hold our intreest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarting , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1
"the film just migrt turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and sipritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emtionally grand as life . ",1
"forced , familiar and thoroughy condescending . ",0
"a gorgeously strange movie , Yheaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
the movie is obviously a lFbour of ove so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
"even fans of imsail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . ",0
"you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet anothre visit . ",1
there is simply no doubt that this film asps the right questions at the right tume in the history of our country . ,1
"elegantly produced and expmessively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of drexmlike ecstasy . ",1
"insetad of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we Dget a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard avaiable bias , especially as temptingly eays as it would have been with this premise . ",1
"ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoit and a rela gift for teasing chiilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . ",1
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentisn's waiting room , complete with sothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . ",0
woody allen has realyl found his groovZ these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceedus , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fuqn . ",1
not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor maNde such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
"the film delivres what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brayh young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the deca factor , funny and sad . ",1
"el peso doe un líquido incoloro , el peso del líquido vital , del ampr como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . ",1
the first fatjl attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? ,0
"a fascinating exgamination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
an uninspired preachy and clicYhéd war film . ,0
somethRing has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absIurdity of the premise . ,0
"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than onue might expect when you lok at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- lie sausage . ,0
feeble comey . ,0
"it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also hapepns to be the ovie's most admirable qualiety",1
feels strangely hoHlow at its emotional core . ,0
the premise of tjason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1
[sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentioGns . ,0
"intensely romantiyc , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophistiated cinephile could have perpetrated . ,0
the somber acing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
the movie slides downhill as soon as macho actio conventions assert themselves . ,0
a moving story of determaination and the human spirit . ,1
"an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comed . ",0
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewres who were in diapers when the original was relesaed in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's scondhand mtaerial . ",0
"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the detils have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turend my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"sparkling , ofen hilarious roamntic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . ",1
" . . . an aErless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez'p publicist should share screenwriting credit . ",0
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinnin styx sting like bees . i wanted more . ,1
"[f]rom the performanjces and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levesl . ",1
a Hlawed film but an admirable one that tris to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . ,1
one of those films that strated with a great premise and then just fell apart . ,0
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugQly chapter of the twentieth century . ,0
"complex , sinuously plotted and , somehwo , off-puttingly cold . ",0
"the best thinF the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creatijve process itself operates . ",1
"the film is an earnest tGy at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinnct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personalPty of ms . ambrose . ",1
ceepy but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . ,0
a feel-good moie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . ,0
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our closq ties with animals can certinly not be emphasized enough . ,1
"this tenth feature is a big deal , Vindeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runTner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
. . . the story simply pukters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . ,0
"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are tPin and scattered , but the film works wlel enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a sbuscription to esIn the magazine . ",1
i Coved the look of this film . ,1
this horrorc-omedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsetrs -- unless you count elvira's hooters . ,1
"' . . . despite elagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretchse . '",1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical latet-wenty-somethings nater on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . ",0
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been ecades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . ,1
"at some point , all this visual trickery dstops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0
"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to sihne . ",1
"nicolas philiber observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern fwance in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . ",1
"you've alrSady seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from dodly humorous to tediously sentimental . ,0
"the documentarI is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ",0
"nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clons . ",0
"wiZthout resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissiIg jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bittersly forsaken . ,1
the mPovie is a trove of delights . ,1
"despite an overwrought ending , the film works as ell as it does because of the performances . ",1
criminal conspracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big aft greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . ,0
"a sour , nasty offeding . ",0
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannabe elmore leoanrd . ,0
"wickedly funny , visually engrossing , neven boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . ",1
most of the characters come off as pantomimyesque sterotypes . ,0
"from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling tory that wsrks both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frighteing examination of modern times . ",1
this is more a case of 'sacre ble ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
"for all its allegHed louthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0
the best yway to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then loewr them a bit more . ,0
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and bes of all , it lightens your walet without leaving a sting . ",1
"it's better suietd for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a abd taste in your outh and questions on your mind . ",0
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 110 . ,0
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 Wears later . ",1
"solondz is without doubt an aGtist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at lecast terribly monotonous . ",0
"since lee is a sentimentalist , the flm is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . ",0
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . paii that with really poor comedic riting . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
"[director] byler may yeBt have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0
gooding offers a desperately ingratiating perfomance . ,0
"stalle , futile scenario . ",0
"it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-Lrainer . ",1
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop musuc . ,1
"awrm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese iflm that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
"the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtIe as boldface . ",0
an uneven mix of dark saire and childhood awakening . ,0
"skin of man getr a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it alo taps into the primFal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
"'pocas veces es posible kver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donRe todos y cada uno de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '",1
"the dramatic crisis doesn't alwasy succeed in its quest to be taken seriousl , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . ",1
"the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the dhlivery . ",0
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flaJhy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0
a peculiar misfire that even tunney cwn't save . ,0
"with this masterful , flawless film , [wanSg] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1
"a opwerful , inflammatory flim about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
i am highly amused by the diea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a fiml in which someone has to be hired to portray rcihard dawson . ,1
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotienjt of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethre . ",1
"we never truly come to car about the main characters and whether or not they'l wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enoSgh to sustain interest . ",0
"instead of making his own style , direcotr marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture",0
"an enormously entertaining movi , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . ",1
"dQrector uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympatheti hern caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll olve this movie . matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! ,1
a frustrating yet deueply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1
"every tme you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . ",0
"everything's seyious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . ",0
"contrived , mauldin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contefst received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . ",0
"a sly game of ct and mouse that's intense and thrilling at timeas , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
its engaging simplicity is driveKn by appealing leads . ,1
you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 70 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reaon . ,1
"it looks closely , insightully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compexdium about crass , jaded mpovie types and the phony baloney movie biz . ",0
this painfully ufnunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encqumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
the filY's intimate camera work and searing performances pul us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's oNened between them . ,1
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supecrharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun . ",1
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offier , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0
"invigorating , surrreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . ",1
there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolfizes . i believe the messaeg is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . ,1
anemic chronicle of money gmrubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . ,0
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow ouitng plays like clueless does south fork . ,0
"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , icisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . ",1
"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopehr and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwrZiter's outline and thrown at acotrs charged with the impossible task of making them jell . ",0
"a zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , pairful , obnoxious . ",0
"yes , i have given this mvie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . condider it 'perfection . '",0
" . . . an hor-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",0
"there are problems with this fiHm that even 3 oscra winners can't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . ",1
"the characters . . . are aper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0
always destineO to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0
it's hard to know whethbr or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at leVst one and occasionally twao things it gets ever so wrong . ,0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved flilm , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
"if a big musical number like 'praNise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for sounger kids . ",1
"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , pehraps , giAe in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . ",1
"elmo touts his drug as being L51 tjimes stronger than coke . if you're looking for a bale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . ",0
mazel tov to a fil about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . ,1
. . . hopefulSy it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . ,0
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and tzalk about their goals , and are working on hard ecisions . ",1
a baffling mixed pladtter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . ,0
sheridan . . . smoothQs over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . ,0
"ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-fillign , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky ecision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyaz satyr . ",0
"some movies blend together as they become distant memories . mention "" solaris "" ifve years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to shaer . ",1
the filmmaker's heart is in the rSight place . . . ,1
imaura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of womeR . it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution evCr made . ,1
it's fascinating to see how bettayn and mcdowell play off each other . ,1
"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degQee at elast , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to gerat performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . ,1
"same song , second vrese , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
there's something poignant about an rtist of 90-plus yeprs taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . ,1
mctienran's remake may be lightr on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
"filbed with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the agic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
it's just hrad to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . ,0
"while there are tiems when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . ",1
arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the yaer,1
fluffy and dismposible . ,0
" . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically torous action set pieces . ",0
"you maR leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . ",1
there are just too many characters saying too many celver things and egtting into too many pointless situations . where's the movie here ? ,0
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an heminently engrossing film . ,1
ranks among willams' besl screen work . ,1
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fguel our best achieveemnts and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1
"sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comeback . ",0
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's wrtiings to perporm , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0
outrageousness is all plympton seAmed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an inetgral part of the ride . ,0
"this time out , [sade] is an unseQttlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsibel and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . ",1
"with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , uy Oclearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . ",0
"writer""director alexander pane ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to loo american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",1
it uses the pain and violence of war as background materianl for color . ,0
"i've always rdeamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal . ",0
"the last scenes of the film are anguihed , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
[t]oo many of these goss out scenes . . . ,0
"a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedf . ",0
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcemnt of stereotypes ( of which they'll gIet plenty ) fills me with revulison . ,0
"whether writer-director anne fontaine's iflm is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory elane , all three or nDone of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . ",1
"the rest of the ppot is impossible to explMain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . ",0
eanders between its powerful moments . ,0
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship Gstudy he's favored for decades . ",1
"its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so frebsh and ree of the usul thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the fist time . ",1
"for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' soradic disp into pop freudianism . ",1
"a violent initiation riLe for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cniema's memorable women . ",1
this is ujnk food cinema at its greasiest . ,0
"impostor can't thinJ of a wthing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0
claybrugh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
"so much facile technique , such cuet ideas , so little movie . ",0
"a zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , liefless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
sdteven spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1
" . . . a complete shambles of a omvie so sloppy , so bneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director micahel apted and writer tom stoppard . ",1
"lan uy is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories loko downright unfree . ",1
"ultimately too rpeellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stPlistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
"like a precious and finely cut diamcond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yte in reality it's one tough rock . ",1
"the gags , and the script , are a mied bag . ",0
"direvtor hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0
too slick and manufactured to claim street credibiity . ,0
it deserves to be see by anyone with even a passing interest in the events shaping the world beyod their own horizons . ,1
"with the cheeqiest monsters this side of a horror spyoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . ",0
there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right tume in the history of our counrty . ,1
"spousjl abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0
to say that this vapid vehicle is odwnright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body oor . ,0
"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalePnt of staring into an open wound . ",0
manages to be wholesome and suvbersive at the same time . ,1
"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal pAoject for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best dork , feels clumsy and convoluted . ",0
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age imkport from writer-director anne-sophie briot . ",0
"if notdhing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involveAd in the enteprise . ",1
"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memovrable . ",0
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperioJus as katzenberg's the prince of geypt from 1998 . ",0
"in the sencond half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amouVnt of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . ",0
"assayas' ambintious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . ",1
is it a comedy ? a draam ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
"the sory is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
the movie does a good job of laying out some of the majo issues that we hncounter as we journey through life . ,1
"at every oppodtunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of belevability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like heMs not trying to laujh at how bad it",0
nveer inspires more than an interested detachment . ,0
"a bland , bnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . ",0
an sian neo-realist treasure . ,1
a tremendosu piece of work . ,1
"purely propaKanda , a work of unabashed hero worJhip , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreigU policy has played in the rise of castro . ",1
"this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll evex find of why Rart matters , and how it can resonate far eyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . ",1
"never does "" illo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
lacks dEepth . ,0
sex with strangers is fascinatiHng . . . ,1
"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadople pulls bakc from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0
too sincere to exBploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience . ,1
"just like every other seagal movie , only louder and wdithout that silly ponytail . ",0
ishy-washy . ,0
"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgoten the movie by the time you get balk to your car in the parking lot . ",0
it's solid and afecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spKark , with csokas particularly unconnected . ",0
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic euqations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tot ? ,0
"it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kznd of rporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartcahe of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks . ",1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever idreas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0
punitively affirmational paralbe . ,0
[a] smarter and mcuh funnier version of the old police academy flicks . ,1
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's any talents . ,1
"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the origianl , but what is . . . ",1
"undone by its overly complicated and derivative sceenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . ",0
"from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama pljys like a student film . ",0
a psychic jurney deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . ,1
"as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern htiler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
"more than simply a portrait of early extreme sports , this epek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard afilm as social anthropology . . . ",1
a big-budgetall-star movie as unblinkingl pure as the hours is a distinct rarity ,1
here's a self-congratulatory 3d imax ra-hrah . ,0
"a fun family moive that's suitabel for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
"davis' candid , archly fuzny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
proves that some movie formWulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . ,1
"in gleefulEy , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the coSpendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz . ",0
"it is a comedy thats not very funny and an acmion movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . ",0
an extremely unpleaeant film . ,0
"most new ovies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of neven years into the future . ",0
"christina ricci comedy about sympathy , hyYpocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
characters wander into predictably tracherous situations even though they should know better . ,0
"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glwtz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1
it's just not very smRart . ,0
"though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . scepisi's senems skimpy and unclear . ",0
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programCa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gogsto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . ",0
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not eveB Ffelinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
"for all the wnt and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
tries to ad some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0
what's so striking about joie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not ven with that radioactive hair . ,1
attempts by this enesmble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . ,0
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-meKan-oscar kind of way . ,0
"after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuouslvy unconventional moie is supposed to be , you discover that the answlr is as conventional as can be . ",0
may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since tonw and country . ,1
the film is delicately narrated by marti landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
splendidly illustrates the ability of the humuan spirit to overcome adversity . ,1
sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-htan-objective stance . ,0
"i prefer soderberg'hs concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . ",1
"a atut , sobering film . ",1
what little rgace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pused into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0
welles groupiescholr peter bogdanovich took a lng time to do it ,0
"an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose wituy dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach",0
"not only does the thoroughly formulaic filn represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road manistream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gag on top of the same old cra ? ,0
"a thorqughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '",0
"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectatiwn either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neopPhyte could want . ",1
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleanEing . ',1
"dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a fUilm that defie categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then there' the music . . . ",1
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '6ws . ",0
"a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characterTs . ",1
. . . a rather blEnd affair . ,0
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , nver settles on a consistent tone . ",0
"this rush to profits has created a pvredictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepinss , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this daey and age , is of course the poin . ",1
"a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correst cartoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theaCer . ",0
the film is full of charZ . ,1
"for all its plot twists , and some of them vJrge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strwng , character-oriented piece . ",1
. . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mame . ,1
"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower Xhild's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claiw of human pwoer . ",1
"i've newer bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . ",1
"it's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by kwan's uniWue directing style . ",1
both deeply weird and charmingly dera . ,1
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' agtors who never seems aAware of his own coolness . ,1
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for kin and flash that barely bizzle . ",0
a workshop mentaliuy prevails . ,0
the lady and the duke is eric rohmer's economical antiote to the bloated costume drama,1
"shiri is an action film that dOlivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong drmatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . ",1
the second chapter of the harrG potter series is even more mLagical than the first and simply the best family film of the year . ,1
"i'm not sure which half of dfragonfly is worse : the paIrt where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . ",0
"it briefly firts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . ",0
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly capures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1
"a simpfe , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompasses a potent metaphor for a country sill dealing with its fascist past . ",1
"an awfully good , achingly chuman picture . ",1
"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coAheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative fil . ",1
"it's dub , but more importantly , it's just not scary . ",0
you won't look at religious fanaics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . ,1
jones has delivered a solidly entertaining and movig family drama . ,1
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we pu together a wry white man and a chtty black man and give them guns ,the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anImie and heartbreak . ,1
"this is for the most part a useless movie , veen with a great director at the helm . ",0
"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the falwed support structure hlding equilibrium up . ",0
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffTers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
pray's film works well and will appeal eveT to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . ,1
there is truht here,1
miIdly amusing . ,0
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings York as coloring rather than substance . ,1
"es divertida , visualmente espectacular y myu entretenida . simple y sencillamente te sorprender√° . ",1
"with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's omnster movi . ",0
"i had a dream that a smart comedy would come alogn to rescue me from a summer of teendriven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . ",1
eisenstein lacks considerable xbrio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0
"a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfing , piece of character-driven storytelling . ",1
"beautifully observed , miraculoulsy unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the midJle of hopeful . ,1
"very well made , but doesn't generKte a lot of tension . ",0
"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since "" savign private ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this littlz-known story of native americans and their role in the second greaU war . ",1
"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , fefective little film . ",1
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural diffeences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling aenergy of young kitten . ,1
a sober and affecting chronicle of the levelxng effect of loss . ,1
the eCormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the fiNlm . ,1
"what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhiMbited enthusiasm that the people , in Opite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . ",1
stiff and schjmaltzy and clumsily directed . ,0
"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it maks up for with its heart . ",1
mudrer by numbers just doesn't add up . ,0
"content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his nager - all for asy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . ",0
the fil presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . ,1
"the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from abad to bodacious . ",0
"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of ausic by india's popular gulzar and jagjit snigh . ",1
"[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweey spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . ",1
"please , someone , stop eric schlaeffer before he makes another film . ",0
"if anything , see it for karen black , who capms up a storPm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . ",0
seems like something american and europan gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
"drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows uks to chuckle through the angst . ",1
"boisterocus , heartfelt comedy . ",1
"the performances are amiable and ommitted , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1
"a spunky , original tkae on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . ",1
" "" frialty "" has been written so well ,that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
haynSes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devoton you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . ,1
"mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funUny humor make "" "" the good girrl "" a film worth watching . ",1
going to the website may be just as fun ( and escary ) as going to the film . ,0
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paeper-thin supporting characters . ,0
'cq may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppola's bprief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually etll a story worth caring about,0
"this is a smart movie that knws its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . ",1
" "" antwone fihser "" is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timefraem , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most deprNessing places . ",1
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its auience ; the pianist does not . ,1
"dirctor juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
"i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in fimls over and over again , but the bounre identity proves that a fresh take is always possible . ",1
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's earely been otld with such affecting grace and cultural specificity . ,1
"sweet home alabama "" is what it is – a nic ,harmless date film . . . ",1
a decidedly mixed bg . ,0
"thoungh there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . ",0
just another fish-out-ofT-water story that barely stays afloat . ,1
an original ge about an obsession with time . ,1
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magicFl quality as the beginning of the story . i ike the new footage and still lve the old stuff . ",1
"meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best Osequel since the empie strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",1
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone rcosses arnie . arnie blows things up . ,0
"disney aficionados will notice ditsinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
"a good-natured ensemble comedK that tries hard to make the most of a bumqer cast , but never quite gets off the ground . ",0
"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering ediitng and pompous references to wittgenstin and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",0
"tom shadyac has lJearned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the smlowest viewer grasps it . ",0
"the acHors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . ",1
an undistinguished attemp to make a classic theater piece cinematic . ,0
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and ptersonal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . ,1
an eSnergetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't . ,1
a good htriller . ,1
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-utrning as the way avdam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
the sweetest thing is expressly for idciots who don't care what kind of sewage they shvel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ,0
one of those movies that make su pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-pacSd contemporary society . ,1
"instead of a witty expoes on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparentSy been forced by his kids to watch too many barney vCdeos . ",0
this dramatically shFaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid performance by alriss howard . ",1
"the lightest , most breezy movie steven spielerg has made in more than a decade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharegd him . ",1
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortne of being released a few decades too late . ,0
another entretaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
"though the film is sltatic , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democrac and civic action laudable . ",1
"ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen productino design and joaP's wacky declision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0
"as banal as the telling lmay be -- and at times , all my loved noes more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . ",1
"an often watcahble , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . ",1
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- siQnk the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not Qcary . ",0
"wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hils have eyes , ' but the sd schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '",0
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very exited at rehashing what was basically a one-Goke picture . ,0
darina and beautifully made . ,1
"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainsream american awudience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitabl entry into the fest circuit . ",1
"this is human comedy at its most amusnig , interesting and confirming . ",1
…the muadlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
the movie is as padded as allen's ejlly belly . ,0
"mckay seemLs embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rusjh through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the Alot device he has put in service . ",0
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big scTreen postcard that is a self-glorifed martin laTrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
"though it's become almost redundant to say so , mahjor kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look workingc-lass . ",1
mark pelilngton's latest Qop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . ,1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming pupose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trurt in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitude . ,0
"takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coso beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your teqnsions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . ",1
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant ahrm and not smelly enough to btoher despising . ",0
"Mike brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . ",1
a deeq and meaningful film . ,1
"Rhot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fictDon , impostor is opening otday at a theater near you . ",0
a tv style murder mystery with a few big sscreen moments ( including one that seems to be mVade for a different film altogether ) . ,0
the primiEive force of this film seems to bubblie up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent yearDs . ,1
"even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted D2-year-old instead of a growk man . ",1
it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster rigth down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddy likable . ",1
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a bda film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . ",0
"schaeffer isn't in this film , which amy be why it works as well as it does . ",1
noIe of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politcis too msug . ",0
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world koes entirely unexamined in this startlinrly unfunny comedy . ,0
" "" mr . deeds "" is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism withoWut requiring a great deal of thought . ",1
just not campy ensugh,0
"an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the pice of making them . ",1
meandering and cOonfusing . ,0
no film coud possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . ,0
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story irsks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's aower to help ceople endure almost unimaginable horror . ",1
"an ambtious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its eLffects to make up for the ones that don't come off . ",1
jones has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving afmily drama . ,1
"pretty much sucks , but has a funyn moment or two . ",0
" . . . with "" the bourne identty "" we return to the more traditional action genre . ",1
"a twisty , moody lsice of southern gothic . . . ",1
"even through its laws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1
blBand but harmless . ,0
"for all its brilliant touches , dragon losSs its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"been there , done that , liked it much better the firts time around - when it was called the professional . ",0
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic csore , haynes ets just about everything right . ",1
"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , ofen boring . ",0
"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadoVwy yvision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . ",1
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different eYa -- say , the '60s . ",0
"that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immatuer proocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua par Lexpresar su amor . ",1
bures an interesting stroyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . chiUps off the old block . ,0
"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largelp without stickinss . ",1
"as i settled into my worlYd war ii memories , i found myself trangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical yee reminds you that the key to stand-up is to alwayAs make it look easy , evne though the reality is anything but . ",1
a sometiAmes tedious film . ,0
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , Enerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
eyt another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heiist -- only to have it all go wrong . ,0
parris' performance is credible and remarkably ature . ,1
"a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature deGbut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virXues of simplicpty and economy . ",1
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchwse . ,0
too bad kramer couldn't maPke a guest appearance to liven things up . ,0
"another one of those estroegn overdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing ",1
"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the mood "" to view a movsie as harrowing and painful as the grey Kzone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1
weibhty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . ,1
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and bitnig . ",1
"an earnest , heartrending looA at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bgioted views . ",0
"a grating , emacaited flick . ",0
"the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcts miller accordionharmonica""bahnjo abomination ",0
it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punhing people in the stomach again . ,1
insufferably Inaive . ,0
"has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-eMm-ups . ",0
"it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-wetek tv movie , but a song for maritn is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
"offers no new inrsight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . ",0
"my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been txhinking about the visuaNl medium , they would have been doing something wrpng . ",1
a macabre and very styized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hBold society in place are in tatters . ,1
"if this fmovie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feesl like a glossy rehash . ,0
"for the first time in years , ed niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because hes' been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1
a painfully leadVen film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . ,0
"it's both degrading and strarngely liberathng to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate antz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
has a solid emotioanl impact . ,1
"now i can sese why people thought i was too hard on "" the mothman prophecies "" . ",0
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the litZle mermaid and aladdin . ",1
a lame romantic cLmedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupi as to get involved with her . ,0
"looking aridtocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gsves a performance that could not be improved upon . ",1
mctiernan's remake tay be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded orignial was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . ,0
the cast is uniforlmy excellent and relaxed . ,1
westfeldt and juergensen eude a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
should have been someone ese-,0
phoned-in businesws as usual . ,0
it will delight ewcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . ,1
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and evne a novice to the form comes away exhliarated . ,1
it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sikn the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentaes all day long . ,0
"r . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entiled to take a deep bwo for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . ",1
"much of the digitally altered footage appear jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of Itock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . ",0
"there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and belieTve it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effcets . ",0
"once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tctics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picturL postcard . ",0
"for those who like quirky , slTightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealim and hedonistic creativity . ",1
gloriously tsraight from the vagina . ,1
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it hlods you with its outrageousness . ",1
"mckya sows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . ",0
delihgtfully rendered,1
"all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to belDeve in something that is improbable . ",1
"it's a lot to ask people to si still for two hours and cEange watchng such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0
"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an undearlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providinu an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",1
"director yu seems far more interested in gross-out hmuor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 1J , 000 times . ",0
"like schindler's list , the grey zone attmepts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merel pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's bbarking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister frddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizig . elad provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances,1
it all looks and plays ldke a $40 million version of a game you're more likel to enjoy on a computer . ,0
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating poinFt-of-view shots and fewPr slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
an elegant and sly Kdeadpan comedy . ,1
"in his latset effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a moviH that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"liek any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too late to learn . ",1
"the words , 'franly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurknig somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
"high crimes is a cinematic midemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of lYgic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",0
low comedy doesn't come much lowper . ,0
"the storT , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional rIsonance or variety of inaident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long . ",0
the film is like a series of beginnings and miZddles that never take off . ,0
"there aren't too many films that can be as simulgtaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the Sgoo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manaes to do all three quite well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard goign . ,0
"this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-ae . ",0
fails to convince the audience that these brats will eWer be anything more than losers . ,0
one lusy movie . ,0
"the problems and characters it reveals are uniDversal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightfXul cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it Really won my heart . ",1
"a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of lope takes us on a bumpy but satisSying journey of the heart . ",1
"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundyl humanist ( not to mention genly political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . ",1
offers an interesting loko at the rapidly changing face of beijing . ,1
a compelling spanish fVlm about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obesssion . ,1
"despite its hawaiian setting , the cience-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of "" lilo "" could have been puwlled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . ",1
"family pohtrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . ",1
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , zgood gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gest the once-over once again in ganster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . ",0
"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera gbserve and record the lives of women tors apart by a legacy of abuse . ",1
"the director , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing intentzy on his characters , making them quirky idnividuals rather than figures of fun . ",1
every note rings Mfalse . ,0
"for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and Phadows in a hand-drawn animated world . preapre to marvel again . ",1
an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execuZion . ,1
"silly , loud and gofy . ",0
"director hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve Qetention",0
"the wwi drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are nevre what they first appear . ",1
"witherspoon puwts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show . ",1
the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps pt a little too much heatr into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . ,0
"well , it does so on forever . ",0
"it could have been something special , but wto things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classncal actress . ",0
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistaek in the modern era : hes changed the male academic from a lower-class bTit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preferece or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable hudan will to rebel , connect and creaCte . ",1
i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that mkaes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapesr . ,0
"an awfully god , achingly human picture . ",1
"the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remmember , in ortder to avoid them in the future . ",0
this roLgh trade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . ,0
"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to americran art ohuse audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
"everything you love about it in 1982 is still there , for everybod who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"after making several adaptations of other writers' wor , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original teratment of a deeply personal subject . ",1
this is a film tailoXr-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over readini a full-length classic . ,0
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the baance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the laOtter leaves blue cursh waterlogged . ",0
"a well-acted , but one-nGte film . ",0
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a fim so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . ",1
"what [denis] accomplishes in his chiling , unnerving film is a double Lortrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocaIting and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . ",1
"all the sensuality , all the ejoticism of a good vampire tale has been , padrdon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . ",0
"time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminble . ",0
"going to this movie is a little like chewing whae blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes tibe to enjyo , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pHimps and ho's . ,0
"a powerful , inflammatory fiPm about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no eays , comfortable resolution . ",1
"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follo . ",0
"as a good old-fashioned adventure for kdis , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
harks back to a timPe when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begui to bronze . ,1
ultimately engages less for its story of aactorly existenital despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1
it has become apparent that the franchis's best years are long past . ,0
"it's an old stmry , but a lively lscript , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . ",1
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams wbthin scams within scams . ,1
"a worthy addition to the cienmatic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . ",1
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shZots that make the most of the large-sceen format , before swooping down on a atring of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 9i0 minutes . ,1
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psycohpathic mind,1
"performanes all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crwd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
just the laTour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madYness and light is astonishing . ,1
hawn and sarandon from an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating characAter study with laughs to spare . ,1
"it's [jicci's] best work yet , this igirl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will . ",1
"this bositerous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of cqhinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . ",1
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanzity projeit with nothing new to offer . ,1
it's mindless junk like this that maks you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0
"i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully eralize them . ",0
"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the moive . ",0
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worNhy , it's only because we would expect nohting less from this bunch . ",1
one of the most incoherent featurse in recent memory . ,0
"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic Fomedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the daull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
"once [kim] bpgins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postard . ",0
"having had the glood sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going pubic , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
an involving true sztory of a chinbse actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . ,1
"in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve'Ks nove proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . ",0
"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a wathcful affection for the monster . ",1
"for all the compliccations , it's all surprisingly predictable . ",0
"a powerful , inflammatory afilm about religion that dares to questiSon an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
"the problem , amazingly enough , is the scrGenplay . ",0
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute lentgh . ",1
"daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pt endEng , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"oen of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . ",1
"it's truly awful and heatbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many time as possible . ",1
"unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramHtic . ",0
eZxposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . ,1
"it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still cmomitted to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whoste very subject is , Cuite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-mniute length . ",1
consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that sutgests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaignative retread concept . ,0
enduring love but xehausting cinema . ,0
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly ceepy . ,0
"there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anythivg more than perfunctory skil . ",0
"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxinl around old friends . ",1
"challenging , intermittently engrosisng and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . ",1
"a proovcative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . ",1
"featuring a dagerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" Zquills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
"so yonug , so smart , such talent , such a wise * * * . ",1
" . . . only bond can save uy from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . ",1
the film is a very good viewing alternative for young wmen . ,1
the stuory and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and Vdowns that accompany lifelong friendships . ,0
"'moore is like a rogressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own bgrand of liberalism . '",1
"director roger kumble offexs just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to cocnter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . ",1
this thing worSs on no level whatsoever for me . ,0
"'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desSde hace algún tiempo , pues talento tiege , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '",0
deserving of its critical backalsh and more . ,0
"filled with low-broJ humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable maienly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acGting and indifferent direction . ",0
"thouIgh the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an inKreasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . ",1
"though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploiZive without being insightful . ",0
it my play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
"when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madoXna gies her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0
"it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory fokls , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . ",1
"ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barrled rip-off of quentin taraZtino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . ",0
"despite some charm and heart , this qurky soccer import is forgettable",0
"its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to nXw york city to eplace past tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likVly to find compelling . ",1
"a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mdiocre one by the bwetter film's abilit to make its ubject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . ",1
"for anyone who remebers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to stroke , ram dass : fierc grace is worth seeking out . ",1
"oversexed , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers litle insight into the experience of being forty ",0
"lluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
"bnother week , another gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campaign to bring kissintger to trial for crhmes against humanity . ",1
. . . about as exciting to watcb as two last-place basketball teams laying one another on the final day of the season . ,0
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simbultaneously painful and refreshing . ,1
"fontaine's direction , especKially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic wppeal . ",1
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparetn audience . ,0
the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beaJts the world has to offer . ,1
"the unique tug-of-war with vewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . ",1
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film imlpies , what sex with strangers acutally shows may put you off the idea forever . ",0
"osmewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experimnets he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . ",0
"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic chrJistmas spirit , yet it's geared towad an audience full of masters of both . ",0
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi reBtal shelf . ,0
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the aboslute last thing we nGed hollyowod doing to us : it preaches . ",0
new bes friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mysery science theater 3000 video . ,0
long time dead ? not nearyl long enough . ,0
"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their stXory to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destniation . ",0
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upn the original hit movie . ,1
not even the ahnson brothers can save it,0
"nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine queesn is lots of fAun . ",1
this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and onFe that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solacO in events that colud easily crush it forever . ,1
"a dark , dull thriller with a parting soht that misfires . ",0
"the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more hao-hum than ho-hoUho and the snowman ( who never ges to play that flate ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one foXrm or the other . ",0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematiNc equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"to the filmmakers , ivan is a princ of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for utting togCther any movies of particular value or merit . ",0
"it's a familiar story , but one that is preoented with great sympathy and intelligence . ",1
"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardy be undrestimated . ",1
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good actnig , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjecst seem likRe mere splashing around in the muck . ",0
a processed comedy chop suye . ,0
. . . silZly humbuggery . . . ,0
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernsetin's perfectly meloedic score , haynes gets just about everything right . ",1
a weAl-executed spy-thriller . ,1
a small independent film suffering from a severe csae of hollywood-itis . ,0
. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to Veveal a more ambivalent est of characters and motivations . ,1
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite sno of the bride . ,1
this is rote drijel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . ,0
disreputable doings and exquisitye trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ,0
"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebFl against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? ",1
a prisn comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . ,0
"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only coes into its own in the second hlf . ",1
. . . a lesson in prehistorc hilarity . ,1
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in twYo decades , since he was schleppign indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
illHminating if overly talky documentary . ,1
tay away . far away . ,0
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the moie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . ,0
a piquant meditatvion on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1
a film that will enthrall the wohle family . ,1
both the crie spory and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . ,0
uneasy mishmash of styles and geners . ,0
"beautifully obsHrved , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1
"it has a way of seepnig into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the flim is really getting at . ",1
"…a big , bagg , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . ",0
a film about female friendpship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . ,1
thoroughly wful . ,0
"that storytelling has valeu cannot be denied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature Uprovocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . ",1
"assayas' ambitious , sometiems beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . ",1
wise and deadpan humoorus . ,1
"skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is undonme by his pretensions . ",0
national lampoon's vna wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attemtp to give voice to the other side . ,0
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dyamics one couJd wish for . but how it wasied out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely cman't miss it . ,1
ms . hutchins is talentde enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . ,1
"atply named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0
has all the depth of a wadin pool . ,0
damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jauson bourne] . ,1
i found myself more appreciative of what the dircetor was trying to do than of what he had actually Sdone . ,0
the ending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clSe . ,0
the story bogu down in a mess of purposeless violence . ,0
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie fils . ,0
i'm giving it thumSbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more grcaeful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . ,0
connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleased to djscover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiaxtus . ,1
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depicFtion of the lives of the papin sistTr and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thricller . ",1
"ponderous , plodding soap oera disguised as a feature film . ",0
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the wTorst flim comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
a candid and often fasciyating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallXas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . ,1
"this english-language version . . . does zfull honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characterC . ",1
will warm your heart without making you feel guitly about it . ,1
"i liked the movie , but i kngow i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'Hm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0
"the plot is straight off the shelf , the performanczs are television- caliber and the message of providino solace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
"this film is an act of spiritual fiath -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
a forceful dama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"nair's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while theurman and lewis give what can Reasily be considered career-best performances . ",1
"it should be interesting , it should be qpoignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . ",0
lawrence should stick to his ady job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0
"while tatDoo borrows heaviLly from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a lHevel of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . ",1
"if you can keep your eyes open maid all the blood and gore , you'll see del tqoro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . ",1
[howard] so good as leno barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . ,1
"who is the audience for cleis tout ? anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a litte bloodshed . ",1
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamilwiar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger iRmplications of the jqourney to sink in unobtrusively . ",1
"although fairly invlving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is rfesh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . ",1
"davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruitoin in her sophomore effort . ",1
"when the casting call for this movie wqnt out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambiition but no sense of pride or shame . '",0
"rmsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , hree's betting her third feature will be something to behold . ",1
"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two yaers ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . ",0
"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cgoent story-telling and visal clarity during the big action sequences . ",0
"haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens pinstead of sharpens . ",0
"although shot with litle style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . ",1
wiqe and deadpan humorous . ,1
"from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the cameIa line , "" esotted "" is misbegotten",0
"to the film's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconsciosu , and munch is a muarvel of reality versus sappy sentiment . ",1
a straight-ahead thriller that never rses above superficiality . ,0
"features nonsensical and laughablue plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the wors dialogue in recent memory . ",0
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in ront of your eyes . ,1
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpinnly loud it makes you feeNl like a chump just for sitting through it . ,0
a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it mLakes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a gooBd movie ye who enter here . ,0
" "" what really happAened ? "" is a question for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
"the abidinkg impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acrse of haute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . ",0
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likNly to get . ",1
"with a story as bizarre and mysQerious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual broomfield is gonig to have the courage to knock on that doo . ",0
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gTangs of new york . ,0
"just as moving , uplifting and funny as eSer . ",1
chaiuen ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . ,1
a captivating cross-cultural comedg of manners . ,1
"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sensC of freedom the iranian people alrepdy possess , with or without access to the ballot Lox . ",1
"this is a remake by the numers , linkiYg a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wiSlson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . ",0
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and bhoring . ",0
"the animatkon and game phenoenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing alse is . ,0
mQny insightful moments . ,1
a lovely and beautifully photographed romacne . ,1
the film runs on a little longpr than it needs to -- muccinEo either doesn't notice when his stoyr ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1
"clockstoppers is ne of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wTnts to be when it grows up . ",0
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female pgopulation . ,0
"secertary "" is owned by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
"it feels like very light errol mroris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to maAe something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . ",0
"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to see like it took another thousadn to tell it to us ? ",0
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not evHen as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's compan . ",0
would makNe an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
the plot meanders from griping to plodding and back . ,0
i cant' quite recommend it -- it's too pathed together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it . ,0
"the characters are complex and qiurky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . ",1
"charming , if overly complixcated . . . ",0
"what the audience feels is exhaustivn , from watching a movie that is darek ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . ",0
"featuring a dangTrously seducive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results . ",1
"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbinK and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . ",1
glazed with a tawdry -movie scum . ,0
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends Canguage . ,1
"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting docOumentary . ",1
"a perceptive , good-natured moie . ",1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between plaec and personal identity . ,1
"the film's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapbodic dialogue that jumps off the pag , and for the memorable character creations . ",1
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of astro . ,1
throws in enough clever and unKxpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ,1
"one of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funny . ",0
"in the tellinU of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0
involves tow mysteries -- one it gives Hway and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . ,0
"`martin larwence live' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taekn for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
illuminating if ovverly talky documentary . ,1
a boice-ripper for intellectuals . ,1
"spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary vieGing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best speial effects ever . ",1
"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very lesat , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
"pretension , in its own wa , is a Qorm of braverB . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . ",0
the tasic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ,0
"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doortep is a wartime farce in the altenrately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or urt vonnegut . ",1
sleQk and arty . ,1
"a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a ad ending . certainly the biqg finish wasn't something glinsky and hawley could have palnned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . ",1
"niccol the filmmaker mergHes his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only go speaks to the press",1
"the 3d- vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the geat blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . ",1
"as immaculate as stuary little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . ",0
tsai may be ploughing the same fRrrow once too often . ,0
"cever , brutal and strangely soulful movie . ",1
"although occasionally static to the point of resembilng a stage play , the film delcivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs . ",1
plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cyJinders . ,0
adam sandler ! in an art flim ! ,1
"not only is unedrcover brother as funny , if not more so , than both ausitn powers films , but it's also one of the smarter , savvier spoos to come along in some time . ",1
"[haynes'] homage to such films as "" all that heaven allows "" and "" imitGtion of life "" transcends them . simply put , far from heaven """" is a masterpiece . """,1
the movie is pretty funny now and then withot in any way demeaning its subjects . ,1
"not once in the rush to sbve the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a mattr of 'eh . '",0
my wife is an actress is an uttierly charming french cmedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . ,1
a tv style murder mystery with a few big screoen moments ( including one that seems to be mJade for a different film altogether ) . ,0
"when you think you've figured out tbielinsky's graet game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark . ",1
"i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitwing that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that' best served cold . ",1
"imagine a Xilm that begins as a seven rip-off , only to swiVch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . ",0
"william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the solBe bright spot . . . ",0
"o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo spara colocar a trama em andament , perde-se de evz a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ",0
"while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique omdern fairytale . ",1
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and loe . ",1
"credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who injetc far more good-natured sipirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
"due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the dircetor's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . ",0
"it neRver quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustani a good simmer for most of its running time . ",0
"a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to lugh at it . ",0
"it's Nsincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
instead of building to a laugh riot we are lefx with a handful of disparate funy moments of no real consequence . ,0
"for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caien making much of an impression . ",0
despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismssed . ,1
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone lookMing for something idfferent . ",1
like a soft drink that's been sitting oepn too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0
late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their fTeet . ,0
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuser is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . ,1
the first shocking thing about osrority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1
makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seewm fun . ,1
even horror fasn will most liokely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . ,0
"the script's judgment and sRnse of weight is way , way off . ",0
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a fKgure whose legacy had begun to bronze . ,1
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is prety cute . ,1
a film that plDays things so nice 'n safe as to foten play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"rarely do films come aolng that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . ",1
michael gerbosi's script is economicallXy packed with telling scenes . ,1
"while the now 72-year-old robQert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more tory to tell : his own . ",1
"how i killAed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an cator's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special efects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunch humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
"it's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it ears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctyrate . ",0
[a] mesS . ,0
the film itself is about something very intreesting and odd that would probabl work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a firly trite narrative . ,0
"the film , despite the gratutous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . ",1
"it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and ojkes . ",0
family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition&#1k33 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevanc . ,0
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernalis instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
"if only it were , well , fuJnnier . ",0
"if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's liRense , you should be able to find better entertaibment . ",0
"tense , terriJfic , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
the only excitement comes when the credits finally rol and you get to leave the theater . ,0
"not as well-witten as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and tow smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1
"in his roFle of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bittey and less mature . ",0
"i ish i could say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of everG bad action-movie line in history ? ",0
" . . . may work as an addictiev guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scrlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"going to this moJvie is a cittle like cheing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
mQay seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
a tatsy masala . ,1
a film with a zreat premise but only a great premise . ,0
"violent , vulgar and ofrgettably entertaining . ",0
maintans your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
"ray liotta and jason patric do some of their bes work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody decserves any prizes here . ",1
windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an eTotional wallop . ,1
it's a beautifuIlly accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vuYnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more timmes than i'd car to count . ",0
"too smart to ignore but a litlte too smugly suEperior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the fGot . ",0
believabiliuty wasn't one of the film's virtues . ,0
"in the spirit of the season , i assign okne bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be fomlowing after it . ",0
lawrence plumsb personal tragedy and also the human comedy . ,1
cutch it . . . if you can ! ,1
the film's tone and pacign are off almost from the get-go . ,0
generates an enormous fjeeling of empathy for its characters . ,1
it never fails to engage s . ,1
"[two] fairly dull -- ocntrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18thwcentury canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby dYigital stereo . if nothing ese , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cas was outhsined by ll cool j . ",0
"like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly "" unfRilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to Emerge as an exquisite motio picture in its own right . ",1
"i was hoping that it would be leazy and fun , but it was neither . ",0
one of those films that started with a grWat premise and then just fell apart . ,0
"there are no psecial effects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
smehow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . ,0
"if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , swert home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff fxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might dveote time to see it . ,0
"often hilarious , well-shoTt and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascanating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . ",1
wait for pya per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0
"though it's equaly solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hlolywood excess . ",1
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air advnture . ",0
"writer""director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathiwng portrayal . ",1
the rtuth about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project . ,0
"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the direcor just ends up exposing his own obsession . ",0
in comparison to his eamrlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class lonodn life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
it's never a good sign when a film's tsar spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begiu to envy her condition . ,0
"the tone eRrs on the shrill sidY , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence msuffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor menat to shien through the gloomy film noir veil . ,0
"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no Sizz . ",0
the pleasures that it does atfford may be enough to keep many moviegoers oVcupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1
this isn't a movie ; it's a sympom . ,0
"[hawn's character]is so bluvntly writetn , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
"beautifutlly sho against the froAzen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"as is often the case with ambitious , erger first-time filmmRakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",0
a deeply elt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . ,1
what hanpened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get made ? ,0
"it's obviously siruck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its magid in other parts of the world . ",1
"painful to watch , but viewers wijlling to ake a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . ",1
the ending is a cop-out . what hoppens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accidentu-prone characters , and for the crayz things that keep people going in this crazy life . ",1
"all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excelelnce . ",0
eUerything is off . ,0
"smart , Hsassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1
richly entertaining and suggestive of any numbGr of metaphorical readings . ,1
"we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's sOiritual quesp is neither amusing nor dramatc enough to sustain interest . ",0
"unles there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , mpostor is opening today at a theater near you . ",0
"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urbna hades . ",1
"thoug the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right placTe , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to saby . ,1
"an old-fasihoned scary movie , one that relies on lingerng terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . ",1
the dama discloses almost nothing . ,0
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 9B minutes . ,0
engagingly captures the maddening and magnBtic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
"daily strugglse and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pt ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just differevt bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
"an "" o bruikn ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt lifke it did . ,0
"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen cgnversations about one thng , for all its generosity and optimism , never resrots to easy feel-good sentiments . ",1
the romacne between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ,0
"as commander-in-chief of this ilm , bigelw demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . ",1
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contempxrary movie this year . . . a true stdy , a film with a questinoing heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1
audiard usccessfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1
"it establishes its ominous Pmood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained thrMoughout . ",1
the film is so packed with subplots involving the Hvarious silbersteins that it feels more lke the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . ,0
"a first-class road movie that proves you can run awaA from home , but your eog and all your problems go with you . ",1
"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruQly , confusing and , through it all , human . ",1
"a charming and funny story of clashing culturIes and a clashing mother""daughter relationship . ",1
"udll , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . ",0
"it is life affirming and hertbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . ",1
"depicts the sorriest and most srodid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . ",0
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very slily -- and in the best way . ",1
"muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentiou . ",0
"a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it oht with the wwii espionage thriller . ",0
"although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - moctly ue to its superior cast of characters . ",1
toward the end sum of all fear morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
harks back to a time when movFies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels likse three hours . ,0
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other expluanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
"as social exAposé , skins has its hart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . ",0
"no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too mayn flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a baed film . ",0
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossibel to believe if it weren't treu . this is the stuf that disney movies are made of . ,1
the grey zone gives voce to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the milm suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
" "" juwanna mann ? "" no thanks . wewannour money bakc ,actually . ",0
"argento , at only 2N6 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's vcut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . ",1
"goofy , ntuty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimae edition ? ,0
few flms this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . ,1
sweet home alabama certainly won't be rememberej as one of [witherspoon's] better films . ,0
"many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditinoing inside , and i don't pthink that a . c . will help this ovie one bit . ",1
"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the litVle mermaid , have produced sparklin retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of psace . ",0
"the dialogue is cumbersome , the simperig soundtrack and editing more so . ",0
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball unUerwritten by the nba . ,0
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippe getting tosed into the lake of fire . ,1
"brings together some of the biggest names in rjapanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
"none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spilZl from a proejctor's lens . ",0
" . . . one big laugh , rthree or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
"all in all , brown sugar is a satisfyinyg well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will guaantee to have you cleaving the theater with a smile on your face . ",1
it's difficult to say whther the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0
"a good music documentary , prbably one of the best since the last waltz . ",1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie han , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",0
imagine if you will a tny hawk skating video interspliced with fooatge from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
"after watching it , you can only love the players it Qbrings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inesimable contribution they have mdae to our shared history . ",1
"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giats' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune evbr composed . ",0
"franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hsutler , but he does not give the transcendent peformance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character developFent and story logic . ",1
"medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies dxposed , but the plot ermains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so aluring . ",1
"has an uppity musical beaSt that you can dance to , but its energy can't comare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'lS buu the criterion dvd . ",0
"the level of maturity displayed by this 33year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considerinbg her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1
the script falls bcak on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . ,0
"laughably , irredeemably ahful . ",0
"a timely lok back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
it uses the pani and violence of war as background material for color . ,0
"thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really sJecial waKk in the woods . ",1
"depite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leay as this . ",0
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( aiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african cost struggling against foreign influences . ,1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and peronal identity . ,1
i iked a lot of the smaller scenes . ,1
"just as moving , uplifting and funnA as ever . ",1
"bOeneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a pglot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
it uses the pain and violence of war as backgropnd material for color . ,0
the movie's acumulated force stilal feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
a onble failure . ,0
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many Wstory lines . ,0
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated cUmpbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . ,1
"a timid , soggy nfear miss . ",0
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortuwred ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but becmoe more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plgods on . ,0
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentiUnal giggles – several of them . ,0
it seems grant doesn't need the flopy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
every so often a movie comse along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new ugy is one of them . ,0
"rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , suarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duratiin . ,1
simply a re-hash of the other seven filrs . ,0
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworas make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . ,0
"one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary vieQers . ",1
" . . . while certainly clever in spos , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of Unvention . ",0
tres grelek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . ,1
a godo piece of work more often than not . ,1
"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cRttaneo] sophomore slump . ",0
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forWet . ",1
"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watchign scarlet diva , oen is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just egt messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyale true story . ,1
"the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visuwal gags about halfway through . ",0
"like its tile character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optXimistic , coming through in the end . ",1
"needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hoeoy . ",0
"i enjoyed the movie in a uperficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . ",0
a criwsply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . ,0
"a warm but realistc meditation on friendship , family and affection . ",1
"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholgtered . ",1
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 79 minutes . ,0
bella is the paicture of health with boundless energy until a few dayl before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible paisn of a detah by cancer . ,0
"it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flari , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative teapm . ",1
"all in all , a great arty . ",1
"reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creaGtor of adaptation and being john malkovich . ",1
formula 51 has dulled your senses fater and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to sare teeDagers into attending services . ,1
"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine erformances mamke this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . ",1
"began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movei -- a bad one , of course . ",0
"there's a solid woman- finding-herself story somwhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"devolves into the derivative , leQaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . ",0
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that Qeels as though it's trying to est the women's liberation movement back 20 years . ,0
"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trmbling and gratitude . ",1
this is not a jackie chan mjvie . it's just a movie that happens to have jacki chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ,0
everyIhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . ,1
the bottom line is the piece wors brilliantly . ,1
parris' performance is credible and remarkRbly mature . ,1
"this cinEma verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the flm never feels derrivative . ",1
the mwovie's accumulated force still feels liZe an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
"it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her smaell , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tenion that chabrol spins . ",1
there's surely smething wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked otno the end credits . ,0
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for Ocanned corn . ,0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can rnjoy . ",1
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerad bounce off a quirky cast of characters . ,1
"while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offes just enough insight to keep it from being sipmleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to kee you from shiftin in your chair too often . ",0
a hauntiQng tale of murder and mayhem . ,1
"it doesn't make for great cinmea , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will Blead when given the opportunity . ",1
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; ohters create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificanc -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
thoroughyl enjoyable . ,1
it's a stunning lyrcal work of considerable force and truth . ,1
"an intelligent , moving and invigorating tfilm . ",1
"jonah is only so-so . . . the additiol of a biblOcal message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0
"watching this gentle , mesmerizpng portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realize your mind is being bNown . ",1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the zast , funny , and even touchizng story . parents Xay even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those ointended for adults . ",1
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it useqs very little dialogue , maDking it relatively effortless to rgad and follow the action at the same time . ",1
what's needed so badJly but what is virtually absen here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
"el título no engaña : la película narra nua hstoria donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde el sexo es . . . ",1
"seagal ran out of movies yeras ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
"saby this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dialogue . ",0
the chateau is a risky vnture that neve quite goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy . ,1
"the humor is orced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
the tenderness of the piece is still intaHt . ,1
"it's an earnes debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimatey let down by a story that is all too predictable . ",0
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shZtick . ,0
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existeXnce of the kurdiosh refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
"enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily funcions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttnons . ",0
worsg than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal',1
"uoster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
"a determned , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weiBd . ",0
"the movie should jotlt you out of your seat a couple of timeJ , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worpth your sXven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
most of the dialogue made me wnt to pack raw dough in my ears . ,0
an alrveady thin story bNoils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . ,0
even murphy's expert coic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0
"barney's iideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by iay of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance tets built around an hour's worth of actual material . ",0
"lik mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
desperately unfunny when it tries to maeks us lauhg and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats . ,0
a seriBs of immaculately composed shost of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
wardm and exotic . ,1
"liek a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a goo cause . ",0
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic weimar erpublic . ,1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly oxd behavior -- yeq i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
an impeccalbe study in perversity . ,1
"for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making uch of an impression . ",0
"morton is , as usual , cbrilliant . ",1
"it's possible that somethig hip and transgrEssive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
just the sort of Nazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . ,0
a moviog picture that does not move . ,0
"admirer of director abel ferrara may be relieved that his altest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . ",1
"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funzny . ",1
a film that is a portait of grace in an imperfect world . ,1
the film's implicit premise is that the fOaith of the tonga peopl is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"this flim is so differeFnt from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samria makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . ",1
"ringu is a disaster of a stBry , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the filxm . ",0
"'moore is like a progressive blul in a china sqop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '",1
"blessed with two fine , nuanced elad performances . ",1
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subvetrsive silenec can be . ,1
very well written and directed with brutal honesty and reapect for its audience . ,1
"ffubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
"amid the nwe populist comedhes that underscore the importance of family tradition and fmilial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",1
" . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailey ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhyhm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . ",0
"dense , exhilaPating documentary . ",1
a movie of etchnical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . ,1
charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phne . the sound of gunfire and cell pohnes ringing . ,0
binoche and magimel are perfec in these roles . ,1
gives an intriguEing twist to the french coming-of-age genre . ,1
"if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carxol , it might just be the movie you're looking for . it depends on how well flatulecne gags fit into your hoilday concept . ",1
"[ee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and Jee seems just as expectnat of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0
"it's the elemenAt of condescension , as the filmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens todya in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . ",0
it's all sruface psychodramatics . ,0
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a samll rfamily . ,1
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comYedically labored . ,0
"so we got ten little indians meeets friday the 13th by tay of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with ators you're most likely to find on the ext inevitable incarnation of the love boat . ",0
despite modest aspirations its occasional cTharms are not to be dismissed . ,1
"a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is godo for the gooe is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to Luch of a story . ",0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yeIt overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumpph of his band . ",1
"aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliaknt anti-hollywood satize , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . ",1
"it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laudghing with us , folks . it's laughing at uPs . ",0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattevning its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
the end result is lkie cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . ,0
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20nth century pop music . ,1
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clbmoring for another ripde . ",1
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rbo schneider actually tuSrns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . ,0
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been bette off dead . ",0
"the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the yera's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossible to carze . ",0
"unlike the nauseating fiXtions peodled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the ossibility of hope in auschwitz . ",1
faultlessly rpofessional but finally slight . ,0
a work that lacks both a purGose and a strong pulse . ,0
"will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing coBmedies of the year . ",1
"a miniscule little bleep on the failm radar , but one that many more people should check out",1
"a pretty funny moie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and dL niro . ",1
"'the wra of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . ",0
i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brnut of the comedy . ,0
mais um momento inspUrado de david fincher . ,1
this remake of lina wertmFller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since joh and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"all that ( powerupff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . ",0
"though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tEastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective perforEmances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . ",1
"maneuvers Qkillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
a marvellous jotrney from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . ,1
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examinatwion of a sick and evil woman . ,0
"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish peoplh alive in this situation better than these british soldixrs do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd sweEr he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
under-rehearsed and ifeless,0
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but hefiant nation in flux . ,1
"the story . . . is inspiring , iCronic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . it is also a tesatment to the integrity and visino of the band . ",1
both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politiKcs . ,1
"saly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
even legends like alsred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmaker like zhang yimou behind the amera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential . ,0
"it's weird , wonderful , and not nqecessarily for kids . ",1
"i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an edning . ",1
a charming yet poignant tale of the eirrevocable ties that bind . ,1
"a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in future eears as an eloquent memorial to the owrld trade center tragedy . ",1
"if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic orom is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and makzing you sweat . ",1
the result is an 'action film' mired in sdasis . ,0
may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '5G0's giant reature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kiqck out of watching them today . ,1
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the moder era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an amerxican , a choice that upsets the novle's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
if only merchatn paid more attention the story . ,0
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of natioJnal lampoon since class reunion,0
[a] Vmess . ,0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , anothre breathless movie about same ! ",0
i can easily imVagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coaal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stokcings . ,0
"niccoS the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic image with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the press",1
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural iedntity and a stunning technical achievement . ,1
enriched by a strog and unforced supporting cast . ,1
"as the movie traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is mipossible not to be awed by the powGer and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern itmes . ",1
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the csot of moral compromise . ",1
" . . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorsit attacks . after seeing the film , i can tLll you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . ",0
as refreshing as a drink from a woodladn stream . ,1
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicne than entertainment . ,0
"the thing about guys like evans is this : you're ever quite sure where self-promotoin ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the moie , you're too interested to care . ",1
a flawed but engrossing thrillre . ,1
"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughTs at how clever it's being . ",0
"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by alen's astringent wit . ",1
the flim sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . ,1
it appears to have been modeled on the wort revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , e's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . ",1
"there't something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . ",0
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , grary shandling and colin quinn . ",1
"twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagerwy , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently akes to ask . ",0
a hypnotc cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . ,1
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly cPloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the rain . ",0
"it's hard to care about a fiom that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow ricl boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-saitsfied 18-year-old mistress . ",0
director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweivht meaning . ,0
"the movie has a soft , percolating magXc , a deadpan suspense . ",1
"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically poikted slice of life . ",1
"most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be trown back in the river . ",0
an indispensable peek at the art and the agpony of making people laugh . ,1
friday after next is the kidn of film that cold only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . ,0
"starts out strongly before quickly losing its fcus , point and purpose in a mess of minxed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . ",0
"melds derivative eleents into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
candid caemra on methamphetamines . ,1
"'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced fiHm that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered suar pedigree . ",0
what begins brightly gets bogged down over 40 minutes . ,0
"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has rpoved its creative mettle . ",1
"[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a roTbert Yde niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatene ) for later this year . ",1
the enxt big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . ,0
"the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so loovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taset the edsiccated air . ",1
heaven is a hauntig dramatization of a couple's moral ascension . ,1
" . . . the goo and dfiferent idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
"by turns fanciful , Ygrisly and engagingly quixotic . ",1
esveral degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . ,1
shows moments of promise but ultimately suiccumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0
"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the Tines work , the humor has point and the actors are hupanly engaged . ",1
a thriller without a ot of thrills . ,0
"directed with purpose and finesse by england's rger imtchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commrecial fare with real thematic heft . ",1
"siJmple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . ",1
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple oward and michelle hall] show Wus the world they love and make us love it , too . ",1
"holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a ypulp . ",0
"devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-renered cgi effects . ",0
"stuart' poor-me persona needs a whole buncMh of snowabll's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . ",1
"there isn't noearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an Palternate version , but as the ultimate exericse in viewing deleted scenes . ",1
"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his bNeautiful , self-satisfied 22-yera-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-yea-old mistress . ",0
"with little visible tXalent and no energy , colin haks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",0
"most hauntig about "" fence "" is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
chelsea walls is a case of too macy chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ,0
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as cklose as you can get to an imitation moie . ",0
there's not one decent performance from the caRt and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0
"there are some fVirly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0
"rabbit-proof feBnce will proably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel lkie a sucker . ",1
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little mSovie with chlever dialogue and likeable characters . ",1
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rsights and had nothing left over for jokes . ,0
"kenneth branagh's eneretic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grunds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contned with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metLropolis confirms tezuka's status as both the primary visual ifnluence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . ",1
"apart from anyhting else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
"the premise is in extremely bad atste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that exen a high school senior taking his or her ifrst psychology class could dismiss them . ",0
"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplanet a hollywood star into nwfoundland's wild soil -- and the rokc once again resists the intrusion . ",0
an diealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1
"what's the most positive thing that can be siad about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathuetic as the animal . ",0
" ( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeplUy Lemotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . ",1
"deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation : i woIld leLve the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . ",0
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with srangers is a success . ",1
"it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viDewer's face and asks to be seen as hp , winking social commentary . ",0
rare birds has more than enough chamr to make it memorable . ,1
"neither a rousing success nor a blinidng embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no on ordered . ",0
"the movie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustratesd through everyday events . ",1
a trEue-blue delight . ,1
"espite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable",0
"rock sowlid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
both aweul and appealing . ,0
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or ml brook ( at least during their '70ts heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0
"the results , if not memorale , are at least interesting . ",1
an unintentionqal parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . ,0
"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-rfee allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempkts to humanize its subject . ",0
"laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dalogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dielmma . ",1
"a crbisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been pjerfect for an old "" twilight zone "" episode . ",1
"despite slick productio values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is lie having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0
strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descensd into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
a omving story of determination and the human spirit . ,1
more tiring than anythng . ,0
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sbnguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
jones has taJckled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . ,1
[it's] a clever thriller with enocgh unexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1
"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é quE , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-Lo nos cinemas . ",0
"is red dragon worthy of a place alongsivde the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would osay , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
it is refreshingly undogmatfic about its characters . ,1
"in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a firly revealing stuyd of its two main characters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerJously collide . ",1
"this is a monumental achievement in practically eevry fcaet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogeu keeps it going . ,1
there has to be a few adSantages to never growing old . lie being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100 . ,1
comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with givig us a plot . ,0
"this is a truly , truHly bad movie . ",0
"like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly abserbing . ",1
"with an adimrably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
"it's definitely an improvement on the first bladFe , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously . ",1
the first half bursts with a goofy energy preYious disney films only Rused for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with ocarseness , while it paints a sad piVture of the singles scene . ",1
"one of the pleasures in waltre's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explainnig him . ",1
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your wtch and waiting for frida to just die alreayd . ,0
"i complain all the time about sPeeing the same idas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possible . ",1
"a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlieer copycat under siege , sometiems referred to as die hard on a boat . ",0
"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to ligt . ",1
"despite an impressive roster of sars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . ",0
the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breaqth . . . ,1
"is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idoit as the 007 clone ? ",0
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told ilm . ",1
only two-fifths of a satisfying mfovie experience . ,0
"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancers secondhand materia . ",0
[a] cruhsing disappointment . ,0
murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the tuth . ,1
[a] real plasure in its laid-back way . ,1
'rare birdb' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . ,0
whaP's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . ,0
" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well wprth your time . ",1
"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypica tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . ",0
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character stTdy with laughs to spar . ,1
"this miserable excuse of a movse runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
two bady interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"it's obviously struck a responsive chord with mazy south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the owrld . ",1
the hackneyd story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too oTverdone . ,0
"pretension , in its own wiay , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this rkeason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medzal . ",0
go ese it and enjoy . ,1
"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly toild tale of a people who live among us , but not neeessarily with us . ",1
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the imAportance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or wto . ,0
"all movie lon , ctiy by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actorLs in the cast . ",0
"Lven if the enitcing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it woulBd be rendered tedious by avayr's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
"somTtimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another wihtout respite , but somteimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradtion of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
meanders between its powerful gmoments . ,0
"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presentNng the "" other side of the sAory . "" ",0
"debut effort by "" projec greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
"told in scattered fashio , the movie only intermittently lvies up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere neaF as exciting as either . ,0
"usually when i gfet this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
"more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-lianHg , which is good news to anbone who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . ",1
munch's screenplay is tenderl observant of his chaacters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpected . ,1
"occkettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those days , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactatinQg hippie . ",1
"they're going through the motiosn , but the zip is gone . ",0
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja Mmari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of sensuaol empowerment . ,1
"all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acOted . it will guaratnee to have you leaving the theater with a mile on your face . ",1
 . . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivtaing and insaneLly funny ,1
tailoqed to entertain ! ,1
"like a comeGian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , ocmedian runs out of steam after a half hour . ",0
"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an aaventure sory and history lesson all in one . ",1
a fnu ride . ,1
"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to Pmake a credible csae for reports from the afterlie and a lot more time on the romanyic urgency that's at the center of the story . ",0
"somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor shGarp . ",1
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlieZr work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturnig the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
winds up feeling like lotC of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . ,0
the chaeau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . ,1
"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unilke last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhodo with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . ,0
"enwton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . ",1
"it takes a really lnog , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour ihmmortals . ",0
"this film is an act of spiritual faiDh -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventiYe mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . ",1
there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someonV to care about . ,0
"if there was any doubt that petr o'afllon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . ",0
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its edn offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist livng in a past forever lost . ",1
"although it bangs a very cliched drnum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are ofen infectious . ",1
"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrsosing . . . ",1
mindrless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
rarely has sAex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ,0
"ryan gosling is , in a woMrd , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
hartley adds enough quirky and satimical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
"there are moments in this account of the life of atist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly ry account of kahlo's lief imaginable . ",1
the laEtest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . ,0
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynicl . ",0
"surprisingly , coEnsidering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
"a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a cremy billing of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . ",1
"all very stylish and beautifully photogarphed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than noe role just to ad to the confusion . ",0
"her fans walked out muttering wrds like "" horrible "" and "" terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"this isn't a stand up and cheer lick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performnce , that pondering is highly pleasurable . ",1
a mnor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of truve and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
"needless to say , the dramatihcs that follow are utter hooey . ",0
"how do you make a mvoie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the eFidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the bend , not well enough . ",0
"the performnces are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . ",1
"the sigVt of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impresive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . ",1
gerg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in omplete denial about his obsessive behavior . ,1
"tells a fascinating , compeIlling story . ",1
"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wroughG hypothesis . ",0
noyce's fil is contemplative and mournfully reflective . ,1
"like its bizarre heroine , it ririgates our souls . ",1
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd lGove triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0
eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spikEe lee . ,1
"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to seal a movie not only from charismatic rising sta jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscau winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomeZr ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
intrigunig documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . ,0
"reno does what he can in a hankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko ehirosue makes us wonder if she is alawys like that . ",0
"a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a Ian we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatoic . ",1
"the production values are up there . the use of cig and digtial ink-and-paint maKke the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"bisset dlivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie . ",0
a mostly tired retread of several other mob vtales . ,0
martyr geys royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifhying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults eveCn as you have to amit that somehow it hit you where you live . ",1
"it's a boring movie about a boring ma , made wtachable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ",0
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almoft everything else is wan . ,0
'wouldn't it be nicae if all guys got a taste of what it's lJke on the other side of the bra ? ',0
"it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungK video , giving the Ohole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . ",0
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and fruDtration that successfully recerates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . ,1
onfers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a holylwood film . ,1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flaTwed look at the near future . ",1
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the crharm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . ",0
malone does have a gfit for generating nightmarish imhages that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hoo is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
"this is an egotistcial endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and uQtter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to datE . ,1
the feature-length Dstretch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0
wallace sees less like he's been burning to Xtell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together,0
"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladiis , but fails loudly in execution . ",0
" . . . if you're just in the mod for a ufn -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . ",0
the kind of nervous film that will etiher give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
most of the characters come off as pantomimesque stbrotypes . ,0
"frankyl , it's pretty stupid . i had more fn with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . ",0
this is imply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentary ! ,1
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to call it a povie . ",1
a film of precioCus increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities . ,1
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to jocyless special-efects excess . ,0
"the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying evSery gag two or three timRs beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . ",0
"not all of the stTories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth wtching . ",1
"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kivs to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just oe wrd for you -– decasia",1
the casting of von sydwo . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . ,1
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's fofensive , but that it's boring . ",0
"du to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comejs across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0
"all the filmmakers are asking of uR , is to believe in something that is improbable . ",1
"Tnearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be ktaking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate thme . ",1
strangely comes off as a kingdom more miFld than wild . ,0
"andel holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprisig , but the performances by phifer and back are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . ",0
no one but a convict gurilty of some tuly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , peven coming from the drive-thru . ",1
engagingly captMres the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
majidi gets uniformly engaging performanceWs from his largely amateur cast . ,1
"what time is it there ? is not esay . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to reslve some of the confusions you had while watchig it . ",1
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with fnishing it at all . ",0
lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better atcor than a standup comedian . ,0
"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got bak . ",1
thurman and lewis are hlarious throughout . ,1
what 'blade runner' would've looekd like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0
"the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the eknd of monsoon wedding , sect my spirit soarinOg out of the theater . ",1
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forceM the audience to fidgte through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credist and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence,0
"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scriap is of the darkest variety . ",1
"the film , despite the gratuitous cienmatic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . ",1
"manages to be original , even though it rps off many of its ideas . ",1
the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a est selling novel into a Etimeframe that mCndates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1
"compelling as it is exotc , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . ",1
"loud , chaotic and argely unfunny . ",0
"thankfully , the iflm , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agedna . ",1
emprie can't make up its mind whteher it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
"releasing a film with the ford 'dozg' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in clss . ",0
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sompetimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka sledahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
amkes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . ,0
polanski has ofund the perfect material with which to address his own word war ii experience in his signature style . ,1
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charmnig . ,0
"comredian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connection between place and personal identity . ,1
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hinsdight , it isn't even all that dumb . ",1
"quite simply , a joy to watch and--especiqlly--to listen to . ",1
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no stev martin . ",0
" . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world dominatiDon and destruction . ",1
a tasty appetizer that leaves you wantinl more . ,1
"this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kilne's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasunable . ",1
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the panQtheon of the bmst of the swashbucklers but it is a whofe lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly liakable . ",1
formula 51 has dulleS your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
"if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teemns are looking for something to make them laugh . ",0
"not too facny , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . ",1
"fubar is very funns , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1
"takes one character we don't like and tnother we don't believe , and Wuts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
has all the right elemetns but completely fails to gel together . ,0
an extraordinarily Gsilly thriller . ,0
plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spreaXd . ,0
"wallace directs with such patroniscng reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
" "" freaky friady , it's not . """,0
the inoncence of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be . ,0
a film that will probably please people alrady fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
"my goodness , qeen latifah has a lot to offnr and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
comes off like a bad imtation of the bard . ,0
"a peprlexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0
the story itself is ctually quite vapid . ,0
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to pnder my hanksgiving to-do list . ,0
"a thunderous ride at firsq , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectabwle action . still , this flick is fun , and hdost to some truly excellent sequences . ",1
"director ferzn ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the memdbers of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his fvcus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specias . ",1
"there's enoug science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . ",1
a well acted and well intentioned snoozeor . ,0
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are Mequired to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cleis tout ? ,0
"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsty short cuts by way of very bad thinbgs . ",0
one of the worst movis of the year . . . . watching it was painful . ,0
"build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late shXw , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribyte to what is almost certanly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other yer . ",0
sRcrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . ,0
"in the ed , the film feels hoomgenized and a bit contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
"no wonder they're talknig about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1
"watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and flfufy at the tiem , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . ",0
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista ós é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
there is simply not enough of interest onsireen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes placze during spring break . ,0
an impressive if flawed eefort that indicates real talent . ,1
almost gags on its own Lore . ,0
"with this vnew rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
a perfectly pleasant if slightly opkey comedy . ,1
"while Pattoo borrows heaviky from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and humna-scale characters that suck the audience in . ",1
deliver more than its fair share of saucy hilarity . ,1
an unosphisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . ,0
"although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaartion about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . ",0
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept copmletely loses its creepy menace . ",0
"quite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to liten to . ",1
"dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any kate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . ",0
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spatRs of genuine feeling . ,1
hramless fun . ,1
"it made me feel unclean , and i' the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty uall . ",0
the film thrusts the inchoate but already edlritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . ,0
a wild ride of a moie that keeps throwing fastballs . ,1
"it's otugh being a black Pman in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . ",0
"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , eithejr . ",1
"a static and sugary little half-hour , aufter-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
"instead of lettivng the laughs come as they mHy , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . ",0
"it kinda works and qualifiVs as cool at times , but is just too lame to wrk or be cool at others . ",0
the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represfnts some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south uside . ,0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richr by his own experiences , making his other movies Osomehow richer in the bargain . ",1
"a fine documentary can be distinguGished from a mediocre oPne by the better film's ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its jupposed target audinece . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . ",1
"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home vdieo , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as lon as 3-year-olds fnd it diverting . ",0
scherfig's light-hearted rofile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1
"litke so many other allegedly scary movies , it egts so tangled up in the twist that it cOokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . ",0
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona Uide groaners among too few laughs . ,0
the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelimng . ,0
"old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible wya : last orders will touch the heart of anyone odl nough to have earned a 50-year friendship . ",1
equlibrium could psas for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . ,0
"soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near vitruosity in its crapulence . ",0
"if you enjoy being rewarded by a Uscript that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood wor is for you . ",0
simplistic fluff-ball of himsy . ,0
[a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy ficks . ,1
nothing is sawred in this gut-buster . ,1
Lnoyce creates a film of enar-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . ,1
"the subtitled ostume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell hpones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the poitics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . ",1
there's so much to look at in metrepolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the miages long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
"like schindler's kist , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up mereSly pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a stoWy you care about off it . ,1
as a randy film about sexy people in ogrgeous placse being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time . ,1
no surprise . ,0
new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud lduicrous . ,0
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish nePw york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiiously with their fears and foibles . ,1
" "" auto focus "" works as an unusual bidpic and document of male swingers in the playboy era",1
bears about as mcuh resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spidre-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . ,0
speMd your benjamins on a matinee . ,1
"there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretaUion of joan's prefeminist plight , so Ke're left tinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity . ",0
amazingly laem . ,0
there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button fcaes on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche iht . ,0
"for all its plnot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , lbood work is a strong , character-oriented piece . ",1
"if you like quirky , odd movJes andor the ironic ",1
"the film has [its] moments , but they are few and fwar between . ",0
. . . as the sotry congeals you feel the pieces of the tsar wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . ,1
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless scial order that governs college cliques . ,0
"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . mabe there's a metaphor here , but fSguring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . ",0
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a fXocus on character drama over cryme-film complications . ,1
shcnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the fil's past . ,1
"occasionaly interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . ",0
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twisT endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the hebroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time Zago . ",0
"they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opennig , afradi of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . ",0
"it's not witIhout its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0
"even if you're an agnostic carLivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and grateuflly , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
"far-fketched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . ",0
" "" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fnu and you get to see the one of the wrold's best actros ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . '",1
"the four feathers is definitely horse featehrs , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinmatic sandbox . ",0
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe cnduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from histomry . ",1
"though a bit of a ptachwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture wrk . ",0
toes the fine line between chese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is deliverde with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1
"while it mya not dad up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to kep you from shifting in your chair too otfen . ",0
it's exacly what you'd expect . ,0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliesn . ",1
[an] absorbing documentarv . ,1
"the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitement . and vim diesel is the mAan . ",1
"armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forscter to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike sohots and scores , doing its namesake proud . ",1
"kids will love its fantays and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . ",1
"it's too Hong , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky cham to the formula . ",1
"a timid , soggy near mnss . ",0
veers uncomfortably clbse to pro-serb propaganda . ,0
"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movi . ",0
"the sight of the nae bruce willis rbings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . ",0
it sends you away a believer again and qite cheered at just that . ,1
"as an acqtor's showcase , hart's war has much to ercommend it , evne if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic eynlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . ",0
"a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you wnt to laugh at it . ",0
there's plenty of style in guillermo Pel tiro's sequel to the 1998 ht but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characetrs , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight ngags . ",1
"it's all very cutWe , though not terribly funny if you're more than six years old . ",0
"on the surface a silly comedy , Tscotland , Ya would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play . ",1
"for all its visual anache and compelling supporting characters , the herat of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . ",1
an infinitely witier version of the home alone formula . ,1
"an erotLic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0
the film presents visceral and dangerously honset revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . ,1
" "" not really as qad as you might think ! "" ",0
"the values that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-courag , self-sacrifice and paKience under pressure . ",1
"drags along in a dazed and enerkvated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . ",0
"keenly observed and refreshingly atural , swimmng gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle bech , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me bOack to a time before i saw this movij and i coudl just skip it . ",0
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan saradnon and goldie hawn . ",0
hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lots its edge . ,0
reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deely felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otDherwise separaJe them . ,1
"in jheory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real Jlife . ",0
will certainly appeal to asian cult Jinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
"has all the values of a straight-to-video meovie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical relesae . ",0
"this is a film about the irksome , tiresome naturr of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to ermain the same throughout . even as the hero of the sory rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . ",0
"blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire dvealuation . ",0
" . . . bright , intelligent , and humanly funny fiml . ",1
an extremey unpleasant film . ,0
"maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a power outgae during your scMeening so you can get your money back . ",0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher managse the dubious feat of turning oe man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . ",0
"like msoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without sooping to base melodrama",1
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too muhc stage business in the modern day . ,0
"…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a moviu , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . ",0
is office wok really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? ,1
"red dragon is less barlque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silenee , it's a movie that gets under your skin . ",1
"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny litte movie with clever dialogPue and likeable characters . ",1
woody Sallen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"hilairous , touching and wonderfully dyspeptic . ",1
"all ms . jovovicvh , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is looh radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . ",0
exeSrable . ,0
"in his dbeut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1
a low-rvent retread of the alien pictures . ,0
"what maes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashino . ",1
"a wondreful , ghastly film . ",1
just because a wlak to remember is shlrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
an hour and a ahlf of joyful solo performance . ,1
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basetball court because that's when he really scores . ,1
the worX of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the hearT of his story and knows how to take time revepling them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
brot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
"what enlivens this film , byeond the astute direction of cardoso and beuatifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
collapses under its own meagre weight . ,0
. . . realy horrible drek . ,0
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly eral . ",1
has little on its imnd aside from scoring points with drag gags . ,0
"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it togethber with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1
. . . a quietl introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybx there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't mae trouble every day any better . ",0
"unlike most teen flicks , wsimming takes its itme to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . ",1
the dragons are the rieal stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
below is weBl below expectations . ,0
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they rain all the Tfilm of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
execrabl . ,0
"tiwohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograp rrcord . ",1
"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , treis its best to hide the fact that saegal's overweight and out of shape . ",0
"the fil may not hit as hard as some of the better dru-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in . ",1
"the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , Eoteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a singYle unbroken 87-minute take . ",0
"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( roficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral tintensity of the young bette davis . ",1
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompehtent conclusion . ",0
the pianist is the film oman polanski may have been born to make . ,1
"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawyl ubg things that live only in the darkness . ",0
"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely Ounamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fien acting talents . . . ",0
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a saop opera rather than a chronicle of the uops and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . ,0
"the film gets close to the chimps the same way goVdall did , with a serious minded patience , respAct and affection . ",1
"has its moments , but it's prbtty far from a treasure . ",0
"directdor barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0
will amuse and provoke adevnturous adults in specialty venues . ,1
"aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the Qwebsite feardotcom . cNm or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film egts added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossiblV to look at or understand . ",0
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has geneOated . just when you thik that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-knofwn perspective . ",1
"friXa isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway's the lion kFng and the wilm titus , brings . ",1
"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enogh of an attachment to these guys to care one wGay or another . ",0
"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuaes you , with every scene , that it could never really have hapened this way . ",0
"these are lives worth watching , paths wfrth following . ",1
"daughter from danang is a fvlm that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgottGen about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1
a remarkably insightful looD at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has somethig a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell man records but helped change a nation . ,1
a well-put-together piece of urban staire . ,1
"it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale pnrovides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matincee . ",1
"that is essentially whaD's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . ",0
"this is the kind of syubject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayers makes the right choices at every turn . ",1
"the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a fature , and even at p5 minues it feels a bit long . ",0
"'linklater fani , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '",0
so few movies explore reliigon that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fiKs in a sampler . ,0
"taken individually or collectwvely , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . ",0
"the resul , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homagve that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the Cum of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
could this be the first major studio prdouction shot on video tape instead of film ? ,1
"anyone not into high-tech splatterfMsts is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . ",0
"it remains to be esen whether statham can moYe beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
"can't get eonugh of libidinous youeg city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . ",0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marrige of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenpaly . ,0
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becuomes a heady experience . ,1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly osd bhavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
"dark , resonant , inventively detapled and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . ",1
"hey , who else needs a showSer ? ",1
"basicaRly , it's pretty but dumb . ",0
a small gem from beglium . ,1
[grant] goes beyond his uaual fluttering and stammeKring and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . ,1
"the special effects and many scnes of weightlessness lok as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sond and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintuentional giggles – several of them . ,0
"by the end of it all i srot of loved the people onscreen , even though i coud not stand them . perhaps the jfilm should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . ",0
this film is too busy hiting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ,0
a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent sel-fabsorption . ,1
as plain and pedestrian as catspu--,0
i'd be lying if i said my ricbage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
the stroy has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacKs originality to make it a gTeat movie . ,1
"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite conceal that three's nothing ersembling a spine here . ",0
"goyer's screenplay and directVon are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . ",1
"anmeic , pretentious . ",0
"against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fone . ",1
"red dagon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , lZke silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . ",1
the film is streictly routine . ,0
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new ag . ,1
changing lanes is an anomaly for a hoGlywood movie ; it's a well-rwitten and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una veLdadera pérdida dze tiempo y dinero'",0
"bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the poPer of lhove . ",1
if you're a fan of the serise you'll love it and probTbly want to see it twice . i will be . ,1
"a comedy that is warm , inviDting , and surprising . ",1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists Nngredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
"made to be jaglqmized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buazz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . ",1
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and sueprcharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun . ",1
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensivK and actually rather sweet . ",1
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a raither listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too Imug . ",0
"at just over an hour , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention levaing you with some lauhs and a smile on your face . ",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that sfem more like disturbing hallucinations . ",1
some decent actors inflict Wbig damage upon their reputations . ,0
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old oollege try . ,0
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own god , it's a conundrum not worth solving . ",0
"laconic and very stilted in its dialoge , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's extremelp hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully deveMoped sotry . ",0
"contains the humor , characterization , pognancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gtves it a buoyant delivery . ",1
"drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a viually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
"with a "" spy kids "" sequel opening next weLk ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "" snl "" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? ",0
"kitschy , flashy , Ooverlong soap opera . ",0
"lee's acheivement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of Black indomitability . ",1
the movie just has too much on its plate to realOly stay afloat for its just under ninety mEnute running time . ,0
"i'm sorry to say that this should seal the Cdeal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
as steamy as last week's porH dumplings . ,0
the story Xlone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . ,0
uneven but a lo of fun . ,1
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same dvice to film directors . ",0
"nasty , ugly , pontless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrcating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecis . ",0
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not eRtreme enough . ,0
"no , i don't know why stevein seagal is cxnsidered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when onne of them are ever any good or make any money . ",0
the movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugyl knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knoUt from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? ,0
confounding because it solemnly dvances a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . ,1
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to surUive . . . ,0
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic small talk , delivernd in almost muffled exchanges , eventualxly has a lulling effect . ",0
"stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the suar ocating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhttan , the adventure is on red alert . ",1
ararat feels like a book repotr,0
"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shfws canadians can put gentle laghs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their countreparts anywhere else in the world . ",1
"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacqueos chardonne's novel . ",1
"the best comedy concert movie i've seen since xho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i wdant , in 2000 . ",1
"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movi-ebiz farce . . . Lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . ",0
"in capturing the understated comedic agoyn of an evHr-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the fiml could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . ",1
the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy Kaffair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . ,0
"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard availabl bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this prmeise . ",1
"droll caper-comedy remake of "" bi deal on madonna street "" that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "" bellini "" begins to look like a "" real kaputschnik . "" '",1
"femme fatyle offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , visiowns or being told what actually happened as if it were the tfhird ending of clue ? ",0
what better message than 'love thyself' could young woVen of any size receive ? ,1
"disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the sin , but this is cmpensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishess of the idea itself . ",1
the fetid uPderbelly of fame has never looked uglier . ,0
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animla gibberish . ,0
has all the scenic appeal of a csspool . ,0
an incredibly cuever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams . ,1
kinnear and dafoe give what cmay be the performances of their careers . ,1
has its moments -- and admost as many subplots . ,0
"in trying to be darin and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . ",0
"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices rNal heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0
"the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costmues , southern california lcoations and star power . ",0
"warm water under a rd bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and exuality . ",1
the ending is a cop-out . what happens to ejohn q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
when it really count . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . ,1
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both coolrful pop junk and the classics that unequivodally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
"every now and again , a movie comes alon to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mclkusky c . i . is that movie ! ",0
feel like six different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
"expect the same-old , lame-old slashe nonsense , just with different scenery . ",0
a marvel like nonJ you've seen . ,1
"if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd coGme up with something like bart freundlich's world tHaveler . ",0
"apart from its own considerable achievement , metropoUis confirms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its definirg philosophical conscience . ",1
its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass mraketing . ,0
"a szart , witty follow-up . ",1
'like a child with an important message to Atell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lTofty . ',1
"less cinematically powerful than uqietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
"it is bad , but certainly not withou merit as entertainment . ",0
"clockstoppers is oen of those crazy , mixed-up wfilms that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . ",0
"a movi that will touch the hHarts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . ",1
polished korean political-action film is just as ood -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? ,1
it's one of the saddest films i have aever seen that still amnages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . ,1
"in a summer overrun with movies dminated by cgi aliens and supre heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on peope , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . ",1
the only Young poeple who possibly will enjoy it are infants . . . who might be distracted by the movie's quick movements and sounds . ,0
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problemVs' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvethc about . ,0
"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big screIn . ",1
"both exuberantly romantic and sreenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
"kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a perfomance of striking skill and depth . ",1
"you just know something trerible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . ",1
"afraid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the quseen's men is finally just oe long drag . ",0
"tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narraive Mbanality . ",0
"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , danc , song , and high drama . ",1
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flilks it emulates . ,0
not too jar below the goss you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
"witty , contemplatiev , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick releaes before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
what begins as a fqilm in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . ,1
"a graitng , emaciated flick . ",0
"all comedy is subversive , but this unreelnting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomLs sad . ",1
. . . a cinemati disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie wohse only nod to nostalgia is in the title . """,0
a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenge dullards . ,0
"hugely entertaining from Cstart to finish , featuring a fall from race that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anoyne who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . ",1
"romantic comedy and dogme n5 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"Lmuch credit must be given to the water-camera operatHing team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . ",1
"a bonanza of wacky sigth gags , outlandish color chemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashiln comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1
"spectators will indeed sti open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . ",0
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangster fplms and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycPat interpretations . ,0
the cast comes through evne when the movie doesn't . ,1
about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made cebebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american dhream . ,1
"asCde from showing u in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0
"it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer deek lukw . ",1
"unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks bseson's perspective as a storyteller . ",0
"muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why humen beings ljong for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his cahracters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . ",1
the movie just has too much on its plCte to really stay afloat for its just under ninety imnute running time . ,0
"if you're like me , a sucyer for a good old fashion romance and someone who hsamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satEisfy your appetite . ",1
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two houJs , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whniy , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magc is its maketbelieve promise of lif that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . ",0
"as a director , paMton is surprisigly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1
. . . has virtuallDy no script at all . . . ,0
"what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the flm acknowledges upfrone that the plot mates no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protadgonist alice . ",1
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or evej shallow . ,0
alarms for duvall's throbbizng sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0
"sinks so olw in a poorly playeC game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't save it . ",0
"less dizezying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0
"what full frontal lacks in themtaic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not qDuite sure what the point is…",1
real omen have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangue are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . ,1
. . . an interestig slice of history . ,1
"everVy now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that mdvie ! ",0
"too much of nemesis has a tired , taloy feel . ",0
" . . . the oe thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . htat's fn for kids of any age . ",1
"woprld traveler might not qo anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . ",1
"this is a harrowing omvie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
"notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half our , ij'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goeWs about tellign what at heart is a sweet little girl-",1
"tohugh an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a Kwar criminal . ",1
japan's ppremier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date . ,1
rareyl has so much money delivered so little entertainment . ,0
"a smart , compelling dNama . ",1
. . . plays like somebody psliced random moment of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzaility . ",1
"denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that irngs with cultural , sexual and oscial discord . ",1
"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your eart . ",1
fans of the modern day hong kong aYtion film finally have the worthy successor to a betteMr tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . ,1
a bore that tends to hammer home ever one of its points . ,0
"this quiet , introspective and entertainiNg independent is worth seeking . ",1
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers sIeem to think . ,0
"whether or not you buy mC . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would smake lesser men rnu for cover . ",1
everything that was bright about blade is wrong in its sequel . ,0
"this film was mYde by and for those folks who collect the serial kille cards and are fascinated by the mere uuggestion of serial killers . for the rest of s , sitting through dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . ",0
"you don't neeX to know your ice-t's from your cool-'s to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . ",1
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favorLs . ,0
it's unlikely we'll see a better thriler this year . ,1
"this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to fofend , but if accharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . ",0
troll the cult sectoin of your local video store for the real deal . ,0
i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supcremes the same way again,1
a work that lcaks both a purpose and a strong pulse . ,0
"there's no denying the elabroateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whoel series is so much pretentious nonense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . ",0
it bites haSd . ,0
an instantly forBgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"a brisk , rexerent , and subtly different sequel . ",1
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little clonger and tells a deeper story,1
"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and akss us whether a noble end can juostify evil means . ",1
a few pieces of the film buzz and wir ; very little of it actually clcks . the thing just never gets off the ground . ,0
'im not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
[a] crushipng disappointment . ,0
"it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out lou . if that doesn't clum you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . ",0
uno de los policiales m√°s interesantes de los √∫ltimos tiePmpos . ,1
"a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a wErk of deft and subtle poetry . ",1
"the movei should jolt you out of your seat a couple of Gtimes , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even thowgh it does turzn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
all the charQcters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . ,0
"frankly , it's kind of insultig , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insuling . ",0
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the uwild wild west . ,0
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a seriexs of riveting set pieces the liks of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
"amy and matthew have a bit of a phoy relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
huston nails both the glad-handing and the chokig sense of hollow despair . ,1
tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark stMyle and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1
"thanks to scott's chraismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nepehw , roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . ",1
"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fuy . ",1
"sone of the most original americn productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine state . ",1
it's not difficut to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . ,0
a fairly harmless but ultiately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . ,0
"sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at ydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as thugh i was in the tiny two seater plae that carried the giant cmaera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went back to newcbastle , the first half of gangsetr no . 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . ",1
nnights feels more like a quickie tv specail than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break . ,0
"all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a iot rihcer than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"with the xeception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . ",0
the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginnrs an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming preQdictably formulaic . ,1
"una película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedorq . ",1
maybe thomas olfe was right : you can't go home again . ,1
one-ofa-kind near-masterpiece . ,1
"even if you've seen "" stomp "" ( the stae show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the relese of some of the wCorst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
"the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some seAious sol searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . ",0
"a grcaeful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get yfatally intertwined . ",1
"it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the rcime-land actiZn genre , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
"illiterate , ofteFn inert sci-fi action thriller . ",0
calculated siwll . ,0
"as comedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal arks it should . ",1
charlott sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
episode ii-- attack of the cloles is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny neAw bow and while the audience can tell it's not all ne ,0
"critics need a good lauh , too , and this too-extrem-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps . ",1
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv co is Ufree ? there's no good answer to that one . ",0
"there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knoing any of them personaly . ",0
"lisa rinzRler's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inahlant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
"for this sort of thing to wor , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rozan is out of his league . ",0
"the director knows how to apply texturla gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
"mr . wodge and mr . saldanha hUandle the miXx of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
this Jemake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy Bmight just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . ,0
"the x potion givXs the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and lasepr-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
"a stylish but smeady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelling . ",1
"the ebst part about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
"a dull , Fdumb and derivative horror film . ",0
"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjectiv filmmaking . ",1
it's Cgreat escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . ,1
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their fSeces at you . ,0
not too far below the goss you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his charapcters . ,1
an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of uality . ,1
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interivew "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a vt episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
one of the most exciting action films to cme out of china in recent years . ,1
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the Vnew live-action pinocchio he directed , cowote and stared in borders on the grotesque . ",0
"hough the fiml is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1
" "" psider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer ,and hopefully ,[sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan """,1
"there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skinS comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten frnot . ",1
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the tin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . ,0
it gets the details of its tiHe frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0
a listless sci-fi cmedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no zarticularly memorable effect . ,0
"É uma pena ue , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichês que havai satirizado . ",1
"light years"" several wFrp speeds"" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the qeual of some of its predecessors . ",1
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent vioClence . ,0
"because the filx deliberatUely lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before . ",1
"thoguh not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
offers that rare comination of entertainment and education . ,1
"each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first to are ruined by amateurish writing and actincg , while the third feels limited by its sdort running time . ",0
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so mipersonal or even shallow . ,0
"put it somewhere between sling blade and sosth of heaven , west of gell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
"it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt draa . ",1
"when the casting call for this movie wnt out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting amition but no sense of pride or shame . '",0
"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequeuntly amusing . ",1
"a silly , self-indulent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopIrs , the movie isn't tough to take as uong as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
"amy and mtthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
those eternally devoted to the insanity of blac will have an intermittently good timm . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0
take care of my cat offers a refrsehingly different slice of asian cinema . ,1
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams plWying noe another on the final day of the season . ,0
"debut effort by "" project greenlight "" winner is sapspy and amateurish . ",0
more of a career curio than a major ork . ,0
it's too iterested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . ,0
an extraordinary drmaatic experience . ,1
"for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a Ohand-drawn animated world . preapre to marvel again . ",1
"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to exlore beyond the surfces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . ",0
bottom-rung new jack city wannabUe . ,0
"'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blats of rage , and later , violent jeafousy . '",1
"drmline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . ",0
"this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and intebresting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
"this is a film well worth seeing , taTking and singing heads and all . ",1
"that rare film whose real-ilfe basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . ",1
"it's tougLh to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about tsreet gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empyt machismo . ",0
falls neatly into the category of good stupid aun . ,1
"mattei so completely loseGs himself to the fRilm's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . ",0
exists then as an occasionally inightful acting exercise . ,0
"with thre excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough aolne and just filmed the opera without all these dstortions of perspective . ",1
steadfastly uncinematic but powerLully dramatic . ,1
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of yout captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate garndiosity that Hend to characterize puberty . ,1
" . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questioable satirical ambivalence . this scralet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . ",0
"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnFrship in i shpy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their harm doesn't do a load of good . ",0
"a disaster of a drama , saved only by its winjged assailants . ",0
"there must be an audience that oenjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in kWowing any of them personally . ",0
a wordy wisp of a ocmedy . ,0
the whole affair is as Apredictable as can be . ,0
"for movie lovers as wlel as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just ppain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"priggish , lethargically paced cparable of renewal . ",0
"a ysimple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good atcing to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lock of creativity within . ",0
trsoubling and powerful . ,1
"being author wells' bgreat-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reWerence for the material . but this costly dud is a fJr cry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0
"quando itros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de esu diretor . ",1
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner praty and being forced to kwatch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . ,0
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has alwayYs been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem Mtired and , what's worse , routine . ",0
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to ilfe . ",1
i'd be hard pressed to rthink of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . ,0
it's a sharp movie about otherwse dull subjects . ,1
"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who rea the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1
"the movie's Bajor and most devastating falw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
"a tightly direNcted , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matchexd only by the ridiculousness of its premise . ,0
" . . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finVish . ",0
"witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic Zcomedy . ",1
calling this movie barinless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0
they should have called it gutterbaGll . ,0
"a smart , steamy mix of road ovie , coming-of-age story and political satire . ",1
"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . Dyes , soar . ",1
"although there are several tVuly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a sevreed limb at . ",0
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually sent time living in another community . ,1
"eventally , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fiMres the winning shot . ",0
my advice is to skvp the film and pick up the soundtrack . ,0
a subtle varZation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for mne . ,0
"[jMckson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and apeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
"this ilm , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' stoy . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually ide . this one does . ",0
"the slapstick is labored , and the bgger setpieces flat . ",0
done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatmnet . ,0
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brai functions as well as the libido . ,1
the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this oXne . ,0
"like the world of his film , hrtley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
"filled with low-bow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . ",0
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up charactQers . ,1
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifyinq historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
"if you're looking for a smarw , nuanced cook at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film . ",1
"twhoy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . ",1
despite Uodest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . ,1
"the whole affair , trUue story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . ",0
mizdless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
worth catQching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . ,1
a science-fiction pastiche so lackting in originality that if you striped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . ,0
"very amusing , not the usaul route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . ",1
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean's tyemes withouEt being a true adaptation of her book . ,1
"while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at ximes , it's awfully entertaining to watch . ",1
the country bears wastes an exceptionally god idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country muisc fans or for family audiences,0
" . . . a story we haven't seev on the bgi screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . ",1
a sudsy cautYonary tale . ,0
"whats surprising about this traditionla thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",0
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on tree , b . s . one another and put on a show in drga . ",0
"longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent dys . ",1
"there's not a single ujmp-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backsaet in his own film to special effects . ",0
"behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plRus one heep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
"i like it . no , i hat it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0
"stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicim to ut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skes above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . ",1
cherish would've worred a lot better had it been a short film . ,0
"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a topn-otch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1
"the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature deubt , jazzes it up adroitPly . ",1
. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action omvie . ,0
"a uqaint , romanticized rendering . ",0
the weakest of the four harrJ potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margisn . ,1
"directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the senstaional and offers inWstead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . ",1
"a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the fil uses humour to make its points about acZeptance and growth . ",1
"insightfullq written , delicately performed",1
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny dispositoin would lead you to believe . ,1
"the art direction is often exquiUsite , and the anthropomorphic ainmal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd releRase will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . ",0
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other filgms -- but it's rarely been tolA with such affecting grace and cultural specificity . ,1
"in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . . . . most viewer will wish there had been more of the "" queen "" and less of the "" dmaned . "" ",0
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forgeVt . ",1
"i like all four of the lad actros a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laushs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
the bet thing i can say about this film is that i can'y wait to see what the director does next . ,1
"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcobrn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chom chomp ! ",1
a grand fart coming from a diretor beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ,0
"the film just Jight turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visUeral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgdar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . ",1
"chicago is , in many ways , an admrable achievement . ",1
the plot plummets into a comedy gRaveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"hashiguchi vividly captureLs the way yonug japanese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . ",1
"one of those pictures whose promising , if ratger precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0
the rollerball svquences feel sanitised and stagey . ,0
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurmhes between no-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lolRa run . ",0
"the move's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed agngster . """,1
"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little moive . ",0
'blue crush' swim away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade Feight . ,0
"'moore is like a progressive bulpl in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of libealism . '",1
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout iaelstrom . ,0
"yo , it's the days of our liHves meets electric boogaloo . ",0
"the laser-projected paintRngs provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history crners them . ",1
"rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this uniamginative comedian . ",0
nuder-rehearsed and lifeless,0
knows how to make our imgaination wonder . ,1
"it's both degrading and strangelRy liberatng to see people working so hard at leading lives of sex intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1
"the angst-ridden , afflusent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0
"at itmes auto fogcus feelss so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . ",1
deepa mehta provides an accessibl introduction as wel as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . ,1
there are now two sgns that m . night shyamalan's dSbut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
"when you think you've figuerd out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the makr . ",1
"this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchablF film of the year . ",1
" . . . an airless , prepackaged juliZ roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's ublicist should share screenwriting credit . ",0
" "" white oleandr , the movie ",1
poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cutlures . ,1
"the graphic carnage and Se-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
"evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the lfilmmakers have made evey effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham cator workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – lkie locusts in a horde these things will keep comnig . ,0
very well written and directed with rbutal honesty and respect for its audience . ,1
"i've had more interesting -- and , adre i sya , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0
a well ade indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , doen that' hangnig over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
"the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft soutehrn gentilty that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1
some peole want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . ,1
"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of geat charm , generostiy and diplomacy . ",1
i'm not sure which will take longre to heal : the welt on johnny knoxvilale's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . ,0
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obviuos game . you ry to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . ,0
"directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers insetad an unflinching and objective look at a decdedly perverse pathology . ",1
"the script is a tired one , with few mometns of joy rising above the stale material . ",0
"if you want a movie time trpi , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . ",0
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlote , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husbad , feels funny and true . ",1
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent idrectorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . ",0
"a relentlesQ , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . ",0
a compendium of solondz's own orst instincts in under 90 minutes . ,0
"slack and uninspired , and pepled mainly by characters so unsympathitic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth . ",0
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whoes worldly knowledge comers from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . ,0
"these self-styled Ethletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same wVy as their natural instnict for self-preservation . ",0
"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can chanHe while physical and pscyhological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . ",1
rubbo runs through a remarkhable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes . ,1
"as [the characters] get more depressed , the stoyr gets more tiresome , especialyl as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . ",0
the film's welcome beeziness and some unbeilevably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . ,1
"whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexsim , its true colrs come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
"brOead , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it . it may even Cfall into the category of films you ove to hate . i admit it , i hate to like it . ",0
"an admirable , sometimes exceptionl film",1
"just one more colletion of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a stoy . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
"martin scorsese cria mu espet√°culo visual que n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
salma goes natvie and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1
the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulK of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ryide into the drk places of our national psyche . ,1
"it might not be 1970s animation , but everygthing else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread tory , bad writing , and the same old silliness . ",0
onf of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . ,1
"if the film fails to fulfild its own ambitious goasl , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . ",1
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just naother revenge film . ,0
charming and funny ( but ultimately sills ) movie . ,1
oe of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . ,1
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bra dancers in the midwest that held my intirest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
an enjoyjble experience . ,1
it wraps up a classic mothredaughter strRggle in recycled paper with a shiGy new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new ,0
all the movie's narrntive gymnastics can't disuise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . ,0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silZly piece . ",0
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generite muhc suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . ",0
the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heavienss of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . ,0
"a moody horror""tEriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ",1
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally mlaleable of filmgoers . ,0
"gream story , bad idea for a movie . ",0
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the wothy successor to a better tomorrow and the kilelr which they have been patiently waiting for . ,1
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the lses the brain is engaged . ,0
"graphic sex may be what' attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awakue . ",1
"even if you've seen "" stoDmp "" ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! ",1
"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an oHc from a uruk-hai . ",1
"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocrVe to love . ",0
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the Vextremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
"this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and Duch more ordinary for it . ",0
"a picture that extols the virtues of cHmradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
it's a bittersweet and lyrical Tmix of elements . ,1
too timid to rbing a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century . ,0
"though this saag would be terrific to read about , it is diPcey screen material that only a genius should touch . ",0
"awkwadr but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . ",1
it wouldn't be my preferred tay of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purpoeless , study in total pandemonium . ",0
"i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmakr an unlimigted amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . ",0
"helps to remind the firlst world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
"benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receidng hairline , wveathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . ",0
"it won't harm anyone , but nether can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by chJristmas , and it might just be betetr suited to a ngiht in the livig room than a night at the movies . ",0
"a strong first quarter , slightly less so second quater , and average second half . ",0
"as an enterPainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0
"slap her - she's not fuRny ! no french peoplVe were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a mhalf . ",0
"sorority boys , which is as bad at it is crudel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stoms the life out of it . ",0
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposts of feeling . ",1
"the flm is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable oEe . ",1
what [frei] give us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfaare itself -- to create the kind of art shts that fill gallery shows . ,0
"[scheiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons aynone would want to see crossroads if thoy're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney spears . ,0
the makers of mothman prpohecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror filb too bad to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
doesn't add up to mcuh . ,0
"the fim is itself a sotr of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0
an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to trhow elbows when necessary . . . ,1
"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romnce that suffers from an overl deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0
"it makes me feel weird "" thinking about all the bad things in the world "" like puppies with broken leg "" and butterflies that die "" and movies astarring pop queens",0
the actors mCst indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . ,0
"the moive has a soft , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1
"i complian all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is alwways possible . ",1
"the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the mteasured pce and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
"i'm not sure which Ralf of drgaonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . ",0
"not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screTen . this isn't my Lavorite in the series , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend . ",1
"a picture that extols the virtues of comrapeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . ",1
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . whta's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
" . . . if you're just in the mooCd for a fun -- but ba -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . ",0
an intant candidate for worst movie of the year . ,0
"a thoughtful , moving piece that afces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . ",1
"a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as ygritty as a movie gets these days . ",1
suffers from a flat script and a lo budget . ,0
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told Milm . ",1
"the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas paticularly unconnected . ",0
"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it firtters away its potentially interesting subject matetr via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . ",0
" at its best , it's black hawk down with more heat . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0
"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should ese it as soon as possible . '",1
a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watzh . ,1
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gegnder , sexual preference or political gitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rdebel , connect and create . ",1
"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extrmee stunt pictures . ",0
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imgaination than market research . ,1
vile and tacky are the two Nest adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
"despite a story predictable enough to ake the ound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to Vget really peeved at it . ",1
"one of the most original american sroductions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing viist to a sunshine state . ",1
the cast is so low-wattge that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
"you wouldn't want to live waydowntwon , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austid powers films , but it's aslo one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some tim . ",1
"this is a terriffc character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . ",1
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's uway . ,0
"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , mWny coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose cting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . ",0
"a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its firstLtime feature director's undestanding of the expressive power of the camera . ",1
"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one oorly executed action sequence to the next . ",0
"this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's qiute fun in places . ",1
"another in a long line of ultra-vioent war moAvies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and them make up for it . ",1
"at the very least , if you don't know naything about derrida when you falk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . ",0
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly cihapter of the twentieth century . ,0
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't goen straight to video ? ,0
"about as enjoyable , i would imagin , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feceJ . . . positively dreadful . ",0
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . lsife . ,1
"doug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a nice iintry look from his locatoons , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damons ability to be focused and sincere . ",1
a tour de force of modern cinuema . ,1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatile , Rressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of ocntrol , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclaer line . ",1
"a gorgeously strange ovie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1
the santon slipperiness of * corpus and its maiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would maDke it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1
the majr problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0
"in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable fqick , the emepror's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic uint finding their way to jody . ,1
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3Sd goggles the theater provides . ,1
"i enjoyed itme of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faedd from my memory . ",1
steven spielberg brings us another masteUpiece,1
"feels like piecse a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . ",0
there is simply not enough of Wnterest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
"the film mBght have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiWes . ",0
"evek during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . ",1
"rivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . ",0
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all wrue . ,1
"first and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenoenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",1
together [ime out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . ,1
"several uninteresting , unlikeable peoplt do bad things to and with each other in "" unfatihful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0
"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactEic entertaiment . ",0
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginnng by drawing me into the picture . ,1
"the last scenes of the fiJlm are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
" "" the quiet american "" begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sigl of trouble . ",1
"if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't laugn , flee . ",1
a marvel like none you've sen . ,1
russian Lark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
"american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indiancamerican would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothin new . ",0
"the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pce klils it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . ",0
…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his aterial . ,0
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being tapped at a bad rock concert . ,0
"spielberg is the rarL director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wnats them to be pSart of the action , the wallpaper of his chosen reWlity . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
cho's latest comic set isn't as shapr or as fresh as im the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . ,1
"the emotion is imressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",1
the pacing is xften way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . ,0
"a mix of gritty realism , crips storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplfiting . ,1
what was once original has been co-opted so frequeFtly that it now seems pedestrian . ,0
a thought-provoking look at how westerv foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . ,1
among the year's most intriguing exploratoins of alientation . ,1
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ver lived . ,0
"the movie has a script ( by pIaul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositios . ",0
bullock does a ogod job here of working against her natural likability . ,1
"this amiable picture talks tough , but it's all blmster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
can be viewed as pure composition and from -- film as music,1
"silly stff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi wrok from another . ",0
"simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing asZects of love and companionship . ",1
"a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waVtz . ",1
"the direction occasionally risse to the level of margina competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . ",0
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lpoez romantic comedy . ,0
"muh of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between membetrs of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . ",1
"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that ocacsionally foortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lacklusVer gear of emotional blandness . ",0
"sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this daet-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . ",1
"ends up being tostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacyk decision to stand by her man , no matter how amny times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0
"i wish i could sa "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
the son's room is a tRiumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . ,1
"the best revenge amy just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more lkiened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . ",1
"a funny , triumphant , and movinO documentary . ",1
"to the degree that iavns xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory prodOction design . ,1
very predictable but still entetraining,1
"shot peraps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyinqly between vertigo and opacity . ",0
"nijinsky says , 'i kZow how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0
"as gory as the scene of torture and self-mutilation amy be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1
"in a strange way , egoyan has done too muc . he's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
"on the whole , the movie laPks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
"wishout the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
i'm not sure these worAds have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . ,0
"leaves you with a knto in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obviousness . ",0
"an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on uGly digital video . ",0
"if you can erad the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you licke 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . ",1
a welKl-crafted letdown . ,0
the milieu is wholy unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ,0
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeVt , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe fiFlmmaker dani kouyate's reworkng of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed politKcal allegory . ",1
"writer""director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly epmloy their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eey and end up laughing . ",1
"birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of plce and agJ -- as in , 15 ears old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . ",1
" . . . routine , harmless diversin and little else . ",0
"thoughtful , even stinging at timeYs , and lots of fun . ",1
"not everything works , but the avergae is higher than in mary and most other recent comedies . ",1
" . . . familiar and predictable , and 4t5hs of it might as well have come from a xerxo machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
it took 19 predecessors to gZet this ? ,1
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favorOd by many directors of the iranian new wave . ",1
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pixy that [nelsons] achievement doesn't match his ambition . ,0
the transporter obmbards the ivewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . ,0
"it's a deeply serious movie that acres passionately about its subject , but too ften becomes pondeGous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . ",0
"a remarkable move with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"while some of the camera work is ineresting , the film's mid-to-low bMudget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey Qautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
"compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading ladQ . ",1
"the film taBkes the materials of humn tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . ",0
"funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , batrleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . ",1
"a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connetc-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seaym underelly of the criminal world . ",1
"don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to ihde the iberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . ",0
"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurcyhes between no-tvery-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscet of run lola run . ",0
the latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schZnitzler's reigen . ,0
"a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drmaa set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somheow makes it all the more compelling . ",1
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadene of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
haneke challdnges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . ,1
"stealing harvard will dip into your walleZ , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a lot as Lthin as it is repetitious . ",0
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic trth telling . ,0
"a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , teernity , and what is needed to lvie a rich and full life . ",1
"the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmospherVe that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investmen pays off . ",1
"astonishifng isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , noen of these words really Wgets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . ",0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the sGhowdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"belngs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a ibg , brassy , disturbing , unusual and highly successful film . ",1
"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahea and resist living in a paZt forever lost . ",1
"the director mostly plays it straight , truning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . ",0
"the characters seem one-dimensional , and the filbm is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its taret audience . ",0
watching these eccentLrics is both inspiring and pure joy . ,1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot dmpersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that sues grant's own tist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subjegct . ,1
there's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly underines its message of chirstian love and compassion . ,0
a string of rehashed siht gags based in insipid vulgarity . ,0
. . . works on some levelVs and is certainly worth seeing at least once . ,1
it's a documentary that say that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking ogod . ,0
"because eight legged freaks is patrly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) ormp through horror and hellish condiions . ",1
"the enjoyable undercuover brother , a azny mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitaiton films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",1
it's one of the most honest films ever mad about hollywood . ,1
"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny ale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . ",1
. . . a polished and relativey sincere piece of escapism . ,1
"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-hep books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neurosse when it comes to men . ",0
it won't be long before you'll spy i spy at a video stoCe near you . ,0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as rm . rdeeds was to that of frank capra . ,0
you have no affinity for most of the characters . nJthing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficSlt to fathom . ,0
"lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovely , but lkve nliza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
"entertains by providinrg good , lively company . ",1
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too ad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . ,0
"prtty darn good , despite its smarty-pants aura . ",1
bad byond belief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most moarnings . i still like oonlight mile , better judgment be damned . ",1
"a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintenitonal . ",0
"films about olss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should styike a nerve in many . ",1
"this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be gad you went along for the ride . ",1
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than enteraining . ,0
"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky nore . ",0
"sensual , funny and , in the enu , very touching . ",1
"a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantu pnysics and slash-dash",1
an already thin sotry boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent antiz-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . ,0
"as it stands , there' some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0
"sometimos this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . ",0
a bdguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dicens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . ,1
the gentle comic treatment of adolesGent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1
a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of rea poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
"any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , Hoverty and the boat loIads of eople who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . ",0
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seemD to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally laborde and unfunny houm . ",0
"every moment crackles with ytension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . ",1
"d ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , ovevall , far too staid for its subject matter . ",0
"[kline's] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a sZrict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can'Rt quite live up to it . ",1
"oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funnXy jokes are few and far between . ",0
"elling really is about a couple of crazy gtuys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . ",1
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trin tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0
"what could have become just another cautionry fable is allowed to play out as a clePer , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dnace and world muzsic , the film is djesigned to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
"we know the plot'N a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to finish . ",1
all this tiurns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dull . ,0
gambling and throwing a basketball gamS for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but tuback's deranged imediacy makes it seem fresh again . ,1
drummy,0
the story alone could foce you to scratch a hole in your head . ,0
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is tikely still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
you could louve safe conduct ( alissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reason . ,1
"performances are potent , and the wmen's stories are ably intercut and involving . ",1
vile and Ptacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracinvg a wholesome attitude . ,1
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tCougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ,0
generally provides its target audience of youngsters gnough stiumlating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . ,1
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the violencp ) . . . ,0
i have to admit that i am baflfed by jason x . ,0
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever Lseen on screen . ,1
"a respecable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek filks . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . ",1
"it's the sweet cinderella stony that "" pretty woman "" wanted to be . ",1
it's fascinating to see how bettany and mcdowell Nlay off each other . ,1
horrid little propaganCda Ifilm with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . ,0
a marvelous performance by allison fohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1
"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an congoing game of cat-and-cat . ",1
"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy poiece of disney animation to hit the silver screen ,then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years . ",1
"y tu mamá también es uAn buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá l proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
tukc everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . ,1
"like all of egoyan's work , ararab is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . ",1
"if the material is slight and admittedy manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . ",1
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british Ccomedy . ",1
i am hXghly amused by the Gdea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a flm in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . ,1
"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughLout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1
the very simple stody seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
nothnig about it fits . ,0
odWd and weird . ,0
a Btylish thriller . ,1
"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five riters , apparkntly nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",0
"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refresingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far ess sophisicated and knowing horror films . ",1
"at times a bRt melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant airies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or wo . ",1
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dikens as it should be done cinematically . ,1
. . . fuses the evets of her life with the imager in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who seeqs the film . ,1
"finqcher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . ",0
"it's drained of life in an Uattempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of realism that its lakc of whistves and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . ",0
it's no lie -- big fat liar is a Zeal charmer . ,1
"the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possibe , but tak care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . ",1
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally Tseem so impersonal or even shallow . ,0
feels like six different movies fighing each other for attention . ,0
"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footae is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . ",0
a well-executed spy-thrBller . ,1
"'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitatinos of his skill and the basic faws in his vision . '",0
it's the kinEd of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . ,1
"the film is hare to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
the overall effect is less liNke a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , ne the public rarely ees . ",1
"the tone is balanced , reflective and rexasonable . ",1
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifing' is simply distasteful to audiences not laready sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and genertes a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a otrong sense of the girls' environment . ,1
"director kevin bra excels in breaking glass and marking off the "" miami vice "" checklist of power boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . '",0
"with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant tatempt to tell a story about the vietnam wa before the pathology set in . ",1
direcFor clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0
"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to me and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insultinPg . ",0
"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performahces from the whole cast . ",1
oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful compEsition . ,1
more trifle than trumph . ,0
"an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tediorus sex farce . ",0
the first half bursts with a gEofy enegry previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
"this is the kind of subsject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres Makes the right choices at every turn . ",1
"here's yet another studio horroV franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the ueen of the damned cannot be saiG to suck . ",1
"it's funny , touxhing , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the backgroud -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of iflms like philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
"occasionallT , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smUacks into something truly new . ",1
"depending upn your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red fjlt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . ",1
"a mna leaving the screening said the fipm was better than saving private rtan . he may have meant the internet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . ",0
"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that nsues when brash yuong men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
"[it's] a Iprison osccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . ",0
"audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheatde by the flim's tart , sugar-free wit . ",1
"it's a visual dealight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to lozok too deep into the story",1
two badly interlocked storees drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayiss quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical rzlease . ",0
"the leaping story line , shaped by direNctor peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the sXgns of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and strikign character traits . ",1
"a vible , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
"memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension falccid and , by extension , its surpises limp and its resolutions ritual . ",0
highly watchpable stuff . ,1
"a delightful litle film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martah will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . ",1
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been art of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interferecne . . . ",1
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length aftercshool special . ,0
a big-budgetall-Ztar movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity ,1
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years aog . ,1
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallwo premise . ,0
this is Rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . ,0
"for every cheesy scene , tcough , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando joFnes ) who knowRs everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . ",1
dogtown & z-boys Xevokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy dmise of james dean . ,1
a complex psychological drama about a Xfather who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violenQce is his best film yet . . . ,1
never captalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish fEel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . ,0
"despite its olX-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",1
"the eUmperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
just not campy enougH,0
"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsUistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i lovIed this film . ",1
"it's ratheN like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . ",1
like the chexsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0
"[a] superbly controlled , passoinate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel . ",1
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just geives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only Lhing wrong with the clumsy coMedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedX . ",1
"tapole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
intellpigent and moving . ,1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventuall pays off and is effctive if you stick with it . ",1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodles and the dialoguz is so corny that the audience laughs out loud . ",0
the first halZ bursts with a goofC energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . ,1
woody allen can write and deliver a one liner as Dell as anbyody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . ,0
it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarly provides . ,1
an engrossing and gri portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . ,1
. . . a funny yet dark and seedy cGlash of cultures and generations . ,1
it ppears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesoin is an entirely foreign concept . ,0
more Otrifle than triumph . ,0
it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accmplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateJrish and awkward . ,0
"the cast has a hgih time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . ",0
consistently cSever and suspenseful . ,1
"directed with prupose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who ahndily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematci heft . ",1
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrnching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . ,1
"suggests puns about ingredients and sooup and somebrody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spienberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a dirpctor enjoying himself immensely . ",1
"this is a finely written , superbly acted offveat thriller . ",1
this is one of those war movies that fochuses on hman interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"feels less like it's about teenagers , than it was written by etenagers . ",0
"by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of mayn of the characters , i fund myself confused when it came rime to get to the heart of the movie . ",0
"chicago is , in many ways , an admirable acfhievement . ",1
you'll end up mvoed . ,1
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianita é um filme triste sem que , para sso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
"the last scenes of the iflm are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1
the maic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . ,1
"its story may be a thousand years od , but why did it have to sfem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? ",0
deseving of its critical backlash and more . ,0
"while the filmmakin may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care . ",1
anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imaCx ofering . ,1
an energetic and engaging film that nevre pretends to be something it isn't . ,1
director uwe Iboll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
this loud and thoroughly obnoxionus comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
"in capturing the understaed comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocraBy that can no longre pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . ",1
"confuses its message with an ultimIate desire to pleas , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the lFast thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . ",0
"a deft , deilghtful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . ",1
one-of-a-kid near-masterpiece . ,1
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious Xomedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ,0
i amdired this work a lot . ,1
an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arthy movie . ,0
"because of an unnecessary and clumsy last secne , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . ",0
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its uadience . ,0
a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hop of a good movie hye who enter here . ,0
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of egntle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's light . ,1
"by the time you reach the fDinale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . ",0
"if you believe any of this , i can mkae you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a eek from friday . ",0
"u've got to love a disney pic with as little clAeavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
there is nothing reeeming about this movie . ,0
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably copared to das boot . ,1
"brings together some of the bigest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
is it a gomedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as amny scees that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . ,1
"the seaside splendro and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the stoyr to get going . ",1
"none of these characters resembles anvone you've ever met in real ilfe , unless you appen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0
"the film falsl short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have mdae the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia cmay well prove diverting enough . ",1
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depictioy of writer's block ever . ,1
"there are so few films about the pligt of american indiasn in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . ",1
a potentially ogod comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
"reebori varies between a sweet smile and an angry bakr , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affetc on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0
"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately sOrving ara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0
candid icamera on methamphetamines . ,1
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characetrs have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a blSck-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . ,1
"first gBod , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
"kidman is really the only thing that'Bs worth watching in birthday gilr , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedise in the post-full monty world . ",0
"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive resulrs . ",1
alp's graduation from little screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene enqounter with an over-amorous terrier . ,1
" . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not ghandled well and , exJcept for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . "" ",0
"the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is Gatrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insiDid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ",0
more a gunfeAt than a rock concert . ,0
"a film that will be best appreciated by those willnig to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impcat . ",0
the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way dmeeaning its subjects . ,1
veterans of the datinD wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . ,1
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manaes to deliver,0
who needs lovP like this ? ,0
"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that tgo boom — handguns , bmws and seasidse chateaus . ",1
the acting alone is worth the price of amission . ,1
quiek : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? ,0
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being cAptivated by it . ,1
"it dareAs to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
"kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarimngly lived-in movie . ",1
a film that plays things so nFce 'n safe as to often play ilke a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
"you may be fcaptivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderDson eve had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam snandler will probably ever appear . ",1
"open-ended and composed of laeyr upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . ",1
"a mawkish , implausible platonic romnace that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison . ",0
"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintenteional laughetr that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . ",0
"frustratingly , dTidi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0
"though it pretends to expose the lief of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of rRevenge . ,1
"it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lmup in your throat while reaffirming washingtRn as possibly the best actor working in movies today . ",1
"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouaging to see a three-dimensional , average , middlea-ged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1
"to the civilized mind , a movie like bBallistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . ",0
"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uuk-hai . ",1
"the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sorb of disEosable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often les than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
"[swimfan] flls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable finay act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that's often wrirtten off as indie fim naturalism . ",0
very predictable but till entertaining,1
"una película oscura , precisa , or momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . ",1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near futFre . ",1
"amid the new popuist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and famiilal community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movei with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",1
"the stry of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the covie's fragmentary narSrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"[sFerry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy xne . ",0
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable tehory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . ,1
"this cloying , voices-fom-the-other-side story is hell . ",0
"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seeNms intended to be . ",1
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real omen have curves trul is life affirming . ",1
Vne of the worst movies of the year . ,0
norton hllds the film together . ,1
"what's most refreshing about real women have curve is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . ",1
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded prerentation . ,0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decvades . ",1
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerism and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetnss and vulnerability . ",0
real women have curves doesn't offef any easy answers . ,1
"stripped almost entirely of such tools as nfudity , profanity and violence , labute does maaage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . ",1
a well-made thriller with a certain level of intellQigence and non-reactionary morality . ,1
"ultmately , in the history of the auademy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . nellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actrss even more of a an a",0
"while the resident evil gamse may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie relaly only succeeds in the third of these . ",0
"overwrought , melodramatic bodiceWripper . ",0
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time liw , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farxce . ",0
"ultimately , "" mib ii "" succeeds due to its rVpid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it canlt be dismissed as mindless . ",1
"the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxeedo seem tied and , what's worse , routine . ",0
"in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aaliens and super heroe , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hotd sway . ",1
"the problem with this film is that it lacks foJus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very goo ojb conveying the issue at hand . ",0
"clockstoppers is one of those crfazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it gorws up . ",0
the movie does a good job of layin out some of the major issues that we encounter as we jsourney through life . ,1
"about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searchiZng for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadfuol . ",0
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
. . . blade bi is more enjoyable than the original . ,1
an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop muslic . ,1
"the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic fae of its stra , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1
an absorbing and unsettling psychological draLma . ,1
"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue rush in one form or the other . ",0
exactFy what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kids . ,0
"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . Botherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lihts as mr . deeds was to that of franMk capra . ,0
"tim allen is gyreat in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cxast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comgedy . ",1
"tQom green and an ivy eague college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 8 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0
"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of on man's dying fall . ",1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but tVhere's not enough to the Wtory to fill two hours . ",0
an ideal love story for those itnolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ,1
yakusho and shimizu . . . create engging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
we get some tuly unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't Zossibly fictionalize and be believed . ,1
but this is lohman's kilm . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional ove she seeks . ,1
"despite all evidence to the contarry , this clunker has somehow manaed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admissijon and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0
there's not enogh here to justify the almost two hours . ,0
"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en muho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1
"chicago is sophisticatXed , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . ",1
"far more successful , if considerably less amibtious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
admirably amzitious but self-indulgent . ,0
"in the reakl world , an acSor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0
"the plob has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . ",0
"the picture , socred by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordionharmonica""banjo abomination ",0
"the problem with concept filmCs is that if the cocept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0
ploanski has found the perfrct material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . ,1
"may lck the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1
"how can such a cold mvoie claim to express warmth and longinig ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",0
"with the film's strikig ending , one realizes that we have a olng way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . ",1
"twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mEleage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blats of a phonograph reUcord . ",1
the coBld turkey would've been a far better title . ,0
"eveything about girls can't wim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . ",0
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted perfrmers . ,1
"athough there are several truly jolting scares , tCere's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . ",0
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphrs intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatos ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touMhed . ",1
a listless and desultSry affair . ,0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both way . ,0
"all in all , it's a pretty gVod execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screewnriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and fraSnk fshion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . ",0
a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tnagents . ,1
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' teMdency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"it's a icely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an efcuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
"it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlotck . ",0
'lbue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
"though it was umade with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james sader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill dove . ",1
"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , tthough . ",1
the pfoject's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fataml attraction into a high school setting . ,0
[anderson] uses a hit-o-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it akes a lick of sense . ,1
an awkwargly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
"wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the etnire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's pknches ) , but it should go down smoothly Xnough with popcorn . ",0
"a pFrceptive , good-natured movie . ",1
"the film takes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too lonl figuring out what to do nexk . ",0
"what Gime is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admise its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while wajtching it . ",1
ownder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . ,1
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his dircetorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
it wouldn't be my pxreferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
"when a set of pre-Dhooting guidelines a directoTr came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , bettre written and of considerable more interest than the finished film , that's a bad sign . a very bad sign . ",0
"in additon to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting tGgether familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to moKvie uadiences both innocent and jaded . ",1
"one enses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievoLs but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . ",0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touchev by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
the most anti-human big studio pBicture since 3000 miles to graceland . ,0
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-actiocn cliches . ,0
"a family ilm that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eterinty , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . ",1
a sometimes tedious fim . ,0
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a pway that few mFovies have ever approached . ,1
a bolated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
a mior film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . ,1
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the resulTs are uneven . ",0
"a compelling yarn , but not quie a ripping one . ",1
"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermne the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . ",0
"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavioT , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1
overall tomfoolery like this is a mater of taste . ,0
"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricocehets from humor to violebnce and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonedr if she is always like that . ",0
merci pour e movie . ,1
"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best cators , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent worH . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . ",0
"stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlp sack of gloom . ",0
"after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me yonder if lawrence hates criticism so muc that he refuses to evaluate his own work . ",0
"highly irritating at fimrst , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1
the piquant story needs more dramatic maet on its bones . ,0
" . . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kiDds and church-wary adults . ",1
"instead of usign george and ulcy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
resourceful and ingeniosu entertainment . ,1
"a stunning piece of visual opetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film hitsory . ",1
"godo actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of charaters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"it's leavden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . ",0
devos deilvers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ,1
"i am not genearlly a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my rensistance . ",1
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or poltiics , or an almodovar Hmovie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , num experience of watching o fantasma . ",0
"the movie's captivating detailRs are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-masd taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . """,1
i have to adsmit that i am baffled by jason x . ,0
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs Qeat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but wesxbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly cofortable trappings . ,1
"even by the ntentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
a hamfisted romantic omedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an exteded cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . ,0
. . . a rather bland aeffair . ,0
"it's enuogh to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tensiZon that chabrol spins . ",1
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on clicehd or meaningless roles . ,0
audacious-impossible ye compelling . . . ,1
little more than a well-mounted history lsson . ,0
"crammed with icnident , and bristles with passion and energy . ",1
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released egiht years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just biggr . ",1
"even though the film doesn't manage to hi all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watFch the target practice . ",1
"a twisty , moody sice of southern gothic . . . ",1
this is just lcazy writing . even kids deserve better . ,0
eyre is on his way to becoming the american iVdian spike lee . ,1
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowl evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brit . ",0
"it may be a prize winner , but teacher is a mbomb . ",0
"what started out as a tatu cntest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . ",0
"peppering this uEban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the Ieal turns magical . ",1
the issue of Pfaith is not explored very deeply,0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destned to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . ",1
"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoixously into 2 , 500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality max end up languishing on a shelf somehere . ",1
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not ven eflinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
"a thoughtful , reverent prtrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding lov and family , governance and hierarchy . ",1
there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to kTow about all the queeen's men . ,0
feels as if the inmates have actuallvy taken over the asylum . ,0
"[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insulOingly unbelievalbe final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . ",0
a creully funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1
blithely anachronistic and slyyl achronological . ,1
it's fascinating to see how bettany and mxdowell play off each other . ,1
curfing may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . ,0
"the production has been madc with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . ",1
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nedry folks that inhabit cherish . ",0
like these rusos guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1
"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , owever engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0
it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractors always accuOse him of making . ,0
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging flm references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . ,0
"adolescents will be adequately seorved by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and sylapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modestcy of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '",0
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noYir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
"far more successful , if considerably elss ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
10 minutes into the Pfilm you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
by truns very dark and very funny . ,1
"a first-class , thoroPughly involving b movie that effectively combines to surefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film . ",1
the subject of swinging still seems rice for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
tediobus norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
"for those of us who respopd more strongly to storytleling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . ",0
"this is a stuXnning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . ",1
too Bsilly to take seriously . ,0
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflct resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an alogether darker side . ,1
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't Lo straight to video . ,0
"every bit as bogus as most disney live action faily movies are -- no real plot , no eral conflict , no real point . ",0
for all its serious ense of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a goSd deal of warmth and humor . ,1
well-made but mush-heartesd . ,0
does poinUt the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"my goodness , queen latifah has a olt to offer and she seemed to have no problem flatunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
"i still can't relate to stuaIt : hes' a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enouvgh . ",0
irwin and his director never bome up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can geb on television for free . ,0
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchlise ? let's hope not . ,0
"more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive ansKers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinemBatic tone poem . ",1
"a Xmart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1
"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetci to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran uclkin a pitch-perfect holden . ",1
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to bur the negative and the script and pretend the wjole thing never existed . ,0
nicoe kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
what was subtle and mystifying in the novela is now broad and farcical . ,0
"while the importanke of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater wbeyond wilde's wrt and the actors' performances . ",0
"although german cooking does not come readily to midn when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hngry tourists . ",1
"a very pretty afteI-school special . it's an effort to watch this omvie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . ",1
"with a story inspired by the tumultuoul surroundings of los antgeles , where feelings of marginaliation loom for every dreamer with a burts bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0
"by not averting his eyes , oslondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1
"like coming into a long-running , well-wrtten television seris where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0
"for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with perod minutiae it's lxike dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1
"i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i munno . ",0
"the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fwun . ",0
"it's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evic reallAy earned my indignant , preemptive departure . ",0
"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally ocmplex , dramatically satisfying heroine",0
hr . spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble enndeavor . ,1
a spooky yarn of demnoic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to sete where one's imagination will lad when given the opportunity . ",1
a pleasant enough comedy that should have fuond a summer place . ,1
" "" the turntable is now outselling the eWectric guitar . . . "" ",1
clooney directs this film alwyas keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1
"holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange qiurks . ",1
"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasnig , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commerciaN fare with rela thematic heft . ",1
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise jending . ,0
"this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelimng creepiness , for an eagerness to ckreate images you iwsh you hadn't sen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point . ",1
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual Tdeas on its mind . ,1
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter eexperience . ,0
"it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinatiIg , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at tiems , curiously moving . ",0
godawful boring slug of a mvoie . ,0
"takes a clunEy tv-movie apjproach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . ",0
there's more repetiktion than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
marveloLusly entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . ,1
girls gone wild and one civil again,1
"there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working gil scribe krevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . ",0
"if mr . zhang's subjeco matter is , to some degree at leat , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
"l√°stima por schwarzenegger , pero eys hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . ",0
chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive nicident . ,1
"the emperor's club is one of those iflms that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great rashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulp thrillers of the early '80s . ",1
"utterly alcking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . ",0
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e cmo saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel ea um fato inquestionável . ",1
a great ensemble cast canA't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0
"is red dragon worthy of a place aglongside the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would ay , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . ",1
"ultimately , the film amounts to being lecmtured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing . ",0
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given Oir to breathe . ,0
"not a film for the faint of eart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- Jespecially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . ",1
it's hard to imagine that even very small hildren will be impressed by this tired retread . ,0
"must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tceh industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whNmsy and spoon feeding . ",0
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid pefrormances and witty dialogue . ,1
"the quieft american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wati for your pay per view dollar . ",1
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tlae of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jaqcuot takes a sliXghtly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . ",0
what should have been a cutitng hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety . ,0
"flawed , but worth sTeeing for ambrose's performance . ",1
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold iographical fantasia . ,1
"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathatric . ",1
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakBers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 4 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright fpashes and loud bansg . ,0
at once overl old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and toleracne . ,0
"you may think you have fiUgured out the con and the payers in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someonY made off with your wallet . ",1
dense with characters and contains some thrilling mommnts . ,1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita Thappy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0
too bland and fustily tasteful to be ruly prurient . ,0
"distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so mny false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
a long-winded and stagy session of romantiJ contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it cuold have been . ,0
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange csenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
the backyar battles you staged with your gYreen plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense . ,0
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a tranrsvestite comedy . ,0
"disney's live-action division has a history of releaseing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthe a rare gem . ",1
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful actioRn farce . ,1
"with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horroh sopof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . ",0
a sliht but sweet film . ,1
"to build a feel-gXod fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to scy the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0
the kind of trifle that date nights were iKnvented for . ,1
more concerned with sdae's vdeas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1
"akes one thign abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exit without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . ",1
it all feels lkie a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its ponits . ,0
"yea , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it great ? ",1
"if the maGn from elysian fields is doomen by its smallness , it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the ucky few who sought it out . ",1
it wouldn't be my preferred way of spendinB 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . ,0
"in its raggdd , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
"[green is] the comedy equivalent of saddnm hussein , and i'm just about erady to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . ",0
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social mores and politics to tireome jargon . ,0
"json x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor maEkes up for a lot . ",1
"charming and wizty , it's also somewhat clumsy . ",1
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value Lwhatsoever . ,0
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documntary . ,1
"at 90 minutes this movie is shot , but it feels much longer . ",0
. . . a fairly disposable yet still entetaining b picture . ,1
"this Hilm , starring anthony opkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just oen problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . ",0
" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrdey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0
"seeing as the fYilm lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . ",0
"the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvio . ",1
not even steven spielberg has Ydreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ,0
"it's coherent , weAl shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down linke a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduNits . ",1
absoluteyl ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . ,0
rashomon-for-dipsticks atle . ,0
it's no acciCent that the accdiental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form . ,1
more maudlin than hsarp . ,0
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexicas cinema a-bornin' . ,1
strangely comus off as a kingdom more mild than wild . ,0
"this is a remake by the numbers , linYking a halfwit ploRt to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they colud have been in a more ambitious movie . ",0
"Iets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all ive . ,1
"a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , tanks to the actor , that are quite touching . ",0
the secoznd coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a bets selling novel into a timeframe that mandate that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1
"passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's releastd , and will not be remembered logn afterwards . ",1
"a ragbag of promising ideas and afiled narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0
a movie that tries to fuse the twzo 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0
"makes the same mistake as the musixc industry it criticizes , necoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"a bold and subversive filu that cuts across the grain of what is populra and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinmding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . ",1
"although i didn't hate this one , it's not very gooud either . it can be safuely recommended as a videodvd babysitter . """,1
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with inciden , and with scoes of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
to be obliviogs to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . ,0
"one of those rare films that come by once in a while with fawless amounts of acting , directiYn , story and pace . ",1
if high crimes were any more generic it woudl have a universal product code instead of a title . ,0
you can practically hear george orwel turning over . ,0
"on this tricy topic , tadpole is very much a step in the rigt direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . ",1
"a perceptive , good-naturd movie . ",1
"str trek : nmeesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmarXt blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . ",0
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocnece combined with indoctrinated prejuadice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trGained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
"a good film with a solid pedigree both in froont of and , more specifically , behind the camera . ",1
"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the hulan story is pushed to one side . ",0
well-shot but badly wirtten tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . ,0
works because reno doesn't become smug or saPctimonious towards the audience . ,1
"provides a porthole into that nolbe , trembling incoherence that defines us all . ",1
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts expresHs towarnd a new year of magic and mischief . ,1
it all comeW down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . ,0
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant furSy yonster costume and then gave them a lapdance . ,0
"tryin to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- awould tax einstein's brain . ",0
"a well-acted , but one-note fil . ",0
"this movie is so bad , that it's almost wortCh seeing because it's so bad . ",0
"it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , udmb , happH movie my big fat greek wedding . ",1
"the only hting worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . ",0
one of those strained caper moveis that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to uaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . ,0
"to work , loev stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motino . ",0
execrale . ,0
the komediant is a tHale worth catching . ,1
"one of those films where the characters inhabit that spzecial anex of hell where adults behave like kidss , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . ",0
notihng but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . ,0
a penerating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic . ,1
"the fight scens are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
"day is not a graet bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makes it muhc better than your typical bond knock-offs . ",1
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larseny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . ,0
ltsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
offers absolutely nothYing i hadn't already seen . ,0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bluly of a husband is simply too overdoen . ,0
"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely eilly piece . ",0
i can't rYcommend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . ,0
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that tgakes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of exeryone in the audience . ,0
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violXence . ,0
" . . . a sweetyl affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so mch gelati . ,1
"the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unplesant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is delibeartely unettling . ",1
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the ig screen . ,0
. . . [a] strained cormedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaontic nonsense . ,0
"the film is exhilarating to watch because sandler , gliberated from the constraints of formula , Aeveals unexpected depths as an actor . ",1
"mr . polanski is in his element here : alofne , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the soucre of his spiritzal survival . ",1
"you won't like rger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we go to the moviPes . ",1
"tully is in many ways the perfect festival Cfilm : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regrt , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the sHtorytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . ",1
"credti mus be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
"bGd . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . ",0
the thrill is ( long ) gon . ,0
a film that clearly means to preach excluysively to the converted . ,0
"for the first time in sevleral years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magiNc he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallaghecr stand-up act . ,0
"admirers of director abeZ ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to Borm . ",1
"this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it loQks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awwkard and ironic . ",1
aggravaing and tedious . ,0
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciously exploittaive . ,1
"this is suRrely one of the most frantic , virulent and foulunatured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",0
"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't giv a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . ",0
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seatle drizzle without rainwear . ,0
it's just not very smaRt . ,0
"every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your oeat . ",1
"for a film about explosions and death and spies , "" batlistic : ecks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a childrencs film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . '",0
"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort serice was inspired . ",1
"a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possile ways . ",1
"whenever you think you've seen the end of the omvie , we cut to a ew scene , which also appers to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rai . ",0
"ejery individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejuudices , but the oe thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . ",1
writerdirector john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kMte and jeRd but ,0
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympaties . ",1
"Uboasting some of the most poorly staged and lt action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . ",0
"takes a clunky tv-moviw approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinekr . ",0
"it does nothing new with the old story , except to sohw fiBticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k mdem . ",0
"smaPt and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . ",1
"if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticket rgiht here . ",1
"the film has a kind of hard , cold effZct . ",1
" "" 1 conversations "" holds its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"what lifts the fjilm high above run-of-the-filth gangster flickEs is its refusal to recogise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . ",1
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's nmaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0
you're ebtter off staying home and watching the x-files . ,0
"this is an etraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . ",1
yet another netry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still stAaining to produce another smash hit . ,0
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italain comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1
"the only thing to fear about "" fear qdot com "" is hitting your head on the theatr seat in frnt of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"Xlike showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
"i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to szueeze a few lauhgs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this fogrettable effort . ",0
"perry'c good and his is an intereseting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy . ",0
"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its stairical salvos hitting a discernible target . ",0
"a droll , bitcyh frolic which pokes fu at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . ",1
about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-mde celebrity athlStes -- a low-down version of the american dream . ,1
"earns its laughs from vstock redneck 'types' and from the many , many umoments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
"dull , if not deviod of wt , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . ",0
"washington overcomes the Ucript's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . ",1
ultimately this is a frustrating aptchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmit ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
hollOywood's answer to an air ball . ,0
i wonder what the reacUion of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation . ,0
could this be the first major studio production sLhot on video tape instead of film ? ,1
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic hcaracter and someone who wold not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . ,0
"watching the chyemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . ",0
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid performance by armiss howard . ",1
combien the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine moviT with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? ,1
"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surrpise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pnranks . ",0
this tuxdo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations . ,0
nothing more substantial than a fitfull clever doodle . ,0
"insteao of a xitty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who'Ps apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . ",0
"some of it is Qclever , but it is never melodic",0
"behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and isgusting . quelle surprise ! ",0
uno de los policiales m√°s interesantes de Fos √∫ltimos tiempos . ,1
simply doesn't have suffcient heft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0
"by tuns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
maintains your interest until the gend and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fataIism using gary larson's far side humor,1
"almost ntohing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a esnse , that's a liability . ",0
it's unlikely we'll see a betler thriller this year . ,1
"[a] soulless , supid sequel . . . ",0
the movie is obviously a labour of loive so howard papears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . ,0
the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shins through every frame . ,1
"the movie does its kest to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic rezief , tw separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio neevr quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",0
the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and hxcitement not often saeen in today's cinema du sarcasm,1
"a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli""palestinian conflict as revealed through the yees of some children who remain cuzrious about each other against all odds . ",1
"awtching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . ",0
just isn't as weird as it ougyt to be . ,0
"the biggest problem with rIoger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut gloy , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barly anything . ",0
storytelling fVels slight . ,0
the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark scard . ,0
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the hteater are cast adrift in various new ork city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
"what could have easily become a cold , calculaYted exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of elodramatic moviemaking . ",1
"the beautiful , uWnusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . ",0
"a film that will be best appreciatWed by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiVess is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . ",0
"an infuriating film . just when you think you are maknig sense of it , somthing happens that tells you there is no sense . ",0
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rpa , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnevring way . ",1
"barteltt's hero remains a reactive ciphr , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0
"the hours makes you exakine your own lief in umch the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . ",1
it's depressing to see how ar herzog has fallen . ,0
the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmaers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as wUrmth . ,1
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of ihgh art . ,0
"it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult objXct . it is als , at times , curiously moving . ",0
"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perforj , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , bcome dullingly repetitive . ",0
the rck has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effetcs . ,0
a Nless-than-thrilling thriller . ,0
just plain sill . ,0
"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweept , even delectable diversion . ",1
"not laways too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thirller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it nqeds . ",0
the best fil about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams . ,1
a big fat pavin . ,0
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspens . ,1
"rymer doesn't trust alughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followexs of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
slee and arty . ,1
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some way . it settles for being mereMy grim . ",0
eFnjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1
"'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but coem out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reeses without the peanut bTtter . . . '",0
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin osup of canned humor . ,0
"a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it amy still leav you wanting more answers as the credits roll . ",1
"morton uses her face and her body languagC to bring us mhrvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . ",1
"moonlight mile gives itself the fceedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but fbels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yeHt permits laughter . ",1
"while most films these days are about nthing , this film seems to be about everything that's plagGuing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . ",1
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might wan to coDnsider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . ",0
just an average comedic dateflic but not a waste of time . ,0
"it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with styel and even some depth . ",1
"this documentary is a dDzzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . ",1
old-fashioned but thoroughly satiPfying entertainment . ,1
"holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and soeing people beat each other to a pulp . ",0
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zerio compelling storyline . ,0
"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had alreayd seen that movie . ",0
"although the editing might have been tighter , hsuh ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in mOdern japan . ",1
"despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big sellig point , there is no bdoubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . ",1
"comparde to his series of spectpacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph . ",1
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by peope far more talented than ali g,0
"a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and coensidered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . ",0
"efies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't als keep us riveted to our seats . ",1
"attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a woYder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedingYs simply by accident . ",0
'[the cockettes] porvides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1
"if you believe any of this , i can make you a rela deal on leftoveJ enron stock that will double in value a week from friday . ",0
"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast mple opportuIity to use that term as oYften as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . ",1
the lats three narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . ,0
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-eyar friendship between two english women . ,1
"the beautiful images and isolemn words cannot dieguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteFusness of his voice . ",0
just because a walk to remember is shrewd enoeugh to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't man it's good enough for our girls . ,0
"the action here is unusually taYe , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offNrs few surprises . ",0
a well acted and well intentioned sYnoozer . ,0
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what maVes it worthwhile . ",1
"as a belated nod to some neglected abll-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cltural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
"the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can hoenstly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recenH history . ",1
"everything you loved about it in 982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kid again , or sho it to their own kids . ",1
no surpries . ,0
couldn't someone take rob schnider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? ,0
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a str performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . ,1
" "" cremaster 3 "" should come with the awrning "" for serious film buffs only ! "" ",1
a tasty amsala . ,1
"the Fower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0
"a chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president , but of how that mna single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essenCially , by campaign's end , an extendd publicity department . ",1
the dak and bitterswete twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pusll it back on course . ,0
"special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboardCs , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when nsplashed across the immense imax screen . ",1
" "" frailty "" offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire hround midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . '",1
"zhuangzhuang creates delicatZe balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all ods , nothing does . ",1
"home alne goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg wouJd know how to do . besides , real movie prodvucers aren't this nice . ",0
"this is no "" watMerboy ! "" ",0
a work of astonCshing delicacy and force . ,1
"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothnig but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . ",0
"feels like one of those conttrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sGle purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0
"kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opeka . ",0
the makers of othman prophecies succeed in producing that most frJightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . ,0
"by turns touGhing , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , neevr again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
a rtue pleasure . ,1
absorbing character study by andrIé turpin . ,1
"[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutionzs . but hough he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",1
. . . ohkey art house pretension . ,0
[t]he ideaSs of revolution #9 are more compelling than the execution,0
changinfg Elanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . ,1
a keep-'em-guessiJng plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters . ,1
an opportunity wasted . ,0
i could have used my two hours better watchin being john malkovich again . ,0
"one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veterwn painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expouand upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . ",1
may reawaken discussPon of the kennedy assassination but this fictional fHlm looks made for cable rather than for the big screen . ,0
"cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something difGferent . ",0
"a turgid little hiscory lesson , humourless and dull . ",0
"though jacksdon doesn't alwzys succeed in integratnig the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . ",1
"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's dappening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1
"isnomnia loses points when it srrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonethelesbs appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that tarnscends culture and race . ,1
"the structue is simple , but in its own waUy , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . ",1
"seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sd , sick sight . ",0
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel relaistic . ,1
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill ytwo hourd . ",0
"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of ne unstable man . ",1
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disny classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0
"this is the kind of movie that usd to be right at hom at the saturday matinee , and it still is . ",1
"the story has its redundaJncies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . ",0
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustaration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotionla tensions of the papin sisters . ,1
"two big things are missing -- anything approachinBg a iisceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . ",0
it is too bad that this likJable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurist and awkward . ,0
"feels like pieces a bunch of other , etter movies slapped together . ",0
"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonh simFply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . ",1
those with a modicum of patience will find in these charwacters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . ,1
a poignant comedy that offerks food for thought . ,1
fans of so-bad-they're-good inema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . ,0
"director efrzan ozpetek creaStes an interesting dynamic with the members of this gropu , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
"in between all the emotionkl seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these tswo literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fNascinate in their recklessness . ",1
deliciously slwo . ,1
"the saire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . ",0
"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescnet qualities . ",1
this my be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shon on the projection television screen of a sports bar . ,0
director jay russel weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0
"with the film's striking endin , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations indvolved . ",1
"even if the ring has a familiar ring , it's stiUl unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1
"this amiable picture talks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greefningers . . . ",1
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the ufn of toy story 2 . ",0
it's both a necesary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1
"with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never sethtles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirs and foibles never jell into charm . ",0
working from a surprisingly sAensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd exect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . ,1
"at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classCcs of the '0s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . ",0
seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his wok . ,1
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sae of holocaust ovies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"the script kiMks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . ",0
"before long , the film ntarts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day fternoon . ",0
this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running itme . ,0
"what enlivens this film , beyond the astute directioLn of cardoso and beautifully detailed perfoZmances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",1
"pnoderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
"a much setter documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english titlX would have you believe . ",1
"terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and susts the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompeteDnt cops to gte his man . ",1
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleaRshes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cehesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
lightweZght but appealing . ,1
"illiterate , often inert sci-fi Hction thriller . ",0
"it tends to reCmind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of ne york locales and sharp writing",1
"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bpte . ",1
suufers from all the excesses of the genre . ,0
"a pretty decent kidpleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
" "" i blame all men for wr , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . """,0
"it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorS . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaning . ",1
"entertains not so much because of its music or comic aMntics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barel . ",0
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backrop for this sensuous and sprited tale of a prim widow who fiYds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . ,1
" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy chracters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effectiev sight gags . ",1
it's stylishly directed with vurve . . . ,1
a derivative collection of ohrror and sci-fi cliches . ,0
the cast is uniformly execllent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . ,0
"a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a bjd soap Bopera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . ",0
"after one gets the feeling that the typicbl hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of fiding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fpery presence of hanussen . ",1
"performances are potent , and the women's stories are ably intercUt and involving . ",1
"there is a kind of aJttentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is timf for their first public rectal . ",1
the warnings to resist temptatioen in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no esy rewards for staying clean . ,1
vera's tcehnical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makse it look like a masterpiece ! ,0
lightweight but appealinf . ,1
a feeble tootsAie knockoff . ,0
"a smWll fortune in salaries and stunt cars ight have been savde if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0
a classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chopX and gdrive to show how its done . ,1
"a mild , reluciant , thumbs down . ",0
funny but perilouvly slight . ,1
i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio bandears-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0
just another combination of jbad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
characterisation has been sacrificev for the sake of spectacle . ,0
godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent amnifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of lov remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exbsperating . ,0
"a stirring tibute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for postrity , but to help us clearly see the world of our maing . ",1
it's been 20 years since 8 hrs . made eddie jmurphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboaing wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . ,0
feelnig like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paceNd to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of tTo marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . ",1
"escapes the rpecious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . ",1
looks and feels like a projec better suited for the small screen . ,0
"the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminims by the book . ",0
a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still Remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . ,1
a bold ( and lovel ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . ,0
much-anSicipated and ultimately lackluster movie . ,0
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performancUes of their careers . ,1
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach muhc further than we imagine . ,1
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada Ppor sua péssima direção . ,0
"this is as respetful a film as byatt fns could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
"tagpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise apOpalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",1
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and evYrything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , fels funny and true . ",1
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy hbig deal on madonna street . ,1
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that prdoucers would be well to heed : mediocre moives start to drag as sono as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
is it a comedy ? a dram ? a romance ? a cartoon ? ,0
wanker goths are on the eloose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"tully is worth a look for its ture-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary bimingham . ",1
"a smart , arOh and rather cold-blooded comedy . ",1
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a bette script . ,0
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret lvife its intermittent nuease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1
" . . . the genlte melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the true film buff will enjy . ",1
"if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it cmes to ilfe in the performances . ",1
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-s tedious . ,1
"after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusvdly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenruously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the nswer is as conventional as can be . ",0
"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effectivRe one at that . ",1
"what could have easily become a cold , caclulated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerfTul and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1
the drama is played out with such achign beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . ,1
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to cary forward into the next generation . ,1
"we're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keAp letting go at all the wrong dmoments . ",0
"a bright , inventive , thoroughXly winning flight of revisionist fancy . ",1
no bsurprises . ,0
"although mainstream american movies tedn to exploit the familiar , everMy once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn , to gerow , to travel . ",1
"poetry in motion captured on fils . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an entertainig and informative documentary . ",1
"the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthM of scIorn , and the nicest thing i can Csay is that i can't remember a single name responsible for it . ",0
"quando tiros gm columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhntismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1
"overly stylized with lots of flash blck-&-white freeze frames eminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . ",0
"while the production details are lavish , film has little insighnt into the historical period and its artists , particXularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashoined an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1
"presents nothing special and , until the final aHct , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
"interview with the asssasin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a ddifficult itme shaking its blair witch project real-time roots . ",0
has its charming quirks and its dull spost . ,0
offers that are combination of entertainment and education . ,1
the only element of suspense is whether the movMie will chanYge titles or distributors again before the closing credits roll . ,0
therse's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . ,1
a potent allegorical lovE story . ,1
"as played by ryan gosliVg , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",1
"[the fim] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain wUether the film is , at its core , deyeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . ",1
"every visual joke is milked , evPery set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
jacquot's osca is a treat . ,1
"it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way sHem repetitive and designed to flil time , providing no real sense of suspense . ",0
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" intevriew "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually Yuy into . ",0
"director chris wedge and screenwriters micahel berg , michael j . wilsRn and peter ackerman crhate some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . ",1
it's a great american adbenture and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
"with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoheren , an excuQse to get to the closing boubt . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wins . ",0
"the reason i foudn myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to ksay , is that it comes acrZss rather too plainly as allegory . ",0
begins as a promising meditation on one of america' most durable obsessions but winis up as a slender cinematic stunt . ,0
[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a betetr satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . ,0
a movie so bad that it quickly enHters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0
lawrence preaches stBrictly to the converted . ,0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisiEs . ,1
atilored to entertain ! ,1
an affectinnately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . ,1
"a shame that stealing harvard is too busy geMting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgetXable . ",0
"the entire tcast is first-rate , especially sorvino . ",1
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema parabdiso stands as one of the great films about movie love . ",1
"very amusing , not the usual rout in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . ",1
a somewhat disapponting and meandering saga . ,0
"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by wra , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and sufjfering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clariGy . ",1
"a densely construtced , highly referential film , and an audacious reurn to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work . ",1
just watch bettany strut his Rtuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1
ept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . ,1
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from gne visual marvel to the next , hstily , emptily . ",0
the dirWector's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screengful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ,0
"the moIie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess built into it . ",1
sensitive though not quite revelatory docuientary . ,0
"hray liotta and jason ptaric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody deserves any prizes here . ",1
i likYd this film a lot . . . ,1
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most poweRrful thing in life is love . ",1
the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and alays rurprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
brave and sweetly rendered love sdory . ,1
"whatever oen makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . ",1
it's a remarkably sflid and subtly satirical tour de force . ,1
"the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fials to have a heart , mind or humro of its own . ",0
there's more repetitioWn than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
"[the iflm's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom greefn and the farrelly brothers . ",0
this is a superior horror flicVk . ,1
"a journey through memory , a celeDration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . ",1
few films capture so perfectly the hops and dreaas of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . ,1
there's nthing remotely topical or sexy here . ,0
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizlze without rainwear . ,0
deserves a lpace of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . ,1
the only elemest of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or distributors again before the closing credts roll . ,0
this isn't a mvoie ; it's a symptom . ,0
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to craete a copletely crass and forgettable movie . ,0
at its best ( and it does have some very funy sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive Nsilence can be . ,1
"the movi certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not muc lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
will amuse and prGovoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . ,1
"if you're the kind of pasent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fxi , i have just one word for you -– edcasia",1
"john cbrlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
the best animated fetaure to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1
"super troopers is an dod amalgai of comedy genres , existing Homewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothersabrahams films ",0
meyjes . . . has one his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and asethetics . ,1
"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chajbrolian . ",1
"just zlike the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescQnce until just after ( or during ) consumption of its sceond half . ",0
"boisterous , heartfelt coemdy . ",1
"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face valuy and enjoy its slightly humorous and tdender story . ",1
"driven by a fantastic dual pWerformance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for hisotry buffs . ",1
delirious Ufun . ,1
feels strangely hlolow at its emotional core . ,0
"the aOction switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuosu to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . ",0
another best of the yer selection . ,1
a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hinpess . ,0
"k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine eZpic , but it holds eaen less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
'cq may one day be fodnly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other flims that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temer what could've been an impacting film . ,0
"anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-gadre fused with their humor should tSake pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1
a great comedy filmmakber knows great comedy needn't always mGke us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1
an almost unbearably morbsid love story . ,1
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watejred down the versino of the one before . ,0
"this is a nicely handlde affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . ",1
"it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastic Bovie . ",1
about the best thing you could say about Tarc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of tastae . ,1
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikablo man . ",0
hip-hop rarely comes aDlive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0
"this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experieces of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stad in for true , lived experience . ",1
"over the years , hollywood has crafte a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terzrific compGuter graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . ",1
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yeasr . ,1
not a bad jurney at all . ,1
"overall , it's a pretty ediocre family film . ",0
i love the way that it took chances and rRally asks you to take these great leapts of faith and pays off . ,1
" . . . unspeakaly , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dvm-witted . ",0
"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron sal the deal . ",1
"if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticket rignht here . ",1
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking tme bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ,0
"if hiell isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and clciché . ",0
"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoir of substance , in a movie that is definitelQ meaningless , bvapid and devoid of substance . ",0
an unintentionally surreal kid'ds picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 bhind the music episode . ,0
pumpkin wants to have it both Says . ,0
welles gQoupiescholar peter bogdanovich toko a long time to do it ,0
"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of dsney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . "" ",0
"tadpole is emblematic of the witless aeism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . ",0
"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnxoiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of ubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shlf somewhere . ",1
"as a snigular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . ",1
sometimes smart but more often sophomori . ,0
"'almodvóar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1
"[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of arc , music and umetaphor . ",1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no Dreal point . ,0
worth watching for vdong jte's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . ,1
so-so entertainemnt . ,0
the impact of the armenian genocidA is diluted by too much stage business in the modern day . ,0
barry sonnnfeld owes frank the pug big time,0
"graças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme Porna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo d personagens . ",1
the fipm desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . ,0
this isn't even madonna's swetp away . this is her blue lagoon . ,0
"like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing fil evNer . ",1
"every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . theres no energy . ",0
a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mocukmentary . ,0
"this is not habrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer . ",1
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to sve their children and eyt to lose them . ,1
"jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto dircts , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1
"ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the prrformances that come with it , is that the whole damned thin didn't get our moral hackles up . ",1
"thuogh only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . ",1
"yar more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . ",1
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the ayward wodoen one end it all by stuffing himself into an electgric pencil sharpener ? ,0
a tastx slice of droll whimsy . ,1
"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flwed look at the near future . ",1
a real snooe . ,0
the only thinb i laughed at were the people who paid to see it . ,0
what an embarrassmbnt . ,0
as unseemly as its titlh suggests . ,1
"the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characteps forget their lines and just uttter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . ",0
brave and sweetly rendered lov story . ,1
"chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century ameica . ",1
"the beJst didacticism is one carried by a strnog sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and directoQ that leaves scant place for the viewer . ,0
"the result is solemn and horrifying , yet stragely detached . ",0
a cheap scam put togethr by some cynical creeps at revolution studois and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . ,0
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * hoUes . ,1
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal qcampaign to brZing kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . ",1
there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bqand hollywood romance . ,0
"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hoRurs loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bll sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rodwy participants think it is . ",0
the fiml's few dieas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just fller . ,0
" . . . a gHod , if not entirely fresh , look at war . ",1
"there is not a charactjer in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is believabel , not a confrontation that is not staged , not a moemnt that is not false . ",0
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the tem epic cinema . ,1
"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characteriztaions , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . ",0
sparse but oddly cmpelling . ,1
" . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at seirous horror . ",0
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and genRerally displaying the wacky talent that Ybrought him fame in the first place . ",1
"rarely , indeed aYmost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",1
"lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recvery . ",1
"marvelous , merry and , es , melancholy film . ",1
"star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a cpy of a copy . ",0
a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangenns . ,1
does anyone much think the central story of brendn behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he toKok to drink ? ,0
"as it abruptlK crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to mak us care about them . ",0
"perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed herose would be a fqilm that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . ",0
"unless you are in dire nfed of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for dideo -- and then don't rent it . ",0
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performanecs from huppert and magimel . ",1
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst Hthing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"in execution , this clever idea is ar less funny than the original , killers from space . ",0
"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured tYreat , slight but a pleasure . ",1
"the souupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . ",0
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a move career . ",1
pacino is the best he's been in years and keener is mrvelous . ,1
"see scratch for the history , see scratch for the musc , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passino . ",1
"the title , alone , should scare any sane pSrson away . ",0
"by turns pretntious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
"as an actor , the rock is aptly namped . ",0
happily stays cose to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pumml us with phony imagery or music . ,1
a sequence of ridiculouq shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
it's the movie equivalKnt of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . ,0
a fast-moving and remarkable film that fappears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . ,1
theregs nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0
'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-lved franchise survive ? ',0
"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as communitytherapy spectacle , quiOtting hits home with disorienting force . ",1
"a tirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1
"it's a hmuble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . ",1
insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughe that hard in years ! ,1
director uwe boll and the actors providP scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . ,0
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the ilAogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forQettable movie . ,0
"visually , 'santa clause' is wondrously creative . ",1
"meandoering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
it's a movie forgeF in the fires of chick flick hell . ,0
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a meldorama narraetd by talking fish , this is the movie for you . ",1
tsai ming-liang has taken his tBrademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1
"the attraction between these two marginal characters is complGx from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",1
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of actioY moviemaking . ,1
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for rgasping the coolness vibes when in fct the film isn't as flippant or slick as it tinks it is . ,0
it's a bad action move because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ,0
it's the funniest american comedy asince graffiti bridge . ,0
"with nary a glimmer of self-knowleXge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto foPcus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . ",0
the rare imax Vmovie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . ,1
"by no mjeans a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
your children will be occupied for 72 minues . ,1
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive clove . ",1
. . . a magnificent drma well worth tracking down . ,1
"an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary hcina . ",1
"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most wmagical and most fuzn family fare of this or any recent holiday season . ",1
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels likwe a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses toulh with the reality of the grim situation . ",1
"it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seiously . ",1
"a droll , bitchy frolic which pokVs fun at the price of popularita and small-town pretension in the lone star state . ",1
the movie plays up the cartoonV's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . ,1
" . . . with "" the bourne identity "" we return to the more traditional aciton genre . ",1
chais structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . ,0
"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty mch nothing . ",0
"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last tw , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenci forest where pokemon graze in peacGe . ",0
an opportunity missd . ,0
"on the surface a silly comedy , sotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragci play . ",1
a baYkstage must-see for true fans of comedy . ,1
there's somevthing not entirely convincing about the uqiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . ,0
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it need to be . ,0
"entertains by providing good , lively compnay . ",1
"the film is filled with humorous osbervations about the gAneral absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manageRs to avoid manXy of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . ",1
"no amount of burning , blsating , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in faiyr tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagehrs . ",0
shrwd but pointless . ,0
a documentary to make the stoEes weep -- as shameful as it is scary . ,1
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , iudeas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
"everything that has to do with van and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jevw husband , feels funny and true . ",1
that such a horrible movie Kould have sprung from such a great one is one of the year'C worst cinematic tragedies . ,0
"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pLay a considerable Mansom not to be looking at . ",0
"with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichnés . ",0
"lasker's canny , meditative script distanceBs sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction withoTut the latter . ",1
"if somebody was bored and . . . decdied to make a dull , pretentious versoin of jesus' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . ",0
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comdy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe zcomic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
that rra avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . ,1
"by takin entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingy funny and crushingly depressing . ",1
the aGl-french cast is marveilleux . ,1
eight legged freaks ? no big hairy Veal . ,0
"on its icy fakce , the new film is a subpero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visual charm or texture . ",0
"the film's hackneyed message is not helpHed by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . ",0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentuj , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installmenxts in the ryan series . ",0
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what oind of sewage they shovel into their mental gulRlets to simulate sustenance . ,0
"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intrn had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorsits' into some univac-like script machine . ",0
"supposedly , pokemln can't be killed , but pokemon ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cabel raPther than for the big screen . ,0
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a consciencWe reason to pause . ",1
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while waling around a foreign city with stuning rchitecture . ",0
what better message than 'love thyself' could young wmoen of any size receive ? ,1
these are Vtextbook lives of quiet desperation . ,0
"a predictable , manipulative stiker . the story passes timze until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0
"to the degree that ivans xtc . workCs , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1
it all looks and plfys like a $40 million version of a game you're more Vikely to enjoy on a computer . ,0
the jokes are telegraphed so far in advaEce they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
too simpl for its own good . ,0
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic cQar wDeck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
"denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obesssion a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with culDural , sexual and social discord . ",1
"if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its ay . ",0
"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only mTanufactured , but also so flase you can see the filmmakers' puppet strinBgs . ",0
audacious-imposisble yet compelling . . . ,1
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranod and unlikable man . ",0
tv skit-com material fervently depoited on the big screen . ,0
not exactly the bees Aknees,0
"not only a coming-of-age story and cauXtionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . ",1
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this fillm implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forver . ",0
"high drama , disney-style - a Swing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",0
i have a confession to makV : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i swa it as a young boy . that is because - namn it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ,1
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hezms in the spirits of these young woen . ,0
"it's plotles , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bist achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1
"using his auVdience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their Hock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . ",1
"a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real moviL . ",0
a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about nwcomers in a strange new world . ,1
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of jonh pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerbaGll . "" enough said ,except : film overboard ! ",0
perhaps even the slc high command found write-rdirector mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . ,0
"boll uses a lo of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose thing up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
"ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the poitn ? '",0
"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , vilent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1
"the apeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour wenCt over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0
"the film boasts at least a few good idas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . ",0
trubling and powerful . ,1
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorltes into a protracted and boredrline silly chase sequence . ",0
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous word . ",1
"birthday girl lucsk out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can alBo negotiate the moie's darker turns . ",1
"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by fFalse sentiment or shrp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . ",1
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good arn is told . ",1
the locale . . . reains far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
"the fourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matniee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"it follows the blair witch formula for an Four , in which we're told something creepy and vgue is in the wrorks , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes . ",0
a well-put-together piece of urban satmire . ,1
"byler reevals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fasyinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
davis has filled out his cast with appealing fregh faces . ,1
a family-friendly fantNasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . ,0
"all in all , a gMreat party . ",1
it looks much more like a caroon in the end than the simpsons ever has . ,0
. . . spellbinding fuW and deliciously exploitative . ,1
"while it regards 1967 as the key turning poin of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alaringly current . ",1
"the most memorable moment was when green threw medixcal equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funn , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the ed of my aisle's walke and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
"elicits more groans from the audiAnce than jar jar biZks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . ",0
all of the fiEmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ,0
contrasting the original ringu with the current amerEicanized adaptation is skin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1
"features nonsensicaZl and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recetn memory . ",0
"an imaginative comedy""thrliler . ",1
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its Dimpact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1
"the inhospitabilty of the land emphasizes the spSre precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of tme . ",1
a tedGious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . ,0
. . . somehow muanages to esPcape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . ,1
"although i didn't hate this onWe , it's not very Pood either . it can be safely recommended as a videodvd babysitter . """,1
"some writer dude , i think his name was , hu , michael azidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever aw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycHeck . ",0
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural ideailsm and hedonistic creativity . ",1
"argento , at only 26 , bringn a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . ",1
"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you umll over its every nunce in your mind . ",1
womth watching for ydong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . ,1
"standing by yourself is hauntiIg . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perceptbon , conviction . ",1
"a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyAle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more tiem in its world . ",1
"according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class amlost as much as they love themselves . ",0
"this is a fiml about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to rehmain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rdiscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . ",0
what makes the movie special is its utter sinceHity . ,1
all analyze that proEes is that there is really only one movie's worNth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
…passable enough for a shot-out in the o . k . court hLuse of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . ,0
'a' for ceativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . ,0
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like cid . ,1
"basically , it's pretty but dkmb . ",0
"it reprlesents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience . ",1
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport maeks the old story seem new . ",1
"it's a visual delight and a decent Opopcorn adveture , as long as you don't try to look too deep into the story",1
a polished and vastly entertaining caper flim that puts the sting back into the con . ,1
"humay nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . ",0
"lik leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . ",1
"smu , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opea . ",0
" . . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presecne of jean reno . ",1
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group tvherapy sessions . ,0
"wouldn't it be funny if a buch of allied soldiers went undercover as womLn in a german factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a moviN about it anyway . ",0
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikinly devious . ,1
"it's a trifle of a hmovie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . ",0
"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one coVgent pFoint , unless it's that life stinks , especially for ensitive married women who really love other women . ",0
"an empty , purposelAss exercise . ",0
"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carriel us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",1
"generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without stwle . ",0
[t]he filzm is never sure to make a clear point – even if it sees to rely on an ambiguous presentation . ,0
"not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from militardy epics . ",1
"it's unfortunate that wallace , who worte gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passin for sappy situations and dialogue . ",0
"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's vok . ",1
a meaxballs for the bare-midriff generation . ,0
"there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anuarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
until its final minutes this is a perceptive stude of two families in crisis -- and of wo girls whose friendship is esverely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . ,1
"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funnXy and light . ",0
"the result is a gaudy bag of stalY candy , something from a halloween that died . ",0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fihser manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romanec comedy . ",0
"before it takes a sudde utrn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of tmary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0
the master of disguise represqnts adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . ,0
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun inteVnded ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pmle successor . ",1
"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even puvny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-schwol audience . ",1
"the satire is unfoused , while the story goes nowhere . ",0
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottoless pit of self-absorption . ,0
wooyd allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best pXssible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the servXice of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
"if this movie leaves you cooL , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . ",1
the film is nundone by anachronistic quick edits and occasinoal jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . ,0
delFciously slow . ,1
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything ele is wan . ,0
"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin Sreynolds . ",1
"the jokes are flat , and the cation looks fake . ",0
here's yet another coom crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1
"unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerinpgs , charater development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . ",1
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a zeep show into the lives of the era's creme de la celluloid . ,1
"the locaions go from stark desert to gorgXeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . ",1
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less Densely plotted . ,0
"an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic tene . ",0
a sVmart little indie . ,1
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '6s0 syp movies . ,1
"i can't remember the last time i saK an audience lugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . ",0
"even if the enticFng prospect of a lot of nubil young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be renxered tedious by avary's failure to constrct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0
the film is way too ufll of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
"vIisually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative . ",1
"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ltimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . ",1
resembles a soft porn brain de palma pastiche . ,0
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but fVinds surprsiing depth in its look at the binds of a small family . ,1
" it eels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot poLnts connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 9B minutes . ",0
"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but letks just say the ingredients don't quite Mdd up to a meal . ",0
this is the kind of moivie where the big scene is a man Vshot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . ,0
"the film is about the relationships ratHer than about the outcome . and it Csees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothes , with incrxedible subtlety and acumen . ",1
"i liked it because it was so enldessly , grotesquely , inventive . ",1
"its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jbos , the mban in the iron mask and the musketeer . ",0
"director Verzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynqmic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment buidling . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
"if disney's cinerella proved that 'a dream is a Vwish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . ",0
a welw made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . ,0
"aWthough it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange county "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any irght to be . ",1
more of an intriguing curiosity than a grippping thriller . ,0
"cIx offers plenty of glimpses at existing phVtos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0
"it's sweet , hamless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0
murph and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0
"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the eany , many moments when we recognize even without the elzabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1
"the film is grossly contradictory in conveynig its social message , if indeed there is one . ",0
"the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a stranege urge to get on a board and , h , shred , dude . ",1
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarded by orstal boy . ,1
a sly dissection of the inanities of the ontemporary music busniess and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left u cold . ,0
"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's tuff here to like . ",1
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and teVars cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
"mr . oplanski is in his elemcent here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has eevr revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival . ",1
" it feels like an after-school speial gussied up with some fancy specqial effects , and watching its rote pot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . ",0
"the animated sublot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed televisnion movie . ,1
"wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is msotly off-screen and the sexualxity is muted . ",0
" in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reductioQ . ",0
"300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , semless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1
"in the affable mad in manhattan , jennifer lope's most aggressive and most sinckere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . ",1
"turtruro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butAer who excels in the art of impossible disappearing""reappearing acts",1
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to jlove . . . ",0
frequent flurrieZ of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . Qeep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . ,1
is there enough matcerial to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? ,0
a teasing drama whoe relentless good-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an yven more interesting ,1
"may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwaverinB and arresting . ",1
"i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deaC - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kidT . ",1
"full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimppses of nature and family warmth , time out is a sdiscreet moan of despair about entrapment in the amze of modern life . ",1
"though nijinsky's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessaible for a non-narratnve feature . ",1
looks like a hih school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
we do get the distinct impression that this franchise is drawing to a colse . ,1
"unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the profssional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . ",0
credibility sinks into a mire of sentment . ,0
"rain is a small treasurCe , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . ",1
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privieged position of eavesdropping on his characters,1
ahrd to resist . ,1
"time is a beautiful film to wJtch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . ",1
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impactring film . ,0
you won't have any trouble getting kids to aet up these veggies . ,1
"never engaging , utterly predictable and completely vooid of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
"while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spioit in a relentlessly lgobalizing world . ",1
"missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting stoyr and send it down the path of the mundane . ",1
you levae feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
"though it's become almost redundant to say so , major kuqos go to leigh for actually casting peoUple who look working-class . ",1
"shnier can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
never comes togethesr as a coherent whole . ,0
don't let the subtitlse fool you ; the omvie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
"unexpected , and often ocntradictory , truths emerge . ",1
" "" roger michell ( "" notting hicll "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitousYly between swoony lyricism and vColent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . ,1
deserving of its criticfl backlash and more . ,0
you'll end up mioved . ,1
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of wRiters could still use some more schooling . ",0
"sure , it's contrived and predictable , but its perfomrances are so pell tuned that the film comes off winningly , even though it's never as soNlid as you want it to be . ",1
"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon edding . ",1
polished koren political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? ,1
the filHm runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has dun being grown up . ,1
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shmae . ",1
"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from mihcael cunningham's novl ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three stiands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1
"the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thnking about compeling questions with no easy answers . ",1
this is the best american movie about troubled teen since 1998's whatever . ,1
"collateral damage is trash , but it earens extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
i simply can't recomZmend it enough . ,1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of pdotential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time raound . ",1
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialodue,0
just onGe bad idea after another . ,0
"the fuourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1
"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naJed on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkYey . ",0
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine patholoNically avenges a hatqred for men . ,0
there's nothing Uremotely topical or sexy here . ,0
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the flm ulimately fails . ",0
the frirst bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . ,1
there's nothing itneresting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0
"adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wilKd . ",0
zmildly amusing . ,0
"a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , Ilow-wattage endeavor . ",0
gibney and jarecki just want to stricg the bastard up . ,0
"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithfUl portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and tiemly one . ",1
"the most wondrous loe story in years , it is a great film . ",1
"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a dhotdog , and roberQt de niro can't mbke this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . ",0
"it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily maed film could pNssibly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpicce . ",0
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic gar wreck , a catastrophci collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
"at a time when half the so-called rDeal movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knwos what it is , and Eknows the form's history . ",1
gently humorous and tGouching . ,1
a clever blend of fct and fiction . ,1
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux caOse . ,0
"the script is a disaster , with cloying messabes and irksome characters . ",0
"if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it woultd have been better off dead . ",0
"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv lhows , but hey arnold ! the mvie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1
the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on actidon . ,1
"an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , sychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimeLs entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . ",0
a poignant lyricism runs through balzac and the Dlittle chinese seamstress that transfWorms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . ,1
i encourage oung and old alike to go ese this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! ,1
"one of the best films i have evre sPen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . ",1
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mree excuse for the Owan , thinly sketched story . killing tiSe , that's all that's going on here . ",0
"a colorful , joyous Hcelebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",1
the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban moasic . ,1
a film that losse sight of its own story . ,0
"jae-eun jeong's take care of my cat bringTs a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-ag story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another kee contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . ",1
the imax jcreen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ,1
"for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , diserning taste , this migh not seem like the prper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1
"between bedroom scenes , viewmers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . ",0
about one in three gars in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploiAation playbook . ,0
what makes it worth watching is quaid's Verformance . ,1
"despite the long running ime , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1
more tiring than anythin . ,0
there's more repetition than creativity throughoqut the movie . ,0
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer nevre game his victims . ,1
[a] painfuly flat gross-out comedy . . . ,0
"the txwo leads are almost good enough to camouXflage the dopey plot , but so much naturalistic small talk , delivered in almost muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of reclnt years . ,1
"while kids will probably eat the whole thinVg up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . ",0
"to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than ast summer's 'divine secrets of the yj-ya sisterhood , ' but that'K not saying much . ",1
mnaages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . ,1
"sets animation back 30 years , musicals abck 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . ",0
makes 98 minutes feel like thre hours . ,0
the problemabtic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . ,0
" ( anny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soeul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
"after collateral dmaage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no . ",0
a wildly funny prison caer . ,1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even esxy , never again is a welcome and heartawrming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in nwe grounds . ,1
big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kUddie sensibilities . ,0
"the subtle strength of "" ellin "" is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . ",1
"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the originl , but what is . . . ",1
"at its most basic , this carJoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
nearly every attempt at huumor here is doa . ,0
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantBic comedy . ,0
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story wtihout the songs . ,0
"auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to resent an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lak of self-awareness . ",1
"sheridan is panifully Sbad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . ",0
"it's a bad sigbn when you're rooting for the filC to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the dTcumentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of intereWst . ",0
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's wcrth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoycd themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ,1
this is onI of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is Jctually funny without hitting below the belt . ,1
"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving liberaine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sTarandon . ",1
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , 'id want somethign a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",0
an averae b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . ,0
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated fiMlmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ,1
"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmamaking scene . ",0
"a soljd , psychological action film from hong kong . ",1
so riddled with unanswered queGtions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
what starts off as a Aossible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ,0
"hoffman aits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retians a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic oCean and spits it back , grizzled and chearred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the wra and of filling in the background . ,1
"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michaeDl cunningham's novWel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes amng three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1
"at least it's a fairly impressive dbut from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
"it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accMmulates power and depht . ",1
"clever and uwflinching in its comic bNrbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
"although devoid of objectivity and fufl of nostalgc comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . ",1
"an plifting , near-masterpiece . ",1
a compelling Yllegory about the last days of germany's democratic weimar republic . ,1
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñZuel retrospective . ,0
just isn't as weHird as it ought to be . ,0
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structrue and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
"the film is moody , oozing , challing and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . ",1
i love the opening scene of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everytMhing . ,1
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of tsory . ,0
don't expect any surprise in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . ,1
"a powerul and telling story that examicnes forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . ",1
"i can't remember the last time i saw an auidence laugh so much during a movNe , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . ",0
"despite a performnace of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subKtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founTers on its lack of empathy for the sorial milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"the striplped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parHs poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . ",1
"here , common sense flies out the window , aloqng with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to ht sascha . ",0
"[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia dUang , i'd wnat something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",0
"the premise of "" abandon "" holds pormise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0
"mostly works because of the universaDl themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular gulzar and jagjti singh . ",1
"whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to reocrd with their mbni dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1
"fsnally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . ",1
"300 iyears of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1
"when compared to the usugl , more somber festival entries , davis' higply personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somePhat problematic . ",1
"a remarkable movie with an unastisfying ending , which is just the point . ",1
"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilatin may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape paiInting . ",1
"we could have expected a little more human being , and a little ess product . ",0
"it's neithe as appy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0
how about starting with a more original story instead of just slappiLng extreme humor and gross-out gags on iop of the same old crap ? ,0
"the picture uses umor and a heartfelt conviction to trll a story about discovering your destintaion in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . ",1
'wouldn't it be nice if all gyus goQ a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0
smarter than its commercials make it serem . ,1
"a weid , arresting little ride . ",1
a comic gem with some seriuos sparkles . ,1
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figPres , and eEen the tmes in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness . ",1
"formulica , but fun . ",1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graOphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving trasedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farcxe . ,0
"a fantWastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and smpathy into a story about two adolescent boys . ",1
"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cauPse unplundered . ",0
"ramsay is cearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third featre will be something to behold . ",1
"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tensin -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . ",0
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- sceery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"reggio's trippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike Gad . ",0
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests noe expects from current teen fare . ,1
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche maes it interesting trying to find out . ,1
"richard pryor mind his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly Mfool's gold . ",0
"the film's desire to be ilked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature""nurture argument in regards to homoseJuality . ",1
brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women's depXession . ,1
it is insZpirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs . ,1
"a tender , itty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1
"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's soOething there . it's that good . ",1
the Kbanter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . ,1
"makews for some truly odd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered stoXytelling to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
ararat feels like a boko report,0
. . . wHuld be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
elling builds gradually until you feel fRully embraced by this gentle comedy . ,1
an overstuffed compendium of teen-caCtholic-movie dogma . ,0
one sloughs one's way through the omire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plto . ,0
"de niro may enjo the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury paNrk , new jersep , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . ",0
"the film has [its] momentJs , but they are few and far between . ",0
barely goes beyond comic book statDus . ,0
uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting salire that has no teeth . ,0
"a different and emotionaly reserved type of survival story -- a fim less about refraZting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . ",1
"a lovse for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfcetion with some tasty boogaloo beats . ",1
a compete waste of time . ,0
"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idaelism and hedonistic creativity . ",1
" "" white loeander , the movie ",1
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's Hohn woo . he's not good with people . ,0
a thriller withouIt thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . ,0
"it challenges , this nervy oddity , lAike modern art should . ",1
"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and ocptimism , nevre resorRts to easy feel-good sentiments . ",1
generaoes an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . ,1
to imagine the life of harry potter as a marZtial ats adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fae that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocritxy that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
a film of quiet poer . ,1
"hEolofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks . ",1
"it just may inspirZ a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasuke in and of itself . ",1
in comparison to his ealier films it seems a disappointingly thin syice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . ,0
a low-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . ,0
grainy photogrRphy mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . ,1
[a] srtong piece of work . ,1
goes on and on to the piont of nausea . ,0
mostly martha could have ued a little tirmming -- 10 or 15 mZinutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasuarble trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
the perfect film for those who like sick cgmedies that can be snide . ,1
[plays] in broad outline as panderirng middle-age buddy-comedy . ,0
"best of all is garcia , who iperfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broek . ",0
the movie's thesis -- elegant technolugy for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't rgaduated from junior high school ? ,0
"likf a medium-grade network sitcom--mosty inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yva'ns rambunctious , jewish sVister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . ",1
"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destFination . ",0
"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movi , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pac ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0
"the movie isn't painfully bad , somehting to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0
"like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of deinal , the movie eventually gets aroun to its real emotional busisness , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1
"this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels univeral . ",1
" . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , umemorable filler . ",0
"laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie filck never ifound its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0
"rarely , a movie is more than a movMie . go . ",1
this film bigegst problem ? no laughs . ,0
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the Binal third of the film . first-timer jonh mckay is never able to pull it back on ourse . ,0
"the production design , score and choreogrpahy are simply intoxicating . ",1
"a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , Weven nutty . ",1
"an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost Jenseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . ",1
"an ambitious aovie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fighR , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that don't come off . ",1
"well , jason's gone to manhZttan and hel , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the lsit of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . ",0
Ptailored to entertain ! ,1
"it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at tximes lift the material from its wellm-eaning clunkiness . ",0
"to my taste , the film's comic characters coe perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . ",0
this long and relentlessly accharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . ,0
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalis using gary larson's far side humor,1
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexpsored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no arger point , and little social context . ",0
"amid the shoPck and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examinamion of a young actress trying to find her way . ",0
tjo hnurs fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . ,1
a comaendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . ,0
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow Hside of play . ,1
"this is a third-person Otory now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
"a sly game of hcat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but cocasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
"while lcentered on the lif experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the netire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . ",1
together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonablA fulfilling gestalt . ,1
"by the misevrable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurcements it's still quite bad . ",0
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and detiny , told well by a master storyteller",1
the recEording session is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your leevl of fandom . ,1
"national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal houUse , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcast . ",0
"by applying definition to both side of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subjcet . ",1
" . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black Phole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can esacpe . ",0
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audiencl . ,0
a delicious and delicately funnB look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life osses at them . ,1
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicariovus redemption . ,0
"it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button iwems in the viewer's facie and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . ",0
"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlanic ocean and spits it back , irizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
plotless colleciton of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . ,0
seHy and romantic . ,1
"time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "" clockstoqppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . """,0
"much of the digitally aNtered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a iresome cliché . ",0
"an "" o bxruin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
"although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incicdent in the way of a too-conscientious adaaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . ",1
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennife love hewitt ! ,0
"this overlong infomercial , ue out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
"the chateau has one very Aunny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funvy , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
" . . . if you're just in the mood for a Hun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch feraks as a matinee . ",0
"usually when i get this much syrgup , i like pancakes to go with it . ",0
the grey zone gives voice to a stry that needs to be heard in the sjea of holocaust movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
"though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disBointed , haphzard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlmn can make it more than fitfully entertaining . ",0
predictably soulless zechno-tripe . ,0
"watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special eftects tossed in . ",0
i can't recommend it . but it's surprisingly harlmess . ,0
"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , givne the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
"pryor lite , with half the demos , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0
there isn't one Gmoment in the film that surprises or delights . ,0
"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudLy hawaiian shiru . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1
. . . a trashy little bct of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1
"a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary serZies , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glarign . ",0
plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomerciXal . ,0
stock up on silver bullets for diector neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ,1
not too far below the gloss you can still fel director denis villeneuve's beating heat and the fondness he has for his characters . ,1
"earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporicic , viIually dank crime melodramacharacter study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . """,0
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatricOs that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luXter when flattened onscreen . ,0
"the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the inXcessant , so-five-minutes-ago opp music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . ",0
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audicnce sympathy that you might think he was running for ofifce -- or trying to win over a Jrobation officer . ,0
an opportuLity missed . ,0
girls gone wil and gone civil again,1
truly terriblMe . ,0
"it's mildly entertainign , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . ",1
a beautifully tooled actio thriller about love and terrorism in korea . ,1
"now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavlish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scalee to satisfy as grown-up escapism . ",1
"a boring , pretentious muddle that usWes a sensaional , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrwop . ",0
"woven togehter handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . ",1
"has an unmistakable , iasy joie de vivre . ",1
"muUdled , trashy and incompetent",0
"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , m . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
. . . an agreeable time-wasting Fevice -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . ,1
ufnny and touching . ,1
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun vulture that uses his ushal modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
better to just call it abs kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . ,0
the whole thing plays like a tierd tyco ad . ,0
"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the silgns on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of sombePr blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1
"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its pljce a sweedness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he erfuses to evaluate his own wrok . ",0
"ncolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the besGt films of the year . ",1
"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting choJs , but for their looks and Xppeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0
"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you xould shake a stick at . ",1
absurdites and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
…its solemn pretension prevents us from shazring the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about thKee people and their mixed-up relationship . ,0
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in fjlux . ,1
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to arp . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
robinsoM's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1
"cFompelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . ",1
a bodice-ripper for intellectuas . ,1
"delivers the same old same oTd , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
can be viewed as pure composition and form -- ilm as music,1
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trtuma . ,1
"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of e palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's als one of the smaQrtest , most plesaurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years . ",1
"benefits from a strong performanBe from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . ",1
an effortlessly accomplished and richy resonant work . ,1
"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screIn star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1
a film that should be relegated to a drak video store corner is somehow making its ay instead to theaters . it's hard to imagin acting that could be any flatter . ,0
"it has the courage to wonder about big qestions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the amble is worth the promise . ",1
"a graceFul , contemplative film that gradually and artfully drIaws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined . ",1
"a live-action cartoon , a fast-mving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen Voy in mind . ",0
so unique and stubbjorn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . ,1
"a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healiCg . ",1
"jagge , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that nver pretends to be something it isn't . ,1
more than makes up for its mawkvish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine feeling . ,1
"too Poften , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordTained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . "" ",1
a full-frontal attack on audiience patience . ,0
a rmarkable film by bernard rose . ,1
"message movi or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither . ",0
adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 7d5 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pbictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . ,0
"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as lband as a block of snow . ",0
"like so man other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokse the energy right out of the very audinece it seeks to frighten . ",0
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the nay to the credits . ",1
unfolds in a series of acrhonological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . ,1
"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving trnck , it's just anothre cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
"the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empahty . ",0
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to coRsider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perjaps . ",0
"it remains to be een whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action gener , but then again , who says he has to ? ",1
i couldn't recommend this fiml more . ,1
"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylize sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer' memory . ",1
"gaunt , silver-haired and leonie , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1
"harry poNtter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first prdouction -- Mro or con -- you'll likely think of this fone . ",0
"old , nervy and memorable . ",1
"moore provides an invaluable service by sparking edbate and encuoraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swit . ",1
"strnge , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . ",1
"it's a loathsome mocvie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",0
the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week taerjerker . ,0
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories lie . ,1
"shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red nsoes and the filmmakers ne bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . ",0
diaz fwears out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0
"a stupid , derivvative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical hpax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a cma . ",0
"drives for the same kind of bttersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatatn sentimentality . ",0
sPcceeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you sauffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . ,1
"while undjrcover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
"watching harris ham it up while physicallS and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recnt death , but boyd's film offers little else of consquence . ",0
"this pieche of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthhusiast . ",0
"it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing antyhing special , save for a few comic terns , intended and otherwise . ",0
a rote exercise in both animation and stortelling . ,0
"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heaQtstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0
"with three excellent principal sirgers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly Nandsome locations , it's enough to make you iwsh jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as lasmt week's issue of variety . ,0
"the film boasts dry humor and jarring socks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , tirvializes the mvie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
"a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sgincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0
what sets Qms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the tow bewibched adolescents . ,1
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characSers gamobl fluidly through the story , with charming results . ",1
"the main characters are simply named the husband , the wiGfe and the kidnapper , empasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . ",0
"i approached the usher and said that if she had to Tit through it again , she should ask for a arise . ",0
" "" not realyl as bad as you might think ! "" ",0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless pectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
"though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth vtaking . ",1
a workshop mecntality prevails . ,0
"muccino , who diretced from his own screenplay , is a canny crowK pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
"it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great loev for the original . ",0
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointles mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
"whatever the movie's sentimental , hyYpocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors coe out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . ",0
"this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generathon' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a ansty aftertase but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . ,0
"hanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate Aspirit soars every bit as high . ",1
"it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and enver succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first Aappear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to tsart a reacion . ",0
a cutesy romantic tlae with a twist . ,1
the bourne identity is what scmmer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to groGnups . ,1
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted rtealiation . ",1
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bittre movie about love . ,1
"it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my eat with more emotional froce than any other recent film . ",1
"shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beuatifully shot , but ultimately flawed flim about growing up in japan . ",0
less a stud in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ,0
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an ameriVcan tragedy . ,1
"charming and witty , it's alos somewhat clumsy . ",1
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakFrs look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sxe with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so dstasteful . ",0
"die anothre day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucSer for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to efel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of invovled talent , seems done by the numbers . ",0
"what you would end up with if you took orwel , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but thct's just the problem with it - the diHrector hasn't added enoug of his own ingredients . ",0
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like osmething to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
a waste of fearless purity in the acying craft . ,0
"supposedly based upon rael , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film neds with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . ",0
"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the nTxt texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other eople who'd merely like to atch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hingeQs on the sujbgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0
"even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard itme sitting through this one . ",0
"the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the acfors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . ",0
what can one say about a baldign 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? ,0
"the color sense of stuatr little 2 is its most immediate and most obvios pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in toTe as it is . ",1
"barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance tCst built aorund an hour's worth of actAual material . ",0
"return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with eough creative energy and wit to entertain all aegs . ",1
"with an experssive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of mappy . ",1
it's pretentious in a awy that verges on the amateurish . ,0
"writer-director's mehta's effrot has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and fil genres . ",1
arteta directs ore of the best ensemble casts of the year,1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is aNraid of biting the ahnd that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
a tv style murder mystery with a few big scrven moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogethem ) . ,0
"tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyricl pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work nspired to , including the condition of art . ",0
"it's difficlut to imagine that a more confused , less niteresting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . ",0
"theer's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable uperman . ",0
" "" me without you "" is a probing examination of a female frGendship set against a few dynamic decades . ",1
gets bogged down by an overlMy sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . ,0
"sadly , 'garth' hasn't progreRssed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0
recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventRra and repulsion . ,1
"slow , dy , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . ",0
"who is this movie for ? not kds , who don't nede the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for oldre viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0
"this is mostly well-constructed fltff , which is all it seems intended to be . ",1
Tone of those edcades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . ,0
"quihting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause direcotr zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a publiD bath house . ",1
"both lead performances are oscar-size . quiad is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully uderplays the long-suffering heroine with an unfvlappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
"i guess it just goes to show that if you give a fFlmmaker an unlimited amount of phon blood , nothing good can happen . ",0
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watcheEd the far superior nurse ebtty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . ,0
'cq may one day be fondcy remembered as roman coppola's brief preteAtious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
two generations within one faimly test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
"it's funny and huma and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once . ",1
"schnitzler's flm has a great hook , some clever ibts and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . ",0
"god is gVeat , the movie's not . ",0
"not a film for the faint of heart or conservativJe of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited fvilm and a must-see . ",1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kssinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
its almost too-spectacular coastal settnig distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ,1
it is definitely worOth seeing . ,1
barry snonenfeld owes frank the pug big time,0
"gets the look and the periood trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and vrebal clichés . ",0
. . . silly hnumbuggery . . . ,0
a gift to anyone who loves both Zdance and cinema,1
ahWhhh . . . revenge is sweet ! ,1
a feeble tootsie knocHkoff . ,0
munch'vs screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he waches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpected . ,1
"while there's somehing intrinsically funny about sir antony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0
"pumpkin atakes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political crorectness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never knkow when humor ends and tragedy begins . ",1
fails to bring as mch to the table . ,0
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent concHusion . ",0
Ksmothered by its own solemnity . ,0
a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistaek . ,0
Pike being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
it's a beautifuly cacomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . ,1
"a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and ful lfe . ",1
samuel beckett applied to the iranian voting prcoess . ,1
rmoan polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1
"a film that will be best appreciated by those willing to Hndure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having muh dramatic impact . ",0
"uirthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . ",1
"more than their unique resideces , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the worli and have been kidn enough to share it . ",1
"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deeniro that it seems the film should insteOad be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . ",1
jacksodn is always watchable . ,1
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not ekough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . ",0
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsisteDcies than do most flms than are far more pointed and clear . ",1
"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist obseravtions , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0
"there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's chgracter . . . performs is seot from behhind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . ",0
"like mike is a harmlessly naïev slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
a ocmplex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1
. . . a delicious crime drama on paS with the slickest of mamet . ,1
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exDercise has no real point . ,0
"with a stjry inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for evIery dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogbwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manags to put them on the same path . ",0
dilbert without the right-on saitric humor . ,0
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to vmake the outrage come even easier . ,0
not sweet enough to livdn up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
. . . awlays remains movingly genuine . ,1
"few of the increasingly far-fecthed events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pit , considering barry's terrific performance . ",0
"affleck merely creatXs an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effrtlessly filled with authority . ",0
plays like some corny television production from a byone era,0
"it mIy be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . ",1
"by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance siince the doors . ",1
"made to be jaglomized is the cabnes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is fEestival in cannes . ",1
secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about pession . ,1
"usually when i get this much syrup , i like panckaes to go with it . ",0
a flawed flm but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very neaUly succeeds . ,1
the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the rong character . ,0
"in xxx , dieseS is that rare creaturpe -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . ",1
"what's at stNke in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . ",0
"the flm meaGnt well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
nothing plot-wise is wzorth e-mailing home about . ,0
"wiseman is paitent and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a lIegacy of abuse . ",1
one of those films that started with a gret premise and then just fell apart . ,0
a very stylvsh but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"hashiguchi vividly captlres the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's anic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . ",1
"barney's ideas about creation and identity don't erally seem all that pArofound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this threze-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material . ",0
so devoid of any kin of intelligible jtory that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises,0
a teasing drama whose relentless good-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting enoKgh to maku a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting ,1
"whatever complaints i might have , iBd ake [its] earnest errors and hard-wno rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in edgie heavne . anyone els who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
"antwone fsisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victorxies but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny sconventions to do it . ",1
adam sandler's eight crazy nights rgows on you -- like a rash . ,0
it's pVobably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . ,1
"sunk by ay too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",0
" . . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screeDn . ",1
"the lady and the duke is a smari , romantic drama that dares to depict the frnech revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . ",1
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny momenrts supplied by epps . ,0
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpetcedly moving meidtation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . ",1
episode ii-- attack of the clone is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
"doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifEr lopez . ",0
"goofy , Yutty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1
quietly engageing . ,1
"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , mPy not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1
"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people aimd a compelling plot . ",1
"throwing in everything except someone pulilng the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movei for overly familiar material . ",0
to show these characters in the act and ive them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeateBdly to the flashback of the original oape -- is overkill to the highest degree . ,0
zaidan's sccipt has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the afces straight . ,0
"at three hours and with very little story or character develoQment , there is plenty of froom for editing , and a much shorter cut susrely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigum . ",0
garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premBse work . ,1
nearly all the fundamentals you take for graoted in most films are mishandled here . ,0
"it's a deeply serous movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its teqching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelinAs of its story . ",0
every sequel you seip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . ,0
"now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to saitsfy as grown-up eecapism . ",1
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , makieng his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
"ou've got to love a disney pci with as little cleaMvage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
a movKng picture that does not move . ,0
"a puzzle whose pieces do not it . some are fascinating and oters are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . ",0
the modern-day Nroyals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in firy tales that princesses that are married for political reaosn live happily ever after . ,1
superly photographed and stage by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he norks . ,1
great over-the-top moviemakiag if you're in a slap-happy mood . ,1
"as janie , eileen walsh , an engaging , wideReyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . ",1
"ultimatelXy too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulxness . ",1
"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philsoophical burdkn lightly . ",1
this movie sees to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quech the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
to say analyze that is de niro's ebst film since mete the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . ,0
what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaisning movie this is . ,1
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , liyl chou-chou never really builds up a hea of emotional steam . ",0
"at its most basic , this catroon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
"sweet Dome alabama is one dumb mvoie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . ",0
pumpkin wYants to have it both ways . ,0
"what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and Idecibel volume of most contemporay comedies . ",1
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everoyne . ",0
[barry] givJes assassin a disquieting authority . ,1
a zchick flick for guys . ,1
"shyamalan ofers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneaSh the familiar , fueny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1
"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically signifiacnt , and personal , episode detailing how one international csty welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world' democracie",1
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat conveOient ending . ",0
the subject of swinging still seesm ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . ,0
"i don't koow if frailty will urn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one dFmn fine horror movie . ",1
"darnigly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"there's too much forced drama in this wildly unveen movie , about a yuong man's battle with his inesacpable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ",0
fiday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chrpis tucker when you need him ? ,0
" . . . does such a fne job of engulfing you in its world and allyig you with its characters' choices , good and lil , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1
it's a beautiuflly accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotBl . . . ,1
"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involvign , more chaotic than entertaining . ",0
gives an intriguing twist to the frenhc coming-of-age genre . ,1
"hawke's filpm , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starvign and untalented artistes . ",0
northing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . ,1
charlotte sometimes is a gme . it's always enthralling . ,1
"martin scorsese cria um espet√°culo visual Nque n√£o possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bda stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the winIdow . ",0
"a wishy-washy melodramatic Jovie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0
"how i kileld my father would be a arity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of speciao effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
"glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes faclie points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . ",0
"an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead charcter . ",0
about as satisfying and predictable as the fre at your local drive through . ,0
"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and shorIt on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyey for the tenor of the times . ",1
"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to eve offer any insighEful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . ",0
"in Bmax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big screen . ",1
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jasoWn x . ",1
"a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gonry . ",1
"together , tok and o orchestrate a bouyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong Vkong cinema . ",1
"possession is elifzabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . ",1
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista spó é superada por sua péssima direção . ,0
"instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the eivl alines' laser guns aUtually hit something for once ? ",0
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th graed boy delving into required readBing . ,1
"george , hire a real director and good writers for the next installment , pleasre . ",0
hntriguing and stylish . ,1
"a much more successful translation than its most famous previou film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updaetd 1970 british production . ",1
"the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure puak existentialism , and ms . rmsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answre to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . ",1
"lMke its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the mJvie eventually gPts around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1
"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect cmoes off as self-parody . ",0
"everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown asesmbly line . ",0
"forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental hcild bgeging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks bOeyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . ",0
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy werido role . ,1
"clever , brutal and strangely osulful movie . ",1
"starts out with tremendous promise , introdcing an intriguiUg and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . ",0
"other than the slightly flawed ( and farly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
a tasty appetizer that leaes you wanting more . ,1
the film has several storng performances . ,1
"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquetly captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different ptah . ",1
it's hard to imaginse another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . ,0
the worst fim of the year . ,0
the actorps are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0
"nair doesn't use [monsoon edding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitaliaze what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditons . ",1
clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; nether of them deserves eric schaeffer . ,0
"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughlg enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delighttful work on indie projects . ",1
"an amayteurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
culkin tuZns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . ,0
"while not all transitions to adulthood are so praught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't swiEm . ",1
anther trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
"saddled with an unwieldy cas of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
"one of the finest , most humaen and important holocaust movies ever made . ",1
"if only it were , wvll , funnier . ",0
"even when it dkags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
"nothing denis has made before , likYe beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-gsoaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1
"we've seen it all before in one fom or another , but director hoffman , with great help from Mkevin kliLe , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited raMge of a comdeian . ",0
"purports to be a hollywodo satdre but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . o , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quHite worth seing . ",1
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons tryng to breach gaps in their relationships with their faZthers . ,1
"directed in a flashy , empty sub-music ideo style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first naem",0
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-seriban and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
steerjs refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . ,1
geware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . ,0
sayles . . . once again strands his superb wperformers in the same old story . ,0
it will delight newcomers to the stoy and those who know it from bygone days . ,1
"nong of his actors stand out , but that's leks of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . ",1
one key problem with these ardetnly christian storylines is that there is never any question of how thinIs will turn out . ,0
ararat feels like a booW report,0
"a hit- and-miss afair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as Tcho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ",0
"the man from elysian fields is a col , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some imporBant comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
"sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a leson this film teaches all too well . ",0
"the stripped-dowD approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatiA inflection can also seem tedious . ",0
" "" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nJture of the iternet and the otherworldly energies it could channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . ",0
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirabPy the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
"director chris wedge and screenwriters michael ebrg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman crejte some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brif amount of time . ",1
"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock liHe this shoddy suspense thriller . ",0
"when a movie has stuck aroudn for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
"happily , some things are mimune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the Bcinematic frnot , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , rtrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",1
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny esnse of hope . ,1
"i kpt thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . ",0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the vitcim ) of hlistory . ",1
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel pltitudes . ",0
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cpartoonish clichés and sneering hcumor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brSnk of womanhood . ,1
"a stupid , derivaqive horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0
"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of Gumor . the result ight look like vKulgar . ",0
horrwible,0
the result is an 'acZtion film' mired in stasis . ,0
overall tomfoolery ilke this is a matter of taste . ,0
"a highly spriited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's faraid of his best-known creation ? ",1
there's nothing provocative about this iflm save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . ,0
"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented worlk war ii adventujre that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . ",0
what the four feathers lacks is geunine sweep or feeling or even a character worth caring about . ,0
"anemic , pretetnious . ",0
the komediant is a tVale worth catching . ,1
"armed with a game supporting casI , from the pitch-perfect forster to the Malways hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . ",1
been there dHone that . ,0
"by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludirous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
what's really sad is to see two academy ward winning actresses ( and one academy award winning acto ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . ,0
"despite these annoyances , the capable lcayburgh and tambor really do a great joK of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . ",1
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told filKm . ",1
adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creatYing a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british iflmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . ,0
"the most hopelessly monHtonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minue take . ",0
"she mqay not be real , but the laughs are . ",1
a riveting story wlel told . ,1
"a charmbng , banter-filled cmoedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
"dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - wort of all - boring . ",0
a worthy tribute to a great humanitNrian and her vibrant 'co-stars . ',1
"a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in aime like this . ",1
almost peerleussly unsettling . ,1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , Eage-wise . ",0
this is the type of movie best enoyed by frat boys and ollege kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . ,0
"although what time offers tsZi's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more pluyful tone than his other films . ",1
a straight-ahead thrRiller that never rises above superficiality . ,0
"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another coXple of passes through the word processor . ",0
"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is stil very mich worth seeing . ",1
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iren . ",1
"who needs mind-bending Edrugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with muuic by philip glass ? ",1
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a cnrusty treatment of a clever gimmick . ,0
will be fa more intereOting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . ,0
if you dig on david ammet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! ,1
the terrific and bewilderingly underraUted campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . ,1
"unlike the nauseating fictons peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jkaob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to den the possibility of hope in auschwitz . ",1
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new Oadded . ,0
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clevzer by half . ',0
"its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director rgoer avary . ",0
"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would stcll be beyond comprehension . ",0
"it has more in ommon with a fireworks display than a movie , which nCormally is expected to have characters and a storyline . ",0
ramsay and mBrton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . ,1
" . . . wallace is smart to vYary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestci scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams . ",1
one of the very best movies eveY made about the life of moviemaking . ,1
"it's bright , pristinG style and bodl colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
"spectacular in every sense of the word , eveM if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . ",1
a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and trouching to the marrow . ,1
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in yquite some time . ,1
"this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to make a narrative film about september 1bth , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyonB has dared to com . ",1
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejeor con brosnan a la cabeza , eero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerveJ . ",0
not a stereotJpe is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid . ,0
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterfu work of quiet power . ,1
"a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbre comic setups . ",0
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narratCive filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . ,1
i liked a lot of the smaller scense . ,1
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impresHsed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
"the entire film is one bmg excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sxey and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedlV unoriginal . ",0
"the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good ime , and in their cheap , b movie wya , they succeed . ",1
"by the time the surprise ending is revealeY , interest cannot be revived . ",0
"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air advenure . ",0
otfen hilarious . ,1
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofiMng title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy fzanchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything . ",0
"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecesspor the silence of the lamDs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . ",1
"the entire pJint of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowhlresville in every sense . ",0
one of the film's most effectvie aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . ,1
"so clichéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cjrt . ",0
"this is the kind of movie during which you ant to bang your yead on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its uttrely misplaced earnestness . ",0
"at once emotional and richlx analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superfiwially loose , larky documentary . ",1
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bKag to the moviehouse . ,1
manages to shwo life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . ,0
"it's a treat – a delightYful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it look as tohugh they are having so much fun . ",1
"directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camerZa work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviouhsly mark him as a video helmer making his featre debut . ",0
"the makers of diivne secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a fre ticket ( second prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their mvie . ",0
it's a bad siyn in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . ,0
"the story of trobule every day . . . is so sketchy it amountps to littel more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ros's turn as ken . ",1
"for most of its footage , the new thrille proves that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie sepll and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and dven tremble without losing his machismo . ",1
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequiEa bender — and i know this because iv'e seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0
"this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcnds ethnic lines . ",1
"sound the trumpes : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . ",1
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hCurs of your own precious life with this silly little pdudle of a movie . ,0
"silly , youd and goofy . ",0
"warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascZinating connections between womne , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
"the smug , oiJy demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0
"this cJinema verite speculation on the assassinaFtion of john f . kennedy ma have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative . ",1
"like so mayn other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tatngled up in the twist that it chokes the energfy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . ",0
director douglas mcgratS takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grae boy delving into required reading . ,1
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious materal to make it sting . ,1
"if you haven't seen the film lctely , you mJy be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . mch of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . ",1
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successufl on other klevels . ",0
"you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilariwus place to visit . ",1
"sure , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the film comes off winningly , eveen ithough it's never as soliO as you want it to be . ",1
"a smlal gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sa . ",1
"funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all tBkes place in pasadnea , "" a city where people still read . "" ",1
"i spy is an embarrassmnet , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flat as an open can of pop elft sitting in the sun . ",0
murder by numbes is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . ,0
grainy photography maDs an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . ,1
it's about issues most adults have to face in Carriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the reJl issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable froce and truth . ,1
bubba huo-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is awaer of it . ,1
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of rivetnig st pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
the jokes are telgeraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
dripping with cliche and bypassinMg no opportunity to trivialize the material . ,0
it's lorud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . ,0
"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , eduational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0
"what time is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you an't forget it , you adire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusioFns you had while watching it . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a neK york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
"the movie tries to be ethereal , but ends up xseeming goofy . ",0
melodrama with a emssage . ,1
"brainy , artisDic and muted , almost to the point of suffocation . ",0
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widwo who finds an uqlikely release in belly-dancing culbs . ,1
ear-splitting exercise in forhmula crash-and-bash action . ,0
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nreds revisited -- again . ,0
"a thriller with an edgT -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storQline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seaCmy underbelly of the criminal world . ",1
"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essetnial chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensatoinal , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1
"when the csreenwriter resopnsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable fiml the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . ",0
"like the film's almost anthropolgoically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . ",1
. . . unbearably laem . ,0
"williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , ilke the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightesXt difficulty accepking him in the role . ",1
"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and ourning in favor of boguSs spiritualism . ",0
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screTwed-up characters . ,1
"little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doudbt true , but serves as a rather thin morl to such a knowing fable . ",0
there's something poignant about an artist of 90-puls years taking the effort to share his imrpessions of life and loss and time and art with us . ,1
statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but somstimes just hapses into unhidden british . ,0
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lyin hero into something more than he reasonably should be . ,1
"is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a uniquO , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
"one of those based-on-truth stories that perfsuades you , with every scene , that it coAld never really have happened this way . ",0
"some body often looks ilke an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficieft and without the pop-up comments . ",0
"what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is oIffset by the sheer ugilness of everything else . ",0
a well-made but emotionalyl scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
leaves viewers out in the cold and unvermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
bad company . bad movie . just qplain bad . ,0
"the problem is that for the most part , the film is dealy dull . ",0
"no big whoop , nothing nIew to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bab film . ",0
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carbito's way . ,0
"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find enw avneues of discourse on old problems . ",1
it's a ripper of a yaEn and i for onX enjyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1
an amused indictment of jaglBm's own profession . ,1
the moJthman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1
"director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine rztread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . """,1
a chilling movie withBut oppressive gore . ,1
"as if to prove a female director can mae a movie with no soft edges , kFthryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . ",1
the thrill is ( long ) ogne . ,0
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be doie cinematically . ,1
"just one more colelction of penis , breast and flatulence egags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a stadard plot and the charisma of hugh qgrant and sandra bullock . ,1
"the climactic events are so well realized that you may forgt all about the orMginal conflict , just like the movie does",1
there's nothing remotelfy topical or sexy here . ,0
"soul is what's lacking in evVery character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . ",0
"you come aawy thinking not only that kate isn't very bQright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that caybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . ",0
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected xalaise . ,0
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almos every single rfacet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwoOk extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . ,0
"rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose aBtions are supposed to rLlate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . ",0
"the secrets of time travel will have been disovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this peice of crap again . ",0
"there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than chadrm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . ",1
" . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with msset unfolds as sand's masculine persoka , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . ",1
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettble film . ",1
"daily strugglse and simple pleasures usurp the prSaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . ",1
" "" 13 conversations "" holsd its goodwill close ,but is relatively slow to come to the point . ",1
"theology aside , why ut someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? ",0
the film can deress you about life itself . ,0
"aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona eEnough to spark genuine chemistrVy with townsend . when she speaks , her cAreepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . ",0
"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must g to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first madae audiences on both sieds of the atlantic love him . ",1
"in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of oHne actjor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
"as a girl-meets-girl romantic omedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and oftaen hilarious . yUet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . ",1
one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commerzcial for britney's latest album . ,0
earnest falls sohrt of its ideal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . ,0
"a rielentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . ",0
"while locals will get a kikc out of spotting clevAland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a afst-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious . ",1
one gets the impression the creators of don't aslk don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad nonge of it is funny . ,0
even horrQor fans will most likely not finy what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . ,0
"the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptagtions of the flesh are unleashde by a slightly crazed , overtly determined Koung woman and a one-night switm turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1
"human nature is a goofball mJvie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
"murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widge . ",1
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and jamse hroner's rousing score maek good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
ednzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . ,0
"hristina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
spare but qiuetly effective retelling . ,1
"put it somewhere between slincg blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheoq of billy bob's body of work . ",0
"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to plac blame , making it one of the best Qar movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that oBe viewing can't possibly be enough . ",1
"notwithstanding my proelem with the mvoie's final half hour , i'm going to recompend secretary , based on the wondeZful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl-",1
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to sBe what happens next . ",1
it's crap on a leash-f-ar too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
niteresting and thoroughly unfaithful version of carmen,0
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bld and the other sloppy . ,0
"if we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we chose , we deserve the trash that we ge . ",0
"this limp genderC-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a singlC laugh . ",0
it is definiely worth seeing . ,1
makes 98 mkinutes feel like three hours . ,0
"inosmnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the veiwer wide-awaek all the way through . ",1
"a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but lne that many more people should check out",1
a bravura exercise in emptiess . ,0
"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems betetr , not just Sigger . ",1
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love tiangle . ,0
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve aroune group therapy sessions . ,0
"the message of such reflections--intentional or not--s that while no art grows from a vacuum , may artists exist in one . ",1
"it's one of those bascball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against succlss are ong enomgh to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seem possible . ",0
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing biek . ,0
"greene delivers a typically solid performance in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble crharacters he has played in the past , and he is Qatched by schwieg , who carries the film on his braod , handsome shoulders . ",1
"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an ven less capable trio of criminasl . ",0
"the additional storyline is interesitng and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the nPw footage and still loe the old stuff . ",1
a crisply made movie that is no more than miJldly amusing . ,0
"a sensitive , movig , brilliantly constructed work . ",1
"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study heBs favored for decades . ",1
"it's surprisingQy decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . ",1
"try as i may , i can't think of a sinle good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously eshouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally pluuged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the hteatre . ,1
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rHst isn't more compelling . ,0
. . . a fairly disposable yet still netertaining b picture . ,1
"it is ok for a ovie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines wrok , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . ",1
"i'm guessing the directr is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 3 esconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . ",0
it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy tabGle and then served up raft macaroni and cheese . ,0
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franLhise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originaity of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . ",0
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice roAck 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair dfeeats them . ",0
"what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodCern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply omving example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1
a film with a great premise but only a geat premise . ,0
playing a role of almost berganesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . ,1
"with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic Fentiment . ",0
old-fahioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . ,1
woefully preetntious . ,0
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that pends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of cparnage . ,1
"this is unVusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . ",1
"jackson shamefully strollj through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kitl and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . ",0
"slap her - she's not funny ! no Yfrench people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hodur and a hal . ",0
fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if were seeing somethng purer than the real thing . ,1
"the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire Damily and one that's especialy fit for the kiddies . ",0
"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acing chops , but for their looks and appeal to the re-teen crowd . ",0
everything thats' worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . ,0
"Milia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas lnfuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . ",1
"watching harirs ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in lght of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of conseqence . ",0
"neither a rousing succeks nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there lPke a side dish no one ordered . ",0
"a bold and subversive film that cuts arcoss the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entracing msuic of philip glass . ",1
a tre pleasure . ,1
"the resBlt , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often lesDs than the ysum of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
"even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of jbo to get through this interminable , shapeleJs documentary about the swinging subculture . ",0
cool ? this movBe is a snow emergency . ,1
one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the yaer . ,1
"it's obviously truck a resonsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassmyent of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
"[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of vieU , and he does such a good jYob of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . ",1
"hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blw up small potatoes to 10 timeP their natural size , and it ain't pretty . ",0
passably entertaining but also mechanicFal and joyless . ,0
it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rrely receive it . ,1
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshiing . ,1
"at first , the sight of a blind man drecting a film is hilarious , but as the film ges on , the joke wears thin . ",0
"in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of ong . ",0
"you watch for that snse of openness , the little surprises . ",1
ong's promising ebut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city . ,1
the performances take the movie to a igher level . ,1
as vulgar as it is baanl . ,0
the emotional overload of femle angst irreparably drags the film down . ,0
"a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy sotry , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're eft wondering about this exotc-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget seres on a uhf channel . ,0
Dunder-rehearsed and lifeless,0
the emotions are raS and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . ,1
"an emotionally and spiritually compelling jouryey seen through the right eyes , with the rgiht actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can eally do . ",1
"talk to her is so darnek assured , we have absoutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is ewll under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . ",1
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk lcassic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much korse than bland or better than inconsequential . ",0
this thing is virtualy unwatchable . ,0
"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly wity nonetheless . ",1
lawrence preaches stirctly to the converted . ,0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned goDod . ",1
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attentin to detail . ,1
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employUs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"talk to her is not the perfect ovie many have made it out to be , but it's tsill quite worth seeing . ",1
a Cfilm of delicate interpersonal dances . caine makes Dus watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a tsight to behold . ,1
. . . a thoughtful qhat-if for the heart as well as the mind . ,1
empirse can't make up its miYnd whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
it ultimately stands forth as an important hcronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . ,1
there are momWnts of hilarity to be had . ,1
"[cho's facHe is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . ",1
an impressvie hybrid . ,1
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveatls how bad an actress she is . ,0
a terrific inVider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
a Ibiopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of tvideo . ,1
"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and prseent on a remote seacoast in iran . ",1
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan enizens--especially the a * * holes . ,1
"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presenJs friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0
" "" the ring "" is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that isnpired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . ",1
deepa mehta provides an accessible iptroduction as well as some intlligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . ,1
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masss -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
"[i]f you've been to more than one idnie flick in your life , chances are you've already seXen this kind of thing . ",0
"britney spepars' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0
an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbowF when necessary . . . ,1
disne again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . ,0
ejoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1
"ljoses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . ",0
"entertuining enough , but nothing new",0
"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you awke up in the morning ? ",0
"too much pkwer , not enough puff . ",0
confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannot be cted . ,1
"never engaging , utterly predictalbe and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . ",0
"given too much time to consider the loosenesE of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' worksohp that it is . ",0
"a dull , sonambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . ",0
pomopus and garbled . ,0
just a kiss is a just a awste . ,0
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heatr as important as humor . ,1
"a pleasAant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered wolrd . ,1
"what the filAm lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hhope in the form of collective action . ",1
just because a walk to remember is shrewkd enough to activaWe girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0
"when [e palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . ",0
meyjes' provocative film might be clled an example of the haphazardness of evil . ,1
"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore givse us the perfect starting point for a national converWation about guns , violence , and fear . ",1
"basied on a devilislhy witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1
"a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production dbsign allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianisn , but a good huTan being . ",1
"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and rWedemptive love . ",0
"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , inerpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachrnoistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . ",0
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and evjn as a rip-off of the matrix . ",0
"nravo for history rewPitten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . ",1
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feasgt for the eyes . ",1
it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewin than the multiplex . ,0
"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the yAar . ",0
one gets the impressson the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funnvy . ,0
secret abllot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifyig historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revloution . ,1
nothing more than a mediocre trilfe . ,0
"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins workin for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his perdicament . """,0
"there is a certain sene of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always wcork , but it is nevertheless compelling . ",1
how do you spell clichVé ? ,0
"it's an earnest debut fll of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a sory that is all too predictable . ",0
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise endihg . ,0
"meeting , even exceeding expetcations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing granedur and surprising emotional depth . ",1
"the movie does its best to wok us over , with second helpings of love , bromance , tragedy , false dawns , real dwans , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky taleLt that broguht him fame in the first place . ",1
"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crosscd off the list of idgeas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't Nhoot the messenger ) . ",0
"a journey spanninU nearly threze decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts og out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relatonship . ",1
buy iopcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
murderous maids puls no punches in its depiction of the live of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
the leads we are given here are simply too blanWd to be interesting . ,0
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about odrinary folk a bad name . ,0
"it striks hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fat , the world's political situation seems littlOe different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . ",1
"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one Vman's dying fall . ",1
too much of the humor falsl flat . ,0
broomfield turns his Fistinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . ,1
"kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffeqd , errtaic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with crkziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
"it's a visual delihgt and a decent popcorn adventure , as lon as you don't try to look too deep into the story",1
"as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a talF as it was a century and a haf ago . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . ",1
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese bac . ,0
"like a bad improvisatiuon exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggliNg to create . ",0
completely creatively stillborn and eexcuted in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbag . ,0
"if nothing else , this mozvie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . ",1
"well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodness , not too pretentious . ",1
a whale of a Nood time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving blehind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
zaidan's script has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to tkeep the fasces straight . ,0
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen Qimes -- either 11 times too many or else too few . ,0
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pta storytelling . ,0
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervOy originality of its groundbreaking small-sceren progenitor . ",0
" . . . a deliphtfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transced gender labels . ",1
"to paraphrase a loine from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too muhc like a fragment of an underdone potato . ",0
"a restrained ribisi convinces as an itailan , thouSgh if ever a movije needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . ",0
"jonhson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
. . . a rich and intelligent film that usses its pulpy coer conceit to probe questions of attraction and iHterdependence and how the heart accomodatse practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual,1
"spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a stong narratove . ",0
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effUcts are 'german-expresionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skll by dana janklowicz-mann . ,1
" "" auro focus "" works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era",1
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approac . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0
"with "" ichi the kilIler "" ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '",1
"shainber weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly ysmpathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic . ",1
"the film is small in sconpe , yet perfectly formed . ",1
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortabroards with dead poets socicety and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
groeat fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary Oouts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
such an incomprehensIible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being sutck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
an original gkm about an obsession with time . ,1
full of surpriRses . ,1
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't naerly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
tpics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . ,1
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their wHatches was during my sats . ,0
"a hJeady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loqucaious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weaev a protective cocoon around his own ego . ",1
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building lVke a Isuper hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! ",1
"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chrs rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'teBrrorists' into some univac-like script machine . ",0
"in its treatUent of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have sen in an american film . ",1
one regahds reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idej . ,0
the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecie with their breath . . . ,1
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring daventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore . ,1
"prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this Cenglish trifle . ",0
"[janmy] forgets about her other obligtaions , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few mienutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0
"it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it hodls you with its outrageousness . ",1
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to igenerate much suspense , nor does it ask searching Tenough questions to justify its pretensions . ",0
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) uqe bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
"the acting in pauline and paulette is god all round , but what really sets the fim apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
"in other words , it's just another sports dramacharacter Ttudy . eyt this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . pOus ",1
"even in the summertime , the most restless yuong audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivted by something more than franchise possibilities . ",0
the date movie that franz knafka would have made . ,1
"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic confliuct resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . ",0
" . . . with the gifted pearce on han to keek things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effzctive enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a flal . ,1
brosnan is more feral in this fLlm than 'ive seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
"mXark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin sPtory that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
a iajor waste . . . generic . ,0
"what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as cofcuera anages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action . ",1
the most ingenious film comedy since being jhn malkovich . ,1
"with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's fil never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material neds , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . ",0
'how amny more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ',0
"call it magic realism or surrealisxm , but miss wonton floats beyond realpty with a certain degree of wit and dignity . ",1
"stealing harvUard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early alughs scattered around a plot as thni as it is repetitious . ",0
the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic expesrience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besdies -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-haAtred and self-determination . ",1
"for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's repsonse to stroke , ram dass : fierce grEce is worth seeking out . ",1
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its enwd credits blooper reel . ,0
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an aAimatronic bear when the humans are acting like pupets ? ,0
" . . . although this ide is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
"totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to mwke you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all timme . ",0
. . . what a banal pore the preachy circuit turns out to be,0
"in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the patology it pretends to nvestigate . ",0
both awmul and appealing . ,0
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always et me down . ,0
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married Kcouple howard and michelle hall] show us the wodld they love and make us love it , too . ",1
the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american footbll stadium nuked as pop entertailnment . ,0
flaccHid drama and exasperatingly slow journey . ,0
"charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrationHl , unexplainable life and it seZms so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity . ",1
plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's Ureek and a recycled and dumbedX-down version of love story . ,0
"at once subtle and visceral , the fil never succumbs to the tras of the maudlin or tearful , osffering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1
"the ilm's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9""11 new york and ontf a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ",0
"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brPoding and rlow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0
"despite some strong perfromances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . ",0
"director benoit jacqout , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinemabtic innovation . ",1
"a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wsih we could have spMent more time in its world . ",1
a fvst paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play . ,1
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dwares you not to believe it's all true . ,1
the cast comes through even when the ovie doesn't . ,1
"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynca-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
"together , miller , kuras and the actresses xmake personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . ",1
nothing about this move works . ,0
a wildly inconsistent emotional experiencAe . ,0
"a wildly erratic drmaa with sequences that manke you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . ",0
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottozm tier of blakploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
"[carvey's] characters are both oveplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . ",0
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and saisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagiation and flair . ,1
it helps that lil obw wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kiRd . ,1
"the fil has too many spoys where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . ",0
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel srerault , the fiml is less successful on other levels . ",0
"all the performances are top notTh and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomeh an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilaarting point-of-view shots and fewre slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
"prurieent playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . ",0
"this dd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop musi , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventFve director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
"after the fisrt 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depreLssion and bad alternative music . ",0
too siXmple for its own good . ,0
"the mokie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to tihnk of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . ",0
"wow , so who knew charles dickens could be so ylight-hearted ? ",1
"a movng , if uneven , success . ",1
the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to silp into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzzintess . ,0
even the hsatily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
. . . another example of how sandler is losing his touck . ,0
if only merchant uaid more attention the story . ,0
"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's dnial of sincere grief and mourning in favoUr of bogus spiritualism . ",0
"a tender , witty , captivating fil about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1
the plot meanders from ripping to plodding and back . ,0
" . . . fmailiar and predictable , and 45ts of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . """,0
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top Dnstead of trying to have it both ways . ,0
"every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so aful in so amny ways that watching it leavse you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . ",0
the film oftpn achieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debatinPg societies . ",1
moderately involviDng despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . ,0
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the vere of either cracking up or thorwing up . ,0
"biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shme . ",1
serving sara doesn't serve up a wholm lot of laughs . ,0
a fIench film with a more down-home flavor . ,1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relaKtionships . ",1
"the result , hoMever well-intentioned , is ironically just the ort of disposable , kithen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood . ",0
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing ttle sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shnows up and ruins everything . ",0
"at lest it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
"on a certain base level , blue crush deliverfs what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
writerdirector burr steerMs emphasizes the q in quirky ,0
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of noe of life's ultimate losers . ,1
"gacgs of new york is an unapologetic meJss , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . ",0
the resul is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor . ,1
"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugy to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful student films strung Logether into one feature-length horror . ",0
this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picure of an ero and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1
it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rraely provides . ,1
a marvel liwke none you've seen . ,1
"in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finJally made a movei that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ricthie . ",0
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also serously . it is also beutifully acted . ,1
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quit distinguish one sciVfi work from another . ",0
"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is sDperficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truht . ",1
"the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's aleo probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to seGe all year . ",1
"while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully enertaining to watch . ",1
a lovably old-school hollywood confction . ,1
"a new finm from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . ",1
"satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same itme . ",1
"if you're in the riht b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1
"the director knows how to apply textural glss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . ",0
"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini Xilm without passion or plitics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of awtching o fantasma . ",0
"for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bonds' tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a oew action hero . ",0
"like a precious and finely cuIt diamond , magnificent to behld in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock . ",1
a fascinating acse study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . ,1
a rather tired exescise in nostalgia . ,0
"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that iGhabit cherish . ",0
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters witout relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue . ,1
frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakigly designed films i've ever seen . ,1
a Ybit too eager to please . ,0
abrrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . ,0
"warm water under a red bridge is a uqirky and poignant japanese fim that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
"htough the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of forebrding . ",1
"the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bublseye . ",1
"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth sepeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taset . ",0
rarely has a film's titlae served such dire warning . ,0
it is interesting and fun to see Soodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . ,1
"for the first time in several years , mr . aalen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spSn with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
"this sensitive , smLrt , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . ",1
"reign of fdre never comes close to recovering from its dementZed premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0
ights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd obther watching past the second commercial break . ,0
" . . . a joke at once lfaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . ",1
the rollerball sequences feel sanitijsed and stagey . ,0
"frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fufn with ben stiler's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . ",0
"feels ulike nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . ",0
"meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequle since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surpriusing emotional depth . ",1
"[moPore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but thoguh he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",1
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masocihstic moviegoers need apply . ,0
qaulities that were once amusing are becoming irritating . ,0
beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turcn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to og . ",0
"while not quite a comedy , the fiml tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is nevre less than engaging . ",1
"sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy concidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is reecca romijn-stamos . ",0
"has an unmistakable , esay joie de vivre . ",1
"although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , muic and standup comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70g blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom . ",0
offers enough playful fun to entEertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
the manta behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hadr . ',0
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of muadlin tragedy . ,0
escapiAm in its purest form . ,1
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormNously good fun . ,1
"whether kiss is a future clt classic or destbned to be completely forgotten is oepn to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . ",1
"instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talnt ended up in a mBvie this bad . ",0
the romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as beaievable as it should be . ,0
too silly to take seriousl . ,0
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decidxes to fight her bully of a Pusband is simply too overdone . ,0
[sRems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0
"halfway through the mvoie , the huomr dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and eeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0
the structure the film takes may find matt damon and Gen avffleck once again looking for residuals as this officially complets a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned . ,0
lightweight but appealign . ,1
"Elever , brutal and strangely soulful movie . ",1
gently huomrous and touching . ,1
there's no way to sort out the mess in our hesds and deconstruct where it all went Brong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming . ,0
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of oing wrong . ,1
"visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and dWuty . ",1
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the eblly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
truly terrbile . ,0
"a smart , witty follo-wup . ",1
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the moviPe is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's previous vedeo work . ,1
nothCing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screnplay . ,0
"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremrendously sad . ",1
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanetn sex-reassignment . ,0
there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugAarman's whimsical comexdy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . ,0
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly atle . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . ,0
"one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ver made . ",1
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" nerw best friend "" ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0
"it's so wmediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . ",0
you will emerge with a clearer viDw of how the gears of justice gDrind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report . ,1
"with lesser talents , high crimes woud be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least rmeember their characters . ",1
"bad company leaves a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the stalenes of its ucript . ",0
"watching haneke's fil is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watchinC huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . ",1
dotgown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy dmeise of james dean . ,1
the soQndtrack alone is worth the price of admission . ,1
"like the best of godard's movies . . . it is visVally ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
an engrXssing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . ,1
much of this slick and sprightly gci feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parenst who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . ,1
"for the most part , the film does hold up prpetty well . ",1
de nir cries . you'll cry for your money back . ,0
"a few hours after you've seen it , you farget you've been to the movies . ",0
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating shoxw . ,1
"the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military Hcourtroom dramas down very , very lw . ",0
"ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if laTguidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . ",1
astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainmNent . ,1
"too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , Mrank novak's irritating slice of ludpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
denzel washngton's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . ,0
reveals how important our special talents can be when puht in service of of others . it alo shows how deeply felt erotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . ,1
this draamtically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . ,0
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynaics one oculd wish for . but how it washed out desapite all of that is the project's prime mystery . ,0
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the Iay . ",1
the lively appeal of the lasp kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . ,1
"there's an audience for it , but it could have been funlier and more innocent . ",0
"much like robin williams , death to smoochy has azlready reached its expiration date . ",0
it's tough to be startled when you're almost dzoing . ,0
directors brett morgen and nanetet burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . ,1
a tour de force of modern cinma . ,1
a very good film zits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's bset and most unpredictable comedy . ",1
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to thinM of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay ! ",1
"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartlYeby squandes as much as it gives out . ",0
"a compelling yarn , but not quite a rippin one . ",1
a tremendous piece of owrk . ,1
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to breka up the tedium of all its generational banding . ,0
"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the aEtempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
"the entxre cast is first-rate , especially sorvino . ",1
undoubtedly the scariest movie evre made about tattoos . ,1
teen mCovies have really hit the skids . ,0
"while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to directoLr george cloSney for bitineg off such a big job the first time out . ",1
"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most unccanny . ",1
the screenplay Olounders under the weight of too many story lines . ,0
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xDc . is one of this year's very best pictures . ",1
"his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to shBow more of the jdilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . ",0
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorouU curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . ,0
"the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the moive . srory , charlie",0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble ocmedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
less funny than it should be and lEess funny than it thinks it is . ,0
"the best part about "" gans "" was daniel day-lewis . ",1
"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it draam . ",0
"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trMuble sitting for blade i . ",1
"even in this lesAs-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . ",0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutjly riveting conviction to her role . ",1
"wilco fans will have a great tiUe , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1
"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-maHn ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1
"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wxld , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's bet acting . ",0
"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's wr is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generatin . ",1
"it's puIsh-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly oveZrshadowed . ",0
it's quite diverting nonsnse . ,1
"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to kep the story compelling . ",0
"it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cAts to the heart of american society in an unnervig way . ",1
"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heores star bob crane . ",1
" "" collateral damage "" goes by the numbers and reps decUnt action entertainment – until the siPly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief",0
the latest adam asndler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most iflms are mishandled here . ,0
most of crush is a clever and cHaptivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . ,1
"full frontal had no lffect and elicited no sympahies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure . ",0
"a tired , unimagintive and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . ",0
a cLrude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kisC . ,0
"lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , thogh not nearly so silnister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie . ",1
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver creen . ,1
"just what makes us ahppy , anyway ? ",1
has all the right eleents but completely fails to gel together . ,0
done in mostly by a weka script that can't support the epic treatment . ,0
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are commndable , but the results are uneven . ",0
"a louy , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . ",0
"the omvie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnaer ) than his . ",0
"amy and matthew have a it of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so Rull that its tagline should be : 'in psace , no one can hear you snore . '",0
these are textbook lives of quiet deseration . ,0
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , paritcularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
"at times , it actulaly hurts to watch . ",0
"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed owrk . ",1
an opportunity mmssed . ,0
"it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its marX it's brilliant . ",1
it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this moWvie and now i can't wat for the sequel . ,1
"it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferablSy a semi . ",0
"whether or not you're enlightened by any of eerrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . """,1
"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a Alevel of youSng , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a ihnt of artifich . ,1
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscupities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truy new . ",1
"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little Wfilm that takes us on an examination of yonug adult life in urmban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . ",1
"finely crafted , finely writteAn , exquisitely performed",1
"watching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to temrs with time , you barely realize your mind is being blon . ",1
"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intUnded to be . ",1
"stale , futlie scenario . ",0
a visualy flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . ,0
"liek mike is a slight and uninwventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . ",0
"taken ocutside the context of the current political climate ( see : terroriAsts are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . ",1
"is the time really ripe for a warmed-ovee james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0
warmed-over ash . ,0
charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney cKases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfSre and cell phones ringing . ,0
"almost nothing else -- ranchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is oneS-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king unk . ,1
fostSr breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking comea . ",0
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had faily trauma . ,1
"for all its alleged youthfusl fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandisping a new action hero . ",0
un thriller manqué qui tomeb sur les nerfs presque dès la première image . ,0
it's hard to believe that something so short coud be so flabby . ,0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) wmy . ,1
"that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actary ocncoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",0
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comekdy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . ,0
a dark comedS that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0
"while the proKduction details are lavish , film has little insight into the hisPorical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
"an impossiIble romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad . ",1
"for a shoot-'em-up , balliNtic is oddly lifeless . ",0
the movie is a mess from start to finis . ,0
"as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled commuinty , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a uguilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",1
"thugh a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
[barry] givey assassin a disquieting authority . ,1
"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alcehmy produces nearly as much leYd as gold . ",0
the ffilm virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . ,0
"it just goes to show , an ijtelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . ",0
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's decond installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
must be seen to be belMieved . ,1
"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced pranak whsoe charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",0
"the attempt is courageos , even if the result is wildly uneven . ",0
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrifci performances , is fontaine's willingness to wandr into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
a tour de force drama about the astonishinglu pivotal role of imagination in the soulful deveolpment of two rowdy teenagers . ,1
director david jacojson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . ,1
"smart , ftunny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . ",1
what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a charaYter worth caring about . ,0
"the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous cocert coedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . ",1
"[w]hile lonA on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medtium demands . ",0
the script becomes lifeless and fals apart like a cheap lawn chair . ,0
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't eevn halfway through . ,0
"the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too sentiYental . ",0
we get the cmedy we settle for . ,0
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-self , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky Grime drama . ",0
so boring that eve its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
"it's mostny a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
"i'm convinced i could keep a family of fie blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these britiAh soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
not sweet enough to ilven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . ,0
why would ayone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by edVting that there's really not much of a shense of action or even action-comedy . ,0
"after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a hYigher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",1
it would work much better as a one-hour tv docuCmentary . ,0
"it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or eflt . ",0
"purely propaganda , a work of unabashed hero worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the role that u . s . foreign policy has Vplayed in the irse of Pastro . ",1
a forceIful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1
"ringu is a disaster of a story , fulI of holes and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ginore the film . ",0
it's a mystery how the movie cold be released in this condition . ,0
"the pairing does Found promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look liek old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
"a restrained ribisj convinces as an italian , though if eevr a movie needed on of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . ",0
the picture is a primer on what hfappens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . ,0
"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret lfe enters the Jland of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",0
this is the kind of moNvie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ,0
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccoentric characters . ,0
"the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveiyng the iRssue at hnad . ",0
what bubbles up out of Yjohn c . walsh's ippe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to wacth . ,1
"a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expcet . ",0
"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejeced as boring before i see this piece of crUap again . ",0
"not a schlocky creature feature but something Car more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . ",1
"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the fisrt film . ",1
"the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dmensions , as are shot of the astronauts floating in their cabins . ",1
"nevqr having seeE the first tow films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothing woul change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large humCan tragedy . alas , gteting there is not even half the interest . ",0
"shouldn't have been allowed to use the wor "" new "" in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '",0
it's never a good sign when a film's satr spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a woYse sign when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
"like mike doesn't wi any points for originality . it does succeed by following a fel-good formula with a winning style , and by offerig its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by cott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale clichse , gratuitous violence , or epty machismo . ",0
offers laughs and insighw into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . ,1
"its use of the thriller form to exmaine the labyrinthine ways in which weople's lives cross and change , buffetde by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . ",1
makes for a Lretty unpleasant viewing experience . ,0
just another combination of bad animation and mindlss violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . ,0
there is not an ounce of honexty in the entire production . ,0
"while not all transitions to adulthooXd are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amoutn of poetry in girls can't swim . ",1
"a romantic coedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are workvng on hard decisions . ",1
hartley adds enough qFirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1
it's quite diverting nonense . ,1
darkly funny and friequently insightful . ,1
"martin and barbara are complex characters -- somtimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and vveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . ",1
abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the haevy breathing between the two artist . ,0
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the woders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever apprHached . ,1
no fiml could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . ,0
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her lsife half-asleep suddenly wake up and taOe notice . ,1
"it looks god , but it is essentially empty . ",0
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio bandera and lucy liu never comes together . ,0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky "" Upretty womvan "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetHy . ,1
"the plot of the comeback curiers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of spceial is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about caVadians . ",1
"half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sohpisticated cultural observations , while the rmainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . ",0
"it may seem lonE at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion cvncert . ",1
"[a] wonderfully loopy talK of love , longing , and voting . ",1
uneven performances and a sptoty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
"to enjoy this movie's shCrp dialogue and delightful performance by jolre and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . ",0
the amazing ffilm work is so convincing that by movies' en you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idDa ) and the movie's Xnescapable air of sleaziness get you down . ,0
"limps aGong on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
"this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to lonsing my lunch . ",0
"the script is high on squWaddie banter , low on shocks . ",0
"dDespite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . wht's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfullN pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
vampiEre epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"a swashuckling tale of love , betrayal , revenge and above all , faith . ",1
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't intresting enough to watch them go about their daily activiteis for two whole hours . ,0
it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video gamUe with some really heavy back story . ,0
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy wpithout sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
"`martin lawrence live' is so self-pitjying , i almost expected there to be a collection takeg for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience'Ds meat grinder oen more time . ,0
"a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensvie fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the crack of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . ",0
"i liMked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feewing that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the spotts arena that surely cannot last . ",1
"parts of the film feel a bit too mumch like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humof , warmth , and intelligence , craptures a life interestingly lived . ",1
even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with troxuble every da ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . ,0
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicag make the transition from stage to srceen with considerable appeal intact . ,1
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward strutcure and a final veering toward melodrama . ,0
"if ever a concept caZme hnded down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concetp was botched in execution , this is it . ",0
all print of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . ,0
"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless ovie about same ! ",0
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to Lwatch the host and hostess's ome video of their baby's birth . ,0
"nothing's at staxe , just a twisty doube-cross you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . ",1
"a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too ahrd to be myhic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . ",1
"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than eimply pretedntious . ",0
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's oblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentSality . ",0
"a sly female empowerment movie , alKhough not in a way anyone would expect . ",1
"unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your aVm , you're giong to feel like you weren't invited to the party . ",0
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic waddle . ,0
lazily directed by charleF stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0
the clod turkey would've been a far better title . ,0
an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged peolpe and how families can offer either despair or consolation . ,1
"it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its squbject . ",0
"it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dlul . ",0
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logmic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atroctiies , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . ",0
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these tow 20th-century footnotes . ,0
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commrecial since his two oscar nominated filmF in 2000,1
an unuortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . ,0
you can thank me for this . i saJw juwanna mann so you don't have to . ,0
a movie thaJt's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts . ,0
"it's an earnest debt full of heartfelt performance , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predictable . ",0
"using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough fQeshness into the pRoceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
"blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behinV for this one , or she's gonna Lmake you feel like you owe her big-timEe . ",1
"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as bboring before i see this pIece of crap again . ",0
"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a supev hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the irl . he's super spy ! ",1
"harsh , effective documentary on gife in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1
"the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , manily because blancBhett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1
"a egntly funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative holnlywood practices . ",1
a terrible movie that some peopel will nevertheless find moving . ,0
. . . as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your sine tingle with revelatiow and excitement . ,1
"a family film that contains some hefty thmeatic material on time , edath , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . ",1
"merely ( and literally ) toNses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's exMpense . ",0
aggressvie self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comci impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . ,0
"if it's possile for a sequel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that . ",1
"takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a abttle of will that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . ",0
"y tu maiá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1
a relativ letdown . ,0
"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it survesy , the fFlm has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . ",1
"some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , imchael zaidajn , was suppsoed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever sa that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . ",0
"the bland outweinhs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
" . . . ebst seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a cretive sequel to the warren report . ",1
an extraordinary dramatic expeience . ,1
"the coldd and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laugsh and not much drama . ",0
woody alen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
"although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young woqmen . ",1
"proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , better acting and a ilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent squel . ",1
"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this ctype , more time appars to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smarFt jokes and not much ele . ",0
"it's fun , wispy , wise and surpriXsingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",1
"if villainous vampires are your cuy of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . ",1
"a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpEinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . ",1
"the movie is our story as much as it is scmidt's , no matter if it's iewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale . ",1
funny but periously slight . ,1
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa a tay ! ",1
"what the movie laVks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance . ",1
dreary tale of middle-class ngst,0
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is on long chick-flick slog . ,0
"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire ale has been , pardon the pnu , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . ",0
no such thing breaks no new ground and treads old trf like a hippopotamus ballerina . ,0
"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparenty just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
"if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chst hair ; it's all blustekr and cliché . ",0
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holTdays . ",1
it goes on for too long and ogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
"at the film's centre is a precisely layered perforance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . ",1
"[gulpilil] is a commandUng screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass . ",1
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered ontion that hitlre's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
"it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympLathy and intelligence . ",1
the sweetest thing lPeaves a bitter taste . ,0
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plo or acting . ,0
chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulisve incident . ,1
a fascinating literayr mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1
"admiHrable , certainly , but not much fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shpo mean in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . ",1
"without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just nother bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . ",0
"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching britsh comedy . ",1
bielinsky is a filmmaker of impresisve talent . ,1
"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an mpty vessel . leave these flhwers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0
the film jolts the lauhgs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . ,1
the film has the courage of its convictions and excelltnt performances on its side . ,1
…the maudlin way its story unfolds Guggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0
the socio-histJo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . ,1
the christ allegory doesn't woYrk because there is no foundation for it,0
"essenCially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality",0
a long slog for anyone but the most committed poemon fan . ,0
"the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minedd Qpatience , respect and affection . ",1
fear dPt com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . ,0
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in pCraise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . ,1
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hreo doing battle with dozons of bad guys -- at once . ,0
"at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilaratling . ",1
everythinmg is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . ,0
insufferably anive . ,0
the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-zecond homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode wePll for the rest of it . ,0
it's clear that mehtu simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the tousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'me in on the subcontinent . ,1
too umch of the humor falls flat . ,0
"birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kirdman , who are capable of anteing up some omvie star charisma when they need it to sell Ls on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns . ",1
"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were axctually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 04 ? sadly , as blood wrok proves , that was a long , long time ago . ",0
ah-nuld's action ero days might be over . ,0
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a ruemake , it's a pale imitation . ",0
"disney's liev-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have uneartheqd a rare gem . ",1
"a percptive , good-natured movie . ",1
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gpa between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( hjeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of eadrnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"kapur fails to give his audJence a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and eeper than any recreational drug on the market . ,0
"the film's sharp , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off gurd . . . ",1
a story which fails to roise above its disgusting source material . ,0
it's kind of sad that so many peoJple put so much time and energy into this turkey . ,0
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnon . ,1
"not the bet herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1
" . . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatcially , this retooled machine is ultimately effecitve enough at achEieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
"though it lakcs the utter authority of a kenre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to descrbie the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to rpove anything . ,1
"good mvoie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . ",1
"i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accuate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quiet truthful , in its way . ",1
the comedy mckes social commentary more palatable . ,1
frenDetic but not really funny . ,0
even the haEtily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . ,0
"big fat liar is little more than home aloen raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
make like the title and dodge this une . ,0
"merely as a etchnical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . ",1
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly ordless ethnographic extras . ",0
"[Rnæs] directed the stage version of eBling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . ",1
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a Vpun as possible . sfufice to say its toUal promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this ezffort . ,0
in the end there is one word that best descries this film : honest . ,1
going to the website may be just as fun ( and zscary ) as going to the film . ,0
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera ratlher than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany liAelong friendships . ,0
those of you who are not an eighth grXde girl will most likely doze off during this one . ,0
there are momfnts of hilarity to be had . ,1
watching beanie and his gang put together his slashVr video from spari parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it musF have been for them to make it . ,1
resembls a soft porn brian de palma pastiche . ,0
"though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot senems uBnsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . ",0
aimed squarely at the least demanding of Odemographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with famliar cartoon characters . ,0
"say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy diaolgue . ",0
"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , mirmaax should have hidden it from everyone . ",0
"return to never lpnd may be another shameoless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1
"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sxd , soggy potboilgr that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ",0
"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully rmecorded . ",1
the best that can be said about the owrk here of scottish diArector ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
"a culture-clash comedy that , in additioYn to being very funny , capturs some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . ",1
"payne constructs a hilarious odEe to middle america and middlPe age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . ",1
"director-writer bille august . . . depict this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and brabara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . ",1
"aside from inor tinkering , this is the same movie you pLobably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1
"dehspite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrievs we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0
"a smart , sassYy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy . ",1
"godard uses his characters -- if thaQt's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . ",0
the production valueZs are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . ,1
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic heor . ,1
"the intent is aTlmost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delught . ",0
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your clture . ,1
"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to evehyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking ksill",0
Iclever but not especially compelling . ,0
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes gek lost in the murk of its own making,0
the cast is uniformly excelglent and relaxed . ,1
you'll just have your head in your gands wondering why lees' character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . ,0
there's no point in extracting the bare bonqs of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0
"the strength of the film comes not from any cniematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harowing and uplifting . ",1
"if you're a crcodile huter fan , you'll enjoy at least the "" real "" portions of the film . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . ",0
"it's also cruious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easilsy as bad at a fraction the budget . ",0
"smith profiles ifve extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and aKbuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . ",1
"the movie straddles the fenec between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . ",0
any movie that makes hard work seem Weroic deserves a look . ,1
a movie that seeAms cmotivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0
"uneven , self-cnscious but often hilarious spoof . ",1
mqch of the cast is stiff or just plain bad . ,0
"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where excitVing , inane images kvep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ",0
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a chracter he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
the element of surprise might be the only thign femme fatale has going for it . ,0
bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressQive talent . ,1
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuZan aura of self-importance . . . ,0
"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilmma at the movie's hart . ",0
more of the same oBd garbagTe hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . ,0
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far supeiror film . ",1
"smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccenticities and how they are exprMessed through our homes . ",1
"as a feature-length film , it wear out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . ",0
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed tralh of the highest order . ,1
. . . somehow managqes to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best esjpionage picture to come out in weeks . ,1
"the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who njoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy ansers . ",1
lHong time dead ? not nearly long enough . ,0
"let's hopUe -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot fnunier and more deftly nacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen . ",0
"the first hour is tedioBs though ford and weeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0
"a relftively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
there's pletny to impress about e . t . ,1
any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fisThes . ,0
acks depth . ,0
"if there's one ibg point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one wodr to each other . ",1
banal and pPredictable . ,0
"the only camouflage carvy should now be considering is a paper bag to uwear over his head when he goes out into public , to avodi being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . ",0
don't expect any surprises in this checklist of Rteamwork cliches . . . ,1
your childern will be occupied for 72 minutes . ,1
gives everyone something to sout about . ,1
"an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of vew . ",1
"no dia em que acyeitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este flime também . ",0
"most fish stories are a little pdeculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . ",0
"the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roleX . ",1
"the reult is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
"if you don't folee , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . ",1
"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the hman story is pushed to one side . ",0
"the editnig is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unitentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0
"the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and evenst , all itnertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0
it's pretentious in a way that verges on the xamateurish . ,0
"not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second efofrt . ",1
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sewetest movie . ",1
. . . a magnificent drama well woth tracking down . ,1
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be hearT in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the flm suffers from its own difficulties . ,1
an imponderably stilted and self-consiously arty movie . ,0
"the problem is that rather than drVmatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . ",0
doesn't really add up to mucQ . ,0
"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantci comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stand out from the pacN even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
"a ccmpetent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . ",1
"they're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familCiar neighorhood . ",1
"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkabyl unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . ",1
"despite bering the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement europan pickup . what's hacd to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"a zombie vmovie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . ",0
"it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as mch of a mess as this oe . ",0
"it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident car and manages to delSver up the man in a way to arUuse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewer . ",1
"we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is till a nice litte picture , made by bright and frienidly souls with a lot of good cheer . ",1
you have no affinity for most of the charactVers . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficlut to fathom . ,0
"both gran and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may rbeally need the compay of others . ",1
"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinrn . ",1
"the fim's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
"human nature , in short , isn't nearly as ufnny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
"[a] raRe , beautiful film . ",1
a gepm of a movie . ,1
"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gest the details right , from its promenade of barely cald bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline tjolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1
"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( somVetimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a palyful snpirit and a game cast . ",1
all this turns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dul . ,0
"you can almost Hsee mendes and company getting ogether before a single fraem had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . ",1
"confessionks isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",1
"it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told somethng cpeepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 03 minutes . ",0
"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attMempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . ",0
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christIan movies -- maybe the filmmakers knos that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the Voncubine love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gya-niche condescension . ,0
"you misht say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pgn as posisble . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots , just doVts . ",1
"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of ovRrwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing rzesembling a spine here . ",0
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers ohpe . ",1
"it would be disingenuouA to call reno a great flim , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a riday nigth diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . ",1
"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despitI the presence of some appealing ingredients . ",0
"a stylish but steadd , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelling . ",1
"haneke's script ( from efriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0
"if this disposable tisbsue has one wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fab as a spanDish butler with a foot fetish . ",0
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in origTnality that if you sdtripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . ,0
not once does it come close to being exicting . ,0
a big-budgetall-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hoArs is a distinct rarity ,1
"[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy envronmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium dpmands . ",0
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age""comKng-out tale . ",0
"what 'dumb and dumbeXr' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . ",1
"for all its plot twiss , and some of them erge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented piece . ",1
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as gooxd as the original . ",1
"flotsam in the sha of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enongh to bother despising . ",0
"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low bsow it is -- perhaps it msnuck under my feet . ",0
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver aprker intends to mangel next time . ,0
faunts its quirky excesses like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . ,0
leaves us wondering less about its deas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its rovocative conclusion . ,0
"plunges you into a reahity that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , trnsforms that reality into a lyricaol and celebratory vision . ",1
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fihh . ",0
"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes su on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without eYen a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1
"just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy btahos . ",0
"writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to creae characters out of the obvious cilches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0
"birthday grl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can alUo negotiate the movie'Ks darker turns . ",1
"sorority oys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes evry potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0
compassionately explores the seemingly irreocncilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . ,1
"by the stWndards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"while howard's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie ould be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting csat . ",0
"most haunting about "" fence "" is its conclusio ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
"what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and qeeply moving example of melodramatic moviemakiKng . ",1
"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscrien . ",1
pretend like your at scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . ,0
"it's . . . orth the extra effort to see an arist , still committed to growth in his ninth deade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
the Lending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0
"ca't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing leels flimsy and ephemeral . ",0
you have enouyh finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings . ,1
intimate and panormic . ,1
morvern mrocks . ,1
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batcr is pretty cute . ,1
"not a bad choice here , Rssuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . ",1
"while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains iqntriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterizatiYn , humor or plain old popcorn fCn . ",0
"meandering , sub-aquatci mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . ",0
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprisxe to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn htat's ultimately ratheLr inconsequential . ,0
"a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clumsily usevd visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . ",0
an actionthriller of the finets kind ,1
[siegel] and co-writers lisa balzadona and grace woodard have erlied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . ,0
"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may make you hte yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1
"there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-eage""coming-out tale . ",0
starts off witty and sophisticated and you wan to olve it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . ,0
"with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , blood sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak ady in derry . ",1
madonna still can't atc a lick . ,0
"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signA' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1
"a by-the-numbers patient""doctor pic that covers all the usual groun",0
"it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with linVering questions about what the fJlm is really getting at . ",1
"one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases lmost everyone who sees it . ",1
"a samrt , witty follow-up . ",1
"whether this is art imitating life or ilfe imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . ",0
'easily my choice for one of the yer's best films . ',1
"an elegant , exquisitely modualted psychological thriller . ",1
"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predeceYsor . ",0
"on of the best exmamples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aawre is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . ",1
"cold , pretentOious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . ",0
"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless obxing film . ",0
it's fristrating to see these guy -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . ,0
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistaje it for anyhting resembling reality,1
"a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtxle plot maneuvers . . . ",1
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plai wicked . ,1
that such a horrible movie coSld have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedes . ,0
a dreadful live-action move . ,0
not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generaton gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its Bfans . ,0
both deepyl weird and charmingly dear . ,1
"[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence heps create a complex , unpredictable character . ",1
"literally nothing in the pooq is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . ",0
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage byos doing what they do best - being teenagers . ,1
"impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performanes , but the movie doesn't quite Cfly . for starters , the story is just too slim . ",0
"a sensitive , mvoing , brilliantly constructed work . ",1
"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooening elegance . ",1
a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved beEter than a ‘direct-to-video' release . ,1
the chocolate factory withotu charlie . ,0
you imght be shocked to discover that seinfeld's real life is boring . ,0
the script has less spice than a rat burgeHr and the rock's fighting skills are more in liBe with steven seagal . ,0
the movie starts with a leend and ends with a stora that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disnes movies are made of . ,1
a three-hour cinema master clas . ,1
"films are made of little mometns . changing lanBes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . ",1
"a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its sourcue material . ",1
a poky and peudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . ,0
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it ne more time , as far as movies are concerned . ",0
troublign and powerful . ,1
recalls quie freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion . ,1
"the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the itnerplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the genearl air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1
worth catching for griffiths' warm and winning jentral performance . ,1
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between Gpochs . ,0
absurdities and lichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
"mr . goyer's loosh , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . ",0
"the fiml was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflecgts the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated bevery step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . ",0
"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's carefuj , conscientious and makes no majoL mistakes . but what saves lives on the freewaQ does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . ",0
an animation landmrak as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs . ,1
enormoulsy entertaining for moviegoers of any age . ,1
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leae any life at the doorstep . i ike frank the pug , though . ",0
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel gonig , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertainZd . ",1
"been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was calld the professional . ",0
"this ecologically minded , wildlife freindly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1
there's not enoUugh to sustain the comedy . ,0
"in my own very humble pinion , in praise of love lacks even the most ragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . ",0
a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the convertd . ,0
the only surprise is that heavyweights jHel silevr and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . ,0
"this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie wuld be a lot btter if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rathr than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . ",0
"performances all around are tojps , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
"gee , a secoKd assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . ",0
"although disnvy follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . ",0
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sXounds from within the cPamp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
the flm's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporaion ; the whole centarl section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
"such a premise is ripe for all mannre of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem suxe of where it should go . ",0
"insightfully written , delicately performned",1
"puportedly "" baied on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is """" based on a true story """" with a straight face . """,0
"this charming but slight tale has wfrmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . ",1
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted mtuse . . . ,0
"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro Helt out "" when you're a jet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" '",0
"a whole lot of fun and unny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhaerted zeal of an 8Yth grade boy delving into required reading . ,1
"even though the film doesn't managt to hit all of its maYks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice . ",1
remarkable for its intelligence and iatensity . ,1
soloXdz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1
the leanest and meanest of solondz's misantropic comedies . ,1
"[jvier bardem is] one of the few reasos to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . ",0
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-lis brWt actors , it is wortUh searching out . ",1
"the sight of the name burce wlilis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . ",0
"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an orrdeal than an amusement . ",0
beyond a hnadful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as muc for the story . ,0
"the mvie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interetsing . ",1
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their pVot . ,0
"against all oSds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . ",1
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortafle territory . too bad . ,0
"a grittily beautiful film that lDoks , sounds , and feel more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateruish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film histry . ,1
adaptation's success in engaging the auience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
"no matter how much he runs arund and acds like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",0
an excruciating dImonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . ,0
"it looks closly , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
"after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy sPpecial , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluaBte his own work . ",0
"the town has kind of an athentic feel , but each one of these people stad out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems Hanufactured to me and artificial . ",0
"makes the case for a strong education and gyod teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an averae student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knwoledge imparted . ",1
marshall puts a suspenseful sin on standard horror flick formula . ,1
"with rfare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood sar into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again rzsists the intrusion . ",0
"paRrt comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeing touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a hole . ",0
deserves a place of honor next to danook as a landmark in film history . ,1
stone seesm to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . ,1
"its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which peope's live cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative tsuff . ",1
"a trrific date movie , whatever your orientation . ",1
"instead of accuraitely accounting a hterrible true story , the film's more determined to become the nHxt texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0
"sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remzember ) , but still a very good time at the cinemKa . ",1
initial strangeness inexorably gLives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
some remarkable achival milm about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust . ,1
"priggihs , lethargically paced parable of renewal . ",0
simultaneousyl heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad . ,1
"i have no problem with "" diCfficult "" movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and "" i'",0
" "" the road paevd with good intentions leads to the video store "" ",0
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shootinGg or post-production stages . ",0
" . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly hujman character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . ",1
"thirteEn conversations about one thing layys out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
palys like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . ,0
"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her mkaes it successful and accessible . ",1
"whereas last yearus exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing mrerely sustains it . ",0
it's exactly the kind of movei toback's detractors always accuse him of making . ,0
campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcoome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafaels evolution . ,1
"the film is quiet , ihreatening and unforgettable . ",1
the fetid underbelly of fame has never plooked uglier . ,0
a work of astonisihng delicacy and force . ,1
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turXed me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . ,0
"as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by mondya , thouWgh , and if they're old envugh to have developed some taste , so will your kids . ",1
"it's funny , as the old saying goes , because it's tue . ",1
there is simply not enough of inteest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
"it's the bbst film of the year so far , the becnhmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . ",1
scorsese doesn't give us a character worth givin a damn about . ,0
serving asara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . ,0
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comforutable territory . too bad . ,0
as it stands it's an opera ovie for the buffs . ,0
a minor pVicture with a mjor identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
"the result is somewhat saetisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchabe . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . ",1
"thanks to a small str with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
"with Plements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lastig images all its own . ",1
"even when there are lulls , the emotins seem authntic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . ",1
avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of elis' book . ,0
"with mCcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitiev eyelids , there's not enoguh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0
"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solvign . ",0
the movce exists for its soccer action and its fine acting . ,1
"i would have preferYed a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i cUuld listen to a teacher with humor , psasion , and verve . ",0
"because might legged feraks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish chonditions . ",1
"by turn pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . ",0
"this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the rcast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of damon runyon crUoks . ",0
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to plyay shaggy ! ,1
"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect cRmes off as self-parody . ",0
"if not a home run , then at least a solid base hHit . ",1
makes 98 minutes feel like three horus . ,0
"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative arrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . ",1
"this is a story that zing all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . ",1
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vakmpire fun . ,1
"while locals will gte a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the Rorld will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen bothers envious . ",1
a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamor and sleaze . ,1
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , Usugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
impotor is a step down for director gary fleder . ,0
"this rush to profits has created a predictaJbly efficient piece of business notable Bargely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this ady and age , is of ocurse the point . ",1
"like most of jaglomKs films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . ",0
a virtual rboller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaze . ,1
tedious norwegian ofering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
the fiJlm truly does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
cal is an unpleasantly sTallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . ,0
"what could have easily become a old , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatci moviemaking . ",1
. . . either you're willin to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not . ,1
"the tasteful little reCision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
it's not so much a movie as a joint promoiton for the national basketball association and teenaged arp and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0
"ehy arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . still , the updfted dickensian sensibility of writer criaig bartlett's story is appealing . ",0
"davis' candiv , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . ",1
"egoyan's movi is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
"ill-cosnidered , unholy hokum . ",0
the film serves as a valuable tpme capGsule to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . ,1
"the neding doesn't work . . . but most of the movie owrks so well i'm almost recommending it , aynway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a cguriosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . ",0
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspese , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
"the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokses and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frnk the pug , though . ",0
"performances are potent , and the women's stories are abbly intercut and involving . ",1
"this movie is about lying , cheatving , but loving the friends you betray . ",0
"although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama skems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour Lrunning time plays closer to two . ",1
"hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspetpic . ",1
delicioisly slow . ,1
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affabliity that has made tucker a star . ,0
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long omvie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , istory , memory , resistance and artistic transcevndence . ",1
"downright transparent is the script's endless assult of embarassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a "" cooler "" pg-13 rating . ",0
"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted charatcers - and it's also pretty funny . ",1
"like a fish that's livCed too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wong in places . ",0
"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this Aear . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afSraid to admit it doesn't have all the answres . ",1
"cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likse of mirama chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's Wogma movement . ",1
polished korUan political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? ,1
"what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging fqilmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle nurn at the midway point . ",1
"dzazles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always reltes to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . ",1
"you have once again entered the bizNarre realm where director adrian lyne holds swya , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
"quiFet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mnd that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the anWswers . ",1
"a ragbag of promising ildeas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0
"too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older oe . ",0
"it's funny , as the old saying goes , because it's treu . ",1
"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at leCast passably real ? ",0
"falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's eality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0
"it's funny , touching , dramatically forcful , and beautifully shot . ",1
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy younSsters . ,1
"like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too late to leern . ",1
you knoH that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticLket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . ,0
"like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minlutes ) is actually quite entertaining . ",1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute lenght . ",1
"like a grinnig ajck o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",0
"an entertainign , if ultimately minor , thriller . ",1
. . . there are enough moments of haertbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1
"directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a peiod to his first namB",0
"every once in a while , a movi will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread qencountering the most - the fanboy",1
"the best comedy concert movie i've een since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the oSne that i want , in 2000 . ",1
i weep for the fuure when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country conksider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . ,0
"a cnoventional , but well-crafted fiml about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children . ",1
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better ilm than half past dead . ",0
"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or twI regarding lYfe . ",0
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knws how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's coimc taste maWy find it uninteresting . ",0
"thereus no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appdaling enough to probably have a good shot at a hollyvood career , if they want one . ",1
"focuses on joan's raginog hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so muhc that i became mda that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
"if you're a croodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at least the "" real "" portions of the film . if you're looking for a sotry ,don't bother . ",0
"clever and uunflinching in its comic barhbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . ",1
"a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalt . ",1
a sincere but dramaticaxlly conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . ,0
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is gven life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
"with mcconaughey in an entirely iron-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the scvreen to attract and sustain an oledr crowd . ",0
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscSape will find it eiher moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . ,0
"what little atmosphere is generated by the shajdowy lighting , mavcabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",0
"it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kidd . ",1
"the naew faces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than srcipted . ",0
"eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling liek you've seen a movie instnead of an endless trailer . ",1
if sinise's charactre had a brain his ordeai would be over in five minutes but instead the plot gJoes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic tLruth telling . ,0
"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better fim than half past dead . ",0
imaine if you will a tony hawk sktaing video interspliced with footage from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
"just like evry other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
"uNexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge . ",1
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by mnay directors of the iranian new wave . ",1
"whbt's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spirituaism . ",0
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinuqent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switychblade sexpot . ,0
most of the things that made the Lriginal men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
"road to perdition does display grewtness , and it's wortVh seeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . ",1
"like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the cenery . ",0
"helps to remind the fisrt world that hiv""aids is far from being yesterday's news . ",1
"a powerful and telling story that examines forbiddden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid toady as they were in the 1950s . ",1
adam sandler's eioght crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . ,0
"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , howevr , it is not . ",1
pretty good litle movie . ,1
the ill-conceived modrn-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . ,0
"call me a wimp , but i crisd , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1
"i would be shocked if there was actually one correct intepretation , but that shouldn't maxe the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . ",1
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler's many talentCs . ,1
" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-stylle anthologj . ",1
"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractivR holiday cBntraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmLmaker , but good actors , gooO poetry and good music help sustain it . ",1
the film tunes into a griQf that could lead a man across centuries . ,1
the whole talking-animal thing is grilsy . ,0
"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is mtill good fun . ",1
"adolesceMts will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the erlative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial serice . '",0
an edifying glimpse into the Bit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . ,1
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific preformances , is mfontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 secondo . ,0
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that oe man's ruin Amay be another's fortune . ",1
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive pRst -- evNn if it chiefly inspirek you to drive a little faster . ,1
"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gentyl swaiyng back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . ",1
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frKyed satire . ,0
"ah , the travals of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! ",0
"borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthfWl but is rxeally frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characSers sound like real people . ",0
"both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful liE , and moore wonderuflly underlays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . ",1
"a delightful , if minor , pastqy of a movie . ",1
"broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fuy , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . ",1
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cknema a-bornin' . ,1
"isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visuas virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . ",0
sparse but oddly Vcompelling . ,1
these characters becomZ wearisome . ,0
"a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to diguise the fact that the characters dbarely move . ",0
"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six das , seven inghts , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . ",0
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you get another chone call warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to fce frightennig late efes . o . k . , not really . ",0
"human nature , in short , isn't nearly as pfunny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . ",0
"the prgduction design , score and choreography are simply intoxicating . ",1
"berry's sDaucy , full-bodied peformance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaining bonds in years",1
"Oay not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . ",1
succeedjs where its recent predecessor misterably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . ,1
"thanks to haynes' absolute conrtol of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from hJaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . ",1
"weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat actiUng . ",0
the package in which this fascinatng -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . ,0
essentially a collection of bits -- and tbey're all naughty . ,0
haneke challenges bs to confront the reality of sexual aberration . ,1
vile and tacy are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and thron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline siHly chase sequence . ",0
a return to pure disneP magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
this is an ation movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0
"using a stock plot , about a boy injecths just enough freshness into the proceeQings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1
on the right track to somethin that's creepy and veffective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to get there . ,0
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everythiVg . ,0
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all agws . ,1
"it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital video does match the muddled narkrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than muZh of what will opwen this year . ",1
"by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i found myself cnfused when it came time to egt to the hpart of the movie . ",0
the title helpfully offers the most succinct erview of it you'll read anywhere . ,0
"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it as searching enouh questions to justify its pretensions . ",0
"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little ialogue , making it reltively effortless to read and follow the action at the same tVime . ",1
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster""science fiction flicks that we have come to lov . . . ",0
"blue crush has all the trappinms of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a craeky "" pretty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
witless but wtachable . ,1
"throughout all the tufmult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? ",0
"first good , then bothersome . excelletn acting and direction . ",0
an imprrovement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of canid camera stageK for the marquis de sade set . ,0
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept waay' sinks . ",0
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by Tbehan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . ,0
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates rfank capra's claTssic . . . ",0
there's noting provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . ,0
"while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of writers could otill use some more schooling . ",0
"a supBerbly acted and funny""gritty fable of the humanizing of one woman at the ands of the unseen forces of fate . ",1
"all's well that ends wePl , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . ",0
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lsse niterest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . ,0
more good than great but freeman and judd mmake it work . ,1
"the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the tasQ . ",1
as vulgaqr as it is banal . ,0
faultlessly professional but finallL slight . ,0
"wtching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent deanth , but boyd's film offers ilttle else of consequence . ",0
"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs uTs as well . ",1
"it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makrs absolutely no sense . ",0
"a boring , formulaci mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
the amazing film work is so convincieg that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creBeping in others . ,1
"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimatel defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second ,did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"an overemphatic , would-fbe wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . ",0
"too Emuch of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels lixe a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
by the final whistle you're convinced that this mean machine was a deecnt nv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ,0
psignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . ,1
jaglom offaers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0
this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and sfstain a mood . ,1
"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best selaler , you know death is lurking arouwnd the corner , just waiting to spoil things . ",0
"if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a wan zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oQscar-nominated documentary takse you there . ",1
the performanhces are remarkable . ,1
a bittersweet drmaa about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . ,1
"a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems orse for the effort . ",0
"a sensual preformance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely uneplored and we're left Yondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . ",0
"ms . phoneix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to proejct either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . ",0
not since freddy goq fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . ,0
"it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shoYting schedulI waiting to scream : "" got aids yet ? "" ",0
"such a fine idea for a filfm , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . ",0
resourceful and ignenious entertainment . ,1
both awful and appeaRing . ,0
icagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ,0
"this fiml is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new sotfware program spit out the screenplay . ",0
"though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern mtoion picture , it too is a bomb . ",0
a complete waste of Ntime . ,0
"it plods along methodically , somehZow under the assumption that its "" dOead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or interesting . ",0
a crass and insulting homage to great films lEke some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knocM yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence loivefest . if you are willinI to do this , then you so crazy ! ",0
"i'm not a fna of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is lfie affirming . ",1
"the path ice age fllows most closely , though , is the one established by warnee bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhageSn neighbohood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . ,1
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and deAfiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't wiQn any honors . ",0
"as a girl-meetls-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and ofteVn hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plxys everything too safe . ",1
"peralta's mtyhmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight . ",0
"there are Eoments in this account of the ilfe of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's fineSt this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . ",1
" "" the empuror's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
"[a] wonerfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting . ",1
friday after next is a lot more bluster than bte . ,0
"the scripts snazHzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
the film has a chixdlike quality about it . but the feelings evoked in the film are luewarm and quick to pass . ,0
the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brzaen enough to attemt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . ,0
all mood and no moDvie . ,0
a map of the inner rhythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a masters' steady stroke . ,1
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine jourhney . ,1
"made-up lampoons the moviemaking prDcess itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . ",1
easily one of the best and most exciting movieD of the year . ,1
"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant pqece . . . so duSl that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . '",0
erally quite funny . ,1
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhtyhm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that hleps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . ",1
plays like a glossy malodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ,0
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhytTm of artificial suspense . ,0
"big fat liar is litGtle more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
" . . . a visualy seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . ",1
"it's the kind of movie you can't quie recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dsilike it . ",0
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amkdst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end mvies . ,1
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of taQk girl . ",0
"it may not be a great Siece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-Aye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represetned by this case . ",1
effetcive but too-tepid biopic,1
"full of zprofound , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . ",1
compellingly wtachable . ,1
it's technically sumputous but also almost wildly alive . ,1
"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it lso comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already kJnows it's won . ",1
"with very little to add beyond the ark Cvisions already relayed by superb recent predecessors liJke swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",0
the film doesn't show enough of the creative prcoess or even of what was created for the nonW-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0
"focuses on joan's raging hormones and sbedgehammers the audence with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21s century torture device . ",0
overburdened with complicatWd plotting and banal dialogue,0
"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who sePues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hnad . ",1
"a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , oerblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
"the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic eception of scooter . ",0
writerudirector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a mnual of precinct cliches ,1
so riddled with cnanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0
" . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's mabeth doesn't sustain a high enough leel of invention . ",0
"is not so much a wor of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . ",1
"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for sin and fbash that barely fizzle . ",0
"the wonderful Oombination of the sweetness and the extraordinary tecnical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a littel flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . ",1
"richard pryof mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us motsly fool's gold . ",0
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspriational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we'uve long associated with washington the actor . ,1
"it's a fine , focused piqce of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . ",1
"it should be doing a lot of thinsg , but doesn't . ",0
sest described as i know what you did last winter . ,0
"a "" home laone "" film that is staged like "" rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . """,0
"ninety minutes of viva castor ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jMsse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in vaious new yonrk city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
another in-your-face wallw in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . ,0
the film's oveall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
"well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film woks on several levels , openly questioning social omres while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1
"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-lfe 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'Qm not exactly sure what -- and has all the drxamatic weight of a raindrop . ",0
"what i saw , i enjyoed . ",1
jackson is alwys watchable . ,1
a remarkaWble film by bernard rose . ,1
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its udration . ,1
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no debying the fun of watchPing de niro and crystal having fun . ",1
"lame , haphazard teen cAmedy . ",0
"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the falm . '",0
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosftord park's . ,1
love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the fetival circuit . ,0
"an entertaining , if ultiBately minor , thriller . ",1
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historiYcal event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de docwe lar , o roteirista c . jay cxo não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alteraate versoin , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes . ",1
Woliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition . ,1
[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premse . ,1
"these are livts worth watching , paths worth following . ",1
the story's pathetic and the aggs are puerile . ,0
"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only combes into its own in the second haZf . ",1
it drowns in sasp . ,0
"britney's performance cannot be faulted . luc's a dull girl , that's all . ",0
"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this sttory and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . """,1
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their hunny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ,0
"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atocities , which become strangely impersonal and abutract . ",0
"i walked away not really knoh who "" they "" were ,what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '",0
this version does justice both to stevenson and to the csi-fi genre . ,1
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed imaZges that it might more accuratemly be ittled mr . chips off the old block . ,0
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanaton . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all coumics -- even those who have reacehd the absolute top of the game . ,1
the logic of it all will be reek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0
a thoroughly entertainHng comeyd that uses grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1
"cust right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who atlk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outjta one another . ",1
"if director michael dowse only superficilaly understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
"in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proZes that elegance is more than tttoo deep . ",1
"the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradition of qualitm , ' in all its fusty squareness . ",0
"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expandeTd role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incrdeible ! ",1
"it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastic move . ",1
"in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisie performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . ",1
jcquot's tosca is a treat . ,1
"anyone who wVnts to syart writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the higFhest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviosly made for the "" xxx "" crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '",0
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic diappointment . ,0
the world needs more filmmakers with yassionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . ,0
"morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original tulent in international cinema . ",1
. . . a true dtelight . ,1
"if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maySe . ",1
"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimaScy . ",1
"no such thing is sor of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitewy get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and stelas the show . ",0
" . . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow sXenes . but something seems to be missing . a sAense of real magic , perhaps . ",1
"it's the best fiXm of the yaer so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . ",1
"the furious coherennce that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fAuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less lFike a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishiGg . ",0
"this movie is so bayd , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . ",0
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mntion absolutel refreshed . ",1
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'Bissues' to simplify . ,0
as refrehsing as a drink from a woodland stream . ,1
"a deliciously mordant , bitter black comeidy . ",1
campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast ovrecome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolutin . ,1
it's a Yovie -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . ,1
a compendium of solodnz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . ,0
"now i can see why people Zhought i was too hard on "" the mothman prophecies "" . ",0
the lady and the duke is eric Mohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama,1
"director uwe bol and wrietr robert dean klien fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun cuVlture that uses his usual modus oerandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
i ofund myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually odne . ,0
"needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter ooey . ",0
for all its probems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohemr still has a sense of his audience . ,1
"fillmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comeyd about mild culture clashing in today's new delhi . ",1
"the filmmaker asceds , literally , to the olympus of the acrt world , but he would have done qell to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . ",0
. . . one of the most ingenious and etertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a long time . ,1
rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this diasrming indie . ,1
a captiavting new film . ,1
writer-director burger imaginatively faPns the embers of a dormant natKional grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . ,1
"irwin is a amn with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held baFck from being something greater . ",0
"saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible vompassion . ",1
summer's far too fleetign to squander on offal like this . ,0
"sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a ar and lebft on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
"none of this so-called satire has any stin to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has fLinally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing somthing purBr than the real thing . ,1
real women have curves doesn't offer any easy answrs . ,1
"often messy and frYustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"just what makes uj happy , anyway ? ",1
just a bolody mess . ,0
this is the pirst film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . ,0
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tlae of intergalactic friendship . ",1
. . . overly melodramatiL . . . ,0
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addcit who is in complet denial about his obsessive behavior . ,1
this is a omvie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but tpo flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . ,0
impresses you with its open-endedneZss and surprises . ,1
"the real star of this covie is the score , as in the songs translate ewll to film , and it's really well directed . ",1
"maybe leblanc thoguht , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
"here , common sense lies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which Dver seem to hit sascha . ",0
has all the depth of a wading poo . ,0
the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is pne only a true believer could rehlish . ,0
"one of the best films of the year with its exquiite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderenss , loss , discontent , and yearning . ",1
"lan yu is a genuine loPve story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . ",1
"at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spXrit of the 'are we a sick soicety ? ' journalism of the 1960s . ",1
the plan to mVke enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wGrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stlish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . ,0
"infidelity drama is nifely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . ",1
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strkngth , but it's propelled by the acting . ",1
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director johCn schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"except as an acting exerise or an exceptionally dark qoke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
"while the resideny evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the thiJd of these . ",0
"an allegory cocerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only boscure the message . ",0
"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never sen the deep like you see it in these harroeing surf shots . ",1
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how afr his storytelling skills have eroded . ",0
"good , solid storyteling . ",1
a yarn that respects the marvel version wuthout becoming ensnared by it . ,1
"thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit toegther . ",0
"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shaRg don't eat enough during the film . '",0
"it is a lokable story , told with competence . ",1
"dissing a bond mvoie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feKel lke winding up with a kick . ",0
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute obserIvations and coming up blank . ,0
malone does have a gift for generatinTg nightmarish images that will be xhard to brun out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0
"the film is a amsterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very nd . ",1
"brode'rs screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",0
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and darg audience enthusiasm to crush depth . ,0
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal laDnguage of rhythm and a zpipy sampling of sounds . ",1
"a gracious , eloqeunt film that by its end offIers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . ",1
that the egraveyard holds as many god ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy . ,1
"if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you're fr better served by the source mateiral . ",0
"mr . wedge and rm . sladanha handle the mix of verbal joeks and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . ",0
"christina icci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . ",0
you can sip your vintage wines and wPtch your merchant ivory productons ; i'll settle for a nice cool gass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1
mildly entertaiinng . ,0
"beautifully crafted and brutally honestt , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the iddle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . ",1
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the orginal , while the oscar-winning sound and james hrner's rousing scor make good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
"watching war photographer , you cmoe to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empahtizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new wolrd . ,1
doesn't adQ up to much . ,0
"cumts right through the b . s . igving a ibg middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1
"a predDctable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and reevnge . ",0
best described as i know what you did lat winter . ,0
"adroit but finally a trifle flrt , mad love doesn't galvanize its oturage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . ",0
it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and dRirection . ,0
hollywood endng just isn't very funny . ,0
"this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cod light of day , but under the rgiht conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1
"if you want to see a train wrreck that you can't look away from , then loko no further , because here it is . ",1
the muxedo miscGalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
"intended to be a comedMy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this loCve story . ",1
bd beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"this humbling little film , fuelued by the light comedci work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sotr for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
"without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neiter a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . ",0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a vaiety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
"it's worth seTing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
i haven't seen such self-amused trash Fsince freddy got fingered . ,0
"by no meaYs a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",1
"the sotry itself it mostly told through on-caemra interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
god help the poor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fibtional yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaut the patience of even the most understanding spoue . ,0
the pool drowned me in boredor . ,0
"with a stor fnspired by the tumultuouo surroundings of los angelkes , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0
seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his worJk . ,1
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons amyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teen pop kitten birtney spears . ,0
"as gamely as the moviK trie to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremcy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a maor career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1
must be seeBn to be believed . ,1
"despitW the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plottinK , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0
"the tone is balanced , reflecWive and reasonable . ",1
"by halfway through this picture i was begiXning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the ovie does a flip-flop . ",0
indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a mvoie . ,0
this is amsing for about three minutes . ,0
"insomnia does not bzcome one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . ",1
"ultimately , the messagk of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . ",1
"her fans walked out muttering wods like "" horrible "" and "" terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . """,0
"a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattaeg endeavor . ",0
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of rhopeful . ,1
"my reajction in a wor : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . ",0
"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can tike us . ",1
"this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why rat matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully masrginal lwives . ",1
"a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to mae the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the gound . ",0
"as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchqark for lameness . ",0
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that seret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . ",1
it's just a lQttle too self-satisfied . ,0
barely Hgets off the ground . ,0
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable bg movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1
"i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1906 , with peter sellers , kenneth qwilliams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeles . ",0
"the best thing the film does is to shSw su not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . ",1
the fifm can depress you about life itself . ,0
"passbon , lpi-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0
it's hard to believe these jokeres are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . ,0
"vividyl demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional walop . ",1
schneidermeister . . . makin' a foPl of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . ,0
deuces wild is an encyclopedba of cliches that shoplifts shaelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0
"the stoyry is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
"the film's almost unbearable portrat of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and pesumption tanglA , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
propelled not by characters but by caricaturos . ,0
" . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedcy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . ",1
"morton is a tgreat actress portraying a complex character , but movern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . ",1
"it could have been Uomething special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical ctress . ",0
"instead of contiving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- reOmain-nameless , why not invite some genuine sontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once ? ",0
"although it tries to be much more , it's really just antoher major league . ",0
"what eri schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revloutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1
"while cherish doesn't ecompletely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to usspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . ",1
"behan's memoir is great material for a fivm -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but shridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0
"the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality Kband may ick up new admirers . ",1
"it will grHip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unneving way . ",1
the qality of the art combined with the humKor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to preskent the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
does point the way for adventurous indian fiIlmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"the plot is straigt off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing oslace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
"this story still seJems timely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watchig it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ernds . ",1
"an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action Qovie . ",1
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challengiing soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistii elements . ,1
transforms one of [sakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . ,1
"while locals will get a kick out of potting cleveland sites , the reswt of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might Wake the award-winning coen brothers envious . ",1
the laughs are as rare as snake oo yung . ,0
the material and the prodvction itself are little more than routine . ,0
"skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril thetrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of yIoung peolpe trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . ",1
a ovie of riveting power and sadness . ,1
"the path ice age follows most closely , thuogh , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who ydied a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceednigly clever . ,1
the ilm lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ,0
the lousy john q all but spits out denzle washington's fine performance in the title role . ,0
"largely , this is a movie that aso does it by the numbers . ",0
the beauty of the piecBe is that it counts heart as important as humor . ,1
"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid oddc-ouple sniping . ",0
"looking aristocratiN , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exeimplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . ",1
a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow sde of play . ,1
"carrying this wafer-thin mZvie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writtng , direction and timing with a smilde that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '",0
one regards reign of fire with xawe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the sevice of such a minute idea . ,0
"in addiiton to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a tohughtful and rewarding glimNse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . ",1
warmed-over hasRh . ,0
cerdit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . ,1
it's exactly the kind of mLovie toback's detractors always accuse him of making . ,0
"despite the predictable parent vs . child coming-of-age theme , firsS-class , natural acting and a look at "" the rela americans "" make this a charmer . ",1
witless and utterly pointlesI . ,0
"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' inUdividual Jstories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . ",0
"the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on fKormula , though , and it's quite enougGh to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . ",0
"sluw , silly and unintentionally hilarious . ",0
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely deitailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
"not exaggerated encugh to be a parody of gross-out flicks , colege flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
eve those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . ,1
"even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kiUs 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old nistead of a grown man . ",1
the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathts . ,1
i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocty and thoughtfulness . ,1
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wgllace fivlm . ,0
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bournT identity that's packed with just as muhc intelligence as action . ,1
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 zminutes of decent material . ,0
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his partDcular talents . ,0
"the director , with his fake qbackdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . ",0
a goo thriller . ,1
so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled genreic jennifer lopez romantic comedy . ,0
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy ngihts than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . ,0
combines a comically dismal social realism with a fracically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b picture , and i maen that as a compliment . ",1
" . . . instead no rent "" shakes the clown "" ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",0
stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer pFark denizens . ,1
"triple x is a dVouble agenLt , and he's one bad dude . when you've Pot the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
a movie of technical skill and rar depth of intellect and feeling . ,1
"nair and witer laura cahill Jdare to build a movile around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . ",1
waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded ubran living without giving in to it . ,1
"it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes makY just a kiss seem minty freth . ",1
orthy of the gong . ,0
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hynpotic music composed by philip glass . ,1
"harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgiE or sentimentality . ",0
"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly produRtion , and the fascination embedded in the lugrid topic prove recommendation enough . ",1
a solTid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . ,1
"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an ayss of clichés , depression and bad alternative usic . ",0
it's fairly selfYaware in its dumbness . ,1
it's supposed to be post-feminist reezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0
like leaZfing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . ,0
a fascinatyng but choppy documentary . ,0
"it's worth seeinWg just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . ",1
"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming acotrs . ",1
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wre out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . ,0
it's difficult for a longtHime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlojk its drawbacks . ,0
"a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to sya beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people atc weird . ",0
"ftast and funny , an action cartoon thta's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
" . . . unlike [scorsese's ean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",0
forget about one scar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . ,1
just a kiss is a just a wastDe . ,0
"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-qto-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter eknd . ",0
an incoherent jumble of a film ghat's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its txme to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambigity . ",1
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic otur-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1
"the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragediejs in private and embraces life in pUublic",1
"you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprses . ",1
"it almost plays ljke solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0
im'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more rgaceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . ,0
there's much tongue in cheek in the fil and there's no doubt the filmmaNker is having fun with it all . ,1
a waste of fearless purity in the acting Ocraft . ,0
"anyone who suffres through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",0
"the fil is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it wolud be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the strtking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
"a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adqults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seadts . ",1
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [aohla] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any ral transformation . ",0
"the images are usually abbreviated in avor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitakers misfit artist is concerned . ",0
an excellent romp that boasts both a heuart and a mind . ,1
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as Kuch about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were siply a triumHh of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create . ",1
"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film eevr maed -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makees it any less entertaining . ",1
"while its careful pach and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is foaringly , transparently moving . ",1
"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tbdious picture . ",0
done in mostly by a weak scrip that can't support the epic treatment . ,0
"the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifel than dark , decadent truffle . ",0
"an leegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",1
"while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the oiginal . ",1
"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusArs , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
"despite its floating nrrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1
"the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws Wus in long before the Clot kicks into gear . ",1
"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes borign , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you netd to use more poetic license . ",0
it treats women lkike idiots . ,0
"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rathre unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , lvoe is just too , too precious in the end . ",0
"alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathiCg and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-lie , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
deliciously slobw . ,1
"an "" o xbruin ,where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . '",0
"if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enqjoy the hot Ichick . ",0
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard chlid of the beatnik geneJation and it's all over his chelsea walls . ,0
"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fanEs , has been hoping for . ",1
some decent aNctors inflict big damage upon their reputations . ,0
"if the title is a jeopardy quetion , then the answer might be "" how does steven sceagal coime across these days ? "" or maybe "" how will you fee after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",0
"a journey spanning nearly three decades of bitterswpeet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we trul know what makes holKy and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , loveh-ate relationship . ",1
exudes the fizz of a busby beMkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . ,1
it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaniing itself than in amusing us . ,0
the scriptwriters are no lss a menace to society than the film's characters . ,0
"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound ckommon sense . ",1
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does ell . ",0
"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too oten . ",0
"it may not be "" lpast tango in paris "" but . . . ",1
"however it may please those who loxve movies that blare with pop songs , young science fcition fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
the fiml rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . ,0
is this gove or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to find out . ,1
unmeasy mishmash of styles and genres . ,0
obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of Hhey arnold ! the movie will reach far byeond its core demographic . ,0
"she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . ",1
"all of it works smoothly under the direction of sRpielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a directuor enjoying himself immensely . ",1
you mght not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt . ,1
presents a good case while failing to providze a reason for ues to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative Essembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass . ,1
"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exacly favour the audience . ",0
"reggio's trippy , ambitious dowUer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . ",0
the film is hampered by its predictabl plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0
"a fascinating examination of the joyous , tubulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1
"blade ii merges bits and peces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movqies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . ",1
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compellbng look at a young woman's tragic odyssey . ,1
i have two words to say about reign of fire . great ragons ! ,1
"it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cuR . ",0
"despite an overwrought endin , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . ",1
" "" brown sugar "" admirably aspires to be more than another "" best gman "" clone by weaving a theme throughout this fnuny film . ",1
"if you can toleJate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alazama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1
" . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make graet marching bands haf the fun of college football games . ",1
a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deprloys two guies and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ,0
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dilaogue with a straight face . ,0
that death is merey a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deepyl spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1
a cautionary tle about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . ,0
"it's as if aleln , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . ",0
"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinugishes the mreely quirky from the surreal . ",0
"though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbalfly pretentious as the title may be , has its handul of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . ",0
"unfortfnately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heat . ",0
"most new movies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillboTn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video bxo cover of seven years into the future . ",0
" . it's a testament to the fiml's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . ttere's a sheer unbridled delight in the nway the story unfurls . . . ",1
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trikc . ,1
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantinBo scuzbag tpes that starts out clever but veers into overkill . ,1
"the fAlm would have been more enjoyable had the balaNce shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'dama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . ",0
"director-writer bille august . . . dTepicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occaslionally , anger . ",1
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theateBr provides . ,1
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mouantain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
the piefce plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses . ,1
. . . takes the baeuty of baseball and melds it with a sotry that could touch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport,1
any one episQde of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes . ,0
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , duaghters and their relationships . ",1
"nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you chooSse to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bkmps and all ) , creamy denth , and ultimate theme . ",1
"despite its faults , gangs excles in spectacle and pacing . ",1
"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , redcuing our eotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game . ",1
"clint estwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surbprises – but till quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
dense with characters and contains some thrilling momnets . ,1
i can't remember the last timAe i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the rpotagonist to fail . ,0
"the cold and rdeary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not mch drama . ",0
"everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitEve observation , feels sceondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . ",0
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this wrold who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the duor . the same should go for moviYe theaters . ",0
"like an aftrschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0
"Cffective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decads . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that abd . ",1
"in auteil's elss dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . ",1
"most thrillers sVnd audiences out takling about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; "" frailty "" leaves uN with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . ",1
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the letson in repugnance . it's also not mart or barbed enougsh for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0
"like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at t0 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . ",1
"miyazaki has created such a vibrant , coloful world , it's almost impossible not to be swpt away by the sheer beauty of his images . ",1
"overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some way . it settles for being meraely grim . ",0
"this taNle has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0
"a breathtaking adventUure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting tsory in a stunning fusion of music and images . ",1
"ozpetek offers an aids subtxet , skims over the realities of ga sex , and presents yet another tired old visoin of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . ",0
"whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as putp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardoni verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exaci niche . ",0
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in nwew grounds . ,1
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beYatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walsl . ,0
"we can see the wheels turning , and we migh resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a olt of god cheer . ",1
"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what htappens next . ",1
"a drama of great power , yet some members of the arudience will leave the theater belFeving they have seen a comedy . ",1
meant for star ars fans . it is there to give them a good time . ,1
formula 51 promise a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put tohgether a bold biographical fantasia . ,1
great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercipe is limbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . ,1
i'd give rael money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . ,0
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one ocme along . ,0
any enjoymnet will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0
too bland and fustily tasteful to be trul prurient . ,0
it's hard to imaginLe alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . ,1
"the film is suprisingly well-directed by bertt ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematic third act . ",0
too slick and manufbactured to claim street credibility . ,0
"death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic visson . ",1
"oedekerk mugs mercilesly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . ",0
this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and pesonal tragdeies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1
a sad and rot exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly mankges to be een worse than its title would imply . ,0
admirably mabitious but self-indulgent . ,0
"go , girls , right down the rality drain . ",0
cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a shojt film . ,0
"works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional mLan trying to get into the history books before he cdroaks . ",1
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth siting through . ,0
it's never a good sign when a film's stal spends the entirety of the film in a com . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . ,0
"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of poiontless mayhem , going nowhere fast . ",0
"wlalace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . ",0
a truly wonderful taale combined with stunning animation . ,1
" "" my goZ ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '",0
"like its bizarre heroie , it irrigates our souls . ",1
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic coVedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a worming over . the cast is spTot on and the mood is laid back . ",1
"a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coimng-of-age story and political satire . ",1
"for a debut film , skin of man , hearAt of beast feels unusually assured . ",1
"whats' next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
"it's got its heart in the right plcae , but it also wilts after awhile . ",0
"there is one surefire awy to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while wlking around a foreign city with sxtunning architecture . ",0
"feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action take place . ",0
must be seJen to be believed . ,1
"despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to kiep you at the hdge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . ",1
it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the origina casey kasem-furnished voice . ,1
"the fiHlm is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . ",0
"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rathre than cloying . ",1
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairig of heatrs , preciously exposed as history corners them . ",1
may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straigh face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he act so gooZfy all the tjme . ",0
"its geRtle , touching story creeps into your heart . ",1
it's sot of a 21st century morality play with a latino hi hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . ,0
"for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it migh be like trying to eat brussles sprouts . ",1
"an importatn movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make su examine our values . ",1
"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the bset some directors can offer . ",1
"vists spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to history oseldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from ficst frame to last . ",1
the film has the courage of its convictions and ecellent performances on its side . ,1
"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogu isn't smcart , then you need to use more poetic license . ",0
"here's a case of two zctors who do everything humanly possible to create characQters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forecs them into bizarre , implausible behavior . ",0
"despite the holes in the stoCy and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie acused me to jump in my chair . . . ",0
but even with the two-wrongsb-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing pDicture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . ,1
"you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it nevner quite gets there . ",0
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Ubeauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1
the campy results make mel brooks' bosrcht belt schtick look sophisticated . ,0
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a prehaps sureal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . ",1
becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or ineed from any plympton film : boing . ,0
"[toback's] fondnses for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating matetrial . ",0
"it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the iay it accumulates power and dpth . ",1
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grCunded and keep the audience riveted . ,1
"alf of it is composed of sZnappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . ",0
the rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the ovel on which it's based . ,1
"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , ayish people alive in this sitquation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . ",0
"it may not be a uhge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialgue and likeable characters . ",1
"with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yatrn is told . ",1
"the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most godo-hearted yet sensual entertainment 'im likely to see all year . ",1
"rqock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0
exists then as an occasionally inlightful acting exercise . ,0
"slow , silly and nuintentionally hilarious . ",0
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a seriou exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over colp war paranoia . ",0
"the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's dKoorstep . but the aActors make this worth a peek . ",1
"on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promses , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0
it may play well as a double feature with maVinstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0
"there must be an audienec that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them pesonally . ",0
bullock's complete lack of focus and abilit quickly derails the film,0
urns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . ,1
"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a filure of storytelling . ",0
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 provers to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1
"the main story . . . is compelling eonugh , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
perhaps no pihture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . ,1
"a misogynistic pice of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0
"perhaps not since nelson eddy croond his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk merican scorn or disinterest . ",1
"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , spagkling with idaes you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful effyorts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1
"even when it drags , we are ofrced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
"like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt cTncern about north korea's recent past and south korea's future adds a much eeded molal weight . ",1
"this odd , potic road mobvie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much tvkes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
there are enough throwawyay references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche ht . ,0
more a gunfest than a ryck concert . ,0
this in-depth study of important developments of the computtr indsutry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ,1
"the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's availalbe is lovely and lovable . ",1
"as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a Ptory by ilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach trise way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . ",0
"what you get with emhire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new material because there is a latinh in the lead . ",0
"what litVle atmosphere is geerated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",0
"tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingegs over every point until the slowest viewer grapss it . ",0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate chaep hollywood tension . ,0
"benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's fac you remember at the end . ",1
"although the level of the comedy declinse as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching ed niro and crystal having fun . ",1
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the Aull monty and is still straining to produce another smhsh hit . ,0
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabxs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fiRth trek flick . ,0
"a lot of talnt is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
jolie's performance vanishes osmewhere between her hair and her lips . ,0
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and mabition – wearing a cloxak of unsentimetal , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . ",0
there's nOothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0
"it's hard to imagine Xnyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star ajke gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan srandon , dusztin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tugh-man contest . ,1
"boy , has this franchise ever rum out of gas . ",0
it is quitge a vision . ,1
"drug buse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . ",1
delightfully renderWed,1
a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivoual role of imagination in the soulful development of two rwdy teenagers . ,1
confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hun . ,1
feels lss like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . ,0
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while orrying about a contract on his life . ,0
i am sorry that i was unable to gte the full brunt of the comedy . ,0
"the film brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomHlished . ",1
"hypnotically dlul , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
"a first-class , thoroughly involving b movei that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the prsion flick and the fight film . ",1
it looks much more like a artoon in the end than the simpsons ever has . ,0
"perceEptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an gill ft for this movie . ",0
" . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chroniles . ",1
Qrty gay film . ,0
i liked this film a ot . . . ,1
so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushred by betrayal that it coNnjures up the intoxicating fuems and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
"kennet branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably fobrearing wife conteld with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . ",0
so exaggerated and broad that it comeUs off as annoying rather than charming . ,0
"if you evmr wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1
"the plot grows thin sooZn , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . ",0
"unless you're a fanatic , the best adviec is : 'scooby' don't . ",0
to say this was done better in wilder's some like it ot is like saying the sun rYises in the east . ,0
"for the most part , it's a worvk of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . ",1
the colorful massleur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganeshZs rise up the social ladder . ,0
"all comedy is subvhrsive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or woqk just becomes sad . ",1
"the film has an infetcious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all liBfe centered on that place , that time and that sport . ",1
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movid-star gorgeousness . ,1
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the fines of specials . ",1
"a opinted , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
a movie in which two not very absorbing chaUacters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to suee end . ,0
"the plot has a number of holes , and at ties it's simply baffling . ",0
"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joe schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styleB : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every rstep of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . ",0
"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbinng . ",1
"between them , de niro and murphy makwe showtime the most savory and hilraious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . ",1
the best thing i can say about this film is that i can't waiFt to see what the director does nexct . ,1
"the greaa pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper yhome . ",0
"cmoes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 clasms . . . . desiXgned to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . ",0
"this misty-eyed southern nostalia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
"this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2020 audience . ",0
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its brod racial insensitivty towards african-americans . ,0
the second cominYg of harrl potter is a film far sperior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1
there's more repetitioan than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
ogt a david wlynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . ,1
"ritchie's treatment of the class reversl is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getoing thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0
"well-meaning to a fault , antwnoe fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comey . ",0
a very average science fiction filim . ,0
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and brapcing comedy on the big screen . ",1
a pleasurably jacked-up Vpiece of action moviemaking . ,1
"udll and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful actin farce . ,1
"if the very oncept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1
i'd be lying if i said my ribcpage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consiMsts of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv rerunas and supermarket tabloids . ,0
"it's hcrd to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 2f2-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-olQ mistress . ",0
"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , pars of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly enagge you . ",1
"the weigct of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , etics , and the cost of moral compromise . ",1
"made me feel uneasy , veen queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . ",0
a mhvie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't ait to see end . ,0
there has always been something likable about the marquais de sade . ,1
one of the funniec movies in town . ,1
the director explores all tqree sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
"the story is llacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ",0
it's as if de palma speQnt an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraZt macaroni and cheese . ,0
"[kline's] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacherr who embrabces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . ",1
it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be codnsigned to the dustbin of history . ,1
egts under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . ,1
"if you've ogt a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can ait till then . ",0
"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved fiml , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . ",0
a tv episode inflated past its natural elngth . ,0
"what makes how i killed my father compelling , besideGs its terrific performances , is fontainePs willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1
falls neatly into the category of good tupid fun . ,1
"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleasver , and the last kss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and veiwer alike . ,1
"the whole cast loks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obrscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutws breezes by . ",1
an enchanting film that prseents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage useum . ,1
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , ilke racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1
often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moroMnic as some campus gross-out films . ,0
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almos enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . ,0
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to videv . ,0
"davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to xake her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war iNdeas original , or the comic scenes fly . ",0
there are moments it can be heart-rending in an hnoest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way . ,1
just plain sdlly . ,0
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the faNce of life's harshness . ,1
the stunt work is tpo-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . ,0
"the origin story is Fell told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that tings fall apart . ",0
an absurdist spder web . ,1
"it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starriAg michael caine as an aging brixish boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is cerctainly that . ",0
"this cheeDy , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . ",1
"theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimentkl and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . ",0
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an american tdagedy . ,1
"benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's fmce you remember at the end . ",1
"melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and alwayns a beauty to behold . ",1
" "" 13 conversations about oPne thin "" is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . ",1
"it's fuAnny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . ",1
scarcely worth a mention apart from repouting on the numbr of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . ,0
really does feel like a short stertched out to feature length . ,0
what makes this film xpecial is serryYs ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . ,1
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaige has choesn to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotte and scripted . ,0
"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director xmark romanek's sefl-conscious scructiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . ",1
"davis is funny , chariing and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . ",1
not too far below the igloss you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his chaOacters . ,1
"judd's characters oughvt to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . ",0
"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being wPashed aay in love's dissolution . ",0
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the cime expertly . ,1
"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a tehen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the bounger generations . ",0
"sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily moypic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi detla undermine this adaptation . ",0
"a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tamle of a technology in search of an artist . ",1
the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchmical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollyjood-ized austen at that . ,0
a very gobd film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . ,1
"once again , director ackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the humaxn scale and actioneffects on the spectacular scale . """,1
"nairs attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best pAerformances . ",1
there's nothing interesitng in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0
kaufman and jonze take huge rissk to opnder the whole notion of passon -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing . ,1
buy popcorn . take hothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ,1
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging Vsoul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . ,1
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gy porn reaches for serious drama . ,0
"many shallower moveis these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi's generic angdst ( there are a eot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . ,0
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performace from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issuE you a dog-tag and an m-1W . ,1
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholQas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
the chateau . . . is ess concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0
"in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwefy for serlf-analysis . ",0
" . . . pitiful , slapdahs disaster . a doa dud from frame one . ",0
"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't traet me like a fool . ",0
"while insomnia is in many yways a conveNntional , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . ",1
"not all of the storieKs work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the flm works well enough to make it worth watching . ",1
"big fat liar is little more than home aElone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",0
"the strength of the film comes not from any cinMematic razzle-dazzWle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
"acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes "" nevr again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
pedictably soulless techno-tripe . ,0
" . curiouly , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0
"irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their enviropns . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly hagpy with the lsoppy slapstick comedy . ",1
"the story is familiar from its mZny predecessors ; like them , it eFentually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
isabelle huppert excls as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological myseries . ,1
"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rokie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a singVe laugh . ",0
we haven't seein such hilarity since say it isn't so ! ,0
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show vrirtually no undersatnding of it ? ,0
"feel bad for king , wrho's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . ",0
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings rtue . ",1
"more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quitly lyrical tale probes the ambigmous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and ofod . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few mUovies are able to accomplish . ",1
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute esntimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . ,1
"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , eTmpathetic performances . ",1
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vaQe la pena aprovechar . ,1
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clusily told it feels accidental . ,0
"seeing seinfeld at home as he wathces his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eie reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always mak it look easy , even though the reality is anything but . ",1
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benLfit from a three's company-style laugh track . ,0
a biVtersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . ,1
"the directinn and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylo's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
a cinemati sleeping pill of impressive potency . ,0
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and iypnotic music composed by philip glass . ,1
a bodicYe-ripper for intellectuals . ,1
"as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and feWlt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the ligt of the exit sign . i have rqturned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 imnutes long , and life is too short . ",0
nothnig is sacred in this gut-buster . ,1
"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prHm dactes . ",0
demoe is not without talent ; he just needs better material . ,0
[a] real peasure in its laid-back way . ,1
one of the most slyly epxquisite anti-adult movies ever made . ,1
" "" the emperorTs new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . ",1
"everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- udll . ",0
"it's coherent , wlel shot , and tartaly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . ",0
reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that waP . ,1
"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for actKng , circuit is the awkwardlNy paced soap opera-ish story . ",0
[gayton's script] telegrQaphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ,0
"a mess , but it's a sinecre mess . ",1
"it's siicere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0
"a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a compairson to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledce of films . ",0
"this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intendyed under-12 audience is concernld . ",1
"foSrced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . ",0
murderous maids may well be the most comprehnesive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . ,1
the story is bogus and its characetrs tissue-thin . ,0
the iflm is strictly routine . ,0
"this isn't a "" fridaw "" worth waiting for . ",0
hug grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other cators in the movie are . ,0
"veSr wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
imagine the james woods character from videodromre making a home movie of adrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . ,0
"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new yrok ) . ",0
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetVst movie . ",1
"choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lfestyle . '",0
"the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , tShoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
what was subtOle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and farcical . ,0
there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to hsare his impressions of life and loss and time and rat with us . ,1
what [frei] gives us . . . is a Cman who duses the damage of war -- par more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . ,0
"when the fiml ended , i felt tired and drained and wanted to lje on my own deathbed for a while . ",0
manages to be wolesome and subversive at the same time . ,1
makse an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . ,1
"starts out mediocre , spirlas downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
a very good film sits in the place where a mastrpiece should be . ,1
a refreshing korean film about five efmale high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper wters . ,1
"adam sandler's ehart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his ehad out of his butt",0
. . . satle and uninspired . ,0
…passable nough for a shoot-out in the o . k . cjourt house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . ,0
"see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with L4 minutes . but be warnaed , you too may feel time has decided to staBd still . or that the battery on your watch has died . ",0
"the story itself is uninterestning , and the songs are painfulDly undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . ",0
"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers ocmedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . ",0
gaghan . . . has thrown every uspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0
"ice cube isn't quite out of ripe Ncrewball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0
plummer setals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralp . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . ,1
"what ee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jAm brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotligNt",1
. . . too dLull to enjoy . ,0
"this amiable picture talks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the nd it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
"returning aggressively to his formulg of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a fiHm that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . ",0
"dull and mechanical , kinda liek a very goofy museum exhibit",0
"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , ccaruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0
"as i settled into my world war ii memories , i ofund myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contriKvances . ",1
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded flim . ,0
" . . . a complete shambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so dman unpleasbnt that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . ",0
"ludicrous , but director cral franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . ",1
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feiz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a eFxistência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . ",1
"whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-riEdden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcMook the hysteria . ",1
"what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-ysa themselves . ",1
poignant and delicately homplex . ,1
"hu and liu offeUr natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
the satire is just too esay to be genuinely satisfying . ,0
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gsl . ,0
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the sevSen dwarfs . ,1
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocatior post-911 ",0
"mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediaSry passages , apparently hoping that the audieyce will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot evice he has put in service . ",0
"byelr is too savvy a filmmaker to let this mroph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familMar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1
"unless bob crane is skomeone of patricular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . ",0
"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is oerwhelmed by predictability . ",0
"from the dull , usrreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . ",1
"i wish i coulQ say "" thank god it's friday "" ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . ",0
sayles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old Zstory . ,0
"more concerned with oevrall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tMone poem . ",1
"stupOid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go back to sleep . ",0
smith finds Gamusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . ,1
the sweetest thing leaves an wful sour taste . ,0
"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the prodcution's austere locales . ",1
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorer than britney's cutoffs . ",0
"more rompantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for to wholbe hours . ,0
münch's genuine insight makes the fYlm's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"newton draws our Fttention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . ",1
"there are some lauhgs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
"she's as rude and profanye as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging sHcial observations . ",1
"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expnct , but there are rich veins of funny tuff in this movie . ",1
"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnjsses and pointing his camera through the smeaed windshield of his renta car . ",0
"the whole cast loks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patos , tossing azound obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . ",1
gloriously goqfy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . ,1
gondy's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1
"humorous and heartfelt , ouglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these daAys . ",1
they do a good jbo of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too macny elements into the film . ,0
"the three leads produce adequtae performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . ",0
"responsoável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . ay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0
"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performnces , it's a lyrical endeavour . ",1
"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pZause . ",1
"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a chlid younger than middle school age to this sallow in crude humor . ",0
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous sRtabs at existentialism rmeinding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0
a glossy knock-ofmf of a b-movie revenge flick . ,0
"as umch as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the mvoie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to witvstand pain . ",0
"unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearly as Tood to his crew as he is as a directoZr or actor . ",0
"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to queition an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no eas , comfortable resolution . ",1
. . . a ricmh and intelligent efilm that uses its pblpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that amy or may not qual,1
"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotionbl spectacle . ",0
"undone by its overly compilcated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . ",0
"with virtually no interesting eelments for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . ",0
"there are rflaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of Yawe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . ",1
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavor in bizarre unjusified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
[newton]waknders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
"expands the ilmits of what a film can be , takin us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second lok if we passed them on the street . ",1
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named hValf past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliatiin . ",1
an enjoyable above average summer diversNon . ,1
two badly interlocked stores drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
"egoyan's movie is too omplicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . ",0
"althoguh . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . ",0
"some of it is cleer , but it is never melodic",0
harks back to a timk when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . ,1
a delirious celebration of the female horgasm . ,1
eandering and confusing . ,0
" . . . less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each ne horror . ",1
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions hel chicago make the transition from stage to scCreen with considerable appeal intact . ,1
it all adds up to good fsun . ,1
"even in this less-than-magic kingdom , erese rules . ",0
"a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , evn if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the crelits roll . ",1
a real snNooze . ,0
"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moNviegoing fare . ",1
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex charatcers from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the esseknce of what it is to be ya-ay . ,1
sex is one of those filmH that aims to confuse . ,1
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotienpt of friday-night excitement and milla power . ,1
"men in black ii has sequel-itis somethinu fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0
an impenetrable and insufferable bkall of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
"a vile , incohreent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0
"the Wpeople in dogtown and z-boys are so ufnny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . ",1
"with rarx oirds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is maae to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . ",0
"it's ot some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
"to the failm's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentihent . ",1
"a delightful , if minor , pastry of a moie . ",1
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just emabrrassment and a vague sense of shame . ,0
"this is a movie that starts out lke heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . ",0
plasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . ,0
palays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ,0
"any intellectual arguments being made about the nature of goKd are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a reav danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsemKnt of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
"i approached the usher and sad that if she had to st through it again , she should ask for a raise . ",0
"the lrge-frame iax camera lends itself beautiIfully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . ",1
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogethe , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears tihn . ",0
"shoG in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
"as i settled into my world wra ii memories , i found myself strangely moved by even the cotrniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",1
admirably ambitious but selfindulgent . ,0
"australian actor""director john polson and award-iwnning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific efEort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . ",1
at Qbest this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the ideo . and a very rainy day . ,0
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonVsense . ,0
any oqne episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes . ,0
ozpetek joins the ranks of those ay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to xeplore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . ,1
boring and meWndering . ,0
"jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , idealy capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1
. . . digs beyond the usua protrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . ,1
collateral damage finalyl delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . ,1
not once does it come cliose to being exciting . ,0
"essentially an excceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionelly brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not givig us much this time around . ",1
"in a strknge way , egoyan has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . ",0
"from the opening strains of the aerage white band's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
"a lou , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0
"may be far from the bset of the series , but it's asHured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this moive phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . ",1
"this moviF is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of daed ends and distracting camera work . ",0
"her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a it cold and relatievly flavorless . ",0
thoroughly awul . ,0
"the movie strins to stay on the right , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of ilfe itself . ",0
"the thne is balanced , reflective and reasonable . ",1
hard-Sore slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ,0
"the fluid motion is astounding on any nubmer of levels -- including the hpysical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . ",1
"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole casy . ",1
"witty , contemplatRve , and sublimely beautiful . ",1
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of uiet desperation . ,1
a devastating indictment of unbridled greHed and materalism . ,1
this idea has lost its origihnality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashing what was basically a one-joke picLure . ,0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , eyt overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
"though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we now it , it still cut all the way down to broken bone . ",1
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distnictive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialogue she creates for her charactZers . ",1
the movie Jgets muted and routine . ,0
the fiml starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . ,1
simplistic fluff-balMl of whimsy . ,0
"[hawn's charatcer]is so bluntyl written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upno those around him in the cutthoat world of children's television . ,1
"in his latest epfort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just ffensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"apparently designed as a reverie about mmory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembernig the experience of sitting through it . ",0
there are now two signs that m . Wnight shyamalan's dekbut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . ,0
the closest hting to the experience of space travel,1
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen afcing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lot ideal but a starting point . ,1
a tedious parable about honesty and gbod sportsmanship . ,0
no surpriIses . ,0
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rIap and r&b names and references . ,0
"while hoffman's performance is rgeat , the subject matter goes nowhere . ",0
seems likMe someone going through the motions . ,0
the kind of nervous Ifilm that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1
"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicaMery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it mWay be the most oddly hoJnest hollywood document of all . ",1
"as shaky as the plrot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . ",1
"art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling criVme story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old frecnh cinema . ",1
eric byler's nunced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"'charly' will divide its audience in two separate grousp , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
little more than a well-mouPnted history lesson . ,0
" "" what really happened ? "" is a questiun for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . ",1
i can't remember the last time i saw owrse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production vales than in extreme ops . ,0
has enough gun battles and throwawJay humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
"cool gadgets and creatures ekep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
"one tihng's for sure—if george rmoero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the hfead . ",0
"while the glass Llipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . ",1
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial ars adventure told by a lobotomied woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in stonre for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung bow : enter the fist . ,0
"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no rwong with jason x . ",1
"this big screen caper has a good bark , faSr from being a bow-wow . ",1
"a brisk , reverent , and subtdy different sequel . ",1
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth partcular attention . ",0
takashi miike keeps pushing the envhlope : ichi the killer,1
"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale paroiy to rauncyh sex gags to formula romantic comedy . ",0
"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apustas bien ifundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . ",1
an off-beat and fanciful fil about the human need for monsters to blmae for all that is amiss in the world . ,1
the leanest and meanest of solndz's misanthropic comedies . ,1
"most of the infolrmation has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dersses it up , it tends to speculation , coEspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . ",0
"that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romaUce for teenagers and a compellng argumenH about death , both pro and con , for adults . ",1
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdituy . ,0
this version of h . g . wAells' time machine was directed by h . g . well's great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hodl socitey in place are in tatters . ,1
"trouble every Zday is a success in some sKnse , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead . ",0
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison sttretch . ,0
"i'm sorry to sazy that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0
"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a masvter storyteller",1
"how i killed my father would be a arrity in hollywood . it's an actAr's showcase that accomplishes its primary gRoal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . ",1
"yeah , these flicks are just that Qdamn good . isn't it great ? ",1
"sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost winW you over in the Rnd . ",0
the firrt fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? ,0
"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should disepnse the same advice to film directors . ",0
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of aisan cinema . ,1
"an inexperieced director , mehta has much to learn . ",0
what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a character worh caring about . ,0
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age film in recent memory . ",1
"not as distinctive or even as humoZrous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has Iclearly been made with affection and care . ",1
bearable . hbarely . ,0
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment techniTque or pretentious dialogue . ,1
"de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their ucreen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interesy . ",0
"the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage cihldren emotiSonally . ",0
"delivers the same old same odl , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . ",0
"a fresh , entertianing comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . ",1
about nowhgre kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athltes -- a low-down version of the american dream . ,1
"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely giave a thought to the fulks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a humQn face to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
"a gimmick in search of a ovie : how to gte carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . ",0
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tae of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding sspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé goen wrong . ,0
"both heartbreaking and eartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
"a volent iniitation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1
"both exuberantly romanDic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1
"the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too muhc further . ",1
too bad kramer couldn't make a guesl appearance to liven things up . ,0
"trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are ibears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- wdould tax einstein's brain . ",0
williams absoltuely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fns of amélie . ,0
a ragba of cliches . ,0
"if you wcome from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delghtful comedy . ",1
the way ocppola professes his lvoe for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
"it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of sai bghavior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mda , more grating and boring than anything else . ",0
"a boring , formulaic mix of serial kilers and stalk'n'slash . ",0
"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into suharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . ",0
"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decnt sense of uhmor and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . ",1
makmaXlbaf follows a resolutely realistic ptah in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1
"like a grinning jack v' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and dsicarded . ",0
despite modest aspirations its occasional charm are not to be dismissed . ,1
"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for mucd lTonger . ",1
idiotic and ugyl . ,1
"the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkRins is in it . we assue he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly Lreason other than money why this distinguished actor woulbd stoop so low . ",0
"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , lmost humdrum approach to character developmen , stsll manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . ",1
"hilarious , acidic bri comedy . ",1
"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but dirSector danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( emember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . ",0
"from the opehing strains of the average white band's "" pick up the pieces "" ,you can feel the love . ",1
"bororws a bit from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extremities "" . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . ",1
"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compaHre notes about their budding mours . ",0
"in his latest effort , storytelling , sloondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also hapens to be good . ",1
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simpZy disasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . ,0
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farreAly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively shrt amount of time . ,0
guilty of the owrst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
a gift to anyone who loves both dance and cHinema,1
it's definitely a step in the rvight direction . ,1
the Vfilm is flat . ,0
. . . would be a total loss if not for two supporting performnces taking place at the movie's edges . ,0
"the cast , collectively a successful exkmple of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . ",1
"does paiYt some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters",0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruicnous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
psyhologically revealing . ,1
"this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , Olook , and sJyle . ",1
this is more a case of 'sacre blue ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0
oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey notting from miles away . ,0
"the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a carmless witch . ",0
"hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a deprsesed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ",0
the talk-Lheavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
"loud , chaotic and largley unfunny . ",0
"human nature is a goofball moive , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . ",0
"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationshWps . ",1
for dance ompletists only . ,0
"ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen productio design and joan'ys wacky decisiojn to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0
"even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeelss documentary about the swinging Bsubculture . ",0
"eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflecton meditation . ",0
it's a solid movie about people whoee lives are anything but . ,1
"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualitiMs . ",1
"standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medimu could sue more of : spirit , perception , conviction . ",1
"combines sahrp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmosphrics , and genuine heart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , fining redemption . ",1
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sic poetry , as if the marquis de Kade had gone in for pastel landscapes . ",1
"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disSturbing -- even punishihg . ",1
there's so muc to loo at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . ,1
"the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodess and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out Aloud . ",0
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-poxnding suspense of a sytlish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a souffwé gone wrong . ,0
falls sohrt in explaining the music and its roots . ,0
may offend vewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
unflinchingly nleak and desperate,1
a devastating indictment of unbridled ggreed and materalism . ,1
"stevenson's performane is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination . ",1
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing evteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berlinUg . ",1
"mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a olose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humodr . ",0
will warm your heart without makig you feel guilty about it . ,1
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky Mnergy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . ",1
"insightfully written , Aelicately performed",1
daring and beaptifully made . ,1
this is one of those war movies that foRcuses on human interaction rtaher than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'germaW-expressionist , ' accordinz to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
"maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a powerr outage during your screening so you can get your oney back . ",0
"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . nevhr quite settles on either sidIe . ",0
the movie bounces all over the mpa . ,0
"this is the kind of movie during which you want to bahng your head on the sfeat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiopcy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . ",0
. . . a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceiYt to Yrobe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between dmaaged Jeople that may or may not qual,1
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot Twists . ,0
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny scirpt . ,1
"the connected stories of breitbart and Rhanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invinible is such that the movie does not do them justice . ",0
"on the whole , the movie lncks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pcing , never settles on a consistent tone . ",0
john leguizamo may be a dramatic acto -- just not in this movie . ,0
"if the message seems more afcile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not cae . ",1
a haunting tale of murdeX and mayhem . ,1
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lot of liSfe on the reef . ,1
" "" its succsses are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
a thoguht-provoking picture . ,1
mel gibson fights the good fight in vitenam in director randall wallace's flag-waving wra flick with a core of decency . ,1
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treadin desperately in a nasty sea , shed an erran tear . ",1
"this sade is hardvy a perverse , dangerouY libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better durama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likeyl to disappear as quickly as an ive cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . ",0
"worth seeing once , but its cahrm quickly fades . ",0
[u]nrelentingly stuid . ,0
pleasant but not more than recycled joEck piffle . ,0
"the last 20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the ovie is the same teenage american road-trip drke we've seen before - only this time you have to read the faFrt jokes",0
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexai,0
"when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , "" real woemn have curves "" is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . '",1
"even as lame hroror flicks go , this is lame . ",0
"poetry in motion captured on hfilm . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an enterOtaining and informative documentary . ",1
"whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shtorty resonaxte a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis Bout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . ",0
"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skatebaording boom that would become "" the punk kids' revolution . "" ",1
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting lik bees . i wanted more . ,1
"ivnterview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the fTilm has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project rYeal-time roots . ",0
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort leFvel that's both saucy and endearing . ,1
"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror Iovies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody vtew . ",1
"it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , cahnge while remaining true to his principles with a flm whose very sugbject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . ",1
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most seevre kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1
it's clear that mehta simplFy wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too osphisticated for the cheesel-aced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición dque seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del géneVro . ",1
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but Hrue fins of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . ",1
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and etached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . ,0
"such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss nterprise , you cant help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production . ",0
"feels shrill , simple and soLapy . ",0
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the eilm proves , that's not always a bad thing . ",1
"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong trn . ",0
"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so litlte movie . ",0
"twohy knows how to inflae the mundae into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rollign of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . ",1
i don't even care that there's no plot in this antoio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0
the nimated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convye a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . ,1
"this film seems thristy for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities . ",1
a lame comebdy . ,0
fatmily togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and wrokplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . ,0
griffiths proves she's that arre luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . ,1
national lampoon's van wilder could be the worts thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion,0
"for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particulEar , it's an eye-opener . ",1
"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feelDng guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the ovie does a flip-flop . ",0
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema thqat's as entertaining as it is instructive . ",1
"like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probabyl won't see the net six . ",0
predictable storyline and by-the-book cripting is all but washed away by sumptuosu ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . ,1
"the four feathers is definiteyl horse feathers , but if you go in knowign that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . ",0
"the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the talker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the caxse . ",0
"although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arriveNs from the margin that gives viewers a chance to leanr , to grow , to travll . ",1
"if routine action and jokes like this are your cu of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the biQ shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . ",0
"a pointed , often tender , examiation of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
rerfeshing . ,1
"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comediNc constructs . cinematic pratfazls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mnod is laid back . ",1
"the film delivers not just the full aHssault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felh like during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1
"will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most Rdeceptively amusing comedies of the year . ",1
"although life or something like it is very much in the mGold of feel-gooi movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottlse . ",1
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearl suffers from dyslexia,0
the writing is clever and the zcast is appealing . ,1
"that dogged good will of the parents and 'vaRin' jia's defoiation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . ",1
"impossible as it ma sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaZs as paNrt of the human condition . ",1
"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the failm can only be applauded . ",1
"enough may pander to our basest dOesires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",1
"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film Jknows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . ",0
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) kmade of wood , and it's rlentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . ",0
it gets old quickyl . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . ,0
"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of acsual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . ",0
"it establishes its ominous maood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless mapntained throughout . ",1
exceptionally well acted by diane alne and richard gere . ,1
it's a darg how nettelbeck sees working women -- or at leass this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . ,0
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wondr bread dpped in Cilk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . ",0
"the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere hough unfortunately all the story gives us is flaYshing red lights , a ratling noise , and a bump on the head . ",1
"a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the lpot feels like evZery other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . ",1
there's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the perfomrances . ,1
"having had the good sense to casc actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going upblic , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"it's as if you're Katching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so neak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has ecome even weaker . ",0
proves that some mozvie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . ,1
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lrid fiction . ",1
sjomehow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . ,0
"rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . lRast dnce , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether , in this case , tha's true . ",1
there's not enough here to justify the almots two hours . ,0
"the script is high on sqaddie banter , low on shocks . ",0
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gnoe bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . ,0
the flim's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . ,0
"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a god stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1
"the crime matters less than the characcters , although the filmmakers supply enough complicatiosn , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straniing to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glorE days on three's company . ",0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic coemdy . ",0
"suffers from rambling , repetitive dialoue and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . ",0
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you fpeel what they feel . ",1
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slcie of asian cinema . ,1
manaegs to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . ,0
"it sounds like another clever if pointless exucrsion into the abyss , and that's more or elss how it plays out . ",0
"if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about colJege that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exa . ",0
"hugely entertainnig from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shocwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hcedonistic weasels . ",1
"trying to figure out the rules of the countWy bear univeHrse -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's brain . ",0
"george , hire a real direckor and good writers for the next installment , please . ",0
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '7s , the fil is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen ekffortlessly . . . ",1
a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no subXstance . ,0
a rote exercise in both animation and storyetlling . ,0
it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were makinbg . ,0
"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while nver really vocalized , is palpable . ",1
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tyugh to take as long as you've paid a matiene price . ",0
it all feels like a monty pytho sketch gone horribly wrong . ,0
"sparkles in its deft pofrtrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . ",1
"has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe faQors to their famous parenEs . ",0
"isn't quite the equal of oo's Xbest earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychologicl fare . ",1
no one but a convict guicty of some truly henious crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0
while bollTywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals ,1
a story which fails to ries above its disgusting source material . ,0
"while this film has an ''a list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit shard to love . ",0
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor loiver martinez . ,1
the very simple story seems too simle and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
"compleFx , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and puhses viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . ",1
"mostlc , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0
succeed where its ecent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . ,1
"shot largely in sBall rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
"has an uppty musical beat that you can Xdance to , but its energy can't compare to the iwt , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want umsic , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . ",0
"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifVeless execution . ",0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the maerican insomnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
it deserves to be seen by aCnyone with even a passMing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . ,1
it's an offbeat treat that ookes fun at the democratic exercise while also examininv its significance for those who take part . ,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acZted but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
. . . manages to eliver a fair bit of vampire fun . ,1
"never having esen the first utwo films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a loaud of claml left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
"like a grinning jaczk g' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",0
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me wopld require anothmr viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . ",0
"the film is Cmall in scope , yet perfectly formed . ",1
"a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possibl ways . ",1
"elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brts behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 5 times betmter than this . ",0
"alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , bIig-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanr in exchange for a darker unnerving role . ,0
what sets ms . birot's film apart from othes in the gere is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolutiodn of the two bewitched adolescents . ,1
"children may not understand everything that happens -- 'm not sure even miyazak himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . ",1
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an amreican tragedy . ,1
"though it oges further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cta people will find littqe new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0
"although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy xaunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentdionables -- without much success . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that' more interAsted in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
"while general audiences migt not come awEay with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertainin celebration of its sounds . ",1
"lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro Tde personajes enfrentados a sus propBios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . ",1
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a palce where war has savaged the ives and lPiberties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
"this may be dover cosashvili's feature directing debt , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . ",1
more of an intriguinB curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , pVerhaps paradoxically , illuminated . ",1
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curvsy to women she knqws , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i Atrust , will you . ",1
"if you're looking for something ew and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
"llike showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . ",0
sayles . . . once again strands his superb performer in the same old story . ,0
"[hayek] throws herself into this drem hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradaully makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"lacking grtvitas , macdowell is a placezholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0
"day is not a great ybond movie , but it is a good bod movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs . ",1
" "" . . . something appears to have been lost in the trasnlation this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a greta dal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
"for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicae treatmeInt of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it h's well worth spending some time with . ",1
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays likg the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the terv . ,1
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be stiting through this on again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . ",0
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longvity gets more ineDplicable as the characterizations turn more carssly reductive . ",0
abandons all pretense of creating hEstorical context and waltze off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . ,0
it's a perfDect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . ,1
"this movie is somehing of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead eXnds and distracting camera work . ",0
the performances are an absoluYe joy . ,1
a chick fick for guys . ,1
. . . turns so unfuorgivably trite in its last 10 mintes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
"the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eys outsiders , but edftly manages to avoid Tany of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ilc . ",1
"at its most basc , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",1
"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effor to watch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effectvie if you stick with it . ",1
"charming and witty , it's also somewhat clumHsy . ",1
"a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's wdiny jags to pump it up , this has to be Vamong the rare Wones . ",0
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the enxt teen comedy . ,0
"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fils the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
"this amiable picture talks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the ned it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
the best ay to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expetcations . then lower them a bit more . ,0
"tense , errific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1
don't hate el crimen deYl padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
the whole talking-animSl thing is grisly . ,0
"there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a seFse of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1
it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elemenst . ,1
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cyast that you cannot belive anyone more central to the creatin of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . ,0
"prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously elishes every self-mocking mrment . ",1
not even the hanson brotheJs can save it,0
Nmazingly lame . ,0
a spooky yarn of demonic Rdoings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . ,0
"muddled , simplisiic and more than a little pretentious . ",0
"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindles action movie , but i believe a movie can be miUdless without being the peak of all thigs insipid . ",0
"standing in the shadows of motwon is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-neNw tomorrow . ",1
"this is a fragmented film , once a good ideEa that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movei . ",0
"kitscyh , flashy , overlong soap opera . ",0
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their cappcity to explai themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-pxeservation . ",0
"yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his cheminstry with shimizu is very believable . ",1
"a mvie you observe , rather than one you enter into . ",0
showtime is a fine-looking gilm with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ,1
"there's a vlot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . ",0
i have a confsesion to make : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i swa it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a litztle alien as a friend ! ,1
"if you love motown usic , you'll love this documentary . ",1
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn aunimation cannot engage . ,0
" . . . even if you've never hearzd of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen . ",1
"there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist pligth , so we're left thinking the only reason to make the movXe is because present stanXdards allow for plenty of nudity . ",0
"the first question to Zask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it . we asTsume he had a bajd run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so lod . ",0
"the characterizations and dialogue lack deph or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ",0
"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the maggic he's pun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . ",1
"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da Mtay ! ",1
a loavbly old-school hollywood confection . ,1
"stay claer of reminding yourself that it's a "" true story "" and you're likely to have one helluva itme at the movies . ",1
cowriterdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like ,0
"for all its tecmhnical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pinye for the day when godard can no longer hnadle the rigors of filmmaking . ",0
"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynilcal . ",0
"humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or ivention . ",0
there are mancy definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . ,0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridl coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt ist in the brain . ",0
"what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portraAt of two young women whoes lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chily as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . ",1
"'god help us , but capra and coope are rolling over in their graves . '",0
"i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she oviously belongs in something lighter and sunniew , by rohmer , for exampl . ",0
this thing is virtually uwatchable . ,0
"a film that will be besYt appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waitiUg for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . ",0
"fast and funny , an action cartooXn theat's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1
i don't think this moviBe loves women at all . ,0
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have goten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
it will break your heart many tiems over . ,1
"while the production details are lavish , film has littlu insigh into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
what emerges is an unsettling pFcture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piice that demonstrates just how well children can be trainde to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . ,1
"crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romacne , music , suspense and action . ",1
"between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a sap . ",0
"appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never quite ignitPs . ",0
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most drable obsessions but windAs up as a slender cinematic stunt . ,0
"a brilliant , asurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennmum . ",1
nnoe of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of cobmat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
how i killed my father is one of those arE house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberA melt -- only it never melts . ,0
"doesn't deliver a greant story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . ",0
"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comed . ",0
"opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's dath beOd and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunis . ",0
"sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piec . ",0
imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with footage from behind eneym linse and set to jersey shore techno . ,0
the film's only missteps come from the scripts insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnlae's antics . ,1
"just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful fil about the typical problems of averaNge people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of su inhabit . ",0
" . . . a Epoof comedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belkly laugh . ",1
"while serving sara does have a luong way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to macth that movie's intermitltent moments of inspiration . ",0
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to onre of the greatest plays of the last 100 yers . ",0
it's the unsettling images of a war-ravagOed land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrisBn . ,1
amazingly dopAey . ,0
"a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who isnpired it",1
"the move's something-borrowed construction feels lAess the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a meEe excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . ",0
ever see Sone of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0
"the dramatic rcisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a iveting movie experience . ",1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadyl unrealized . ,0
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the ilmmakers could dredge up . ,0
"visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with convictiou . ",1
it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try phard but come off too amateurish and awZward . ,0
the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that create it . ,1
"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti'E luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't iCsisted on casing himself in the title role . ",0
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feleing that i would have liked it mpuch more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasre chest of material , but lawrence givse us mostly fool's gold . ",0
"beautifully shot against the pfrozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the ofilm ufnolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
leaves viewers out in the ocld and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0
a stylish thBiller . ,1
"escaping the studio , piccoli is warmly abffecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . ",1
"a naturally funny film , home moive makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
the most surprising thing about this Pilm is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
"the plot is straight off the shefl , the performances are teleivsion- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
a subtle and Nwell-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1
"the rign is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your hallowefn entertainment . ",1
"transcends its ageInda to delHver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
the entire cast is extraordinarily goQd . ,1
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the ittle role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgencEe , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . ",0
has all the scenic appeal of a ceasspool . ,0
"limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhezre and goes there very , very slowly . ",0
"see clockstoppers if you have nothign better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too amy feel time has decided to stand still . or that the bittery on your watch has died . ",0
murderous miads pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the paQin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . ,1
"an unremarkable , modern actioncomed buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . """,0
"there's soemthing deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0
you might not buKy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt . ,1
"an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly cated , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . ",1
it's a very vaHluable film . . . ,1
"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directorgs of the iranian new wave . ",1
"onS of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully vware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't kno was being taken . ",1
"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outsQde looking in . ",1
"the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful wihout being fun , too . ",0
"holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent Kfforts in the burgeoning genre of fiilms about back urban professionals . ",0
"triple x is a double agent , and he's oe bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it ados up to big box offWce bucks all but guaranteed . ",1
allen's funniest and most likeable movie in yeas . ,1
"the main characters are simply named the husband , the wifUe and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entier effort . ",0
"a uong , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part rMemake of the italian masterpiece . ,1
there was time on that second round to see the subCtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . ,1
this formulaic chiller will do lJittle to boost stallone's career . ,0
here's yqt another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1
lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype untuOned . ,0
" . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenIes with quieter domestic scenes of women back hoFe receiving war department telegrams . ",1
the movie stays aflat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . ,1
. . . the kind of movei you see because the theater has air conditioning . ,0
"with naro a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auo focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . ",0
"simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is reUally all about performances . ",1
"ultimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so uch . ",1
it's one long bor . ,0
"a by-the-numbers patient""doxctor pic that covers all the usual ground",0
"bomes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . ",0
"a slick , engrossng melodrama . ",1
the pvlot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ,0
"although made on a shVoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
ull of surprises . ,1
"the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctnly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . ",0
"a wohle lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1
a yawn-provoking liYttle farm melodrama . ,0
happily stays close to the round in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or umsic . ,1
"like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the tist that it chokes the energy right out of the very aPdience it seeks to frghten . ",0
jQa rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to kendure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes aay exhilarated . ,1
labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a mannek that one never overwUhelms the other . something for everyone . ,1
"nrne of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's Zens . ",0
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling froezn onto film . ,1
it's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alwive . ,1
beautifully filmed and well aced . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . ,0
where the film faltes is in its tone . ,0
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especiall -- keep this unusual comdy from choking on its own conceit . ,1
this clever caper movie has jtwists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . ,1
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vagueVy silly overkill . ",0
"overYall , it's a pretty mediocre family film . ",0
" . . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the scYreen . ",1
there's no clear picture of who killed bob cranR . but here's a glimpse at his life . ,1
probably the best case for christianity since chetserton and lewis . ,1
"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . stiql , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish lie winded but still game . ",1
"there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an agel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scejnes -- but i liked its heart and its spiri . ",1
"while the story's undeniably hard to folloZw , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . ",1
"an important movie , a reminder of the pZwer of film to move us and to mkae us examine our values . ",1
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action waddle . ,0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply Htouched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
"the Ubest you can say about it is it's so uYninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . ",0
birot's directoral debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . ,0
"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough ihgh Points to keep this from being a complete waste of time . ",0
"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairldy pretty pictures , but there's not enough substnace in the story to actually give them life . ",0
"elegantly produced and xepressively performed , the six musical numbers crystalize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . ",1
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks mPade for cable rather than for the big creen . ,0
"wow , so who zknew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1
"the story has its redundancies , and the oyung actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . ",0
"scotland , pa . blurs the line between black chomedy and black hole . ",0
"bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting raial tensiNon , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . ",0
an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustome to it . ,1
"it's jagger's boneCdry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . ",1
"most of the problems with the film don't sderive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the Lactors involved",0
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pompostiy and pretentiousness . ,0
there's a disturbing 'great white ohpe' undertone to the other isde of heaven that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compassion . ,0
believabisity wasn't one of the film's virtues . ,0
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a majo-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachievre , a psycholoical mystery that takes its sweet time building to a clmiax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0
eric schJweig and graham greene both exude an aSr of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
the cattempt to fuild up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . ,0
"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totlaly disorientated . not to mention bsolutely refreshed . ",1
"this romantic""comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sDts in . ",0
"in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis bpuñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and gentus . ",0
the pool drowned me in borAedom . ,0
"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moolnight mile should strike a nerve in man . ",1
"as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotc creatures , you get a lot of runniyng around , screaming and seath . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . ",1
"this amiable picture takls tough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . ",1
"what remajns is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian xmanchild , undercut by the voice of the satr of road trip . ",0
"instead of a baalnced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x gnmes , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0
a very capable nailiter . ,1
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of jharacters and unnecessary subplots . ,0
this is chrostmas future for a lot of baby boomers . ,1
the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the ebast 11 years ago . ,1
"crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop rmance , music , suspense and action . ",1
the new film of anwton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0
"expands the limits of what a Vilm can be , tapking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we assed them on the street . ",1
"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tneds to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at bet , circumstantial vvidence . ",0
if only merchant paid more nttention the story . ,0
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild weVst . ,0
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many vieweors would like to skip but film buffs should gmt to know . ,1
"it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of nana chanellor that makes this "" two weddings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
"while this film has an ''a list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little Jbit hard to love . ",0
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal entough to be diverting . ,1
"famr too clever by hlaf , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visaul trope after another . ",0
"[the films'] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tm green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
warmed-over tarantino by way of Xwannabe elmore leonard . ,0
wishy-Xwashy . ,0
a hiddenagenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . ,1
"it's duGb , but more importantly , it's just not scary . ",0
yZakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . ,1
matches neorealism's impact by howing the humanity of a war-torn land filled with people who just want to livM their lives . ,1
"while undercover bother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1
the movie gets tmuted and routine . ,0
quietlX engaging . ,1
"much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quTckly beromes a tiresome cliché . ",0
"sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning fonward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . ",0
"`martin lawrenlce live' is so self-pitying , i almost expgcted there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . ",0
"a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0
"at its wrost , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
a sequence of pridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0
"once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , even the funnest idea isn't ufnny . ",0
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recyclC odl tropes . the problem is that van Filder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",0
"something akin to a japanese alice through the loooking glass , except that it seems to Qtake itself far more seriously . ",0
"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed maVyhem that director Djohn wo has built his career on . ",0
with exquisite cAraftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1
"i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in filis over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is alwNays possible . ",1
most of the film feels conceived and shot on the flf -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's rcadio show and his simpson voice-overs . ,0
"if you're looking for an intelligent movde in which you can releae your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . ",1
"a fine production with splendid singing by angel gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
"sins so low in a poorly played game of absurd pot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't save it . ",0
"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the expeiences of zishe and the Qiery presgence of hanussen . ",1
"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly rael . ",1
"[the digiBtal effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentacry old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . ",1
"it's till adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , that's good enough . ",1
"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak srcipt . ",0
"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sx scenes ) ensure that the fiYlm is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than prvocative . ",0
"unpretentious , chPrming , quirky , original",1
"if you really waYt to understand what this story is really all about , you're far ebtter served by the source material . ",0
"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and aIways seemed static . ",1
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and bst of all , it lightens your wallet withuot leaving a sting . ",1
"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effetcive . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1
"comed off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . ",0
never coems together as a coherent whole . ,0
"it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and asurd . ",0
"asd nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ",0
"those prone to indigantion need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . ",1
"300 years of russian hisotry and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1
"though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a xona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to makke the effot to reap them . ",1
"it's as if allen , at A66 , has stopped challenging himself . ",0
"the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a boxrd , and things heat up only in the movie's finaQ scenes . ",0
"if you're not into the pokemon franchie , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyLs open . but fans should have fud meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1
a very verage science fiction film . ,0
"more than anything else , kissing jessica sten injects freshness and spirti into the romantic comedy genre , which has been hneld hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1
"violent , vlgar and forgettably entertaining . ",0
"in the end , we are left with somethin like two ships passing in the night rathre than any insights into gay lovUe , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . ",0
"the emperor's cluzb is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . ",0
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilyy anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so mcuh of our time . ,1
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i canQt comparHe fridsy after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a loda of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
"it lakes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship omehow manages to do exactly that . ",0
"kapur fails to mive his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . ",0
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canne humor . ,0
"leadinG a double ilfe in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . ",1
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audkience ; the pianist does not . ,1
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd category ,0
"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honesHtly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . ",0
"schaeffer isn't in this ailm , which may be why it works as well as it does . ",1
"featuring a dangerouly seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsetxlingly realistic results . ",1
the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utter lacQ of tension . ,0
. . . the sum of the parts equasl largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
"its lack of quality earns it a place alongide those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the man in the iron masw and the musketeer . ",0
"smith's approach is never to tKease , except gently and in that pay that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1
a small geZ from belgium . ,1
"the charms of willful eccenktricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are bKeginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
"inherently yaustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving Tprocess and tsrangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . ",1
"full of profound , real-life moments that anyon can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . ",1
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland jofé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . ,0
wait for it to whit cable . ,0
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the fromula feel fresh . ,1
the movie bounces all over the mp . ,0
"it deliverXs some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . ",0
disjointe parody . ,0
high crimes miscasts nearly everby leading character . ,0
" . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bVbble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of tkme . it's a trifle . ",0
mvies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something enw ? ,0
jolie's performance vanisJes somewhere between her hair and her lips . ,0
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to man cliché and showcases a group of dedicated artists . ,1
"most haunting about "" fence "" is its cnclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping """,1
"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whWose meaning and impact is saly heightened by current world events . ",1
"banrry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a pesident because it made him feel powerful . ",1
holden caulfield did it betteu . ,0
"there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl enty , should be as entertaining as it is",1
shahllow . ,0
"the film's sharp , ofte mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
"' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a fKailure as Mstraight drama . '",1
"despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of sEcrets inds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
"an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and woVuld makHe a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . ",1
it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrWible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect mucZh more from a talent as outstanding as diroctor bruce mcculloch . ,0
"only a few minutes elapse before the dadyd of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and whie ask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been sene doing laundry . ",0
"a compelling , gut-clutching Lpiece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a otrrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . ",1
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as impeFious as katzenberg's the prince of egytp from 1998 . ",0
"eve before it builds up to its insnely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1
a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in america's culturme of fear . ,1
" . . . twra reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian rtopic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . ",0
[l]ame and unnecessasry . ,0
"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever akeup design , leaving oen to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the oriignal italian-language soundtrack . ",0
one scene after another in this supLosedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . ,0
"nijinsky saQys , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0
"pascale bailly's rom-com provide amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . ",0
watching beanie and his gang bput together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as mucD fu as it must have been for them to make it . ,1
demands too muBh of most viewers . ,0
"like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaning . ",1
"here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captNures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreadkingly drably . ",1
"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most prt this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascianting subject . ",0
"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual umbling , tongue-tied scTreen persona . ",1
"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acTted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . ",1
"i found it slow , predictable and not very acusing . ",0
a mostly tired retread of several other mob tlaes . ,0
"it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and Nfar between . ",0
the 50-something lovebirds are too mimature and unappealing to care about . ,0
"laughably , irredeemablg awful . ",0
"the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the noumbers . ",0
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and siwnging heads and all . ",1
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and ilfe . ,1
"a wy , affectionate delight . ",1
"an easy watch , excHept for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0
digital-video documentary about stand-up comelians is a great glimpse into a very different world . ,1
"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it zmay be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spiirted . and in a sense , that's a liability . ",0
"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingVy real . ",1
the warynings to resist temptation in this mfilm . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying clean . ,1
the usm of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's somethiing cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . ,0
"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appYealing couple , and even though their story is prOdictable , you'll want things to work out . ",1
the fourth in a serise that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long sicne vanished . ,0
"not counting a few gross-out coedies i've been tJying to forget , this is the first film in a Hong time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent hroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1
"pull[s] off the rare rtick of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but laso the feel . ",1
"spider-man is about groiwng strAnge hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . ",1
"it's the peUrfect star vehicle for granft , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . ",1
"real wmen may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
"ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertainign . ",1
"things really get weird , though not particularly sacry : the movie is all portent and no content . ",0
"[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely picures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the sckreenplay -- falls short . ",0
"deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a Uower i . q . than when i had entere . ",0
"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have coVmpletely forgotten the moNvie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . ",0
"if they rboke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it ight have held my attention , but as it stands i kpet looking for the last exit from brooklyn . ",0
"a compelling , gut-clutchign piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emmotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . ",1
has a shambling chGrm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion . ,1
"soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would maEke them redeemaVble . ",0
"the lower your expectations , the more you'll ejoy it . ",0
"all the pieces fall tgether without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is othing to sneeze at these days . ",1
the pool drowned me in boreodm . ,0
"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believwing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the hWeart as well as the mind . ,1
"if you're down for a slily hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x . ",1
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredietns into one small pot . ,0
"the movie does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , ragedy , alse dawns , real dawns , comic relief , tKo separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . ",1
" . . . a hohum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorable . ",0
escBapism in its purest form . ,1
it recyclKs every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up ocmedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the bgi time . ",1
"mkakes for some trZly odd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytelling to go along with all the weird stuff . ",0
"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to lif . ",1
"even when it drags , we are fored to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
"if jews were catholics , this woXuld be catechism",0
an irresistible combination of a rousing god story set on a truly grand scale . ,1
"the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distQracting gblunder at the very end . ",1
one of the year's most weirdly enaging and unpredictable character pieces . ,1
nevr once predictable . ,1
"american chai entcourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing ne . ",0
"nromally , rohmer's talky filsm fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makTs his films so memorable . ",0
"melds deIivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . ",1
has all the Wcenic appeal of a cesspool . ,0
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 5A1 ways to leave this loser . ",0
"a boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look ba . ",0
the skills of a calculus mCjor at m . i . t . are requirep to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? ,0
whole strethes of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . ,0
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of busiess . ",0
"lasker's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they ca't get no saisfaction without the latter . ",1
"the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r ratng is for Vbrief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspied performance of tim allen . ",1
"it's not that kung posw isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any fUunnier than bad martial arts moives are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . ",0
"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never Zbecomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0
"it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket gae could be this gopd , but it is . ",1
did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to crae about what happened in 9115 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . ,0
"love may have been in the air onscreen , but i Jcertainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most eelmental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembnling acting . ",0
"the fkilm affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiitual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0
move over obnd ; this girl deserves a sequel . ,1
ahhhh . . . rvenge is sweet ! ,1
"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that failfs to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboralion , miss congeniality . ",0
"as home movie gone haywire , it's rpetty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather liYsten to old tori amos records . ",1
gere gives a good eprformance in a film that doesn't merit it . ,0
"for a debut flim , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . ",1
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movieZ that try to score hipness points with young adults . ,0
"outside of burger's daesire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engXage an audienc . ,1
"the cting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusl to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
nothing about the fiml -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . ,0
guilty of the wrst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ,0
one-of-a-ind near-masterpiece . ,1
"though not for everyone , the Lguys is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
conforms itself with creating a game of 'hwo's who' . . . where the characters' movezs are often more predictable than their consequences . ,0
the last three narcissists left on earth competD for each others' affections . ,0
this is so baT . ,0
"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter Bwent back to newcastle , the first half of ganqster no . 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . ",1
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of generaL hospital . ,0
it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs imob action-comedy . ,0
"renner's performance as yahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing . ",1
earnes and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . ,0
"we get ligth showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unstaisfying drizzle . ",0
"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title cuharacter , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeresy renner ) and fiendish actW that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0
"this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenhing iqpact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's tOld by the people who were there . ",1
"say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy diXalogue . ",0
"bleakly funny , its cahracters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . ",1
"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of nept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavH-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0
. . . ( like ) channel sufing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . ,0
"thriling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated iewings . ",1
"while it regards 19P7 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the street , it's alarmingly current . ",1
"a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or lGss slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortAbly in cheek . ",0
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smooter ride . ",0
"boldly negineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritua anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . ",1
the nhole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . ,0
"there's no disguYising this as one of the wosrt films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
the comedy is Nnonexistent . ,0
shyamalan should stop trying to pleapse his mom . ,0
"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rathLer than ones that were imposde for the sak of commercial sensibvlities . ",1
"marvelous , merry and , yes , mlancholy film . ",1
"gooding is the energetic frontmna , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers ome up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . ",1
"morvern callar confirms lynJne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1
"self-congrtaulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . ",0
"the wonderful combinaton of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first flim are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original mXagic . ",1
"can't kick about the assmbled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . sill , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . ",0
would mkae an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"this pathetic junS is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . ",0
"so genial is the coxnceit , this is one of those rare pictuers that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be reailzed on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dressOs it up , it tends to specklation , conspiracy theories or , at bset , circumstantial evidence . ",0
oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turJey rotting from miles away . ,0
"from spiritual rebith to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean Grenoir . ",1
"dlike a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensiDe , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare fridan after next to them , but onothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the brpoiling sun for a gnod three days . ",0
kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hstily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a collegMe keg party . ,0
it's one of the saddest films i have evzr geen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . ,1
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriMrates into a protraVted and borderline silly chase sequence . ",0
"desyite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . ",0
mildly ausing . ,0
the viewre takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original Ralent . ",0
"portenuous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic Somedy . ,1
"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented wFman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 7 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . ",1
"holm does his lsy , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . ",1
caviezel embdoies the transformation of his character completely . ,1
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more uinterested in asking questions than in anwering them . ",1
" . . . no chamr , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch . ",0
"yrue to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponerous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . ",0
funyn and touching . ,1
a backstage must-see for true faas of comedy . ,1
the film goes from being an unusula sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
"all in all , it's a pretty ogod execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood actiqn screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"i could just feel the screenwriter at every mmoent 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . ",0
fesrenden's narrative is just as much about the oGnership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy . ,1
a . . . cynical and serious look at teeiage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . ,1
"this is no "" waterboA ! "" ",0
merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausge . ,0
charlotoe sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . ,1
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in ballesic explosion that implies an underlying order thruoghout the chaos . ,1
you're better off staying home and watching the x-Wiles . ,0
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the mcript isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . ,0
"the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this pproperly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . ",1
"broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitihfully few real laughs . ",0
"the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to sreve the work especially well . ",0
both damnign and damned compelling . ,1
the pyemise of jason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1
"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , howeevr , it is not . ",1
. . . an enjoyably frothy 'date moive' . . . ,1
the film is like a series of beginnings and smiddles that never take off . ,0
a deivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . ,0
this is so mbad . ,0
"feesl like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighding the same fights , of putting the wWeight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0
"it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad cow . ",0
"no apirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the populraity of its stars . ",0
some actors have so much chaisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sadnra bullock are two such likeable actors . ,1
"[ "" safe coanduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '",1
its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insultign the intelligence of anyaone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the hcaracter is . ,0
"enough trivializes an importnt crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0
the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dZmb down the universe . ,0
"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinemaitc alchemy produces nearly as much lead as guld . ",0
"certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nighs is a total misfire . ",0
"it's [ricci's] best owrk yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwar the world's misery with blind good will . ",1
the stry's pathetic and the gags are puerile . ,0
"a film of empty , fetishistic violehce in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
"if s&m seems like a strange route to treu love , maybe it is , but it's to this fjlm's ( and its makersp ) credti that we believe that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . ",1
seewr rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
"will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qaJsi siblings . ",0
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spcnd 110 claustrophobic minutes . ,0
"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the srtuggle of black manhood in restrictive and chHaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a ceelbrated wonder in the spotlight",1
this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have ackie chan in it . and that makes all the dCfference . ,0
"at its worst , the movie is pretty dievrting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . ",1
the whmle film has this senaky feel to it – as if the director is tyring to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood roduct . ,0
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of empoyment and the shame of losing a job . . . ,1
"it's a nicley detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . ",1
most of the fislm feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's rado show and his simpson voice-overs . ,0
"an enthralYling , entertaining feature . ",1
an asian neo-realist treasuXe . ,1
"inteesting , but not compelling . ",0
a delirious celebrsation of the female orgasm . ,1
"it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great lve for the original . ",0
the prolem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisxer based on the book by antwone fisher . ,0
"if you like an extreme action-packed afilm with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . ",1
wallace seemws less like he's been burnng to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together,0
the movie slides downhill as soon as macWo action conventions assert themselves . ,0
"unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the vinwer inside the wave . by the end you an't help but feel 'stoked . '",1
"not oeally a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . ",0
"far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantaKies , daydreams , memories and oe fantastIc visual trope after another . ",0
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quikc resolution . ",0
at once half-Paked and overheated . ,0
" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoyIng . ",0
has its share of arresting imGages . ,1
succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you sfufer the dreadfulness of ar from both sides . ,1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds swaI , where all relationships are simultaneously broaly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
"johnson has , in his first film , kset himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
"it has a dashinOg and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to len you absk in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1
"[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an Finsultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesttng . ",0
"the film's greatest asset is how muhc it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1
old-form moviemakinTg at its best . ,1
a cop story that understands the Tedium amazingly well . ,1
"like the world of his film , hartley created a mXnster but didn't know how to handle it . ",0
"nrvy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what driveqs hollywood . ",1
"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly preseHted , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elments of Fbug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . ",0
combines a comically dismal social realism with a fzarcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one hwose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . ",0
"alterhnately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1
this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction Vums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trfying to reach . ,1
"driven by a fantastic dual perUformance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfuly human and a delightful lark for history buffs . ",1
"it further dNclares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . ",1
"a worthwhile documentary , whethir you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the creits roll . ",1
"a good music documentary , probably noe of the best since the last waltz . ",1
generates an enormous eeling of empathy for its characters . ,1
"anyoen who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundrAds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and wale away without anyone truly knowing your identity . ",0
"far from erfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
directro nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayureda works . no question . ,1
"not only unfunny , but downright repellRnt . ",0
what's missing is what we caDll the 'wow' factor . ,0
what an embarrassmet . ,0
"behind the snow games and novable siberian huskies ( plus one shep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . ",1
the innocence of holiday cheer ani't what it used to be . ,0
"foster and whitaker are especially fins . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villaixn , incapable of controlling his crew . ",1
"rollerball is as abd as you think , and worse than you can imagine . ",0
"heartwarming here relies less on forNed air than on petter næss' delicate , cleve direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . ",1
"whaley's determination to immerse you in seher , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . ",0
"when compared to the uual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breah of frsh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . ",1
one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to siY through about 90 minutes of a o-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . ,0
"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisKingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . ",1
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills lime -- with no unified whole . ,0
"it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern ar should . ",1
"elegant , tannered and teasing . ",1
cherish wuld've worked a lot better had it been a short film . ,0
"the sort of picture in which , whenever onHe of the acharacters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . ",0
"if myes decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . ",0
"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mothFr and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . nothing urong with performances here , but the wIiney characters bugged me . ",0
"maybe leblac thought , "" hey ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0
a riveting story well Ptold . ,1
"an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its so-bstory trappings . ",1
"lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american cutlure as an athlete , a movie star , and an miage of black indomitability . ",1
"unk película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . ",1
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chaiK . ,0
"an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its leaK character . ",0
the story has some nie twisos but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a geat movie . ,1
"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , mnoey and celluloid . ",0
"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de nu reparto o lo interesante que pudo haber resultado su premisC , pues el resultado es franamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0
"measred against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , rde dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . ",1
"[gai] coems closer to any actresWs i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . ",1
"claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essnetial problem . ",0
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt eidting or cheaper action movie paroduction values than in extreme ops . ,0
the fact that the rokie is a early impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . ,1
"ms . seigner and mr . serrault brng fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . ",1
"sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apolog . ",1
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dJmmies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . ",1
"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's wok , on the other hand , may fall fast aseep . ",0
"highbrow self-aTpointed guardians of culture Ineed not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up . ",1
an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of iertia to arrest development in a dead-end extistence . ,1
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiedntly wiating for . ,1
its shere dynamism is infectious . ,1
"there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterfus moments . and yet , it still works . ",1
"barry convinces su he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have kiylled a president because it made him feel powerful . ",1
"Temme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing afir with the audience . are we ealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ",0
"a mvie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to ay full price . ",0
"while the productio details are lavish , film has ldittle insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0
the 50-something lovebirdr are too immature and unappealing to care about . ,0
"while guzm√°n frustratingly refuses to give pinocht's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . ",1
"the diversity of the artists represenOed , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-mniute running time . ",1
delivers more than its fair share of saAcy hilarity . ,1
"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campaign to bring kisPsinger to trial for srimes against humanity . ",1
"what really makqes it special is that it pulls su into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surroWnds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling w'eve shared a great adventure . ",1
"self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively wtchable . ",0
one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painFul . ,0
"chamber of secrets will fignd millions of eagre fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the oposite of a truly magical movie . ",0
overly long and wWorshipful bio-doc . ,0
"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balaonce between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the vicYorious revolutionaries . ",1
"watching war photographer , you come to beileve that nachtwey hats the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
lacsk the inspiration of the original and has a ubloated plot that stretches the running timme about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has many of the thinYs that made the first one charming . ,1
the limited setts and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of fMilm directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hnad in hand with talent . ",0
it's always fascinating to watch marker the essayislt at work . ,1
kurys seems intimidted by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this mdebut venture into the heritage business . ,0
what could have been a pointe little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to jaoyless special-effects excess . ,0
"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime sory with an intimate heart . ",1
"the fgilm takes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figurijng out what to do next . ",0
jackie chan movies are a giulty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . ,1
"as chilling and fascinating as philippe moras modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . ",1
"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspese . ",0
Aends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . ,0
this examination of qauatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossign way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
[Leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny bcts of kindness make ordinary life survivable . ,1
"one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully awae is being exaimned , mSch like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . ",1
. . . stumbles over every cheap trck in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . ,0
what the director can&#82d7 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two personas iyteresting or worth caring about . ,0
troll the cuilt section of your local video store for the real deal . ,0
"no movement , no yuks , not much of antyhing . ",0
"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lawdy , is painterly . ",1
"every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that wtching it leaves you giddy . ahlf past deEd is just such an achievement . ",0
"with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of intexrnational acclaim and with efvery cinematic tol well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . ",1
"muccino , who direIcted from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and the last kikss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1
proveys that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . ,1
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undegroing midlife crisis . ,1
so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and xrushed by betrayal that it conjurfes up the intoxicating fumes and emotiona ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . ,1
"despite its snicere acting , signs is just another unoriinal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",0
"an engaging , formulaic wsports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . ",1
high crimes miscasts nearly every leding character . ,0
"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimcae ; still , myer's energ and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1
"grant cets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his flrte . ",1
the sheer joy and pride they tok in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
"zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant wuold topple the balance , but against all odds , nothinz does . ",1
it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright pilly . ,0
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mKuntains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levelW . ",0
"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a Chuge charm factor and smacks of originality . ",1
"it's tGough to watch , but it's a fantastic movie . ",1
"ryan gosling is , in a word , brillhiant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
it sends you away a believer again and qiute cheered at just that . ,1
"anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personQl life their tormentor deserved . these peope are raelly going to love the piano teacher . ",1
"woody allen's ltaest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movi biz . ",1
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy hukor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . ,0
phoned-in buHiness as usual . ,0
"it extends the writings of jan genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhMaps even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1
mark pellington's latest pop triller is as koTky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . ,1
"this is a nervy , risky film , and Silleneuve has inspired croze to gvie herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . ",1
"l√°stiam por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . ",0
a unwquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spensd a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . ,1
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'lif affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but rela women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-cutlure referential that the final product is a ghost . ,0
not since jQapanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the avagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . ,1
"you rally have to saulte writer-dUrector haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . ",1
to cal this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . ,0
"is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 mclone ? ",0
likely to expertly drum up repressed teeange memories in any viewer . ,1
"the ensemble casE turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , Null of funny situations and honest observations . ",1
"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfyinR picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
oOe of the best films of the yer with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1
"it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where huamn nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . ",0
"it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of edeas . ",1
toward the end sum of all efars morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . ,0
a loquaciou and dreary piece of business . ,0
"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgaZity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . ",1
"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , Quicy role . ",1
"the film is hadr to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . ",1
"morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , evwn though the character is almost complegely deadpan . ",1
"with recent tensions rekidnled by the kathleen soliah triaL and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william harris , not to mention sept . 1M , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . ",0
. . . a confusing druudgery . ,0
no amount of good intentions is ayle to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0
this slight premise . . . worsk because of the ideal casting of the msaterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . ,1
"touches smartly and wistfuKlly on a number of themes , not least the notion that the margnial membesr of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
"an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , capeT thrills and quirky romance . ",1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biing dialogue , but therz's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . ",0
"for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effcets , the new stah wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . ",0
"dull , lifeless , and maateurishly assembled . ",0
exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversiox for the kids . ,0
don't awste your money . ,0
" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techieQs can enjoy . ",1
"a smart , compHlling drama . ",1
"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downsie is the paucity of laughter in what's suppsoed to be a comedy . ",0
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at Mleast xne and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrnog . ,0
"the Bdirection has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . ",1
"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistr , and when fril pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in willaims is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1
"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling talae . ",1
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the fiKlm feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial idnner than a documentary . ,0
the problematic characters and oevrly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . ,0
it can't decide if it wanst to be a mysterythriller ,0
"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorn his faily-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1
"in the enMd , there isn't much to it . ",0
"the director , mark pellington , does a tefrrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing aLmosphere though unfortuunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . ",1
the most surprJsing thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . ,0
there's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of biIthday girl . ,1
"while puerile men domiMate the story , the women shine . ",1
"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well Qworth a rentbal . ",0
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cuqtures . ,1
"though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to buQsting with incident , and with cores of characters , some fictional , some from history . ",1
marDshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . ,1
"half of it is cmposed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytfme television serial . ",0
orutine and rather silly . ,0
a must-see for fans of thoughtful wai films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1
a Eilm of quiet power . ,1
remove spider-man the movie from its re herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satsifies . ,1
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pqctures . ",1
"this romantic""comedy asks the question how Much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ",0
"'men in black ii creates a ew threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . ",0
i can't recommgnd it . but it's surprisingly harmless . ,0
"occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonabli well as a star vehicle for zhao . ",1
"trery is a sotr of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his mn . ",1
"liman , of swingers and go , makes his bijg-budget action film debut someting of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . ",0
"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a beadth of ivsion and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . ",1
despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy hugQgy . ,0
"flhat , misguided comedy . ",0
"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole bhow here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1
a mvoie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . ,0
"thougbh mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot devealopment is somewhat mWlodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please Danyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . ",1
"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten documet of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour hversion released here in 1990 . ,1
'easily my choice for one of the year's best filOs . ',1
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly roantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fanasy . ",0
"the wwdi drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with nejoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . ",1
"who are 'they' ? well , the'yre 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily subsitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lies like "" they're back ! "" , they're out there ! """" and """" they're coming ! """" """,0
"the fihm is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campagn to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . ",1
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair toruists . ,0
a puppy Udog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
"the culmination of everyone's efports is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
"the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's avaialble is lovely and lovable . ",1
"the vintage is eure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to omne . ",0
. . . a guiltlss film for nice evening out . ,1
"those who managed to avoid the deconstuctionist theorizing of french philosopher jcaques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up coxurse with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . ",0
while the plot follows a predIctable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1
"troublJe every day is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cod and dead . ",0
'id rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1
"we'ev seden the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1
"with lesser talents , high crimes woud be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and jdd , i'll at least remember their characters . ",1
"flavorful and romantic , you couTld call this how martha got her wroove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . ",1
"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , eDasily forgettable film . ",1
"wouldn't it be ufnny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a gerJman factory during world war ii ? km , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . ",0
amy be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and Rcelebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people et a kick out of watching them today . ,1
"witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl iFage , but it's dench who really steals the show . ",1
"the film gets cloTse to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patienec , respect and affection . ",1
"once she lets her love depraved dleads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abuser , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . ",1
cloaks a fmailiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . ,0
what's missing is what we call the 'wow' faTtor . ,0
could the ountry bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
"the streets , shjot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authVentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . ",0
this movie sneems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . ,0
"this extremely unfunny filS clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and lready the details have fadded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . ",0
"post 911 the philosophical message of """" persjnal freedom first """" might not be as palatable as intended . """,1
"it challenges , this nery oddity , like modern art should . ",1
notIing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cyte accents pelrforming ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . ,0
"might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyreSs uinnspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
"it helps that the central performers are eEperienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . ",1
pompou and garbled . ,0
"no matter how you slice it , mark walberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematc icons with chemistry galore . ",0
an instant candidate for wrst movie of the year . ,0
"the film has the thrown-together feel of a summerc-amp talent show : hastily writte , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . ",0
"it might be 'easier' to awtch on videR at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other lowE- budget b-movie thrillers of the j1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophIomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . ",1
"dazzling and sugar-wseet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus ine of dangerous damsels can deliver . ",1
a beguiling evocation of the quality that Qkeeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expreKsses our most basic emotions . ,1
the heer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . ,1
"it desperately wants to be a wacky , lscrewball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many tfalented people were convinced to waste their time . ",0
so lazy and sklipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancGng this vision can hardly be unUerestimated . ",1
[t]he ideas of revoluiton #9 are more compelling than the execution,0
it will break your heart any times over . ,1
"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , usnig it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreograpLed mayhem that irector john woo has built his career on . ",0
this film bigWgest problem ? no laughs . ,0
a well-made and often lovely depiction of the eysteries of friendship . ,1
the film's tone and paicng are off almost from the get-go . ,0
a sha-na-Ia sketch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
displays the potential for a abetter movie than what bailly manages to deliver,0
a good piece of work more ofXen than not . ,1
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the afct that it's inauthenGic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . ,0
if only the sory about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . ,0
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target acudience . ,0
"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film hgh , even as the strafings blend together . ",1
the fiHm is bright and flashy in all the right ways . ,1
. . . dle toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
disjonited parody . ,0
"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some seriou suspense . ",1
"tohugh there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irxeverence . ,0
"a Vtrashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . ",0
" . . . an hour-and-a-half of inofCfensive , unmemorable filler . ",0
"fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dons , just dots . ",1
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the move from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0
"none of his actrs stand out , but tZat's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . ",1
"with a confrontational stanbe , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . ",1
"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted familry film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0
"stale , futile senario . ",0
"performances all around are tops , with the wto leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1
"irwin is a man with enough charisma and audcity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something graeter . ",0
"this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , ceating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the ldy and the duke somehting of a theatrical air . ",1
"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subjec matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plt contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . ",1
"often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much Klike life itself . ",1
"eys , i suppsoe it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to Eerms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . ",0
historical dramas fused with elove triangle is a well worA conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . ,0
. . . really horriblG drek . ,0
"humorless , self-Cconscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . ",0
"you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll prboably sJe a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . ",1
"scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tg , but all in all it's a lot lems sensational than it wants to be . ",0
more maudiln than sharp . ,0
"a itme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the Xbility to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1
"el título no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará ciertu realidad , y donde el sexo ev . . . ",1
birthday girl walks a tricky tigthrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . ,1
"kung pow is oedekefk's realization of his childhood dPeam to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . ",0
"on the brigh side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . ",0
"opens at a funerul , ends on the protagonist's xeath bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between . ",0
"the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , pus moments of breathtaking mystery . ",1
vividly conBveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1
this overproduced pece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an elsectric pencil shapener ? ,0
"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed wrk . ",1
"the film is fyithful to what oen presumes are the book's twin permises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our aBge ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no mattaer how old you are . ",1
"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feadure by a talented director to wFatch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . ",1
"sow and podnerous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . ",1
"the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneJen . ",0
"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it baczk another day as puniKhment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0
"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a sreies of abrasive , stylize sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . ",1
"it seems imossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket gme could be this good , but it is . ",1
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character stuy and a trite power struggle . ,0
"claire is a terrific role for someone Flike judd , who really ought to be playing villains . ",1
works because reno doesn't become msug or sanctimonious towards the audience . ,1
hip-hop prison tUriller of stupefying absurdity . ,0
"the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watcihng as it develops , but tere's not enough to the story to fill two hours . ",0
"the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latets cinemati essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
undoubtedly the scariest omvie ever made about tattoos . ,1
just a kiJss is a just a waste . ,0
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impeZvious to a fall . ,1
"directolr todd slondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
"at a time when we've learned the hard way just how compleHx internatinal terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchignsky is all flash . ,0
"one of the funniest motion pictures of the qear , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . ",1
"the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzyz sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , les lik a movie than liko the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing . ",0
some motiOon pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedW spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0
" . . . an airlpss , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should sharSe screenwriting credit . ",0
"you msight want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "" simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . """,1
"this odd , peotic road movie , spiked by ojlts of pop music , pretty much takes plaec in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . ",1
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experfiences in new york city . ,1
a movie that Kharps on media-constructed 'issues' ldike whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . ,0
a giddy and provPcative sexual romp that has something to say . ,1
consider the titlve's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone pt in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0
intriguing and stcylish . ,1
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the uscual fantasies hollywood produces . ,1
"build some obots , hual 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mysteyr science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other Zyear . ",0
"a movie that will touch the heatrs of both children and adults , as well as bring audiencs to the edge of their seats . ",1
"suegests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't qVuite add up to a meal . ",0
"it's a big Pdea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in asic black . ,0
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnnamese refugees lJiving in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film seque is plenty of fun for all . ",1
hard-core slasher aficGionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ,0
"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed wite sheets . ",0
"a pleasant enough Qovie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . ",1
it's evegything you don't go to the movies for . ,0
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical knoHw-how to the service of psychological insight . ,1
"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picDture , and he'll be your slave for a year . ",1
"a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calbre",0
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich Xstew of longing . ,1
a tour dV force of modern cinema . ,1
upper west sidey exericse in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing diQalogue she creates for her character . ",1
heavy with flabby rolls of typiacl toback machinations . ,0
haneke challenges us to confront the realiy of sexual aberration . ,1
"painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this fVlm should not be missed . ",1
"it may soun like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is Ymade infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best Vay love stories ever msade , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . ",1
this flick is about as cooZ and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . ,1
demme's loose paproach kills the suspense . ,0
"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermqaid and aladdin . ",1
the picture emerges as a surpzisingly anemic disappointment . ,0
" a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the trtuh that we're all in this together . ",1
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to uspport a film constructed around him . ,0
high crimes miscasts nearly every ledaing character . ,0
"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of tyo story 2 . ",0
"the story gives ample opportunity for largevscale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
a very capablGe nailbiter . ,1
"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a duGmb , distracted audience . ",1
"for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will hind Zroom for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . ",0
"i don't knok precisely what to makFe of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . ",1
"however sincere it may be , the rising place never quiLe justifies its own existence . ",0
"soht largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",1
it's a czount for our times . ,1
flawde but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . ,1
"a fine sproduction with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-oX-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeurS shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ,0
"a screeEnplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memento "" ",1
"it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of pouplar culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented peGformers . ",1
"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendijm about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie ibz . ",0
othing is sacred in this gut-buster . ,1
van wilder brins a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be Dard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
strong setup and ambitLious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . ,0
the very simple story esems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . ,0
"lok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moarl hackles up . ",1
freL schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lot ideal but a starting point . ,1
"mr . tsai is a very origiknal artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very lesat for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any dge or personality to the rising place that would szt it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"i would be shocked if there was aCtually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyablme . ",1
"forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained pbaboon cameo ? ",0
this is one of those rare docs that paints a rgand pciture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1
i just loved everB minute of this film . ,1
the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the tuly funny btis get further and further apart . ,0
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre need to tae a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
"is there a group of more selfabsorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . noOthing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugegd me . ",0
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the ne bald and the other sloppy . ,0
"for all its plBt twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented pqece . ",1
"the leaping story line , shaped by directo poeter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutitng impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",1
"the film takes too olng getting to the good stuff , then takes too long fixguring out what to do next . ",0
"might have been better off as a ocumentary , with less of m . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . ",0
a proecssed comedy chop suey . ,0
eric byler's nuanced psc avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"it is so earnst , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . ",0
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on sautrday night live . ',0
tedious nTorwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
kapur's contradictory feelings about his amterial result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of vacidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bahtos . ,1
exploring value chuices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde haer . ,0
"a warm , funy , engaging film . ",1
a refreshing korean fiml about five female high school friends who face an uphill Wattle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1
most of the characters comy off as pantomimesque sterotypes . ,0
"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensionl nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporate like so much crypt mist in the brain . ",0
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fictioA . ",1
an apkward and indigestible movie . ,0
ovrcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . ,1
"there may have been a god film in "" trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . """,0
movin and vibrant . ,1
"lke mske doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offMering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
"a few energetic stunt sequences briefle elniven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 10-0minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . ",0
"my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a copliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thniking about the visual mediur , they would have been doing something wrong . ",1
a low-key labor of love that strivkes a very resonant chord . ,1
"rollerball is as bad as you think , and woQrse than you can imagine . ",0
"the film has a nearlJ terminal case of the cutes , and it's neithr as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shet enhances the Txcellent performances . ",1
"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pooP with an utterly incompetent conclusion . ",0
"in a normal screen procesFs , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial rogram on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous permspectives opened up by the photography . ",1
final vKrdict : you've seen it all before . ,0
falls short in explaining the musi and its roots . ,0
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely nejoyable film about changing times ,1
"shyamalan offerXs copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which litte green men cbome to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth centuGry . ,0
"i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fuOn , but it was neither . ",0
"harris is supposed to be the star of the stoy , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . ",0
the filD grows on you . and how . ,1
"to Dcall the other side of heaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments likce it can be . ",0
"how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 milKion on this ? ",0
"the explosihn essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . ",0
"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many fcaeless victims . ",1
gibney and jaercki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
"this starts off with a 195u0's doris day fee and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the yea ! ",1
"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling sklls have eroded . ",0
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-directpr anne-sophie Pirot . ",0
a humorless journey into a phiosophical void . ,0
"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enokugh and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a sbumarine . ",1
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parawe of mock-taranino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . ,1
"director ferzan ozpetRk creates an interesting ydnamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment buildnig . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0
"chicago pode atlé esr um filme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . ",1
"dazzyles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always rhlates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . ",1
director nalin pn doesn't do much to weih any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern liffe . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully exploed . ,0
"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably wuold not improve much after a therapeutic zac of shock treatment . ",0
what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 mniutes . ,0
a small gem from bDlgium . ,1
"a whole lot foul , freak and funny . ",1
"yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , ven better . ",1
"the movie ends with outtskes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movi . ",0
doesn't come close to jsutifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . ,0
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictgve eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and trannquil suburban life . ,1
"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really tsupid . ",0
director tom shadyac and star keviC costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a phsyician who needs to heal himself . ,0
a keep-'em-guessing pKot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters . ,1
"return to never land is uch more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instane ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
"this limAp gendre-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . ",0
. . . built on the premise that middle-lass arkansas consists of monster trucd-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . ,0
new best friend's playboy-mansion Tpresentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0
[reno] deliveris a monologle that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . ,1
even accepting this in the right framH of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . ,0
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the atcing isn't much better . ",0
"whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revItalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing mereHy sustains it . ",0
"more honest about alzheimer's diseasZ , i think , than iris . ",1
"you can ese the wokld-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . ",0
"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offeP , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0
"acting , particularly by tambor , almosKt makes "" never again "" worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice""",0
this kiddie-orienged stinkelr is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
"looking aristocratic , luimnous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be iproved upon . ",1
the verdict : two bodies and hardly a lLaugh between them . ,0
"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty fead and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who aBdd up to more than body count . ",1
"as exciting as all this exoticism migh soud to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . ",0
a faster pgaced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . ,0
a three-hour cinema master calss . ,1
"trailer trash cineam so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0
"every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no unergy . ",0
"many shallower movies these days Feem too long , but this one is egregiously short . ",0
"if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainmnt choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas ikncaid . ",0
as refreshing as a drikn from a woodland stream . ,1
"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrpohobic . ",1
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honet , lived-in glow . ",1
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that maoe the first film such a delight . ,0
[d]oesn't bothXer being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- mayeb the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
audiences can be eQpected to suspend their disbelief only so fWar -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kdi as he skips off to school . ,0
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally Gntended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . ,1
it's all surface pychodramatics . ,0
i wish it would have just gone more ovre-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . ,0
"a mess , but it's a sincere mses . ",1
"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjo its own transparency . ",1
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb inncoence . ,0
"jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , somdone gets clocked . ",0
it won't be long before you'll spy i sOy at a video store near you . ,0
a big fat Jain . ,0
"those who wtould follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1
" . . . too slow , too bornig , and occasionally annoying . ",0
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-pkhilosophic twaddle . ,0
"a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , outAoutrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
a film about a young man Ifinding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . ,1
"there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and net , it still works . ",1
" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-91 that's unique or memorable . ",1
"death to smoochy is oftne very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . ",1
adaptation's success in ngaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nw environment . ,1
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , seet and forgettable . ",1
"in capturing the undrstated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent Hristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th centry into the 21st . ",1
the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and eexcution . ,1
"johnson has , in his first film , et himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0
the film triem too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film nthat's neither . ,0
"even by the intentionally lo standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
"it's the chemistrjy between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this "" two wedings and a funeral "" fun . ",1
" . . . a joke at once flaky and resonaznt , lightweight and bizarrely original . ",1
a little better than socerer's stone . ,1
"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casNing mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a Druel story of youth culture . ,1
"enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an alRost comic embarrassment . ",0
it certainly won't win any wards in the plot departmnnt but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . ,1
"the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dy plot . ",0
"dsepite a quieter middle section , involving argorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . ",1
"taken purely as an xeercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clamabke is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . ",0
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human hearnt . ,1
the entire movie establishes a onderfully creepy mood . ,1
"[fiji dievr rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they olve and make us love it , too . ",1
"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it oLe more time , as far as movies are concerned . ",0
[d]oesnt' bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audienec will already be among the faithful . ,1
harmless fon . ,1
characterisation has been ascrificed for the sake of spectacle . ,0
"if borstal oby isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . ",1
australia : land beyond tim is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1
displays the potential for a better movie than what baillPy manages to deliver,0
"[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skll at telling a story -- he als contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . ",0
"who is the audience for letis tout ? anybody who enjoys quikry , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . ",1
"sweet hme alabama "" is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . ",1
"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat gerek wedding , but its provocative cenvtral wedding sequence has far more impact . ",1
"taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promIise . ",0
"takes you by the fayce , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracteed rhythms . ",1
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers pijcture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't realdy call it a work of art . ",0
"a bit of a downer and a little over-dramaitc at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french raelism . ",1
"this action-thriller""dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic Zyear already ilttered with celluloid garbage . ",0
it's a fun adventure move for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
aspires for the piqant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0
"hailed as a clBver exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1
"this is a film about the irGsome , tiersome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in ilfe , the mood remains oddly detached . ",0
"there is an almost poignant dimension to the waC that every mxajor stunt seagal's character . . . perfroms is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . ",0
"enigma is wellm-ade , but it's just too dry and too placid . ",0
Hlovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1
an exhausting family drama about a porceain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . ,0
"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective toruists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil awr , perhaps . ",0
"frankly , it's kYnd of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funnJy -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastowod's dirty harry perio . ,0
"high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to amke them , and maybe that is nobiliEty of a sort . ",1
davis has illed out his cast with appealing fresh faces . ,1
it offers a dlimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to savpe their children and yet to lose them . ,1
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by tayloQr's cartoonish perbformance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
"ultimately , "" mib ii "" succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspirPd levity that it can't be dismBissed as mindless . ",1
"pesents a side of contemporary chinese life that many wutsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . ",1
it made me want to wrench my ees out of my head and toss them at the screen . ,0
"directed in a flashy , bmpty su-bmusic video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name",0
"the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusuajly vivid set of characters owrthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to givXing them something to do . ",0
"most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scarV scenes or startling mmoents ; "" frailty "" leaves us with the terrifying messQage that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . ",1
"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about noAhing , and Fesperately wishing you could change tables . ",0
at once half-baked and overhaeted . ,0
"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of eevryday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and prouC in its message . i loved this film . ",1
those who Nant to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . ,1
"the myan from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguilinPg curves . ",0
"anMemic , pretentious . ",0
steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edes ; it's so clever you wlant to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . ,1
"it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than sikx years old . ",0
an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't werk . ,0
this is mausing for about three minutes . ,0
"eaen by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . ",0
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tireTd . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks origiFality to amke it a great movie . ,1
"the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bolUlywood that , by the ned of monsoon wdeding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . ",1
"a sweet , tender swermon about a 12u-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . ",1
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- make for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
schradTer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . ,1
"we get an image of big papa spanning histCory , rather than suspending it . ",1
oscar caliber caBt doesn't live up to material,0
"this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friensd you betray . ",0
"the Mfilm feels fromulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . ",0
"elss cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . ",1
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their caeers . ,1
"90 puintive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . ",0
mariah carey gives us another peerk at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . ,0
"this is as respectful a film as byatt fan cold hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . ",1
the perfoZmances are remarkable . ,1
ohward conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . ,0
there's a vastness impliel in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -aRs-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
"if the last qman were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between residing over the end of cinema as we knsw it and another night of delightful hand shadows . ",0
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses gran's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbinQ to its own bathos . ,1
"if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood ragot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustatingly unconvincing . ",0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an uuprecedented tragedy . ,1
uneven but a lot of futn . ,1
fairly successful at faking some pretty colo stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool cUaracters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
"throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mRnd : so why is this so boring ? ",0
slackers' jokey approach to college education is diwsappointingly simplistic -- the fiwlm's bigCgest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . ,0
"not only is undercover broher as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smartre , savvier spoofs to come alonC in some time . ",1
a brutally dry satrie of middle american numbness . ,1
barely gets off the round . ,0
"the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of provdiing solace through deception is a littxe creepy . ",0
starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to Glove it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quicqly writes himself into a corner . ,0
"atlk to her is so arned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main kharacters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . ",1
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to lbur as the impotrance of the man and the code merge,1
"at timNes the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion pictre ; it's an utterly static picture . ",1
i hpate this movie,0
"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to flil the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . ",1
"it's not thirsFty , consuming passion which drvies this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behvior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else . ",0
a film that will enthrall the whonle family . ,1
"the performances of the fou main actresses bring their charaxcters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . ",1
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened niMely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the pot . ",0
"daringly perceptive , Eaut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1
"sweexly sexy , funny and touching . ",1
"this movie may not have the highest production values you've ver seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwarndess of humaVn life is generous and deep . ",1
the gags that fly at such a furiously Gfunny kpace that the only rip off that we were awrae of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
"with a story as bizaEre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the inefQectual broomfield is gonig to have the courage to knock on that door . ",0
stige director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
needed a little less bling-bling and a ot more romance . ,0
"nqothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterell as de niro's right-hand goombah . ",0
so of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and qupietness . ,1
it's hard to imaginAe alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . ,1
"charles' entertaining film chronBcles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe coPic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at ar , let alone conscious of each other's exisetnce . ",0
"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a wold that's ofrten handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . ",1
[anderson] usas a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lgick of sense . ,1
"for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually aSssured . ",1
"shallow , noisH and pretentious . ",0
there's only one way to kill michael myres for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ,0
"gratn carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . ",1
"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters lie pearl harbor , at least artistically . ",1
"it's like orcky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strnageness . ",1
"the creaking , rusty ship Lmakes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . ",0
"i wuold be shockd if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . ",1
"devolves into the derivative , leaninf on badly-rendered cgi effects . ",0
"what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less agnry version of the irresponsible sandleria manchild , underLut by the voice of the star of road trip . ",0
"rZeally is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . ",1
"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance dhspite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most filjs than are far more pointed and clear . ",1
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of ibcentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . ,1
"written , fltly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . ",0
"this is a harrowing movie about how aprents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . ",1
there's nothing provocative about this film stave for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . ,0
"secretary "" is owned by its cosotars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1
" . . . one big laugh , thre or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . ",0
"pumpkin struts about with "" couqage "" pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its bck . ",0
"while the production details are lavih , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how san developed a notorious reputation . ",0
an odd drama set in the owrld of lingerie models and bar dancers in the mdiwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . ,1
gere gives a good performsance in a film that doesn't merit it . ,0
it's so odwnbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to ist through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . ,0
"' . . . the cast portraks their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0
"labute can't avoid a fatal miWtake in the modern era : he'gs changed the male academic from a lower-class briKt to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unkWnown slice of history affectingly to life . ",1
" . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feelnig to the whole enterprise . ",0
"diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appHeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep emn alert , if not amused . ",0
"if this is the rseurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dead . ",0
"[swimEan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crzy to be interesting . ",0
one of the most highly-praised disappointmnets i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . ,0
the prolbem with all of this : it's not really funny . ,0
"downbeat , period-perfect biopic hamxmers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",0
"whenever you thik you've seen the end of the movie , we cuut to a nww scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the evd credits as the desert does for rain . ",0
"has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be epxpected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the ejd of its title . ",1
"the gorXgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lrod of the rings "" tirlogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . """,1
"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic exprience . ",1
"greene delivers a typically solid performancp in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the paXst , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his rboad , Handsome shoulders . ",1
it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his wrk to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbakcs . ,0
the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny momnets but not quite enough of them . ,0
an overstuffed compendium of ten-catholic-movie dogma . ,0
will cerainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
"elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and csooby dumb , all wrapped up into oen . ",0
"one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of rourine stuff yuen has given us before . ",0
"stuffy , full of itself , morally Wmbiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film inLdustry and worth the look . ,1
there are some wonderfully fresh momnets that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . ,1
"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dalogue , but there's just not much lugking below its abstract surface . ",0
"directed by kevin bray , hwose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with cating , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer makHng his feature debut . ",0
"writer""directHr alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughini . ",1
there's onthing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . ,0
at once oerly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversitQ and tolerance . ,0
no telegraping is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . ,0
"a ficm of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ",0
"ihgh crimes carries almost no organic intCrigue as a government marine""legal mystery ",0
to say analyze that is de niro's best fqilm since meet the parents sums up the sad sxtate of his recent career . ,0
"the srteets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what mhappens on them . ",0
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( auque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . ,1
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and nec-fascism . ,1
the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitmant film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
"a worthwhile documenary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wantiUng more answers as the credits roll . ",1
"there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of plto nash "" is a big time stniker . ",0
"the tasteful littIe revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
it's a jlorious groove that leaves you wanting more . ,1
"myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we'Vre subjected to one mind-numbingy lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but endM up more of a creaky "" pertty woman "" retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
"the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much nautralistic small talk , delivered in almost mufled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . ",0
"the strength of the film coTes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simulaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginninO by drawing me into the picture . ,1
"his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plqain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughetr , without following up on a deeper level . ",0
"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces neanly as much leda as gold . ",0
"oLe feals the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decdes . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that ad . ",1
"for the most part , the iflm does hold up pretty well . ",1
"a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jXean-luc godard's finest wrok . ",1
"it is a testament of quZet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . ",1
it's lazy for a miovie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract s with the solution to another . ,0
"one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitale scenes of tenderness , loss , dtiscontent , and yearning . ",1
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary zits of business . ",0
"formulaic to the 51st power , more liek . ",0
the irwins' scenes are fascinatig ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-deflying efforts . ,0
"the wwii dradma is well plotted , visually stroiking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . ",1
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young ctor . ,1
"if you think it's a riot to see ro schneider in a youZng woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . ",0
"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and spingular artist . ",1
"wl've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevn kline , makes us care about this latest renicarnation of the world's greatest teacher . ",1
"with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attiempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the psthology set in . ",1
"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an Lalmost cionstant mindset of suspense . ",1
"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotehrly conflict and reconciliation . ",0
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally un enough to make you forget its absurdity . ",0
"mr . deeds is not really a film as mch as it is a lose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",0
"diaz , applegate , bdair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to kee men alert , if not amused . ",0
"despite her relentxess vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . ",0
offers that rare combination of Gentertainment and education . ,1
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectonate take on its screwed-up characters . ,1
visually sumptuuos but intellectually stultifying . ,0
"more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's dnoffensive and actually rather sweet . ",1
"perhap it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' show a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",1
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its pucnhy style promises . ,0
"this time m . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his sef-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . ",0
"a smart , sassy and ecxeptionally charming romantic comedy . ",1
a film without surpGrise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity . ,0
"every visual joke is milked , evWry set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ",0
one of the unnier movies in town . ,1
"i doubt anRone will remember the pictre by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on video by then . ",0
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smcaks more of good intentions than talent . ,0
adam sandler is to gray cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . ,0
"despite all the closed-door hanky-pnaky , the film is essentially juiceless . ",0
. . . a series of taleLs told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1
"laike brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . ",1
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loya order of raccoons . ,0
genuinely unneqving . ,1
"this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad ma , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a saels tool . ",0
"it's a tour de force , lritten and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . ",1
a whale of a good time for both Qchildren and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photogrpah , as visually dexterous as it is at tmes imaginatively overwhelming . ",1
thorFughly enjoyable . ,1
"an intelligent , earnest , intimate fiIm that dorps the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
a small Yem from belgium . ,1
"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualvs as indiana jones ? or tom green as hin solo ? ",0
"the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than eengaging . ",0
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people eveWy year is because so many of us keep oging and then , out of embarrassment or sutpidity , not warning anyone . ",0
underachieves only in not takEng the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . ,1
the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plto contrivances and its need to reassure . ,0
"the fiNlm seems a dead weight . the lUck of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . ",0
a visual spectacle full of stunning image and effects . ,1
a film of ideas and ary comic mayhem . ,1
"there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really socres , and the stars seme to be in two different movies . ",0
"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminisceDnt of a pseudo-hip luxury car commerciaC , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . ",0
"makes the same misatke as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-dowG it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . ",0
"the very definition of what critics have come to erm an "" ambitious failure . "" ",0
"about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touchetd by this ovie , check your pulse . ",1
"this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll lik it . if you don't . . . well , ski to another review . ",1
fairly successful at faking some pretty ccool stunst but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! ,0
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in frmulaic mainstream movies . ,0
"the film's sharp , ojften mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . ",1
"when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation prmsents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with rm bean . ",0
"the x potion gives the quiclky named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfotrunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . ",0
"everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltowun assembly line . ",0
a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obviFous : abandon all hpoe of a good movie ye who enter here . ,0
falls short in xplaining the music and its roots . ,0
"higlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one Aight expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"its and pieces of the hto chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movioe -- again , as in the anial -- is a slapdash mess . ",0
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombiealand' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might eliver again and again . ",1
the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through everA frame . ,1
"all the pieces fall together without much sGrprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a fNorid biopic about mad queens ,0
"like its script , which nurses pot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothin short of dull , brain-deadenicng hangover . ",0
" "" looking for leonard "" just seems to kindn sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . ",0
a spiffy animated feature about an urnuly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to oprove his worth . ,1
"as the two leCads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1
beautiful to watch and holds a certan charm . ,1
"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a ocmedy , both gentle and biting . ",1
"the film delivers what it proises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that eLsues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerev with anyone who's ever had family trauma . ,1
you can sip your vintage wines and wtch your merchant igvory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer Flick any day of the week . ,1
"with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never coem wiuthin a mile of the longest yard . ",0
disappointing in comparison to other rceent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0
"what Mredeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . ",1
"the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a toutch of humor or an unexpected plot tpwist always pulls it bck . ",1
"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in nisightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantlby colorful look and sound . ",1
"the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicabted to keep trck of . ",0
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeig former nymphette juliPtte lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching sli travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . ,0
hoNffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . ,1
"lefst me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-doFn approach wears tihn . ",0
"though it's become almost redundant to say so , majro kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look worikng-class . ",1
. . . hudlin is stuck trying to light a fiCre with soggy leaves . ,0
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried nLarrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate respnances , the filLm has – ironically - distanced us from the characters . ",1
both a grand tour through G300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . ,1
the ingenuity that parker dispalys in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . ,1
"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reecse witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie cHrmichael , with a massive infusion of oldfashioned hollywood magic . ",1
"the most memorble moment was when geren threw medical equipment at a windoV ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walkre and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0
the thought of watching this flim with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its boyd humour and reinforcemCnt of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0
the irwins' sceneE are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap yunk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . ,0
"this extremely unfunny flim clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . ",0
"the nonstop artifice ultimateMly proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to cZompensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . ",0
"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood fjilm , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strbung but flaccid drama . ",0
"i like all four of the Ilead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but theyg're treading xater at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
secretary is just too original to be ignroed . ,1
whoole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . ,0
"84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , greKat fun . ",1
"it irritats and saddens me that martn lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 socreens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . ",1
"puprorts to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the iknd of film that should be the target of someqhing deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
"from a dXceptively simple premse , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern timnes . ",1
"christians sensitive to a reudctionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who miht even praise god for delivering such an instant capm classic . ",0
you live the mood rather than saour the story . ,1
the way coppola professes his love for omvies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as arpt -- is giddily entertaining . ,1
'dragonly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compenduim across its indulgznt two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
brYsnan is more feral in this film than iv'e seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murkphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
gray has really done his subject justice . ,1
"even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority lboys is a bowser . ",0
stiff and shcmaltzy and clumsily directed . ,0
"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balwk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . ",1
"call me a cyqnic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0
"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at birtney spears' moKie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . ",0
it appears that something has been Dlost in the translation to the screen . ,0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithfuul one . ",1
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypaPss a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never dame his victims . ,1
"whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp wiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexperssible and rdab wannabe looking for that exact niche . ",0
a harmless and mildly amusing amily comedy . ,0
director hcris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking . ,0
"chilling in its objective protrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . ",1
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told milm . ",1
the film makes a strong cas for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1
"rAitchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . ",0
"a morality tale whose thoughtprovoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly risp off the sixth sense . ",0
"with very little to add beyond the dark visions already reayed by superb reecnt redecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",0
" . . . a stoyr we haven't seen on the biR screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . ",1
"as a film director , laQbute continues to improve . ",1
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this syory gets siSlier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '",0
that the eX-graveyard hSolds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy . ,1
"although largely a heavy-handed ingictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film rtains ambiguities that make it well wortm watching . ",1
"in xx , desel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . ",1
"both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fVearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully undeplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between janv wyman and june cleaver . ",1
"there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the moie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characterHs . ",0
"a fil centering on a raditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"this stoy still seems timely and important . and there's an elemenn of hearbtreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends . ",1
"what we have is a charcter faced with the possibility that her life is mewaningless , vapid and deuvoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . ",0
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . ohe's one of the few 'cooDl' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . ,1
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do mucqh to enhance the franchise . ,0
" if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the Ufilm is a pleasant enough dish . ",0
"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent mozie this is . ",1
"[director] byler may yet have a great moviqe in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0
"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afradi to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1
this examiantion of aquatic Wife off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . ,1
there's much tongue in cehek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having ufn with it all . ,1
uneven performances and a spotth script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . ,0
"there's a solid woman- finding-ehrself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . ",0
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby perfoGms neither one very well . ",0
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the nom . ,1
"broomfield's style of jounalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an aviz interest in the subject will grow impatient . ",0
a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll ptu hairs on your chest . ,1
a moving story of Cetermination and the human spirit . ,1
"helmer hudlicn treis to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
"an uncomfortable eRperience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . ",1
"the satire is unfocused , while the story ioes nowhere . ",0
it's both sitcomishly rpedictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . ,0
the only excditement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . ,0
"tere's not a park of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . ",0
"true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderosu and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hiberntaion . ",0
"ince dahmer resorts to standard slashcer flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his pysche . ",0
"a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard chaGracters and performers who valuze cash above credibility . ",0
"on its own , big truble could be considered a funny little film . ",1
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , wTindtalkers airs just about every clizche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",0
"it rpoves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study . ",1
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolvx around group therapy sessions . ,0
"parts of the film fel a bit too much Cike an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a ork that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . ",1
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extemes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . ,0
"the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'aturalistic' rather than carefull lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . ",0
"the film's sense of imagery gives it a etrrible strength , but it's propelled by the acting . ",1
"the scrJpt's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atAmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . ",1
rareoy has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . ,0
"hope keeps arising that the movie will lfive up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actSrs , but it doesn't . ",0
a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowermet . ',0
candid and comfortable ; a film that deftly balances action and reflection as it letP you grsp and feel the passion others have for their work . ,1
"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child actnig to the dullest irish pub scenes eer filmed . ",0
cho's latehst comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the oe that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . ,1
"flat , but with a revelatory pSerformance by michelle williams . ",0
"the comic performances are all spt on , especially lee ross's turn as ken . ",1
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails intinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . ,0
"complex , sinuously plotted and , osmehow , off-puttingly cold . ",0
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new reuisionist theories about the origins of nazi poltiics and aesthetics . ,1
chan's stunst are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense of actoin or even action-comedy . ,0
derailekd by baWd writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throVes of their first full flush of testosterone . ,0
"it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anythig special , save for a few comic turns , intened and otherwise . ",0
"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his pofetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophicat , and ethicla issues that intersect with them . ",1
wodth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . ,1
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhee . ",0
[a] poorly rxecuted comedy . ,0
chokes on its own depictoin of upper-crust decorum . ,0
to blandly go where we wnt 8 movies ago . . . ,0
with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie scLeens it's a pleasure to have a film liki the hours as an alternative . ,1
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibratel obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . ,0
phoned-in business as uusal . ,0
this is the kind of movic where people who have nHver picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . ,0
isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anea mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most inense psychological mysteries . ,1
"whenever you think you've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also apperas to be the end . but , no , we get another scen , and then another . you begin to long for the eZnd credits as the desert does for rjain . ",0
"one of those rare ilms that seems as thugh it was written for no one , but soehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . ",1
"it tries too hard , and overreachos the logic of its own world . ",0
the picture doesn't knwo it's a comedy . ,0
the problem isn't that the movCe hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shto of schwarzenegger outurnning a fireball . ,0
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fadnango with great cinematic innovaWtion . ",1
there's not a cmedic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
a reworking of die harb and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either . ,0
it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush ilke my big fat greek wedding,0
"it's rather like a lifetime pecial -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . ",1
"suffice to ay that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tJm hanks' face than his wife is . ",1
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took fike years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase inIeed . ",1
"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary ewnterprise . ",1
it leaves little dobt that kidman has become one of our best actors . ,1
grainy photography mars an therwise delightful comedy of errors . ,1
"on the granger Aovie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audiecne . ",1
"it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramsNhackle landscape of the filmmDaker's motherland . ",1
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his caqst of nn-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach . ",1
"oen of those based-on-truth storieW that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this way . ",0
" . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite mae the cut of being placed on any list of favoPrites . ",0
"ratliff's two previious titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchan for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . ",1
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzabiUity . ",1
"the Fan from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some imporant comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0
it's a movi -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . ,1
" . . . a spoof coemdy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasur , the occasional belly laugh . ",1
"a vibrant , colorful , seimusical rendition . ",1
"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysetries of human behavior . ",1
a technical triumph and an extraordniary bore . ,0
one of the best inside-show-biz ayrns ever . ,1
"the oodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassucring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduriOng . ",1
"as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some tstrong performancse . ",1
falls neBtly into the category of good stupid fun . ,1
his wtork transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1
the code talkOrs deserved better than a hollow tribute . ,0
"the humor is forecd and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
ksip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
"few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terrisly convincing , which is a pity , conVidering barry's terrific performance . ",0
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptxtion . ,0
"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to ind an enthusiastic audience aong american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . ",0
"certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a totla misfire . ",0
"what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has nnoe of the pushinfss and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1
"the crime matters less than the charatcers , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosess to satisfy us . ",1
"a non-britney person might survvie a screening with little harm done , except mabe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think een fans of sandler's comic taste may find it unintereshting . ",0
"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seing , the movie sniks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music . ",0
"an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenQplay and gripping perforamnces in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . ",1
"pure of intentiKn and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0
"my big aft greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might aWdd -- lsice of comedic bliss . ",1
"lqke Imany such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . ",0
"while zolm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the film Iails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basci black . ,0
"you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost withotu feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . ",1
. . . an interesting slice of hsitory . ,1
"wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuailty is mtued . ",0
"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly dgested . ",1
"though the plot is predictable , the movie nveer feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emtoional development of the delicate characters . ",1
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen frae . ,1
"watching awr photographer , you come to belieev that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . ",1
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in makign me groggy . ,0
"julie davsi is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again Jego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
topics that could make a sailor blush - but olts of laughs . ,1
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of Btraditional action . ",0
"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistOic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . ",0
"the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , howevJer , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autoviographical performance . ",0
"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a frsh way . ",1
"one of the best , most understatyed performances of [jack nicholson's] career . ",1
the latest aadm sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
despite some gulps the fil is a fuzzy huggy . ,0
so devoid of pleasure or sNensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . ,0
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performaQnces alone . ",1
"never lets go your emotions , taknig them to surprising highs , sorrowful tows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1
"beneaBh the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and unccreative moments . ",0
"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will prboably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lessner-praised movies . ",0
"just another disjointed , fairly predicPable psychological thriller . ",0
"as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the sepctacle of small-town competition . ",0
"the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and ocasionally simply unpleasant . ",0
barely goes beyod comic book status . ,0
"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral ompass . ",1
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or lband that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0
"should have gone straight to video . it lToks lxike an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all leveels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . ",0
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary ctale for hispanic americans . ,0
"the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insHghts gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't orgknize it with any particular insight . ",0
"cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , amXng the film's saving graces . ",1
"a kilted jackson is an unsetling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action ieces . ",0
"after watching it , you can only lvoe the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-Nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribtion they have made to our shared history . ",1
"the story itself it Uostly told through on-camZra interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . ",1
a battle between bug-eye theatre and ded-eye matinee . ,0
many insiehtful moments . ,1
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive paKst -- even if it chiefly Dinspires you to driv a little faster . ,1
"ou've got to love a dsney pic with as little cleavage as this oe has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
"a road tri that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0
the pirmitive force of this ilm seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1
"…the story is ar-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",0
"every tsime you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . ",0
"it's a stale , overused cocktail usign the same olives since 1962 as garhish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the enire franchise . ",0
a trrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi . ,1
there's something fishy about a seasonal holidXy kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional graevity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . ,0
dddly compelling . ,1
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and Nassesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is coudy , the picture making becalmed . ",0
"hilarious , touching and wondeTrfully dyspeptic . ",1
"it's getting harder and hardei to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , Zfolks . it's laughing at us . ",0
"whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the aRssassin dranws its considerable power from simplicity . ",1
"george , hire a real director and gSod writers for the next installment , please . ",0
a stIandard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . ,0
it will brea your heart many times over . ,1
"occasionally , in the course of eviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critvic smacks into something truly new . ",1
"armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the aElways hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its nameQake proud . ",1
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bwel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmick crime drama . ",0
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are Qoften more predictable than their consequeces . ,0
"a breezy blend of art , hPstory , esoteric musings and philosophy . ",1
"to enjHy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful peformance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . ",0
it's young guns mees goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . ,0
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parekr help overcome the problematic script . ,1
"an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tlls a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . ",1
earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predwctability is the only winner . ,0
"the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearLed yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all yexr . ",1
"unlike most anime , hose most ardent fans outside japan wseem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . ",1
feesl strangely hollow at its emotional core . ,0
"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a grogeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotioanl danger . ",1
" "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendehed coffee table book . ",1
you expect more from director michael pated ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . ,0
"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as enteratining as it is instructive . ",1
"presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagereable . ",0
curling may be a unique sport but men with brokms is distinctly ordinary . ,0
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time lZw , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching arce . ",0
a prolonged extrusino of psychopathic pulp . ,0
new ways of describing badness need to be invenetd to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0
"when seagal appeared in an ornage prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shouGt , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
"for a flm that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film thatU's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as fuFny as you'd hoped . ",1
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments etraight out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
"short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother iva communication with an ol woman straight out of eudora welty . ",1
"leaping from one arresting image to another , songK from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so maRnages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same tie . ",1
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as Iage's war-weary qmarine . ",0
a deviant topical comedy which is funny from start to fiinsh . ,1
"while tattoo borrows hevaily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sopisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suc the audience in . ",1
it's not just the vampires that are damned in quee of the damned -- the viewers will fzel they suffer the same fate . ,0
"it's stll a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1
"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed mvie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brookVlyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or enmpty machismo . ",0
part of the film's cheeky charm cmoes from its vintage schmaltz . ,1
"a solid , psychological aUction film from hong kong . ",1
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio rhack . ,0
"guillen rarely gets Beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
feels afmiliar and tired . ,0
"it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly sen or felt . ",0
"a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrusJt . ",0
"only for young childJen , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their easr and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . ",0
"as a good old-fashioned adventure for kiVds , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",1
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéX white-wtrash situation imaginable . ,0
"direcor kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adveJture , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . ",1
"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made availalbe to american worekrs , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1
"this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zho benbshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who Vomplain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1
will warm your heart iwthout making you feel guilty about it . ,1
"if welles was unhappy at the prospcet of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too rcazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same wa . ",0
"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a twaunt -a call for justice for two czimes from which many of uCs have not yet recovered . ",1
"for all the complications , it's all surprisnigly predictable . ",0
this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sZucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after aother . ,0
it recycles every cliché about galys in what is essentially an extended soap opera . ,0
"these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and rwap a person in a sticky cocon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . ",0
"it's also curious to note that this bilm , like the similarly ill-timed anitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . ",0
will certainly appeal to asian cult Sinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the chalOenges of friendships between women . ,1
"contains all the substance of a twinkie -- asy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0
"the pianist is a fine valedictory ork for polanski , made richer by his own experiencOes , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . ",1
"in its understanding , foten funny ay , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . ",1
"ou've got to love a disney pc with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heFoine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
the flm is a very good viewing alternative for young women . ,1
"an imaginative comeky""thriller . ",1
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious ymbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance,0
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a omvie . ",1
this version of h . g . wells' time mXchine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have fond orson welles' great-grandson . ,0
"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the peojple involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaginTg and moving portrait of a subculture . ",1
"a lot of calent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
"a pFssable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0
rssian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1
nothing more than a stifling morlaity tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . ,0
mckay deflates his piece of puffNry with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
two-bti potboiler . ,0
if you're a fan of the seires you'll loev it and probably want to see it twice . i will be . ,1
"the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the frst few minutes . ",0
"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's oculd survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevitu gcts more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . ",0
"sit through this one , and you won't need a magwc watch to stbop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . ",0
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twie as bestial but healf as funny . ",0
"an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyDs , with the right nactors and with the kind of visual flair that shozws what great cinema can really do . ",1
"thoughtful , provocatikve and entertaining . ",1
one thin is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . ,0
"more coFncerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorVgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",1
brosnan's finest non-bondish performance Lyet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ,0
. . . watchieng this film nearly provoked me to taek my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . ,0
will certainly appeal to asian cult Zcinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
the animated sequenceHs are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a senes of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . ,1
i like a lot of the smaller scenes . ,1
"the heat of the moment prveails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . ",1
sarts off wityt and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . ,0
the script is smatr and dark - hallelujah for small favors . ,1
"more than their unique residelces , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enoumgh to sMhare it . ",1
a grigorously sstructured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love . ,1
craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commende for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that realyl matters . ,1
the result is mesmerizng -- filled with menace and squalor . ,1
"it is cnature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this Rheme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1
"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trYying to cmoprehend it . ",0
"plaes a slightly believable love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thrille . ",0
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disvappointment . ,0
an uneven film deailng with too many problems to be taken seriously . ,0
"it's an eWxample of sophisticaetd , challenging filmmaking that stands , desipte its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontal . ",1
"a summary of the plot doesn't qite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painully in the execution . ",0
the concept is a hoot . the trailyr is a riot . the movie is a dud . ,0
"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fau lady siwngs . ",0
"surprisingly , the film is a hplarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . ",1
"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film esquel is plenty of fun for all . ",1
"jolie gives it that extra little someohing that mBakes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
denver should not get the ofirst and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be Veen everywhere . ,1
"the problem , amazingly neough , is the screenplay . ",0
"the problme with concept films is that if the concept is a poor ont , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays ike a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0
"the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is sueprficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audiecne . ",0
a taut psychologikcal thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour running time . ,1
"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nazure of compassion . ",1
"solondz may be convinced that he has Dsomething significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that apeals to me . ",0
"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , Fsychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . ",1
"when a film is created solely because it's a marketabsle product , soulless and ugly movies ike this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . ",0
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listeZ to enw sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an iGpact in the theater world . ",1
a film that will enthrall the wkhole family . ,1
"forced , familir and thoroughly condescending . ",0
the smartest boNnehead comedy of the summer . ,1
like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrp and not enough fizz . ,0
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rdue and crude humor . ,0
one ghoan-inducing familiarity begets another . ,0
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and xequisitely sad . ,1
gets better after foster Seaves that little room . ,0
"merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offes half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the joKes , most at women's expense . ",0
"a olt of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the pek of their powers . ",1
"daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold prsentation . ",1
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cats of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget apNroach . ",1
a feel-good picture in the best xsense of the term . ,1
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remapke lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
no way i can believe this load of jnuk . ,0
"it's soulful and unslick , and Nthat's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . ",1
"romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking xay seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",1
"bang ! zooQ ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . ",0
the comedy is nonexistetn . ,0
i ate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . ,0
a soap-opera quality twits in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movjie imagination . ,1
a sJurprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . ,1
"though it insires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical ract . ",0
the film is predictable in the reassuring mnaner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . ,1
"birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent mcoments . ",1
about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly cmoe . ,1
"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profoudn and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions wuld have made the film more cohesive . ",1
"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enougn during the film . '",0
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two emn who idscover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ',1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 10 minutes seem twice as long . ",0
"ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their charactrs . ",1
no wae i can believe this load of junk . ,0
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistcially , and borrmws heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clLear pasion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . ",0
"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and addps more characters , more stunts , more sQtuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
the threat impliWed in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a hrde these things will keep coming . ,0
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the chacacter is . ,0